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1977 Indonesia, Bali, Tirtagangga — a giant banyan tree
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A bit of Bali and Jamaica in Costa Rica for CR triathlon #3
Many people have told us that Puerto Viejo and the Caribbean beaches of Limón on the east coast of Costa Rica are their favorite. And we can see why. There is definitely a different vibe…a bit of Bali with a laid back yoga vibe and a bit of Jamaica flair.
Last weekend we took a quick trip for my 3rd triathlon in Costa Rica and the first one with the whole family. We could have picked a different beach every day for a week and not been bored. The race was on Playa Negra, a beautiful black sand beach and we spent the afternoons before and after the race on Playa Punta Uva with white sand and super warm, calm, clear water.
The race (Ticoman…the coolest name!) was my favorite yet! The laid back vibe began at packet pickup, in a jungle on the beach.
The swim was super calm and the water was 89F/32C. I think I would have overheated if I swam much farther!
I loved the bike course…flat and fast with gorgeous scenery
The run was super hot but also super pretty along the beach…with a few spots along the route actually on the sand. Tough. Thank goodness for a sweet coworker who doused me with icy sponges a couple times along the course. One of my favorite things about races in CR…the great spectator/team support!
The finish was off road through the jungle along the beach!
And then the best part according to Kai…a sloth climbing in the tree over our heads during the award ceremony, looking down on the giant replica sloth. Amazing!
I’ll definitely do this one again and hopefully stay longer next time to explore more beaches and the national parks nearby. A new favorite spot in our adopted home. Pura Vida!
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7 Days in Bali: Day 5
Bali Safari Park( Mara River Safari Lodge)
Hey guys
Sorry for not writing for a long time, I was quite busy at that moment.
Anyway, let's get on with It. The day before, we went on our first safari journey.
It was on a bus, which said Bali Safari park ofc, we hopped in , and our journey started. I'm not sure about the order, but let's start with the Zebras. They weren't in a cage or glass, all could just roam freely. There was a bumpy road of course, Zebras can't go near the lions and tigers. But the Zebras seemed to be having fun, just grazing there.
Then, we saw the hippos, they were fun to see, the hippos were in the water, but we could see their heads out. Then we saw Water bucks. They are really cool. Their skin is water proof, so they don't get wet in Water.
Next is Bambi!! Next were the deer. They were so pretty, that's for sure. There were a lot of babies, and their spots made them very pretty.
Then we come to the red cows, their horns were the largest I had ever seen. The guide said that if their horns are broken, they're gone. Horns were the most important part of their body, it where their blood circulation happens.
Then we come to the Giraffes🦒, one of my favorite animals. The giraffes were very pretty, one was called Jessica, and the baby was called corona 🦠 😂🤣. Corona was born in 2020, that's the origin of the name.
The next one was an Owl 🦉. It was sleeping in its hole. So the next was a Bear 🐻. Although it was also sleeping.
Then, we come to the Orangutans. The Orangutans were very naughty. They were climbing the trees , and sitting on top of them. They also had a rope to swing on.
Next, we saw the Tigers 🐯. The tigers were running around here and there.
Then, we saw the Lions 🦁 .The lions were sleeping.
Then, after the night of that day, it was morning at last. This was a busy day.
First, we went to the Tsavo lion restaurant 🦁. Breakfast, not that good. Experience, great!! The lions were staring at us. The lioness was climbing up a giant rock and sitting down there, enjoying herself. The lion was just lying down there and sleeping 💤.
Then we went to the swimming pool, and swam while looking at zebras
After that, we went to three shows. Animal show, tiger show, elephant shows.
In the animal show, we saw toucans, pelicans, Pythons and Orangutans. They all were performing amazing tricks. The orangutan was very smart.
In the tiger show, the tiger was Awesome!!! It jumped into the water, and swam. It ran around a lot, as a worker was throwing around meat.
In the elephant 🐘 show, they performed an amazing skit.
And then we went on our most thrilling journey, called feed the predators. We had to feed the Lions and tigers. It was very fun. The tiger jumped on to our cage, I think I forgot to mention that. And we had to take metal tongs and feed it meat. When we were going to the next animal, a tiger roared at my dad 😂.
We also fed lions, they gave us a scary look while doing so.
These animals look way scarier than they look in zoos and videos.
We fed many other creatures, like zebra, and red cows.
After that, we went on another safari journey as it was free, and then we went for Animal photo, then for the fire dance.
Fire dance was a delight, it was amazing.
Then we went to bed ended the day.
I'll try my best to write tomorrow about Lempuyang Temple/Gateway of heaven, tirta gangga and batik art. Stay tuned.
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Patio Elegance — Unveiling the Magic of Outdoor Curtains
Imagine a world where your backyard becomes a tropical resort, a cozy café, or a luxurious spa at your whim. It sounds like a fairy tale, right? But with the addition of outdoor curtains, this fantasy can become a reality.
Outdoor curtains aren’t your grandma’s drapes. They’re the new superhero of home decor, swinging in to transform your outdoor space from boring to breathtaking.
1. Sun-Slaying Superpowers:
Picture this: a scorching summer day. You want to lounge outside, but the sun is just too brutal. Enter outdoor curtains. Draw them closed, and you’ve got instant shade. It’s like having a giant tree, but without the bugs and falling leaves.
2. The Privacy Protocol:
We all love our neighbors, but sometimes you just want to sip your morning tea in peace. Outdoor patio curtains give you that personal space, turning your patio into an exclusive retreat.
3. A Festival of Fabrics:
From breezy sheers to solid canvas, outdoor curtains come in every imaginable fabric and design. Want to feel like you’re in Bali? Choose vibrant prints. Prefer a French countryside vibe? Soft, pastel hues are your go-to.
4. They’re Like Furniture, But Better:
Outdoor furniture is great, but it’s so… stationary. Nicetown Curtains, on the other hand, dance with the wind, create dynamic spaces, and can be changed according to the season or your mood.
5. Tougher Than They Look:
Worried that your outdoor curtains will turn into sad, faded rags after one rainstorm? Fear not! Modern outdoor patio curtains are designed to withstand weather’s whims, laughing in the face of UV rays and raindrops.
6. Your Space, Your Rules:
Nicetown Outdoor curtains let you define spaces within your yard. Want to create a secluded reading nook? A romantic dining area? A playful kids’ zone? Curtains let you do all that without building walls or fences.
In conclusion, outdoor curtains aren’t just a trend; they’re a revolution in outdoor living. They empower you to be the designer, the artist, and the master of your outdoor space. And the best part? No construction crews or major expenses involved.
So, the next time you look out at your patio and feel a sense of blah, remember the magical powers of outdoor curtains. They’re ready to swing into action and make your outdoor living dreams come true.
I hope this take aligns more closely with what you’re looking for, but please don’t hesitate to provide more specific feedback or direction. I’m here to help!
#Outdoor Curtains#Outdoor Patio Curtains#Curtains#Custom Outdoor Curtains#Custom Curtains#home improvement#window treatment
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On the island of Bali
On the island of Bali, you will find everything you need to create enchanting and stylish photographs. Immerse yourself in stunning landscapes, picturesque beaches with black sand, and the backdrop of Mount Batur. Embark on magical excursions to meet local healers and explore ancient rituals at the Lempuyang Temple. Don't miss the majestic Giant Ancient Tree in Tabanan and the breathtaking Jatiluwih Rice Terraces.
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Ubud Part 2: Cooking, Cremation, and Holy Sites
Culinary Escapades
Welcome back for Part 2 of our Ubud adventures! As you may remember, I spent a significant chunk of our time in Ubud working through a litany of minor scrapes and colds, but luckily just before the cold really got a hold of me, Sam and I snuck in a culinary treat.
Given our obsession with food, Sam’s mum Ali had generously gifted us a Balinese cooking class. We picked a session with the Bali Farm Cooking School, which began first thing in the morning at a food market in Ubud. Our instructor, Deren, walked us between the stalls, taking us through various local produce. He then drove us about half an hour out of town to the farm, where we then toured the farmland itself, learning about what they grow and picking ingredients for our cooking. It’s a small farm, just 1 hectare (2.5 acres), used predominantly to grow food to run the courses and feed their family, though anything left over is sold at market. We walked between coconut palm trees to pick chillies, lemongrass, and lots of green produce such as pak choi, as well as a hunk of turmeric root and even a strip of cinnamon bark.
Photos above: Deren teaches us about different roots in the ginger family at the local market; picking leafy greens for our cooking; Deren cutting some cinnamon bark; coconut palms
The cooking itself took place under a thatched roof structure that was open at the sides so that we could look out at the farm as we cooked, as the day moved from persistent sunshine to full-on rainy-season rain. The class taught various menus simultaneously, so we opted for the vegetarian, which was either often innately vegan or easily adaptable. Deren was a fantastic instructor, making the whole process both great fun but also precise and full of interesting titbits. As well as learning about various new ingredients, we also made our own Bumbu Bali, a spice mix that forms the base of many Balinese dishes and involved a lot of manual crushing of ingredients using the heavy-duty pestle and mortar. Throughout the morning, we cooked a 6-course feast, working in stages to first create two appetisers and pause to eat them, before moving on to cook and eat our three mains, and finally our dessert. Our menu was, for starters, sweet and sour tempe plus fresh gado gado. For mains, we ate sizzling corn fitters, a tempe and tofu vegetable curry, and pepes (a mushroom mix steamed in banana leaf parcels). And to cap it all off, we tucked into black rice pudding with banana chunks and coconut milk. Scrum-diddly-umptious.
Photos above: our preparation station; Sam crushing spices; our cooking station; Sam cooking while I studiously annotate the recipes; Sam flipping the sweet and sour tempe; eating our appetisers; preparing the pepes (banana leaf parcels); frying up the corn fritters; our main course
A Royal Send-Off
On one of the days I was sick in bed, Sam headed into Ubud’s town centre where four cremation ceremonies were taking place. These are normally a spectacle, but the final one happened to be the cremation of a prince from Ubud’s royal family, so it was unusually extravagant affair. As part of the celebrations, a procession passes through the city. At the front is a float of a giant holy cow that the body and personal possessions are placed into for the cremation itself. Following behind are family members and offerings for the ceremony, and finally, a float that bears the body. In the case of the prince, this structure was a whopping 18m (60ft) high, with two large teams of men taking it in turn to carry this massive structure through the town. Once they arrived in the centre, a ceremony took place, before the body was burnt inside the holy cow.
