Two hours and half in, I’ve got this to say: if you hate Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, you clearly have no soul, therefore you should not be playing Pokémon in the first place.
This aside, it’s weird how all of my second generation favorites are found so late in the game. So, I made some eggs in Platinum and traded them over. Currently at Violent Violet City, ready to beat Falkner.
Pokémon team
- Avantgarde (female Scizor)
- Wind-up (male Skarmory)
- Mann (male Houndour)
- Squidwards (female Remoraid)
- Quartz (male Sableye)
ABUSE OF DARK AND STEEL TYPES FTW
The line-up will be complete as soon as I catch a Sandshrew, which was also in my original Crystal team about ten years ago. So many fond memories.
Avantgarde seems to be the affectionate kind. She’s always trying to get physical interaction, like tickling my feet, leaping in my arms - she’s adorable, except I can’t say I want a Scizor to wrestle with me. She’s going to rip my limbs off by accident! D8 Skarmory has quite a temper, huh. But he’s a nice guy, all considered. Mann is a quiet one, and so seems Squidwards…Quartz is constantly getting scared of noises in the tall grass.
THE GRASS
IT MAKES SOUNDS!!!
aaaa I’m at Jacopo’s
he just came back
so I’m going
Some concepts for Daevion. Not definitive in any way, but there are some new ideas.
On the left there is the first new design, the one I posted some time ago. But no one would ever wear a sweater in summer, so on the middle we have something for the warmer months. On the right, a Siberia-ready winter coat. I should make some color references at some point. The shirt will be definitely white, in any case.
More sweaters. It seems there is a lozenge theme with him. The dragon on the far right should be embroidered.
I was just randomly doodling and then I was hey wait let’s see how he’d look like with a tie
then I realized how sexy he’d look and I literally fell off the chair
and two Volkner and Flint pics under the cut, they’re uhhhh–view at your own discretion
I was talking with Cercatesori about all of my Pokémon playthroughs through the years
suddenly I remembered about a Yellow game from when I was like eleven or twelve in which the playing character was named Boreos, after an original character I had in a story
Boreos was this pale-skinned, tall, blond guy with blue eyes
which had a friend which was about as tall as him, with red hair
…
I CREATED VOLKNER AND FLINT WHEN I WAS TWELVE.
OH GOD
My deepest thanks to you all for the wonderful comments I’m receiving about Spark Needle. It’s beautiful to know that my work is making someone happier.
I also found out that the fanlisting for Mewtwo died, so…I can’t believe that I’m getting to apply for it. I’ll be waiting here with all of my fingers crossed. If I get it, however, I won’t make a shrine out of it - I thought about it for a while, and I don’t think I can add something worthy to the beautiful Mewtwo fansites around. I should focus on stuff no one else tackled before. So, the Ai website was shrunk into a more polished fanlisting.
It’s been about five months since that post about my projects and I’m glad to see that some things were done. I’m more or less satisfied with the changes made to the Super Metroid and Fearow fanlistings, Clear Bell has grown into a full Pokémon Crystal tribute, and well, Spark Needle is here. Now I’ll be working on stuff for other people, but let’s see what I should be doing after that:
These are important, then there are all those minor changes and updates here and there. And of course No Future. Hmm.
Edit: Haha, seems like I didn’t get Mewtwo. WELL. I TRIED :D
It’s been more than a year since the first time I wrote in this weblog that I wanted to make a website revolving around Volkner and Flint from Pokémon. Today, that website is finally ready. Its name is Spark Needle, and is the largest shrine I’ve ever made.
Writing these lines give me an incredible feeling of accomplishment that can only be compared to the one I got when Angeltower’s Frozen Truth Version was released back in 2007, and it’s also a bit like reliving the day after the first kiss or after the first time making love. It also saddens me a bit that I will no longer have to nurture this website; I think it could be the same feeling a parent gets seeing their children growing up and leaving their house. It’s a mysterious thing.
Putting aside this emotional stuff for a moment, I can say that Spark Needle is my biggest feat yet, both on the personal and technical front.
With the death of Internet Explorer 6, the web is finally ready to bestow the true potential of PNG transparency and fixed backgrounds applied to elements other than <body>. Spark Needle’s layout features four types of fixed tiled backgrounds with the same pattern in different colors; when scrolling the page, the eye is tricked into believing the background is always the same with only the colors changing. The top looks very simple, but it features scrolling elements on a fixed background, and this is where trasparent-background PNGs come into play. The text on the navigation buttons has a trasparent background as well, and the hovers are pure CSS: there is no other part of the image, it’s just the background color changing into red. This makes the layout lighter and the coding cleaner.
For what concerns the content, the fact that there are 21 information pages should say everything. If gedit isn’t failing me, the total word count for all of these pages is around 14,000, and I was being concise. Other than a lot to read, there are also game pictures, artworks and screencaps from the anime. 308 screencaps, to be precise. Scary, I know.
Most of the fanstuff section has content you should have already seen if you’ve been following this weblog, but there are also some new things: two unpublished fan arts - which would be the suggestive fan arts I was talking about in my last artwork post, mind -, one short fan fic which is really about their friendship so you have no excuse not to read it, and 13 icons I made yesterday. There is also some submitted material :D
and now I can sit on my butt and feel accomplished.
- DP166
- Everyone gave me very beautiful and meaningful presents
- I just found out there is a demo from the new album from Thurisaz and it’s so amazing I actually came
I accidentally exploded in front of the computer.
Edit (and a spoiler)
Irene, listen to this! :3
I blame the ep for finding myself singing Chiisaki Mono.
