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[pkmn] I always loved Rotom and I love it in this a lot [edit: we're just talking about RL birds now]

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I love how Rotom's consent is a thing that is important enough to bring up

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Rotom is a good buddy

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yeah Rotoms have always loved possessing appliances and now it gets one specially made for it :>

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he's in the Dex because he finds it fun and it is not permanent for him

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YEAH

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'This is my dex, it was made for me.'

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I most love Rotom when it makes flirty comments about humans

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YES OH MY GOD

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he's so thirsty

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also

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'clodhoppers'

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who let you talK

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wait is this the first talking pokemon besides the murkrow in GSC (which was more mimicking) in the games?

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I'm trying to think... even Mewtwo doesn't talk, iirc

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... ehhh dead Marowak, I guess

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Anyway, no, yeah. It's fairly clear that you shouldn't force Pokemon to do things they don't want to do, that you really can't most of the time, and if you do you're a piece of shit, throughout the series.

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Which makes inane critiques like PETA's laughable.

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(related: okay so this is anime verse but the Pokedex notes that feral pokemon are jealous of trainer owned pokemon just saying)

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:'D Fuck with nature and it will fuck with you.

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wasn't one of Copycat girl's pokemon saying MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL or something...

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in gen 1

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yeah, she has a talking spearow?

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i think rotom is the first talking mon in the games who arranges his own sentences though

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probably he can only talk because the dex has a text-to-speech

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he probably sounds like a shitty 70s speech synth like
1975: The first speech synthesizer IC was born.

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i like to think he sounds like Cortana

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I mean, I assume bird pokemon in general can mimic speech _just to fuck with you_

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other than that

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... also Rotom is totally genderless and I do think of him as a lil dude, but you know, we d0n't know

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that, or it just imitates car alarms at three in the morning.

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i absolutely bet there's one pokebird that just sits outside a child's window calling in the voice of their mother so it can eat the child

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oh god this is dredging up ptsd

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you too lived among mockingbirds and ravens, didn't you.

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(actually I think it was magpies in my case but still FUCKING CORVIDS)

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nah, it was starlings in my case

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fucking starlings

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they're not native to the US

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i love them but agreed

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but some jackass brought 'em over

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and they do real great here

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so

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yeah, because he was a shakespeare fanfiction nerd

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yep that sure fucking happened

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they are native to the UK so it's not giulty for me to find them lovely

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i mean they may as well be natives here now

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but still


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also on the topic of birds y'all don't have cardinals??? I was showing a brit friend of mine a cardinal and he was like OMG IT'S THE BIRD FROM ALL THE AMERICAN THINGS

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here's some i took



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they are SO COLOURFUL (and so loud and annoying)

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YEAH

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we also have a lot of these fuckers, they're tight with each other:


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never seen that asshole before

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it's a grackle, they're native to the americas

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i remember when i went to boston i got a shock at red-winged blackbirds, which i thought were amazingly beautiful

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Oh, those are all over the midwest!

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Their epaulets are cool.

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But my favourite bird by far is...


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#UnpopularOpinion

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pidge


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especially the morphs you see pretty commonly in cities

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my shitty bird i love is the seagull

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I liked seagulls when I lived in the midwest.

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Then I lived on the coast.

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HOLY FUCK! THEY'RE SO BIG!

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they're so much fun to watch, and i love how clever they are. i don't like them breaking bread on my roof in the small hours of the morning

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so I terned over a new leaf as far as seabirds

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I used to watch them drop crabs and stuff to break them open when I lived in virginia.

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while i'm sharing my rl pokemon photos here's
kittiwakes, an endangered species of seagull that's beginning to repopulate


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they were almost hunted to extinction because their feathers were used to make hats


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that's what happened to the sea mink so humans are bastards globally

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tbh I just love birbs

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me too

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cardinals and jays are some of my favourites

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i love crows and how smart they are

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ravens are a little too smart like y'all scale that shit back

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american jays are better than the euro versions

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Oh?

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They're actually kind of dickheads.


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West Nile killed a lot of them... ut they're coming back, which is good!

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euro version is in earth tones


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They're corvids, so of course they're intelligent and they're assholes.

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Oh, I kind of love that little flash of blue though!

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it's really bright when they're flying.

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Look y'all don't have canadian geese so you're way far ahead of us.

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we do


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we so do


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HOW AND WHY

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although i have to say i haven't encountered any canada geese in the UK which have been as much assholes as the roving gangs of geese I met in Boston

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they took up the street and i thought they were going to mug us

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the bird from the american things

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canada geese are migratory, and where do you think they go??

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... NOWHERE, IF YOU LIVE IN THE MIDWEST

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don't tell me they can fly across the fucking ocean?

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Canada goose

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*Hellbeast

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...

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>Introduced

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why the fuck

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idk, victorians thought they were cute?

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that's why we have grey squirrels

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oddly i've seen grey, bkack, and red squirrels around here

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anyway victorians are also responsible for pigeons

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at least their urban nature. because they were SO COOL and then we decided they were GROSS


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That's why piebald and other morphs aren't that rare, in part.

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sorry i just clicked around on the RSPB website and just look at these arctic terns


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these are 100% a pokemon

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i will never believe they are real

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you know, I've been feverish for a bit, but I thought at first glance those were kielbasa. I've definitely taken a tern for the wurst.

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speaking of hilariously weird animals

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first of all, its name is the woodcock and that's hilarious if you're twelve at heart like me


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second of all, HE HEAD TOO BIG

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ludicrous

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i will never get how woodcocks' heads work

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not well

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also do you have these these make the best sounds


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coo... coo coo coo

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cowoo coo coo coo C:

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here's the euro forme


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no, we don't have those, but we have these


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UK form

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cute collars!

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AW THAT IS CUTE

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lil shawl

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these ones are actually french, they moved here on their own when the climate started heating up

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... birds are illegal immigrants who don't give a shit

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dad hates them because they have a really repetitive call that sounds like someone chanting 'un-i-ted, un-i-ted'

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oh do y'all have herons and if so I'm so sorry

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nod

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we have several kinds around here

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they're big, aggressive, and go for the eyes.

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OH ONE MORE BEFORE I STOP SHITTING UP THIS PLURK

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bruh i love hawks there are so many across nebraska

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they always look so pissed off?


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here is a heron pic by me


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also, our national bird is always depicted in profile for a reason, and that reason is

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they look stupid as hell head on.


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... he big

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context


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this is in amsterdam, not the UK, but there, herons have filled the niche normally occupied by herring gulls

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they hang around the fishmarket, crap on people's cars, terrorise bins and are awful

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oh, my fave local bird event is that one of the local churches has a peregrine falcon nesting on it.

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Oh, I love those C:

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my dad used to get sandhill cranes in his yard on winter mornings

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they're hella pretty

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except when they look stupid


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you can tell that picture was taken somewhere in Albuquerque because of the mountain looming in the background