Kalos' almost champion

former rival to champion serena, current poke-paleontologist

[calem-and-collected]

hello rotomblr. My name's Calem. I used to be a gym competitor, but when Serena became the champion I explored the interest in fossils I gained over the course of my journey. I am currently working as a poke-paleontologist at the centre in Ambrette town.

Here's my trainer card:

// ooc stuff i'll add more to later

there probably won't be any arcs yet because I'm still figuring out how to build this guys character

pelipper mail is on. other mails im not about sure yet

Headcanons:

-married to Serena. Calem loves his wife and loves to talk about her. Please ask him about her.

-Serena is currently champion (yes she has the masters dress)

-calem was the rival, not the protagonist

-loves field work, tolerates writing

posts/reblogs will be inconsistent as im busy with college work

[555bunnies]

Mega meowstic

[coffee-and-cyclizars]

Gliscord became square and immediately started crashing after the new update. Great job everyone, let’s give it up for functional web design.

[espers-n-espurrs]

oh thank fuck its not just me

[yveltalreal]

i just wnna go homeeee i wanna sleep in my beddddddddddd THERES ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW WITH THESE FUCKERS

[touya-san]

Know what? I'm gonna zoomie. As a treat.

[touya-san]

Cheren threw a shoe at me 😭

[wishmaker-astra]

Is your local pokemon gym creepy or wet?

[wishmaker-astra]

Counterpoint: bone identification in the field can involve licking stuff. Wet by proxy

[vullabies-and-skeledirges]

we're not licking them once they're in the museum!!

[melodyspokeblog]

People taking on the pokemon league in galar: how.

their gyms are like. Entire stadiums. how do you deal with THAT many people watching.

like i think i would actually die

[ballonleastadiumofficial]

I don't see how it could be done any differently. Why would anyone want to go through the trouble of a gym challenge if they weren't recognized for their feats?

[parasect-center]

I need to follow more Rotomblrs. Spice up my dash with some more variety. RB THIS POST IF IT REACHES YOU and i'll send some asks and traction etc your way, investigate your blorbos.

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'I forgot how to tie my shoes-'

- Calem

[calem-and-collected]

Dude are you okay?

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'If I trip I trip I am not asking for help on this.'

- Calem

[calem-and-collected]

I admire the spirit, but please get some shoes without ties

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'I forgot how to tie my shoes-'

- Calem

[calem-and-collected]

Dude are you okay?

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'Shaky knees shaky knees shaky knees'

- Calem

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

“There’s no way that thing hatched straight out of the egg looking like that”

[direhuman]

me explaining to the other trainers that apricorns are unknown outside of Johto because of deliberate suppression by the Silph and Devon corporations to present artificial pokeballs as the only means of capturing pokemon and establish regional monopolies after they eliminate renewable sources

[theinsidiousdice]

(via @itsbenedict)

[itsbenedict]

eternalfarnham replied to your post

you’re in the pocket of Big Ball, I see

there’s no pocket for me to BE in, there’s no LOBBYING involved, there’s no SUPPRESSION campaign because you don’t need one! traditional methods suppress themselves when you make modern pokéballs available. you might as well start accusing AT&T of deliberately suppressing the noble traditional art form of the goddamn semaphore.

not to mention OP demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the market realities of the pokéball industry- Silph and Devon are not monopolies, if they weren’t in constant competition their magic monster domination spheres wouldn’t cost two bucks a pop. the ball spec is a public standard, and Bill Masaki’s storage system based on that standard is an open-source project. they’re only the two largest players because they’re able to leverage economies of scale. you still get smaller operations like the Laverre City Poké Ball Factory, with better regional supply chains and local brand recognition, making room for themselves in the market. 

sm FUCKING h at y’all granola-crunching conspiracy theorists. you probably also believe Super Potions cause autism.

[justisdevan]

Ok, but it is a shame that artisanal balls are basically off the market now. Like, you have to ride the monorail and hike through a half dozen routes just to find someone willing to sell you a Fast Ball. Believe me, when your boss at the power plant needs five Electrodes by Tuesday you are not going to want to make the trip to Alola; you’re going to head on down to the Mart and get some Ultra Balls, which will do the trick but aren’t well tailored to the job.

I’m with you that modern catching techniques are better, not to mention more humane, but there genuinely is a loss from more niche balls becoming harder to find. Maybe someday the long slowpoketail of consumer demand will be met, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for that Shellder.

