#wordproblemapoligist

[reallypheelingit]

drawing of @wordproblemapoligist's snorlax pokesona!! lovely design, best pokesona :D

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

10 people I'd like to get to know better

Tagged by @monstrousgourmandizingcats, thank you! (I've filled this one out before, I think, but the answers often change.)

Last song: Supersonic, by Amaranthe!

Favorite colour: Deep rich dark navy-indigo blue. My very favorite form of light reflecting off a surface is actually purple-green-blue iridescence on black, like a raven's neck, but that's not technically a color, scientifically speaking. ;P

Last Book: Literally finished Wicked (the original retelling) about two minutes ago!

Last Show: Uhhhh my roommates and I watch a Teen Titans episode every Friday. Probably that. (Last week was Don't Touch That Dial, so that was fun. We all caught different references.)

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: Savory, please! Umami is my favorite flavor. I do enjoy a bit of sweetness sparingly, and spice is nice when it's ginger or cinnamon, but both spicy and sweet can overwhelm me and too much won't settle well.

Last Thing I Googled: I genuinely can't remember. Update: Checked my browser history and apparently it was when I googled "mouth nerves spinal cord" to fact-check something I'd read about the way your teeth nerves don't go through your spinal cord, but are in fact directly wired to your brain. Wanted to make sure that was accurate before I shared it with some friends.

Current Obsession: I'm back on my Wicked bullshit. It's a sleeper obsession but I really do very truly love this story. (Just finished re-reading the book for the first time since I read it around age 16! I got so much different out of it from what I did the first time...) I haven't seen the play but I've listened to (and partially performed!) the soundtrack. It's on my bucket list.

Looking Forward To: Seeing the new "Wicked" movie tomorrow with Mom! (Yes it's a holiday, but neither of us have any other plans. Except to spend time together. We'll probably do dinner afterwards. Thanksgiving is a made-up holiday that celebrates a falsified history, anyways. /killjoy )

Tagging (under the condition that You Want to Do It): @ace-and-ranty @alfalfascouting (do you do these?) @chasm-connected @creepycute-kitty-gf @cyberninja (I know we usually do these on rp blogs but why not?) @midnightclover (do you do these?) @mymixofmuses (if you feel up to it!) @orionsdestiny @sirenianheart @wordproblemapoligist (do you do these?)

[verdemoth]

attack on @wordproblemapoligist ‘s Basil and Skorna! very fun to play with these two :]

[poke-bast]

come join me in pokemon hell

hello!

i am bast (as you can see from my username). i like pokemon. so instead of using my main blog (which is @wordproblemapoligist) to talk about things that interest me or my existing sideblog (@ranger-katie) because it's literally already pokemon i figured i would just make a new one. it's freeing. i can and will talk about my theories for hisuian pokemon evolving in the modern day or the life stages of a koraidon or my own fucked up (positive connotations) characters or even fakemon. i have been in with this franchise since i was in middle school please god help me

you might even see some art, either of the good quality 'i actually grabbed my tablet' kind or silly little mspaint doodles. depends on the vibe and the vibe alone

this is my formally issued call post! reblog so i know who you are! i might even follow you back! come ask me things that's how my brain juice flows!!

(also: characters shown are me and my partner in my current PMD EOS run! skitty is bast (me) and cyndaquil is mouse (partner). debate is still up as to who i really am inside though)

[sawsbuck-trainer]

[[ regarding the shiny espathra: SV doesn't have the shiny queues (the jingle and the sparkle) in the overworld so it's very likely you might've found a shiny one ]]

@wordproblemapoligist

((I know! I have a shiny in the game myself! But I'm pretty sure I battled it. But who knows. Maybe it really is mandela effect.))