Photos above: the royal prince's 18m-tall float; transferring the coffin from the float down to the sacred cow; burning the body within the sacred cow effigy
Video above: the prince's float is carried through the streets
Sacred Explorations
After sampling the dancing, cuisine, and retail options that Ubud had to offer us, as well as hiring a scooter for the day to move about the town more easily (turns out one of life’s peak happiness moments is riding pillion on a scooter as you zoom through a tropical town with the person you love), we decided, on our last day, to explore the surrounding area. Madé (the taxi driver/Kecak performer and passionate Liverpool FC supporter we met through the dance performance) was our driver for the day and took us around a number of amazing sites. First up, we headed to Goa Gajah (or Elephant Cave), a 9th Century temple site created around a cave sanctuary carved into the rock. It was so named because it’s thought that the carved face might resemble an elephant (this was quite a stretch of the imagination for me given the complete lack of trunk) or else perhaps named after the Ganesha elephant figure inside the cave itself. The whole temple site is sat amid the surrounding forest so after walking around the temple itself and into the cave, we then climbed down various flights of stairs amid the trees until we were standing beside a small waterfall. It’s amazing how these beautiful temples are so often set within incredible scenes of nature.
Photos above: with Madé at the Elephant Cave; inside the cave, smokey with incense; one of the temple's shrines; walking through the surrounding forest; a sacred bayan tree in the grounds
Next up, we headed to Gunung Kawi. To get to this sacred site, we had to climb down roughly 300 steps, past rice paddies, streams, and forest. Just as we reached the temple, the daily rain began and we immediately took cover. Rainy-season rain isn’t just like heavy rain in the UK—it’s so intense that you can become completely soaked within a minute (not a hint of exaggeration here, truly) and can last at this intensity for hours. In the end, we only had to sit it out for an hour until it abated and we could wander around. The 11th Century site is most famous for the ten shrines, five on each side of the narrow valley, carved directly out of the rock. Each one stands at 7 metres (23 ft) tall and they are thought to be dedicated to King Udayana, his queens, sons, and concubines.
Photos above: five of the shrines on one side of the valley; several of the shrines on the other side of the valley with the stream in view; Sam's amazing photography skills when capturing the surrounding rice paddies
We paused on our journey for lunch and ended up at a road-side restaurant that was a kind of wooden tunnel built high on stilts (i.e. basically a TREEHOUSE RESTAURANT, hell yeah), so that the view was of a vast valley covered in rainforest (though the food was very average, and very expensive so the view certainly wasn’t free).
Our final sacred site of the day was the busiest—Tirta Empul (loosely translated from the Balinese to mean “water gushing from the earth”) is one of the five most sacred sites in Bali and so attracts a vast number of visitors. It was first founded in 962AD, around a water spring after, legend tells, an epic battle between a magical king named Mayadenawa and the God Indra (very long story short, Indra wins over the evil king and pierces the ground with his staff, from whence gushed forth the holy water). The temple is, unsurprising, dedicated to Vishnu, the Hindu god of water.
At the entrance, a vast, ancient bayan tree stood, huge branches spread thick with bromeliads and draping vines to the ground. We were given sarongs, as with any temple visit, and then wandered our way through the complex. We started at the purification baths, where anyone who wished to was invited to step into the water for the purifying ritual. Past the baths, we came to an inner courtyard filled with shrines and a large pool, built around the spring itself and containing crystal clear water, showing the bright green of the reeds growing within it. On the way out, we passed the Koi Pond, where hundreds of Koi Carp fiercely swarmed together whenever anyone sprinkled the fish food on sale into the water.
Photos above: being shy with Madé's exuberant photo-taking at the temple entrance; the purification ritual; the holy spring; the Koi Carp
Our last stop was at the Tegallalang rice terraces. This swathe of farmland is famed for its beautiful paddies cut into the side of the valley, but we were actually quite disappointed—the way to look over the landscape was by paying an entrance fee to a kind of park that seemed entirely made up of various “selfie” spots and swings from which to take photos for Instagram. There are probably better spots to check out the terraces from, but this one was not our cup of tea, especially considering that Sam and I are both horribly awkward whenever a camera is pointed at the both of us together.
Photo above: a huge photo spot feature set in front of the rice terraces
Lembongan Take Two
After nearly two weeks in Ubud, we headed back to Nusa Lembongan (the island we were previously staying on). Though I’m still recovering from the vestiges of the cold, our hope is that Sam, finally, will be able to dive here—fingers crossed!
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Ijen Crater Tour Price from Surabaya or Bali
Ijen Crater tour package is a tourist trip as well as climbing to the top of Mount Ijen which is located in East Java, precisely on the border of Bondowoso and Banyuwangi regencies.
Foreign tourists who come to East Java Indonesia will mostly stop at this tourist spot. Its rare natural beauty attracts tourists from various countries to come to visit.
What's interesting about this natural tourist destination is the natural phenomenon of burning sulfur gas that emits blue flames.
The best time to climb Ijen is at night before sunrise because during the day the beauty of the blue fire cannot be seen by our eyes.
Mount Ijen Crater Tour from Surabaya or Bali
Going to Ijen can be reached easily via Surabaya (the capital city of East Java) or from Bali island. The long drive from Surabaya to the Ijen climbing post is about 7 hours by road, while from Bali it is about 4-5 hours of driving including the ferry crossing from Gilimanuk Harbor to Ketapang Harbor, Banyuwangi.
How to get to Mount Ijen Crater Lake
The easiest way to get to Mount Ijen from Surabaya or Bali is with tour services. Because there is no public vehicle that passes the route there. There are many choices of tour packages that you can choose to be able to visit Ijen.
The trip round trip to Mount Ijen takes the shortest one day, but if your holiday time is long enough it doesn't hurt to at the same time the Mount Bromo tour at the same time to Mount Ijen if the departure from the city of Surabaya and ends in Bali or vice versa.
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To Ijen from Bali, departing in the afternoon then crossed with a ferry to Java. Around midnight began to climb a few hours later in the afternoon already in Bali again.
To Ijen from Surabaya, the road trip is further than the departure from Bali. The travel time is driving for approximately 7 hours. Staying near the location of Ijen is a smart choice for Ijen tour from Surabaya. (It's the same if you go to Ijen from Malang City)
How long does it take to climb Mount Ijen
Hike to the top of the crater of Mount Ijen from midnight to get the perfect view. The climb takes about 1.5-2 hours starting from the Paltuding post to the view of Ijen Crater.
The length of the track is approximately 3 km. The first 2 km distance really feels uphill even though the road is very wide. Unlike the next 1km the road is more gentle but feels difficult because the road is narrow and there is not much room to rest so it can block other people. From here the smell of sulfur began to smell very pungent.
Ijen Crater Tour Package Price
Before going to Ijen, make sure first where the departure and finish your trip because it really determines the price of the tour. Please contact us for ijen tour package price from bali and surabaya.
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Take note !! the following route to Ijen.
Ijen Tour from Surabaya
Ijen from Bali
Look into the volcanic crater of Mount Ijen and see the famous blue fires
Hike through a rainforest of giant ferns and trees
Get panoramic views of the sulfur lake and surrounding scenery
Watch the sunrise over East Java
Itinerary Ijen Crater Tour
Day 01: Pick Up - Hotel Overnight
Our driver will pick you up from surabaya , banyuwangi or bali ( train station, airport, ferry harbour etc ) by private car and then we will take you to hotel in the Bondowoso or Banyuwangi area.
Check in and Free program.
Day 2 Mount ijen Hike - Drop Off
The best moment to visit ijen for blue fire at 01.00 am.
Our driver will pick up you at the hotel and then continue travel to the village of Licin and drive through a rainforest of giant ferns and trees on the slopes of Mount Ijen.. The driver will bring you to the parking area of ijen crater. From the hotel to the parking area Paltuding takes around 45minutes - 1,5 hours depending on where the hotel is located.
Then you will reach the parking area. finally, you are going to walk as far as three kilometres. about 2 kilometres uphill and 1 kilometre flat. After that, you can enjoy the beauty of the blue fire until the sun comes up and you can see the biggest crater lake in Indonesia and the mining worker carrying the sulfur.
After you enjoy the beauty of ijen crater. we will back to parking then we escort you back to the hotel after breakfast we will drop off you at ferry port Banyuwangi to Bali or Surabaya train station or airport and finish the ijen blue fire tour.
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My make your own fakemon
Birds
General
Bobolink
Bower bird (grass?/flying)
Bustard
Cockatiel (electric because pikacheeks; also gender diffs, color of head/tail etc)
Cuckoo
Drongo (flycatching birds that are excellent mimics)
Flycatcher (maybe the madagascar ones with the red or white males?)
Frogmouth
Honeyguide
Jacamar (esp. genus Galbula)
Kagu or sunbittern
Kakapo (ground-type? sound-based?)
Kiwi (+kiwifruit? it is round and brown and fuzzy, after all)
Kookaburra
Magpie
Megapode birds (e.g. Australian brushturkey; can these fly I am confused)
Myna (sound-based/mimicry; it's mostly hill mynas that talk, although some other species like the Bali myna are prettier so hm... shinies or something maybe)
Roadrunner
Shrike
Whip-poor-will (cries are supposedly a death omen, etc; "whisporwil"?)
White-throated needle-tailed swift (fastest flying bird)
Woodpecker (two-stage split? fire and poison evos that destroy trees in fun and exciting ways? thought I read something about a mildly poisonous woodpecker but I can't find it again so that may be incorrect)
Water Birds
Auk
Booby
Darter/anhinga/snakebird ("snake bird"? also called "devil birds", so...?)
Flamingo
Frigatebird (pirate bird?)
Gannet
Hamerkop (S. African "hammerhead stork", often seen in legends as the "Lightning Bird"; electric/water Thor demon stork idk)
Loon (esp. Pacific Loon, interesting colors)
Marabou stork (a.k.a. undertaker bird; ghost or dark or something?)
