Only three more days left to vote in the Grand Final of our Favourite Pokémon poll (2025). It is still extremely close between certain Pokémon in the top ten (some are even tied currently) Your vote could literally change the outcome! strawpoll.com/GJn442R1Ynz

Just two weeks remain to vote in our Grand Final! I can confirm we have now received over 20,000 votes in this final stage of the poll. There is currently one clear winner It is EXCEPTIONALLY close between the top five, with one vote between them in some cases! johtotimes.com/posts/featur...

There's just a few more weeks to vote in our Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025! Which Pokémon will be declared the winner? Please share with your friends and loved ones, and let's discover the result together! johtotimes.com/posts/featur...

What is the Khert? 🔎👀 There's limits to Pymary, and the Khert is here to direct against the impossible! With the First Language, wrights shape Aspects with the Khert. But if something goes wrong with it, it gets... weird.☕ UNSOUNDED ends funding on the 4th! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

I've added some more extra angsty Morphic drabbles! www.dragonflycave.com/update/08-24...

Here are the preliminary results of the Johto TImes Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025 (a thread) In total, a total of 582,516 votes were cast Every single Pokémon in our poll received votes, not a single one was overlooked! Here are the top ten Pokémon, and their votes:

The Kickstarter was fully funded before I even got to it, but here's your regularly scheduled reminder that I love this very good fantasy webcomic featuring rich worldbuilding, actually interesting fantasy politics, nuanced characters, and bits that make me cry, and you should back it.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Johto Times now has a website! We've been working very hard behind the scenes for the past few months getting this ready for its launch today. It contains everything we've done so far, and we will slowly transition over from our current home, to our permanent home More details:🧵

Brought to you by "someone reported a bug and now I must fix it and then Tinker at 1AM"

HALF A MILLION VOTES! Our poll has really blown our expectations out of the water. Thank you everyone! If you still haven't voted for your favourite Pokémon, there is still time! Voting ends on July 31st, 2025 Total votes so far: 502146

earlier today there was a group of 10 year olds on the train saying stuff to each other like "i am 31 years old" and "i just turned 34" and laughing harder and harder each time

Our poll has now reached over 300,000 votes! A huge thank you to everyone who have voted, and to communites such as @bulbagarden.net @bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net @pokecommunity.com @pokejungle.bsky.social and many others who have been helping this thrive! First round of voting closes July 31st, 2025

Pssst. Hey. Hey, gang. Surprise. The ICC Summer 2025 Kickstarter has been announced. And it's a DOOZY. www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

it's the 10 year anniversary of a very important study

Every time people complain about grinding in old-gen Pokémon, I'm like... okay but grinding is a choice you make. If you don't like it you can just not? If you are underleveled you can grind or you can try to win without it. Don't choose to grind and then complain about it, you know?

This gentleman has a strategy all laid out for optimizing Mew trick analysis for better visibility. Amazing! Where are they hiding all the other essays they’ve optimized about this specific video game glitch from 1996?

The Johto Times Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025 Vote for your six favourite Pokémon from each region The top ten from each will go through to the grand final Runs between now and July 31st, 2025 Grand final will take place this August! Please share this poll with everyone you know!

This poor person not only wants but *needs* a guest post on my website, which does not have “posts”, much less guest posts. A tragedy.

Johto Times has just reached 1000 subscribers! Thank you to every single one of you who subscribed since we first began, in February 2023. It really means a lot! johto.substack.com

As always, a reminder that there are many great Pokémon fansites out there. Some are more popular than others, so let's give those smaller communities some recognition and support too! Check out this Starter pack, and discover some additional accounts to follow! go.bsky.app/9ZYmKgz

Update: We now have a social media account! (Hi!) If you've never visited Nose Club before, why not peruse some of my artwork? noseclub.bluwiikoon.art/thebest.shtml #pokemonart #pokemonfanart #indieweb #neocities

Thank you to the folks over at Johto Times for doing this interview with me. It was a lot of fun!!

www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-21... Boring meta update: I've made a number of updates and improvements to the commenting feature on the site.

the article speaks to a phenomenon i have been watching with horror: our sources of information nowadays, being ad delivery platforms, have realized it's more effective to show us what we *want* to see (or more specifically, what drives us to engage more with that platform) rather than what *is*.

