Chapter 75.5: Classically Framed
Bourne Wood, Surrey UK. August 2012.
“When I did Silence of the Lambs, despite my best efforts, nobody ever spoke a word to me. Left to my lonely devices by my co-stars and scene partners alike, too nervous or intimidated to do little else but twiddle their thumbs in silence. I was entrapped within a plexi...
2025-08-29 11:43:14 +0000 UTC View Post29th Move: Pedigrees of Separation
Route 37, Johto.
STAB stands for ‘same type ability bonus’; that phenomenon where the power of a move is boosted based on its aura coinciding with a Pokémon’s inherent typing. Luckily, neither of the two Stantlers were Wyrdeer yet, so I wasn’t in any further danger of getting psychically screwed in my slee...
2025-08-07 06:05:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 75: Case of the Disappearing Bas
Bourne Wood, Surrey UK. July 2012.
[“Could we get some wine, please?”
“Sure, I’d love some!”
“Sorry, Richard! This is Darcy—what are you doing here?” As Natalie Portman tried and failed to stop Kat Dennings from inserting herself into her date with him, Tom Fe...
2025-08-04 08:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post28th Move: Stanting on Business
Route 37, Johto.
My heavy pack laden with the ranger’s collected goodies from the apricorn grove made taking shallow breaths difficult. But Naoko and I kept the huffing and puffing to a minimum as we crept through the forest.
Vrm, vrm, vrm. Only the mechanical vibrations of my podedex’s scan functio...
2025-07-25 07:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostDOUBLE FEATURE! Been a while since I’ve done one of these, but as I finished the first chap and got on the second, I thought they thematically fit really well. So after multiple rewrites of the two chaps, I mushed them into one. Sorry for the slight delay because of this decision, and enjoy reading a nice long action-packed one that’ll hopefully last your entire trip to the loo! 2025-07-23 05:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post
27th Move: Out of Range
Route 37 Apricorn Grove, Johto.
Fake Out was for pranksters. I meant that in every twist and turn of the phrase—including the move and the corresponding ability.
Donphan had been observed to typically inherit two particular abilities. Sturdy or Sand Veil. Neither of which, i...
2025-07-13 03:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74: Up Down Funk
Seoul Broadcasting System Prism Tower, Korea. June 2012.
I fucked a lot.
No sky-shattering revelation, I’m sure. Call it the lifestyle or the territory, it wasn’t only me that came with it–but certain consequences abound for those of us who got around.
It wasn’t always peaches and creampies.
...
2025-07-08 05:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post26th Move: Snout & About
Kurt’s Workshop, Johto.
Down on my knees with balls in my hand, I was surrounded by a ring of people. It wasn’t what it sounded like.
“Alright, last order of business.” Baloo, Yecu, and Tuki all shuffled nervously in front of me as I initiated the release sequence on each of their Pokéballs. Again, this wa...
2025-07-04 15:25:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 73.5: Two Many Dimensions
Trigger Sound Studio, Tokyo. May 2012.
Crisis? Phooey! Dread? Patooey! My sense of existentialism had been grounded since my very first interdimensional steps. Immersed into my current life to the extent that I often willfully failed to acknowledge a past never to happen.
“Bas, the di...
2025-06-30 13:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post25th Move: New Coat, New Coast
Azalea Town, Johto.
Bugsy got exterminated.
The most popular form of pesticide publicly available hailed from Hoenn. Bagon brand bug repellant. A grade more dangerous than your typical repel. There was a bottle in every house across the regions featuring an image of a vicious fire-breathin...
2025-06-26 12:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 73: Teasers & Tweezers
Disney Studio Offices, LA. April 2012.
“Gotta admit, this scene certainly is a sight for sore eyes.”
“Sore follicles, more like.” I resisted every itching urge to yank the wig off my head and cap it on Felton’s dome. “Although, if nostalgia serves, you used to be the poor sod getting his hair pret...
2025-06-24 09:20:27 +0000 UTC View Post24th Move: Hive
Ilex Forest Shrine, Johto.
Confused, confounded, and not a little concerned by our hostile response to his abrupt arrival, Bugsy almost skittered back into the bushes.
The obvious solution would’ve been to physically drag him back to town; but Bugsy was still an accomplished gym leader and was likely just as practised a...
2025-06-14 03:46:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72.5: Gyopo Style
Gym Won Taekwondo, Koreatown LA. March 2012.
The stereotypical busking breakdancer conjured specific imagery in one’s mind. A bowl begging for spare change, a crackly boombox busting out sick beats, and—most ubiquitously—a blanket of shoe-stamped cardboard.
Picturing it? Good.
Then explain to me why a pair...
2025-06-11 09:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post23rd Move: Celebi Celebration
Ilex Shrine, Johto.
The GS Ball wobbled.
Once. Twice. Again—each time gaining strength and reducing the interval between each belligerent sway.
Inside the dilapidated shrine, the dried webbing hidden in the corners broke off as the ball jittered sideways. Every successive inch of movement rattled the leaky...
2025-06-07 12:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostNo more rough patch, enjoy the next batch!
May's been a return to form and June's gonna continue the trend.
The next 7 chapters of IoTV! from 69-72 are available to read at your discretion - probably even more discreetly given the X chapter probably coming this month as well. Bas will be undertaking his newest role as Malekith. Maybe not the role he'd want, but he'll give it his ...
