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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 4,296/18,329
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 4,296/18,329
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 5,942 | 124,302,196 / 126,949,728 |
tools (mostly outa date)
Use this Hangman Helper. (this link is now broken.... does anyone have a working one?)
Use this Price Check only for very large/very infrequently sold things. use a combination of stonks, logic and intuition for whatever you can
Use this Map. pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.
Use this bag valuator to figure out what is worth selling.
Use this Royal Tunnel Helper now with Paldea!
Use this Help Subforum to see the FAQs and search help threads
Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).
The Wiki is here and also under the community tab
Check this Evo Guide for how to evolve mons
Shiny Hunt
BoomBoy is currently hunting Zygarde (50% Forme).
Hunt started: 16/03/2025
Chain: 103
Hunt started: 16/03/2025
Chain: 103
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GOALS :D
[X] #1 - 1 year premium paid for without RL money
[X] #2 - Kalos Certificate to get that Mega Diancie :)
[..] #3 - full Kalos shiny dex inc. legends somewhere on my profile there should be a progress for this
[..] #4 -
[..] #4.5 - SM Emeran Diancie
[X] #5 - officially become a not-noob (get all the badges)
[X] #6 - get something 1OS! check out Gary in my about me!
[..] #7 - get Chespinking onto the ranklist its a long long way to go.... why dont you click him now :')
[..] #8 - get a hangman chain that makes me go "woah". i'm thinking like CatLady levels of woah
annual goals have been suspended due to vague inactivity. whatever i'm working atm on is in the "progress" tab
ima probably add more here as they are thought of
Contact
Badge Showcase
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Plushies
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Juuzou- | 3 Days ago |
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Meguru-Bachira | 7 Days ago |
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BoomBoy | 20 Days ago |
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Kisala | 21 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (6 Years ago)
Premium member until 10/Jan/2026
Time Played: 3025:56 Hours
Total interactions: 5,785,600
Money: 1,995
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
Q for Quaint
#1574: model villages are the quintessence of quaintness. the model village in Bourton-on-the-Water (Gloucestershire) is built to 1:9 scale of the entire town at the time. a hundredish buildings all in all, the houses about hip-high. they did the logical thing, and included the model village as one of those hundred-odd buildings, so there's a 1:81 model village inside the model village. but, somehow, it gets quainter - a third model village is featured inside that model village, in 1:729 scale and about a 30cm-ruler long. but that's evidently not enough quaintception, because (only in paint) there's a fourth 1:6561 village inside a village inside a village inside a village inside the village of Bourton-on-the-Water. it's the only Grade 2 listed model village in the UK, and it's one of the oldest too, being built between 1936 and 1940 on the Old New Inn (which was, of course, at the time just the New Inn).
0P for Pickering
#1573: Edward Charles Pickering was the man who said to his male assistant, "my maid could do it better than you". his maid, Williamina Fleming, actually did do it better and began hiring and managing other women to work alongside her. they were known as the Harvard Computers, a group of women churning through astronomical data from the fancy-pants telescopes and cameras that were progressing faster than technology could keep up. they helped prove that the universe exists, 101 years ago when Edwin Hubble discovered other galaxies, upon the back of the women's calculations. whether Pickering hired over 80 women out of feminism or out of cheaper wages, i can't discern. they were nicknamed "Pickering's harem"; yet he definitely helped secure women's right to education at Harvard by demonstrating their capabilities. some of his employees left to give lectures in science!
Congratulations! A shiny Zygarde (50% Forme) hatched out of one of your eggs (Chain #99)!
whoohoo! a happy customer! anyone else for anything?
P for Pink
#1572: there's a group of flowers called the pink, in the genus Dianthus, related to the carnation. the colour comes from this, even though pinks aren't always pink. how they ended up with the name pink in the first place though is a much deeper mystery: perhaps related to the verb "pink" which is attested to a much older time, meaning to perforate; perhaps instead related to the Dutch adjective "pink" meaning narrow, which was loaned into English for a while. carnations, of the same family, probably also give us the word "(in)carnate". the word does come from Latin, roughly "(in) flesh-form", but it's likely that it came to English through the flower, as a description of a flesh-colour - the colour pink used to be called incarnation before we had that word. however, "reincarnation" definitely came directly from Latin, as did "incarnation" in the idea of resurrection, so maybe it just came from that.
P for Parenting
#1571: there've been a lot of parenting guides, some over 350 years old, but one particular guide from 1962 is actually really good as long as you do the opposite of everything it says. Dr Walter Sackett (no idea how he got a doctorate)'s book gets just about everything wrong: he said you should start feeding infants solids after a couple of days, and have them eating bacon and eggs "just like father" by a couple of months old. he advocated for remastication - chewing your food for your baby. he said you should ignore all your baby's needs to teach them how insignificant they are in society; if they start crying then you should just ignore it, because having one's needs met raises you to be a socialist (of course!). just to clarify.....you should never do any of this.... he said infants should sleep on their stomachs (which is the biggest cause of unexpected infant death)...
