Top Ten Favorite Gen. 1 Pokemon

Good morning bones, ghouls and mundane friends,

Welcome back to My Gothic Mind. I am your host, Nightmare: the Prince of Phobias. I love Pokémon, and I haven't played a Pokémon game in forever and that depresses me, but something I have been really into lately is Pokémon Fusions. That will be its own list, but for now we'll just go through ten of my favorite Pokémon and why they are my favorite. Let get started!

10. Fearow: Remember the show and original game? When you'd evolve your Spearow and it would evolve into that massive bird, thing? Yeah. Fearow was just something I would love to just have on my shoulders or just walking behind me, because I love to freak people out. I'm strange I know, but seriously, Fearow. Massive bird. Amazing.

9. Vileplume: This Pokemon is at number nine, because it was just adorable to me, even as a kid, and I always searched for a Gloom just to get it to evolve. I had an Odish, but for some reason it refused to evolve.

7. Kadabra/ Alakazam: I love Psychic-types, and these two were the ones that were just awesome to me, even as a kid. I remember watch the original show and Ash was in Saffron City (I believe that where they were, I can't remember at the moment) and he went to battle Sabrina and her Abra evolved into a Kadabra and just wrecked Pikachu sideways. And Alakazam is just powerful and amazing. Not just that, but their names are the words used in cheap magic tricks. Abra-Kadabra, or Alakazam. I'm surprised their isn't one named Open Sesame.

6. Rapidash: It's a freaking horse on fire. Dude, you'd look like a Ghost Rider if you rode that into battle or war, or something. But either way, I've had this small fascination with horses, Rapidash and Ponyta in particular. The thought of riding a flaming horse was always interesting to me.

5. Primeape: This thing is as fiery as I am, but nowhere near as controlled as I, kicking buttocks and doing whatever. The fact that he  just sucker punched Ash (even though he is my favorite character in all of cartoons) just made me laugh.

4. Golem: Golem looks like some kind of monster that would just ruin your entire day if you angered it, and I could never get one and that bothered me, because I love it. Yes, it's a favorite, because it looks like it would wreck anyone.

3. Marowak: The Pokedex entry for this and pre-evolution were just dark to me and I just love the bone mask, and bone weaponry.

2. Haunter/ Gengar: My all time favorite type will always and forever be Ghost. And you'll never get ghostlier than these two. Haunter is the epitome of haunting and all things creepy. Gengar will hide as your shadow and steal your freaking soul! I love that!

1. Dragonair: There is only one type that I love more than ghost and that is dragon. Dragonair is majestic and beautiful, and just extremely dangerous. Wow, I just want a butt ton of Dratini eggs, just to evolve them into Dragonairs...if anything I'd only have only one Dragonite.

Notes From the Nerd's Notebook: Super Power Breakdown: Death Whisper

Good evening bones, ghouls, and mundane friends,

Welcome back to My Gothic Mind. I am your host, Nightmare, and for today's Super Power Breakdown we'll talk about a power possessed by the Angel of Death, banshees and other harbingers of death.

Users of the Death Whisper power are able to connect to a sort of supernatural network, which broadcasts messages about the dead or the dying. This gives them the ability to hear the voices of the dead, though this power shouldn't be confused for mediumship, which is the power to have a two-way conversation with the spirits of previously dead or newly dead. Despite not being able to voice their opinions to the dead, they can obtain advice from the dead, as well as sense and/or predict the death of a living person. The death whisper ability is often associated with communing, mediumship (as the user is granted the power to hear the voices of the deceased), and supernatural senses.

As with almost all powers, there are a few limitations. For this particular power, the user may not be able to control their ability and may not be able to switch it off. Doctors may endow them with some kind of mental disability as a result of being able to hear voices. Unfortunately, not all spirits aren't benevolent, and the deceased or even malevolent spirits may give false advice. And last but not least, although the user has the ability to listen to the dead, they have no way of openly communicating with them.

