Since I want to keep my Pokémon screenshot download links active, I'm copying them over from my Pokémon Time Tumblr and posting them here! I might re-post the links to pokemon at some point too. I think a lot of people there will find them useful :)

Notes
- Indigo League screenshots are in .jpg format and the screenshots are re-sized until "Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden". After that they're left at the size I capped them at. The ones that are re-sized will be re-done one day, but probably not anytime soon.
- Orange League onwards are in the .PNG format, so the file size for each screenshot download is usually between 100MB - 200MB.
- All links are on Mediafire. I sadly won't be uploading these to any other hosting service.
- Screenshots can be used however you wish. Credit isn't necessary, but appreciated. As long as you don't take the credit for capping them, all is fine :) If you do wish to give a credit, please link to Pokémon Time.

I'll sticky this entry eventually at the top of my journal. If any links are dead, ask for a re-upload in the comments :)

( Pokémon Screenshot Downloads )

So I decided to take a little trip to Meadowhall and Sheffield today since I needed to get some stuff for a couple of birthdays coming up. I went looking for new ponies too, but sadly there weren't any, the Entertainer had the blindbags though! There's a Sheffield Brony meet next Saturday (Not sure if I'm going to that yet or not) and I'm sure they'll be all over those XD

I'd read on Thornberry Animal Sanctuary's facebook that they were doing a collection at the Lush store in Sheffield today and since I needed to go there for a present anyway, I decided to stop by. They had a ferret named Horace with them and after seeing so many adorable pictures of ferrets on my f-list, I just had to get some ferret cuddles from him! XD He was an absolute sweetheart and loved all the attention he was getting!
It was lovely to talk to the lady from Thornberry who was with him and the Lush staff too, they were all so nice :)



The instant he went into this lady's arms, he curled up and went to sleep XD
Oh gosh, if I ever get my own place, I'm getting a ferret!

I also managed to get 11 streetpass hits today! The most I've gotten in one day!!

For the past few weeks, I've been following the facebook account of Thornberry Animal Sanctuary.

I did my school work experience here back in 1998 when I was 15. I mostly worked in the cattery for the entire week, even though I had the option to also work elsewhere, like in the kennels, but I remember loving the cattery so much. I remember some of the individual cats that were there at the time. There was one named "Hudson" I think and each time I cleaned the pen he was in, he jumped on my back XD It surprised me the first time, but after that I just let him do that for a few minutes, it was quite funny.
There was a kitten named Rolo, who was actually the first cat that I met when I started on the first day. He was too young to be adopted out at the time and sadly I believe the rest of his litter got sick and died, I think. During the week, Rolo got sick with the same thing, but thankfully he pulled through and even got an adoption secured for him too for when he was old enough to be adopted out.
There was also "Lorry", a three-legged tabby cat that I really grew attached to in that week, I remember begging my parents if we could adopt Lorry, but of course they said no, which probably was for the best considering my allergy that I developed a year later. I really hope Lorry got a lovely home.

Anyways, the sanctuary seems to be in a bit of a financial bind at the moment. They SOULY run off fund-raising and donations so I thought I'd try and spread the word a little for them in the hopes that people can donate, or help me to spread the word. I've posted about it on my Twitter and my Tumblr (Choco-Orange-Arts one because I have the most followers on that account) so if any of you can re-tweet/re-blog, that'd be great :)

If anyone wishes to make a donation to them, they accept paypal which is on their website: http://www.thornberry-animal-sanctuary.org/

I had a little mix around with my Tumblr's!

http://choco-orange-arts.tumblr.com/ - This used to be my personal one. The original "PDUTogepi" one which I have since renamed. So if you followed that one, this is the one you'll still be following. This is strictly a Tumblr for my Art and Photography now.

http://pdutogepi.tumblr.com/ - I reclaimed this Tumblr after I re-named my other one. This one will be for posting... everything else really. Re-blogs, random screenshots and musings, videos ect. will be posted in that one. I just didn't want to bog down my original Tumblr with stuff like that since I wanted to keep it mostly for art and stuff.

http://pokemontime.tumblr.com/ - Stays the same and isn't effected by any of this. I love running this Tumblr and I'm already up to Master Quest! Currently posting pictures from the Pudgy Pidgey episode :D

I did have screenshot Tumblrs specifically for MLP:FiM and Yugioh too, but they won't be updated anymore. Any screenshots I wish to post from those shows will now be posted on the PDUTogepi account. Less restrictive that way!

