With this, we are pleased to announce that Bill has completed the Pokédex (as far as we’re aware, anyway, given how frequently new pokémon are discovered). We are proud of the work we’ve done so far, and we’d like to thank you for staying with us for these past months.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that the blog is closing down! In fact, we’re far from through with writing! However, at this point, Bill would like to take a short break before attempting to tackle the highly requested mega evolutions and Alolan forms. He’s planning on getting back to those in March, but in the meantime, he’ll be back to answering your asks soon.
(On that note, we would also like to apologize in the backlog of those. We know some of you have been waiting since December for that, but luckily, Bill will finally get to your questions soon! Thank you for your patience.)
This will be a bit of an unconventional post. You see, as my editor had alluded to earlier, we were planning on something rather special to thank you for helping us reach not only 500 followers but our one-year anniversary. While, yes, we are still in the midst of #AMA Month (which we will get back to shortly, I promise), we thought something more exciting and physical would be in order.
A giveaway. Bill is referring to a giveaway. —LH
…yes.
As I was about to say, as a thank you for quite literally everything, we’d like to host a giveaway. From now until January 1, followers can like or reblog this post to enter a drawing. The grand prize consists of a code for 100 poké balls as well as a collection of newly hatched/caught shiny eevee with an accompanying fire, thunder, and water stone set. (As of this writing, there are only three eevee to be claimed. This post will be updated if the mun is fortunate enough to catch or breed more.)
The rules are as follows:
1. This giveaway is a thank you for followers, so unfortunately, you must be following this blog to enter.
2. Only one reblog will count towards your entry, but you may like and reblog this post to double your chances.
3. The giveaway will close at 11:59 PM EST on January 1. We’ll announce and contact the winner on January 2, so please keep watch on your chats for an incoming message then.
If you have any questions about the giveaway, please don’t hesitate to send us a message. Otherwise, best of luck, and thank you again for our first year!
Don’t forget—this is the last day one can enter the giveaway by liking or reblogging this post!
As an incentive, here are the eevee up for trade. (All three are renamable if the winner so chooses, of course.)
The giveaway has just concluded, and the winner has been drawn! Congratulations to @thecycleking, and thanks to everyone for participating and for following us for the past year!
This will be a bit of an unconventional post. You see, as my editor had alluded to earlier, we were planning on something rather special to thank you for helping us reach not only 500 followers but our one-year anniversary. While, yes, we are still in the midst of #AMA Month (which we will get back to shortly, I promise), we thought something more exciting and physical would be in order.
A giveaway. Bill is referring to a giveaway. —LH
…yes.
As I was about to say, as a thank you for quite literally everything, we’d like to host a giveaway. From now until January 1, followers can like or reblog this post to enter a drawing. The grand prize consists of a code for 100 poké balls as well as a collection of newly hatched/caught shiny eevee with an accompanying fire, thunder, and water stone set. (As of this writing, there are only three eevee to be claimed. This post will be updated if the mun is fortunate enough to catch or breed more.)
The rules are as follows:
1. This giveaway is a thank you for followers, so unfortunately, you must be following this blog to enter.
2. Only one reblog will count towards your entry, but you may like and reblog this post to double your chances.
3. The giveaway will close at 11:59 PM EST on January 1. We’ll announce and contact the winner on January 2, so please keep watch on your chats for an incoming message then.
If you have any questions about the giveaway, please don’t hesitate to send us a message. Otherwise, best of luck, and thank you again for our first year!
Don’t forget—this is the last day one can enter the giveaway by liking or reblogging this post!
As an incentive, here are the eevee up for trade. (All three are renamable if the winner so chooses, of course.)
This will be a bit of an unconventional post. You see, as my editor had alluded to earlier, we were planning on something rather special to thank you for helping us reach not only 500 followers but our one-year anniversary. While, yes, we are still in the midst of #AMA Month (which we will get back to shortly, I promise), we thought something more exciting and physical would be in order.
A giveaway. Bill is referring to a giveaway. —LH
…yes.
As I was about to say, as a thank you for quite literally everything, we’d like to host a giveaway. From now until January 1, followers can like or reblog this post to enter a drawing. The grand prize consists of a code for 100 poké balls as well as a collection of newly hatched/caught shiny eevee with an accompanying fire, thunder, and water stone set. (As of this writing, there are only three eevee to be claimed. This post will be updated if the mun is fortunate enough to catch or breed more.)