#aFactADay2025
P for Personal space
#1570: the "spike away vest" is a vest of spikes made by a Singaporean sick of getting crushed by crowds on the metro, Siew Ming Cheng. it's made of the same stuff you use to deter animals in your garden, the same sorta plastic as in a zip tie. there's also the "personal space dress" by Kathleen McDermott, which has proximity sensors and a motor-driven umbrella mechanism so it expands like a pufferfish when someone gets too near to you. you have to watch it because the slow servo noise is a comedy in of itself. it's part of a series of "urban armour" which includes other articles like a snood that automatically covers your face when too much pollution is detected, a dress with 9 fog machines that activate when you're stressed, and a harness that slaps you with a fly-swatter at the end of the work day.
P for Pants
#1569: "pantaloons" are named after a silly old man in the classic commedia dell'arte who wore baggy trousers, slippers and spectacles. he may take his name from Saint Pantaleon, who was popular in Venice, but some say that he was just given any old Greek name because that's what was popular at the time. the name means "all-compassionate". the other characters of the Italian comedy form were the clown, typically Harlequin (then Arlecchino); the servant, like Pulcinella (whose name probably comes from Latin for "flea" or "chicken"...); the mistress, typically Columbine (name meaning "dove"); the Braggart variously depicted as villainous or clownish, called Scaramouche - his name is a doublet with "skirmish".
P for Presidential Pets
#1568: George Washington was an avid dog breeder in his free time, and kept uncountable dogs in the White House, and he bred the American Foxhound from the English Foxhound. he also kept a donkey, parrot and a number of horses. Thomas Jefferson kept two bear cubs, a mockingbird, and 40 sheep (which killed at least one innocent child). John Quincy Adams had an alligator and Benjamin Harrison had two, who also had two opposums called Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection. Teddy Roosevelt had quite the extensive menagerie that doesn't fit here, but not to omit the hyena, macaw, badger, bear, lion, and snake named "Emily spinach" because "it was as green as spinach and as thin as my Aunt Emily".
P for Pies
#1567: Robert May was a celebrity chef back in Elizabethan and Jacobean England who worked in 13 different kitchens of various count(esse)s and baron(esse)s and so on over 50 years. he'd bake a pie with live birds and frogs in it, so when they jump out he'd scare all the guests. the song where you bake "four and twenty blackbirds" into a pie - it's really a recipe for live birds in a pie. (instructions in comments.) he played water balloon fights with eggs and rose water. he built a life-size deer out of pastry that looked like it had been shot and fallen over onto the dining table; when diners took out the arrows in its side, wine would gush out like blood. he built ships and castles out of pastry, featuring functional cannons with real gunpowder. all in the 16th/17th century!
O for Oceanlife
#1566: although corals don't photosynthesise or anything, they still grow very differently in light and shade. a study on Galaxy coral, aka Octopus coral (which grows up to 5m wide), showed that they grow more closely together in the light, and longer and spindlier in the dark, like some plants do. they get their food from two sources: algae that photosynthesise themselves, and long tentacles that suck nutrients out of the water. where it's light, they need very little energy that can't be got from photosynthesis, so they have the capacity to grow closely together. where it's shaded, they need to get more from the water, so they grow longer tentacles and wider apart to grab more. but, its reliance on microalgae makes it more prone to climate change and sea temperature change.
O for Oceanlife
#1565: parrotfish also have two sets of teeth - the sharp beaks formed from glued-together teeth, and pharyngeal teeth in their throat, like the moray eel. but the moray eats parrotfish; meanwhile parrotfish just graze on kelp. they use their sharp beaks to scrape it off corals and rocks, which supports erosion. about three-quarters of their "diet" is carbonate rocks and minerals which they grind up with their pharyngeal teeth and excrete as a fine, white sand. this sand is also important for the ecology - it redistributes the minerals and makes them more available. they do this to the point where they form islands and beaches (another land-creating animal??). some of the larger parrotfish species (which can grow to like 1.5m? why are fish so scary??) can convert several metric tonnes of rock/coral a year, producing hundreds of kg of sand. just one fish.
O for Oceanlife
#1564: just like the alien in Alien, lots of fish (even the humble goldfish) have a second set of teeth. in the case of the goldfish, they don't have a first set anyway, but the pharyngeal teeth sit in their throat. the moray eel, truly a terrifying thing, goes full xenomorph and has two full-blown jaws, each with a set of sharp teeth. the pharyngeal jaw can lever itself forwards as the main jaw opens, just like the film, which makes for a bone-quaking bite. the moray is the only known animal to do this - but it can actively grab onto the prey with its second jaw (just like the film...) and drag it down into the throat, without even needing to use the blood-curdling front teeth. in some species, the pharyngial teeth can fold down flat against the roof of the mouth, so they don't get in the way of a particularly big catch sliding down the hatch. wait until they start cooperative hunting.
