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I can fully attest to this... 🤭

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To you who are celebrating today...

新年的祝福，平日的希冀，愿你心境祥和、充满爱意，愿你的世界全是美满，愿你一切称心如意，快乐无比。

Happy Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival (whichever you observe 😌🙏).

May the Year of the Water Rabbit bring you joy, love, and peace. Good health and wealth, blessings and prosperity, all around! 😄🎉🎊🎆✨

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I just LOVE the writing of this show.

Here's to you gardening greats out there... 😉👍

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I miss the good old days when... ____________________________________

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(feel free to fill in the blanks with whatever comes to mind, no word limits)

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Hoooooo... 😃

I just found out VLC media player lets you do this????

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Your daily dose of cat memes

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2 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes late... 🤭

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In less than 4 hours, the year 2022 as we know it will cease to exist in my time region.

I'd be lying if I say the year has been a great one. So many lives were lost in the popular circles. They were irreplaceable parts of my childhood. So, it felt like a piece of my life just vanished one after another, reminding me that the bygones be bygones.

But the one that hit the hardest? My extended family had to suffer the loss of a dear loved one. It came without warning, and we barely had the chance to say goodbye. Until now, that grief lives on, tormenting many of us, even when it does not seem so at a glance. In my case, it took a toll on my health, both physical and mental.

Of course, there were some accomplishments and joys. As the world reopened, I got the chance to visit my family in another country again. I also moved forward to learn something new, a goal I've had since before the pandemic. But does the good outweigh the bad? I can't really say for sure.

One thing I'm certain of, however, is "Good riddance, 2022!" I'm indeed grateful for the many lessons learned and knowledge known throughout the year. Then again, in all honesty, I'm even more grateful that 2022 is ending soon. This heavy and challenging year was too much for me to handle at times. So I'm relieved and glad that I have made it to these final hours not entirely shattered to pieces.

There is no telling what the future holds. Will 2023 be better than 2022? Or will it ignite more chaos between nations, dividing brothers and sisters within one, sowing and nurturing unnecessary hatred and distortion that affects the entire world?

I hope that's not the case. I pray that won't be the case. But who am I to say this, when I am just a tiny speck of dust in the grand mechanism of things? So, on that note, I simply wish to go where I'm supposed to go and be where I need to be. And hopefully, still, be in one piece despite the cracks and waves of damage that 2022 has brought on me.

Goodbye, 2022. I'm not going to miss you.

See you soon, 2023. Please be kind and gentle to us all...

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When the holidays are 10 days away and you haven’t started gift shopping, how are you feeling? Personally, the top right captures it all. 🤣 📸: Josh Hamilton

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It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's...

My very own all-avian Paldean team! 😉👍🦚🦅🦢

My response to this, naturally: 😌

NOTES:

Quaquaval, because I obviously partnered with Quaxly. Since he's not Flying, he could knock down Ice with ease. 😌

Talonflame is literally my second starter, my wingman, having been with me since I first jumped into the adventure. ☺️

Corviknight's Steel-ness can handle Rock and Fairy nicely. 🤭

Kilowatrell the Electric absorber. Also, the Water zapper. 😆

Espathra does Dazzling Gleam, hence besides being a Poison blocker, she's my Dragon killer too. 😁

Bombirdier, the Former Titan, gets to be in charge of ridding Psychic and Ghost. That's what a Dark heron does daily... 😏

Honorable Mentions:

Dragon Lady Altaria, lurks in the shadow, ready to support if deemed necessary. 🤫

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😻 can watch this for ages 💕

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Elon Musk Is An Idiot (and so are Zuck and SBF)

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

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When you're back in the city you grew up in, even if ever so briefly...

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If you like birds, Paldea might be the Pokémon region for you... 🤫

**Spoiler Alert**

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It has 10 avian-themed new mons (counting their evolutions) in it. Heck, Quaxly pretty much becomes a dancing peacock. 😳

That number is second highest after Gen 1. For comparison, here's the number of (new) birds in past regions:

Kanto 11

Johto 7

Hoenn 9

Sinnoh 8

Unova 7

Kalos 6

Alola 6

Galar 5

Some birds from those regions (Oricorio, all evolution line of Talonflame, Wingull, Altaria, etc) have also been confirmed to appear in the game, via trailers and CMs.

It's looking like we might be getting a diverse aviary collection in one gen soon enough! 😁

Note:

I already posted this on Twitter. But I can elaborate it much further here... 🤭

Not including Flying-types not based on Birds, such as Aerodactyl, Togekiss, or Archeops. 😅

There's a possibility I might have discounted those numbers. But that doesn't change the point I'm trying to make.