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BoomBoy
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 9,335/18,329
Trainerlevel: 78
Trainerpoints: 9,335/18,329
Party
| Pkmn | Name | Level | EXP/EHP |
|---|---|---|---|
 | The Chespinking (Chespin) SHINY  | 6,023 | 129,331,703 / 130,436,583 |
 | Phé (2OS) (Shaymin (Sky)) SHINY | 1,552 | 620,812 / 8,630,448 |
 | Diancie | 2 | 0 / 24 |
| Diancie | 1 | 9 / 10 |
| Diancie | 1 | 8 / 10 |
| Diancie | 1 | 8 / 10 |
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 pay attention because some links are actually the same link, and it's very out of date, but it has all the historic links.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Use this Royal Tunnel Simulator to practise the noobtrap (out of date and no longer live).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 Diancie.
Hunt started: 05/05/2025
Chain: 98
Hunt started: 05/05/2025
Chain: 98
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[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
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Plushies
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Rue_ | 8 Days ago |
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momolovesicecream | 14 Days ago |
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HisuianZorua | 17 Days ago |
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BoomBoy | 20 Days ago |
Game Records
Trainer ID: #762650682Registration: 10/02/2019 (6 Years ago)
Premium member until 10/Jan/2026
Time Played: 3049:36 Hours
Total interactions: 5,790,084
Money: 4,797
Starter Pokémon:
Dewott
Feeds
6Z for Zephyr
#1637: Zephyrus was the Ancient Greek god of the west wind. he fell in love with the prince Hyacinthus, but Hyacinthus fell in love with Apollo. the story goes that, when Apollo and Hyacinthus were playing discus, Zephyrus tried to pull a light-hearted prank by blowing the discus back (i guess to make Apollo not seem as good..?) but it hit Hyacinthus on the head, killing him, and his blood turned into hyacinths. lots of versions don't even include Zephyrus, emphasising more that it was the fault of Apollo's hubris and own mistake, or that it was the fault of Hyacinthus' eagerness. but we all know what really happened... somehow, this myth about flowers gave Zephyrus a gentle reputation, the most favourable of the four winds, but "nonetheless a harsh lover". like yeah, you killed someone out of jealousy...
Y for Y
#1636: Y is the only French commune with a single-letter name. it's pronounced [i] (same vowel as "eeee" but short) and its residents are called Yssois or Ypsiloniens (as in, Upsilon, the Greek letter) which is adorable. i'm sorry to report that it's unrelated to the IJ in Amsterdam. the only etymological sources i can find are in French (scuze mon français, lirez avec un grain de sel) but i think it comes from idiacum, where Ido is a Germanic name and -iacum is the Gaulish equivalent of -stead. i think. apparently the [d] in the middle was first to go, and then i guess it was just downhill from there and they overboarded the rest of the letters...? apparently the -iacum -> -igny -> -y pipeline is quite real (Matheniacum->Matigny and Faleviacum->Falvy are nearby), and i guess it's not a big leap from *i-y to just Y.
Y for Y-linkage
#1635: a gene that's passed down through the Y-chromosome is called Y-linked, because it can only be passed patrilinearly, but it's guaranteed to be passed from father to son. the definition of it is pretty much that: if it's found in all males of a lineage, but no females, then it's probably Y-linked. there is of course also X-linkage, but those traits can also be passed from father to daughter and from mother to son. Y-linkage is usually harder to detect because the Y-chromosome is about a quarter the size of the X. of the Y-linked genes that we know enough about, most encode stuff to do with male sex organs, which makes sense. there are a few that seem unrelated, like AMELY, which causes your tooth enamel to develop properly; or PRKY, which produces a kinase, the enzymes that break apart ATP in your cells to release energy. that last one is thought to have something to do with a lot of XX males and XY females, though.
Y for Youtube
#1634: 11B-X-1371 is a video that was sent to a Swedish blog, GadgetZZ, in 2015 and appeared to be a threat against the president. it was full of puzzles and over the span of several months, the internet did what the internet does best. turns out in the end that it was just an art project. if you're looking for a bit of fun sleuthing yourself, i can recommend to stop reading and look it up on YouTube and see how many details and codes you can spot. i will warn that there are some allusions to torture along the way. there are loads of codes and ciphers used, like Morse, Unicode and Base64, but what immediately caught my eye was that there's a whole other video in the spectrogram. the spectrogram is a 2D plot of the sound of a video - it sounds like nonsense, but when you draw it in this format, more images start appearing. in the right channel, there's text reading "You are already dead", and in the left, "the antivirus".
Y for Yil
#1633: Yil is one of many, many languages in Papua New Guinea. it's endangered (like many of the 830-odd languages in the country) and spoken by about 10,000 people in about 12 villages. what made me notice it in particular is that its phonemics is oddly like English: it has fewer phonemes, but quite similar ones that it does have, and the syllable structure is also quite similar. for example, "matimas wanglo tiglu wanin paret ina wikar yagi" (something along the lines of "When we finished we went up the mountain and walked along the road then the path"). idk there are definitely much greater coincidences out there, and this is just one of almost a thousand languages in the area, but reading the phonetic transcriptions felt oddly comfortable. also, the word for "i" (as in, me) is the same, lol. i could only find very speculative literature because, as is often the case, there's a lot to research and these languages are dying out fast.
