Meeting Generation IX ("Icks!")

[The Sinnoh patterns aren't all up yet.]

So anyways, for now just Scarlet/Violet (Paldea) 'mons...and they be: 

Dondozo -Would've sworn he evolved from Whiscash. Big sushi-chef kittyfish, and as all know, kittyfish rock. Wish there were a pleco.
Flamigo -Balloon flamingo with a perfect name, OMG (like Porygon2 x flaming O)
Espathra -Psychic ancient Egyptian ostrich, OMG (obvious name=Cleopatra...like my award-winning costume, tcheehee...) Another fab steed.
Flittle -With the yellow, pink, orange, lavender, white, and seafoam-blue eyes, it's like...a Pokepeep.
Chi-Yu, Chien-Pao, Wo-Chien, & Ting-Lu -Especially like those first 3. May have to just call 'em fancy goldfish, cool snow leopard, Trash Heap Druid snail, and moose for a while. xD
Wugtrio -Yay, pinkish-red and white garden eels!
Wiglett
Tandemaus -These be mad cute yo. The names and all. They're a combo of the Haribo mice and hand-holding sour bears. ;w; Feels as if they too could come in different colors.
Maushold
Nacli -Salty Mario mushroom! Could also be a sugar cube. :3 Expected third stage to be inspired by a third game (assuming it's Mario & two Minecrafts.)  
Naclstack
Garganacl
Veluza -spiky metal-lookin' fishy with sharp-looking triangular magenta fins
Finizen -Flipper! Roxanne! Reminding of all the Lisa Frank, LPS, the emoji...and more generally my clicking Barbie one, Walzy Wubbden, Lassen, the necklace from Faye, etc. etc...
Palafin
Glimmora
Glimmet -perty blue crystal/flower thingies
Toedscool -Little shroomy forest-dwelling jellies? Aw...
Toedscruel
Dachsbun - <3 Reminding me of the beautiful bread photo from the Family Circle cookbook, & Busy Town's bakery. <3 Thank Bob it wasn't a fuckin' hot dog.
Fidough -also a loverly delicious woofer-doggo :x
Houndstone -to be named Pawla, of course. Pawla Houndstone. x-) Cute tombstone pupper.
Greavard
Maschiff -mafioso molossers :3
Mabosstiff
Smoliv -Only like olives aesthetically (like my favorite old stirrer in the bar collection...)
Dolliv
Arboliva
Orthworm -Adorable Alaskan bull worm :3 Reminding me of James & the Giant Peach, Antoine from Peter Cottontail, Wiggler, etc...
Farigiraf -Chain Chomp moves to your head!
Squawkabilly
Bombirdier
Kilowattrel -friggin' frigate birdo
Wattrel
Revavroom
Varoom
Brambleghast
Bramblin -LORD I WAS BORN A BRAMBLIN MAN
Sprigatito
Meowscarada -Um. Should've stayed on four feet, yep. Why must this happen? Humans are proof enough that bipedal ain't better. x-p Idk. One of my earliest crushes--Wordsworth from Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats--kinda came to mind a bit, as did Cats Don't Dance...Cats, but somehow more the nightmare monstrosity movie than the beautiful staged masterpiece...? The green legs & 'romper' effect are good? Overall...the line's a bit reminiscent of Fennekin/Braixen/Delphox. First two are okay. No strong winners among these starters.
Floragato
Quaxly
Quaquaval -Pros: peacock element, flared pantsuit look that'd be a cool actual outfit. At least Quaxly started out standing up.
Quaxwell -Good names, indubitably
Fuecoco
Skeledirge
Crocalor
Cyclizar
Koraidon
Miraidon
Charcadet, Armarouge, Ceruledge -All cool...I mean hot, very hot B-}
*Tatsugiri ^^ (should've put above or below Veluza but can't, thanks Blahger ;b)
Klawf
Tarountula
Spidops
Nymble
Lokix -Gonna evolve into Hikix next time
Dudunsparce -STUNNING TRANSFORMATION
Clodsire
Gimmighoul
Gholdengo
Kingambit
Annihilape -It "evolved from Primeape when the rage in its soul became too much for its physical form to contain" and "gained increased power as a result of its spirit no longer being limited by the flesh?" FUCKING RELATABLE AS ALL HELL
Scovillain -Wish were orange+yellow+red+green bell/sweet peps
Capsakid
Oinkologne
Lechonk
Rabsca
Rellor
Pawmi
Pawmo
Pawmot
Tadbulb
Bellibolt
Cetoddle
Cetitan
Arctibax
Baxcalibur
Frigibax
Tinkatink
Tinkatuff
Tinkaton
Shroodle -Massive disappointment when this turned out not to be a Furfrou evolution in the form of a savage "shredder" Poodle.
Grafaiai
[Brute Bonnet, Iron Thorns/Jugulis/Valiant/Moth/Bundle/Hands/Treads, Sandy Shocks, Slither Wing, Roaring Moon, Flutter Mane, Great Tusk, Scream Tail] -Eh, mostly repeats. Best obviously are Amoonguss' & Iron Thorns (aka Tyranitar) because oooh, it looks like my car! 8-D Also Jugulis (Hydreigon) is cool/pretty...

