Tag: from the mun

tirien66 replied to your post “Zeraora”

Hey, mod. im glad you made the goku reference as well omg. im glad im not the only one who thought so.

{With that hair and that overall design, I’m perplexed that the tag isn’t just straight-up filled with Dragonball Z references. The dude is clearly going super saiyan 24/7, lbr}

(Non Character fortree eon asks. I have thought of Fanfic work, but mainly my experience comes from Roleplay and the times i’ve done Pokemon, I try to go for Realism, so i poke at your canon to see what answers i can get to Improve my own work.)

{Gotcha, but … would you prefer tips? ._. Bill’s responses aren’t always canon there, so.

(If yes to tips, feel free to ask away! Just please note I can’t give feedback on specific ideas—just on basic writing techniques and so forth. I’m a writer, not a beta. ^^;)}

Hi, now this isn’t meant to bug you guys but recently I’ve been experiencing problems with my asks dissappearing. And i mean alot. So I’m just wondering if my ask did make it through, it’s a 2 parter about my luxray sunlight. Again, this isn’t meant to stress you at all, I just want to make sure it came through. Have a wonderful day/night!

{We’ve got both parts! It’ll be some time before we can get to it, but rest assured it’s in. 🙂 Thank you!

(And here’s hoping that weird ask black hole resolves for you eventually! D:}

Hey there Bill. It’s me again, the person asking if I could make a similar blog to yours. I did it, and the url is @fennelsunovablog. I read what you reponded and really all I can say is thank you so much. I was so afraid to ask you something like that and your response honestly made me tear up I was so happy :)

{Hope you don’t mind if I publish this so others can follow too. 😉 Let me know if you’d rather I’d kept this private, and I’ll delete it.

That said, glad to help! Good luck with the blog! :D}

Hello there! I don’t exactly know how to ask this question, but I saw your blog and I was inspired to do a similar one for Unova pokemon… of course, I won’t do it if you tell me you’d feel like I was copying you, which is understandable… But I was wondering where you got all your information or how you created it, if that’s an okay question to ask.

{Hi there! The mun here!

You sure can! ;D In fact, pretty much anyone’s good to make their own ‘dexes. All I ask is that you send an ask with the blog’s url (just like, without the .tumblr.com) so I can look it up and follow. I’d love to see what people come up with. 🙂

As for that second question there, Bulbapedia tends to be my go-to starting point. I read over the canon ‘dex entries there, along with their notes about biology and trivia points, and if something funny jumps out at me, I just sit down and write. If not, I’ll google the pokémon’s basis and try to come up with something funny based on the real-world stuff I dig up.

Asks tend to be a bit more involved. Oftentimes, I don’t really use Bulbapedia and instead rely on real-world stuff, which means Google and Wikipedia are my best friends. Google especially is handy because I can just throw in a question (for example: “how do you take care of a pet bat”) in quotation marks, hit the enter key, and usually get a solid answer within a few hits. Wikipedia, meanwhile, is great for explaining more technical/less pet-oriented subjects, like how metal behaves under certain circumstances or what house sparrows do to mate. But really, because of the reliance on Google Fu, I don’t exactly have a list of resources beyond those two (and, well, Bulbapedia) that I go to more often than others, but I can tell you the following sites are pretty reliable:

Finally (for research, anyway), some of the entries in #our-world are just straight-up headcanon, haha. But even then, I like to do a little research on the areas of the world regions are based on, just to add a little more depth. (Idk, I just like overthinking stuff like that.) Google Maps is a neat way to figure out what certain areas of the world look like, which is great for helping you develop the culture of a region, and for pretty much anything else, look for blogs about living in _____. A lot of people love talking about what it’s like to live in their home countries/countries they’ve immigrated to!

As for coming up with the blog in general, it helps if you have a good grasp on the character you’re portraying. In this blog’s case, I’ve been writing about Bill and Lanette for long enough to know what their senses of humor are like, how they’d respond to questions, and how they’d respond to each other. However, while it helps to have spent years with a character or two, the truth is you don’t have to write a character for years to figure out what they’re like. If you’re starting off with a brand-new OC, my biggest tip is to take notes. Start off with a basic idea of who they are and what their personality is like, and every time you come up with something new, add to your notes so you can remember it for later. Writing it down also encourages you to keep doing that, so eventually, you end up with a fully-fledged character in no time. That’s definitely going to be vital to get a good voice going for your entries, which itself is incredibly important if you’re going to do a lot of them. (You’ll be less likely to be bored and wander away if you love working with your characters, after all!)

Not sure if this covered everything, but if I’ve left anything out or if you (or anyone else) still needs help, please don’t hesitate to send an ask!

Otherwise, good luck, anon! Can’t wait to see how your blog turns out!}