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Made my own Paradox Pokemon. It's Bulb-asaur! (or maybe like… Iron Bulb if I wanted to follow the dumb naming convention)

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you can do it, magikarp!

[art by me - neonscrapyard]

instagram || etsy

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Hey, I don’t use Tumblr anymore but seeing as it’s one of the only places to get in contact with you I figured I’d make use of it. I wanted to say that I think the Nesubian legendaries you added to the Phoenixdex are DOPE! They look really awesome, and the specific thing I wanted to mention that I liked about them was the differences between their Pokédex entries. One of them mentions their positive qualities (Aermachis’ “might and wisdom”, Zantekhis “ferociously defends its home”) and the other mentions their negative qualities (Aermachis being “prideful” and a jealous guard, Zantekhis being “aggressive and deceitful”). And the entries are written such that if you got the positive version for one entry, the other legendary would get the negative entry. That’s a really cool detail!

ahhh, thank you so much! Really glad to hear you enjoyed the update and the new legendaries. I was excited to finally have the time to sit down and put them together properly! There are probably a few other things that will get added/adjusted down the road, but I'm pleased with how they turned out and hope it won't be another five years before I have a chance to get to some of the others, heh.

And good eye on the dex entries! The different perspectives on them (which would indeed flip-flop depending on the "version" you were playing) and different opinions about whatever apparently happened are something I'm looking forward to playing with.

(Context: This past Sunday, March 31st, was the Phoenixdex's 15th birthday! I didn't have time to put together more than a few small updates, but there are new fakemon/regional forms up, including two of the major legendaries for the Nesubi region! I'd meant to post about it here but was just so exhausted after rushing to finish/a bit of a rough personal month in general that I forgot, lol.)

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Five Wayfarers, one Saint, all lit with blazing Radiance as they made their final stand...

Art from the PMD Heartache campaign, featuring a boss fight against a corrupted storm god.

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I have now expanded my Tumblr posts on the Mew trick into a 9000-word deep dive essay about its context, history and mechanics!

The Mew trick is truly the most beautiful video game glitch I have ever seen, and I'm very pleased to finally have my passion for it recorded in full with a permanent home on TCoD. Featuring: personal reminiscence, musings, historical digging, speculation, and of course a bunch of game mechanics geekery.

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It's AO's 17th birthday! Small update as usual, life do be being life and all that, but there are a handful of new drabbles (that include dramatic readings!), some art I don't think I've shown widely, and another new short fanfic on top of all that!

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So glad to see this finally released! Excited to sit down and read/listen to all these as soon as I get a chance. It was a ton of fun to actually hear someone narrating my silly little drabbles!

(For the curious, I wrote drabbles for kakuna, bellsprout and tentacool! The podfics for each are linked at the end as inspired works; give them a listen, too!)

Some friends also submitted fics to this, and in general it looks like a big awesome collab between a lot of authors and podficcers of all stripes. Huge thanks to the @pokepodproject mods for organizing this and making everything as smooth as it was. I hope everyone enjoys checking this out!

NOW LIVE: The PokePod Project Anthology – Generation One

The PokéPod Project Anthology for all generation one Pokémon is now revealed. This is a collection of 151 brand-new Pokémon stories written for the project by 66 writers, then performed by 35 podficcers. All stories and podfics can be found at the main AO3 collection. You can also download the anthology of all stories via the below links. We hope you enjoy reading and listening!

AUDIOBOOK DOWNLOAD LINKS: MP3 (290MB) GDrive M4B GDrive | M4B Internet Archive (both 544MB) Chaptered Streaming Player

Note about M4Bs: These are chaptered audiobook files that allow you to easily skip through tracks and save your place while listening. If you've never opened an M4B before, we recommend the app BookPlayer for iOS, Smart Audiobook Player for Android, VLC for Windows and Apple Books for Mac.

If you missed out on the project or merely want to spread more love for generation one Pokémon , check out the Rare Candies AO3 Collection which is specially for "treats", aka: bonus fics and pods!

Full anthology credits can be found on our Dreamwidth, here. Thank you so much to everyone who participated!

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Art fight attack on Leaf for @phoenixkratos!

