On this day in 2015, Bill and I began a blog to catalog every pokémon registered to the National Dex in Bill’s (often unfortunately chosen) words. Since then, we’ve gained quite a few followers and evolved into an advice blog in the process, and for that, we thank all of you. It’s incredibly fun to connect with all of you and to answer your questions, although we do apologize for how long it’s taken for us to clear our backlog.

With that in mind, though, partly in celebration of our two-year anniversary and partly to do exactly that (that is, clear our backlog), we will be answering as many questions as we possibly can today. The queue has been temporarily set to post fifty times between 1 am and 11 pm, and we hope to have that many questions stocked up for your enjoyment.

Thank you again for two wonderful years, and we hope you enjoy the ensuing avalanche of questions!

You know, Lanette, there are better ways of keeping me occupied on my birthday than this. —Bill

Let’s be honest with each other, Bill. What would you have done if I hadn’t asked you to clear the backlog? —LH

Important things! Things I can’t quite think of at the moment that certainly do not have anything to do with holing myself up in my laboratory and attempting to remix “Feel Good Inc.” using only rowlet cries. —Bill

Hello, readers!

It’s been quite a while, and we thank you kindly for your patience.

In honor of Halloween (and to clear as many asks as possible from our drafts folder), we’ve decided to post 24+ of the most interesting asks concerning dark- or ghost-type pokémon we’ve yet to answer as a bit of a treat for bearing with us so far.

That’s a full day of dark- and ghost-type asks, so be sure to check our archive if you’ve missed any!

Thank you, and happy Halloween!

—LH

It has come to our attention recently that in the time we’ve been on hiatus, we’ve forgotten to change our description and about page to indicate clearly that our askbox is temporarily closed. Terribly sorry for this! However, yes, because Bill is dealing with other duties in addition to a backlog of asks consisting of over 200 questions (well, over 180 at the moment) dating back to the beginning of summer, we’ve been on hiatus until he can get the backlog under control.

Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience and confusion!

—LH

To our readers:

Bill has been unfortunately distracted by work and thus has only been able to answer asks and place them in queue. Consequently, this has resulted in a backlog of over 200 asks, dating back to June. To help alleviate this backlog, we have closed the ask box for now, and we hope to reopen it when Bill has addressed enough asks to bring that number down to a more manageable amount.

Additionally, please note that if Bill doesn’t answer right away, it’s likely either because of a backlog or simply because of other duties. We apologize for not responding in a timely manner (as well as the inconvenience of closing the ask box for the moment), but we also ask that you do not send asks repeatedly.

Finally, while you’re waiting for the ask box to reopen, be sure to look through our tags. There may be a chance that your issue bears a lot of similarities to an issue another person has faced, so you may find other responses helpful to your situation.

Thank you for your patience, and apologies again for the inconvenience!

— LH