[theargonianvampire]

@wordproblemapoligist

Hey it's me the thing from john carpenter's the thing

[reallypheelingit]

Drawing of T and her Houndoom Crossbones for @wordproblemapoligist

[pokebloggingnetwork]

@ranger-katie

CHARACTER

Name: Ranger Katie Pronouns: She/Her Age: Mid-20s-ish Occupation: Pokemon Ranger Pokemon: Unfezant, Absol, Stoutland, Simipour Current Region: Unova

MOD: 

Name/Nickname: Bast Follows From: @wordproblemapoligist Pronouns/Terms of Address: She/Her Main: Same as follows Adult or Minor?: Adult Comfortable with Adults/Minors Interacting?: Yes Other: Post-games Unova-based! Mod hasn't used the blog in a while, but wants to get back into it.

NAVIGATION:

Links: team

Account Does RP?: Used to, but doesn't anymore- you might see old RP in the archives, but that's it

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@wordproblemapoligist replied to your post “Frank, can you explain the plot of riverdale?”

frank fucking HATES riverdale. iconic

(This is a reference to my LiveJournal entry I wrote a while ago about the fact that I have some feelings about Riverdale, and then proceeded to spend the time since writing a "love letter" to the main character of the main character of Riverdale and the terrible main character of that show (who happens to be Cheryl's husband, for some reason I forgot to mention), with a lot of this about the show and the "riverdale" genre and so on.)

[midnightclover]

@wordproblemapoligist

Merry Clickmas!

[fantroll-purgatory]

Itcha gal back from like August with Trinel’s kismesis’s moirail

Name: Tabula Auctor- Both are Latin for something to do with writing, but I can’t remember exactly what.

Tabula usually means tablet/table, and is most Famously known in the phrase Tabula Rasa, or Blank Slate, which has some interesting implications. 

Auctor is latin for Author or Originator, but in science it’s also the term used to describe the genetic donator for a clone. 

Since you gave her Two-writing based names, and these very interesting and multi-meaning ones particularly, I might gently try to pull in that themeing in her personality/interests/backstory, etc. 

For the Auctor name most directly, something interesting could be… Maybe Tabula’s ancestor was as interested in Descendants as Auctor is interested in Ancestors, and maybe… Tabula is a slightly more direct clone of her ancestor than ectobiology would Usually do. A Weird and major glitch in the system, maybe not a Direct copy but something very, very close to it.  

Age: 7.5

Strife Specibus: Staffkind- Taller than she is and with a box-thing on the end for looping around necks and stalig-whatevers.

I’m kind of tempted to say pickax instead, the double-sided kind. It’s a tool that… common enough in archaeological circles, as long as you’re careful with it, and it’s double-headed. You could also use it to hook around someone like one might with a scythe, given the head of the ax is big enough. 

Fetch Modus: Dig modus- Basically, a jumble of cards she had to sift through.

Ooo, you could make it more explicit and make it one of those dig kits. 

But instead of shells it’s her items and if she digs too hastily, she might break them.

Blood color: Cusp- Between gold and bronze.

I know you probably already know this, but I’ve got to acknowledge anyways that this is noncanon. But I’m gonna let you keep it anyways because I imagine that’s what you’re Goin’ For and I think her being in a weird blood place makes the direct cloning even more fun. 

Symbol and meaning: A tall rectangle with a line through- I tried to make it a light mix of bronze and gold signs.

I’ll take another look at the sign when we get to design, so we’ll see!

Trolltag: guardedTraveler

I kinda wanna recommend ancestralSapience, if her interest in ancestors is such an important part of her theme it makes sense to make a reference to it in her trolltag. Sapience is the ability to self-reflect and act with self-wisdom, or in response to learned information. 

Quirk: tHe quick browN fox…

You don’t explain why this, but it is good. I think since she’s somewhat fixated on the past, you could also have her have a quirk of going back to previous messages or repeating previous messages and saying things like “as per my last message […]” a lot.

Special Abilities (if any): Used to have psionics, but lost them when voidrot knocked out her psionic eye

We definitely still haven’t seen for sure Exactly how voidrot works or if it can only infect void players, so keep in mind that going forward this could be revealed to be very noncanon. I think it’s interesting if it was happening to her because she really technically is a glitch in the system and the universe is struggling to cope with her, though. 

