Half Clefable, half Zangoose, all angst

...What are you lookin' at? (Main blog is @sometimes-shiny spinda)

[ask-a-clefangoose]

What's feel like to be shiny

I ain’t a shiny, I’m just a crossbreed. My dad was a Zangoose and my mom is a Clefable. Easy as that.

[sometimes-shiny-spinda]

So uhhh... I know I said the blog was dead, but... well, lemme introduce myself as a refresher.

Hi! I’m Aster, my pronouns are they/them and awhile ago I ran this pokeblog! It was something I really enjoyed doing, and due to a bit of an art block I’ve been going through lately I think I want to return to it!

I’ll be opening my inbox to both my characters and (temporarily) myself, so feel free to ask away! Also- since I’ve been away from the community so long I don’t follow many active blogs anymore, so there’s a good chance I’ll check you out if you interact!

Sooo, yeah! Send something in! I’m excited to be back!

[sometimes-shiny-spinda]

The State of my Blogs

Hey all...! It's been awhile. Like... well over a year at this point since I made a proper post. Probably even longer. I unfortunately just lost steam over time and I was hoping I'd get it back but obviously that hasn't really happened.

Let me make one thing totally clear, I enjoyed every second of running these blogs. I made incredible friends along the way and had so much fun, it was honestly a pretty big part of my life for awhile. But I feel like I've kind of moved past it at this point. It ran it's course, despite the fact that I left in the middle of story for both blogs. (sorry about that)

So, I'm leaving these blogs up as an archive, because even though I won't be returning to them I can't in good conscious erase all the memories I made along the way.

Where am I now? Three places, actually-

@ambers-meme-machine -this is pretty self explanatory

@spinda-propaganda -well I need somewhere to praise the best Pokemon ever

@ambergemdraws -a fairly new art blog if you wanna see some of my other stuff!

To everyone who followed Clover and Alina through their antics, thank you. I couldn't have asked for a better experience in this community. 💖

[ask-a-clefangoose]

UH

I MAY HAVE MISSED THIS BLOGS ANNIVERSARY, WHOOPS....

Well... at least it was only off by a few days. I introduced Alina last year on November 29th, and I'm really glad so many people have gotten so attached to her! I swear I'm gonna update again, hhahah.......

[ask-a-clefangoose]

Ruin looked at the Clefangoose, and a disappointed frown grew on her face. "So you picked up the cursed, dangerous artifact. Great. Juuuust fucking perfect. So, feeling any more verbal this time around, or...?" She spoke in a tired sigh...

The haunt peers down at its claws, then at Ruin, tilting its head slightly. It doesn't respond, or seem to care Ruin was talking in the first place.

[occasionallyskitty]

Shiitake looks up at the skitty, "Hey, there's no need to be scared, I'm not gonna hurt you." A vine sneaks out from under his neck frills, reaching up nonthreateningly. He smiles and tried to give off a harmless and trusting aura, "What's wrong?"

> The surrounding area seems to darken with every new voice.

> A distant, soft humming fades into audible range. It makes one’s head feel tight, as if it was underwater.

> The Haunt floats further away from all the rising attention, apparently distraught. The humming is only growing louder, more uncomfortable, when-

[ask-a-clefangoose]

Al̠̼͕̫ ̼̟͚̞͇͍͖i̯̩̕nA is open for asks!

[majorpokeaccidents]

This isn’t a joke please trust me

I’m making an animatic to this song and it’s going to be based around Crow. This is happening and I’m being very serious about this. I have spoken to @im-crow about this. I would also like to put in some other pokemon from other ask blogs in this as well so if you would like to see your pokemon in this very stupid (yet semi-serious) animatic then please reblog this with a reference or link to your character. Please don’t just leave a note in the tags. It would make it just a bit easier on me for this. Thanks!

[ask-a-clefangoose]

Ayy, I wanna get Alina and Clover in the mix!

[ask-a-clefangoose]

"HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, I FUCKIN' LOVE MY GIRLFRIEND!!!"