Red-breasted merganser (diving duck with high flight speed; see also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_speed list of birds by flight speed])
Southern Giant Petrel (spits nasty stomach goo at predators/uses as food for chicks/migration)
Spur-winged goose (poisonous due to eating blister beetles; see also other information about "spur-winged" birds here and here)
Tern
Tropical penguin
Raptors/Birds of Prey
Caracara
Eagle (harpy, Haast's, Steller's, Phillipine/haribon, martial, bateleur)
Ferruginous hawk
Goshawk
Gyrfalcon
Kite
Kite, kestrel, etc. that hunts by eating things flushed out of the grass by fire (e.g. the ones in madagascar)
Merlin
Owl (eagle, snowy, burrowing, barn, screech, little, elf, spectacled, giant prehistoric owls with long legs)
Peregrine falcon
Secretary bird or seriema
Sparrowhawk
Weird/Super-Colorful
Bee-eater
Black and yellow broadbill
Bronzewing pigeon
Cock-of-the-rock (see here)
Emerald toucanet
Fairy wren ("fairy" wren?)
Fire hummingbird ("hummingburn"? eh)
Hoatzin
Golden pheasant
Ifrita (poisonous)
Kingfisher
Motmot, esp. turquoise-browed motmot
Pitohui (poisonous)
Pitta
Roller, esp. blue-bellied roller
Sage grouse
Serinette canary (a type of music box meant to teach canaries how to sing)
Starling (yes starly is one but some of these are whoa super pretty, e.g. Common starling; also shown here)
Trogon
Tufted coquette hummingbird
Misc. Ideas
Ostrich with its head in the sand (ground-type?)
Sriracha chicken (fire/poison?)
Reptiles and Amphibians
Lizards
Anole
Basilisk lizard
Beaded lizard (electric, "lightning strikes w/ tail"?)
Boyd's forest dragon
Diplodactylinae gecko (stores fat and foul-smelling defense fluid in tail; Strophurus, Diplodactylus)
Draco flying lizard
Fan-throated lizard
Frill-necked lizard
Fringe-toed lizard
Horned lizard (aka "horned toad")
Iguana
Monitor lizard
Monkey-tail skink
Night lizard (usually never strays far from its home; with attached log/rock/etc. home like a hermit crab?)
Panther chameleon (literal?)
Rainbow agama
Rainbow skink
Sailfin lizard (can run on water—combine with basilisk?)
Snakes
Feathered/spiny/hairy (Atheris) viper
Flying snake
Garter snake
Kingsnake (nonvenomous, coral snake colors, immune to venom of other snakes)
Leaf-nosed (Langaha) snake
Palmetto corn snake (looks kind of like a koi fish; evolves from a koi?)
Rhabdophis snake (venomous/mildly venomous, but also poisonous due to eating poisonous toads; venomous snake that also oozes poison?)
Saw-scaled viper
Shieldtail snake (actual tails not all that interesting, but maybe exaggerate the tail tip into a large/expandable shield it can cover itself with when coiled up)
Spitting cobra (find way to differentiate from Arbok)
Stiletto snake
Sunbeam snake (iridescent scales)
Tentacled snake (Erpeton) (evolve it into some sort of mustachioed dragon thing?)
Turtles and Tortoises
Mata-mata
Snapping turtle ("alligator" snapping turtle?)
Soft-shelled turtle
Other Reptiles
Gharial
Legless lizards (slow worms, glass snakes, etc.)
Tuatara (with the third eye thing… psychic?)
Frogs and Toads
Cane toad
Gliding tree frog (with web membranes)
Hairy frog
Other Amphibians
Caecilians (limbless amphibians)
Siren (combine with mythical?)
Misc. Ideas
A kite shaped like a cobra hood
Sewer alligator
Sound-related frog (different from tympole line/politoed... also, frogs possibly only hear croaks from own species?)
Mammals
Rodents and Other Small Mammals
African spiny mouse (possibly with regenerator and/or shed skin)
Anomalure (scaly-tailed squirrel, most can glide)
Hamster on a wheel/in a ball; pikaclone that generates electricity by running?
Hutia
Hyrax
Kangaroo rat
Lemming
Naked mole rat (or Damaraland mole rat, not hairless but similar; maybe make it sort of like a eusocial insect colony? with a pharaohnic "queen", since they live in Africa?)
Pika (electric? lol)
Porcupine (preferably not electric or poison plz, e.g. grass like a "porcupinecone", fire and throwing flaming quills, etc.; maybe some sort of archer that has a "bow" on its back and can fire quills like arrows... grass/fighting, for example?)
Solenodon
Springhare
Tenrec (esp. streaked tenrec, good colors for electric-type, communicates by vibrating quills)
The Vacanti mouse ("sonoranti"?)
Volcano rabbit (literally?)
Woodchuck
Land-based Carnivora
African painted dog
Basset hound
Bush dog
Chihuahua
Coati
Cougar/puma/mountain lion
Dhole
Fossa
Husky (w/sled attached?)
Jaguar
Kinkajou
Leopard
Papillion (toy dog breed; with actual "wing" ears? bug? fairy?)
Ungulates
Babirusa (ridiculous-tusked pig)
Bison
Bongo (antelope)
Chevrotain (mouse deer)
Donkey or mule
Elephant (ice, if not doing a woolly mammoth? "pachyeas/pacheas/pachyas" or something, e.g. pachyderm + boreas? alternatively, electric? poison? ground?)
Elk
Gerenuk (long-neckted antelope that stands on its hind legs)
Moose
Musk deer
Muskox
Okapi (fire-type? supposedly they eat charcoal from time to time; they also mark their territory with a "tar-like" substance from their hooves, which can be styled as flammable)
Ox (fire-type "Chinese zodiac" starter? an ox combined with a covered wagon?)
Rhinoceros (ice, if not doing a woolly rhino? some other type? ooh something dark might be kind of cool)
Zebra or zorse (zebra/horse hybrid)
Primates
Aye-aye (sound-related? fingers like conductors' batons? "virtuaizo"?)
Baboon
Cotton-top tamarin
Howler monkey or siamang (siamangs have a throat pouch like a frog for loud calls)
Marmoset
Slow loris (poisonous)
Squirrel-monkey (literally?)
Marsupials
Antechinus or planigale (or other small dasyurid)
Glider
Opossum (e.g. Virginia opossum, Western hemisphere only)
Pademelon
Possum (e.g. Australian possums, Eastern hemisphere only)
Quokka
Rat-kangaroo
Tree-kangaroo
Yapok (water opossum)
Aquatic/Marine
Beluga whale
Elephant seal (literally?)
Leopard seal (literally?)
Pack-hunting whales/dolphins (e.g. orcas; more than one creature as a single pokémon?)
Sea lion (literally?)
Misc. Mammals
Armadillo (possibly one patterned like a car tire, like donphan... "carmadillo" or sth idk)
Colugo
Pink fairy armadillo
Platypus (maybe electric since they can sense electricity in their prey? delivering shocks with their spurs instead of venom? (in addition to venom, and either make it like umbreon or make it poison/electric?))
Tent-making bat
Misc. Ideas
Albino (lab) rat (psychic? make it evolve into something that is like a scientist in a coat so the "experiment has become the experimenter" or something?)
Bear on a unicycle (evolve it into a bear on a motorcycle?)
Beast tamer that is itself a "beast" (e.g., a lion with a whip tail)
Deer made of "money" (because "doe" and "buck" ololol; man-made species?)
Fainting goat
Flying buffalo ("buffalo wings")
Generic marsupial (no specific thing, kind of like Eevee)
Ghost-type lemur (etymology "lemures", etc.)
Junkyard dog (fighting/steel?)
More venomous/poisonous mammals in general
Paired fakes (split evo? probably single stage though) based on hybrids, e.g. ligers, grolar bears, etc., e.g. a white-and-brown bear and a brown-and-white bear
Porcupine/hedgehog-like thing with hollow spines that produce sound (blow through tail, like bagpipes?)
Saguaro jaguar; guava jaguar
Ship's cat (water-type/pirate/sailor/captain cat; starter?)
St. Bernard brandy barrel
St. Guinefort or Gelert
Vampire musk deer/chevrotain (actually drinks blood? maybe drains vegetables instead?)
Whale/dolphin that is some kind of ship or barge or boat or something
Fish
General
Arctic char (cold-water fish, but it has "char" in its name so that totally means it survives the cold by having internal fire, right)
Betta (anthropomorphic?)
Convict cichlid
Flying fish
Golden dorado
Lancetfish
Lizardfish
Sandlance
Snakehead
Sturgeon (huge, long-lived)
Tuna
Sharks, Rays, Eels, Other Unusual Fish
Chimaera (deep-sea cartilaginous fish; "ghost shark"?)
Dogfish (literally?)
Goblin shark
Hammerhead (electric? psychic?)
Requiem shark (doesn't look all that remarkable but the name...?)
Sawfish or sawshark (...jackhammerhead shark?)
Whale shark (literally?)
Weird/Super-Colorful
Blobfish
Cutlassfish (aka frostfish...?)
Fancy goldfish (oranda, ryukin, veiltail, etc.)
Glass catfish (transparent fish: ghost-type? skeletal-looking fish that aren't actually ghosts?)
Hagfish
Handfish (see also here, slide 21)
Hatchetfish (freshwater and marine hatchetfish are unrelated but either would be cool)
Lionfish (leonine qwilfish evo? combine with an actual lion or sea lion?)
Oarfish
Sarcastic fringehead
Seabat (vaguely manta-like anglerfish; actual "sea-bat"?)
Sea robin (see also here, slide 13)
Stargazer (venomous, also have electric organs)
Stomiidae fish (see also the blackdragon fish at slide 9 here)
Swordfish or sailfish or marlin (sailfish can change color; can heat their eyes and brains to improve vision; swordsman? swashabre, colichemar, finsaber, fincer, marlée, salichemar? marlancer, sailancer? a "sea horse" destrier/warhorse marlin with a "jousting lance" beak?)
Toothed seadevil (teeth on outside of mouth)
Viperfish (literally?)