The rules are as follows:
1. This giveaway is a thank you for followers, so unfortunately, you must be following this blog to enter.
2. Only one reblog will count towards your entry, but you may like and reblog this post to double your chances.
3. The giveaway will close at 11:59 PM EST on January 1. We’ll announce and contact the winner on January 2, so please keep watch on your chats for an incoming message then.
If you have any questions about the giveaway, please don’t hesitate to send us a message. Otherwise, best of luck, and thank you again for our first year!
Thank you for your patience. After a lot of hard work, we’ve finally completed edits to our tagging system. A new page has just been added to our main site (click this link to go directly to it) to help you navigate it. It’s a lot of text, yes, but we hope this will be highly useful to those of you who are curious about a particular subject.
In the meantime, we’ve finally reopened the ask box, and we are currently accepting asks! Don’t forget to check the tags before sending an ask, just in case something similar to your question has already been covered, but otherwise, please feel free to ask away!
Would you like a bit of inspiration? Until the end of the month, we’re accepting special asks, both as a thank you for helping us reach 500 followers and as a thank you for following us for a full year. These asks will be marked with the tag #AMAMonth and may cover personal questions for the author, general questions for the editor, or questions for the mun, as well as anything else you can think of. To ask, be sure to mark your questions with #AMA or #AMAMonth, and if asking one of us in particular (or the mun—whoever that may be), don’t forget to indicate that as well so we can be certain the right person gets it.
Most of all, have fun, readers, and thank you again for both your patience and your enthusiasm!
We have plenty of exciting news this month! As you know, we closed the ask box throughout November so I can … get some much-needed work done. During that time, Bill has been hard at work, trying to clear the ask box in order to prepare for its grand reopening, and at long last, the last two asks were answered last night. We’re unfortunately not quite ready to reopen the ask box because the next step is to edit some tags to make answers more easily navigable, but we hope to finish very soon. In fact, we’re aiming to complete work on our tagging system this weekend, so be sure to have your asks ready! We’ll make an announcement when the ask box officially reopens.
Speaking of which, the end of the month marks our first anniversary, and almost as if a certain wish-granting legendary was smiling down upon us, this happened this very morning:
We deeply appreciate all of you who have joined us this year. It’s exciting to know that so many of you are either interested in what we have to say … or are, at the very least, entertained by it. So as a thank you, we’d like to do a very special ask series throughout the month called #Ask Us Anything. Yes, that literally means “ask us anything.” If you have personal questions for Bill, he’ll be required to answer them honestly. If you have any questions whatsoever for me, I’ll happily answer them myself. And if you have any questions for the mun (whatever that may be), she(?) will likewise answer. Virtually anything you can think of is fair game. Just be sure to label your asks with the person you’d like to question to ensure it gets an appropriate response.
Lanette … surely we can offer a better thank you than that. —Bill
Well, yes, but I’m not so sure if a giveaway would be appropriate for this blog. Perhaps your personal one, maybe, or maybe for Christmas, but… —LH
I was referring more to the point that I am a little terrified of what the followers will ask, considering you’ve given them license to ask me personal questions about anything, but that’s a good point too. —Bill
Finally, tonight will be the first in a series of thirty special entries in honor of the release of the Alola Dex. This Alola series will focus entirely on pokémon first discovered in the beautiful and scientifically fascinating region of Alola. However, while we’ll try to save the pokémon featured in its legends and lore for the end of the month, there may be some entries that will, and I quote “spoil the game for you,” as the mun puts it. If you’re not far in this “game” at all (which I assume means your Alolan journeys, trainers) and would not like “spoilers,” please blacklist our Alola Month tag. Otherwise, we hope you enjoy.
Thank you again for reading, followers! See you later this month for the reopening of the ask box!
Normally, I let Bill answer these questions himself, but because of reasons that involve my partner’s inability to not scare readers, he’s currently distracted … by another episode of Binaclebob Trapezoidpants.
