Your trash is my child

Pokemon roleplay blog // pretending Pokemon are real

[alolantrubbish]

Hello trainers!!

My name is Luna! I saw a lot of my fellow trainer friends joining this site and I thought it looked fun! Here's some stuff about me!

She/he/they/moon

Aroace

Originally from Alola, lived in Kalos for most of my life, now living in Alola again!

I live on Ula'ula Island but will occasionally make trips between the other islands :)

I love weird and ""ugly"" Pokemon, my favorite pokemon of all time being Trubbish!

Was the Alola champion for a year or so, never felt the need to defend my title

Freelance artist!

Here's my current team!!

Gumpy the Trubbish - my first ever pokemon! She loves Oran berries and mud

Pecha the Spritzee - therapy pokemon to aid with my anxiety, she loves cuddles and HATES thunderstorms

Rune the Sigilyph - a gift from my grandmother, they like staring at me while I sleep and spinning in circles

Mercury the Magnezone - caught as a magnemite a few years ago, likes to beep at me while I'm trying to work

Pretzel the Garganacl - caught as a nacli during a trip to Paldea, he loves cooking with me and knocking shit over

Squirt the Araquanid - caught as a dewpider many years ago, now she terrorizes my neighbor's kids and makes my lawn muddy

And my Rotomdex that likes to cyberbully me: @rotomspecter

Have a wonderful day! In trubbish we trust 💚💜

[espers-n-espurrs]

entering public bathrooms can result in interesting situations

[eeveeglove]

see i think a nice shower would help but my aromatisse keeps trying to get in with me and they are like IMPOSSIBLE to dry off UGHHHH

[alolantrubbish]

My spritzee does this from time to time it's such a hassle 😭 the best solution is a hairdryer set to the highest setting and a treat to keep them still lol. Still takes ages, it's insane how absorbent their feathers are

[bait-and-volt-switch]

people will act like they're sooo different for having a thing for ghost or dark types when in reality I've never met someone passionate about steel types in all of my born years

[ask-philippe]

Hi. I’m a steel type expert. We exist, I promise you. :)

[roboticaldreamz]

“Yeah! Steel types are great and really interesting!” - ⚙️

[pokemonshelterstories]

it is taking everything within me not to steal this little blue ass baby for myself

[alolantrubbish]

thoughts on the pokemon games? i’ve always thought it was really cool how they didn’t try to somehow make a typical annual sports game with the Pokemon League license and they actually got creative with trying to capture the feeling of being a pokemon trainer. especially the newer entries that try to spotlight a specific regions culture and thier local pokemon and stuff. but also i’ve never really been that big into RPGs so it is kinda nice that Pokemon Champions is basically just a regular sports game

Some of my friends are super into them! I did play the Alola edition because I was excited to see my home region represented and it was done very faithfully. Fun games! I just wish they didn't perpetuate so much of the misinfo from the pokedex

[ruderubicante]

Welp. Can't go this way.

[realpokemon]

there are too many pokemon breeders just giving children eggs what the hell

tbh its kind of insidious as a practice to hand out "mystery eggs"

like. if you're a little kid with your mom and someone offers you a "mystery egg" for like 300 pokédollars? the parent thinks "this pokémon is going to be a tiny newborn anyway" and the kid thinks "wow anything could be in this egg" and creates an imaginary world where they get their favorite pokémon in the world of course.

but what this really does is ensures that neither of them are actually materially or mentally prepared for whatever pokémon hatches. then they either have to spend a lot of time and money adjusting their lifestyles to this new pokémon. or, more likely, releasing it and it gets turned into another pokémon's lunch

[kyoeitalkstoomuch]

PSA for ALL Trainers

please check your potions, paralyze heals, antidotes, etc. for their expiration dates. if you can't find the expiration, ask your local nurse joy.

using expired products could make you, your pokémon, and others sick. please make sure you are checking those things every time you buy one or use one. if you have a bunch of expired products, swing by my or any other pokécenter in galar. we have a promo rn where we'll trade your expired ones for fresh ones.

[ruderubicante]

Gogoat ain't common here but I got spooked when my friend pointed out the Galvantula.

[ruderubicante]

They were too busy for a pup cup...

[trainerhoneywouldnotliketobattle]

I still get photographs of peoples' Vees from all over the place, all regions, even some hyper-specific regional forms I've never heard of in my life. I particularly like this one where it looks like they're all having some kind of secret meeting...

Thank you to the individual who sent me this and gave me permission to post.

[alolantrubbish]

Oooo! Hello hello! Oh ive never seen a trubbish before! Could you tell me a bit about them if you dont mind? For my poisondex!

