And we are officially back on the Hogwarts Express tracks!
Mover/Shaker Step 9 is out as Uki begins the new leg of his journey in the next arc of the series!
The filming for Half Blood Prince has officially wrapped, and in the freshly released IoTV! Chapters 36.5,37, and 37.5 are ready to read - hopefully with the same excitement as bas has generated with his antics!
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Chapter 37.5: Dance Dance Retribution
Jack Black’s Home, Beachwood California. May 2008.
“Sing from your diaphragm, Bas baby. You gotta - waaAAH - let it out!” Jack Black’s backyard was about as open as it gets. Yet somehow, despite that, he belted out his voice loud enough to shake the trees surrounding his property.
There...
2024-06-16 12:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37: Keeping Tabs
Production Office, Leavesden. April 2008.
Never did I believe that so far away from my schooling years that I’d be back in the principal’s office awaiting correction.
David Heyman’s warm woody office was replaced by the harsh fluorescent hell of academic authority. My stiff spine and knocking knees made the plush...
2024-06-15 08:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36.5: Cockroach Spray
The Automat, London. April 2008.
The American housing market had crashed out, and the nervous bobblehead I’d employed as my financial manager, Ben Wyatt, had cashed in.
Busy as I was, we’d yet to go into the full numbers. But the last time he’d yammered on, at least until I’d hung up on him to get started ...
2024-06-13 20:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post9th Move: Juggling Relationships
Violet City Gym
At this moment, I am euphoric, not because I have seized victory, but because I am basking in my opponent’s misery.
If the crowd had any applause or good sportsmanship, I wasn’t on the receiving end of it.
Falkner swooped over to me as soon as the both of us recalled our Pokémon. Baloo was in need of...
2024-06-10 12:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostTardy to the party, but the music's still pumping!
Apologies for the slight delay this week. Writer's block had turned me into a blockhead, but I beat my head against that brick wall long enough to get the newest batch out as I promised!
Mover/Shaker Step 8 - Uki takes his first steps on the battle stage and earns his first badge with Baloo against Falkner and his fliers.
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Chapter 36: Keeping Mum
Cardiff, Wales. March 2 2008.
The wheels on the bus went crunch as it drove over the gravel driveway of the manor. With a whiny crank and steamy hiss, it came just a few meters away from the entrance of the foster home.
Mrs Stephens, with a thankful smile to the driver, was the first one off, a...
2024-06-09 09:45:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35.5: I’d Like to Spank the Academy
Kodak Theatre, Hollywood. February 2008.
The glam! The glitz! A red sea littered with stars as far as I could spit.
Not that I would since several thousand lenses that would catch any glob of saliva from my mouth with more force than gravity itself.
When I wasn’t actively shedding pou...
2024-06-07 07:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: HeartFelt(on) Apology
Leavesden Studios, UK. January 2008.
Something stank to high heaven, and it wasn’t his soggy socks.
“Alright, gentlemen. I believe we’ve got the shot - even the one for posterity.” Tom Felton remained prone and submerged in the ankle-deep water.
Myrtle’s bathroom had been flooded ra...
2024-06-03 12:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostUki’s Campsite, Route 36.
As clever as I felt for coming up with alliterative, or tongue-in-cheek, or even funny punny names for the moves I create; all that work I put into training my Pokémon to use those moves goes down the drain the moment I vomit my lungs out against a competent battler.
Like every overly enthu...
2024-06-01 14:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostLooks like we've finally reached the end of the month!
Mover/Shaker takes its seventh rumbling step as Uki is well under way preparing for his upcoming gym challenge.
IoTV! 33.5, 34, and 34.5 are also up and ready to read. Bas finally gets to relax a little and chooses to get his blood pumping (literally) while acting his heart out. As production continues smoothly Bas and co. may...
Chapter 34.5: The Crux of it All - Part 2
Leavesden Studio, UK. January 2008.
There was a crack in my butt. Not just the one that ran down the middle.
Heineken owed me royalties for all the free advertising I was giving them for constantly rubbing my heinie on camera. But I wasn’t gonna complain too much because it came with the territory. 2024-05-28 04:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 34: The Crux of it All - Part 1
Leavesden Studios, UK. December 2007.
[Dumbledore’s circular office looked a lot neater than the last time I’d visited. Considering I’d vented my frustrations out on it, it wasn’t a surprise to me that some of the puffing, whirring, and softly whistling were missing.
The headmaster g...
2024-05-25 15:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33.5: Weasley Slashing
Makeup Station, Durham Cathedral. December 2007.
Love is in the air - that’s how the saying goes, but I had a unique spin on it. Love is in the hair.
That’s why David Yates’ balding scalp looked like a hairy guy’s knee, “Hold still, Bas,” and why my luscious locks needed the hairstylist to trigger the...
2024-05-24 15:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostRoute 36 Campsite, Johto.
Falkner had whipped off his falconry gloves and whapped me across the face twice to a gym sanctioned duel.
The stakes were simple - he wins and I’m forced to abandon my Pokédollar printing perch so that he can return to a simple life of pecking rookies into bird feed. He didn’t appre...
2024-05-22 12:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostWhoops! Almost forgot to do one of these this week!