That said, don’t worry, anonymous. Most of Bill’s pokédex entries are written tongue-in-cheek and refer to either each species’ official entry in the National Dex (which are often themselves referring to wild pokémon only) or his own experiences with these pokémon (which are often harrowing because my partner is a wonderful researcher when it comes to fieldwork—this is, after all, the same man who thought grabbing a honedge by the hilt because “that old wives’ tale about honedge possession can’t possibly be real” was a brilliant idea).
Actual, tamed dark-types are surprisingly more loyal and sweet than most other pokémon. This is because in the wild, dark-types rely on their abilities to sneak or to gang up on other pokémon to survive, either because they’re not actually that strong on their own or because other pokémon would do the same to them. For that reason, they’ve garnered the reputation of being vicious, but actually, when they feel safe—such as in situations when a human is taking care of all their needs—they lose their need to be vicious and adopt more friendly and open personalities. Of course, some pokémon, such as houndoom, will always be aloof in comparison with their non-dark counterparts, but that’s just the way they are. It’s not really any indication of whether or not they’re good, evil, vicious, or friendly.
So really, you don’t have to worry about your own pokémon. They’re most likely every bit the massive softies they seem to be on the surface.
Honestly, though, it’s probably fairy-types if anything that you’d have to worry about. Those know how to use their cuteness to get what they want, but honestly, that’s not exactly dangerous. Just slightly nefarious, but only insofar as pokémon treats are concerned. And honestly, how can you argue with a face that pink and cute?
For once, it’s me delivering a note to you, readers, but my editor is a bit busy preparing a few things on her end, seeing as the end of the month is nearly upon us. I’m not one for lengthy housekeeping notes myself, so I’ll keep this brief.
Throughout the month of November, our ask box will be closed. I know. I apologize, dear readers, but this is for a number of reasons. First, there is the fact that the Alola Regional Dex is due to be released in the middle of the month, and I plan on doing a special series of entries just on Alola pokémon a few days afterwards. However, some of you may consider these to be “spoilers,” as you plan your own journeys through Alola and would prefer to be surprised by what pokémon you find there. Thus, in anticipation for the excitement you may be experiencing, we’d like to wait a week or two before opening the ask box, just in case we receive asks concerning Alola pokémon. (Yes, we also realize that some Alola pokémon have already been “spoiled” in previous asks, to which we apologize sincerely.)
Second and more importantly, my editor will not be available to check my responses, so all material you’ll be seeing throughout the month of November will be prepared entries and ask responses. We will, in other words, still be accepting asks up until October 31, and we will still post responses to those asks throughout the next month.
What will my editor be doing in the meantime? Well, readers, glad you asked! From what I understand, she will be participating in National Novel Writing Month, during which she will be writing slash fanfiction between the Professor and the Maestro, the titular lead and the main villain of the science-fiction crime drama, The Professor Evolves Eight Times. She tells me she has no intention of posting said fanfiction, to which I apologize. But rest assured, she will definitely be busy writing slash fanfiction.
It is not slash fanfiction. It is a long-form transformative literary piece exploring the interactions between canonical subtext and current sociopolitical issues while at the same time highlighting the structure and function of quasi-healthy interpersonal relationships between two consenting adults. —LH
Yes. Slash fanfiction. That’s what I said. —Bill
The ask box will be opened again in December, readers, and I promise you Bill will be well-behaved and ready for it. —LH
Can I read your slash fanfiction when you’re done? —Bill
No. —LH
Hello, readers. The editor again.
I must apologize. I made the mistake of telling my partner what day it was last night, and he’s realized that it’s ten days until one of his favorite holidays of the year. As I understand it, Bill likes Halloween, partly because he likes the atmosphere of it and partly because it’s one of the few times a year he can wear his research costumes and not have people question it. (For those interested, his other favorite holidays are Christmas and New Year’s, so December should be wonderful.)
The reason why I’m sharing this with you, though, is because Bill insisted that we don’t let the holiday “go to waste,” so to speak. So for the next several days, please enjoy Halloween Week, a collection of entries dedicated to bug, dark, poison, and psychic pokémon appropriate for this time of year.
Also, yes, I realize that we’re giving you more than a week’s worth of entries, seeing as Halloween is ten days away, not seven, but I’m not going to question my partner at this point.
The Pokédex According to Bill 