Johto Times is only 46 subscribers away from 1000! It has been a slow climb but I am thankful for each and every person who takes the time to read! If you haven't already, please consider helping us reach a step closer to that huge milestone (but only if you genuinely want to): johto.substack.com

Hope you all enjoyed this year's April Fools' Day joke! I've now added a writeup to the joke archive, while the 131,500 words of new content will remain accessible (though off the menu). www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-02...

Whoops, guess I didn't repost this yet

I was interviewed for this week's As the Pokéball Turns podcast... and also for a speculative fiction podcast coincidentally also released today, Synthesized Sunsets! open.substack.com/pub/synthesi...

New page on the site about the Stadium 2 move reminder! There's some never-before-seen trivia in here since I took it upon myself to datamine Stadium 2's learnset data. Sorry for inactivity, I started college in January and it's been kicking my butt a little bit. bluemoonfalls.com/pages/genera...

TCoD's Bluesky account is now at @dragonflycave.com as it should have been from the start (I set it up in a rush and then didn't get around to doing this until now), and this personal has also been punted to the domain, since I have it.

Spent a while on this one - hope you all enjoy it!

If you were a Pokémon fan that grew up using the internet in 1999 or 2000, or even in the playground, you almost certainly encountered PokéGod rumours. Here's a feature I wrote last year highlighting them, and their place in the fandom's history. johto.substack.com/p/the-pokegods

There are tons of Pokémon fansites and communities on Bluesky! Please consider following them! We've just added @pokeguardian.bsky.social to the list, a fan site dedicated to the Pokemon Trading Card Game, run independently by enthusiasts of the game go.bsky.app/9ZYmKgz

I made a joke post on Discord a couple of days ago about how the Pokémon Day announcement could be the mainline competitive battle system is now a battle simulator, Game Freak is exclusively working on Legends games, and new gens will be introduced in Café ReMix. Two out of three

Doing some emulator experiments with the long-range trainer glitch (a.k.a. the Mew trick) for the article I'm doing on TCoD and I never noticed before that for the same reason you can escape from long-range trainers, you can walk an extra step towards them if you hold the direction you're walking.

New page on Nose Club! An interactive Bug Catcher simulator. noseclub.bluwiikoon.art/bugcatchersi... You may have also missed the Pokemon Rumour Generator, which mad-libs new, 100% original Pokemon playground rumours for your amusement. noseclub.bluwiikoon.art/rumourgen.sh... #indieweb #neocities

Skeet in the wild independently reinventing TCoD’s Kinds of Content section

If you like Pokémon and hate cancer, boy do we have a charity Twitch stream for you! www.twitch.tv/bulbagarden

Johto Times is now two years old! On February 6th, 2023, I published the first newsletter, introducing Johto Times to the world! Thank you to everyone who has read it, subscribed to it, and interested with us! I am super proud of everything that has been achieved so far!

Incidentally, if you enjoyed Morphic, I posted the first chapter of the rewrite on Thousand Roads the other day - no promises on when more chapters will be ready for posting, but it's there if you'd like to read it. forums.thousandroads.net/threads/morp...

I have learned from this poll that my starter opinions are controversial. (Cyndaquil, Mudkip and Fuecoco are some of my least favorite starters, Chespin is adorable what are you talking about)

www.dragonflycave.com/update/01-01... The annual New Year's update is up, with some thanks.

The leaked prerender scene featuring a trans story line that Disney/Pixar removed from their new show Win or Lose. (sped up a bit to meet the upload limit)

A couple more digital paintings based on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

I wonder why companies like Apple and Microsoft so insistently offer only “Set up now” and “Set up later” options for unwanted AI features and such. Surely I’m not alone in feeling primal rage whenever these are my only options? Just give me a “No thanks” button like you used to.

If you haven’t been following Dogasu’s detailed breakdowns and debunkings of longstanding rumours about the Pokémon franchise, you’re missing out.

This is the Creepy Guy of the Heynesbók manuscript (16th-century book of law). Mention him to any of the thou.. hund.. tens of people who've leafed through Heynesbók and they will know who you mean.

I've gone through some error reports and made various fixes, as well as added a link to the Bluesky account (hi!). www.dragonflycave.com/update/11-28...

Bit more digital painting from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

After 13 years since the original device's debut in the now-defunct Pokémon Center New York store, distribute the event Pokémon from the "Gotta catch 'em all! Station" to your generation 2 games with BMF's recreated version of the machine, all in your browser! ✨ bluemoonfalls.com/pages/tools/...