 

 

Random thoughts: Doesn't feel right to call the Tatsugiri dragons. o.O But they've grown on me a lot. At first I'm just like, "Ew sushi." But they're cute colorful fishies...I guess most like a mix of a dottyback and goby. Maybe some anemonefish for the orange stripey one. So that's right up my alley ofc.
Espathra=look at my horse, my horse is amazing.
Smoliv+Dolliv remind me of our olive drink stirrer while Arrokuda reminds me of the wide-mouthed fishy bottle opener. :'3
Imagine if Palossand were the Sandcastle Puppies castle...*mwah*
Can you smell what Barack Obamasnow is cooking? (Well, can you?)

calendarmania v

• SHEDS
• STEWART
• SMALL WORLD
• SEARCHING 4 BIGFOOT
• AGGRETSUKO
• BLUEY
• PRINTHETH
• DAWG GALLERY [maybe next time regular workman], CRAZY, PORTRAIT, AS ANIMALS, IN WIND
• PAWPARAZZI; GOOD BOIZ
  
• POODZ!
• TROPICAL FISH, our oceans
• art grid
• letterpress
• ultimate motorcycle
• pokey mans
• victoriana
• destination rainbow
• mineralogie
• cottage core/love
• ikebana
• keep growing
• shroomage
• napple pie (pie napple)
• tropicale
• seed packets

Other Didnee: Fro-fro (zen), Kinky (kade), Alice & Cindy again; daily, pickthar (pixar)

Villains: Funny but only uses a small handful of them—Evil Queen, Maleficent, Ursula, Cruella, Hades, Scar. Sooo many great male ones, favorite girls are probably Gothel and Yzma. Cruella a bit weirdly prettified sometimes.

• busy town (“big busy family” scarry)
• chocolate
• hocus pocus
• ozard of wiz
• noir, golden age of movie theaters
• futurama
• trek (TOS through Enterprise)
• unsplained mysteries
• sperngeberb
• mars perseverance ^^
• ofa gardening/country
• 90s—they'll never end
• the queen (misread as “the queer” xD)
• dude w/ sign, donny o
• classic cruisin' & chrome; bonsai; in2 das woods; wicca; goddesses; flower fairies; fireweed; enlightenment; horoscope; shakespeare; austen; nuck chorris; unspirational, demotivational, everyday sass, subversive cross-stitch; kawaii or die; ocean unseen--trillions of other repeat goodies
• gennine zlatkis, joan metcalf, bonnie white, william s. rice, kulig (giana lighthouses); kruskamp (home sweet home!); anybody who paints redheads, curlies, beauty...;]
• arts & crafts tiles

Asgard pinball, motels/diners/service stations, etc. 

other shit I done doodled for some reason: ghost, leaf, water, cube, lily pad

 

The next pin after Halloween has tons more images...will see when it's pinnable...ah, now 'tis. (11/26) || Dissun be noice. || And boyyyy howdy, has this blog gotten some excellent good shit this year...

 

Oiram Trak

Finally something for here this year! Well, besides comments, naturally. And by November there'll be a whole new set of Pokemon to rank (plus Original Stitch patterns...) As for calendars, no need to essentially repeat the humongous lists from the past few years. Four "calendarmanias" are plenty; from now on let's just jot down the most unique and new ones--the most likely choices and ones that really need to be saved. Anyhoo. Wave 2 of the new MK courses dropped a few days ago, and one in particular made me think I need a spot to add/rank them as they're released. Four more waves, so 32 more tracks, by the end of next year. Waow.

