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Spooky scary skeletons

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Until Halloween, there'll be a bit of decor on the entire site. Afterwards, it will crawl back to my mildly updated Halloween in Belgium page. So, until November, Coby has been drafted in the Skeleton War.

I made a new little page to write out all my thoughts and recollections on Pokémon. After my previous article's section on flippos, I've worked on cataloging as much information as possible about these trinkets on Bulbapedia. That ultimately led to me starting to trawl through many childhood magazines (and their foreign counterparts), on the hunts for ads. Ads make for great primary resources on ephemeral merchandise! I ultimately ended up contributing quite a bit more to Bulbapedia than I had expected, leading me to reconnect with the Pokémon franchise for a bit.

Along the way, I also started setting ads for different franchises apart. The ones for my beloved Bionicle I have forwarded to the BioMedia Project, where they'll eventually be collected on a section dedicated to magazine ads. Anybody know where I can deposit Digimon ads?

I finished Primal Hunter's available material, so I've moved on to Defiance of the Fall. It hasn't hooked me as much so far, and I don't know if I will keep reading. We'll see.

To get my pretty minor Halloween theme up and running, I actually had to combine and streamline my various stylesheets. Hopefully, the site should load a teeny tiny bit more smoothly. It's also possible that here and there something doesn't quite look like it should look anymore.

I've expanded my LEGO page a bit as well, and moved it to the About section since it's less of an informative article and more me reminiscing about things from my childhood. Between this and the Pokémon page, I've needed to redesign my About page a bit. I've also added tooltips to make the page a bit clearer for people who aren't blind.

Finally, a different sort of music recommendation than what I tend towards. Samphonique Volume 1, by Dutch composer Sam Vlas, is a soundtrack to a theme park or movie that doesn't exist.