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3DS FC: 2896-1018-0581 (☆a☆)
SW: 3799-3686-0675 (Arrow.iKA)
If you'd like to get in touch for whatever reason, feel free to sign my guestbook or email me at icirruscity@pm.me.
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30s, Chinese-American, she/her/any
Ball, Trick, & Pokémon Master
Hi, you can call me Arrow! I've been a fan of Pokémon since 1998, even though I played my first game five years later in 2003. I watched the anime first, and then I watched my friends play Red, Yellow, and Crystal, before I got my hands on my own game. That's probably why I like watching streamers now.
My favorite parts about Pokémon have always focused on collection and completion, as well as my enjoyment of the stories, characters, aesthetics, and species themselves. My brother got into Pokémon the year I started playing; now, he's into battling and the competitive scene, so I've osmosed some knowledge there by sheer exposure. But sometimes I watch Showdown matches in my own time, as well as other challenges fans like to play, such as speedruns and Nuzlockes. I love game theory just as much as I love little guys, and Pokémon manages to hit both spots for me.
Aside from the main games and anime, I like engaging with Pokémon in every way I can: I joined a Pokémon club at my second university, my brother and I used to rent Pokémon Stadium from our public library, and I'm a big fan of the manga, Pokémon Special. Well, the Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn arcs, anyway; I haven't kept up since Sinnoh. I might catch up one day. We'll see.
I'm actually not really a gamer; I don't even consider Pokémon my favorite game, and I don't think I'm technically good at it, particularly since I don't have the patience. But I like fantasy creatures, especially when there's a fundamental aspect of picking my favorite(s). And, in general, I'm a completionist. I love catching and collecting Pokémon the most, which, in my opinion, is more of a core function than battling. So I enjoy the games as much as all the competitive players I like to follow.
Though I don't watch much anime, I've seen all the anime episodes from Kanto through Hoenn, thanks to my family's early subscription to pre-streaming Netflix's DVD-renting business model. I have played some other Pokémon series here and there: Pokémon Ranger, which was my brother's game; the Mystery Dungeon personality quiz (I'm Riolu); and PokéDoku every once in a while. But even when I'm not playing a Pokémon game, it's still a constant in my life, from the plushies I own to the YouTube videos I watch. I'm usually thinking about Pokémon more often than not in some way, and I'm relentlessly optimistic in the face of negativity and cynicism. I like to pretend I know more than I do sometimes, but I also like seeing a Pokémon and going, "hey, I like that guy!" Or watching someone else do the same.
My life since 2004 has just been me going "Pokémon!!!!!!" as often as I can, even now, over 20 years later. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Site Launch: 5 February 2017
Domain Launch: 4 March 2018
Masterball / icirr.us (both are correct) is an ongoing personal project and creative archive. It gets updated when I feel the drive or need to, as long as my love affair with the Pokémon franchise persists. Pokémon is the piece of media that I've loved for the longest time, and I continue to be extremely invested in it with the same — or even more — intensity and passion as I did when I was a child.
In the same way, my love for architectural design comes through my interest in coding and websites. In particular, I've always been enamored by websites that feel like more an experience than a webpage, created with style and intent so intrinsically tied to the content that you had no choice but to know it had been done on purpose. This project is my attempt to emulate that, these things I love creatively, for myself and through this franchise I also love without abandon.
If you've made it this far, thanks for visiting! I love sharing this passion project with others, especially in the hopes of them making websites for themselves as well.
Pokémon © GameFreak, Nintendo, & the Pokémon Company. No copyright infringement intended.
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3DS FC: 2896-1018-0581 (☆a☆)
SW: 3799-3686-0675 (Arrow.iKA)
If you'd like to get in touch for whatever reason, feel free to sign my guestbook or email me at icirruscity@pm.me.
30s, Chinese-American, she/her/any
Ball, Trick, & Pokémon Master
Hi, you can call me Arrow! I've been a fan of Pokémon since 1998, even though I played my first game five years later in 2003. I watched the anime first, and then I watched my friends play Red, Yellow, and Crystal, before I got my hands on my own game. That's probably why I like watching streamers now.
My favorite parts about Pokémon have always focused on collection and completion, as well as my enjoyment of the stories, characters, aesthetics, and species themselves. My brother got into Pokémon the year I started playing; now, he's into battling and the competitive scene, so I've osmosed some knowledge there by sheer exposure. But sometimes I watch Showdown matches in my own time, as well as other challenges fans like to play, such as speedruns and Nuzlockes. I love game theory just as much as I love little guys, and Pokémon manages to hit both spots for me.
Aside from the main games and anime, I like engaging with Pokémon in every way I can: I joined a Pokémon club at my second university, my brother and I used to rent Pokémon Stadium from our public library, and I'm a big fan of the manga, Pokémon Special. Well, the Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn arcs, anyway; I haven't kept up since Sinnoh. I might catch up one day. We'll see.
I'm actually not really a gamer; I don't even consider Pokémon my favorite game, and I don't think I'm technically good at it, particularly since I don't have the patience. But I like fantasy creatures, especially when there's a fundamental aspect of picking my favorite(s). And, in general, I'm a completionist. I love catching and collecting Pokémon the most, which, in my opinion, is more of a core function than battling. So I enjoy the games as much as all the competitive players I like to follow.
Though I don't watch much anime, I've seen all the anime episodes from Kanto through Hoenn, thanks to my family's early subscription to pre-streaming Netflix's DVD-renting business model. I have played some other Pokémon series here and there: Pokémon Ranger, which was my brother's game; the Mystery Dungeon personality quiz (I'm Riolu); and PokéDoku every once in a while. But even when I'm not playing a Pokémon game, it's still a constant in my life, from the plushies I own to the YouTube videos I watch. I'm usually thinking about Pokémon more often than not in some way, and I'm relentlessly optimistic in the face of negativity and cynicism. I like to pretend I know more than I do sometimes, but I also like seeing a Pokémon and going, "hey, I like that guy!" Or watching someone else do the same.
My life since 2004 has just been me going "Pokémon!!!!!!" as often as I can, even now, over 20 years later. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Site Launch: 5 February 2017
Domain Launch: 4 March 2018
Masterball / icirr.us (both are correct) is an ongoing personal project and creative archive. It gets updated when I feel the drive or need to, as long as my love affair with the Pokémon franchise persists. Pokémon is the piece of media that I've loved for the longest time, and I continue to be extremely invested in it with the same — or even more — intensity and passion as I did when I was a child.
In the same way, my love for architectural design comes through my interest in coding and websites. In particular, I've always been enamored by websites that feel like more an experience than a webpage, created with style and intent so intrinsically tied to the content that you had no choice but to know it had been done on purpose. This project is my attempt to emulate that, these things I love creatively, for myself and through this franchise I also love without abandon.
If you've made it this far, thanks for visiting! I love sharing this passion project with others, especially in the hopes of them making websites for themselves as well.
Pokémon © GameFreak, Nintendo, & the Pokémon Company. No copyright infringement intended.
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