>>48117422That's because the only actual difference is that one sets off your autism and the other doesn't. It's all fanart at the end of the day, the very idea of redrawing a Pokemon means taking artistic liberties. There is zero difference between drawing Maractus swinging around big ass tiddies and drawing Maractus wearing Dawn's hat, and drawing Maractus regrowing itself like real cacti do because Maractus has done absolutely none of these things in any official Pokemon medium.
Your standpoint is based entirely off of what you personally deem acceptable fan content which, as I said, is fucking autistic. Fanartists shouldn't be limited to just the INCREDIBLY SPARCE Pokedex when making content, and even official media has gone way off the deep end with how its portraying the universe because the games are so fucking limited in what they can present to the player. You might as well lose your shit when the anime portrays towns bigger than 5 houses or pulls dumb shit like "Pontya's flames can't hurt people it trusts."
And lastly, shit in Pokemon is constant getting retconned or re-added, I said alternate forms initially, but old Pokemon are frequently getting new aspects added onto them with new generations giving them fresh Pokedex entries, Pokemon aren't set in stone and things that you could write off as headcanon could very well wind up as canon in a future generation.
Like the other anon said, Pokemon is fiction, these aren't real animals, they can be stretched and bended as the medium demands and there's literally nothing wrong with that.
