#we do this

[shrcker]

always make sure you give your computer a kiss on the cheek and/forehead after cleaning her out and let her know how brave she was

[salty-ironstrange-shipper]

Stephen: Sweet baby jesus, thank you.

Tony: ... Doc, are you a christian?

Stephen: No, I'm an atheist. Why?

[prof-peach]

Followup to the shroomified Torterra ask!

I did as you said and kept my buddies away from the Torterra, but they still look freaked out. Solosis tried to do something funky with the psychic energy when it came within sight of our house, either stoking aggression or straight up making a hallucination for the Torterra to attack, but as far as I can tell none of their efforts had any effect. Leafeon won't go further than the Pecha trees outside the front door since that.

I remember you asking about region - I live in Sinnoh, near the edge of Eterna Forest and the Floaroma flower fields. As you can imagine, I see a lot of grass types, but not so many at the forest's edge in the last couple of days. Flower field mons seem normal, though. Are they all avoiding the Torterra?

Went ahead and contacted the rangers too, and while they aren't telling me much, it kind of sounds like they're having trouble finding it. How does a shroom turtle that big hide anywhere?? And more constructively, is there anything I can do to ward it away from our home? I don't want poor Leafeon getting even more stressed out.

Fascinating that your solosis tried to evoke a reaction and got nothing. Not a great sign for the host pokemon, i'd put my money on that thing being a deceased mon who's being piloted by the invasive mushrooms. Wouldn't be the first pokemon to have this happen to. I'd kill to study that thing, it's a rare occurrence to see something so big still moving if thats the case. Fingers crossed local experts are too busy and they call us up, though sinnoh is a little out of our usual jurisdiction.

They're surprisingly evasive when they want to be. Settle right into the dirt and basically disappear. It seemed to sneak up on you with a surprising lack of noise, i'm not shocked the rangers aren't able to locate it right away, their camouflage is pretty adept. If they continue to struggle in finding it, I don't doubt a specialist will be brought in to track and investigate it.

As for warding it off, well, if its not conscious of its actions, it'll be very difficult to keep it away should it want to move in your general direction. It has not shown hostility, but may be moving about to find a new host or otherwise infect other things with its spores. I suppose you can see if a cleanse tag warding line would work. thread a load on wire or string, hang them up around the area you want to protect. Theres no guarantee it'll work, but might do something if theres a shred of the original pokemon still in there. Fungi based creatures will stay in the dappled shade and deep forest, they need shade and moisture to thrive, so exposing themselves in wide open fields much like Floroma has would be risky. Not something it should in theory do, unless pushed hard. Take your breaks and walks in the open spaces, bright sun, try to avoid the forests until the local rangers inform you further. Without more information i'd not be 100% certain what to suggest. Still, avoid it wherever possible.

Whatever is happening there, it could very well be very dangerous for the local flora and fauna, wonder where it came from, or what its goal is?

plz rangers, plz call us. We get a handful of cases like this per year, and each is totally wild, love studying it, usually gives some crazy data on the habits of invasive species.

[barnaes-arch]

my partner and i are going to a deer sanctuary on saturday, and he and his friend are laughing at me currently because i said i wasn’t going to wash my hair tonight and will do it tomorrow instead because i want it to look nice for the deers.

[ifindus]

Bloody Sunset - for the fourth prompt of @hetaween-hetaliaevent

Apparently, dressing up in black capes, wearing white masks and spray blood over yourself every year on the autumnal equinox is considered “being in a cult” by some people. Anyone else have this problem of misconception?

[openblogtomyabusivemother]

I get messages every day about how my blog helps people get through their trauma and abuse.

So I just want to take a second pass that along to all of you because I couldn't do this without you. My experiences alone are not what makes this blog what it is. What's the most powerful about it is that it's a community where all sorts of people come and share their experiences and that helps other people learn and be validated and I could not do that by myself. So thank you for being here. Thank you for speaking up. Thank you for opening up. Thank you for having the strength to be vulnerable. Together we are helping people through what we know is the worst possible thing anybody could go through. 💙

[stoportotouch]

allow me to offer you all... the Mood