O for Oceanlife
#1563: parrotfish are named for the strongest biomineral known - their beaks. the beaks are made up of little teeth glued together, which are made from fluorapatite (a mineral that can form on your teeth too if you use fluoride toothpaste!). all the pop-science websites say that the teeth can bear the weight of 88 African elephants over the area of a 50p piece, which i initially thought was "they probably rounded up" or something, but it seems that they can take up to 6 times that. they have extraodinary hardness, strength, stiffness and fracture toughness, breaking a couple of records for biominerals. in the parrot's beak, the teeth are woven from "fibres" of just a couple microns thick, which get even thinner and even stronger near the tip of the tooth.
O for Oceanlife
#1562: some animals have the amazing ability to create land. for humans, that's somewhat unremarkable, but for corals, it's incredibly cool. corals and their symbiots like coralline bacteria can invent new land, very slowly building it up. you've probably heard of a reef, which isn't necessarily formed of biotic material but often is, but there's also a "mound" which is a type of reef built up by bacteria. to your average idiot like me, these look just like any other rock - but they're made up of formerly living things. corals' coolest inventions are probably atolls, which are ring-shaped islands found all over the globe. we're not even sure how they manage it - some (including Darwin himself) say they're barrier reefs for islands that used to exist, but some say they're mounds that've been eroded in the middle.
O for Oceanlife
#1561: you've heard of crabs being the ultimate form for animals, but what about plants? it seems the ocean is the place to be, because at least sixteen different families of plants have evolved into mangroves, mostly independently. most of these taxa are shared with non-water-based plants, and they've been doing this for a good 60 million years, enough to find themselves all over the globe. the "true" mangroves are five families that entirely comprise mangroves, whereas there are a good few more that comprise terrestrial plants too. i guess it's better under the sea, down where it's wetter, life is bubbles, how does it go? there's rarely any competition from other plants, and the soil is often very nutrient-rich. unfortunately the soil is often anaerobic (hence lots of mangroves live in the area between high and low tide so they get a breath twice a day) and obviously it's very salty...
O for Oceanlife
#1560: the Mola, aka sunfish, is a terrifying thing. it's as heavy as the heaviest of sharks, making it the heaviest fish with bones (sharks have cartilage), at up to three metric tonnes on a good day. they have a really stupid shape that looks like God just went "ehh that'll do" because their posterior fin doesn't really grow as it gets older, so it looks like a giant head with some flaps. when it's born, the larvae weigh less than a gramme, so it grows by a factor of a million over the span of a decade or so. they can grow up to 4m tall and 3m long. they're often afflicted by parasites, so they jump into the air to shake some of them off, which is called breaching. they can breach by up to three metres, which is terrifying. Wikipedia says they're "clumsy swimmers[citation needed]" but apparently they're actually quite adept, and can dive several kilometres deep.
N for Nature and Nurture
#1559: sometimes, nature nurtures! as in the banded sugar ant, found all over the wetter parts of Asutralia, which farms aphids. this is called tending, where they look after the aphids and give them food and safety from predation. the ants "milk" the aphids by stimulating the aphids' abdomens and drinking the honeydew that they produce. the aphids are much more able to access the phloem of a plant, which contain so much sugar and protein that even their excrement (the honeydew) is healthy to eat. in exchange for the food (yeah the ants also eat the aphids from time to time, just like humans eat their farm animals), the ants will actively seek out and destroy (eat) the larvae of common predators like ladybirds and hoverflies. it's thought that ants have been tending aphids for up to 75 million years - about 7,000 times as long as humans have experience with our own agriculture.
N for Nature
#1558: as in facts #780 and #781, bees can navigate with the electric field, and help find the less popular flowers - but they also attract the pollen by flying near a flower, because they generate little positive charges inside themselves. but as well as having electric bees, some bees are acoustic! "buzz pollination" is the analogue version of this, where bees fly near flowers and hum really loudly (well, loud for the bee) to shake out the pollen that's held tightly. this is used for lots of smooth-grained pollen plants, and makes up quite a large proportion of flowers (a tenth by some estimates) even though honeybees don't do this. it's quite a useful thing that keeps the tomato industry rolling, for example, and they often import special bees (i.e. bumblebees) that are good at shaking flowers. there's even an "electric bee" which is a special vibrator that simulates buzzing bees and helps pollinates greenhouse tomatoes.
about me :D
(yes that's a challenge)
they/them • chespin fan • nerd • aro/acespec • completely socially oblivious
currently studying maths, physics and engineering. also a wannabe polyglot - learning German (~B2), Russian (~A2) and Turkish (quite a beginner lol) so feel free to talk to me in non-English ^^ i've got a conlang on the roll and one day i might set up a blog for that or something.
i run #aFactADay2025 on a daily basis (for backlog: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - tumblr blog).
if you have any qualms or points of discussion, my PP and PMs are always open, so i can gloat about how little i care, or about how much i care. i don't really do anything in between lol. feel free to contact me about anything at all :)) i'm pretty insensitive lol
i used to have my fave mons here but there are just too many >u< just check out whatever's in my party at the mo haha
Polls
Progress and stuff
Zygarde 
Snek Forme 649 Dragon
640 Fairy
653 Ground
697 Normal
727 Poison
412 Ice
516 Electric
89 Steel
58 Fire
640 Bug
57 Darkgoing for roughly 1000 each i guess?
KALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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