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@yetanotherpokeblog
Hey guys! I’m Sage, age 22, and I’m a trainer from south of Unova. I’ve got a pretty good team of buds who include:
Espeon - Eve
Clodsire - Jimmy John
Raichu - Vinny
Currently, I’m studying Pokémon/trainer therapy and volunteering in Pokémon rehabilitation.
If you have any questions about me, please don’t hesitate to ask!!
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You are trying to move into an apartment with your favorite Pokemon. The building is strict about which Pokemon are allowed inside but it’s super affordable. How hard do you think it will be to convince the landlord to let you keep it in the building?
Easy as can be, perfect apartment dweller
Might take some convincing
Basically a coin flip
It will be an uphill battle but I might be able to, while saying goodbye to my deposit
No increased rent, deposit or argument could convince any landlord to let us in
You are trying to move into an apartment with your favorite Pokemon. The building is strict about which Pokemon are allowed inside but it’s super affordable. How hard do you think it will be to convince the landlord to let you keep it in the building?
Easy as can be, perfect apartment dweller
Might take some convincing
Basically a coin flip
It will be an uphill battle but I might be able to
No increased rent, deposit or argument could convince any landlord to let us in
I am the landlord/other/results
I mean my Espeon is pretty chill. Like litten but without all the fire.
Now Jimmy John on the other hand? That one’s gonna take a good bit of convincing.
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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
Y'all know what to do Tumblr.
(Groans) ONLY 500K???
Y'all need to move along, and i know a guy (or girl. I never asked…)
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Anyone who is attacked by a pokemon, deserves it. Always remember this
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
(via @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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
…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
Opium
Hundreds of years ago, the bright yellow fur of a Pikachu used to be considered a sign that the trainer was fortunate or noble, so many royal families used to own them by the dozen. This is the reasoning for so many old coins having Pikachus printed on them, as well as an explanation for the many circle-cheeked “pikamon” that became domesticated in that time.
Pachirisu (EleSquirrel Pokémon), Emolga (Sky Squirrel Pokémon) and Togedemaru (Roly-Poly Pokémon) are all believed to be descendants of a a now-extinct squirrel-like breed of Pikachu. Their white fur and yellow cheeks were considered a sign of the trainers purity, and old scriptures often compare them to angels.
The only non-extinct pikamons to still truly be in the pika genus are the Pawmi family, categorised by how they’ve retained their ability to evolve. Paldea was one of the only regions not to be involved with the mass Pikachu breeding craze of ‘25, hence how they’ve adapted and evolved to the climate more naturally.
Have there been any papers on the reason for the sudden split into psycic typing within the pika line? As far as I'm aware there nearly no reason for it
People believe it's due to Alola's warmer climate, the regions culture and the food it eats. Morpeko and Dedenne developed secondary typings for similar reasons, and diet plays a surprisingly big part in a species' evolution and behavior.
We're still not sure which part made them become psychic specifically, though. Evolution is weird.
[Image description: A fake cladogram of mouse-like Pokemon, all of which are given binomial names. Togedemaru (Flavogenas spinosus), Pachirisu (Flavogenas alba), and Emolga (Flavogenas volans) split off first, with Pachirisu and Emolga then splitting off from Togedemaru. Pluse (Gemios addere) and Minun (Gemios aufer) are the next to split off, followed by Morpeko (DuoPika esurines) and Dedenne (DuoPika radio). The Pawmi line (Pika manus) then splits. The remaining Pokemon are split into two groups. One has the Pichu/Pikachu line ending in Aloan Raichu (Pika psycica) and the Pichu/Pikachu line ending in Kanto Raichu (Pika pika). The other branch has the Pikachu to Gigantamax Pikachu line (Pika gargantua) and Cosplay Pikachu (Pika shirogane). End description.]
@pokemondescribed
Reminder to all trainers out there that THIS Pokémon
fucking HATES YOUR GUTS
He’s a PROFESSIONAL HATER
If he were a foot or two taller he’d KILL YOU
He has NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES and is NOT afraid to use them at ANY MOMENT
remember that if your pokémon is afraid of fireworks then you are legally permitted to battle whichever pokémon keeps using Draco Meteor within 300 feet of your house until there are no longer any fireworks
i think most people would lose against a pokemon that can spam draco meteor
not everyones a high level trainer
that’s why they invented raid battling
the -6 SPA deino that got given a TM seeing 39 very upset pidgeys
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If you some say some shit like 'poison type specialists DNI' or 'Dark type enjoyers DNI' in your description actually block me right now it's so fucking childish.
This applies for any type
this is like- playground argument level shit that people have held onto like seriously grow the fuck up
yeah same. its only ever 'evil' types.
The funniest fucking thing is not always -I saw an account that was like 'N0rmal type loserz DNI only Dark, Poizon a Ghoztz h3re"
I know there are plenty of edible pokemon but like. I have the indescribable urge to put Round Boys in my mouth
COUGHING BOMB
VS
HYDROGEN BABY
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Im autisitc and this comes from a place of love for my neurodivergant homies
tag yourself I'm mimikyu
Vennonat
Grafaiai!!
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all of these
except toedscool because it walks better than me
I’m vibing like that Shroodle
i have proof that typhlosion is the best pokemon
