Widdershins

 Me, meditating: "I accept & acknowledge my thoughts. I choose to let go. There is a time & a place for everything."

 Widdershins: There's a time & place for everything! And that isn't now! Don't ride your bike indoors!!

*poofs in a pastel pink cloud, turns into a shabby disguise of an old, haggard, brown-stained professor.*

 I consistently sh*t my pants!!

...

   You're very hard to meditate around, Widdershins.

 Don't pretend you're not laughing!

Have I mentioned I have two My Hero Academia OCs?

 Despite the fact I know nothing of the show or its world in order to base them in it!

Go ahead! Ask!

So... I know you do commissions, usually paid, and as such like as not have the time for irreverent ideas of whimsy.

 But...

 You want to try an exercise?

 You believe that if one draws while another provides the design down to fine detail, that the creative soul of both shines through? 

 I do.

You might be a bibliophile if you’ve ever had to bookmark your book with the previous book you just finished. 

“ No! You can’t read that book; i’m using it to read the next one.”

Think that’s what i’ve been missing... my stories!

Guys! You've got to help e! I've soehow teleported ito a alterate diesio where the letters   &   do't exist! Also the   sybol! You kow the coa ark? It's so hard to eve tell you which sybols I ea so you'll just have to figure it out for yourself!

 It's really akig e go uts i the id!

Why I have't see this level of Cesorship agic o such a worldwide scale sice… well It's a log story.

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 I ca get sooo uch ileage out of this fresh osese!

...Because of course I' doig this entirely ot of y ow free will.

I hoestly a.

Finally made my attempt at PokePuffs!

 French Brioche with Green Tea mixed in to the batter, iced & garnished with Green Tea wafer sticks!

Viola! Bitter PokePuffs!!!

I have newfound respect for Cake Decorators!! No wonder thete’s classes for this!

...Four days off in a row... and I couldn't muster the energy to do anything around here like I wanted to...
 Feel real bummed about that.

Know what I've always liked about the pokemon company? They've always done what they wanted to do first & foremost. Then left it to the world at large if they wanted to take that character design into their hearts & lives.

 By what I mean...

 Take the Dark/Psychic typing. What amazement could be had there, huh?! A wielder of both trickery, dark magics & underhanded tactics! A caster of vaguely undefined magical, mind based powers! A mage of the Darkness & Light!! ...and what does Game Freak design for us...?

A floopsy-doo cutie-pie squidy!

 It mainly floats along on magic & flips around a lot. It's signature move is Topsy-Turvy.

 When it gets bigger, it pretends to be a Power Rangers villain to dramatically mind control others with its flashing lights.

...still just a squishy squiddy buddy!

 "Hey guys. What about that squid design we've been sitting on? We gonna do that?"

   "Eh... sure. Shouldn't it be water though? We have too many of that already though."

"...well, we haven't done Dark Psychic though..."

Yes!!!

 Rank: Toothless!

 Knew Daddy Discord was favoring me!

 Only better treatment for us draconequui would be actually setting me on fire!!

Walk up into the Center like "Whatup, I gotta big Rock."

 That is me, as a trainer, to a tee. 

 You should see me with my Tyrantums. Y'know, the Actual Trex pokemon? I have two now.

  "Aaah! It just ate through a car on the street!"

 Me: Yeah. He does that. Hard to train accuracy into him when he's got more skull than brain. But the Little Boy means well!

You can count me in on the Sinnoh remakes. 

Would really love to reuse my Sinnoh Pokemon Trainer OC again. “Black” Pearl, Dark type specialist & procurer of rare items for those that don’t ask questions or have “morals.”

 She’s a punk-goth, mostly because her mother was a Contest celebrity & pressured her to be as girly as possible.

Love how that game’s file has maybe eight original pokemon... and several dozen boxes filled with suspiciously buff pokemon bosses that clearly don’t exist around Sinnoh or are even legal.  

Pity you don't see more art of Library Forests! Old growth trees guarding the shelves of knowledge!~

Lot of Fuss & Bother these days about supposed "Leaks" of what the new pokemon starters will turn out to be. I feel I can allay those worries.

 Pokémon has its artstyle, sufficed to say, I know their work when I see it. But furthermore, Starters have a very distinct spirit to their development. 

 They're the first ones you see, they have to mean much to you, they have to give this air of growing up & maturing. They don't just "Get Bigger." There's always this little style flourish, an extravagance no one else but Game Freak would have thought up.

 They become something to be proud of. Take the one that gets poopood on most. Did Emboar turn out to be just "Bigger fire pig?" No, it got this flaming, total boss popped collar of gangster flames! It got these golden decorations on its waist!...and it was still a bigger pig.

 But they do follow the spirit of what we're initially shown. My Theory: Starter Pokémon follow the theme of Cool, Tough, Cute.

