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Hating on tourists is not only correct, it is a moral obligation. Fuck 'em.

This is true!!!!

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gengar: what's your favorite joke?

Team Rocket.

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🫡 kiss maxie more, got it

I haven’t posted here in a bit, huh. Okay let me fix that.

1. Happy Pride month to hot girls with red eyes (that’s ME)

2. Late happy Mother’s Day and Father’s Day to my dad. Girldad Maxie, everybody.

3. @may-maple-blog it’s Friday, sparkle on don’t forget to be yourself or whatever

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Well, I also mean kinda distant family members. Like cousins they maybe never met, etc.?

i'm so sorry anon but i'm not sure that's something we can police

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my avocado curse persists

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If Garchomp don't stay mated for life and separate after clutches's maturity, how do they make sure they don't accidentally mate with a family member? Is this a question for Clair?

i mean they do live with each other for years and years and years, so like, they recognize their family members

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i need a bi flag emoji.

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Following up on aggron & your offer to tell us more about pokemon biology, what are the reproduction habits of each member of your team's species?

sure! under the cut for talk of, you know, reproduction related stuff. normal nature things but i'm being cautious!

aggron are a single-sex species and reproduce asexually, and reproduction seems to be tied to environmental stability and whether or not they have a territory claim. additionally, from observing both wild specimens and groundskeepers, it seems like aggron only reproduce once in their entire life, bearing 3-6 aron at a time in geode-like eggs. they do not pair off and are instead solitary, chasing off other aggron and large predators such as salamence.

they are strongly territorial and will defend their nest with their lives; however, groundskeepers at least are typically comfortable with people approaching them/their young as they're used to peoples' presence. that's how i got brutus--he was the littleroot groundskeeper's littlest.

young aron and lairon will stick around their parent's territory for years until they're ready to strike out on their own. this process seems to depend on the individual, and in some cases the aron never evolve and never leave.

sceptile are oviparous and gonochoric, meaning they lay eggs and have two sexes, male and female. they are a lekking species, which means that many males will gather in an area (for sceptile, this means within auditory range) and compete with each other to find a mate. males will display, fight each other, and make trilling calls at night to attract a female.

a pair won't stick together after the mating process, and young treecko are raised by their mother after hatching. she will chase off other sceptile (including prospective mates) and predators from her young. baby treecko will cling to their mother's back, or, if they're too weak or small to cling, will be carried in her mouth.

salazzle function more like bees than lizards. they are eusocial and have a caste system consisting of workers (non-breeding female and male salandit, typically the queen's offspring), a harem (breeding male salandit, unrelated to the queen), and a queen (a salazzle). the harem of males is attracted via pheromones from another queen's drone or harem population, and salazzle will compete with each other for territory and males, typically by fighting each other.

the males in the harem will compete with each other for the right to mate with the salazzle, gaining her favor by either fighting each other or displaying for her. sometimes, female salandit close to evolving will try to steal unrelated males from the queen's harem, and if they get caught, they get kicked out of the colony to go form their own. if they succeed, however, they lay their eggs with the queen's so their fellow workers can take care of their offspring too.

the workers have different jobs in the colony--females tend to the queen's young, and males do everything else: digging out tunnels, catching food, battling predators, etc. when a queen salazzle dies, the female closest to evolving will take her place, or the colony will dissolve and integrate with other colonies.

milotic: feebas display bidirectional sequential dichogamy, meaning they can change their sex from male to female or female to male and back again, depending on environmental conditions. this is to ensure that no matter the population density of feebas in the area, there are enough males and females to form a breeding population. feebas and milotic are oviparous.

once a feebas evolves, which really doesn't happen frequently in the wild, its sex is locked in--milotic cannot change sexes, and due to size/body shape differences, cannot mate with feebas--only other milotic (or another compatible species, like garchomp or dragonair). a milotic will lay her eggs in a crevice to protect them from predators, and then skate. they have no maternal instinct at all, and as such, they lay very large clutches of eggs. very few feebas fry live to adulthood.

