#pokentomology

[pokentomology]

is there ANYONE in this day and age that doesn't use a phone that's fucking possessed? It is not hard to connect your Pokétch to the phone system guys. Fuckin arceus

#pkmn irl #pokentomology

[soothebellss]

(@pokentomology) excellent. i am now conscripting your services for New Friend

there's a number of Pokémon that I have, but the only ones allowed inside the house are iona (lurantis), Buggy (volcarona), Venom (scolipede), Mia (munna), and Chonk (shinx).

I would like, ideally, a friend that can perform three tasks (it doesn't have to be done Well or on command—the last two are basically just necessities of the household):

- snuggle

- let me lean on them sometimes

- get fire extinguisher (I will personally train them to use it dw)

Chonk is going up for adoption soon and I cannot keep him because he keeps shorting out my electricity, and I need a snuggly friend because now he has spoiled me. the others are either unsuitable for snuggling or just dont like it (Mia does, but she's a service pokemon trained to stay awake the whole night, which kind of defeats the purpose).

I run a pokemon sanctuary called Helios Refuge in southwest Unova, and I'd like them to be able to accompany me there—it's mostly outdoors, and all the doorways of my house have been forcibly enlarged by my dear Venom, so I wouldn't mind a bigger buddy.

They cannot be a grass-type. My house is full of violent bugs, and things around me catch fire all the time. All the time. They also cannot be a water-type, or at least not one without a counter to grass-type, because Iona will assassinate them.

I am very good with high-maintenance pokemon and have no aversion to any of the "creepy" types, although I would prefer not an Absol. Nothing wrong with them, I am just a walking disaster and the poor thing would be stressed out 24/7.

I recognize this is a tough ask and you don't actually have to assign me a new friend, I just thought it might be fun or cool if I brought anyone to mind. I'll always prefer to give a lonely pokemon a needed home before catching a new one wild. Thank you!!!

OKAY SO it took some brainstorming, but here’s what I’ve come up with

Our criteria

- Soft & calm enough to snuggle comfortably; big enough to lean on; dexterous enough to grab a fire extinguisher (and maybe use it)

- NOT a water or grass type, and okay with being outdoors a lot + interacting with other pokemon at the sanctuary

- Ampharos are gentle giants & wonderful pillows + have aided humans in lighthouses for centuries

- Gengar are a little “scary”, but love other people & pokemon’s company

- Swoobat are big sweeties and are great support pokemon due to their ability to induce positive moods

- And Reuniclus are so squishy & give great hugs! :]

#thanks for the ask & good luck! #pokentomology #ask #pokeblogging #pkmn irl

[wingsofachampion]

❦ - @pokentomology

Would they study animal bugs, too?

#pokentomology #tropius #pkmn irl #ask

[struggling-bug]

omg we are "found an abandoned larvesta egg" twinsies (@pokentomology)

actually, i have the luck that both of my team members were donated to me by one of Prof. Juniper's friends when they were eggs ^^" but hey, larvestas are very cool indeed! glad to hear we have that liking in common!

#rotomblring #pokentomology #always nice to interact with other bug type lovers out there!!

[blitzlebulletin]

What's black and white and yellow all over?

The Blitzle Bulletin, of course!

A Unova—based newspaper reporting on events worldwide, coming soon!

#run by @pokentomology

[realpokemon]

(@pokentomology) 1) hi 2) just found your blog are you also from unova? 3) obligatory favorite bug pokemon question

hi also

no im in north carolina

forretress easily. i used to think they were kind of boring but i spent like 3 hours lost on a hike with only a nearby forretress to talk to and i think that changed something about me

#pokemon #unreality #pkmn irl

[unovadragoncongossip]

[Video: A panel of dracobiologists is calmly discussing Dragon taxonomy and why some Dragon-esque Pokémon such as Charizard are not given the Dragon typing. A panelist says, jokingly, "Well, not everyone can be a dragon-type!"

Another panelist's rebuttal: "Charizard makes more sense than an Alolan Exeggutor, though, or a Flygon."

The camera is calmly panning over the audience when someone—distantly recognizable to some viewers as @pokentomology—stands up and shouts, "FLYGON IS A BUG TYPE!"

Silence.

