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You guys are never gonna guess what happened

“I should make an update post” proceeds to immediately forget to make the update post

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“I should make an update post” proceeds to immediately forget to make the update post

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exotic pet youtubers in the pokemon world must go crazy

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sick and tired of seeing these ace trainers brag about their super smart badass level 100 shiny mons.

This is Sol. She is a fucking idiot. She regularly forgets that she is a flying type and sits at the bottom of cabinets n such crying cause she doesn't know how to get up. I would die for her.

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It has been 0 days since Lumen has committed crimes against candles. And at my mom’s house no less.

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Good news! That Fomantis is not sick, it’s just shiny. I diagnose you with protagonist coded

… Huh. That’s what I get for going based on what I remember them looking like normally instead of just looking up pictures of them and making direct comparisons. Glad to know the little creacher is healthy.

And what do you mean by protagonist coded. I do not control the Pokémon that show up in my vicinity

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Are the Fomantis’s eyes orange or green?

Uhhh… Green I think? I’d check but Kazoo is asleep on my lap and I couldn’t stand up if I wanted to. Might not even be out there right now anyways it’s pretty late…

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how many pokemon do you have? and why do you talk in tags more than in posts doesn’t that kinda defeat the point

Uhhhh… Lemme just list them out I’m bad at numbers. In no particular order there’s Red Tide the Dhelmise, Lumen the Chandelure, Kazoo the Galvantula, Cheerio the Meltan, Barque the Lapras, Soul the Aegislash, Pepper the Scolipede, Ghost the Volcarona, Neo the Metagross, and the newest member of the family Gauss the Magnemite as of a few months ago. There’s also been a cute little Fomantis that’s decided to commandeer one of my flower pots outside that I was just growing random weeds in that I’ve thought about trying to catch, since it looks really chlorotic all the time, but I don’t wanna stress the little fella out. Local rangers said there wasn’t much they could do since I live in an unincorporated area that limits their ability to intervene when people aren’t in danger, and Fomantis isn’t a species native to my area. Let nature take its course kinda situation I guess. Plus I can’t just catch every Pokémon that shows up in my life, there’s no way that’ll end well long-term.

There’s also Cobble and Mulberry but I haven’t actually caught either of them for uh… Well actually since I’m a nobody on here it’d probably be fine to say I don’t know what the regulations are for handling Ultra Beasts and that should be enough to explain the hesitation. Cobble just hangs out in the woods in my neighborhood and usually just watches what I do when I hang out there, they seem content enough and I’d feel bad bringing people over to bother them. ‘Specially after the tree branch protection incident, I kinda owe them for helping me not get hospitalized. Mulberry sometimes shows up to be a little pest but seems harmless enough, only stained one of my good shirts but it was old and had holes in it anyways… Weird little floating gremlin.

As for why I talk in tags, I’m just too nervous to add on to posts directly. What if I say something that is stupid and/or dumb and a bunch of people read it? What if I make a fatal typo? What if I ask a rhetorical question and someone actually answers it? Much easier to just ramble in the tags; sharing those around takes more effort and if I change my mind on something later it’s easier to edit or delete. Also small letters have a vibe that big letters do not

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rotomblr: reblog with the worst injury you’ve ever gotten from a pokémon, wild or domestic

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This is a PSA to all beach-goers!!!

Sandygast are NO JOKE. Over 10,000 people EVERY YEAR are subject to a Sandygast possession!

Do NOT pick up shovels unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE of where they came from. Better to have the beach littered with plastic shovels than to have people being compelled to evolve the little buggers into much more dangerous Palossand.

You wouldn’t want to get your soul drained out of you. So don’t risk it!

If you see somebody piling sand for hours and hours without end PLEASE contact local police, or anybody equipped to deal with Sandygast possessions such as gym leaders and the likes.

DO NOT attempt to snap the person out of it yourself. They could become HOSTILE or try to get you to touch the shovel as well.

It CAN happen to you or your loved ones.

Stay safe out there! And remember to have fun as well!

posts made by one very very unfortunate soul

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Elaborate on Neo???

Neo’s a Metagross that jumped me in the woods, I’m only still in one piece because Red Tide’s Anchor Shot managed to get between us before I evolved into a corpse. I didn’t have much confidence in the idea of having an actual battle(especially since there was no guarantee I wasn’t their win condition, to put it mildly) and if it isn’t obvious I don’t really do well under pressure, so I just… Chucked a quick ball to buy myself some time to run. Was not at all expecting the dex registration notification after that. Turned out Neo was in rough shape to begin with— probably had a run in with a few dark types in the area— so it wasn’t like I was just gonna leave them there, even if they had just been trying to hunt me. I was planning to release them after leaving the Pokémon center, though— I was still working with another new team member at that time and it just felt like it’d be awkward given the whole “you wanted to eat me” thing.