(It's been a pretty rad June, y'all! Figured I'd drop something special for the last day~)

[sometimes-shiny-spinda]

Oh hey look at that! It’s… my birthday today! Woah. I am so so old.

Also sorry for the lack of posts on both ends of my blogs, but trust me, things are gonna get good!!!

[ask-a-clefangoose]

"What if my dad fought until he died to protect people? What if you mind your own goddamn business?! WHAT IF-!"

...

"...A-are you some kind of fucking psychopath or something...? Are you sick in the head?! What the everloving FUCK is WRONG with you?!? What the fuck do you know about my dad?! What the fuck do ANY OF YOU KNOW ABOUT MY. OWN. FATHER!?! What makes you think you can say deplorable shit like that to my own face?! What gives you the FUCKING. RIGHT? GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. NOW."

"Y'know what?! You're right, I don't needa fuckin' take this shit. I'm out."

[Alina is unavailable for asks.]

[ask-a-clefangoose]

"Yep. That's what happened, alright..."

@imjustherefortheart

[ask-a-clefangoose]

"I mean hell, my dad was on a full-fledged gym leader's team. I've seen him beat Pokemon twice his size. Sometimes we'd battle for training reasons, but he'd always go easy on me. I could never beat him, of course. But my favorite memory of him was... probably when I evolved. When I was little, I used to watch my dad fight in gym battles, and afterwards I would always beg him to teach me. He would always turn me down nicely though, and tell me I was still a bit too young. But I kept pushing, and he kept saying no. And then, for my next birthday, my dad saves his present for last. He handed me a plain black box with a silver ribbon, and inside it was a moonstone. I remember grabbing it and immediately running to hug my dad, holding onto him right there as I evolved."

@asktheboxghosts

[im-crow]

Uhhhhh has anyone asked about a certain clefangoose yet

nope. dont ask they smel

@ask-a-clefangoose >:3

[ask-a-clefangoose]

WOW R00D

[ask-a-clefangoose]

"It happened... years ago, now. Tucker wasn't even fully evolved yet. Dad had gone out for a gym battle that night, and... this group of people attacked the place out of nowhere."

......

"...Dad didn't make it out."

@occasionallyoctillery

@yourdailydoseofquagsire

[ask-a-clefangoose]

((Glad you found your amazing cat, too!!! What a good note to end this munday on))

[ask-a-clefangoose]

ITS MUNDAY AGAIN but I can’t find my cats So here’s my dog

((I will gladly accept dogs as well))

[ask-a-clefangoose]

Warning: sappy speech incoming

Okay you guys have been way too nice to me today and now I gotta get you back so here we go.

When I first started sometimes-shiny-spinda back in... what, August? I really wasn't expecting much to come from it. I was fully expecting it to just be a rinky-dink traditional art blog about a loveable shiny spinda that I would casually work on to push myself to draw more often. What I've gotten out of it not even a year later is obviously wildly beyond those expectations. I really never thought I would attempt to do digital art on my phone, I definitely never planned on making a second blog for Alina, and the last thing I expected was for that sideblog to surpass my main blog's follower count. I never thought I would even consider opening commissions (which are coming sometime in the future), and I never thought that I would join as many pokeblog discord servers as I have. And of course... I never thought that I would make such close friends with so, so many people. People that mean the world to me. (Yall know who you are ;3c) Sometimes it's just... really hard to imagine that I could have missed out on all of this if I had just... decided not to start the blog.

The pokeblog community is so incredibly warm and supportive and positive to every one of its members. Obviously its not perfect, but for such a huge group of people on tumblr of all places, I think we're doing a pretty good job. I seriously consider this community the best little corner of tumblr out there. And I couldn't be happier to be a part of it. If you've been considering starting up a daily blog of your own, my advice is to just do it.

Anyway. I've run out of sappy speech material, so I'm gonna wrap this up. Thank you for all of the strangely sweet messages you sent today. I'm definitely keeping these up in case I ever need them. I couldn't ask for better followers, or better friends. 💖