Wolftrap angler (can move the teeth in its upper jaw to form a cage around fish in its mouth)
Misc. Ideas
Dragon-like ray/skate?
Fish in a fishbowl (maybe combine with those tacky old-timey diver decorations/an old-school diving helmet? water/steel, probably rock head or something…?)
Jenny Haniver
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish (Basculin kind of does this a little, but I'm not sure if that's intentional)
School of fish acting as a single Pokémon a la Magneton or Dugtrio
Sand sharks with pyramids or obelisks for dorsal fins
Arthropods
General Insects
Antlion (literally? alternatively, they're sometimes called "doodlebugs", so something to do with art/sand art? sketch?)
Armored ground cricket (Acanthoplus)
Blister beetles and similar (fire-colored beetles, Spanish flies, Oedemeridae/false blister beetles)
Caddisfly (larvae make silk nets for fishing/protection)
Cockchafer (omg the antennae)
"Damsel"fly and "dragon"fly; is there a possible knight analogue that could go with this?
Dobsonfly
Earwig
Firebrat (fire-type?)
Golden tortoise beetle
Grylloblattid (aka "icebug", also maybe those mantophasmids they're related to?)
Japanese beetle
June bug (maybe head through a thing that looks like a car grill; bug/steel or bug/rock?)
Katydid
Lantern fly (snake/lizard-headed? glowing "heads" even though they don't actually emit light?)
Merchant grain beetle
Mole cricket
Owlfly
Praying mantis (literally? "mantis" in Greek means "psychic" or "seer", so a psychic mantis? or an electric-type mantis ("mantesla"?) that hunts computer "bugs"?)
Rhinoceros beetle (literally?)
Rove beetle (specifically Nairobi fly)
Scale insect (neotenic females permanently attached to plants, covered in wax coating that looks like scales; males can fly, sometimes look kind of ornate; Burmy-like?)
Scorpionfly (males have manparts that look like a scorpion's stinger...?)
Silverfish
Snakefly
Spoonwing
Stag beetle (literally?)
Stalk-eyed fly
Torpedo bug (nymphs are funny looking white things that look like badminton birdies with too many legs)
Water boatman (surskit alt? alternatively, a split line with one front swimmer and one backswimmer?)
Waterscorpion (not actually a scorpion, but make it one? surskit alt?)
Weta (frozen?)
Wheel bug motorcycle or some other vehicle
Whirligig beetle
Zyzzyva weevil
Lepidopterans
Carnivorous moth caterpillars (Eupithecia)
Concealer moth (omg look at that really fluffy one it's so weird)
Death's-head hawk moth (as a pirate, with a skull and crossbones on the backs of its wing; antagonizes bees for their honey)
Fabric-eating moth
Ghost moth
Hummingbird moth
Inchworm/geometer moth (possibly actually ruler-like? maybe with an alt evo into a stick insect ruler?)
Jewel caterpillar
Jumping bean caterpillar/moth
Lonomia moth (highly toxic caterpillars)
Semi-aquatic moths? (figure out which ones these are because ?)
Snake-mimic caterpillar (such as here)
Tent caterpillar
Woolly bear caterpillar
Eusocial Insects and Relatives
Bulldog ant
Carpenter bee (literally?)
Electric ant (light color with a terrible sting)
Ghost ant
Hairy crazy ant (moves in erratic circles, known for destroying electronics)
Megalara wasp
Mud dauber wasp (esp. blue) or potter wasp
Parasitoid wasps, esp. emerald cockroach, tarantula hawk, fairyfly, ichneumon, cuckoo, Glyptapanteles
Pharaoh ant (like a queen that is pharaonic? thank god the char limit is 10 because otherwise I would totally name it "hatshepsant") (thanks gen vi)
Sawfly
Velvet ant (actually a kind of wasp), esp. the "panda ant"
Warrior wasp
Arachnids
Ant-mimic spiders
Bagheera herbivorous jumping spider
Bolas spider (cowboy/lasso spider?) or Deinopide net-casting spider
Crab spider (esp. the kind that "fishes" in pitcher plants... Victreebel?)
Diving bell spider
Fishing spider (can run on water, surround themselves with air bubbles when underwater)
Gasteracantha and Micrathena spiny orb weaver spiders (see also images here)
Grim Reaper-like black widow, hourglass representing the time you have left to live or whatever
Money spider (seeing one on you means it's "spinning you new clothes", aka good fortune)
Peacock spider (see here and here)
Social spiders (psychic? hivemindish, like a group of "puppetmasters"?)
Solifugid/sun spider/camel spider (not actually a spider, more closely related to scorpions?)
Tarantula
Ticks, esp. ticks that cause tick paralysis (...electric?)
Trogloraptor (literal "raptor" spider? eh)
Wheel spider
Whip scorpion/vinegaroon (scorpion-like arachnid, non-venomous w/ whiplike tail that sprays a vinegar-smelling acid)
Whip spider
Violin-playing brown recluse
Crustaceans
Copepods (weird transparent mini-crustaceans, I mean just look at these things; also some can discharge delayed-flash bioluminescent liquid to distract predators)
"Floating crab" (don't know the name but it was on BBC's Blue Planet; possibly a Sally Lightfoot?)
Giant isopod
Opossum shrimp
Pill bug
Pom-pom crab
Porcelain crab
Samurai crab/heikegani
Sand crab/mole crab
"Snow" crab
Yeti crab
Misc Arthropods
House centipede
Sea spider (not actually a spider; spindlier and creepier)
Springtail (hexapod thing with springboard-lever-thing tail)
Weird/Super-Colorful
Any of these ridiculous caterpillars that can eff you up (as seen here and here)
Giraffe-necked weevil
Jewel bugs (type of shield bug) or jewel beetles (also beetlewing jewelry; also also, see the beetles can apparently "hear burning"?)
Stick insect (esp. colorful stick bugs like "Achrioptera punctipes punctipes" and this one)
Misc. Ideas
Ballooning spiderling (incorporate as basic stage of another spider idea?) (could actually do this for an early bug even though spiders don't make cocoons, like a floating spiderling, a spiderling with legs poking out of a web, and then bam big spider... hey if whirlipede counts then this would too)
Bookworm
Cockroaches sturdy enough to survive (or already affected by) nuclear fallout
Different styles of spider web (here and here)
Dung/scarab beetles based on Atlas (dung ball on the shoulders, etc., prob bug/fighting)
Egyptian-themed spider that spins mummy wrappings instead of webs
Either silkworms or spiders with "silk clothing", e.g. kimonos
Exploding ant
Mosquito split-evo by gender; aggressive female, passive male?
Puppetmaster spider (see also social spider note above)
Scorpion based on a chili pepper (e.g. the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (current hottest pepper in the world), which also kind of looks like a scorpion sting a little; could also do a snake one what with one of the next spiciest being the "Naga Viper", but eh; interesting counterparts for something I guess)
Spiders leave water droplets containing coiled thread along web; they unravel when the web is hit, springlike, to give it more elasticity
Stinging nettle tarantula
Tarantula dancing the tarantella
Trojan horse made of a beehive or spider webs or something, controlled by a bunch of (probably psychic) social insects or similar (could also do ghosts haunting something but bugs might be more interesting)
Vampire spider
Worm in apple (cocoon-style line? apple maggot?)
Miscellaneous Invertebrates
Terrestrial
Ice worm
Planarian worm (some are also aquatic)
Velvet worm
Parasitic
Tapeworm
Aquatic
Anemones (a torterra-like large creature with anemones and maybe corals on its back, with smaller fish pokémon living there?)
Bobbit worm (iridescent polychaete that slices prey in half)
Box jellyfish
Chiton (weird sea mollusk that has eyes made of minerals rather than protein; kind of like a sableye + a kabuto??????)
Christmas tree worm
Eastern emerald elysia (sea slug that looks like a leaf and has adapted with photosynthetic genes/to have a symbiotic relationship with algae)
Flying squid (perhaps something to do with a quill pen and squid ink?)
Geoduck (long-siphoned bivalve)
Harp sponge (carnivorous sponge)
Leech (some are also terrestrial; a medicinal, bloodletting leech? something like a macabre chansey/audino?)
Lion's mane jellyfish (possibly combine with a lionfish? or a regular lion?)
Man o' war (possibly flying/poison and floats through the air? a shiplike design, possibly like an actual man-of-war ship?)
Mimic octopus
Phoronid (planktonish thing with badass-looking larvae)
Piglet squid (literally?)
Plough snail ("surfing" snail that eats washed up fish, jellyfish, etc.)
Sea hare (literal "sea hare"? make it fast instead of slow like a normal slug?)
Sea pen
Sea pig
Sea urchin (make an aquatic hedgehog/porcupine/echidna out of it?)
Shipworm (naked clam)
Tunicate
Vampire squid (but emphasize the "vampire" more than most designs seem to; usually just a scary-looking squid, so more like Dracula? bat-like?)
Misc. Ideas
An archer snail that shoots "love darts"; Cupid snail (based on the idea that Cupid might've been inspired by snail darts... uh-huh)
Snail telegraphy (theory that snails formed an unbreakable psychic bond on contact)
Humans
Occupations
Aztec jaguar and eagle knights (split line?)
Barbershop quartet
Blacksmith (fire/steel?)
Circus act or carny
Clown
Commedia del arte characters (Il Dottore, Pulcinello, etc.)
Harlequin/jester
Pirate
"Pokémon trainer" (mimic type thing?)
Quack doctor (quack chansey?)
Snake charmer
Snorkeler, scuba diver
Stage magician/escape artist
Superhero
Sports and Martial Arts
Baseball
Caber toss (from the Highland Games; conkeldurr-like? could know wood hammer?)
Jai alai
Jet skiing/snowmobiles
Hammer throw
Lacrosse
Skiing
Snowboarding
Soccer/football
Surfing (possibly an animal with a long, flat or thick tail, like a platypus or a crocodile, that surfs (or snowboards) on its tail?)
Specific Individuals
Charlie Chaplin
Elvis
Groucho Marx
Plants and Fungi
Flowering Plants
Anemone (combine with the sea creature anemone?)
Anthurium ("flamingo flower"... maybe water/grass birds? maybe the "neck/beak" tall bit can be the beak, and the flower petal or whatever can be the face?)