Chapter 72: Bas & Bodyworks
AnaboLIFT Gym, LA. February 2012.
“Fetch the kettles!” Any self-respecting citizen of the United Kingdom would cherish that command. Harkening to the aromas of burbling Darjeeling, the soft crumble of butter biscuits, and the comforts of home.
However, this wasn’t tea-time; I was currently undergoing...
2025-06-04 01:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71.5: The Devils Wear Prada
Anita’s Hacienda, LA. January 2012.
“Your other foot please, Mr Rhys.” Swapping my freshly pedicured hoof for the other one, my usual beautician from Win-Nguyen Situation nail salon slotted the purple foam separator between my toes. I reflexively wiggled them as she began her reflexology.
<... 2025-06-02 05:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71: Read Lines & Redlines
Disney Motion Picture Studios, LA. January 2012.
HOOONK! Fun fact: did you know that the average car horn blares out in the key of F? Tone deaf as I was, I was just as unaware. At least until the string of sharp effs Anita clenched out under breath clued me into the tidbit.
HO—HON—HO...
2025-05-21 18:12:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70.5: Billionairfare
Forty-Thousand Feet Above Sea Level, Pacific Ocean. January 2012.
Money makes the world go round. Common refrain that at present was driving me dizzy.
Two tweety birds tetchily tickled my ears in a ring of swirling feathers and sparkling stars. Being proverbially in orbit didn’t stop there, either, considering my...
2025-05-16 07:03:16 +0000 UTC View Post22nd Move: Monarch Flutterby
Slowpoke Well, Johto.
Naoko’s prediction proved prophetic.
Our crew, including April and Kurt, retread the spiral path down towards the well’s entrance.
Following Naoko’s Espeon’s hypnotic twin-tailed sway, I remained unworried about any stragglers launching an ambush. Even if any abandone...
2025-05-16 07:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post21st Move: Sacrificial Offering
Slowpoke Well Outskirts, Johto.
Call me James Bonsly.
Because, the way I was blending in with the bushes and bark, my enemies couldn’t see the forest for the me. I’d even removed my shoes and sock to improve my stealth.
Team Rocket’s most infamous trio remained entirely oblivious to my...
2025-05-16 07:01:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70: (I’m On) TV Island!
Labasa Airport Vanua Levu, Fiji. December 2011.
Ben hated sand. It was coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it got everywhere.
There was no valid justification for why an airport should be capable of doubling as a beach, but here he was. At the ass crack of dawn, in the ass end of nowhere, getting his ...
2025-05-03 14:05:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69.5: Shellfish Buffet
Uniqlo HQ Yamaguchi City, Japan. December 2011.
Upward mobility in Japanese corporate society wasn’t a climb, it was an uphill battle.
Nothing was guaranteed except toil. Not contract hours, not rest, not weekends, not pay, not even resignation depending on the company. Unfortunately, and inefficiently, merit d...
2025-04-30 19:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69: Kissing Reflections
Mandarin Oriental, New York. November 2011.
Mere-exposure effect. It’s the name of that phenomenon where you’ve glimpsed yourself in the bathroom mirror so often that your brain’s built a bias for itself and makes you appear more handsome than you might very well be.
Not me, though. I’m perfect. 2025-04-14 13:37:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
Wish this was a belated April fool's joke, but I'm serious for once.
I don't know if anyone keeps up with international news but I currently reside in Bangkok Thailand where the earthquake hit a few days ago. Luckily everything is good on my end, but my area did suffer a power surge in the wake of the disaster. Basically everything plugged in at home went up in smoke...
20th Move: Slowpoke Tale
Ilex Forest, Johto.
“Gotta admit, when we first followed you out into the woods, I was super sceptical. I almost can’t believe it, but you really held up your end of the word, Uki. You’ve done an amazing job tutoring our Pokémon!” I didn’t listen to a single syllable of Misty’s begrudging praise. The truth, howe...
2025-04-04 10:58:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68.5: Sissy’s Fucking Fuss
WB Studio Offices, LA. October 2011.
“What a shitshow. What a fucking shitshow…” How—how could this have happened!? Jeff Robinov’s chest was thumping, but it wasn’t the aftermath of his King Kong routine this time.
He’d clawed himself up the skyscraper - up the mountaintop,...
2025-04-04 10:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68: Beta Alpha Sigma
College Hill, Rhode Island. September 2011.
Travel isn’t synonymous with tourism, which meant there was absolutely no valid reason my face needed to be buried in a brochure.
A volunteer tour guide even accompanied me. Who, instead of requesting I tag-along, forcibly dragged me behind her. “Impressive, isn...
2025-03-26 05:52:06 +0000 UTC View PostIlex Forest, Johto.
Ever get that sinking realisation that you might’ve left the stove on back home while being miles away? Not the cliched, petty excuse you might toss in the middle of an uncomfortable conversation, but the genuine article. A sudden spike of fear meeting your spine, and a deserved palm smacking your ...
2025-03-23 12:50:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a reupload of Bas' body of work around the time Deathly Hallows had started filming. Pre-Limitless and his GoT stint. Patreon for some reason poofed it out of existence, which I only just noticed while doing some clean up. I'm sorry I lost all your wonderful comments.
2025-03-23 12:33:50 +0000 UTC View Post