Alas, they decided it would benefit them to stick around and be civil in exchange for free food and access to information, and like. C’mon, if someone who was definitely capable of reducing you or someone else to a bloody pulp said they wouldn’t do that if you made it so they didn’t have a reason to, is agreeing to it really that unreasonable? I know I’m not smarter or faster than a Metagross, I didn’t want to find out what they were capable of when in good condition! Not an ideal choice to have to make but better safe than sorry.

That said, I have not known peace since. It has been a whole two days since they have beamed the request for filet mignon directly into my brain. I already have to set aside money to pay for it every once in a while in exchange for not having to worry about them stealing my credit card number and ordering it themself.

As for how they were actually caught in the first place? Turns out it wasn’t dumb luck. In their words, they had “calculated that my odds of recovery were greater if I was taken elsewhere than if I continued my pursuit”, so. That was a pretty lucky convergence of logically poor impulse decision and reasonable conclusion on the part of a carnivorous supercomputer.

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Do you think Red Tide ever killed anyone

Wow what a great day to get normal asks about normal things. Anyways what do you think I am, a cop?

Look, if any member of my weird squad has done a little murder at some point, it’d probably be Neo. I’m not even saying that purely as a joke, it’s kinda how we met. Also they dodged the question when asked, and I feel like that means something when it’s coming from someone who is usually very direct when it comes to answering stuff honestly. (For the record I am not accusing Neo of murder nor is this meant to be taken as anything more than “I wouldn’t be as shocked about it if it were them”)

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HELP I PUT ONE OF THOSE BABY STIM ANIMATION THINGS ON THE TV FOR CHEERIO AND WHEN I WALKED BACK IN KAZOO WAS ALSO FIXATED ON IT. Blob of metal and giant friend spider watching a bunch of bouncing oran berries with smily faces… They are sharing the baby license I think. Now my bed is either gonna be static-free or I am going to have a suboptimal experience later. “You could check right now” well you see I have to clean up a mess because Lumen recently learned psychic and has decided to become an interior decorator. Due to not having much practice this has resulted in many items on the floor. Nothing has broken at least…

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(@wingsofachampion) Hiya! What's your favorite thing about humans? -Tropius

That’s a tough one… I guess just our tendency to look at any creature that moves and go “I wanna befriend it” even if said creature is a bunch of rocks or a haunted object or a dragon. If it lives a human will probably try to pack bond with it at some point.

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YOU HAVE AN AEGISLASH???? oh my ARC i literally got a honedge last week!!! any tips for taking care of one? my honedge is really shy (why do people say they’re scary. this guy is scared of his own shadow) so I’ve been gentle but if there’s any species stuff you’ve found out?

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Yep, good ol’ Soul! Seems we both ended up with shy swords, huh?

From what I can tell, he seemed more comfortable to be out of his ball when Red Tide was also out, so perhaps you could see about introducing your new pal to a similarly chill Pokémon? Someone to look to for reassurance when he’s nervous or uncertain, essentially taking cues that things are fine and it’s ok to relax. Though that’s probably going to be based on the sorts of Pokémon he’s comfortable with to begin with, rather than just how well their personalities theoretically mesh. Soul more or less picked Red Tide to be that stable figure on his own, so I don’t really have advice on how to go about potential introductions.

Once he was spending more time out of his sheathe I bought one of those densely woven practice target things made for Pokémon to train their cutting or slicing moves with; it seemed like a good way to get an idea of if/how he’d battle in the future, and helped him build up his confidence a bit. Probably also helps that having something to focus and spend energy on can distract from anxiety or the like if it’s present. Only downside was that finding a decent one that’d actually hold up took a few tries, and it wasn’t exactly cheap— make sure it’s rated for stronger Pokémon. Though, I suppose encouraging him to practice on trees might be a valid alternative, so long as it’s not inhabited by wild Pokémon that wouldn’t appreciate the disturbance.

I’d try to give advice on what to do if he evolves, but Soul wasn’t a Doublade for very long before The Rock Shop Incident took place. All I can say for sure is that it seemed better to not treat him much differently than before. Interacting with the two swords as separate entities confused him even when they were both unsheathed.

As for general care, I’d say a general steel type routine works just fine. I did get one of those stones for sharpening blades after seeing that suggested a few places, but I’ve never actually seen him use it, which might just be because he doesn’t battle super often and doesn’t experience the wear he might otherwise. It couldn’t hurt to offer the option, especially since there are plenty of other Pokémon that could make use of it as well. Oh, and don’t worry about how to handle the cloth, it doesn’t seem to get dirty like normal fabric does, it’s just the sheath and blade that need the occasional bath. Soul didn’t like it at first but after I’d say the… third time? He got used to it. I think he likes the buffing at the end now, always spends some time in the light turning and being all shiny haha.

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I only use beast in the affectionate way. An Eevee can be a little beast. A Sewaddle? Beast rocking the salad onesie. The Tympoles that manifested in the neighbor’s pool while it was under construction a few years back were a little beast brigade, or perhaps a beast barbershop quartet. Idk much about those Ultra Beast things that I’ve seen mentioned here or there but I’m sure they’re also beasts, maybe even creachers or fellas.

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what it feels like to play pokemon ruby and sapphire on max volume