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.
Category: Author Responses
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.”
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 29
“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.”
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 30
“(For your information. I study English language and culture. I know the capitalisation and other punctuation rules. No need to explain to me as if I’m a child) […] I treat Pokemon names as proper nouns.”
Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: Reducto ad Absurdum Edition
We jump ahead to the recent past. In February I reviewed this non-fic and the results were simply amazing. The author blocked me so I lost my own responses, but they’re impressive anyway.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12360950/1/My-Favorite-Ships
Non-stories are banned on this site. This belongs elsewhere.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 31
“Thank you for the help. I really do appreciate it but, this is fanfiction. A place where I can write about anything.”
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The Other Pokeauthors, Part 32
“Still don’t care. Bug odd.”
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 33
“As for it not being Pokémon. That was the first chapter, and it says in the description this is about a high school that these Pokémon are attending. It obviously isn’t going to follow the game or the show. It is not following characters from the game or show. It will be different. This is however considered a Pokémon fan fiction. Just because the Pokémon act sort of humanlike is not the sole deciding factor in what the fanfic is or isn’t. Again I thank you on grammatical corrections but I do not appreciate you putting it down saying “This has nothing to do with Pokemon”.”
Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: On Not-Fanfiction
You remember that weird “human AU” fic about the guy who was just like a gardevoir because he was bullied for wearing dresses? The author flipped out at me for calling it original fiction, but shockingly, we actually made it to a peaceful resolution.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 34
“Game Freak is doing their best to translate [the games] to a language we can understand.” AHAHAHAHAHA
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 35
Another interactive fic author throws a hissy fit when I tell them to play by the rules.
Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: The Hero Appears
In which a righteous hero arises to strike down the horrible trolls but backs out when I actually put him up to it.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 36
“It’s my story, jackass. I’m not required to put in line breaks. Go fuck yourself.”
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 37
In which I unreasonably jump the gun on an ESL author who did in fact use a native beta reader. Make sure to use this against me, hate-followers!
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 38
“Capitalization occurs when referring to a specific name, title, location, or set/subset of people. For instance, we refer to them as Muslims, or Christians, or Jews, because once the subset class is stripped, they have no real meaning, as they refer only to a specific group. In Pokémon, this means that referring to the species Pikachu would require capitalization because it refers to a specific group of nouns with a similar trait (like that of being a Pikachu). Now let’s look at the individual Pikachu, which has to be capitalized because it refers to only one specific set of creatures with similar body traits.
This is why we capitalize Muslims because the word refers to the group of people that adhere to the religion of Islam, and has no other meaning unless you force a stereotype. In that sense, all Pokémon names MUST be capitalized.
In addition, Pokémon itself is a title and shortened form of Pocket Monsters, a title that refers to the general subset of all creatures, each of which share a common trait.
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Finally, take your British English rules and shove them up your fat ass. If you were smart enough to pay attention in school (which you obviously didn’t and is why I wasted half-an-hour on you hopeless piece of shit) dialogue can be formatted ‘”Speech.” Person word’, simply because most word processors automatically correct to that and will count ‘”Speech.” person word’ as being incorrect occasionally.”