Page From the Geek's Guide: Ten Fictional Characters I'd Love To Be

Good afternoon bones, ghouls and mundane friends,

I am your host for today, Nightmare, and welcome back to Nerd's Notebook. The first of today's posts is based solely around fiction. I, personally, am very deeply integrated into fiction, not only as an aspiring author, but also as an avid and obsessive reader; be that fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal, horror, romance, et cetera. Having said this, let us get started. In no particular order we have:

1. Cpt. Richard Ravager III (TFS Plays Fallout 4): A video game character? Yes, I am addicted to video games; good luck getting me to sell my Xbox. Hilariously, I just like the way Team Four Star goes through their playthrough of Fallout 4 as the boss Captain. Oh, and by the way, it's pronounced rav-uh-jay.

2. Dumplstiltskin (TFS Plays Bloodbourne): Simply put, yes it's another video character, but with Team Four Star at the controller, semi-drunkenly passing it between each other, the adventure always takes an often hilarious turn.

3. Amanda Ripley (Alien Isolation): A girl? Yep. That's video game character? Yes, and let me tell you why. Amanda, daughter of the movie's Ellen Ripley, is trapped aboard a space station and must use her skills as an engineer to survive the reign of terror of the Alien, the emotionless, soulless androids, and the insane human survivors. Seriously, she's just really freaking cool in general.

4. The Cullens (Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga): Seriously, Nightmare; a bunch of sparkling vampires? Um, hell yes!! I am the biggest Twilight fan ever; I've read the books at least ten times each (in order) and I've watched all of the movies, though they're not as amazing as the books. I would love to be a vampire already, but to be a vampire with bonus powers? Come on! What isn't to love? Not only that but the story is amazing, the plot is addicting, and the characters are just so...God, I just love these books!

5. Isaac Clarke (Dead Space Trilogy): Seriously, stop with the video game characters. How about, no. Isaac is forced to fight endless hordes of the dead and undead, known as Necromorphs, across the entire trilogy, and I find that amazing. Granted the deaths are gory, but hey, if I don't die, then I have nothing to worry about...right?

6. Christian Grey (E. L James' Fifty Shades of Grey): Um...seriously. Deathly serious. I love Fifty Shades, despite refusing to read the book originally. Filthy, stinking, disgustingly rich, and a room for a sexual fetish that I actually share, though to a mush lesser extent.

7. Percy Jackson (Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus): I love mythology as a whole, though I've done most research of the Greco-Roman, Egyptian and Norse mythologies. Originally, I was only a fan of Greek mythology, and upon reading the books in the series as they came out, I found myself wishing more and more that my deadbeat dad really was some kind of mythological God...no such luck.

8. Magnus Chase (Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard): Again, the wish of being a demi-god. I am pretty heavy into Norse mythology at the moment, since I'm more or less an unofficial expert on the Greek mythology.

9. Golden Freddy/ Nightmare Fredbear or Nightmare (Five Night's at Freddy's Franchise): I love everything about this franchise! Enough said.

10. A Shadowhunter (Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments Series): They live to kill demons, the damned and the unholy, as well as protect "the mundane" in service of the Angel, Raziel. Seriously, what an honorable way to live, but it would be great to die fighting a horde of the damned. It's kind of how I pictured my death in any case.

Notes From the Nerd's Notebook: Super Power Breakdown: Lunar Manipulation

The power that is opposite to Solar Manipulation, the users of Lunar Manipulation can create, shape, and manipulate all aspects of a moon, including the gravity and it's overall effect on the planet as a whole, as well as its reflective surface, time-keeping, et cetera, and utilize its lunar energy. The moon's gravitational pull strongly influences the ocean tides, and the minute lengthening of the day. With the moon being the center of the users power, they may develop some sub-powers, which may include Lunakinetic Combat, Lunaportation, Lunar Healing, and even Moon Blocking. Since the moon and the Lunar Cycle are associated with emotions, lunacy, dreams and the subconscious mind, female fertility, blood, illusions, transformation, intuitions and repeating cycles, there are also powers that go in hand with knowing this ability; Blood Manipulation, Cycle Manipulation, Emotion/ Mental Manipulation, Fertility Inducement, Illusion Awareness/ Manipulation and et cetera, including Shapeshifting, and Transmutation.

