So you all know how everyone is like “oh it’s been 10 years since Pokémon Gen whatever came out, where’s? The remake?!?!” But here’s the thing guys, there’s a pattern you are all missing and it’s not based on the year the game came out, it’s based on the generation. (There’s only one remake that breaks this rule) Let me explain. In a timeline without years:
Gen 1 comes out
Gen 2 comes out
Gen 3 comes out
Gen 1 remakes come out
Gen 4 comes out
Gen 2 remakes come out
Gen 5 comes out
Gen 6 comes out
Gen 3 remakes come out
Gen 7 comes out
Gen 8 comes out
Gen 4 remakes come out
Gen 9 come out
Present day
Do you see the pattern? Let me explain if you didn’t. The remakes all except the Gen 1 remakes come out after it’s doubled. Gen 4 remakes came out after Gen 8, 4 x 2 = 8, Gen 3 remakes after Gen 6, 3 x 2 =6, etc etc. only the first Gen breaks this rule which makes sense cause that would be super fast for a remake. So when will Gen 5 remakes come out? After Gen 10 comes out. Gen 6 remakes? After Gen 12. And so on and so forth until they stop making new generations then a new pattern with form. Anyway if I’m wrong with this for Gen 5 then I’m wrong but if I’m right the pattern holds strong and imma trust the pattern tbh.
SO. I got tattooed earlier this week. It was a Pokémon Gen 2 'Get what you get' (GWYG) tattoo.
For those who don't know, a GWYG tattoo is where you get a random tattoo design from a gumball machine. Most artists will offer re-rolls for a fee.
I was originally scheduled to get this back in May, but the artist needed to reschedule - to AUGUST.
My mental health has been shite, and even on the day of the tattoo, I was not excited as I usually am before getting tattooed.
I have been following the artist carefully and checking off the mons that had already been rolled and tattooed. Some of the heavy hitters had already gone - Umbreon, Wooper, Quagsire, Celebi - but the 3 I knew I would 100% need to re-roll on had not yet been tattooed. They were Smoochum, Ariados and Spinarak.
Anyway. I got my ball, opened it and... Smoochum.
Y'ALL.
I re-rolled. Knowing I would need to get whatever it was and praying on account of my possibly overactive arachnophobia that it wasn't one of the spider mons.
It was Ho-Oh. HO-OH. A FREAKIN' LEGENDARY.
We found the perfect place for it - below my spooky Gengar tattoo, done by the same artist last October - filling out the front of my right leg.
I returned to Brum and caught up with my partner, who had made a start on grocery shopping. He did a cursory sweep over the body parts he could see when I found him in the supermarket, but I knew he hadn't spotted it.
Later, he guessed what it was. He wanted the first letter - H. He must have guessed every other H Gen2 mon before I was like "It's a legendary" & he was like "HO-OH?!??!?".
Now, I have been with my partner for... 13 years? When we first got together, he was playing through Soulsilver. As a kid he had played Silver for a million hours and had several Level 100 mons. I had played Pokémon Yellow as a kid but due to being 💫 poor 💫 stopped there.
So. I ended up buying a 2nd-hand Nintendo DS & a copy of HeartGold to compliment his SS.
Guys, it was a STUPIDLY fortuitous run. I caught the Pokérus in-game, and caught a shiny Articuno after just 15 minutes of semi-serious soft resets. I had also used a Ho-Oh in the Elite 4.
My partner was rather sweet. Said he liked how it was almost like a throw-back to that time, to our first few months as a couple when we were at university. How it was meaningful without meaning to be.
I may not have gotten a Yadoking, or a Murkrow, or any of the others I secretly thought would be awesome to get - but I got a little nostalgic piece that both does & doesn't call back to us as much younger people, desperately eager to share the experience of HGSS with each other.
When I told the tattoo artist I was re-rolling, she said she was surprised with how many people had said they disliked Smoochum.
When she uploaded the reel onto IG, some people were upset I had re-rolled, whilst others understood. I commented & said this was a good thing because it means she will (hopefully) be tattooed on someone who really, really likes her.
I have finished my first animation in Procreate Dreams! I wanted to do something very simple first before doing anything big. This isn’t perfect, but I’m really happy with how it came out! 😸
I also did this without following any tutorials because I wanted to jump headfirst into figuring out how Procreate Dreams works because I thought it would be fun doing it that way. 😺 It was indeed very fun (and a little frustrating since there’s things that confuse me and some bugs🙃) It was very fun learning how it works! I’m very impressed with how much I can do on Procreate Dreams and so excited to make more animations using it!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
These little drawings are from me trying it out for the first time. 😺 I still remember how blown away I was when trying this app out. 🥺