Y for Yeti
#1632: the third Doctor Who said that there's nothing scarier than "a yeti on your loo in Tooting Bec". much of the yeti scenes were planned to be shot on the London Underground (James Chapman says the yetis have permanently changed the Piccadilly Line in the same way Psycho permanently changed motel showers) but to film in the actual stations, London Transport had strict rules. they gave up and built their own set, which was so good that LT sent them a letter asking when they managed to sneak down to film without them knowing! the yeti roar was someone flushing a toilet, slowed down a bunch. the costumes were meant to be even scarier, but it was often raining on set, and they had to dry out the costume with a hairdryer which made it look all "cuddly". they reused the costumes over several seasons, and by the end they were flea-infested and a little tatty....
Y for Year
#1631: lunisolar calendars are so cool because they try to keep in touch with days, solar years AND lunar months! there's an average of 12.368 months in a year, and that little fraction is almost exactly equal to 7/19. in fact, this 19-year cycle is called the Metonic cycle (cool name! from the Greek who discovered it). lots of calendar systems use this cycle of 7 years with 13 months every 19 years: Babylonian, Athenian, Hebrew and Polynesian calendars all used it, possibly even independently. the date of Easter in the Christian calendar (and all the related movable feasts) is also based on a lunisolar system (the first Sunday after the first full moon after the March equinox). they invented a way to work it out for yourself based on some rudamentary maths and observations called computus paschalis, back in the 3rd Century when communications in the Roman Empire were falling apart and you couldn't rely on the Pope to tell you everything.
Y for Years
#1630: it's unhelpful that a year isn't a whole number of days, or a whole number of lunar months. the biggest difference between modern calendars is how the leap years are distributed. the Julian calendar gets the points for simplicity (one leap year every 4) and only gains a day every 129 years - it would take over 47,000 years to loop back round. the Gregorian calendar has 97 leap years every 400 years, which puts it less than one part per million out - so it would take over a million years for that offset to loop round. some people have tried even better: the Revised Julian Calendar is about ten times more accurate than the Gregorian Calendar, with 218 leap years every 900 years. the last time the Revised Julian Calendar was exactly halfway out of sync, the genus Homo didn't exist, and Australopithecus roamed Africa.
X for Xylem death (no way, cyclical narrative!)
#1629: xylem cells die much more quickly than most other cells. as usual, it's initiated by hormones like brassinosteroids and ethylene, which trigger the vacuole to begin swelling. the vacuole's membrane, called the tonoplast, changes material, until it suddenly explodes. once it does, the rest of the cell degrades very quickly, in a sort of everyone-for-themself kinda way. there are certain enzymes that hang around waiting for this to happen - Bifunctional Nuclease 1 and Zinnia Endonuclease 1 (cool names!), for example hang around in little pouches near the nucleus for much of its life, and quickly chop up any loose bits as it starts falling apart in its old age. then once the vacuole's exploded, these enzymes go to town on the whole nucleus. some other enzymes stick around even after the death of the xylem, we think as a form of anti-pathogen defence, because they're still useful for that.
X for Xylem maturation (yes somehow still eking it out)
#1628: the secondary cell wall (SCW) in the xylem adds rigidity, strength, etc etc, but it also makes it difficult for stuff to get in and out the cell. which is fine for lots of cells, but the xylem need to distribute nutrients from the roots, so they have little indents in their SCWs to let water and nutrients transfer between cells. these pits are brought about by a protein called MICROTUBULE DEPLETION DOMAIN 1 (MIDD1) (yeah, all-caps, like some sort of Pokémon), which takes apart the teeny little tubules that make up the SCW. it begins by looking for the right place where it's needed, which is signalled by more proteins (blimey there's a lot of proteins) called Rac Small GTPases (known as ROPs by their friends). ROP11 recognises a specific pattern in the membrain and then summons the MIDD1 (just like Pokémon!).
X for Xylem maturation
#1627: when a xylem matures, it grows a secondary cell wall (SCW) which is exactly what it sounds like. the SCW needs to hold the lignin and cellulose fibres that give the plant rigidity, as well as offering more durability. it begins developing in a spiral shape round the inside of the cell (which is a cylinder, ish) and then "cables" are wrapped around before it's finished. (disclaimer before i carry on: take this all with a pinch of salt because i am way out of my depth...) a ladder forms between the cables and moves up and down, filling in the rest of the SCW. the climbing proteins know exactly when to stop, to make the best pattern of SCW - this is an area of ongoing research, but they've recently found five classes of proteins that are associated with the tiny little tubes inside the cell walls, probably got something to do with this.
X Xylem development (how many facts can we squeeze out of the one interesting X-word?)
