{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:

• http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/pets/?credit=web_id83183814 (for pet care)
• https://www.petmd.com/ (also for pet care)
• http://adata.org/ (for information concerning service animals in the US)
• https://www.esaregistration.org/faq (for information concerning support animals in the US)
• If it ends in .edu, there is a good chance it knows what it’s talking about.

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!}