FROSTBURN ICE CREAM

Welcome to FrostBurn Ice Cream! I'm the manager, and local ice type trainer, J! Alolan! Heahea City, Akala island, Alola. <3

[frostburnicecream]

Hello everyone! N-ice to meet you! I'm J (no relation to the pokemon hunter!), I use he/they pronouns, and am an ice-type trainer! Here's my team, be sure to train up! They're strong!

While you're here, be sure to try some of our ice creams!! I'm in Heahea city in Akala island in Alola!!! Come visit!!!!!!

(ICON, SPRITES, drawing by @/4n4tomy)

(WARNING: This blog will treat the entire Pokemon franchise as if it were real life. If this negatively affects you, please don't hesitate to block and move on.)

[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

[waywardstation]

Season’s Greason’s from the Hisuian Icelands! Watch out for that alpha sneasel!

I wanted to draw something quick for today and the first thing that popped into my head was this image haha. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to those that celebrate!

Original below the cut!

[waywardstation]

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

[pokemonshelterstories]

baby lapras hatched at the academy nursery. peace and love on planet earth.

[pokemonshelterstories]

an assignment for one of my grad school classes is to successfully hatch and raise a traditional starter pokemon. my little treecko i ended up with hatched today and he is not even as big as one razz berry

[pokemonshelterstories]

my son glunkus who has every disease

[pokemonshelterstories]

oh lord i am in love

[frostburnicecream]

feeding a stray mimikyu i found in the alley behind my shop. cute fella

[pokemonshelterstories]

This feels like a silly question, but how can i help keep my fire type pokemon clean? A bath is obviously not an option, but i can’t keep having mud trekked through my house..

it depends on the fire type! water itself is different from a water type attack, which is imbued with type energy. some fire types are perfectly fine with a little bath provided that you don't use cold water. obviously don't bath a pokemon with an open flame on its body or like. a slugma. but a pokemon like tepig or litleo will happily enjoy a warm wash.

other fire types can be spot cleaned with a damp rag or sponge, again using warm water. i would do this for pokemon like chimchar or ponyta that don't want to get dunked underwater but are okay with some contact.

but some pokemon- think of pokemon that live in volcanic areas like magmar, or have parts of their body that could be damaged by water like rolycoly- shouldn't be coming into contact with water at all. in their case, they clean themselves up by blasting dirt and debris away with fire! so long as they have a spot to safely do so without starting a fire, you can let them burn off any dirt and then brush the ashes away with a fireproof brush.

generally you don't have to worry about that last technique with pokemon that would be coming into your house, so hopefully you should be able to get your buddy's paws cleaned up easily!

[mimikinyuu]

i cant give him funny face penalty when his face is cloth and thread…

(ooc: comm is from @realpokemon !!!! please commission him she was an absolute delight to work with)

[frostburnicecream]

looove posting from my job. whos gonna stop me? im my own boss and only employee

[frostburnicecream]

some guy just came into my shop with 5 unowns. can you guess what they spelt.

[frostburnicecream]

You're the only other person I've seen on this site that has a mamoswine! Big guy gang!

-@leaguetraining

big guy gang !!!!!

[water-pokemon-appreciator]

For pride month, I propose that we change Gyarados to Gayrados

[water-pokemon-appreciator]

[realpokemon]

hello and welcome to day 30 of making personal attacks on rodney realpokemon.

do you have a healthy relationship with your father?

my relationship with my father is just like EVERYONE ELSE'S. he left before my 3rd grade pokémon journey began and was never mentioned again by anyone as if he never existed in the first place

[realpokemon]

via @frostburnicecream

[sonofthetrigod]

Well yeah, it's the Easter Scorbunny. Silly Kalosians...

[pokemonshelterstories]

a guy who came to the shelter to look into adopting a water type pokemon was asking me about what pokemon might get along with his quaxly and then he said "he was specially bred to have long feathers on his head want to see" and of COURSE i said yes and on arceus that duck looked like this

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

So are we team magma or team aqua fans on rotomblr. Or neither!

[lovenpeace-pkmn]

We are anti-evil team

[teamwinterofficial]

actually no were not ^v^ -blizz