 We want a bulky strong (kinda doofy) one, a thin agile skilled one, and a magical fame-inclined (somewhat effeminate) pretty one!

 And what we got this time around for species to work off of, is monkey, rabbit & lizard.

 Very, very rarely do we ever see monkies or lizards portrayed as magical, thin pretty like we got with Delphox & Primarina. Nor is easy to make a Rabbit anything less that fully cute at any stage of it.

 We got Grookey already utilizing tools as its design & species (something we don't actually see very often in pokemon! Tools!) so that already solidifies it as Strength.

 Scorbunny has Speed clearly already locked in, but Sobble has its emotional sensitivity buildt into its design...

 What I hope for, is a clarification in design style for these little guys. I'm hoping, personally, that Sobble might be Water/Ice... even if that is kinda common a typing. We need an ice starter!

And I'm pretty set on Scorbunny being Fire/Fairy & Grookey Grass/Rock.

Just wanted to let any nearby Pokémon fans in on good news. We're finally getting the famous Jerk Rival back in our games!

 I know this, because I am psychic. ...and also because of predictable design trends.

 Take a look here at what is confirmed as the starting area in Galar:

The small, country house has been proven to be ours, but note the nearby landmarks.

 Right across from your house is a notably bigger one. Better roofing, loads more windows, payed groundskeeping, heck, even has a specifically designed battlefield for this realm's premier dogfi-*cough* worldwide sport! Somebody nearby has clearly been a Pokémon Trainer long before you ever knew about it & started in on it only now. And this person wants everyone around to know about it too.

 Check Westward. Like, mere meters from your small cottage... there's a wood so dense & untrackable it doesn't show up any better than any of the numerous caves or tunnels in the region. Pretty odd to have something so dangerous right where you start off, mere minutes into the game. Why, even a local would stay away from some place clearly harboring large fauna! ...yet there's a clear path leading right into it.

Because it's the first place you go in the games. Why? Because an event must happen there. You wouldn't go in of your own accord, since its a forest you know like your backyard. ...unless the posh twit next door things yer a bloody pansy & drags you off there on a competition.... exactly like a rich local snob would. What's he got to fear? He's been training for months now with daddy's money behind him! You're just a noob!

 You probably get rescued by the local professor too after things go awry. Because we've seen their lab surrounded in plantlife, so such a scholar would surely know of the local flora enough to be a reliable presence there.

 Which... by merit of design... puts three major plot characters in the same, brooding, antagonistic area! Sun & Moon started off with an escapee being tackled by the local god... and we're starting off here surrounded by antagony! 

 Things look good for our storyline!

I take Smoke Breaks during work.

 No, literally.

 I go out into the back alley, unhinge my back, factory smokestacks jut out and belch forth thick, dense, black smoke clouds of hatred, rage, fear & exhaustion. Helps clear me out well enough to keep working!

...what? You have other ways of letting off steam? 'S only healthy to find ways to vent!

 B-b-b-be careful making wishes in the dark, DARK!

 Too much crying & you'll be the chihuahua runnin' mad at the dog park, PARK!

In the m-m-m-m-Meantime i'm just tearing up & falling down

 I'm in the details wit' the devil

   because I can't get with the world on its level

 Gotta get out of my cage

 I'm a young man's rage

 Too many sparks and I'm constantly alight!

My OCs know what you do in the DAAAAaaaaarrrrk!

  So blow it up, up, up!

 Blow it up, up, up!

 I AM THE WIIIIND!!!

  GAD! I love FalloutBoy!! 

Today was pretty good. Likely because I caught up on sleep. Be like the wind, friends! Ever changing, ever flowing, never stagnating!

*Trips and dumps out his pony meme folder* Whoops! My bad!

Really bothers me that I seem to only have, like, two others that actually read anything I do. Maybe I talk too much & it scares others away from leavin' a comment. Maybe i'm on the opposite time zone of everybody.

 Others seem to be avoiding me at work.

 Sure, I'm living with family... but they've got their own lives, reason & right to ignore me.

 Makes me wonder why I should bother trying to interact with anyone. 

Goodnight Everybeing!

 So much hope for our typings, Solly! Ice & Dragon are represented so much on Galar's landscape! Especially since both our favorite typings are the rarest ones! We're BOTH overdue for a good influx of cool & epic pokemon!

...you don't think... that they'll actually do it? That we'll finally get an Ice/Dragon?!!?

I'm on to you, Pokémon Company!

 Been doing some research. Oddly enough, no one has tabulated how many pokemon SPECIES there are. Sure, its easy enough to say that we're at some 800 pokemon these days, but when one entity can evolve some three times to triple the entries it has, that number is awfully inflated.

 In the spirit of narrowing it down to actual individual pokemon you can meet & logically discerning its "evolutions" as a natural part of its growth process, we can come to a more distinct term of what a pokemon "Species" is.