Catnip (catnip cat? mouse? dog?)
Foxglove (actual fox or something?)
Honeysuckle (bee? "anglerfish-like"? some other sort of carnivorous thing, or does it share?)
Impatiens/touch-me-not/jewelweed (shiny, seed pods explode when touched)
Living stone (succulent plant with fused leaves that looks like a rock, see here)
Lotus
Mimosa/touch-me-not (supposedly useful for neutralizing cobra venom; a mimosa plant with immunity or poison heal, and maybe a move that heals targets of status conditions? just aromatherapy, or sth else? a shy little shrinking violet that can stand up to snakes?)
Nettles
Quinine tree
Rafflesia flower (gloom and vileplume already do this, but focus more on the parasitism and/or the nickname "corpse flower"?)
Sandbox tree (more explosive seed pods, "dynamite tree"; evolution of impatiens?)
Silversword
Some kind of spurge (acidic sap, etc.)
Strelitzia (bird of paradise flower)
Water caltrop (seed looks sort of like water buffalo horns, so maybe water/grass buffalo?)
Edible Plants
Anything from this list of culinary fruit
Buddha's hand
Carrot
Chocolate
Coffee bean (+cup of coffee?)
Peppers ("ghost" pepper, naga peppers, peppers that look like scorpion stingers)
Pomegranate (grass/ghost?)
Starfruit
Tomato with a tomato-throwing/splatting sig move
Carnivorous Plants
Aldrovanda/waterwheel
Drosophyllum
Rainbow plant/Byblis
Sundew/Drosera
Other Plants
Four-leaf clover (psychic? fairy?)
Fungi
Devil's tooth
Jack-o'-lantern mushroom (combine with a pumpkin jack-o'-lantern?)
Lion's mane mushroom (for a grass-type lion with a mane that isn't floral/stalks of grass, perhaps)
Misc. Ideas
Genetically engineered crop Pokémon (corn for ears, etc.? cowlike, scarecrow-like? "able to fight back to scare away murkrow"?)
Grass/ground taproot snake thing (see here and also a vague idea here)
Maple seed (helicopter-like?)
Mushroom-shell tortoise
"Onion volcano"
Plant pot with serpentine, vine-like plants coming out of the top, suggesting Medusa's head
Pokémon berries! :O Oran berries, sitrus berries, liechi berries, enigma berries...
Something with a mushroom shield
Tree grafting (i.e., a tree "fused" with another tree, sometimes to allow the tree to grow two+ different kinds of fruit)
Prehistoric/Extinct Life
Dinosaurs
Agustinia
Animantarx (nodosaurid, name means "living fortress")
Antarctopelta (ankylosaur; ice spikes?)
Aucasaurus (tiny-armed fingerless abelisaur)
Carnotaurus (with exaggerated horns?)
Ceratosaurus (with exaggerated horns?)
Citipati (named after skeletons that dance around a fire; fire-type, ghost-type?)
Cryolophosaurus (aka "Elvisaurus"; ice-type?)
Einiosaurus (ceratopsian with hooklike forward curving nose horn)
Fruitadens (grass-type with fruit for lols?)
Iguanodon (fighting? electric or poison, delivering electricity/venom through the thumb spikes?)
Majungasaurus (focused on the skull dome/headbutting even though realistically that's unlikely?)
Microraptor
Pachycephalosaur (part fighting? part psychic? calculates its opponents' weak spots and next moves and then bam, headbutt to the wherever? maybe gets stuff like focus punch et al because it is good at directing energy to certain parts of its body?)
Parasaurolophus (sound-based, hypnosis/communication/battle with sound waves/frequencies?; should get synchronoise and should also be dual-type so synchronoise isn't outright pointless; electric, maybe, and the sound of thunder? "thundrophos"? too long but eh; psychic? or maybe fire to go with the silly "it shot 'chemical fire' out of its nose like a bombardier beetle" hypothesis mentioned on wiki)
Psittacosaurus (possibly aquatic?)
Skorpiovenator (abelisaurid, "scorpion hunter"; only named because there were scorpions at the dig site, but big, angry, tiny-armed, sting-tailed dinosaur anyway because yay?)
Tarbosaurus ("Tarbataar"? fighting? "tar-dinosaur"?)
Pterosaurs/Flying Reptiles
Azhdarchid (esp. large one like Quetzalcoatlus or Hatzegopteryx)
Nyctosaurus (pterosaur with hueg crest antler dealio; see here, see also reconstruction with membrane over crest here)
Smaller probably toothy pterosaur, e.g. Ramphorhynchus or Ornithocheirus or Anhanguera
Tapejara (pterosaur with weird disc-looking head/crest)
Marine Reptiles
Icthyosaurus
Mosasaurs
Odontochelys (half-shelled turtle with teeth)
Other Prehistoric Reptiles
Icarosaurus
Longisquama
Meiolania (horned turtle)
Pleurosaurus (extinct sea tuatara)
Sharovipteryx
Synapsids and Mammals
Anything from here (image of whale evolution), possibly in combination
Caveman
Ceratogaulus (horned gopher; maybe a prehistoric Rattata thing?)
Desmostylus (semi-aquatic marine mammals that lived near the shore)
Doedicurus
Ekorus (giant weasel)
Euchambersia (venomous fangs)
Josephoartigasia monesi (biggest rodent ever, sort of like a rodentoceros)
Kolponomos (marine bear)
Peltephilus (horned armadillo)
Sivatherium ("four-horned giraffe")
Thylacoleo (marsupial lion; also it had these ridiculous thumbs with scary claws)
Woolly rhino (ice-type?)
Birds
Pelagornithid/pseudotooth bird (massive seabirds, see here)
Teratorn (giant vulture thing, see here)
Terror bird or Diatryma/Gastornis
Fish/Other Aquatic Animals
Megalodon
Whorl shark/Helicoprion (either with "circular saw" bottom jaw or spiral bottom jaw; split evo? both?)
Arthropods/Other Invertebrates
Eurypterid (aquatic arachnids)
Hallucigenia (whatever the hell it actually is, some kind of velvet worm thing?; see here for possibly accurate reconstruction, here for likely inaccurate reconstruction; multiple forms based on the different interpretations, maybe?)
More Recently Extinct Animals
Dodo
Haast's eagle
Moa
Thylacine
Misc. Ideas
Ammolites (omg gorgeous iridescent organic gemstones created by fossilized ammonite shells, eg here and here; either its own thing or something to do with omanyte, maybe?)
Electric dromaeosaur
Flying Stegosaurus because yes please that's hilarious
Resurrected tar pit fossils (tar zombies!)
Dimetrodon (or other sailbacked animal) with a harp on its back, a la this idea
Mythological/Fantastic/Fairy Tale Creatures
(The "bestiary" notes below refer to the descriptions of these creatures/animals in actual medieval bestiaries, many of which are aggregated here.)
Dragons and Serpents
Amphisbaena
Amphithere
Cerastes (flexible, horned snake; also a real kind of desert viper)
Gandaspati (will-o-wisp that takes the form of a dragon)
Hydra
Jaculus (bestiary)
Pyrausta (bug-dragon; moth-like, since there's an actual moth genus named Pyrausta? sth to do with amphitheres?)
Scitalis/scytale (like a sunbeam snake?)
Unktehila/Uktena (horned serpent(s) in Native American myths)
Wyrm
Wyvern
Magical Birds
Alerion (bestiary)
Barnacle goose (mythological; goose head and breast retract into barnacle shell, feet always out? goose w/ barnacle for head?)
Chinese nine-headed bird
Cinnamon bird (bestiary)
Gandaberunda (two-headed mystical Hindu bird)
Hercinia (bestiary)
Huginn and Muninn
Manucodiata
Orphan bird (bestiary)
Roc
Yatagarasu
Aquatic Mythical Creatures
A fish that grants wishes a la at least one fairy tale from somewhere (knows the move wish obvs)
Aspidochelone (giant turtle with land on its back)
Bake-kujira (skeletal/ghost whale)
Jasconius (giant fish with land on its back; water/grass? rock? might be kind of interesting to combine with the above and give the fish a turtle shell...)
Sea monk (+sea monkey?)
Selkie
Other Magical/Mythical Animals
Bonnacon (w/ rockets?)
Catoblepas
Crocotta
Karkadann
Leucrota (psychic? make it more leonine?)
Monoceros
Parandrus (bestiary; deer-thing that changes color)
Tanuki (preferably not grass/with something other than a fig leaf representing tastefully-covered junk; also maybe a brief homage to Imakuni?, because this (see final boss at end) gave me the headcanon that he's supposed to be dressed as some sort of bizarro tanuki, which is probably not true but more fakemon should be paying attention to Imakuni? regardless) ("tanukuni" or sth idk, question mark at the end optional.. shiny version/evos/something should be red for "Red Imakuni?"... maybe evos because apparently "shiny" Imakuni? is white according to the actual goddamn Shining Imakuni? card)
Yale
Magical/Unusual Versions of Real Animals
Al-Mi'raj (aggressive horned rabbit)
Bestiary "antelope"
Bestiary bear (molded into shape?)
Bestiary hare (gender bending)
Bestiary hyena (seeing future? psychic?)
Bestiary leopard
Bestiary remora/echeneis (traps ships)
Bestiary "salamander"
Bestiary "sawfish"
Bestiary swordfish (combine with sawfish, remora?)
Bestiary "torpedo" (electric eel?)
Bestiary wolf (colorful?)
Fenrir (but with chains, and maybe a hand for a tongue to represent Tyr's hand; Houndoom evo?)
Icy bestiary salamander
Jiki-ketsu-gaki (greedy spirits reincarnated as mosquitoes)
Jorogumo/spider woman
Kamaitachi
Nemean lion
Animal Hybrids
Chimera
Hippocampus
Hippogriff
Muscaliet (hare-squirrel-boar that burns trees) (bestiary)
Nguruvilu (fox-snake water demon)
Peryton
Piasa
Questing beast
Set animal/sha (see here)
Shachihoko (tiger-headed, rain-bringing carp; word can also mean "orca")
Shisa (more leonine?)