#1626: as well as an autoregulatory positive loop, vascular auxins also go through several other feedback loops at the same time. the auxin originates in procambial cells and then travels to the protoxylem via the PIN (which doesn't really stand for anything - it's a little helper protein that moves stuff between cells). the auxin then goes through a bunch of stages with more unintelligible acronyms, to induce cytokinin, which in turn promotes procambium growth, leading to more auxins. there's another intermediate stage called AHP6 (again, don't know what it stands for) that in turn inhibits the signalling of cytokinin in the protoxylem. i think they've shown that this means that cytokinin has an inhibiting role in protoxylem growth, but they're not sure why (altho i'm not sure if that's up-to-date).
X for Xylem growth
#1625: the hormone auxin is responsible for most growth in plants, and xylem is no exception - except auxin is transported in the xylem. there's a fun little loop where auxin promotes xylem growth such that auxin can use the xylem to get to more xylem to promote more xylem. this happens right from the get-go as an embryo, happening simultaneously across the plant (at this stage the plant is usually all still underground, but it's beginning to distinguish the root and not-root). the auxin also promotes specification of the protoxylem cells into xylem cells, which i guess are slightly different between root and stem?
X for Xylem
#1624: the vessels in the root of a plant begin out quite differently but end up ultimately quite similar to those in the stem: the xylem begin as an axis across the middle of the root (well, we're talking about the cross-section, so really it's more of a plane, but wevs). there are two bundles of phloem perpendicular to the xylem band (a bit like a ÷). just like the stem, a change in the type of meristematic tissue (procambium -> cambium) triggers secondary growth that fills in the gaps, but first there has to be a a lot more (pro)cambium tissue between the xylem and phloem, else it just leaves too much of a gap. in leaves, there is usually not secondary growth at all. the same bundles of xylem-procambium-phloem as in stems appear in the leaves, in neat rows with the xylem facing upwards. because needles last ages (up to 33 years on some common species), there is secondary growth of phloem (only) here, but usually just to replace dying phloem.
X for Xylem and phloem
#1623: there are two tissues that form the xylem and phloem inside a plant (like the equivalent of veins and arteries): the procambium and cambium. the procambium is just a meristem, ie stem cells that can produce cells of any variety, and they form little bundles of phloem and xylem, with the phloem forming towards the outer edge (rimwards, in Discworld terminology) and xylem towards the middle (hubwards). this is all called the primary growth of a stem, forming the first round of vessels. then, the procambium also produces cambium tissue which is slightly more specialised: cork cambium sits on the outer surface, producing bark; vascular cambium continues doing the same process of producing bundles of xylem and phloem; between these bundles, interfascicular cambium also appears to fill in the gaps. this is secondary growth, and gives us things like wood, tree trunks, etc - it's at this point that lignin properly appears.
W for Whistle-stop tour
#1622: a whistle-stop used to be kind of like a modern request stop on a railway - a train would only stop at a whistle-stop if it was told to by the stationmaster. i've seen it explained that the whistle was given by the stationmaster to the train engineer (as if to say "stop please") but also the other way round (as if to say "we're coming; should we stop?") so if anyone knows how that used to work let me know...... thus, a whistle-stop tour was a tour of small stations where a train normally wouldn't stop. politicians used to go on all sorts of whistle-stop tours; for example, Harry Truman gave speeches at over 250 small towns (by my count) in a two-month trip in 1948, in the Ferdinand Magellan Pullman railcar. occasionally these still happen - Ronald Reagan, then-prince Charles, and Biden all did actual whistle-stop tours. Angela Merkel did one in the train of Konrad Adenauer.
W for Writing on the Wall
#1621: Belshazzar was a Babylonian king in the 6th Century. modern scholars think his claim to the dynasty could've been a bit of a lie, but more importantly, he rejected the greatness of God and blasphemed. a disembodied hand appears and writes on the wall: מנא מנא תקל ופרסין . (i'm scared the RTL is gonna mess up the formatting...) and they need to pull in Daniel, the only guy in Babylon who can read Hebrew apparently. Hebrew doesn't spell out the vowels so Daniel actually needed to pull his weight here. (the first two words repeat) he turned the three words into mənê, təqêl and p̄arsîn, three monetary values of the time. but he turned these words then into verbs by keeping the same stems (the consonants), and they translate to "number" (your days are numbered), "weigh" (you're judged), "divide" (your kingdom will be divided). there was also a wordplay in there somehow: [ctd in comments]
as my biggest fans with nothing better to do but stalk my page will know, i switched the gender icon on my profile to ⚥ a while ago, but i thought i may as well take the opportunity to say this officially:
i'm transenby! i'd love it if you could use they/them for me (or she/her idm that either) so thank you very much
inb4 "will you change your name from boomBOY" nah. boomboy transcends gender
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 
Full Forme 756 Dragon
681 Fairy
753 Ground
808 Normal
1,516 Fighting
868 Poison
483 Ice
638 Electric
171 Steel
6,504 Flying
140 Fire
758 Bug
144 Dark
856 Rock
587 Ghost
736 PsychicKALOS SHINIES:
clicklist:
i have 95 of 117 Kalos Shinies
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