don't feel bad if you didn't get in this round, hopefully the next batch of commissions will be ready next month. Here are the 5 names on the commission list now:

1- Ian's Collectibles reviews: Young Link

2- Giovanni: Super Knuckles and Super Tails

3- Dylan D: Scourge and Super Scourge

4- Ashley: OC Malachi

5- Dylan C: Violet

I have finally cleared out that backlog from 2021 so I can re-open my commissions again. To prevent this from turning into another 3 year ordeal I am only going to take FIVE commissions this time. The cost is $20 per figure plus shipping and whatever the base toy would be (whether you would have to send me the base or reimburse me if I have to buy it) and you have a limit of 2 figures per commission. The rules are pretty simple, I take payment via paypal, and you need to be able to communicate with me, so basically you need to have a functional knowledge of how to use email.

My commission email is here: commissionwakeangel2001@gmail.com

I caught a shiny Lurantis in Pokemon Scarlet the other day, and it got me thinking about why they look so much like bugs despite being a pure grass pokemon. The pokedex entry says they pretend to be bug pokemon and lure actual bugs in with their sweet scent, then taking them down with their sickles. This description makes you think of a carnivorous plant like a venus fly trap, but those things don't LOOK like bugs (if anything it makes me think of an orchid mantis, but that's a bug that pretends to be a flower.) There IS a plant out there in the real world that looks like a bug, the Copper Beard Orchid, whose flowers resemble female scolid wasps. The reason they look like that is to attract male wasps that try to mate with the flower, getting covered with its pollen in the process, you see where I'm going with this don't you? My new head canon is that Lurantis look the way they do to attract and seduce scythers to use them as pollinators for their kind (this is why all Lurantis look so feminine, even the males.)

Hey, if a real life flower evolved to look like an insect Real Doll it isn't the most far fetched thing pokemon can base a monster on.

So, those are some pretty cool new pokemon that got previewed huh? Their designs are pretty awesome and everyone seems to like them, especially Ceruledge which ALMOST makes me regret pre-ordering the Scarlet version. So red armor and blue sword are cool, but I always feel like when people praise them there is some kind of asterisk floating over their head because "they look more like characters from digimon/megaman, they just look like dudes with no animal features, blah blah blah" is always the next thing that comes out of their mouths. First of all I personally think they're awesome because they look like variants of Bisharp, one of my favorites, but like I've said MANY times before, the franchise is called POKEMON, that means Pocket MONSTERS. It is not "pokemals, pocket animals" so the pokemon are under no obligation to have any basis in a real world plant or animal. After all, there are MANY pokemon that are references to Japanese yokai or haunted objects such as Honedge or Mawile, and even pokemon straight up based on people like Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee, so it's not a flaw that these two pokemon don't look like anything other than a flaming suit of armor...and I probably am going to have one or both of them in my party...

So I was thinking, the new Pokemon game is gonna be in a region similar to Spain right? I decided to google some Spanish folklore to find out if there are any creatures unique to the country that they might make into pokemon.

-Basa-Jaun, aka "Lord of the Woods" a kind of ogre credited with teaching humans the art of forging and agriculture, and who protects goats and sheep from thunderstorms. Perhaps he can be a steel/ground type (to go with the forge and being immune to electricity) and otherwise look like a big hairy guy, kinda like Grimmsnarl

-Bicha, a monster with the body of a bull and the head and face of a human...that's kind of weird but I don't think we have a proper minotaur pokemon yet, let's go with that!

-Caballucos del diablo, THESE little buggers are kind of cool, literally translating the name to "devil's little horses," they're kind of like...fairy horses? They have insect like features, have tiny devil riders, come in seven colors, and they try to destroy 4 leaf clovers so that people can't have access to that good luck. I can actually kind of see these guys, maybe like a scolipede with wings, or perhaps just a little horse with dragonfly wings, like those fairy ponies in that one episode of Friendship is Magic. Maybe they can evolve into something that looks more like a proper pegasus, they can have markings that look like 4-leaf clovers, and they can even come in multiple colors like minior.

-Culebre, definite candidate for a new dragon type pokemon, the design is simple enough, a snake with bat wings, they tend to guard hordes too, so maybe they would have an attack resembling payday or having the pickup ability?

-Dones d’aigua, "ladies of the water" basically they seem to be like sirens or mermaids, but they're good to humans instead of having a reputation for trying to drown them...we have Primarina already, but I kind of want a pokemon that looks like a BOTW style zora, or at least homages it in some way

-Duende, a spanish house spirit that looks like an old woman with icicle like fingers and acts like a poltergeist. I don't know how we can do it up properly, but an "object pokemon" that looks like a little house would be a fine humorous homage.

-Espumeros, these guys resemble fat children who wear tunics the color of seaweed and play trumpets...this is just begging for a regional variant of Spheal, one with a horn of some kind

-Ijanas, naked women with breasts so long and floppy they have to drape them over their shoulders (WTF goes on with the twisted imaginations of the people who make these things up?!) They seem to be quite greedy and gluttonous, destroying beehives looking for honey and breaking into homes to steal food...so maybe a Honey Badger type creature? Perhaps associated with combee and Vespiqueen?

So that's what I was able to look up in 5 minutes, are there any other Spanish folklore creatures you think might be good pokemon? Anyone wanna draw up some concepts?

