Holowear

Figures that Pokemon would give me the first topic o' the year. (There've been six very important ones since November over yonder though...) Anyways--UNTIE! Er, UNITE! The best pieces of Holowear! Which be as follows...

• ALOLAN NINETALES Theater Blue & Red, Holiday, Checkered!, Sacred, Tea Party, Tux
• GLACEON Checkered, Graceful
• LEAFEON Checkered
• ESPEON Checkered, Pokebuki
• UMBREON Checkered, Noble
• SYLVEON Poncho (light green!), Checkered!!, Fashionable, New Year, Knight
• ZACIAN Captain, Special
• DELPHOX Sacred
• INTELEON Marching Band, Phantom Thief
• GARDEVOIR Cafe, Aurora, Sacred, Fashionable
• TREVENANT Rock & Roll, Gardening, Subway
• TALONFLAME Bonfire, Pilot
• ELDEGOSS Pastel, Space, Pokebuki, Big Ribbon, Fashionable, Unites (orange/blue/purple)
• COMFEY Sweets, Dainty
• CHANDELURE Magician, etc.
• SABLEYE Noble (+green), Dark Magician
• CHARIZARD Bonfire
• AEGISLASH Beach xD, Regal, Noble
• CRUSTLE Cake, Shrine, etc. xD (LEMME SEE THAT CRUSSY)
  
• DRAGAPULT Dark Magician, Scientist
• AZUMARILL the wandering (minstrel I) pastel punk (for the holidays) xD Ofc I always like punk style :D

1st HMs: the xmas dodrio, goodra. pastel wigglytuff is cute too. phantom thieves. decidueyes and venusaurs are neat. machamps and various others are funny.

Naturally the list is of my favorite included Pokemon because -natch- they're gonna have the best looks. Especially the first several...after Niney I tried to pick out just my mostest favoritest outfits of theirs, but obviously it's implied that I dig 'em all. x-b And there're so many basic 'Unite' ones, which obviously are cool, but not necessarily worth rewriting.
Put the Eeveelutions together for a waterside supper with riparian entertainments (aka riverside picnic hosted by Hyacinth Bucket) in their lovely gingham dresses on Easter--how perfect can ya get? All but the original three invited for some reason though. ;___; Still, the checks in lime and seafoam and lavender and pink and charcoal...=D Oh, and of course Niney's spring green; cannot forget her invitation. Now make things truly perfect by declaring that Easter is ALWAYS to be observed on the last Sunday in April. The changing-date nonsense is absurd and the further into spring it falls, the better. Hmph.
...Sheesh, hope they don't add these too frequently. Where would you look for new ones without having to re-scroll the whole list? I guess searching the year on the first link for anything after 4/21/24 would be the best bet.

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June 11 '23: see mention of precious babies C&B, look into it, sit there watching Pokemon take over again as central obsession
August 11 '23 (night before Zac Brown concert @ Bethel Woods): start rewatching series from beginning
February 18 '24: finish series (with the chunk of Diamond/Pearl episodes I had to purchase bc that was the only way to see them, & DP was the only series that required an Amazon Pokemon subscription)
February 22 '24: LE DONE (Jirachi movie unavailable currently) ...and thanks to my Christmas gift cards, it cost me a grand total of $11 to see everything. ^^ Bought the 1st movie instead of renting bc it wasn't included with the subscription and last I checked, I'd been bizarrely unable to find the VHS (or the third one...)

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Next question: "Favorite Cafe Remix staff members?"
Ninetales, Jolteon, Umbreon, Vaporeon, Glaceon, Vulpix, Flareon, Sylveon, Eevee, Braixen, Porygon2, Xatu, Ludicolo, Toucannon, Exeggutor, Electrode, Sudowoodo, Altaria, Torterra, Tatsugiri, Stoutland, Litten, Inteleon, Gardevoir, Kirlia, Gothorita, Alcremie, Corsola, Chandelure, Sprigatito, Litwick, Shaymin, Snom, Cosmog, Diancie, Lilligant, Bellossom, Typhlosion, Snivy, Cyndaquil, Fidough, Goomy, Drakloak, Dialga, Ho-oh, Ko/Miraidon, Charizard ;), Snubbull, Meowth, ETC. (Magikrap, Chansey, Squirtle, Froslass, Spheal, Scorbunny, Hattrem, cmq)

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4/21/24: SHEESH! Fave additions just since 2/21 (how often dey do dis?):
-Graceful Umbreon, Wanderer Leafeon
-Stage Style Gardevoir
(dancer style, tuxedo miraidon...)
Also, looking now at the larger images, some of the colors suddenly look a bit different from my initial impressions (or indeed from the labels, as in the case of Ninetales' theater blues.) Ah wells.

