“Your review was way too long, especially for something just criticizing the most basic part of the story, the writing format. I mean no offense when I say this, but when people call someone a Grammar Nazi, they are talking about people who do stuff like that. Once again, no offense intended.”
Author Archives: St. Elmo's Fire
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 29
Today we’ve got a fic about how N is terrible and needs to become a trainer to understand why training is good and pure and not at all slavery.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 28
“If I’m writing about pokemon, then that’s a pokemon fanfic, no matter how much I alter some of their attributes.”
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 28
I still have a huge backlog of these, so let’s clear the dead air by working through them a little. We return to the misty days of October 2016, where I discovered a really weird original fic about the legendaries seemingly written by someone with no direct exposure to Pokemon.
Charapost 2: The Phantom Menace
I think I’ve gotten all the information I’m going to get on Chara, so I’ll submit them less from now on. But they’re still my go-to default for the crappy fics, and the crappy fics are the only ones that seem to update, so enjoy the show!
Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: Type Specialization
Today’s author is of Smogon U, a SYOC story where pokemon go to college. Pokemon are all segregated into dorms by type, and I was rewarded with some amazing stuff when I pointed out how silly that was.
January Romance Pokeauthors, Week 4
Mopping up the last few stragglers. Mostly boring, though one author got hilariously affronted at the concept of someone criticizing porn.
Also, “I’m respecting you by not blocking you.”
January Romance Pokeauthors, Week 3
In which someone responds to my review in German. From what I can tell, they are apparently using a translation program to write their stories. Why do people do this.
A porn author also gets really weird when I try to ask them why they don’t consider pokemon people.
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January Romance Pokeauthors, Week 2
In which I track down multiple PDFs of published books to supplement a painstaking explanation of how dialogue is written only to get told that while they agree I’m totally right, their reviewers don’t care so they’re not going to bother changing it.
January Romance Pokeauthors, Week 1
As Farla said, I covered romance fic in January. It’s romance fic, so like 99% of my reviews were just standard grammar paragraphs and I won’t bother posting them. Despite this, I managed to get quite a variety of responses!
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 27
Wherein someone refuses to read the capitalization thread or any of my arguments because “I would rather be happy with my story, albeit wrong than unhappy and right.”
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 27
A variety today. Quite a few are decent, but they also tend to be original fiction.
Pokereviews Addendum: The Reaper
In which I am tolerant and open-minded towards that conservative wall of text story. Unsurprisingly, this turned out to be a complete waste of time.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 26
Surprisingly chill responses today.
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 26
We’ve got ourselves a real gem today:
“In reading several Pokémon x Human fanfics, I’ve noticed that in many cases, you see the same ideological portrayal – liberals are the compassionate heroes, while the conservatives are nothing but overly pompous jerks. In reality, that is far from the truth. People have done horrible things to one another from both sides of the spectrum, from liberalism (in the forms of socialism and communism), to conservatism (fascism, racism, and sexism). That being said, and pretty surprisingly to many people reading this, this story will be from a more conservative point of view. It won’t be essential to the plot for awhile, but it will be present. Again, if you don’t like that sort of thing, you are under no obligation to read it. However, if you are against conservatism, and you still do decide to read it, I encourage you to truly be open minded. Remember, open mindedness is tolerance to both sides.”