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I've been slowly working on a little quest to do every in-game trade in each Pokemon game, with the goal of sending them all up to Home before Bank closes. Imagine the scream that came out of me when I sent DUX the Farfetch'd up to Ultra Sun from my Red save file, and found it SHINY!?

Shiny Skarmory in German Crystal after 96 eggs! Time to play through until Suicune

this ended up being the last time she was physically well enough to come over and sit in my lap. we had to put her down today. she lived a good 16 years. i cannot fit into this post how much i am going to miss her or how much this cat means to me. we’ve had her since i was 10. i love you keesa 🩷

this ended up being the last time she was physically well enough to come over and sit in my lap. we had to put her down today. she lived a good 16 years. i cannot fit into this post how much i am going to miss her or how much this cat means to me. we’ve had her since i was 10. i love you keesa 🩷

this starts today! regi was a beloved friend of mine. please participate if you can

playing crystal for the first time on my 3ds wanted to draw my goat

shiny cyndaquil number 3 after 73,668 seen (yes this was 1 phase) #shinypokemon

my espeon oc nova drawn in the 1990 version of ms paint ("paintbrush") on windows 3.1 with a mouse lol #espeon #pokemon #pokemonart

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If you're a Pokemon content creator and are planning some ribbon master runs before Bank closes for good, I've made a handy OBS overlay for tracking your progress! Runs entirely in browser, can be configured for specific games or gens. Check it out! www.skeletom.net/projects/rib...

if anyone needs help with ribbons, feel free to reach out. we used to be a ribbon master community moderator for multiple years and we have over 40 finished ribbon masters, many of which from gens 3/4. it's a point of passion so we know a lot about it offhand. also, we're in master rank in SV

Okay last thing I prommy about bank shut down.

BOIL NULL IN FRIENDSHIP BATH UNTIL SOFT

i have been preparing for bank’s closure for 3 years so i’m not particularly panicked. i am excited to see what people achieve over the next handful of months, though

i am very thankful for all the women and queer people in the shiny hunting community though. despite the occasional complaint i may have about the inclusiveness and intersectionality of this community, it is still leagues better than most other gaming spaces and even other pokemon-specific spaces

being a disabled shiny hunter is kind of hard. people can judge you for using ie. turbo controllers as an accessibility tool and a lot of us aren't exactly doing financially great so we stick out as struggling to afford common hardware and merchandise. i feel embarrassed for existing, occasionally

i saw a computer with the original paint set up and i had to

it finally happened. and while we’re in NY! it’s been 3+ years of grinding for this

i have a legitimate PCNY celebi from the actual real-life PCNY distribution machine but i have never personally stepped foot inside the store. i am visiting NYC today so i finally took her home; it might not be the PCNY store anymore, but the poke ball door handles are from the original PCNY 🩷

also, cool rain video taken from the LIRR (of which i am riding for the first time) the lighting effects are so strange, i assume they’re from the phone being pressed against the rain-covered window somehow

i am going to be in NYC for the majority of the afternoon. does anyone have recommendations of places to go that are walkable from penn station other than kinokuniya, the nintendo store, and central park?

i am going to be in NYC for the majority of the afternoon. does anyone have recommendations of places to go that are walkable from penn station other than kinokuniya, the nintendo store, and central park?

Johto Beginnings, Myths & Legends

Yesterday I learned that one of my sprites from 2003, this dragon I described in my gallery as "requested" (almost certainly on the PokéMasters forums), is apparently legendary in Italy as a Pokégod, "Luxor", supposedly found in FireRed and LeafGreen: web.archive.org/web/20050128...

Finally prepped my first Gen 1 shiny hunt! Shoutout to the letter c!

finally managed to catch one of my dream shinies!!! my 23543rd encounter for this phase was this icon, ch'tilly the farfetch'd ❤️ my longest phase for a shiny ever - and caught in a love ball too!! #shinypokemon

friday thoughts: I think it's important that shiny hunters be vocal about and continue to recommend accessible hunting options like emulation and/or flashcarts for newer folks looking to get into the hobby but think they are unable to due to the high cost of games/equipment they see most ppl use

I did a new Yellow playthrough from scratch for my Mew trick article’s screenshots/additional research and I just love this game so much. Modern QoL is nice and all but genuinely, the originals are so worth playing. There’s a reason they rewrote all our brains.

the way people talk about red and blue you’d think they’d be unplayable, as if they didn’t get played millions of times by children and adults alike in the 90’s without a problem. if you do a normal playthrough, it’s just a game. things are pretty normal actually.