The room ERUPTS into shouting from panelists and audience alike. The one on the left, who had previously defended Charizard's typing, is arm wrestling the one who challenged it. "OH YEAH, BECAUSE BUGS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR IMMUNITY TO ELECTRICITY."

"IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO BE IMMUNE TO ELECTRICITY, DOES A PAIR OF RUBBER GLOVES MAKE ME A GROUND-TYPE?"

The person who shouted can be distantly seen battling a security guard trying to escort them from the premises; Volcarona vs. Machamp. The security guard is losing.]

As always, meetings of intellectuals leads to chaos

#Academic fights can be quite etnertaining

[bonelessgoblin]

scovillain. you get no explanation. suffer @pokentomology

this answer is crunchy and i like that. like eating gravel in the best possible way.

#pokemon #crunch crunch

[lavender-radio]

Luvdisc Day 2023 Resources

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Good evening dear listeners! I have a very important announcement to make before kicking off tonight's broadcast. Lavender Town locals may have noticed an increase in newcomers at our Pokemon House-- Applins, Buneary, Luvdiscs, other love-themed or pink Pokemon-- following yesterdays festivities. The influx of surrendered and abandoned Pokemon has left not just us but shelters across all regions in need of help.

I have here a list of shelters and rescues that were affected by this. If you or anyone you know is capable of either fostering or adopting a rescue, please consider reaching out to your nearest shelter. If you aren't able to house another 'mon, not to worry! Many are in need of supplies and volunteers as well, so even a simple donation such as a bag of food or an hour of your time goes a long way!

Culai Region ‣ Combee Daycare, north of Luntian. Adoptees: Luvdisc, Alomomola, Woobat. In need of volunters! ‣ Pippo's Pokeshelter, Route 72. Adoptees: Applin, Luvdisc, Woobat. In need of food and volunteers!

Kanto Region ‣ Stop by the office building across from Saffron Gate or contact @pkmn-botany-- Adoptees: Applin, Luvdisc, Buneary. In need of Luvdisc freshwater flakes, fertilizer, apple tree seeds or tree starters-- any gardening supplies to help accomodate all of the Applin! ‣ Lavender Volunteer Pokemon House, Lavender Town. Adoptees: Luvdisc, Nidorano+Nidorana (bonded pair), Clefairy, female Pikachu. In need of vitamins and potions!

Unova Region ‣ Oath Woods, near the farm in the southwest. Adoptees: Grimer, Inkay. In need of food and volunteers! Those trained in rehabilitating Water type Pokemon for release into the wild could also be of great help. Contact @pokentomology for more info!

Galar Region ‣ Both Turffield and Hammerlocke Gym are taking in Applin! Contact @official-raihan for more info on adoptees.

There are also a few places that currently have the space to accept more rescues. If you're looking to surrender a Pokemon, or are a shelter that's reached capacity, consider contacting these guys first!

@pokemonadoptioncenter (info) @pokeshelteralola (info) @atuundragonsanctuary (info) @grass-types-more-like-loml (info)

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#long post #radio transcript #pokemon irl #pkmn irl #pokeblogging #at least inkaygate 2023 happened around the same time as luvdisc day #hopefully those little guys can get adopted out too :(

[pkmn-researcher-izzy]

WHOA

Chances are, Hecate is going to hatch overnight. I am going to be watching her incubator like a PIDGEOT to make sure that everything goes well. Thank you @pokentomology for putting my mind at ease about her Pokeball enclosure. I'll grab the first one I see when I feel that she's going to be okay. Whoa, they don't teach you in lecture hall what it actually feels like to be in this.

[A photo of a slightly pale yellow egg with a pink-magenta stripe in the middle, running horizontally, inside of a cushioned incubator.]

[pokentomology]

the fucking unovan government is threatening to pull our funding if we don't "upgrade" to rotom phones. I'm about to have a bad idea

#pkmn irl #pokentomology #helios refuge

[soothebellss]

(@pokentomology) Hey! I'm actually keeping an eye out for a new addition to my household, and honestly a service pokemon washout sounds like a great idea. If I gave you a rundown of my household & what I do, would you be able to recommend a new pal?

sure! my askbox is open to anyone looking for advice about adopting a washout or getting a service mon!