 Excluding alternate forms that're intrinsic to the pokemon's biological talents or the temporary anomaly of Mega-Evolution, we can see that as an addition onto prior capabilities. To whit, Arceus, Type: Null, Castform & Ditto are Normal types to use as a sort of "catch-all" typing. Counting Regional Variants as distinct species due to irreversible changes, though Oricorio is an exception due to its capacity for one individual to "magically" change itself to fit its location by trait of diet. In the Exeggutor example, even if the evolution happens to both be grass despite divergent evolution... still counts as separate species.

 "Ultra Beasts" are excluded. By merit of being so far out of the world's capacity to understand and only loosely fitting into what typings are attributed. Not unlike a Bidoof existing in the real world & defying normal human's capacity to classify. 

 And so, as follows in order of least to greatest, The amount of each Pokémon Species in accordance to typing, and thereby the equivalent rarity of typing:

 Starting off, of course, with my favorite: The Ice Typing! Clocking in at only 22 individual species!

(Ice types? You probably haven't heard of them!~~*)

Closely following by merit of logical rarity, the Dragons, at 26.

 Then, as following:

 Ghost: 27, Fighting: 28, Fifth place tie at 29 with Fairy & Poison (Despite there not being any cases of a Poison/Fairy), Electric at 30, Dark: 31, Fire: 33 (Quite low for what's supposed to be one of the three most important & famous typings.), Two ties in a row here at Ninth place being Rock & Steel (due greatly to both types commonly interacting) at 34, then again with Bug & Ground at 36, Grass abundant as it should be at 46, and from here, the numbers climb quite suspiciously high with the Twelfth spot of Psychic at 50 species (because, of course, when you're magic, it matters little where your evolve to live), Flying at 61 due mostly to its vast capacity to splash into so many other typings as shown in the secondmost common typing, with due reason...

 Normal types at Sixty-Four cases. Which is greatly inflated due to thirteen of those cases being Normal/Flying and essentially just Birb. In some two more generations, I can see that number rising high enough to merit a Nineteenth type of just Birb. At thirteen cases of Birb, that essentially credits Flying as being approximately over 20% of Normal's typing as well.

 And... in what would require a drumroll of dramaticness sake were it not already obvious to most, the Most Common Species in the Pokémon world!... Water, at 68 species.

 What's important about all this... is that Patterns Develop!

With this, I notice trends of how many species of a typing are made per generation... because, of course, Balance is of utmost importance to Game Freak, and this shows.  ...Shows so much, that I daresay I can predict what pokemon will come out now!

 Take Water for example. First generation was quite literally SWAMPED in water types, and it slowly trickled out to the point where, despite our last region being islands... we only had some eight designs for water bound animals... as opposed to the 16 we had in first gen. Sufficed to say, Galar won't be getting many fishies.

 But now the Ice typing... It's had a slow build. But an oddly even release of four species per generation... until these last two generations, where we got only two & then three... two of which were redesigns. Which either means Galar will be blanketed in Ice types... or they're phasing my typing out...

 In the merit of Dragon types, there's been a dependable ebb & flow of dragons in every game we've had. Off, then on again, reliably.And this generation... We're in for a tide of Dragons!!

Celebrated St. Patricks day today with a spot o’ baking! Idea for “PokePuffs” by me, but most of the structure putting it together due to my sis. Pictures & framing her credit too.

 Do note the chocolate matcha green tea expertly carved into the unique, creative shapes of Full Moon, Cresent Moon & 1/4 Moon by yours truly.

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

It's prolly me favorite holyday afta All Hallow's Eve!

Aye, Ah will be daein' a Scottish accent all day. For the sheer irony of eet.

 Ah ned moar Scots-Irish pony pics.

Know what I'm hyped for most with the new Pokémon region & generation? The Landscape!

Just look at all those majestic, cold, snowy peaks! Misty, dense forest! Places to get LOST in!!! 

 Says so much for the potential types of wildlife we might find there! Britain is known for its hunting, so no doubt more deer like Sawsbuck & Stantler! Maybe some wolves! And you HAVE to put in more sheep pokemon for what's basically the sheepherding capitol of the world! We'll get some right strong, sturdy, wooly, fluffy, wild beasties that really give you a sense that the world would eat you alive if you didn't have your trusty partners at your back!

Just lookit that design! There's that untrackable forest right next to where you start, as if you find yourselves lost in unfamiliar deep woods before you're rescued by the Pofessor, then after your hometone, it's a denser cave & then a pathless Loch marsh! They really punch you from the get-go that you're on your own in the wild!

 Better yet! The two types most strongest represented in the Galar map? All the Ice on those peaks & snowing in villages! There's gonna be at least three new species of Ice Types! I can feel it!

 And lookit the huge, Bloodborne-esque dragon castle! If that's not a sign of a whole handful of dragon type species, I dunno what is! Good news, for dragon fans like @SolarFlare13!