#grand oak

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: The poet tree is lovely. If he was willing, I would definitely find a hole in the bark and pound away.

[magicmalcolm]

Hell Yeah, Brother!

[epicspheal]

After thinking about the last reblog for 5 minutes. New headcanon that Grand Oak is some crazy aura guardian who was blessed by Arceus and is the reason why the entire Oak family tree is just bizarrely talented.

[epicspheal]

[Image Description: Image of Grand Oak from the Pokemon Home game holding a baby Blue Oak/Green Ookido who is crying profusely in his arms to Grand Oak's. Daisy, looking at the two says "I'll uh. I can take Green Back"/ End ID]

grand oak comes from whatever dimension hes from to visit the little oaks and green did not think he was hip. but seriously WHO IS THIS MAN

[lashouette]

Big Chen et son Porygon  Z

Encore une journée bien remplie pour Big Chen le scientifique loufoque et son fidèle Porygon Z

[viper-motorsports]

[vigilskeep]

oh my god?? not marjolaine and justinia in leliana’s song being voiced by the same person??

[heartshapedcaskett]

Arizona on expired film

[adobe-outdesign]

So I finally installed the free version of Pokemon Home yesterday to trade for Violet version exclusives via the GTS. and the game's like "alright here's the professor who'll be helping you!" and I'm clicking A like whatever. and absolutely nothing could've braced me for seeing the fucker pop up on screen

[heirloomgem]

October Updates

Hello, my lovely readers, I hope you all are doing well.

Unfortunately, I have to announce that there won't be any October monthly voting because a relative of mine has passed away and all sorts of chaos and problems just got thrown in.

This was absolutely beyond my expectations when I just got out of my 3 weeks of nonstop work.

At the same time, it seems I have underestimated my work schedule and its busyness as it appears that we are still not out of the busy season this time because of unexpected events happening around us.

So any updates or posting of any fanfic may be slower than how I like as sadly, I won't have too much time to tackle writing these next few months.

But don't worry! I still plan to post a fanfic at least once a month especially since we did that Sung Jinwoo x Reader voting. I intend to post those in the future, I promise that.

For now, any monthly voting would be unstable. It might happen or not depending on how it goes with my work on that monthly.

I'm really terribly sorry for this and for the past weeks of bad news that has been going on.

[shutterandsentence]

Stay cool, everyone! It's a hot one!

Photo: Sedona, Arizona

[millidew]

even the old and doomed bitter exes were young and optimistic once (lots of notes and hc under cut)

some notes/ideas:

1950-60s inspired in fashion and values. is pokemon wwii a thing? would that just be the pokewar ??? was oak a post war baby surrounded by veterans failed by their government because they were from a town with like 2 houses? what is the truth

samuel oak (but everyone calls him sammy) is a kid from some small town with a goofy haircut and big dreams of discovering/inventing something new. he has a “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality and a growing cocky streak like blue. he’s both friendly and determined (some would call him pushy), which is how he met agatha (bothered her until they became friends), and is seen by the town as someone who could put pallet on the map. he sees the potential in people in pokemon and always tries to make them the best he thinks they can be. he’s always had his sights on research/science and used his natural talent for battling to reach it

as he gets older his stubbornness and habit of putting his projects above everything else becomes more apparent

agatha is from a traditional spiritual family with a liking for scarier pokemon since they keep neighborhood troublemakers away from her (and help her get away with her own troublemaking.) she’s petty and vindictive and sneaky. most people don’t like her much. in fact, she probably snuck away for her own journey and resolved not to come back until she’d made a name for herself or something. she’s restricted by social and gender expectations and can’t wait to be a crotchety old woman

she met sammy on their journeys, and they ended up becoming friends-rivals, in that their friendship was built on a rivalry, despite agatha pretty much always losing

most people in those days just went a few routes down before going back home, but both have something to prove and big ambitions. unlike him, who seems to have a natural affinity and talent for battles, she feels has to work harder for it. so we have beloved talented upstanding country science boy VS ostracized skilled sneaky slightly-less-country ghost girl.

agatha likes sammy best when he’s putting his all into battle (a crimson flame quietly burning…..), not that doing silly nerd stuff. she likes him best when he’s not on some high horse. when he left to focus on the pokédex after rising to such a high trainer rank with her, and seemingly cast battling/her aside without second thought, she felt betrayed and like he was wasting his natural talents. if she had that innate talent, she’d never throw it away.

who needs a “”pokedex”” anyways? back in her day they had to learn from trial and error. kids these days are so soft. are you planning to write a guidebook for the elite four too samuel??

samuel (sammy is too childish for him nowadays) thinks this is very immature of her. his passions have always lied in research (he spent so much of his journey drawing and notetaking! was she purposefully ignorant?). did she think they’d play with pokemon forever? he needs a real job! a job that will let him play with pokemon…for science

obviously they’ll just never speak to each other again (this lasted for like 2 weeks until he contacted her)

agatha thinks he’s just as bullheaded and petty as she is and just doesn’t like being called out on it now that he’s the respectable professor samuel oak. this guy once got ran over by a pack of oddish because agatha told him he should track the pokemon’s sleepwalking patterns!! she laughed in his face! he bought her gloom perfume years later and the empty bottle is probably still somewhere in her house!!!