Hallepoodjah

At long last...the unholy mess that was our family photo cabinet is (as) perfectly (as possible) arranged in chronological order. 🥹 With photos of all the albums that were unfortunately so shitshape (or the lousy old gluey style) that they had to be tossed. | Notes to self: For now I tried filling most of the waterfall and the rest of the Polaroid album with duplicate Halloween Poke-cards because I hate blank spaces. ;b Found Ma's photocube in the cellar closet mirrored cabinet on the right (holiday) side. Alpha-Critter Moof also featured in photo on Fred's woven Xmas placemat. :'3 Photo-frame list transferred 1.9.24 from Mickey notepad to Notepad document for easy editing. How'd I forget to mention Dad's black album and white box in the masterlist? Comments=important.

At long last…the unholy mess that was our family photo cabinet is (as) perfectly (as possible) arranged in chronological order. 🥹 With photos of all the albums that were unfortunately so shitshape (or the lousy old gluey style) that they had to be tossed.AAt long last…the unholy mess that was our family photo cabinet is (as) perfectly (as possible) arranged in chronological order. 🥹 With photos of all the albums that were unfortunately so shitshape (or the lousy old gluey style) that they had to be tosse

Mission Find-the-Cards: Failure Will NEVER Be an Option.

Quick follow-up to this. Doing such a thing with the crown jewels inexplicably missing felt pointless, but then for the past few holidays I found myself thinking that it'd be helpful to have a video like this for easier selection of possible e-cards/digital greetings, so...why not. | Oh yeah and there also be those others in the corner of the toy box, though they probably wouldn't be candidates anyway.

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Recent: Reacting to Let's Get Lyrical With Carice & Daniel

 

9.20.23: Awwww hells yeah, I be all up on my shippy shit again...;b 7th Twatter handle, second shippy one--which means, as I always knew it eventually would, that if/when my trillion links start failing to redirect, I'll have to just replace the last sn with the new'un whenever I use one. Crummy but ah well. So that's Snapdragon71887->AppleDashPony->ShowMeSomeDash->ElsaStormborn->Hayffiedaughter->Bellatrixkiddo_->Neoshippedkid. ^-^

 

Also, a few of my 'house-plan-hunting' notes in picture form (currently up-to-date versions of notes in my folder on Mum's PC+Sheriff Ecso+Disney dog journal)

 

And that Twatter name is necessary because holy shit, Cassidy & Butch have retaken center stage. The GOAT OTP of the universe. They're all I can think about...
They're that one thing that's constantly in your head, at least at the back of your mind propelling everything else...providing the strength to carry on...

sinnoh pokepatterns [106]

...speaking of those patterns, here they be. 4/9 gens got 'em now.
Saved the regular images before seeing that they're all available as phone wallpapers, which is neat. Some of those might give a better view of certain patterns that have parts a bit cut off in the video. Especially any of the best ones. || NEWS PAGE || hrm, hrm, hrm [+hrm!]

rotom
gastrodon
shellos
carnivine
shinx
luxio
luxray
glameow
purugly
cresselia
finneon
lumineon (& lanturn!)
manaphy
mantyke
torterra
turtwig
grotle
roserade
porygon-z
gabite (in the Treasure MathStorm Crystal Cave--"Thank you! You have correctly counted the crystals.")
gible
garchomp
froslass
glaceon
leafeon
cherubi
cherrim
wormadam
burmy
staraptor
staravia
starly
chatot
mothim
shaymin
combee
vespiquen
kricketune
kricketot
drifloon
drifblim
gallade
piplup
empoleon
prinplup
drapion
skorupi
hippowdon (desert)
hippopotas
cranidos
rampardos
pachirisu (in a pear tree!)
ambipom
snover
abomasnow
munchlax (also w/ pears)
floatzel (pretty cute, somehow skipped first time thru)
buizel
giratina
spiritomb
mismagius
chingling
bronzor
bronzong (noice colors)
heatran
rhypherior
probopass xD
tangrowth
mamoswine
magnezone
regigigas
electivire
togekiss
honchkrow
budew
bonsly
happiny
mime jr.
riolu
lucario
yanmega
dialga
palkia
croagunk
toxicroak
magmortar
darkrai
dusknoir
gliscor
azelf
uxie ^^
mesprit
phione
monferno
infernape
chimchar
bibarel
bidoof
buneary
lopunny
weavile
shieldon
bastiodon
skuntank
stunky
lickilicki (froooot)

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, Delphina, etc. etc...
Palafin
Glimmora
Glimmet -perty blue crystal/flower thingies (based on a bunch of similar creatures)
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. Similar to Meows in that way. 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.

*First comment below (added Sunshine as 10th Mario) | PC counterpart