Dragon Quill

“Argubaly Pokémon are people so it wouldn’t matter if their names are capitalized.”

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“And are you perchance from Germany or northern Europe? You seem a very direct kind of person!”

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In which I discover that the people who write canon-compliant pokemon high school fics are even worse than the ones who write pokehumans.

On the brighter side, someone finally has a reasonable response to the original fiction issue.

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“A decade ago was way different than today. A decade ago, all Pokemon names were in all caps. Now we have official games where everything is lowercased but the species name is STILL capitalized. So, YOUR facts are the ones that are wrong. This is their universe, their rules, their spelling.
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But what it sounds like you’re saying, to me, is that J.R.R. Tolkein, one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century, would also be a bad writer by this assumption. In Lord of the Rings, he capitalized the word “Ent” which is a species. According to you, however, that is not a word which should be capitalized according to your specific doctrine. How, then, do you explain that?”

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In which someone actively refuses to fix their categorization just to spite me, and I continue to be baffled that everyone loses their mind over this.

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From someone whose story has no paragraphs: “Yeah sorry I just think it’s not important to do that kinda stuff you need to focus more on a good story with likeable characters”

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“Moon is a better name than Farla, who you seem to have a colossal boner for.” I don’t think I’ve had things escalate to sexual remarks that quickly before! Interesting that Farla gets attacked directly but the best they can muster is that I’m gross for being subordinate to a woman.

Surprisingly nice responses besides that, though. Even the revenge reviewers got weirdly positive.

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Got a pretty standard concern troll who was willing to engage for a while.

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“Leave Farla alone, St Elmo’s Fire. You’re disgusting.”

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“The Hall of Origins itself is fanmade and used in just about every story with Arceus in it, and in every story I’ve seen with it, all the Legends were there.”

Ahhh this is cathartic. Now that we’re out of AOOO I finally get to throw down with one of those people who think their ten-steps-removed game of fanon telephone requires no explanation when dropped into fanfic.

And yes, they did just say a canon location is fanmade. Don’t worry, it gets worse!

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“Thank you for your criticism. […] Please do not message me again, if I find you have put hurtful reviews on other chapters, I will be forced to report you, I do not tolerate negative responses to my work”

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Had an interesting discussion about the Pokemon Revolution story: “It is a fantasy. It is a satire. It criticizes both sides: the humans call themselves free, but aren’t they constrained by the schedules and laws they impose upon themselves? The pokemon want freedom, but what is freedom when they are ordered to boycott goods and collect water in the pursuit of “freedom”?”

Also, someone finally has a reasonable response to me saying not everyone has to worship Arceus. It’s a miracle!

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“Fanfiction is second only to Deviantart when it comes to fragile emotions. I, personally, could take just about any criticism thrown at me and pretend it didn’t exist in the first place, but most people here are just trying to escape their own brutal reality. When they don’t even find support here of all places, things go dark fast. I’ve actually fought to keep a few authors from offing themselves a while back. There was a girl named Thriller Killer who made an incredibly popular Undertale RP, but it got so popular that a group dedicated to shutting her down was made, and on top of the stress of real life, it proved too much from her. I don’t know if she did off herself, but her last message certainly sounded like it. You really don’t know how devastating these things can be.”

Wow. Just… wow.

I do believe this is the first time someone has used an actual suicide victim as a martyr for the Cult of Nice.

Just… wow.

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“This entire argument literally has nothing to do with anything. You’re going on about grammar issues, some BS capitalization, and how the story itself isn’t what you want it to be. Are you serious?

First of all, capitalization with Pokemon is subjective, and your argument is so off it’s not even funny. I really hate to pick someone apart, but my goodness. You CAN’T be serious. And the deviations from the game. I hate to see how you reacted watching Pokemon Origins, because THOSE deviate from the games left, right, and center.

Secondly, you are LITERALLY picking on someone who doesn’t even speak English. All this review tells me is that you watched an episode of I Hate Everything, liked what you saw, and tried to copy paste it in the form of a review that’s so all over the place, I can barely follow it. Not ONE nice thing about this? Do tell me you can do better, cause I’d LOVE to see it.

I know everyone has a right to their own opinion, but THIS…”

What’s really impressive about this is that they were white knighting their friend; the author themselves gave me a very mild response.

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The topic here was a pretty standard argument, but it ballooned tremendously because my opponent turned out to be a master goalpost-mover. Observe:

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