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WIP Wednesday Wednesday!

I was tagged by @devilrose! I tag @scribghetti-junction if there's anything you'd like to share (no pressure!).

Here's a silly image I put together for an upcoming article on Staircase Spirit!

I won't tell you what the article is about yet, but it's something that called for an image of Elrond showing off his gaming rig from 1998 3000 years ago.

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Reminiscing about TeamRocket-Video

I recently rediscovered an old Pokemon fansite favorite of mine, thanks to @james-kojirou who shared the URL: teamrocket-video.com, which we can still see bits of on the WayBack Machine. Previously I was reminiscing about the AMVs on the site, especially the Jessie-centric Don't Speak AMV, and also the Mewtwo-centric Kryptonite AMV, and most recently I was talking about the Team-Rocket-centric Whip It AMV with @meruhenshoujo on an unrelated post, and figured I might as well make another post!

So let me do so by next squeeing over the Team Rocket-centric Double Trouble AMV. I didn't get to see this completed AMV back in the day, but I do know I saw some of the sneak-peek previews on teamrocket-video. It seems the full AMV was later completed and published to animemusicvideos.org.

This AMV is a tribute to the Double Trouble Pikachu's Jukebox that aired on Kids' WB back in the day. The official video for this anime ending only covered about a minute, but the full version of the song is over three minutes long and was used in the Pokemon Live stage show and was released on Pokemon soundtrack CDs. I remember watching the Pikachu Jukebox video for this song and loving it very much, and when I later heard the full song, I was left wishing for more, since the full song has a lot of fun lyrics that would be great to see get the same treatment.

Well, this AMV is an answer to that! This fanmade video preserves a lot of the original Pikachu's Jukebox footage (and not just that, but was also painstakingly edited frame-by-frame to remove the Kids' WB logo, yiiiikes!) and it also adds unique music-video goodness in a similar spirit to the original, extending to cover the rest of the song! So nice!!!

In fact, it's so nice, it was really hard to find a video of the original Pikachu's Jukebox segment to compare it against. It seems a lot of people mistakenly think the fan video is official and reposted it as such! But there are a few fun tells that this is a fanmade video: there's the censored footage from the then-banned Safari Zone and Acapulco episodes featuring James holding a gun and James wearing a bikini. 4Kids would have never done that in the official video, lol.

So, yeah, it's kinda cool how so many Pokemon AMVs that stuck with me from back in the day were actually several all from this same site! Even over twenty years later, they have been replaying spontaneously in my head and have been super important to me!

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Tagged by @devilrose - Share 4 non-selfie photos from the camera roll!

Baby boars with parents, photographed from an extremely safe distance away. (I just picked one photo, but all together, there were at least two adults and at least five piglets)

A very happy guitar friend.

Playing around with posing Pokemon figures.

A flowering tree on the edge of the ravine.

I tag @acidshadow, @vine409, and anyone who would like!

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For Fire Emblem ArtScuffle 2025, I drew Limstella for Blair.

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Completed: May 25, 2025

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After drawing Blaze the Cat, I decided to draw another purple cat with a red gem in the middle of the forehead.

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Completed: May 24, 2025

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Next in our series of Pokémon movie reviews…

Pokémon Movie Review: The Keldeo movie

The 15th Pokémon movie, Kyurem VS the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo, is short and to the point. Our quick blurb would have to be: Keldeo, the impatient young apprentice of the Sacred Swordsmen, goes to fight Kyurem before he is ready, which ends with him fleeing in disgrace. Ash and friends help Keldeo regain his determination and return to finish the battle, and, through the experience, Keldeo finally grasps what it means to be a true hero.

It's a simple, formulaic story, one that you've probably heard variations on many times before, so it gets no points for originality. It doesn't have any particular twists or subversions on this theme. But kids deserve to have their first version of this kind of story too.

Keep reading…

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Completed: May 20, 2025

Colette, the Chosen One of Sylvarant, looks to the moon of her world, named Tethe'alla.

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Completed: May 16, 2025

Gin is so nasty, I had to keep washing my hands as I was drawing him (to get all the black ink smudges off lol).

Don't smoke, kids, not only is it bad for you, it turns everything yellow!

While drawing, I had @nanoko857's "Devil's Gun" AMV on repeat, for references and for mood, hehe.

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Completed: May 10, 2025

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Completed: May 10, 2025

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Completed: May 10, 2025

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Completed: May 2, 2025

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Completed: April 30, 2025

I think it is the same Igglybuff as in my earlier drawing, hehe.

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Completed: April 21, 2025

For the next yellow page in my sketchbook, I decided to draw April! The moment she became recognizable on the page, my inner child got really excited! She was always one of my favorite characters!

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Completed: April 18, 2025

Another yellow page in my sketchbook, so I drew Pikachu!