#crabwagon

[pop-goes-the-sneasel]

My favorite weird blob, reuniclus

Reuniclus!!!!!

Reuniclus is a tiny baby encased in a blob of green gelatinous stuff. A Psychic-type, it’s seemingly a reference to cells, with the green stuff resembling cytoplasm and the objects inside it resembling organelles. The split down its head evokes the split at which some cells begin dividing, known as a cleavage furrow. I’m not a biologist so I don’t really know a lot about what all this means, but it sounds interesting!

Anyways, the most striking part of Reuniclus’s silhouette is probably its arms, which outsize the rest of it by quite a lot. Reuniclus apparently controls its arms using its psychic powers, which imbues them with boulder-crushing strength. Apparently it also prefers to fight in battle by swinging its arms to “beat opponents into submission”, despite its ability to fight with psychic powers, which is hilarious. It’s not often a Psychic-type’s physical capabilities are emphasised, and Reuniclus does so in a rad way! Ironically, though, its attack stat is still far lower than its special attack.

Reuniclus is also said to be able to amplify its psychic powers by shaking hands, forming a network between their brains, which is reflected by some TCG attacks such as Net Force here. It’s subtle, but this amplification aspect is also showcased by the design quite well. The coloured objects in the arms progress from green to red, increasing in size – similar to the gradiants commonly used to denote sound intensity with volume control.

Reuniclus has also had a historic association with a very cool attack called Trick Room, and though there are better users of it now, I consider Reuniclus to probably be its most emblematic user. Trick Room is a move that warps the dimensions to reverse the order that pokemon attack: slower pokemon move earlier and faster pokemon move later. For a pokemon with a mere 30 base speed like Reuniclus, this is hugely beneficial. It’s a strategy most potent in doubles, allowing the user to set it up whilst its partner is free to attack, and can be incredibly hard for most teams to contend against because most teams try so hard to go as fast as possible.

Shiny Reuniclus swaps the green jelly for blue jelly, which is a cool shift, but the arm objects terminate in cyan which has a lot less contrast and doesn’t fit the amplification theme nearly as well. The body is also a yellowish colour, which is more distinct from the jelly, and a pale blue may have been more cohesive. Still a good shiny overall, though.

Reuniclus is rad, and probably one of the most creative Psychic-types in existence – high praise, given how creative that type often gets. I love it quite a lot, and its design feels hugely iconic even if it’s not one of the “big” pokemon.

Oh yeah, and don’t eat the jelly. It’s apparently toxic :)

Jelly baby!!!!!/10

#pokemon #pokemon reviews #pkmn #swsh #reuniclus #solosis #duosion #psychic type #unova #gen 5 #crabwagon

[babblingfishes]

you know what, i can accept jigen’s lack of Big Pointy Beard under these circumstances

#krab and shark said trans rights #lupin iii #deceitful-eyes #crabwagon #100

[robo-cryptid]

@crabwagon replied to your post “Armadillo McCree Part 4! Previous: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Armadillo...”

Thanks this was the most foreboding asterisk I have ever seen in my life

I don’t really have anything to add, but I needed to immortalize this somehow.

#crabwagon #robo replies #foreboding asterisks

[cookinguptales]

crabwagon said: she coulda watered herself she had opposable thumbs??

SHE WAS CLEARLY TRYING. Their dates were like cafe (where they had drinks), movie (with drinks), and AN OCEAN DATE. Why was this girl clearly subconsciously attracted to liquid? She was freaking thirsty!

#replies #RIP dying of thirst at the seaside #oso #she's a damn flower she's seen like 10 square feet of the entire world #why would she know how salt water works

[babblingfishes]

tagged by @deceitful-eyes​!

10 songs I’ve been listening to lately:

“Panoramic Feelings” - LudoWic

“Dissolve” - Absofacto

“The Sea (C418 Remix)” - Floex

“Ecstatic Baby” - Yeasayer

“Cascades” - Disasterpeace

“Hard to Kill” - Bleached

“About You (feat.Charles X)” - Caravan Palace

“Noise Pollution” - Portugal. The Man

“A Night Like This” - Caro Emerald

“6 Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean” - Explosions in the Sky

Tagging: Uhhhhhhhhh @tuba-david, @crabwagon, @impormable, and whoever else wants to!

#chain post #specifically i have been listening to Panoramic Feelings on repeat for weeks #thank you LudoWic and Katana Zero

[cookinguptales]

crabwagon said: the topic sounds really cool, can I ask what the title of the book is?

It’s The Cunning Man's Handbook: The Practice of English Folk Magic, 1550-1900 by Jim Baker. The book is a bit dense, and I’ll admit it’s easier to get through if you already have some knowledge about folk magic, British history, Abrahamic religions, and cunning folk. But it’s like 550 pages of history, culture, charms, spells, numerology, divination, etc. and it’s a really incredible book. Cunning folk is a particular interest of mine, so I’ve been dying for a book like this to come out for years.

#replies