Wave 1:
*Golden Dash Cup [Coconut Mall, Choco Mountain, Paris Promenade, Toad Circuit]
*Lucky Cat Cup [Sky Garden, Shroom Ridge, Tokyo Blur, Ninja Hideaway]

That one was fairly underwhelming. Golden Dash>Lucky Cat. The mountain, mall, and "garden" were the best.

Wave 2:

Turnip Cup~
*Waluigi Pinball (OoOoOoOoOoOohhhhh...)
*Kalimari Desert (haha, the  good ol' train xD)
*New York Minute (Goombas in Central Park! Cool)
*Mario Circuit (classic bright Lego-block course)

Propeller Cup~
*SKY-HIGH SUNDAE (I imploded, too much to say, gotta put it below)
*Snow Land (So basically like Frappe, a longtime fave of mine...with penguies/pingus and gorgeous giant ice crystals and snowmen, yee-haw. Kind of a pretty, blandly named Frappe/Sherbet combo. Still love the 64 versions of both & wish they'd reproduce all of them exactly, just with updated graphics.)
*Mushroom Gorge (ONE OF MY MOST-HOPED-FORS! And magnificent with its own crystals!! "Thank you! You have correctly counted the crystals!")
*Sydney Sprint (Cool)

I'd been hoping for the Turnip Cup next because it has the coolest (well, funniest) name--but it turns out the Propeller Cup is actually the most godlike cup ever. Even more so than the Piston Cup. Swap Waluigi Pinball and Sydney Sprint and it'd be perfect.

But yeah, I wasn't expecting to see a new all-time-favorite course...boy oh boy though, I think that may be Sky-High Sundae. I had to slow a video to 1/4-speed to drink in all the beauty. It has so much detail and creativity. ;3; The ice-cube diner--mimicking the glass block of a classic one--with the jukebox, counter, and booths. The penguies, Yoshis, Toads. The blocks and trays of cubes (I've always had a thing for ice cubes, miss our old plastic trays now that the freezer makes its own. Also the fruit-shaped water-filled plastic reusable ones. And the plastic trays with other mold designs, like the Halloween Jigglers I just used for cherry Pepsicles.) The transparent roads so you can see everything. The excellent-looking giant popsicles and wafers and street of way too many ice cream parlors+trucks in a row. The metal tubs of ice cream (and sherbet/sorbet/gelato/frozen yogurt/whatever)...the flaaaaavorrrrs...lemon-lime, blue raspberry, rainbow swirl, orange, strawberry, chocolate, etc...it was just kinda designed for me. Was in giddy slack-jawed shock the first time watching since I wasn't expecting anywhere near THAT much. "Oh, another Candyland-style thing like Sweet Sweet Canyon and stuff, should be cute. Looks aiight. Probably nothing too special thou--OH MY GOD." Ya had to go THAT hard? Actually my first thought was the Lisa Frank Saturn Sundae, but still anticipated more of a generic ice cream/dessert theme.
I pick favorites by the beauty of the visuals--the ones that make me just want to drive around for leisurely sightseeing instead of racing. The ones I wanna live in.

...Speaking of which. Lettuce hope for some more fabulous additions from the remaining waves--in particular MY PRECIOUS MAPLE TREEWAY. And any number of others from N64, Double Dash, & Wii. Daisy Cruiser!!!! Banshee Boardwalk!!! Peach Gardens!! Dino Dino Jungle (already got jungles but not with dinos?), Mushroom Bridge, etc...whichever ones don't have a near enough equivalent in Deluxe. I'll eat my hat if Maple Treeway's not in one of the four. It's too unique and perdyful. Totally the most-needed.
Rankings are always approximate and in flux...looking back through last year's Mario comments below the Pokemon Snap entry, I'd kinda wanna maybe put the subway & Ribbon Road a tad higher, idk (just 'cause of the cute mall-like parts of the subway, and how Ribbon Rd reminds me of the I Spy books...) But eh, whatever...can't believe I forgot Deluxe Sherbet Land. The iceberg dudes are cute, though N64's course is more beauteous. All the 64 ones are still amazing, with many better than or on par with later versions and other tracks...

And always remember...last year's revelations. x_x *_*
-Whomps walk. Thwomps, uh, thwover. Both are sacred. (Knew that already, just hadn't consciously separated them or the names. Seeing 'em side by side was an epiphany.)
-You don't need to press forward on the joystick to go forward (*don't* do that in the air/water 'cause it sends you down.)
-The L button doesn't make you drift left, it only does items.

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