As a result of having this power, training would cause users to develop more powers to compliment their primary ability. So powers that include Dust Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation as it relates to ocean and water in general, Light Manipulation without the colors, because the moon's light usually only has variations of grey-white, Lunar Attacks, Lunar Constructs, Lunar Empowerment, Lunar Energy Manipulation, Reflection Manipulation, Time Manipulation, and Temporal Cognition.

Like the elements, even the moon manipulation powers have different variations; Dark Moon Manipulation, Esoteric Moon Manipulation, Lunar Embodiment, and Pure Moon Manipulation. Not only that, but this power ties into others, like Eternal Night Inducement, Darkness Manipulation, Lunar Mind, Magic, Vacuum Adaptation, and Ice Manipulation, since the moon has deposits of ice.

As with all powers, this one has a few limitations. For example, the availability of the users powers may depend or even be tied to the lunar cycle. So the peak of the users abilities may be active during the full moon, and they might even be powerless during the New Moon. Even during the special moons, such as The Blue Moon, or Blood Moon, the users powers may be supercharged to the point of reaching levels of transcendence. Another limitation depends on the distance, mass, precision and et cetera highly depend on the user's knowledge, skill, strength and the natural limits of the powers.

Exploring the Norse Mythology: Ragnorok;The End of All Things

The term Ragnarok in old Norse translates into "Fate of the Gods". Ragnarok is a series of future events, including the greatest of all battles, foretold. This great war will ultimately result in the deaths in a number of major figures in the Norse mythology, including Odin, Thor, Loki, Heimdallr, Tyr, and Freyr. It will be the occurrence of various natural disasters and the submersion of the world in water.

The first sign of the coming of Ragnarok will be Fimbulvetr, during which time there will be three winters without the reprieve of summer, and the sun's heat will be rendered useless. Three roosters will crow. A crimson rooster, named Fjalar will crow in the forest of Galgvidr. The golden rooster, Gullinkambi, will crow to the aesir in Valhalla, and finally an unnamed soot-red rooster will crow in the underworld location of Hel. The hound of Hel, Garmr, will growl deeply in the caves of Gnipahellir.

Heimdallr will raise the mighty Gjallahorn and blow deeply into it. The bindings on Garmr, described as the worst of all beasts, will break and he will run free and enter battle with the one-handed war god, Tyr, thus resulting in both of their deaths. The world tree, Yggdrasil will shudder and groan. The Midgard Serpent, Jormungandr, will writhe furiously thus causing waves to crash. These waves will free the ship of Death, Naglfar and it will set sail from the East. Surtr of the fire giants will advance from the South, with his sword blazing brighter than the sun. Loki, father of Jormungandr and Fenrir, will break free at the onset of Ragnarok.

Fenrir, the great wolf and spawn of Ragnarok, will swallow Odin. Immediately afterwards, Odin's son, Vidarr will put on the greatest boot, grip Fenrir's upper jaw and kick his foot into his lower jaw and rip his mouth apart, killing him. The serpent, Jormungandr will open it's gaping maw and yawn widely into the air. the serpent is met in combat by Thor. Thor, also a son of Odin and is described as the protector of Midgard, furiously fights Jormungandr, defeating it. However, Thor is only able to take nine steps before collapsing, succumbing to it's deadly venom. Freyr fiercely fights with Surtr but falls in battle because he lacks the sword he once gave to his messenger. Heimdallr and Loki fight each other with a berserker's ferocity, but die to one another.