Lusus: Cyedog; small fox-thing with one eye and wings.

We don’t really see Traditionally Winged creatures until we get up to like teal (there’s only really buggy wings until that point), and her theme isn’t really Flighty enough for me to say wings would be a necessary addition anyways. 

What if we go instead with like… a two-headed sheep? As a Dolly The Sheep jokey, it references the dual themes of the golds And the farmy themes common in brownbloods, too. 

Personality: Big block of text I pulled off my mastodon and slightly edited;

she’s a huge ancestor fangirl and probably the only troll who actively hunts in caves for old scrolls and shit. she’s 4'11, 7.5 sweeps, and has a heavy faygo drinking problem- in fact, it’s gotten bad enough that the soda barely affects her at all, like the radioactiveness in a banana. her moirail, vittah, is a vriskablood that does ribbon dancing and, when she gets to visit, tries to crack on tabby’s habits but yknow. also- tabs hates the theater. vittah’s kismesis won’t shut the fuck up about it- he’s a famous playwrite. She does genuinely care for vittah, and is one of the only trolls that acts normally around her. (May or may not submit Vittah sometime, tbh.)

So I love this ancestor thing enough that I brought it in more in like, her theme conception. I like the idea of her feeling Really, like Weirdly connected to her ancestor, as much as though she really could be a reincarnation of her, and she could have like… a bit of identity struggle. She really doesn’t know who she is because she feels this weird displacement and is trying to build some sense of self By reading about the ancestors. And since you gave her a writer name, maybe she could write a lot about history. And maybe even some Guilty Pleasure Self Insert Historical Fanfiction. 

You could probably give her a fixation on the classics, too. She likes old stuff, original stuff. She doesn’t like rehashes. It could be part of why she doesn’t like theater (on top of her finding Trinel annoying)- it’s all just remixes of the Clearly Superior Old Stuff.

Interests: Archaeology and the ancestors, mostly.

And faygo it would seem LOL. 

Title: Seer of space..?

I honestly think maybe Heir of Space, if only because that makes her inverse Mage of Time and implies an understanding Of time, which comes with her natural interest in and fixation on history. Her trying to passively shape and change space to match up with that form she’s built from a defunct past can cause a lot of problems until she comes to understand the current time and comes into herself!

Land: Land of Ocean and Frogs- (She lives in a desert so no water normally, and frogs is obvious.)

How about the Land of Idols and Frogs instead, a land where there’s like idealistic idolized versions of the frogs and she has to Realize that they’re not the ideal form and she can’t blindly chase the past in order to succeed at her quest and breed the correct frog.

Dream Planet: Prospit.

My Ipad is mean, so here’s the link to an image. Its kinda old though

Design: 

Just as before I really don’t think there’s much for me to say about or change in your character design! I think something you should keep in mind if you ever design the ancestor is that she should try to look like her ancestor or at least mimic her ancestor’s silhouette. The symbol could also use a little editing to fit both the brown and gold sign language… 

I wanted to keep the cut square design you wanted, but I also wanted to incorporate Taurga and Gemge, plus the Symmetry of the usual brown and gold signs. 

Thank you for sharing and I hope this helps!

-CD

[verdemoth]

Curse for @wordproblemapoligist :] ! as well as the shaded version i wasn’t happy enough with to submit but i kind of like it still

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

@wordproblemapoligist yea tha orbs that control groudon and kyogre. in the manga and anime canon if you hold them for too long you can get possessed and groudon and kyogre will control YOU it’s fucked up and cool as hell

[midnightclover]

@wordproblemapoligist

Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

[reallypheelingit]

drawing for @wordproblemapoligist of Curse the Hisuian Zoroark!! they have such a cool design, i love the blue and the cards c:

[bramblemantle]

this very cool char belongs to @wordproblemapoligist / Bast6415 on art fight!