Ah, more rain and mud, who saw that coming? But overall a BIG SUCCESS! I got three shinies in the end.
That last one was quite a high level, so I evolved him!
Unexpectedly today I also nabbed a Cobalion in a raid! Almost everyone taking part got him, that never happens!
And lastly, also did a raid for this guy!
Soon I’ll be catching him again on Pokemon Shield!
This game is gorgeous!
I guess as a Brit I’m fairly qualified to comment on the locales! I love the first village area, it’s so soft and gentle.
There’s me!
(more…)After certain entitled, incredibly awful people went way over the top with their ‘complaints’ about Pokemon Sword and Shield, #ThankYouGameFreak started trending on Twitter. I was so happy to see it. Here’s some of my favourite tweets about the company and the Pokemon fandom:
And here’s mine:
Thank you Game Freak.
Today’s the 63rd anniversary of Carrie Fisher’s birth:
Everyone misses her so much.
Today’s the twentieth anniversary of the Pokemon website Serebii.net. I used to go on there when I was a young teenager.
I don’t imagine the site looks like it used to but I’m so pleased it’s still around.
And unrelated (or maybe not) to either of those things:
If you believe in the good book Good Omens, the Earth is 6023 years old today.
Like most people, I assumed this Halloween event would mostly feature Pikachu in a witch’s hat, like the past two years. But no, instead we get these cuties! Pikachu is dressed as Mimikyu that’s adorable!
This looks like an absolutely fantastic Halloween. Goddammit, I guess the world really wants me to start exercising in the winter.
Alas, today’s Community Day was a bit of a damp squib, and not just because it rained so much. I got a mere two shinies! Two!
So, not the best, but at least I walked away with this dude:
Both caught in the space of about four hours! (But not on the same bus.) Look at my new green bois. (Shiny Oddish only dropped today, I believe. First time I’ve ever gotten a shiny the day it came out!)
I really geniunely love this article.
A few nice quotes from Pokemon fans:
“Pokemon was great escapism for me but it also taught me that not necessarily being the best, that was OK too,” 27-year-old Jake Saunders from Bromborough tells BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat.
“Putting it bluntly, it was like being a loser is OK. The important lesson is to pick yourself back up, roll with the punches and keep going.
This little graphic I found on Twitter illustrates the point nicely. Look how he kept on getting better and better! Sometimes you really do gotta keep working for twenty years.
And Laura Kate Dale, who’s 28 and from Surrey, says Ash proved to her that you could be “still worthy of praise” even if you failed every single time.
“He was always the underdog, half the times he won gym badges it was because he did something nice, not because he was the best at fighting,” she tells Newsbeat.
“There was something really beautiful about seeing that growing up – that it’s OK if you’re not the strongest, the most qualified, as long as you keep trying to be the best person you can be, the nicest you can be to people around you.”
That was probably the most important thing Pokemon taught me, to be honest.
Kate says an episode in which Ash met a Charmander (small, red, dragon-ish, tail on fire – you know the one) which had been abandoned by its original trainer has stuck with her to this day.
“At the time, I was a child dealing with the fact that my biological dad had left and didn’t seem to care the way he was supposed to,” she says.
“The episode’s story was about learning to move on and be OK after someone who was supposed to look after you just vanishes – it was really tasteful in dealing with something that as a child was really difficult to comprehend.
“That’s what the show was really good at. It told stories about relatable themes in digestible ways for children.”
It was, it really really was. As a child I related to Brock the most because he was forced by circumstances into caring for his younger siblings. That wasn’t too far away from my reality. So here I was, clinging to a fictional story for children that every adult within the vincity mocked and mocked and mocked while the home life got ever worse.
Don’t make fun of stuff children like. Please don’t. Look what they can do with it.
Today was Turtwig Community Day! I grabbed five shinies in the end (including one right after another, which has never happened to me before.)
Plus this guy from a raid:
And this guy from an egg!
Not Pokemon-related but still cool: I then went to play Adventure Golf and won a free ticket by scoring a hole-in-one.
Hooray! (It’s the new one in Leicester, by the way. It’s great, you should go.)
Oh wait! I just clicked onto Twitter and there’s one more thing!
Well, guess I’ll never have anything on Ash Pokemon-wise. But that’s ok.