they continued to be exes of fluctuating bitterness for like 4 decades. samuel went home, got married, had children who gave him grandchildren, revolutionized the field of pokémon study a few times, and agatha cultivated her creepy witch image, joined the elite four, sent every challenger away with a new ghost phobia for fun, became a trickster mentor for a young lance, and simply refuses to die of old age out of spite

samuel is a family man who wanted kids and agatha Did Not. but uh in the end he lost all his kids so. they had other issues but that was also one of them

oak is harsher on his grandson because he sees himself in him. he feels like strictness and commitment was what he needed as a child (he had to develop that later on), but instead ended up making blue rebellious. oak’s pride in his hometown (establishing a lab there instead of a bigger city) made blue embarrassed of it. oak doesn’t think battling should be a full time job (and certainly wasn’t viable in his time!) (he swears agatha stays on the elite four just to sprite him), and that he should have a second venture (like research!) just in case. samuel certainly wasn’t satisfied with just battling when he was blue’s age! his grandson is clearly intelligent, but he’s wasting his talents at his gym, and he’s always ignoring his gym leader duties anyways. he’ll grow out of it one day just like samuel did, and when he does, samuel will get him a job with one of his colleagues

just switch battling and research around and this sounds a little familiar

oak’s views on his granddaughter uhhhh good with housework and kids which is useful because he stays late at the lab too often to do any of that and most of his work can’t hold the attention of any 6 year old that isn’t red. i don’t think he had any plans for daisy like he did for blue… yikes!

agatha would not be pleased which is why she’s not allowed to see them because she’d convince his nice granddaughter to quit her job and join a gothic band or something

on red, oak sees him struggling socially and also relates to him, because he’s a kid who clearly loves pokemon and likes to draw. so he gives him more attention, unintentionally making blue feel excluded, resulting in him acting out for attention. oak doesn’t see the correlation. this is an example of oak’s good intentions combined with his one track mind and his idea of how the world should work making HIM the one who struggles socially. if he’d shared that story about getting run over by the oddish maybe blue wouldn’t see him as such a serious looming figure in his life judging his every move

agatha thinks red is a good kid, shakes her head at daisy, and likes blue because he’s a little tyke. blue doesn’t like to think about his gramps’ love life so he tries to avoid her (it doesn’t work)

anyways everyone involved is very stubborn and a little self centered and bad with feelings so no one is admitting defeat without intervention

hmm naturally talented socially awkward stubborn pokemon lover beloved by their community and their colder, skilled (but nonetheless second place) rival with a chip on their shoulder who feels left behind. all roads lead back to reguri

oak and agatha are on much better terms nowadays though, her spininess is just part of her personality

he calls her an old friend and rival and holds her in high esteem and she calls him a has-been with the personality of lint

[methodstomymadness]

Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC

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[lunarrosette]

The grand finale for @birdifulhuman-blog ‘s prompts: OAKWORTHY

Hermies bitching about theatre probably long day at rehearsal

[epicspheal]

Yup the Oak family sure is something.

You got Samson Oak, the Alolan in the family (seriously that family is everywhere) who just looks so identical to Kanto Professor Oak. Apparently he's a really good Mantine Surfer in the Ultra games and has one of the highest scores (only beat out by the player and old man Grimsley). Oh and apparently he can just freely give away Totem Pokemon, the sacred large beefed up creatures the Alolan Trial Captains use for their island challenge. Like how did he get those and why? (Also he talks about Aura and this just feeds my headcanon the entire Oak line is probably related to some aura guardian) Then Professor Oak who was undefeated (according to Agatha) before Leon was a concept and was so good the league wanted him to come back, but he just said "fuck it I want to look at research papers all day" and then became the world authority on Pokemon because why the fuck not. It's hilarious that Blue is probably the most normal person in the family and he manage to speedrun an entire league while being completely out of sync (by that I mean having no bond in a world having bonds with your team make a huge difference) with his Pokemon at the age of 10(RBGY)/11(FRLG). Then just becomes a gym leader who said "screw the rules I'm not using one type" and no one questions it, then gets so good once he actually bonds with his team he leaves to Alola to head a battle facility. Like that's insane for the average Pokemon world citizen but compared to his family he's the normal one. The whole Oak family is nuts

why are so many of the oak family members all kinds of levels of bizarre

who or what is grand oak? an ancient techno wizard ancestor who immortalized himself by uploading his big brain inside a computer? what makes him the grandest of all? we may never know, this is a character that just exists that tpc will not elaborate on further.

agatha (greens grandma because i say so) has fully embraced the bog witch aesthetique to the point where daisy and greens visits to her house are the “why dont you like sleeping at grandmas house” meme cranked up to the highest level. the moving dolls and paintings of gigantamax gengar sending people and pokemon to Pokemon Hell looming over toddler aged green make him just slightly uncomfortable. and yet daisy seems unfazed, she thinks the house is quite cozy.

im not even sure if daisy is just some woman either. shes said to be able to tame ANY pokemon. could she easily tame a furious god with just one offering of tea and biscuits and a bit of mindfulness exercise?

anyway i think they should keep introducing more and more weird as hell oak family members itd be funny

[varrics-chesthair]