You never really appreciate the little things in life enough until they're violently taken away from you.

..Meaning, I hurt my right thumb pretty badly as a right handed person and I'm feeling dramatic. I never really thought about how much I use that one finger. :,D

At least I didn't break bones so my suffering shouldn't be long.

"Congratulations! A shiny Groudon hatched out of one of your eggs (Chain #100)!"

Nice. That's number 2 so that's a wrap.

#MyCoolestPokemon is Darth Vader.

Before Pokeheroes, I was on a different pokemon adopting site and decided to shiny hunt charmander so I could have a shiny charizard named Darth Vader. Because Vader is cool, charmander is the best starter, and shiny charizard is black.

(There, the story behind the weird name revealed in case anyone was curious.)

However, as soon as I hatched my shiny charmander, the site announced its closure. Never evolved that first Vader to his final form.

Shortly after, PH opened up for business, I joined, and promptly had another hunt for a shiny charmander after PH's shiny hunting mechanic was overhauled from that... interesting first version.

He was the first shiny charmander on site too.

"Congratulations! A shiny Groudon hatched out of one of your eggs (Chain #40)!"

Oh. Huh. Neat. :,D

Oh gosh darn it, I forgot to open the first door of the advent calendar. Dx

"Congratulations! A shiny Slowyore hatched out of one of your eggs (Chain #136)!"

And that's number 3! I can move on to other things now, hurrah. :,D

So... Who's gonna hunt a shiny mega with perfect IVs? Bonus points for a legendary. :b

"Congratulations! A shiny Slowyore hatched out of one of your eggs (Chain #125)!"

Great, just one more and I can be done. :v

"Shadow: 151/151"
"Shadow: 127/127"

At long last, that final unown eludes me no more. :,]

Welp, there went my last trick or treats for this year, no retro gengar encounter after the first day when it ran away of course. Curses.

I saw this coming though so I just bought a placeholder retro gengar earlier to fill that one missing spot in my retro dex until I can finally get one myself. :b

"Congratulations! A shiny Slowyore hatched out of one of your eggs (Chain #69)!"

Nice. One down. :,v

"The Shadow Ditto has been caught successfully!"

And with that, I finally have all the Kanto shadows. Now I only gotta hunt down one unown. >:]

Oh, hm, I thought we'd get to keep our fair tickets for when the fair comes back (I assume it'll be back at some point), but I suppose not.

...Now, what to do with all my spare tickets then. I guess I could try to go for a spare shiny retro, invest in gems, or get a second Newton. Spare megas are an option too. :d

"Your PokéRadar recorded the 40th Slowyore in a row! You now reached the maximum chance of finding a shiny. Good luck!"

We'll see how hellish this hunt'll be. :b

Oh wow, today is a very good slowyore day. I've adopted six slowyore eggs from the daycare today. :0

That feel when you go check out some 50 euro shoes on sale that turn out to be not good for your feetsies and a sales assistant sells you on 90 euro shoes instead. ...Sales people are scary. :v

Yesss, with this little fella, my shiny concentration retro collection is finally complete. :D

I generally think that eeveelutions are pretty overrated and I feel sympathy for the shiny hunters, but I find these solar eeveelutions pretty dope. The concept is neat and the sprites are pretty. :,3

Good thing I hadn't gotten rid of all my extra plates. :,D

Ah, rain and thunder. Now, this is what summer is supposed to be like! None of that sunny and hot nonsense.