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Honestly not sure if that one anon got around to writing that fanfic about me and Camylla.

Bonus points: include the genre/summary of any notable ones

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No problem man!! Wishing you a safe trip. make sure to send me pictures of your mons :]

Sad you're leaving but glad you're going off to explore Dirk!

Have fun, feel free to msg me :]

~ @celadon-arcade-champ

It’ll be weird not seeing you around. I know I said this earlier, but thank you again for always being so chill. I’ll definitely keep in touch.

Try not to break too many of my records, hah.

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Slowpoke cuddles save me. Save me slowpoke cuddles

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Ah...good day today. Got some stuff that needed done done(prepping garden beds!) Played with the 'mons outside a bit.

Overall just a good day :]

I hope you guys out there on the internet had a good day too

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YIPPEEEEE im happy for them and for u!!!!

Yippee!!!

Thank u for being normal anon

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It's the gossip website. Spill the tea

There's no tea??? All they did was adopt the Nidos from my care?? Like. There's no big conspiracy here or anything. It's just normal fostering stuff.

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Details

Details?? Whaddya mean why would there be details. What do you want the new trainers information? I'm not giving you that you nosy anons.

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OH MOLTRES FEATHERS I FORGOT TO UPDATE-

the deal is sealed for Pip and Squeak!! They're going to a new home!!! They really hit it off with the potential trainers! Proud of them!!

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y'all....

[a photo lit by the light of a bedside lamp, the rose-backed Ivysaur Seal can be seen standing in the doorway of presumably Syd's bedroom]

He just knocked open the door and then stared for a bit... Then turned around and left.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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I have a potential trainer coming to meet Pip and Squeak tomorrow. I'm really nervous but I hope they hit it off because as much as I love them, I really want them to go to a good home too.

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What's the bullshit between remotaid and Octillery?

okay. you have no fuckin idea. strap in buddy we're about to go down 400 years of academic slapfighting

adding a cut cuz this got Long.

so. most people know that for a really long time NOBODY could believe that remoraid, the most fish pokemon to ever fish pokemon, and octillery, which looks like a cephalopod, were an evolutionary line.

though obviously locals had known for ages, it took numerous high-profile documentations to really give the idea some ground. it actually took a really weird specimen found in 1630 that had some weird form of evolutionary stasis syndrome and stalled halfway through and died to really be the final nail in the coffin.

I think there's still life-scale figures on display in a museum in johto somewhere, if you're not squeamish you should absolutely look it up it's gnarly.

now, that raised the question of What The Fuck Were These Things

of course as it goes with traits-based taxonomy, they got it really wrong, and also could not agree on a single fuckin damn thing. for the longest time remoraid had been classified with the cartilaginous fish like sharpedo and mantine and octillery was classified with cephalopods like clobbopus. now obviously those both can't be true

this was well well before darwinian evolution was even a glimmer in that fucker's eye, so there was really no good explanation for it, instead propositions included but were not limited to: magic, spontaneous merging, hybridization, "maybe fish and cephalopods are like really close actually", and my personal favourite, divine intervention

roll around to the 1700s, people have settled into their two camps: team cephalopod and team vertebrate. these fuckers HATED eachother, and would for the next 300 years. like there were actual brawls about this, it could get ya stabbed at a conference if ya talked to the wrong guy.

both had the same argument, opposite directions: clearly one part of the line was coincidentally really similar to this other completely unrelated taxonomic group, and those other guys are stupid and wrong.

there was alot of dissections, studies, but the evidence was conflicting. to be clear, remoraid aren't vertebrates, they don't have a true boney spine, so they couldn't just be fish, but octillery lack many key features of true cephalopods.

come along ol' Charlie D and his grand new idea in the 1830s, this Did Not Make It Better. now the question was Worse cuz how the fuck would something like this evolve.

clearly something was goin on convergently, those two groups are so far removed it's ridiculous, for perspective it's the difference between you and a durant. the fight was which was which.

people got SO PISSED about this it's absurd, if you ever want free entertainment just look up academic papers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries about this line, lots of "in response to" (aka "that guy was high on shroomish shit")

it actually took until the late 20th century when dna sequencing got good enough to compare them.

you wanna know the answer?

NEITHER. THE ANSWER IS NEITHER.

genetically, they are most closely related to cephalopods, so they got a point there, but they're not true members of the actual clade by any means.

technically they're not that close, but they're closer than to fish. their actual position is as basal relatives of the clade, by technicality, but they're not close to ANYTHING ELSE. the basic "skeleton" of a remoraid is actually the ancestral shell that comes free with being a mollusc, and it becomes the hard internal shell of octillery that they use to bash into shit.

the "fins" of remoraid are actually what become the "arms" of octillery when they evolve, the suction pad on their dorsal "fin" is adapted into the arm suckers.

everything else? fucking Everything Else? yeah that's convergent. I know. I know.

they look like fish. I know they look like fish. They Are Not Even Remotely Fish

and that's why everyone who decides to pursue the field of cladistics is beyond the edge of sanity

good day and good night.

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When I called the pokemon center to tell them Shelley wasn't coming back they said "Haha yeah we figured" and can I just say.

Ow. My pride. orz

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Do you remember talking about how pretty she is?

...The posts are right there I don't have to remember.... And I mean. Drunk me is correct. She's pretty... What's ur point

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Said yet about dating right here buddy

https://www.tumblr.com/celadon-arcade-champ/777511484504866816/what-does-your-gf-think

YEAH. THATS WHAT I SAID. I HAVE NEVER NOT SAID YET.

Anon you severely misread my last answer

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Be very careful with training Shelley. Togepi can learn metronome, and metronome can do darn near anything, including self-destruct. It can get expensive.

Ah I'm not too worried. Kyle has taken her under his wing (quite literally) and he's been very good about keeping her following house rules.

And as for moves like metronome... Yeah we'll see if she has that urge to battle like some mons do. She might be perfectly happy just hanging out.

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"yet"

Why'd you put yet in quotations like I haven't said yet about dating her before. I'm also 90% I've stated my reasons why we're not dating yet before.

She's not here rn. We both agreed it'd be too tough to start dating while she's still travelling around.

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So how bad of an impact was your drunk posting?

Not. at all honestly. she was really sweet on the phone. I don't remember what we talked about specifically but i think we just talked for a bit.

she basically just told me to get some sleep and drink some water... And that she'd send me a hangover cure recipe in the morning if i needed it.