Other than that, I've started work on my exchange for poke_arts. Just wish my Tablet wasn't being such a pain. I think the drivers for it need updating, because ever since I installed XP Service Pack 3 every so often the computer will complain that the Tablet failed to work. I was, and still am, wanting to get a new updated tablet anyway. Maybe I'll get the one I want sometime around my birthday.

So, I was just randomly hatching Snivy's on my Black game, mostly just to collect some females for trade over the GTS, when on the 4th egg, BAM! Shiny Snivy! XD
I was using the Masuda Method, as I do with almost all Pokémon I breed, just in case I ever got lucky and today I apparently got lucky! It's the first shiny I've hatched that wasn't RNG'd XD It's also my 4th B/W shiny (As a friend of mine gave me her shiny Joltik and Shiny Klink that she randomly encountered on her game, plus I got the shiny Golurk event.)

Now to find him a suitable name!

EDIT: Decided to name him "Sherwood", after Sherwood Forest.

TIME TO SPAZZ ABOUT DIGIMON AGAIN OMG

( So many spoilers, but so much awesome!! )

omgomgomg I haven't been this excited over DIGIMON in FOREVER.

( There be spoilers in here )

Huh, apparently I have an "omg this is epic" tag, that I only ever used once, for Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episode 179.
I should use this tag more for epic things.

So slowly but surely I'm trying to upload my photos from conventions, days out and various other things up onto my website. I've had the damn thing for nearly a year and it's still very much "under construction". I want to aim to try and get it up to scratch by May MCM Expo so that when I take someone's picture, I can give them a card and go "Hey, your picture will be there!", which will help in the cosplayers getting their photos and also give me a bit more interaction with people at the convention, rather than just awkwardly asking for a photo then disappearing.

I also need to put content on the first page and also fill out the "About" section. At some point. XD

I ended up getting a new lens for my camera this week. It's a telephoto lens and kind of the next step up from the lens my camera came with. Where the lens my camera came with has a 18-55mm zoom on it, the new one has a 55-250mm zoom, which I'm hoping will be much better for both wildlife/animal photos and possibly for photos during masquerades. I just have to be super careful with this new lens. I got it from Amazon.co.uk, that were fulfilling the order on behalf of another company (So the company pays Amazon to ship for them) the lens is perfectly fine, but the warranty for it was only valid in Japan :| I guess they imported it? I have no idea. I'm impressed with the zoom on it though! I was able to get a clear, close shot of the mangas on my bookshelf from across the other side of my bedroom.
Maybe it's not the kind of kit a super professional would use, but I'm still only doing this for a hobby and right now what I have is perfect. It's just learning the functions of the camera more in the manual modes.

I'm thinking, if I REALLY still have no clue by the middle of this year as to what I want to do, I may just take a digital photography course and see where that takes me. I have to stop thinking an epiphany is gonna hit me in deciding what I want to do with my life and just TRY things.

Though, despite being able to now work buses and that i am now free to visit the two local wildlife parks on my own, I still feel restricted in other areas, namely going to the more rural areas. I don't JUST want to take photos in wildlife parks, but of wildlife in...we...the wild, plus nice landscape areas. It's only because of the issue with my parents, especially my dad, being not very supportive of it. I haven't even mentioned the canal walk I want to do to them since I last brought it up, but of course my dad brought it up after I went to the Butterfly House, saying how HE was happy for me to go to those places on my own but not to places like the canal.
I'm having a birthday walk up at the Ladybower and Derwent dams in early May and he's happy for me to go to that because I'll be with friends, but I might not always have the option to have a friend with me when I want to go to such places.

I want to go to Clumber Park this year too. Again, I'm sure my dad would hate the idea of me going on my own, even if the actual park itself is probably fine as it's usually popular with walkers, cyclists and dog-walkers. Maybe I'll ask Tony and Caroline if they want to have a day out there one day in the summer.
I actually want to find a part of the lake my dad used to take me too. I think it was near the end of the lake and it had a piece of land in the middle which had a TON of herons on it. I know he used to take me more to that part of the lake rather than the main touristy part because it rarely had an attendant on going that way, so we avoided having to pay to get in :D;

Urgh, anyways, I'm rambling and I need to sleep since I have to be up early tomorrow.
Gonna be a long day tomorrow.
Infact it's going to be a very long weekend ;o; Gotta slog through work the best I caaaan, blah.

http://www.choco-orange.co.uk/photo-tbhfeb2012.htm

Pictures from my visit to the Tropical Butterfly House :) Now to sleep!