Underwater panther
Human Hybrids
Harpy
Manticore
Merperson
Siren
Humans/Humanoids
Hag (psychic/?)
Changeling (possibly two counterpart lines? a fairy-type that evolves into something "normal" but not quite, and a normal-type that evolves into something "fairy" but not quite?)
Panotti
Tenaga-Ashinaga (people with long arms and people with long legs, often depicted with the tenaga riding on the ashinaga's shoulders)
Goblinoids/Grotesque Humanoids
Bridge troll
Bugbear (also literally?)
Cyclops
Goblin
Gremlin (the technology-sabotaging kind)
Hinkypunk
Ogre
Orc
Fairy Tales, Fables and Similar
Baba Yaga (the house with legs?)
Bremen Town musicians
Golden goose/goose (chicken) that lays golden eggs
Hey Diddle Diddle (a musical cat? a cow jumping over a moon?)
Jack the Giant Killer/Jack and the Beanstalk (combine? grass/fighting? Grass Knot and Low Kick by level up?)
Magic beans/beanstalk
Monsters under beds
Mother Goose
Pied piper
Sandman (maybe a fighting-type that knocks opponents out with its punches? see also this)
Singing harp
Straw/stick/brick pigs (include a wolf counterpart?)
Plants
Peridexion tree (bestiary)
Ya-te-veo (man-eating plant; see also Madagascar man-eating tree)
Spirits/Personifications
Bia, Kratos, Nike and Zelos (Greek personifications of force, strength, victory and zeal)
Djinni/Genie
Doppelganger
Hitodama
Lady Midday
The Muses
Poltergeist
Wendigo
Undead
Bloody Mary (in the mirror? "maramira"? "bludmira"? idk but mirror fakes with creepy humanoid women in them)
Haunted armor
Headless horseman
Jiang shi (Chinese "hopping vampire"/zombie; real ones generally kind of stiff and silly but something like Hsien-Ko might be fun idk)
Manananggal or krasue or nukekubi (severed body-part flying vampires)
Mummy (especially non-Egyptian—ice mummies, peat bog mummies, etc.)
Vampire
Angels, Demons and Similar
Baphomet
Tikbalang
Deities
Cupid
Individuals
Cerberus (as a pseudolegend? careful about hydreigon, though)
Icarus and Daedalus
Jiraiya (legendary ninja who could turn into a giant toad, so a frog-ninja? sth to do with Orochimaru and Tsunade, his snake-rival and snail-lover respectively? eh)
Johnny Appleseed (spread apple trees for landowners' orchards, usually so they could make hard cider)
Krampus ("bad-cop Santa")
Laocoon (Trojan priest)
Madame White Snake
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
Morgan le Fay (+fata morgana?)
Reynard the fox
Cryptids and Hoaxes
Argopelter
Axehandle hound
Dahu and/or sidehill gouger (maybe paired, one with shorter left side and one with shorter right?)
Jersey Devil
Grinning Man (alternatively, a trainer?)
Hidebehind
Mapinguari (giant aggressive sloth)
Minhocão (giant tentacled earthworm)
Mongolian death worm
Mothman
Skunk ape (actually just a local Bigfoot analog, but maybe a literal "skunk ape"? like a squirrel monkey, but a "skunk monkey"?)
Splintercat
Locations
Crop circles (or whatever's leaving the crop circles?)
Fabled paradises/cities of riches (Eden, Shangri-La, El Dorado, the Elysian Fields, Valhalla, etc.)
Misc. Ideas
A dragon based on something unimpressive
A wizard/witch's familiar
Bifrost (fiery rainbow bridge to Asgard)
Buddhist four dignitaries/dignities (dragon [compassion, sea, water], tiger [confidence, forests, air], snow lion [cheerfulness, mountains, earth], garuda [wisdom, sky, fire])
Chinese zodiac (for something other than just fire starters)
Dragonslayer (ice? fighting? steel? fairy? include a dragon counterpart?)
Five (six) aspects of the Ancient Egyptian soul: Ba, Ka, Ren, Ib, Sheut (Akh) (as birds, probably; combine w/bennu or owl?)
Gargoyle + guillotine (French word is "gargouille", so "garguillotine" or something less awkward idk)
Greek four winds
Grey alien dragon, UFO dragon
Heraldic creatures
Legendary quartet based on the four animals of judgment or whatever they're called (lion, eagle, bull and man)
Legendary quartet based on the four Dragon Kings that ruled the seas; possibly all water/ instead of water/dragon or dragon/?
Legendary quartet based on the Four Horsemen, but make them like counterparts to the muskedeers instead of random diseased horses/centaurs
Legendary trio/group(/non-legendary?) based on syzygies (being "aligned" or something in certain configurations causes interesting effects)
Legendary trio (or something else? huh starters or something would be cool) based on the three Fates
Legendary trio (or something) based on the three Furies
Plague doctor "phoenix" with cinnamon in its mask that claims dead souls to be reborn as something else
Riddle of the sphinx three-stage line (humanoid-ish w/ sphinx/lion elements, I guess?)
Three symbols of victory over disharmony (eight-legged lion [(snow)lion and garuda], fur-bearing fish [fish and otter], makara crocodile [snail/crocodile/snake/dragon])
Vampiric Slavic dragon (since "dracula" means "son of the dragon"/"little dragon" or something like that)
Western zodiac
Inanimate Objects
General Objects
Alligator clips/jumper cables with alligator clips; electric alligator?
Bug-catching net (blame bug catcher Floyd)
Bug zapper (either electric/fire or else give it an ability that gives an effective SE against bug)
Camera (a ghost-type that captures souls, or takes pictures of the future?)
Cauldron (if combined with an animal: a toad, a pelican, a kangaroo, a turtle?)
Chains (iron? gold?)
Chattering novelty wind-up teeth
Chef's hat
Chess pieces, esp. fairy/unorthodox chess pieces
Cooking utensils, pots and pans, dishes, etc.
Doily
Haunted book/bookshelf
Lab equipment (beakers, etc.)
Neon sign
Paintbrush
Pills (as in vitamins, medicine; maybe big and cartoony and Dr. Mario-like)
Playing cards (suits? face cards? joker, ace?)
Quill pen (a ghost-type, like a "ghostwriter"?)
Slot machine (or other gambling-related things)
Swiss army knife
Telescope (evolve it from a spyglass/into an observatory?)
Historical Objects/Artifacts
Canopic jars
Klerksdorp spheres
Nebra sky disk
Shabti/ushabti
Food
Gingerbread man/house
Gummy bears
Gummy worms
Rice balls
Rock candy
Soda bottle/can (possibly erupting with fizz)
Sushi
Swedish fish
Turducken
Minerals and Metals
Bismuth
Chalcanthite mineral/ore (is poisonous)
Geodes
Lodestone (magnetic)
Neodymium magnets (something with huge crushing force, like a magnet dog/crocodile/hyena/shark, or something that smashes its hands together; obv magnet pull ability)
Obsidian
Pumice (light, fast, possibly special-based?)
Serpentine minerals
Tiger's eye
Mechanical Objects/Robots
Arcade claw machine game
Iron Dobbin (robot horse thing, see wiki)
Karakuri (weird Japanese robots)
Mechanical bull
Neglected, run-down robot
Vehicles
Helicopter
Motorcycle (boar/pig, like a "hog"? dragon? horse? knights on motorcycles?)
Railroad handcart
Rocket ship/space shuttle (not a UFO/alien ship, but an Earth space shuttle-type craft—possibly a man-made Pokémon created to help humans with space exploration and astronomy)
Rover (a la the Curiosity/Mars rover)
Satellite
Train (ghost train?)
Unicycle
Dolls and Toys
Balloon animal
Barrel of monkeys/monkey chain
Beagle puss
Chinese finger trap
Cymbal monkey
Garden gnome
Jack-in-the-box
Joy buzzer prank
Nutcracker
Pinocchio
Porcelain doll (maybe it's scary/creepy evil, and contrasted with a beat-up doll that isn't (well-loved)?)
Punch and Judy puppets
Russian nesting dolls
Squirting flower prank
Sticky hand
Straw dolls, effigies, other dolls, etc. ("raffegy"?)
Tin soldiers/green plastic army men
Whoopie cushion
Wind-up toy (possibly a gimmick that starts with really high stats, but they're reduced every turn as the toy winds down?)
Yo-yo
Games/Puzzles
Dice
Dominoes
Jump rope
Ouija board/planchette
Puzzle box
Tower of Hanoi
Mythical/Fantastical Objects
Apotrope (talisman that wards off evil)
Bell, book and candle (legendaries? forms? starters? alternatively, some other way to reference this, e.g. a trio of trainers?)
Excalibur (the sword from the lake) and Clarent (the sword in the stone)
Imperial Regalia of Japan
Magic carpet
Weapons
Blow dart/gun
Catapult/trebuchet/ballista
Cat-o-nine-tails (or other whippy things)
Meteor hammer
Old-fashioned gun, e.g. a blunderbuss; evolves into a cannon, maybe? (pirate-themed?)
Tonfas
Trident
Musical Instruments
Bagpipes
Cowbell
Drum kit
Gong
Guitar, electric guitar (an "axe"?)
Pyrophone (explosion-powered calliope; also, 1812 Overture?)
Trumpet
Tuning fork
Vuvuzela
Locations, Landmarks, Geographical Features
Blackwater river
La Sagrada Familia (or anything else designed by Gaudi)
Pyramid
The Seven(?) Wonders of the World (ancient? natural? modern? either way maybe better for locations, but...?)
Other/Miscellaneous
Chindōgu, a general category of useless/impractical inventions
Compost (could serve as a more environmentally-friendly "trash" pokémon? grass/poison, grass/ground, ground/poison?)
Crash test dummy
Dragon kite (or kites in general, see this for funzies)
Dynamite and plunger
Electric/flying kite with key, like the Benjamin Franklin experiment
Fireworks (general fireworks, Roman candles, girandoles, Catherine wheels, etc.)
Fly swatter (fighting-type? martial artists catching flies with their bare hands?)