[cetaceanhandiwork]

look y’all are missing the point. mass production of silph balls crowding out traditional apricorn craftsmanship is, if anything, more a side effect of the real problem: that capture artifacts are too easy to get your hands on these days. $2 basic balls are a problem. before modern ball tech you had to go to an artisan, yes, but part of their job was to care about who had the power to recruit pokémon from the wild, as a backstop against another Knight of Veilstone coming along. there was a time when you’d never lay a hand on a ball yourself until it was clear you respected pokémon, whether tame or in the wild. but now, a “pokémon journey” is open to practically every teenager, even if they’ve got not interest in treating their team with trust and love.

the worldwide rise in the last century of organized crime and apocalyptic cults who use pokémon as their muscle is a direct result of capture artifacts becoming a mass produced market commodity rather than a mechanism for preserving the sacred trust between humans and the wilderness. it’s a miracle that the powder keg hasn’t already gone off by now.

[eternalfarnham]

Oh that is rank historical revisionism - what, do you think artisans’ definitions of “respect” were constructed in a vacuum? We already had rhetoric as far back as the warring states period in Ransei about how only the soldierly classes, overwhelmingly descendants of nobility and taught from birth, had the intangible qualities necessary to “bond” with Pokémon. And when we start seeing apricorn balls develop in Johto, which borders Kanto - Kanto, where we know there’s been extensive cultural cross-contamination with Auroran and Dragnoran expeditions - surprise, suddenly only a small population has the intangible qualities necessary to use them, too.

That notion was, and remains, a tool to limit general access to Pokémon in the interest of maintaining class disparities. I mean, have we already forgotten the Aether Foundation’s pseudo-conservationist nonsense? Their attempt to manipulate natural resources and establish a power base in Alola, while they were modernizing and taking their place on the world stage, was founded on this exact rhetoric of “rescuing” Pokémon from local disenfranchised populations, as if taking Pokémon away from places like Po Town would improve things instead of increasing competition between trainers and decreasing safety.

Do you want more disillusioned kids joining gangs? Because that’s how you get Teams!

[sindri42]

Artisanal balls and anyone who supports them are tools of the aristocracy to suppress the common folk. In the days when a ball could only be made by hand by an expert, only the wealthiest could afford pokemon, and as a result anyone not born into the “elites” was forced to be subservient to their “betters” for protection.

The release of the $2 pokeball meant that the balance of power shifted to the common citizens. If any child can wield the power of a god, the military and the government and the wealthiest businessmen have no power over them.

More than that, instead of power being determined by the wealth to acquire pokemon, power comes exclusively from the dedication, effort, and empathy required to train them to high levels and to maintain their loyalty. If a person simply buys their pokemon, then those pokemon will either stay at low levels forever, or refuse to obey the human because there is no respect between them; the most powerful people in the world are those who caught a critter at level 2-5 and then devoted their life to raising it into a world power.

And as a beautiful side benefit of this, standard of living has increased across the board. Since every household has at least one minor pokemon in the family and there are increasing numbers of professional, working pokemon joining cities and other civilized areas and working to improve them, every aspect of economy and industry has been enhanced by their supernatural capabilities. Electricity is generated cleanly and in abundance for everybody. Pollution is cleaned up almost completely and instantly. The production of farms, mines, and workshops is multiplied, even as safety standards improve. Yes, every few years another potential apocalypse comes about and needs to be prevented by a couple of brave teenagers, but outside of those incidents the world is damn close to utopia.

[6qubed]

…that was all fascinating to read and I would like to see more like it, please

for instance; what the hell is in lemonade that makes it a more powerful healing alternative to regular potions

[suinicide]

Opium

[lemondorp]

See, unlike in the real world, the Pokémon world has yet to ban cocaine in drinks.

[antique-scarecrow]

this website is INCREDIBLE

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'I think any NORMAL person can agree me disappearing for a month or two is NOT cause for you to snoop through my contacts or any of my things for that matter'

- Calem

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'Don’t use rotomblr to avoid me I AM RIGHT HERE'

'WHO IS LOOKER?'

'I THOUGHT YOU WERE TOO GOOD FOR ROMANCE.'

- Shauna

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'I AM NOT CALLING HIM A LOOKER- HIS NAME IS LOOKER. WHY WOULD I EVER USE THE TERM LOOKER???'

- Calem

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'HE????'

- Shauna

[twinchampionsofkalos]

Ooh, did someone get murdered?

[apres-amies-journaling]

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'Don’t encourage her there is no witnesses-'

- Trevor

[calem-and-collected]

Word of advice. Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to.

You sound like that feebas teacher from that show Serena likes

[calem-and-collected]

Don't sell yourself short. Paleontology is really cool!

It is!! Sorry I took so long to answer, I've been examining a particularly intact Amuaridae skull and now I have to do the paperwork :/

[calem-and-collected]

That "scary" house was a rip off. If you really want to get scared on Route 14, just enter the deeper parts of the woods.

Noted. I will leave that to the pokerangers