iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#382-385 Three hydrogen bombs versus each other and also a coughing baby is there but has wish magic

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#374-381 Metagross currently holds the record for most difficult pokemon design to fit into a square

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#366-373 Gorebyss may have one of my least favorite designs in the entire franchise if I'm being real. Just, something about giving the nearly featureless pink fish tube a Little Mermaid-esque seashell bra seems like it strays from god's light

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#358-365 Great set of pokemon for fans of spheres and orbs

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#349-357 Gonna have to start playing calvinball with the formatting as we get into the parts of the pokedex that have a ton of different forms. I doubt they will all be as painless as Castform

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#341-348 I gotta give pokemon credit for picking weird fossils for the first few generations. Huge move to base a monster on a crinoid and anomalocaris instead of, like, a triceratops

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#333-340 So glad pokemon decided to get funky with what could be considered a dragon type by the time they got to gen 3. Like yeah, the cloud chicken might as well count

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#325-332 I definitely buy into that theory that all the pokedex entries are compiled from things that ten-year-olds on adventures have said, because "pig that dies if it ever stops bouncing" is not something a benevolent Arceus would create, but is absolutely something I would have made up as a kid

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#318-324 Wailord gets special treatment for being objectively the funniest pokemon

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#309-317 Not sure what it says about me that a lot of my favorite pokemon are the amorphous blobs

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#302-308 Shout-out to Lairon for being the worst pokemon to draw so far

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#293-301 Didn't realize until after the fact that I was making Hariyama hit the Absolute Cinema

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#285-292 I have to imagine the existence of Shedinjas is at least a little disturbing for Nincadas. Imagine if you could shed your skin and that skin went on to become its own entire guy

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#278-284 pelipper Mouth perfec t size for put ralts in to n\ap!

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#270-277 After a point, you stop thinking about the fact that all pokemon lay eggs, even if they look like mammals. And then they had to go and give Nuzleaf nipples and raise a whole new series of questions

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#261-269 Legitimately I think Silcoon and Cascoon may have gotten the worst of it when the series went from pixels to 3D

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#252-260 And thus we're onto Gen 3, which I may have herd u liek

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hello! Rounding out the Tres Horny Boys, here's a little showcase for Merle's special moves in my hypothetical platform fighter, "TAZ: Initiative!"

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Merle Highchurch - Imagining an Adventure Zone Platform Fighter

YouTube video by MooselyBased

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zorb @wizard0rb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

it's the greatest day

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Heya folks! Since I find myself with some time between gigs, and in the midst of an expensive year (weddings cost a lot!), I thought I'd re-open commissions! Currently five slots available, but may open more if things go well. If there's a character you've wanted me to draw, now's your chance!

Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hello! Again let me emphasize that this isn't a real game, just for fun and animation practice. Anyways. I've still got some free time and energy, so I went ahead and put together a showcase for Taako's special moves in my beautiful little hypothetical platform fighter, "TAZ: Initiative." Enjoy!

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Taako - Imagining an Adventure Zone Platform Fighter

YouTube video by MooselyBased

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hello! First I just want to emphasize this NOT a real game, this is just for fun. Anyways. I decided to animate one of my TAZ platform fighter movesets, and have dubbed the hypothetical game "The Adventure Zone: Initiative." I don't know if I'll animate any more of these, because I am busy and tired

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Magnus Burnsides - Imagining an Adventure Zone Platform Fighter

YouTube video by MooselyBased

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

#152-251 In hindsight it feels a bit disingenuous for them to have said there's "150 or more" pokemon. That's like saying there's 150 or more cells in the human body. Like, it's technically true, but really fails to paint the whole picture, huh?

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#243-251 Not much left to say except rest in peace you fucking onion fairy

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#238-242 Milk, eggs, and babies. Part of a balanced breakfast

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

#231-237 Insert that gif of that guy being really excited about announcing Peggle 2 except I blocked out the "eggle" and replaced it with "orygon"

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

#223-230 The octillery evolutionary line is truly incomprehensible without the original weaponry inspiration

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

#215-222 We don't talk enough about how Corsola has a centaur-type body

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

#207-214 Alternate universe where Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow mascots were scizor, heracross, and shuckle. All bugs, all the time

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

#199-206 There's gotta be at least one unethical scientist in the pokemon universe trying to ask the big questions about slowpoke and shellder. How many shellder can you attach to one slowpoke. What if you get a really big shellder and a really small slowpoke. Has science gone too far

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#182-189 I feel like you would get dunked on pretty hard if you lived in the pokemon world and mistook a sudowoodo for an actual tree

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

#175-181 I will say, gen 2 really delivered in terms of orb-shaped and orb-adjacent pokemon

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

#167-174 What's that? A smaller version of your media property's mascot, with a similar-sounding name and a disproportionately large head, created largely due to the popularity of the original but never quite living up to it? That's right, we're talking about Scrappy Doo

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

#161-166 And here we see the start of the age old tradition of regional birds, bugs, and small mammals

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

#152-160 Whoa hey there are more of these guys?

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Figured I'd take some big swings in predicting the evolutions for the new gen 10 starters!

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Every year I listen in horror as the McElroys inevitably decide upon the Year Name that is hardest to come up with a pleasing design for. And yet, here we are, with my drawing for Twenty Make It Stick, as well as some of my favorite rejected names.

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#1-151 Phew, that's a lot of pokemon. Well, surely I've drawn them all at this point and can take a nice long sip of this beverage without receiving any shocking news about the total number of pokemon that now exist

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#144-151 Love how Team Rocket decided that the pink gerbil DNA is the ideal candidate for man-made horrors beyond comprehension

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#138-143 All I'm saying is that people in the pokemon universe bring extinct creatures back to life all the time without any major catastrophes, and some of them even have, like, knives for hands. Jurassic Park universe needs to get itself together

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#133-137 Who would win, one genetically unstable small mammal and its elemental offshoots, or one low-res duck

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

#125-132 Magmar walks this fine line of having a design that I do not like, while also having a design that is very fun to draw

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

#118-124 I'm never not thinking about the sound Staryu made in the original show

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

#111-117 Did you know Tangela is the only pure-grass type in gen 1? I bet it's somehow related to his sick jordans

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

#104-110 Featuring the likes of "doomed to wear the skull of its deceased mother," and "has a big goofy tongue"

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

#98-103 Can I offer you an egg in this trying time

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Lucas Hespenheide @mooselybased.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

#90-97 We all know the "Gengar is Clefable's shadow" theory, but who's ready for my bold new "Gastly is a de-shelled Shellder" theory?

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