I'm an aspiring Pokémon researcher from Postwick in my Final year of Uni in Paldea the Ballonlea area for Pokéology. I'm interested in both Pokémon ecology (the subject of my particular degree) and the nature of naturally occurring shiny Pokémon and how and why they occur, as well as how their different colourations might affect their behaviour around humans and other Pokémon of both the same and different species (a personal project more than anything).
I'm mostly making this so that I can keep track of my own progress and share fun facts that I learn while I'm researching! I might also share personal tidbits on my life and Pokémon :)
(honestly, at this point, it's mostly tidbits)
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Its been a while, but lots has changed! My placement ended, and I was set to go back to Paldea to finish my final year, but I decided to transfer to a much smaller Uni in a small town here in Galar, instead. I missed home so much that the idea of going back to Paldea bummed me out. Thus, I stay in Galar! I'm still two-ish hours away from home in a town just a bit further up and towards the shore than Ballonlea, up on one side of the mountains facing away, but pretty close to the town itself, which is nice :)
I did enjoy living in Paldea, but I think I've realised this year that I belong in Galar.
It'll be weird switching it up, but I have a few connections here already, and my dad is living in Turffield this year, on a farm, so I'll get to be there for the Wooloo and Dubwool lambing season, and they have some other livestock Pokémon there, too. A lot of Boltunds and Growlithe to herd the Wooloo, too. There's this old Boltunds who Hates My Guts right now (he hates everyone and barely tolerates my dad and the farmer himself but that's besides the point) and I'm Going to get him to love me.
On the plus side, it also gives me a place to put my mons other than the storage machine! Which is nice. The farmer has a transfer machine for when he sells the new livestock or needs to transfer Pokémon from his childrens' farms to help with some of the heavy lifting, so it's easy to send mine over. Now they don't have to stay in their balls to be switched out periodically, they can just chill on the farm until they want to come over.
As you can imagine, Pumpkin and Acacia have taken to the farm like a Drizzile to water. Though, funny enough, so have Aneurin Ennill and Crass. They've got a nice big lake there that the two quite enjoy, and my Dad's Pokémon get along well with them. Aneurin is half and half, he likes it out here on the mountains, but he also gets along well with the other bird mons over on the farm, they have some corviknight and even a braviery up there that he likes to fly with, so he's in and out more frequently than the others. Chomp, Smilliam, Flambé and Ralter have decided to stay with me full-time, though they do enjoy being down there when I visit with them.
It's been... Nice. Something about being in Galar, even if it's not directly in my hometown, makes me feel a lot more comfortable. Plus, more stew and curry! I no longer have to deal with the fuckass sandwiches the vendors in Mesagoza and beyond sell on a day to day basis. And! No more ominous rumbles and whispers about The Crater, which is nice. Just mountains and a few cases of impidimp finding their way up here and causing mischief.
But, yeah. tl;dr: I'm back in Galar, I have one year left to go for my degree, and Im going to be spending a lot of time in Turffield in the coming months. Galar is my home, and I'm glad to be back.
Does anyone know where someone might aquire a mega stone?? My brother got me a keystone for my birthday (in 4 days!) and Ralter is super interested in it, we looked up pictures of mega forms and now he can't stop dragging this old bedsheets around his shoulders like a cape.
I hear that you're supposed to get them in kalos or hoenn, but I don't have the means to get there any time soon. I was just wondering if anyone knew anywhere in Galar other than the battle tower to get access.
I promise I won't actually hurt the Wooloo! I realise this little grr wooloo how dare you mess up my train journeys thing that I do can seem very aggressive but it's all in good fun, they're very cute little round friends and I love them dearly.
I grew up in postwick around tons of wooloo farms, I'm not unused to them joining a picnic or coming over to say hi. They're very dear to me.
Someone please make a plant equivalent of the pokedex please please please im tired of having to look on eight different websites to get this information i need it so fast so i dont have to spend a week gathering this information about 152 different species of flower life is hell arceus take me now
Sometimes I look at my Pokémon and realise how babyfied they are in my mind.
Like, to me, I see Chomp and I'm like "that's my baby. My little baby dragon guy, I love him and take care of him and give him chin scritches and polish his head star", and then I look up at him and I realise he's bigger than my entire fridge.
And the rest of them are like that, too! Flambé and Ralter are both taller than my father. They act like bickering teenagers sometimes but they're basically grown men in size and caloric intake. Smilliam is no longer a noodle that fits in my hand anymore, he's a fully matured Dragonair that's more like a pillow than a necklace when he winds around me now. Crass' head alone is heavy enough to make it difficult for me to breathe if placed on my chest. Aneurin, no longer a tiny bird resting on my finger or in my hair, he perches on my shoulders and barely fits. Ennill? She runs at me and she'll bowl me over with no difficulties. The only two who are not actual huge beasts (affectionate) are Pumpkin and Acacia, but they're more independent than all the others combined, they just sort of stick around each other and they're good for a significant portion of the day.
