Hi Hi! I'm Bowties, have you heard of this Pikachu fella?

Welcome my seasonal weekly series where I draw a Pokemon that I think is cool and then write about them, on DeviantArt I have been uploading the art under the name "Weekly Mons" but the block's name has always been, and hardly won't stop being, Pokemon Bowties Likes, though it feels weird to call it by its full name

This started as a channel in my personal Discord server, exclusive to the eyes of a few select friends, I got the idea to make it while going through the Fav Pokémon picker and having difficulty ranking past the top single digits! I thought of ranking by how much I could talk about them, which didn't serve as a helpful measurement, but the idea of just gushing about a Pokémon I like and maybe also general design things related them sounded very very fun

This started back in 2020, and after over 40 entries made through three waves I finally got around to making it more than just a channel in a private server, and I felt there was no better way than to have it be it's own little place hosted on neocities, making this sorta like a blog, sorta like a fandom shrine, I think

Navigation

Every entry made so far is listed in the right side bar from oldest to newest, on mobile it's crammed at the bottom of the screen, see the link on footer for easier navigation.

Home/about redirects to here :> 

If you want to leave any thoughts about any particular entry or something else in general, you can leave them in the guestbook found in Comment 

About Entries

When picking a mon with a evolutionary line or multiple forms, only one stage of that line gets picked for the art, while the entry talks about the line as a whole, I do, and already have, made exceptions, but thats exclusivelly for when I fell strong about that specific form/evolution stage

I don't particularly have any consistent structure behind writing a entry, I just write down as much as I can think of regarding the subject mon while keeping a cohesive flow for the reader. making for the vibe of like, hearing a casual conversation about the mon in question, tangents and jokes and all

But I do make a active effort to avoid the public opinion on a Pokémon be a major focus of a entry, but instead minimize it to small lighthearted remarks if not ignored entirely. This is especially true for mons whose public opinion is believed to be mostly negative, I don't want my thoughts to be framed as a defense of them or a "debunk" to complaints about the design, I didn't like these mons cause I wanted to spite anyone and I don't have any ill feelings towards someone who doesn't vibe with them nor am interested in changing anyone's mind (if that happens because of my entries it would be for organic reasons)

And lastly, for the sake of transparency, all the "first posted" dates are manually written, and dated after when they were first posted in the discord channel, this site only started existing on November 7th 2023 and porting of all the entries was finished in around November 9th-10th 2023

While I have edited these entries since, they are still mainly what I felt about a Pokémon that day, and even thought my opinion on them are still the same, the way I would've wrote about them would be different today