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HI SO SORRY TO BUG U but I went to show a friend the pheonixdex and the site was down I think? JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW IN CASE U DIDNT I LOVE UR STUFF SO MUCH TY FOR BEING YOU

Hey! Thanks so much for the kind words (and for sharing with your friend!), and sorry the site was down! It's not down when I check at the moment–is it still down for you now? If you're still having trouble access it (or if anyone else seeing this post also sees it as down), let me know and I can check what's going on. Off the top of my head the last time this happened my webhost hadn't refreshed something they were supposed to do automatically, so if necessary I can nag them about that again.

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pokemon puzzle challenge !!

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the need to talk about the characters vs the fear that all of my analysis is just empty prose and surface level understanding

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Been thinking about my old fakemons and what good good pubbies they are.

Cerbernard's barrel is full of aged berry juice that works as a Full Heal for lost and injured mountaineers. Berrel's barrel is full of Berrel.

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I just wanna say that I’ve been stalking the Phoenixdex ever since I was a kid (back in like…2014?) and man, has it evolved since then. Just saw your anniversary update and holy shit, a whole new region, new designs and lore…you’re spoiling us, this is absolutely insane. There’s so much to talk about but I have no one to talk to about it lol. Just wanna say that the former New Logora starter revamps are 100% improvements in my eyes, and I love the concept of the Nesubi region being “two in one” in a sense. Always though Egypt would be a shoo in for a region, especially with canon Pokemon like Lucario and Cofagrigus. And I’m very glad to see Mercureon freed from its eternal exile on the Extra Fakemon page—maybe someday Currarog will be too lol! At least it’s got a lot more friends to keep it company now.

I’ve loved this project for so long and can’t wait to see how it continues to develop. The care you put into your settings is amazing, and your Pokemon designs are absolutely mental.

(Sorry for the delay in responding!)

aaaaAAAA this is so kind of you to say? Always blows my mind to hear from people who've been following for a long time. I'm really excited to do more with Nesubi and also to dust off some more dusty old critters... there's still so much to do, but I'm looking forward to it, and I'm glad you are too!

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Already mentioned this to you, but these are fantastic, thank you so much! Maybe when sirfetch'd finally stops tolerating rapscalion it can find itself a wig and join the band as a drummer...

The Phoenixdex's birthday was March 31st, so what better time to unveil the project I've been working on for the past... couple years?

Back in 2021 I thought it would be fun to draw rapscalion with the new canon farfetch'd evolution, sirfetch'd. For whatever reason I decided to do it in a digital colored pencil style, and then after I started learning to use traditional colored pencils and Phoenixsong came out with a new design for rapscalion, I thought to myself, "Hmm, wouldn't it be cool to redo that old pic in proper colored pencils?" (My first mistake.) "And then do one for my other favorite canon/fakemon pair!" (Thus are multiyear projects begun.)

But at long last we have them: rapscalion and sirfetch'd, plus mega ampharos and mega ramfere. (They're in a hair metal band!) The ramfere line got a cool redesign in the most recent dex update, but the mega hasn't been gotten to yet, so at least I managed to get this out while this is still the canon appearance!

Happy birthday @phoenixkratos, happy birthday Phoenixdex, and here's to many more to come! Super glad to see Nesubi out in the wild and looking forward to where you take it next!

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Happy (belated) Phoenixdex anniversary! Loving the new changes, the starters (both new and redesigned) are great and it's really clear how much your art style has evolved. Keep it up!

Aaaa, thank you! So glad to hear you're enjoying things so far, anon—I'm hoping it'll remain as interesting for others as it is for me! Appreciate the comment about the art improvement as well, haha. There's... a fair bit of cleanup still to go, heh, but it'll be fun to keep working through them as I've got the time!

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Haven't posted about the Phoenixdex in a little while, but today's the site's 14th birthday and some big updates went live just a short while ago! Much of it is housekeeping and tweaks, some of which I've mentioned before, but there's a whole new region project now live on the site and plenty of art revamps as well.

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"To assist with their work, employees will be supplied a starter Ultra Beast from the Ultra Recon Squad. Pictured are the Poison-type UB Adhesive, the Ground-type UB Tectonic, and the Grass-type UB Luminant."

-Aether Report excerpt

More info to come! But for now, which of these 3 will you choose, dear employee? (I promise I won't take it personally if you like Poipole over my designs lmao)