#pokentomology #ask

[sos-amchespin-sendhelp]

(@pokentomology)

Hey. Sorry you're, uh, trapped in the freakiest fucking place ever. Never been to That World, but I have a small amount of experience and knowledge regarding the Mystery Dungeon worlds—which is why I know this old story. I think it might shed some light on your Candle-something Phantom.

Do you remember Alola? There's a ghost-type Pokémon there—Alolan Marowak, unique from the Marowak the rest of the world finds. Its story is sad but important. Behind your candle-thing is something that looks remarkably mechanical, and...well, the flames surrounding it remind me of an Alolan Marowak—something lost and found again.

...

A long time ago, or maybe in the far future for me and you, a trainer caught a Treecko in the jungle and loved them very much. So much so that Treecko found it within himself to evolve, and be henceforth known as Grovyle.

Grovyle and his human lived in a world where time was beginning to fail. I don't mean it slowed, or stopped, or even reversed, I mean it failed. Plants did not grow, wind did not blow, the Earth did not turn, and Pokémon ceased to be born or die. Time as a concept no longer existed; it could only be measured by the few who somehow survived its inexorable grasp and forced their way out of the mire.

Grovyle and his human discovered that the reason time was acting so oddly—or part of the reason, anyway—was that the gears that pushed time forward had gone missing, and the Tower of Time had collapsed. The gears needed to be retrieved and put back.

Or replaced.

With some difficulty, Grovyle and his human sent themselves Elsewhere. They were separated in the journey—and like you, Grovyle's human found themselves to be a Pokémon.

Grovyle didn't know what had happened to his human. But he knew their world had to be saved, so he set upon their mission—to collect Time Gears so they could be used to restore the future.

His human, lost and directionless with no memory beyond their name, found themselves taken in by an Explorer's Guild.

Some time passed. The gears went missing from this world one by one and, alarmed, the Pokémon of that world sent their explorers to go find its cause.

The story skimps on details here—there are, apparently, a lot of differing opinions on the real name and actions of Grovyle's human—but eventually, they all culminate in the same thing:

Grovyle's human finds him again. And though they start on opposite sides, they quickly come to realize that Grovyle is not the enemy, and join him on his quest to restore Time.

Time is not just a force of nature—it's a being, and can be influenced by people and events just like you and I, and in the struggle to save Time from dark influence, Grovyle is...lost. Sent back to a future that, thanks to the brave efforts of his human, ceases to exist.

And so, of course, do they.

That's where the story ends—the world saved, the heroes lost—but there's one version I really like, where Grovyle's human befriends a Pokémon in the past. This new partner accompanies them throughout their whole journey—some say this partner is the reason we know this story at all, as by all rights if it's true, its events should never have happened...but.

If Time is a Being, then maybe Time has the capability to feel love and despair as we do. Perhaps It even felt gratitude, and believed the risk acceptable to return the heroes of a shattered timeline to reality. That's how the story ends in my favorite version—the Time Being (Dialga as it was told to me, because I'm from Sinnoh) restores Grovyle's human to life as thanks to them and respect for the human's new Pokémon friend.

So your picture made me remember that story, and then—well—if somehow it was true, and Time did restore the human to life...

Memory is a powerful thing. The universe is vast and unknowable, and powers exist beyond our imagination.

If the dead can return to life like Marowak, or the erased returned like Grovyle's human, who's to say Grovyle is still gone?

And sometimes, stories are just stories.

