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.

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.