- Rattler [@poisontrainerrattler]

Hello there! Absolutely!

Trubbish originated in Unova but have since become more widespread as pollution becomes a larger issue. Trubbish thrive in areas covered in man-made toxins and waste such as landfills and cities. Trubbish feed on a wide variety of materials found in human garbage like plastic and rubber, making them very efficient waste cleaning pokemon on par with alolan muk (who they are often seen with).

Unlike muk, however, trubbish routinely belch poisonous gas to expel excess toxins. This means that trubbish hangout spots can become dangerous for humans to frequent due to the dangerous poisons in the air. This leads many people to deeming trubbish to be pests, when in reality the issue is not with the trubbish themselves but rather the sheer amount of garbage and waste building up in certain areas. Trubbish are very helpful for cleaning up waste that would otherwise not break down for hundreds of years, and their poisonous belching is not dangerous to the public when the trubbish packs are rather small and regulated. However, more garbage = higher trubbish population = more areas made dangerous for people and Pokemon because of their toxic belches. Higher populations also lead to the usually docile trubbish fighting eachother more frequently for territory and food. Decreasing our waste production will lead to better health for us as well as the trubbish.

Adopting a trubbish is a tedious multistep process. It is recommended that you keep your newly caught trubbish outside or in an aired out garage for their first week or so home while they get the toxins of their wild diet out of their systems. You should also wear masks and gloves while handling them for this time. Although trubbish will eat literally anything, captive trubbish live longer and healthier lives when fed a regulated diet of clean plastics and composted food. There's many resources online for the best diets for captive trubbish as well as specialized plastic trubbish kibble!

Please don't treat your trubbish companion as a garbage disposal, it's a very common practice with inexperienced trainers. Just because they'll eat anything doesn't mean that they should, captive trubbish can live up to 20 years longer than their wild relatives because of a more regulated diet. A cleaner diet will also make them much less stinky, though trubbish will pretty much always have a faint eggy smell no matter how well you feed them lol

All of the info about their diets also applies to their evolution, garbodor, as well (just in bigger quantities)

I hope that was helpful!! There's plenty of other fun trubbish facts on my blog if you look around :)

[mimicyutie]

look at what my mate from paldea sent me

[alolantrubbish]

My hot take is everstones shouldn't be used unless it's for the health and safety of a particular pokemon (ex: special needs pokemon that would have a more difficult life upon evolution or could even be injured or die during the evolution process). If your pokemon wants to evolve and is at the stage in its life that it would be happier to do so then you shouldn't try to stop it. Do not adopt a pokemon if you aren't prepared to care for its evolutions too

Now obviously there are nuances to this especially with Pokemon that evolve via stone like eevee and could be evolved on accident when the pokemon didn't want it but my point still stands. Even with an everstone accidents can happen, it can break or get lost and you'll have an evolved pokemon on your hands that you weren't prepared to care for. If you can't handle ANY of your partner's potential evolutions then you shouldn't be taking care of them, sorry.

[cephalopkmn]

I absolutely agree. I don't think a lot of people realise that a Pokémon builds up a lot of energy in its lifetime as it matures towards the state of evolution. (Of course this doesn't cover all methods of evolution but generally it's the case for most Pokémon.) An everstone absorbs some of it, but by far not all, and as a result your Pokémon can become incredibly restless at best or get serious health problems by overloading its body with stress because it doesn't have anywhere to put this energy at worst. So not only is it a moral issue where you don't respect the wishes of your Pokémon, I have seen it cause health issues many times because people just don't know the amount of extra care that is required when you make the decision to use an everstone. If you own a Pokémon and you cannot or will not want to take care of its evolutions, you simply should not be taking care of this one either.

[alolantrubbish]

My hot take is everstones shouldn't be used unless it's for the health and safety of a particular pokemon (ex: special needs pokemon that would have a more difficult life upon evolution or could even be injured or die during the evolution process). If your pokemon wants to evolve and is at the stage in its life that it would be happier to do so then you shouldn't try to stop it. Do not adopt a pokemon if you aren't prepared to care for its evolutions too

Now obviously there are nuances to this especially with Pokemon that evolve via stone like eevee and could be evolved on accident when the pokemon didn't want it but my point still stands. Even with an everstone accidents can happen, it can break or get lost and you'll have an evolved pokemon on your hands that you weren't prepared to care for. If you can't handle ANY of your partner's potential evolutions then you shouldn't be taking care of them, sorry.

[green-arana-research-center]

He begs for more food but then freezes when I give it to him