"Here ya go," Leland responded blithely, lobbing the odd device over to their companion. The Grovyle caught it deftly without taking his eyes off Alger's silhouette, still a ways off from their encampment. Even with only a sliver of moonlight, the way it gestured wildly to the shadow with the lightning-shaped tail called to mind a harborside puppet show. Leland half expected one to pull out a stick and start beating the other over the head. "Honestly, if Alger weren't blowin' a gasket about contacting a Voice of Life, this would'a been a bitch to take off his hands," she added, probing for a response from the stranger. (Play up the dumb hick angle, examine their half-truths and dismissals of you, and they'll let slip all the ammunition you need.) But Grovyle was too busy fiddling with the phone trying to power it on. "There's a button on the back. Or just tap the phone screen twice." "...Thank you," came the abashed reply. Was that a blush? Was he blushing? "I thought you said you knew how to write with one of these things? You know English?" "Reasonably well. You'd be surprised at how many, er..." the Grovyle hesitated, "bloggers fall to this world of ours. Cell phones like this can fetch a good price at dark auctions." "Careful. This one's a bit finnicky. S'posed to be a Rotom innit, but there's not anymore." "Really?" the Grovyle's face lit up with a sort of childish wonder. "You really aren't the Grovyle I was thinkin' of, are you?" "I just have one of those faces, like I said. Only evolved last year." "You're, like, even younger than I am!" "How old do you think you are?" "Beats me." "I think..." the Grovyle thought for a moment. "I think I easily could have been. But that future never came to pass, so..." he shrugged. "Or it never happened, if you take Auburn's word for it." Grovyle hummed non-committally. "What kind of ask did you want to answer, anyway?" asked Leland. "Nothing important."

#pokemon #pkmn irl #pokemon irl #mystery dungeon #pokémon mystery dungeon #pmd #cryptid #grovyle #candlewick phantom #ask blog #pokeblogging #pokeblog rp #prose

[ranger-rai]

(@pokentomology): Hi, I have a question! I'm a budding entomologist and I wanted to know, have you ever interacted with any completely wild Vespiquen hives & if so, how do they behave differently than self-domesticated ones? A lot of the Combee research out there is based on hives that domesticated themselves (mostly because wild Vespiquen are TERRIFYING), and I have questions! Are wild Combee less or more skittish? Do the male Combee even exist, or are they eliminated pretty quick like some other social bug-types? Are there multiple Vespiquen per hive, like there sometimes are in Honey-producing ones, or do they act aggressively towards other Vespiquen?

Sincerely, a lover of honey pastries!

I am SO GLAD you asked this one!

As you know, me and my fellow rangers: Minnie, Eddie and Jo, are the main protecting force of most wild pokemon environments and help keep the natural balance between People and Pokemon.

As such, we need to have full awareness and knowledge of what's happening in certain areas, so we see certain species pf Pokémon more often than others.

Combee and Vespiquen are extremely common here in Sinnoh, however most people aren't able to study them closely as a captive raised hive.

Wild hives are much more aggressive than captive, mainly due to the amount of creatures that try and take their honey or even that feed in bug types.

In the wild there can only be one Vespiquen, and unlike other insect hierarchy, the queen is usually the strongest in the hive, so two Vespiquen would fight over rule of the hive with the lower being kicked out.

Because of their strength, the drone Combee will absolutely protect their queen and hive out of respect and duty.

This line are one of the most resilient bug type species, however because of their honey production, they are also the most hunted and bothered by people and pokemon.

If you see a wild hive, you'd be smart to avoid interacting because those pokemon wouldnt be happy to inrerract.

Domesticated are much more docile and potentially there can be 2 Vespiquen in the same area without much problem, however they will probably divide territory pretty quickly.

For Rangers like us, we usually need to be prepared before we interract with those guys, or call in Keepers to interact with those guys when we need to.

#ranger rai #pokemon ranger #the ranger base #pokemon #ask me anything #ask me a question #sinnoh #combee #Vespiquen #beekeeping #dont mess with bees #thats my headcanon

[pokentomology]

sarah is a poke-audiologist. she has a doctorate. we hired her specifically to identify pokemon species from the audio recordings of the woods so that we can keep track of invasives popping up and cut them off before the ecosystem gets too unbalanced. she will hear a newly-hatched pokemon chirp once and tell you its species, gender, and nature. the last time I heard her say "what's that sound" there was a fucking buzzwole in my yard ready to stab me and now she's sent me an audio clip labeled "unidentifiable flying type??". thank you Sarah. Fuck

fuck it. anyone know what this shit is?

#pkmn irl #pokentomology #its not a starly or any of the flying types i know #pokemon irl

[pokentomology]

getting a blog has opened my eyes to just how much weird fucking shit is out there. ESPECIALLY in alola. WHY are there so many interdimensional portals. WHY are there pokemon that can talk. the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me was passing out in front of a blue sawsbuck and then waking up with my weird burn scar how are you people finding fucking God and shit

#pokentomology #pkmn irl #is no one normal? why is there a blog pretending to be giratina