I'm not complaining, it's just a weird conclusion to come to. I forget they're pretty much fully matured and are not the tiny babies they were when I first got them. I sort of miss having a baby mon to sit on my hip and coddle and cwtch, but I'm proud of who they've become.
[Image ID: digital drawing of a Pawniard on top of a photograph of a mostly-gravel garden. The Pawniard, who has sawblade hands (one damaged) and a segment of blue pool noodle over the blade on her head, is peeking over the top of a large plastic flowerpot to look at a cream-coloured daffodil flower. She holds herself up with her arms. Another daffodil bud is near her left arm, and a third bulb is beginning to sprout in the bottom left corner of the image. End ID.]
Springtime is good for Bonesaw because she likes to look at the flowers, but it also means she has to wear pool noodles in the garden again, which she isn't as happy about
A scanned page from Professor Poplar's journal depicts a dozen plant appendages from grass-type pokemon that come in all shapes and sizes. Each grass-type has a unique adaptation to their flora that makes them stand apart from the others. For example, the size and dark green of Ivysaur's fronds (fig. 1) aid the poison and grass type in absorbing nutrients in low-light environments.
the “ears” on the venusaur line are actually fleshy protrusions sometimes called “horns” (although this is also a bit of a misnomer). their purpose is probably to provide some degree of camouflage in the forested areas where these pokémon naturally occur. all of venusaur’s life stages have a tendency to carve out big holes in the ground, which they lay in to hide from predators and prey. the plant growing out of their backs and the “horns” on their head make them look like foliage to passing pokémon.
a similar feature is found in maturing frogadier and adult greninja. this suggests an evolutionary relationship between the basal amphibian venusaur and the modern frog pokémon. while venusaur itself isn’t a frog, its extinct relatives, which themselves likely had these protrusions, probably gave rise to the frog pokémon we see today. thus, while venusaur itself has no particularly close extant relatives, it is more closely related to frog pokémon than it is to any other living taxa.
They sent me a pokemon egg, and said on a note that it is their child and because of some deal we made. Here is the thing: I do not trade in live pokemon, it is the only (legal) thing I do not trade in.
So there must have been a misunderstanding? I don't know.
Have any ideea who R might be? Maybe some breeder going by that name?
That's so strange. I'm not sure, I couldn't tell you anyone that goes by that name. Do you have any idea what kind of Pokémon is in the egg? Seems kinda of irresponsible to leave it with someone with no info. I've got some old support stuff for Pokémon eggs, spare incubators and blankets, from when smilliam hatched. You probably have a bunch anyway, but they're here if you need them so you don't have to take some from your stock.
Let me know if there's anything I can help with! I've got plenty of access to sources on care/research if you need them, so just pop me an ask and I'll be happy to ask around.
I don't know that much about the egg. I went to a pokemon centre. Nurse joy ran a scan and it appears to be a grass/poison, if you had any ideea what it might be, here is a pic *attatched photo*.
I have a specialised basket with like some heatting incorporated, though if I don't find the owner soon I will use one of my incubators, as I have confirmed the egg is indeed fertile (if it wasn't I would be eating an omlet sandwitch right now).
Though I will be honest this is the first time ever caring for an egg, so any advice that does not show in a 5 minute search on PokeSearch.
I have a pretty long response, so I'll pop my thoughts under the read more.
So far, your options seem to be Foongus, Bulbasaur, Bellsprout, Budew, or Oddish??
Almost all of those mons (save for maybe Foongus, mushrooms can be weird) do well with consistent sunlight, so I'd see how it reacts to getting some time out in the sun, maybe start with 30 minutes. The way I did to with smilliam's egg was that I set it on a flat surface where half of it was in the sun, and half was in the shade. I blocked off the edges so it wouldn't roll off, then set the egg in the very middle of the two spots, and let it roll around until it was comfortable. He usually settled on ¾ of the egg in the sun the that last quarter in the shade. Dragons, man. Seeing its response to the sunlight and its preference might help. Oddish, for example, only need to expose the top half of themselves to the sun, and Bellsprout only their leaves, so they won't need nearly as much basking time as a bulb or bud. Foongus will prefer to be in the dark, and cold, so it'll be averse to the sun spot.
Once you determine its preference, you can give it reasonable time in the sun each day. At least 2 hours total I'd say for anything other than a Foongus, while giving only partial sun to the oddish or Bellsprout, and full sun to the other two.