As an apology I'm uploading the latest chapter of Mover/Shaker after this post to continue Uki's Pokemon journey.
Three more chapters of IoTV! are slated for release this week from now till Monday. Currently chapters 32, 32.5, and 33 are up and ready to read. Bas and his schemes have finally gotten the shooting for HBP on track a...
Chapter 33: High Tea
Bas’ Caravan, Leavesden. November 2007.
Over the past few weeks, when I wake up in the morning, it’s usually been me grumbling at the sunlight streaming in through my window when it hurts my eyes.
But today, instead of the prospect of throwing punches at production bearing heavy on my mind, the only thing keeping...
2024-05-19 18:47:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32.5: Tele-Socio-Pathy
Wardrobe Department, Leavesden. November 2007.
“Would you fuck me?” Jealousy doesn’t come naturally to me, but as I stared at the shirtless hunk in the mirror, I was feeling it full force.
“Thank God you’re wearing underwear beneath those baggy pants.” Anita’s voice was more muffled than usual, if i...
2024-05-18 17:41:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32: The Half-Wit Ponce
Leavesden Studios, UK. October 2007.
Dilemmas did diddly-squat when it came to delaying production. If the money train was full speed ahead, there wasn’t any thought going into the trolley problem. It wouldn’t matter who and how many were tied to the tracks, rather than choose, the train would skillfully drift on t...
2024-05-17 14:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
IoTV! has the next three chapter 30.5, 31, and 31.5 out and ready to read. Half blood prince is having a rocky start, but the team will do their best to get it back on track. And Bas finally read the acknowledgments!
I owe an apology for Mover/Shaker unfortunately the chapter i wrote was complete Garbodor. Will hopefully keep that stench contained this week!
Look...
Chapter 31.5: Jumping the Gun, Not the Shark
Bas’s Caravan, Leavesden. October 2007.
“Storming out like that, even choreographed, is unbecoming, Mr Rhys.”
“C’mon Cad, calling it storming out is a little harsh. It was a light drizzle at worst.” My steps up the door to my caravan were kept lighter than u...
2024-05-12 22:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Comply, Come Fly Away
Leavesden Studios, UK. October 2007.
Fear wasn’t a foreign concept to me, but the circumstances that led to me living the life I did now, not to mention the extremely cushy existence I’d carved out for myself, had left my sense of danger about as dulled as a 2B pencil after an hours-long exam.
The sl...
2024-05-11 19:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30.5: Boxing in the Office
Dunshire Equities, LA. September 2007.
“Take a seat.”
“...This is my office, Bas. You take a seat.” Would you look at that? Not only had my ever indefatigable financial advisor Ben gotten himself a brand spanking new office suite with all the works, apparently he’d also gotten himself ...
2024-05-10 14:58:45 +0000 UTC View PostI feel like every time I blink I'm writing another one of these.
This week just flew by.
Mover/Shaker chapter 6 is out. Uki has managed to barter better rewards from a jilted gym leader. Who will he train for his impending match and will he succeed?
IoTV! 29, 29.5, and 30 are there too. Bas' Hawaiian vacation is over, next week he'll have to take care of things at home be...
Chapter 30: Getting Lei’d
Hilo, Hawaii. September 2007.
The ballistic storm battering Kaua’i was ready to ebb. In around another week, there’d no longer be thunder over the tropics.
After anything and everything involving jungles, animals, stunts, and explosions had been completed, Ben had relaxed and basically dispersed the crew i...
2024-05-05 20:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29.5: Hawaiian Cruise
Kaua’i, Hawaii. August 2007.
Whenever the weather is on the brink of rain, a lot of us have the senses to tell that a shift is coming. Some people feel an ache in their bones and others breathe in that earthy scent of petrichor.
My poor nose, unfortunately, only caught a persistent and lingering stench of body o...
2024-05-04 14:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: Rigidity Don’t Jive
Kaua’i, Hawaii. August 2007.
I loved practical effects. CG has its place in movie making for sure, but I dreaded the day when tasteful enhancements were subsumed by the viral infection that computer graphics would inevitably become. Planting their invading flag on the rich soil of artistry to turn it into an artif...
2024-05-02 17:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostEntertainment took many many forms in the Pokémon world. Outside of battling, there was an entire ocean of industries and fields that gained eyes and attention.
And often with that attention came the corresponding fame and power for those at the pinnacle.
Mind you, it wasn’t just the people with posters on fans...
2024-05-01 12:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostI don't know how I've managed to fit in so many update in a single month, but I doubt anybody is complaining haha.
Another week gone and another pack of chapters are available for you at your leisure!
Mover/Shaker chapter 5 is out - Uki's recent shenanigans have potentially put him trouble with a gym leader.
IoTV! chapters 27.5, 28, and 28.5 are also out!
Bas and Emma...
Chapter 28.5: Pineapples & Oranges
Kaua’i, Hawaii. July 2007.
My body gently swayed. I lounged in a hammock tied between two palm trees. Distant crunching and sloshing sang the siren call of a cerulean sea. But nothing could take me away from the siren beside me, who looked suspiciously like the stewardess on my flight headed here. Her grass s...
2024-04-29 05:46:15 +0000 UTC View Post