So I was thinking about the last episode of My Dress Up Darling (watch on Crunchyroll) and Marin's latest cosplay was of a succubus, and she had to explain to Gojo what a succubus was. She quickly explained that they are a kind of demon that makes men have wet dreams so they could take their semen and kill them, which is accurate enough I guess, but then that got me thinking...

So in the real world the idea of a succubus was made up to explain wet dreams (or nocturnal emissions if we want to get all educated) and in some cultures men would even place phallic objects in front of their doors to "distract" the succubi when they came at night. The reason they went through such lengths was because, for a hilariously long portion of human history, it was thought that men would only be able to ejaculate so many times in their life, as every time they did it consumed some of their life force (the term "orgasm" actually means "the little death" for that exact reason.) This is why masturbation was discouraged so much, but since your sperm cells need to be renewed every few days you literally can't do anything to stop it.

Of course that made me wonder, we now know that there is no life force (or spiritus vitae) to consume and you can basically keep doing it as long as you don't chafe or dehydrate, so if our ancestors knew that would the succubus still be seen as a dangerous monster? I think they might actually have been seen as angels from heaven in that light. The poor succubi are victims of ignorance and religious propaganda! # succubiareangels!

Spoiler warning, the nature of the infamous "Why man" and origin of the petrification event were both revealed in the new issue of Dr. Stone (chapter 229 for context) so you may be wondering why I'm suddenly comparing what has been jokingly called the Minecraft anime to the crazy action anime where half naked school girls fight each other with giant scissors. The answer is that I see a distinct similarity between the medusas from Dr. Stone and the life fibers from Kill la Kill. Both are space faring parasites that manipulate other intelligent species into helping them with their reproduction, though the Dr. Stone version is less destructive.

Let's compare the life cycles here: The Life Fibers drift through space until they land on a planet that has life on it, then manipulate any intelligent organisms they find into making clothing out of them by granting enhanced abilities, eventually when enough life fibers are made they enrobe the entire planet and then make it blow up, using the explosion as a propulsive force to send fibers throughout the galaxy like dandelion seeds.

Now Why Man: The medusas seek out planets that produce radio waves, since that is evidence of technological civilization, and upon arrival turn the first random species they encounter to stone (that's why the sparrows were turned to stone first.) Then they wait to see which species starts to talk about the petrified species, which proves they were the intelligent ones that produced the radio waves, and turn THEM to stone. The petrification isn't totally permanent, as it can wear off easier if the person has an active mind (remember, the main characters broke out of it by forcing themselves to stay conscious) though it can be sped up with chemical aid, nitric acid or the chemically similar but stronger nitol. The idea is that people would see being petrified as the gift of immortality, so they would seek out ways to maintain and make more of the medusas.

So that is the similarity, both Why Man and the Life Fibers are space fairing organisms that seek out intelligent life to help facilitate their own reproduction, granting a perceived boon as incentive, though so far it doesn't look like Why Man wants to destroy the Earth so we have that at least.

I have a subreddit now! Yeah, I've seen a bunch of other youtubers who do this kind of thing so I went ahead and made one for myself. Here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wakeangel2001/ go ahead and post some memes, fanart, questions, whatever you want, just no requests for commissions, that's what my email is for.

I always thought Sega missed out on a big opportunity by not making any real merch of the avatar character from Sonic Forces, though it would be a bit of a logistical problem to try and make an action figure line centered around it (I was thinking an easy to dismantle figure, not unlike a mega construx mini, where you could buy blind bags or upgrade kits with other costume elements, but it could be a hard sell especially considering how many permutations you would have just for the face alone) but I just realized there is a much easier way to get that custom Sonic character on physical merch for the masses, custom printing! The store I work at does custom printed items, (shirts, sweaters, tote bags) that can be made in about 15 minutes at a cost of $30 (for a t-shirt or tote, sweaters costs more but only because they're sweaters) and I know you can also add custom prints to things like mugs, water bottles, and tons of other stuff. Why not use a version of the avatar creator to let people make their own avatar, choose from a series of stock poses, and print it onto shirts and stuff that they could sell from the sega shop? This would be so easy to implement, heck I'm pretty sure deviantart provides a service like this...

Hey everyone, Wakeangel2001 the nitpicking fan boy here! There are a lot of problems with Wonder Woman 1984 but I have an issue with the opening scene where little kid Diana is competing in some kind of Olympic triathlon event thing. She falls off her horse, uses a slide to catch up to it and gets back on, and right before she wins she gets pulled away and chastised for cheating because of the short cut. She DID NOT cheat and DID NOT take a short cut, when she fell off the horse it kept running on the path, she merely caught up to it and completed the race. The horse ran at the same speed along the same course it was supposed to, that isn't a short cut! Of course she still lost because she missed a checkpoint, but that would be a disqualification, not a cheat, know the difference! The lesson would have still worked to, let her throw the javelin but be revealed that her ribbon wasn't as long as the others, so she gets disqualified and the lesson is about not doing a sloppy job or something, "just because you crossed the finish line first doesn't mean you did what it takes to be the best" or something like that, then it would tie in with Maxwell Lord's storyline about trying to wish for everything he wants instead of actually being a good business man.