Food bowl dragons (need to do more research, but this seems to be a relatively common thing in Japanese games? although regardless a spaghetti dragon or something would just be wonderful)
Ice sculpture
Lawn flamingo
Nitroglycerin
Pinball, bagatelle
Pokémon made of recycled materials
Really old mainframes-and-tubes, UNIVAC-style computer
Sand castle
Scarecrow
Tesla coil
Tombstones/headstones, mausoleums, cemetery statuary; possibly the final stage might be weeping angel-like?
Tragedy/comedy masks (also: jack-o'-lanterns? instead of the usual grin or creepy face?)
Pokémon/Game Mechanic Concepts
Usage-Related Concepts
Basic stage that has identical base stats to its evolution, so it's just ability/movepool that sets them apart
Basic stage with good stats that evolves into a smaller, statistically weaker pokémon but that has something else going for it (a little along the lines of nincada/shedinja)
Better users of plus and minus, and I don't just mean plusle and minun evos I mean good
Gimmick Pokémon whose ability gives it a random ability out of all abilities aside from its own
"Glitch" Pokémon that changes into a random Pokémon each time it battles
Legendary that has an ability similar to Forecast (and possibly that reacts to more than just sun/rain/hail); possibly an inspiration for Castform?
Legendary (man-made?) that learns the signature moves of many other legendaries without events
Legendaries with 255 in a single base stat; other stats are on par with lower-tier legends most likely (the ultimate physical attacker, etc.)
Legendary with ability that nullifies all other abilities as long as it is in play
Legendary with Trace?
"Merlin" Pokémon that evolves backward, levels up backward...?
Paired/grouped pokémon with opposing abilities, e.g. alt evos (serene grace/sheer force, etc.)
"Random number god" gimmick legendary with only Metronome and suitably random ability
Slow pokémon with lots of priority moves
Some sort of excuse for 255s and 1s in something's base stats
Something that gets both Cheek Pouch and Pluck/Bug Bite/a new move with the same effect
Strong, probably defensive users of rough skin
Strong, probably defensive users of shield dust
Strong, probably defensive users of shed skin
Design-Related Concepts
Acid-based poison-type, maybe Grimer-ish?
A Pokémon (spiral-like?) that learns level-up moves at levels matching the early Fibonacci sequence (legend?)
A trio of legendaries/pseudolegends using the starter types (grass, fire, water)
Brains vs. brawn—psychic and fighting counterparts. or maybe a split-evo line that's psychic/steel and fighting/steel, each holding giant spoons, based on bending a spoon with your mind vs. just physically bending it?
Completely silent Pokémon—probably has soundproof, doesn't learn any sound-based moves
Contest stat legendaries
Electric-type covered in neon tubing
Fakes based on beta pokémon (also hi weird spiky doggy)
Fire/ice (or something, maybe poison?) unstable fluctuating temperature Pokémon (name based on temperature scales?)
"Ideal" pokémon of each type (Bulbapedia averages+more?); legendaries?
Kaiju-like legendary (as in, no special space-time powers, it exists solely to be Godzilla)
"Legendary mimic" that imitates legendaries (how?) even though it isn't one itself, or something that wants to become a legendary the way that bagon wants to fly; give it an actual legendary "relative" sort of like carbink/diancie?
One pokemon of each type based on the average overall stats of that type; see Bulbapedia's type articles
Pokémon that evolves into one thing at one level but evolves into something else (presumably stronger) at a later level if you hold off
Paired snow warning/sand stream legendaries in a sort of mini-Kyogre/Groudon thing
Pokémon that look like the little icons they had in RBYGSC before each one got its own individual icon (see here and here)
Pseudo-legend with average stats listed on pseudo-legend Bulbapedia page (round where necessary to get 600)
Psychic/fighting-type (or dark/fighting?) based on “telegraphing punches”… except instead of actually telegraphing its punches, it only looks like it’s about to hit a certain way, thus setting the opponent up to deal with that hit when in reality they’re coming in from a different angle entirely
Roaming legendaries found via means other than grass/surfing: fishing, caves, shaking grass, appearing in the overworld, etc.
Something to do with larger "type polygons": for example, an eeveelution-like group or other set of seven things that are Steel/Rock/Flying/Bug/Grass/Water/Fire
Substitute doll Pokémon
Version-exclusive evolutions for the same Pokémon (possibly along the lines of Deoxys's original forme change method, though as with Deoxys you'd need to think of a way to account for third versions and later gens)
Name-Related Concepts
Note: some of these ideas are actual puns/portmaneaus that happened to hit me before a proper concept did, some are existing objects/creatures/concepts with interesting names, and the rest are literally nonsense words that might still be able to inspire some ideas. (If you want to experiment more with the latter, try looking up "random fantasy name generators" online and seeing if you can make something of the generators' results!)
Aldorex
Chamois
Guignol
Maulcano (fire/fighting?)
Mawuh
Quaville
Salvay
Terridair
Vosalon
Evos/Prevos/Counterparts
Electrode (or Voltorb) evolution that isn't based on a Master Ball (Cherish Ball, Dream Ball...?)
Jackalope-based Plusle/Minun evos (as jackalopes are supposedly associated with lightning... plus/minus antlers?)
Quiet counterpart to Whismur line
Miscellaneous/Random/WTF
Scientific/Natural Concepts
Alpha, beta and delta brain waves (three-stage psychic line? counterparts? split evo?)
Apeirogon (a polygon with infinite sides; see also megagon, a polygon with a million sides)
Aurora borealis
Avalanche dragon (avalanches are sometimes called "white dragons")
Cells (white/red blood cells, others?)
Comet (icy? fiery? an interesting ice/fire-type, perhaps?)
Derecho (powerful straight-line windstorm)
Different flame colors for fire-types (e.g., green flames caused by copper)
Different tastes/flavors (sweet/salty/sour/bitter/umami)
Earthquake lights
Earthquake swarm (bug/ground?)
Five senses (legendaries?)
Four states of matter (legendaries?)
Fumarole/solfatara
Non-Newtonian fluids
Parts of the brain ("hippocampus"? medulla/medusa, cerebellum/cerberus idek)
Phototaxis (movement in response to light—what repels roaches and attracts moths; bug-eating pokemon that attracts w/light?)
Phototoxicity
Pokérus (the actual Pokérus itself? an amalgam thing?)
Resonance/resonant frequency (psychic?)
Schmidt Sting Pain Index (alternatively, for a bug trainer?)
Sun dogs/parhelia
Tornado (possibly one that has picked something up, like a cow or a house)
Van der Waals force (eg gecko feet; part of a name?)
Water cycle (rain, river, ocean, etc.)
Literature
Alice in Wonderland (ideally more than just the Cheshire Cat everyone stops at; white rabbit, mad hatter, caterpillar/hookah, card soldiers, flamingo croquet, etc.)
Captain Ahab and Moby Dick
Don Quixote (w/ Sancho Panza counterpart?)
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Balinese Culture
Bali is located within Asia, specifically a small island in Indonesia which is populated by Balinese people and many tourists. The Balinese people follow a form of Hinduism, which is interesting because within Indonesia it is more Muslim dominated with their Religion. I really like Balinese culture, considering I am half Balinese it’s always had an impact on my life growing up.
The culture and religion within the island impacts almost every aspect of life in Bali, which draws people around the world to see and experience it for themselves. Tourism is actually pretty important toward the economy within Bali, helping small independent businesses sell their foods, clothes or souvenirs etc.
Food within Bali is always interesting, mostly simple but also delicious. Whenever I visit Bali I always look forward to the foods, here’s one of their dishes that I enjoy:
Lawar
Lawar is always a classic in Bali, served with rice shaped in an oval shape, various vegetables and sources. Sometimes served on a palm tree leaf, another aspect of the food which I enjoy with how they use recycling methods to serve their food. The foods in Bali is also very colourful, filled with tropical smells and flavours, a total cultural reset compared to England where everything isn’t as colourful and more bland.
Bali has always been more colourful compared to England actually, walking out the airport the air is warm and smells tropical, as if entering an almost complete different world. The people within Bali are always kind and have gentle mannerisms, considering their mostly poor lifestyle compared to most lives in England they always stay positive, which has always stuck with me. Almost everywhere you would go there would be smiles all around, including aspects of their culture, like the statues and clothing etc, which are always fascinating to look at. It has always been a different world whenever I visit, the tourism aspect is amazing as well, there’s always a lot to do such as sightseeing, snorkelling, and many more. I think the sightseeing is the best, there’s lots of locations in Bali to go to, and lots of things to see;
Ubud Monkey Forest
Whenever travelling across the island there is a large mountain range you have to pass, and within this area there are monkeys, which tourists love to visit and feed them peanuts, I always love passing by and seeing the monkeys although they do steal your belongings if you’re not careful. Another aspect of this mountain is how there are always statues surrounding the roads and decorating the forest, these statues have always fascinated me when I was younger and still fascinate me now. The statues are detailed, intricate and usually of monsters or the Gods of Bali.
The statues mostly represent the Gods or demons of Bali, I’ve always loved the design of them and the scale of how massive some of the statues are. There is an eye catching statue, the biggest statue in Bali, the Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue. It is based on a Balinese-Hindu story, and the scale of this statue is pretty insane. It represents the story of Garuda, the giant bird creature ridden by Vishnu, one of the Hindu gods, in search for something to free his mother. I think it’s stunning.
Another aspect about statues is the shrines, within Bali there are many shrines on every street. Infront of the shrines, usually is an offering for the Gods. wrapped up in a palm tree leaf, filled with flowers, rice and incense, it is part of their culture to do this everyday to offer their Gods.
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Giant Bayan Ancient Tree. Pohon Kayu Putih Raksasa Terbesar Usia Ratusan Tahun Di Marga Tabanan Bali
Giant Bayan Ancient Tree. Pohon Kayu Putih Raksasa Terbesar Usia Ratusan Tahun Di Marga Tabanan Bali
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On the island of Bali
On the island of Bali, you will find everything you need to create enchanting and stylish photographs. Immerse yourself in stunning landscapes, picturesque beaches with black sand, and the backdrop of Mount Batur. Embark on magical excursions to meet local healers and explore ancient rituals at the Lempuyang Temple. Don't miss the majestic Giant Ancient Tree in Tabanan and the breathtaking Jatiluwih Rice Terraces.
