I Just Want To Ask You To Take A Moment To Breathe And To Admire Yourself For Getting Through This Past

Hoya! Pippi and I had a hard few days x) but we’re on break for a bit finally! Phew!

I’ve never heard of that one tbh! Whats it like? I do love idlers but mostly while crafting! If you’d ever wanna game together that would be so fun!

Oooo… I am thinking thoughts. Maybe you could send me some? x) Is that weird? Hahahaa!

( @poketherapist-in-training )

Morning! What are you up to today? I just had a crazy experience myself x)

Nothing really!! Getting back into form for the week, mostly, haha.

Oh ?? You wanna elaborate, or??

I never really thought about that. Okay, will do. It would probably help him to speak with you alone at some point too. I think he fears making us sad, but he’s mourning hard. :(

Hello. Official appointment request! ^^

Chief the Chansey, with his little Oddish passenger (they are inseparable… we’ve tried) are the clients!

Background: Chief was a medic in the pokewars of yore and belonged to my grandpa. He’s in my care now as my grandpa isn’t able to care for him. He’s not distrustful of humans really, more so he sees them all as in his care and can’t seem to submit himself to their care. He’s been pretty isolated and is mourning my grandmother and the loss of company of my grandpa/ loss of caretaking for him since he is in my families care now.

Hope that’s enough background! Any additional info and scheduling can be tagged:

~ @poketherapist-in-training

[ THIS IS A CLOSED APPOINTMENT BETWEEN B AND THE USER. ]

Thank you for the starting information! That's very helpful! ^^

Breaking out of selfless habits in order to care for yourself or let others care for you can be tough, I've actually had that issue myself before when I get too into the zone. ^^"

Is there any specific habits that really stand out?

Awh idk I think he’s kinda cute. The tubes are weird but his lil banana face is charming.

Pokerating Day 20! Heatmor!

Charm: Kinda just ugly as much as I hate to say it. It looks like a fast food advertisement sign. It's also notably bald, and the weird tubes just look gross. They look like its internals have externaled. It also makes a room smell burnt just by being there. I think this is an actual 0/10. You can't even watch it's natural feeding habits cause trust me when I say you don't wanna raise a supply of durant just to feed this thing, and even if you DID it would just be it sticking its snout in an ant hole and breathing through its ass.

Care: More difficult than its worth. Not only is their natural wild food really difficult to culture (and, honestly, a more interesting pokemon), but they're also picky eaters. They tend to just incinerate food they don't want. It was very recently discovered that they're particularly picky about texture, and that boiled egg is a good way to get around that, but that means having a consistent supply of eggs which is fairly difficult in some places. It also needs them cooked, since if it tries to cook it the egg will probably pop. 3/10? Sounds like a reasonable enough score.

Safety: It's presence is enough to set off smoke alarms, and it can easily light your shit on fire by just licking it. It also has bigass claws and a fairly grumpy attitude. 3/10 carbon monoxide poisonings.

Utility: Good for removing durant populations. Like any other fire type. Can learn dig, cut, and rock smash. Mid. Not even good for a fire type's typical utility IMO. It's like 4 1/2' tall, just go catch almost any smaller fire type and I bet it can do the same without being so difficult to keep. 4/10.

Battle: This is a poor pokemon for battling. Lets go over the positives first, wide moveset, and a decent ability in flash fire. Now the negatives: it's in that perfect speed range to be too slow to outspeed much, yet too fast for trick room. It's also pretty frail with a poor defensive type, and has nowhere near enough oomph to actually hit hard with the wide array of moves it can use. It also takes increased stealth rocks damage. 2/10, there are definitely worse pokemon out there but for a fully evolved pokemon this thing is just so mediocre than any other fire type is better in some way.

Final Score:

Charm: 0/10

Care: 3/10

Safety: 3/10

Utility: 4/10

Battle: 2/10

Total Score: 12/50

Pet Score: 6/30

Battle score: 6/20

Notes: I feel bad bashing on this thing but it really just has no good qualities. Its a moderately disturbing (and ugly) pokemon that I would prefer to never see again.

Again, this rating is inherently biased just like every other thing made by any organism ever concieved, so if you love this thing? Good on you. I respect you for finding joy somewhere where I can't. Don't let my words change your opinions and stay you!

Erm.

Pippi thinks she’s building something in the garage. She keeps using her talking pad to signal that 🛸 emoji too haha.

Which could mean nothing!

Woke up to Pi having the zoomies. Apparently she just likes going hogwild at night sometimes.

Specifically she fell off of a shelf in my room, knocking dozens of other things down. She's fine, I had Pippi check her.

She also got into the screwdrivers again and took a clock apart. I forgot to post last time she did this but she keeps using our tools for strange means. We didn't care much for the clock so it's fine but like bbgrl please ur like 2 at most. Ur supposed to be making nonsense with legos and eating rocks. Thats what I did when I was like 2.

Actually we haven't gotten her age checked yet we should do that.

And I should get her some legos actually

Cool xD

Ooo I’m glad you rest and relax- what do you do that relaxes you? :)

( @poketherapist-in-training )

Morning! What are you up to today? I just had a crazy experience myself x)

Nothing really!! Getting back into form for the week, mostly, haha.

Oh ?? You wanna elaborate, or??

Hey, that's not an egg!

What notes are you reading that make you feel Calm?

I was reviewing for my exam and the best it did was restless… Pip put me on mandatory break time.

Up late again. How are you doing with erm… it seems the cat is out? Of the bag, I mean.

Good morning, Rotomblr!

Felt a little stressed so I put on some calming music and read through my notes for the past week!

I feel calmer now!

How is everyone else's mornings going? Or day in general if it's later for you?

Have you ever helped a client navigate discrimination? Or a friend? It’s a tricky subject, I know.

Frankly, however, the only balm for ignorance is knowledge. Maybe you can turn that around- you might have a slow down for a while, yes. But maybe…

There’s always hope. Maybe you need a PR team? Haha.

Absolute worse to worse- you hid in anonymity once already.

Good morning, Rotomblr!

Felt a little stressed so I put on some calming music and read through my notes for the past week!

I feel calmer now!

How is everyone else's mornings going? Or day in general if it's later for you?

Wow, super interesting stuff. How have you found the higher intelligence pokemon to do therapy with? How do they differ from humans? I guess it would be hard to like, know, but if you have any insight I’m super curious.

I’d reckon a good amount of ghost types could do with some therapy… the way some of them are created is pretty traumatic.

Not reacting to stimuli the same way is a super interesting point. I assume unconditioned stimuli for pokemon is one of those more confusing things to figure out- what do you like and what do you dislike, how do I give a carnivorous plant a little treat for being a good sport… pfft.

Hey. Laser mentioned you're looking to be a therapist, said we might get along since I'm a pokemon psychologist.

Figured since I'm running the blog today, I might as well say hey. Hope your studies are going well.

@licensed2faint (//laser is letting the BF run the blog today)

Oh hi!

I was curious about you! Nice to meet you!

Do you have any idea where pokemon therapy and human therapy diverge? I’ve been curious about this since in most of my classes it’s emphasized how interconnected and similar they can be…

Hope to talk to you more!

pokemon news has got me thinking about this stupid thing again