Almost all grass types love humid climates, so maybe consider getting a humidifier in the room you're keeping it in most? And preparing a soil bed for it to burrow into, if it happens to be anything but a Bulbasaur.
I suppose it depends on where this R person is from, that'd narrow it down a bit. How did you receive the egg? If it was via interregional means, it might be possible to track the shipping number to find out where it's from?
Of course, you could always just wait for it to hatch to figure it out, pretty much all Pokémon will do just fine in an incubator, especially one approved by a Pokémon center, so you should be just fine, as long as you have some decent enrichment for it once it hatches. Show it some love, and it'll be just fine :)
Ok, so keep the egg in the sun but give it the option to roll away from the sun. Prepare a sunny room for the little hatchling.
Luckly my Garchomp likes to go on daily flights, so when the egg hatches he could give the new fellow a ride from time to time.
The park close to my home is like full of flowers so the grass type will have a place to frolick.
If I recall corectly, poison types need to have an Iron rich diet, so next to the poison type specialised food I will have stuff like spinach, beans and nuts.
As for my incubator I am using the latest Aether fondation Super Incubator model 15, and using it for the recommended settings for a grass/poison type (low heat, transparent glass, oxygen rich air filling and medium-high humidity).
I just hope my Alolan ninetales does not have any issue with the new one (as an ice type she is a predator for them, and as a fairy type she is prey)
Those all sound good! You should be??? Fine??? (Tentatively said) With the alolan ninetails? Maybe give them exposure to one another before and directly after hatching, from that I've experienced, they have pretty good parental instincts, so I'd say you're probably okay, as long as you get them to interact with the intention of promoting that relationship.
They sent me a pokemon egg, and said on a note that it is their child and because of some deal we made. Here is the thing: I do not trade in live pokemon, it is the only (legal) thing I do not trade in.
So there must have been a misunderstanding? I don't know.
Have any ideea who R might be? Maybe some breeder going by that name?
That's so strange. I'm not sure, I couldn't tell you anyone that goes by that name. Do you have any idea what kind of Pokémon is in the egg? Seems kinda of irresponsible to leave it with someone with no info. I've got some old support stuff for Pokémon eggs, spare incubators and blankets, from when smilliam hatched. You probably have a bunch anyway, but they're here if you need them so you don't have to take some from your stock.
Let me know if there's anything I can help with! I've got plenty of access to sources on care/research if you need them, so just pop me an ask and I'll be happy to ask around.
I don't know that much about the egg. I went to a pokemon centre. Nurse joy ran a scan and it appears to be a grass/poison, if you had any ideea what it might be, here is a pic *attatched photo*.
I have a specialised basket with like some heatting incorporated, though if I don't find the owner soon I will use one of my incubators, as I have confirmed the egg is indeed fertile (if it wasn't I would be eating an omlet sandwitch right now).
Though I will be honest this is the first time ever caring for an egg, so any advice that does not show in a 5 minute search on PokeSearch.
I have a pretty long response, so I'll pop my thoughts under the read more.
So far, your options seem to be Foongus, Bulbasaur, Bellsprout, Budew, or Oddish??
Almost all of those mons (save for maybe Foongus, mushrooms can be weird) do well with consistent sunlight, so I'd see how it reacts to getting some time out in the sun, maybe start with 30 minutes. The way I did to with smilliam's egg was that I set it on a flat surface where half of it was in the sun, and half was in the shade. I blocked off the edges so it wouldn't roll off, then set the egg in the very middle of the two spots, and let it roll around until it was comfortable. He usually settled on ¾ of the egg in the sun the that last quarter in the shade. Dragons, man. Seeing its response to the sunlight and its preference might help. Oddish, for example, only need to expose the top half of themselves to the sun, and Bellsprout only their leaves, so they won't need nearly as much basking time as a bulb or bud. Foongus will prefer to be in the dark, and cold, so it'll be averse to the sun spot.
Once you determine its preference, you can give it reasonable time in the sun each day. At least 2 hours total I'd say for anything other than a Foongus, while giving only partial sun to the oddish or Bellsprout, and full sun to the other two.
Almost all grass types love humid climates, so maybe consider getting a humidifier in the room you're keeping it in most? And preparing a soil bed for it to burrow into, if it happens to be anything but a Bulbasaur.
I suppose it depends on where this R person is from, that'd narrow it down a bit. How did you receive the egg? If it was via interregional means, it might be possible to track the shipping number to find out where it's from?
Of course, you could always just wait for it to hatch to figure it out, pretty much all Pokémon will do just fine in an incubator, especially one approved by a Pokémon center, so you should be just fine, as long as you have some decent enrichment for it once it hatches. Show it some love, and it'll be just fine :)
