ive been connected to pokemon since i was literally a zygote. theres a picture of my crib before i was born that has a pikachu plush my parents got for me. my parents werent even huge fans, my mom found them cute as she always found mascots like domo cute and later got into the fashion brand tokidoki. my parents continued to encourage my pokemon interest by getting me plushes and books, it was the one interest they interacted with and respected i knew alot about. (sailor moon got close and was also respected but ive never claimed to know alot about that until my adulthood.) pokemon has stuck with me thru out all of my other interests and ive only gotten more into it as i got access to the internet.

i got a dsi for christmas when i was around 7 and it became my closest confidante. before i got my first pokemon game, i used to go to the local family video and rent a game for abt a week and especially pokemon games. they feel like blurry memories now but the family video was magical. i didnt have internet and couldnt keep up on the games and info and pokemon was like a mysterious and scary world to explore every so often. i finally got my first permanent game when my mom brought home a second hand copy of pearl. i never got too far in it as i was a distracted autisitc kid but for a moment laying on my stomach under my great grandma's dinner table exploring route 212 and seeing my reflections in the puddles and seeing the for the time impressive 3d effects (black and white had been out for years already but again i didnt have the internet to know that). despite never finishing it, i was hooked on the ds pokemon games. for christmas soon the next year and my dad asked me what i wanted and i remember asking for pokemon black and white 2 and he raised an eyebrow at me thinking i was asking for two games. after i explained, he understood and i ended up receiving white 2 in a huge box, like huge box, in a smaller box at the very bottom under alot of tissue paper and an ash katchum style pokemon league hat. i spent the rest of my night playing it and susbsequently getting lost again in game. somewhere between, i rented a pokemon mystery dungeon game but got too confused by the mechanics i never played it again until i was an adult lmaoo. the trajectory of my life would've been changed irreparably

pretty soon my siblings were born and i ended up losing my ds to them. not them breaking it but my parents pressured me to give it to them. i regret it alot now but i was going thru a lot. it gets blurry here up until sword and shield's release. we had already gotten a switch and it was first mainline game ignoring the lets go games and the whole house was playing it and it was like heaven for me. i hadnt been able to delve into pokemon for a while as i didnt have my dsi but we got sword and i became the go-to for battle tips from my other family members. im still riding that high and it was a small moment of peace during this tumultuous time for me. as much as i find sword an incredibly poorly made game now, it was a wonderful ride while it lasted and it was the first pokemon game i finished. from sword i was thrusted into pokemon again and i was able to reconnect with it again.

later arceus hit me like a truck and specifically hisuian zoroark and the "being a pokemon" feelings were creeping in on me. i never thought i was allowed to be a pokemon before, i was always just a trainer but by the time i played arceus, i had figured out i was a dog and animal but it was only the first layer of the iceberg. unfortunately from there pokemon games got lower and lower quality as nintendo attempted to make bigger games and it was downright dissapointing to see as i was getting back into my now 2 decades interest in the chaos of everything. i got myself a second hand dsi relatively cheap and my partner's dad helped homebrew it and re-shell it to have a clear shell and ive personalized the rest of it and its my pride and joy. while nintendo gets more evil and egregious every day, ive been going back to my little consoles and finding my peace in pokemon blogging ala web 1.0.

the first pokemon plushes i ever got were all pikachus and a few random corphish, sudowoodo, and a fucking huge dialga plush from goodwill the size of a small dog. but pikachu was always right there and albeit a bit forced to be my favorite. i still have an affinity for gen 1 (im unforunately a bit of a genwunner ill admit), i keep up to date on all the gens and have solid favs from each.

around the time sword and shield came out and i was able to come back to pokemon, i got very attached to banette as i was getting into puppetry alot then too and it was the only puppet pokemon. its still up there as one of my favs, its mega form fucks hard and i only got more attached to ghost types. i was genuinely so scared of poison and ghost types as a very little kid i hid my little arbok, weezing and gengar figurines, even when my dad tried to soothe me that theres no bad pokemon, only bad trainers. years later id get attached and defensive of ghost types. other than the shuppet amd banette line, i did not expect to get so attached to chimecho and chingling but ouoough my god bell.

i was always tickled by object mons and especially shuppet being an evil or ghost castform. i didnt even need playground rumors to make me theorize that. i was always morbidly curious by the supernatural and that extended to my affinity for haunted object mons, even non ghost types like klefki and chimecho. ive always felt connected to an idea of nature/earth/plants as an element and that extended to the grss type as well, thus, every grass/ghost type is peam and some of my favs. shiny trevenant is literally one of the most pokemon designs ever. shiftry as a grass type tengu has also grown on me alot. when in doubt, i love a haunted thang and so far theres no ghost type pokemon i dislike.

as stated my first full game was pearl however from the huge dialga plush i got later, diamond became my actual favorite and i finished the main campaign very very recently as an adult. gen 4 is grindy and tougher than i was used to from playing more recent games but it was worth it and its art is still very beautiful and has stellar music

later i played pokemon white 2, i skipped black or white as a kid but played them as an adult on a roadtrip and that was downright magical. i had just gotten a game guide from a local game store in new jersey and looked over it as i played in the backseat of a crowded car full of blankets and snacks. later when we returned home from the road trip, i was able to figure out wiimmfi and get the event pokemon for black vers. and subsequently the other games i have on my homebrew'd ds.

ive already relay'd my story with pokemon sword, arceus and ive played violet and thats abt all i have to say for it. it had pretty high highs but. very low lows and during playing it i was incredibly frustrated the whole time and i really only play it to shiny hunt but ive even lost interest in that as ive gotten all my favs. the newest game as of jan. 2026 legends za frustrates me even more but i dont have the energy to get into it.

ive played thru the main story of pmd eos, specifically Gala1D's remixed version. a weird start for a creature's first pmd but i desperately needed to be a lycanroc. i enjoyed it alot tho, nothing life changing unfortunately. i yearn for the alternate universe where i stuck with it as a kid but alas, i come to it as an adult and appreciate it then.