garchomp: clair ōkaneku actually wrote a really great article on garchomp care, so i'm gonna link that here too since she covers some of this as well. the gible line is very social, forming large colonies made up of the offspring of a breeding pair, and both parents will remain together to protect the nest, trading off who is doing the hunting. this parental instinct only applies to their own offspring, however, and garchomp have been known to prey on others of their species that aren't related to them.

garchomp do not mate for life, but will raise clutches together, and gible take a long time to mature, so the parents will stick together for 10+ years at a time. once the gible have reached maturity or evolved into gabite, the colony breaks apart as the parents (and their now-adult offspring) search for new mates.

garchomp are gonochoric, but express very little sexual dimorphism and it can be difficult to tell at a glance if a specimen is male or female, as both sexes are equally sized and aggressive.

latios: i don't know how latios/as reproduce. i'm also not going to ask because those are like, people and consent laws apply.

i will say that they definitely do mating displays and dances.

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not how that works <3

Interesting pokemon fact?

aggron are, as far as we can tell, a single sex species. so like, referring to brutus with gendered pronouns is really meaningless.

please note that anthropomorphizing nonhuman creatures, pokémon or animal, can be extremely dangerous. don't do it. additionally, if it's a sapient species, then it's just flat out rude. definitely don't do it then.

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they're really a friendly species!

How cuddly is Aron? It's made of rock and metal so it wouldn't be a comfortable hug, but is it interested in physical affection anyway?

so the thing about the aron line is that they're smart enough to recognize that you're trying to communicate with them when you touch them. so no, as a species, with each other, they are not particularly cuddly, but brutus for example knows that touch is something that i like, so he goes out of his way to do it for me, usually by laying his hand on my back.

their hands and fingers are their most sensitive as far as skin goes, but their skin is rocky and doesn't have that many touch receptors elsewhere. their nervous system, which is made of a crystalline material, is much more sensitive--so for example i will sometimes run my thumb along brutus' irises to pet him, because i know he can feel that.

so in short: yes, your trained aron/lairon/aggron will be interested in physical affection if you are too!

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Ah, so aggron reproduce asexually?

yeah. as far as we can tell it's most similar to parthenogenesis.

genetics don't really apply to them since they aren't organic and don't function like an organic pokémon or animal, and how they get their equivalent of genetic diversity is still being studied.

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How cuddly is Aron? It's made of rock and metal so it wouldn't be a comfortable hug, but is it interested in physical affection anyway?

so the thing about the aron line is that they're smart enough to recognize that you're trying to communicate with them when you touch them. so no, as a species, with each other, they are not particularly cuddly, but brutus for example knows that touch is something that i like, so he goes out of his way to do it for me, usually by laying his hand on my back.

their hands and fingers are their most sensitive as far as skin goes, but their skin is rocky and doesn't have that many touch receptors elsewhere. their nervous system, which is made of a crystalline material, is much more sensitive--so for example i will sometimes run my thumb along brutus' irises to pet him, because i know he can feel that.

so in short: yes, your trained aron/lairon/aggron will be interested in physical affection if you are too!

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you may be my new favorite maxie for this

I would pet all of them.

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maya, if i ever have to live out my three to six aron nightmare scenario, i am mailing one of them to you immediately

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putting harte down for an aron, got it

I would pet all of them.

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maya, if i ever have to live out my three to six aron nightmare scenario, i am mailing one of them to you immediately

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putting you down for one too

I would pet all of them.

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maya, if i ever have to live out my three to six aron nightmare scenario, i am mailing one of them to you immediately

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"something happens" like my aggron spontaneously reproducing?

i'll put you down for an aron.

I would pet all of them.

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maya, if i ever have to live out my three to six aron nightmare scenario, i am mailing one of them to you immediately

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well, telling maya why she should get an aggron was my 3000th post. i'm really not surprised.