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🏳️‍🌈 Artist / developer. He / him. Ask me about my Pokémon / Paper Mario fan game project!
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We should be moots if you like:

Pokémon
Paper Mario
The Legend of Zelda

Magic: the Gathering

Fan Games (e.g. Pokémon Infinite Fusion)
Java, Spring Boot, Angular
Game Dev (esp. in Godot)

Pixel Art
Colored Pencils
Finally, I've had a chance to just do some spriting again. Here's another character from my crossover Mario / Pokemon fangame: Oucher Glass! Ground / Psychic

#pokemon #mario #fanart #fangame #pixelart #aseprite #rpgmaker #pokemonessentials
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Sometimes I think I might be good at Teamfight Tactics. Then I play ranked and I remember I am dogwater. For now, I will bask in the glow. #tft
December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm about an hour into Metroid Prime 4: Beyond so far, and at the very least I can say it feels like a return to Prime 1/2 rather than a continuation of the much weaker Prime 3. The "psychic" stuff fits fine.

Also, Myles Mckenzie does not bother me in the slightest.
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If @samreich.bsky.social weren’t a coward he’d release the unedited footage AND a Behind the Scenes follow-up of “The Official Cast Recording”
November 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Pokey Pod, from my Paper Mario/Pokémon fan game crossover project. Pokey Pod is a Grass type that first appears in the game's second chapter, and evolves in an interesting way!

#pixelart #fanart #aseprite #rpgmaker #pokemonessentials
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I was not emotionally prepared for the Hollow Knight / Radiance to be that easy to beat after 100%ing everything else.
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
@manapool.com One enhancement I would love to see on your Mass Entry tool is a way to check "Same Printings" for the cart while using "Options for individual cards" to mark cards for which I do not need the tool to adhere to the same printing.
September 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Lordt help me I am doing. Concept Art.

I think I figured out how the hell the cloak is going to work on his body but that pose is NOT the way his body will be rotated in the sprite so I have more work to do -.-

#pokemonfangame #pokemon #mario #fangame #art #sketch
September 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I swear to goddess [read: Sasha Colby] I am taking out my sketchbook and I am making art today.
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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10 MILLION views in 5 DAYS!! Thank you all SO much for enjoying Knights of Guinevere 💙
September 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New Music Friday!! Two albums I have been eagerly awaiting:

The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, by Motion City Soundtrack — a comeback album from the folks who brought you the kickass song “Everything is Alright” in 2005

NSFW, by The Paradox — pop punk in 2025!

Go listen!

#newmusicfriday #music
September 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Took the plunge a few days ago and put screen time limits on most of the apps on my phone (with a password set by someone else so I can't bypass it easily).

Has been very helpful so far, with some frustrating situations where I couldn't quickly Google certain things. Needs tweaking, but promising.
September 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
New Music Friday!

Millington's entire discography: A seamless blend of late-00s pop punk and ska??? I'm obsessed.

The Crux Deluxe, by Djo. An entire album's worth of new music shadowdropped as a deluxe version of his previous album. Lives up to the original!

#newmusicfriday #music

GO LISTEN
September 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Given all the hubbub around Silksong, I'm playing the original Hollow Knight for the first time. I have recently learned the term 'runback' and it's nice to finally have a word for my least favorite part of most games.

Meanwhile, give me the Celeste death model and I'll happily die 30,000 times.
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All I want for Christmas is a blue sorcery that costs 4UU (or less, if I’ve been a Very Good Boy) and says “Tap all creatures you don’t control. Put a stun counter on each of them.”

#magicthegathering #mtg #edh #commander #mtgedh #mtgcommander
August 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
If you're one of my Pokemon fangame dev peers, share something cool you came up with recently!

I've been working on determining the species, types, and abilities for a handful of OCs that will have important roles in my Mario crossover game and I finally filled the last two slots last week.
August 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Apparently when I tried to mute The-Franchise-That-Won't-Be-Acknowledged a long-ass time ago, I misspelled its name. Fixed~

Also, some part of Bsky's algorithm decided recently that I want to see posts about AI / ChatGPT, so we're nipping that in the bud right friggin now.
August 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Help Requested! I'm looking for / interested in building a Bsky feed that would collect posts and discussions about MtG Commander decklists. Anybody got a cool feed like that already, or some suggestions for what words / hashtags / other post attributes to key off of?
August 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The cool thing about trying to make a Mario / Pokemon fangame is that occasionally I ask myself questions like “Do I also learn music composition and production…?” and then make decisions that will certainly push back release by several years but also make the whole process more fun :)
August 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Made some decision today on my Mario / Pokemon fangame which I am not ready to reveal just yet but it does mean I’m in a good position to do some more work (there is always more work and that’s the fun part)
August 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A Shy Guy named Reply Guy who mostly replies to posts on the game’s smartphone expy of choice.

#papermario #fangame idea
August 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What other Pokemon fangame feeds are out there that I should know about?

#pokemon #pokemonromhack #pokemonessentials #mario #mariofangame #fangame
August 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Couldn't do a whole lot of fangame work today. Did have time to set up the MySQL DB tables for my encounter data so that I can read them with my li'l Java program which will run the EXP numbers for balance purposes and output the encounters.txt PBS file.

#pokemonessentials
August 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Today I learned that IntelliJ has a Swing UI ( #java ) designer that'll make it even easier to balance the battles I'm putting in my #pokemon / #mario crossover #fangame. Gonna put together a thread on the tools I've created for myself once I have a good screenshot :)

#gamedev #pokemonessentials
August 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I am being Ever So Patient™ waiting for my morning work meetings to finish so I can listen to the new The Band CAMINIO album :||

#newmusicfriday #music #newmusic #thebandcamino
July 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM