The Cave of Dragonflies
@dragonflycave.com
Official Bluesky account for The Cave of Dragonflies, a Pokémon website featuring game mechanics, catch rate calculators, personality tests, movie reviews, articles, fanfiction and more. Owned by @antialiasis.dragonflycave.com.
I've added a fun new article about the battle mechanics of the Pokéwalker. Includes a calculator and fun visualizations! www.dragonflycave.com/update/07-07...
07/07/26: Pokéwalker Battle Mechanics
So the other day Altissimo asked me about confirming some mechanics in the disassembly of the HG/SS Pokéwalker accessory, and I was promptly...
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www.dragonflycave.com/update/05-04... The Favorite Pokémon Picker now has a default gender setting (2000% more of a headache than you think) and the options have been organized a bit.
05/04/26: Gendered Favorites
Just a bit more Favorite Pokémon Picker. After the last update, Torch commented suggesting the ability to choose whether to use male or female as...
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Two more Favorite Pokémon Picker options have been added: you can now include or exclude e.g. legendaries, and you can have forms count as the base Pokémon's generation. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-08...
04/08/26: Still More
And I'm not done! A couple more Favorite Pokémon Picker options have been added, since I'm on a roll. First, another very common feature request:...
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There is now an option to treat shinies as separate Pokémon in the Favorite Pokémon Picker. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-05...
04/05/26: Shiny Picking
How about that update streak, huh? The Favorite Pokémon Picker now has an option to include shiny Pokémon as separate Pokémon. This has been a...
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You can now exclude base Pokémon (non-forms) in the Favorite Pokémon Picker if desired. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-04...
04/04/26: More Picker Tweaking
It is now possible to include or exclude base Pokémon under the "Include forms" setting in the Favorite Pokémon Picker. This makes it possible to,...
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Since the Pokémon Home artwork is finally out, the new Z-A mega forms have now been added to the Favorite Pokémon Picker. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-03...
04/03/26: Z-A Favorites
Since Pokémon Home has finally added compatibility with Legends: Z-A and given us official artwork of both the normal and shiny versions of the...
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The writeup for this year's April Fools' Day joke is now up. www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-02...
04/02/26: April Fools once again
Glad you all enjoyed yesterday's April Fools' Day joke. I have now undone the style override and added a bit of a writeup on it to the April...
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Due to the many changes in my life recently, I have made a pivot towards a new niche going forward - mommy blogging 🥰🙏 www.dragonflycave.com/update/03-31...
I've updated my affiliation requirements for the first time in a long time. www.dragonflycave.com/update/03-14...
03/14/26: Affiliation Updates
A minor update: I have been making some tweaks and additions to the affiliation requirements. In particular: I now explicitly reserve the right to...
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Our second AMA is now live on the Johto Times Community Forum! This time around, our guest is Dragonfree from The Cave of Dragonflies! We look forward to your questions here: forum.johtotimes.com/d/180-ama-wi...
www.dragonflycave.com/update/12-09... TCoD's URLs are now a bit nicer and more consistent, and I accidentally rewrote a couple of guides (most importantly, the reviewing guide).
12/09/25: URLs and Guide Rewrites
Another kind of technical upgrade: something that has been bugging me for a little while now is that the site's URLs since I rewrote the backend...
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www.dragonflycave.com/update/11-20... The site is now finally running on Python 3 instead of 2.7. Ideally this means nothing you would notice, but I feel a lot better now.
11/20/25: Technical Upgrade
I've just done a long-overdue Python upgrade for the site, which also came with upgrading various libraries and so on. I believe I tested most...
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www.dragonflycave.com/update/11-12... I've made some smaller updates, most prominently to the Hangman and Number Game.
11/12/25: Game Refurbishments and Minor Things
I've made some smaller updates, some already pushed to the site at some point since the anniversary update: The Pokémon Hangman, a game of great...
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Random musings sparked by going through all my pages for the anniversary update:
www.dragonflycave.com/update/11-02... The Cave of Dragonflies is twenty-three years old today, and to celebrate I went and added some related pages to the bottom of every page within the layout - picked by hand for each one, because I am slightly mad.
11/02/25: Twenty-Three Years
Time for feasting and glee now that you're twenty-three. Happy birthday, dear website! You're so important to me. The Cave of Dragonflies is...
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I've made some fixes and adjustments to the capture calculators. www.dragonflycave.com/update/07-30...
07/30/25: Capture Calculator Fixes
I've made a couple of adjustments/fixes to the various capture calculators: Previously, there was a bug which meant if you had the "Show all"...
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www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-21... Boring meta update: I've made a number of updates and improvements to the commenting feature on the site.
04/21/25: Commenting Updates
The Mew trick essay got its 21st comment a couple of days ago (from TheScythe!), and this ended up prompting me to make a number of updates to the...
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Hope you all enjoyed this year's April Fools' Day joke! I've now added a writeup to the joke archive, while the 131,500 words of new content will remain accessible (though off the menu). www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-02...
04/02/25: Back to Normal
Hope you all enjoyed this year's April Fools' Day joke! I have now added a writeup to the joke archive and reset the changes back to normal – but...
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Today, The Cave of Dragonflies substantially expands its subject matter! www.dragonflycave.com/update/03-31...
03/31/25: Site Expansion
Welcome to the new, expanded Cave of Dragonflies! I've been thinking lately about how, well, Pokémon is still one of my passions, but so are many...
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And if you're interested, I was also interviewed for a second podcast released today, Synthesized Sunsets. The podcast is about speculative fiction, and that discussion centered more on Pokémon fandom and fanfic, but also touched upon the website a bit.
Dragonfree@antialiasis.dragonflycave.com · last yr.I was interviewed for this week's As the Pokéball Turns podcast... and also for a speculative fiction podcast coincidentally also released today, Synthesized Sunsets! open.substack.com/pub/synthesi...
🦋Join us as we interview the webmaster of @dragonflycave.com. 🐉 From her journey with Pokémon Yellow to building a fan site that’s lasted 25 years, this episode is a must-listen! 🎧Tune in now on your favorite podcast app or here: bit.ly/ATPT144 #MyPKMNStory #Pokemon
Just finally got around to setting up the site's Bluesky handle being the site's actual domain, which I should have done a while ago. Hope this doesn't break anything.
www.dragonflycave.com/essays/the-m... I have completely revamped the old Mew trick thought into a new 9000-word deep dive essay into the history, context and inner workings of a truly miraculous glitch.
When Rumours Come True: The Mew Trick
A deep dive on the Mew trick, its history, how it works, and why it circulated for close to eleven months if not more before it properly made waves in the Pokémon community.
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I've gone through some error reports and made various fixes, as well as added a link to the Bluesky account (hi!). www.dragonflycave.com/update/11-28...
11/28/24: Housekeeping
A fairly minor update today. The other day I made the site an account on Bluesky; this has now been added to the link menu under Support/Follow...
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Hello, Bluesky! Follow this account for updates to The Cave of Dragonflies. What sort of thing does this website contain? Here is an article about how I had a glitched Jolteon back in 2003 and how I found out exactly what was wrong with him two decades later. www.dragonflycave.com/kanto/my-gli...
My Glitched Jolteon
Part reminiscence, part game mechanics deep dive, about a harmlessly strange Jolteon deleted in 2003 and the effort to uncover what was going on with him two decades later.
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