This week, the cast soldiers on, despite Paul rubbing everyone the wrong way.

I didn't want to run Conway's gag into the ground by having him constantly show up everywhere. So I just used it very sparingly, just to establish the gag, and not have the episode get too chaotic. The scene where he magically butts into the group's conversation was one of my favorite scenes to write.

My focus for this episode was on Ash and Paul's relationship. From getting a little TOO into...

Recently, I was bored, so, I decided to make some shinies.
Only using the most advanced pixel editor, Paint, I edited three shiny Pokemon, Gengar, Seel and Nidoqueen! In reality, all three of them have terrible shinies, or at least issues with them. Seel is infamous for barely changing, and I need to squint a little to see the difference, Gengar barely changes (I was even traded a shiny Gengar, and I didn't realise it was shiny until I looked at its summary), and Nidoqueen's shiny sprite...

It's been about a year since I last logged in. I'm getting really hyped up for Let's Go Eevee though! ;)

A key problem with Battle Gem Ponies right now is that nobody knows it exists. How do I let people who'd probably like it know it exists? Well, sitting here and talking about it on my website nobody's heard of isn't getting the job done. And an occasional mention here and there on high traffic blogs isn't working either. ...

This week, the group decides to audition at the Hearthome Theater, unaware they will be acting alongside friends and foes!

Since this episode originally started the Tag Battle arc that foreshadows Ash getting Chimchar, this created a lot of problems when Ash got a Chimchar to start with. I still wanted to retain some form of character development for Ash and Paul, and show that Pokemon is not everything in this Pokemon world. So my solution was to put the characters (plus one fan...