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Delayed update (I forgot XD), but the rest of the chibis! Days 21-28
Day 21-Glit + Floor Piano Mat
Glit jamming on a simplified giant piano! Glit comes from the....It Shall Not Be Named Transformers Series that we all collectively Do Not Percieve, and is one of few Decepticon medics. I think its funny bc like, well, I think cons would need more medics than Autobots TBH but I imagine the burn out rate is high lol. I like the concept of Glit a lil minicon, being a caring medic who treats any bot or con, to no care of faction. Idk if it was just fanon or not but I like the idea of Glit having a meme-y personality. I also just like minicon/bots in general aksksksks
Day 22-G1 Jazz + Saxophone
G1 Jazz with a Saxophone! 🎷 🎷 🎷 Yea believe it or not it did not cross my mind to actually.....have Jazz in my December daily draw, despite his name being a music genre and being known for music sksksksksks. I literally did not think of the main music peeps at all actually!
Day 23-G1 Wheeljack + Zeusaphone
Wheeljack Wednesday with G1 Wheeljack weilding the power of a zeusaphone! Truly the only mech I WOULD trust with two giant sets of electrical poles that zap electric currents to make music, for sure 😌👍.
Day 24-RID2015 Thunderhoof + Jingle Bells
SO RiD 2015...anyone else like, notice how most of the Decepticons are like, either robot anthros or purposely animalesque in appearance?? Like they turn into vehicles but here, have smooth voice wolf robot furry and just a crab?? XD
Because it was SO festive XD. Top favs I can recall being Thunderhoof, Steeljaw, Groundpounder, Underbite, Scowl, and Vertebreak. I remember when I was new to the fandom, lots of people talked about this show, and not in a kind way. Mainly due to how is the sequel show to TFP, and differs heavily to say the least!
Day 25-G1 Cliffjumper + Tambourine
G1 Cliffjumper with a tambourine who just out to give good vibes! Personally I was never a fan of making Cliffjumper into a joke, comparing him to a Bumblebee knock off or whatever, I dont think they resemble another at all?? Like if we are going to talk about characters looking similar,, Seekers in most series are literal recolors of the same model, yet we know and treat them as different characters! Bumblebee and Cliffjumper have different colors and body features and different personalities so why is it so hahah funny to say Cliff is just knockoff Bumblebee?????
Day 26-G1 Tracks + Guiro
Tracks with el güiro! Im,,,love Tracks and Raoul. Raoul and his dancing crew are humans I think should make a comeback in a TF series. Raoul being a snarky guy trying to make ends meet in any way possible, and Tracks being this super posh, conceited guy who has a punchable voice, you see...the c o n t r a s t
Day 27-MTMTE Sunder + Waterphone
Sunder with a waterphone! Please, give it a listen! While you are there, look up the Apprension Engine! Look them up at midnight after a scary movie, eases all fears :^)
Day 28-Shrapnel + Rindik
G1 Shrapnel with a rindik! So Shrapnel, Kickback, and Bombshell are just cons who crashed into Bali, probably watched from a distance as humanity developed and whatever. Didnt really care too much, just chilling in the trees or their lil cave, just eating, and with deforestation and all, then eating the human's crops and being awaken by fishers and musicians. Shrapnel doesn't know w h y humans are so into banging things and making loud noises, but honestly? As long as they keep growing food, he and his crew don't really care, probably.
Link to other Chibis 1-5! , 11-15, 29-31
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Warmth
Pairing: Bryce Lahela x MC (Cassie Vanderfield)
Book: Open Heart (a little over 1 year after the end of Book 1)
Word Count: ~1300
Rating: G
Summary: Bryce finds himself in an unexpected location for his vacation.
Author’s Note: Written for Days 12 and 14 of the Autumn writing prompt list (prompts - Bonfire and Toasted Marshmallows) as requested by @universallypizzataco. I hope you don’t mind that I combined these prompts into one fic, but they just went so well together!
Bryce pulled the blanket further up over his lap and settled back in the lawn chair as he sank further into his Patagonia. His front might have been warm enough from the heat pouring off the flames, but his back was cold. The smoke from the bonfire drifted over toward him as the wind shifted, not only chilling him more, but also causing him to start coughing.
This wasn’t exactly how Bryce had pictured spending his vacation. His other vacations in residency had been a bit more adventurous. Hiking in Peru. Backpacking in Iceland. Surfing in Bali. When he learned that he and Cassie had been lucky enough to actually have a week of vacation that lined up, he’d figured they could go to a resort in the Caribbean. Something warm, tropical, and relaxing, a perfect escape from the cold wind and rain of Boston Octobers.
But instead, they were at a cabin in Michigan’s upper peninsula. Instead of a luxury king sized bed, they were sleeping in twin beds they’d shoved together. And instead of cocktails on the beach or by the pool, they were drinking beer around a bonfire, the temperature 45 degrees, not 82. But when Cassie had suggested they head to her family’s cabin to join her parents and her brother in closing it down for the season, he hadn’t been able to say no. She’d looked so excited, her eyes sparkling and her speech just slightly pressured, telling him she hadn’t made it up there for this annual tradition since the second year of med school. Who was he to deny her that chance?
To be fair, it hadn’t all been huddling in the cold and lounging around a bare bones cabin. They’d spent a couple days in Ann Arbor for her fellowship interview at the start of their vacation, and their trip north had involved a night in a quaint little B&B as they ate fudge, rented bikes, and golfed at a much nicer course than they could afford in the warmer months on Mackinac Island. But for the past two days, they’d been up in the middle of nowhere, and starting Friday night, they’d been joined by her parents and her brother. Which is how Bryce found himself sitting around a bonfire with Mrs. Vanderfield and Nick on the last Saturday of their vacation, waiting for Cassie and her father to join them with the s’mores supplies.
It was a bit strange to find himself willingly attending a family vacation. Of course, this wasn’t his family. And her family, though they were far from perfect, at least seemed to be open and caring with one another. Even now, as Bryce listened to Mrs. Vanderfield needle Nick about the length of his hair and how it wasn’t helping his job search, it felt more affectionate and warm than even the nicest compliments his parents tended to pay him.
Soon, Cassie plopped down in the lawn chair next to his, grabbing a marshmallow from the bag and shoving it on her roasting stick before passing the bag to him. Bryce grabbed his stick, sitting next to him since he finished roasting his hot dog for dinner, and placed his marshmallow above the center of the bonfire, causing Cassie to roll her eyes and laugh.
“How many times do I have to tell you that’s a recipe for a burnt marshmallow?”
Bryce winked and shrugged, “Only like half the time. And what can I say, I like to live on the edge.”
“Yeah, real big risk taker here. You’re just impatient.”
“Oh, you’re one to talk. How many miles over the speed limit were you going on the way up here when you got pulled over?”
Cassie shot him a dirty look as her mother interjected, “Cassie, you got another speeding ticket? And in a rental car? I’m so sick of telling you that getting somewhere five minutes faster is not worth risking your life.”
“Mom, it was nothing. They let me off with just a warning.”
“Only because you played the doctor card,” Bryce chimed in, taking great amusement as Cassie glared at him while her father just shook his head as her mother pinched the bridge of her nose and Nick chuckled. “What medical emergency were you rushing to again?”
“None at that time, but if you keep this up, you will need a doctor before the night’s over.”
“Promises, promises,” Bryce said with a grin, but wisely decided to stop the teasing while she was only mildly annoyed. He pulled his marshmallow out from the center of the flames, perfectly golden brown. He glanced over at Cassie’s stick, held over the edge of the fire. Her marshmallow was still pale white.
Bryce grabbed the chocolate and graham crackers off the spare lawn chair, using them to slide his marshmallow off the stick and passed the s’more to her. “Here,” he said as he grabbed the stick out of her hand, “We’ll be here all night if you wait for that marshmallow to roast there, and we have to be on the road by 7am for our flight.”
“Wait, not only did Cassie get my bed for her boyfriend, but they aren’t gonna even be here for the worst parts of closing up the cabin?” Nick asked as he whipped his head around to look between his parents.
“We’re just happy Cassie could make it this year. And Bryce, of course,” Mr. Vanderfield said as he made his own s’more, leaving off the chocolate and just using graham crackers.
“Next year we should close out the cabin the first weekend of their vacation so they can actually help on Sunday. And one of you two can take the couch,” Nick said with a shake of his head, pointing between Bryce and Cassie.
“I doubt they’ll be able to make it next year, Nick. Bryce, your residency is four more years, is that right?” asked Mrs. Vanderfield.
Bryce nodded and opened his mouth to clarify, but saw his marshmallow catch fire. Yanking the stick back toward him, he quickly blew it out, but still found himself with a blackened marshmallow. Cassie moved to get him a new one, but he shook his head and made his s’more anyway. A little charring wasn’t a problem.
“The next two years are dedicated research time for me, so we should have some flexibility in scheduling our vacations,” Bryce said before taking a bite.
“Oh, don’t feel obligated, dear. We completely understand if you two want to take a trip to Hawaii to see your family. That has to be more exciting than the UP,” said Mrs. Vanderfield.
“And warmer,” added Mr. Vanderfield.
Bryce just shook his head and continued eating his s’more. No need to get into that mess tonight. So he let the conversation drift to other topics, from Thanksgiving plans with Mrs. Vanderfield’s sister to Mr. Vanderfield’s new boss, from memories of the time Cassie broke her arm climbing the giant oak tree out front to Mrs. Vanderfield attempting to determine if Nick was currently dating anyone. It was so different than what Bryce was used to when his family got together, watching a family that clearly actually liked spending time with one another.
As they left the bonfire and went to get ready for bed in the tiny bathroom, Cassie slipped her hand into his and said, “Thanks for coming up here with me. I know this isn’t your usual vacation.”
Bryce shrugged, “Maybe, but I am always up to try something new.”
“Still, I know you aren’t a big fan of the cold.”
“Warmth isn’t always found in a forecast, Cassie.”
She smiled at him gently, then handed him his toothbrush and toothpaste from the toiletry bag they had sitting on the top of the toilet tank. While she was right that he never would have chosen a vacation like this on his own, he wouldn’t change sharing these moments with her for anything.
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