“Last thing is that this is a fanfic. The writer has the power to change or manipulate things from the story. For example I cold make it so Guzma never joined team skull. This is what a fanfic is. So if you don’t like mine, then you may find another one.”
Also, I get an anti-revenge review!
[30] The Other Pokereviews, Part 68
Basically everything today was incoherent or anime fic, but there is a Nuzlocke with a pokemon whisperer protagonist. No deaths yet, but that promises to be a ride.
The Obelisk Gate
This isn’t an actual review, just a WOOOO post to note that Obelisk Gate took the 2017 Hugo for best novel! It totally deserved it, this series may be the best trilogy I’ve ever read, it’s absolutely incredible, this is not an exaggeration. The final book, Stone Sky, just came out and was equally as good so seriously, go read them!
I look forward to Jemisin taking the 2018 Hugo for Stone Sky and giving her a three-year win streak. No contemporary writer deserves these accolades more.
Neckbeards must be losing their shit.
squeeeeeeeeee
Umineko – Legend of the Golden Witch – 10/5, 8 PM to 12 AM
Last time, more deaths, but an odd implication of things reaching their end.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 67
Someone has a new argument for using SYOCs, but in the process seems to have misunderstood how SYOCs typically work. Otherwise, nothing much.
[10] The Other Pokereviews, Part 67
Short post today, things have been busy.
The Journey of “The Journey of Aura: Kalos Saga”, Part 3: The Journey of Aura: Kalos Saga
Although the Lucki reviews were never completed, I’d already written up my side of the reviews and finally got tired of waiting, so I posted them to the fic.
For those of you here who object to the standard model of reviews, these are in-depth, copypasta-free reviews that I went very far out of my way to tailor to the author.
The Journey of “The Journey of Aura: Kalos Saga”, Part 2: The Lucki-ing
Yesterday, I posted the PM chain of communication failure. I ended on agreeing to review the author’s story if he agreed to read and review Lucki, with the hope that my story would get something across where my regular words had failed me. I wanted him to get to chapter twelve – it’s not the final denouement, but it would cover the issue of showing a pokemon’s wishes conflicting with that of their trainer, which was the point that stood out as the worst element – or at least, the thing that most bothered me – in what I’d been told about the story. And at the very least, I was hoping that seeing how he talked about Lucki might help me understand him well enough that I could communicate any of my own thoughts on his story successfully.
The Journey of “The Journey of Aura: Kalos Saga”, Part 1: The PMing
Alright. I’ve been busy, mostly with life but partly with my own brain-eating fanfic (two chapters and twenty thousand words in!). Back months ago when I wasn’t half so busy, someone appeared to ask me to beta read their boy’s-first-power-fantasy-with-trophy-girlfriend fanfic. I attempted to direct them to someone else who might actually enjoy that. They attempted to tell me that actually I should totally read their story, with each PM making it clear it was even worse than I’d previously pictured, until ultimately it wrapped around to such loathing I agreed just to see how much worse it could be. (more…)
Umineko – Legend of the Golden Witch – 10/5, 1 PM to 8 PM
Last time, the deaths begin, and so does the suspicion.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 66
“As for the debate on whether or not Ash is an OC or Ash Ketchum himself, well, we could debate for days.”
Also, an English major decides to devalue their degree.
[28] The Other Pokereviews, Part 66
One decentish fic about Dawn rescuing Cyrus from the Distortion World, and yet another fic where the legendaries are a divine bureaucracy.
Charapost 6: The Backstroke of the West
So, it’s been nearly three months since I made one of these! There was a little activity in June, but afterwards SYOC fic just tanked. Plenty was posted, but everything was dead on arrival. I was holding out for more updates, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen. Most of these are unfortunately pretty boring, but the chosen guardians story did update again.
And I Darken
And I Darken by Kiersten White is a really interesting piece of historical fiction, the central premise of which is that Vlad the Impaler is born female instead of male. It’s unfortunately somewhat undercut by the fact that the author just isn’t a great writer, but the social commentary is deliciously biting and it’s exceptionally well-researched, so as long as you’re not expecting to be at the edge of your seat I think it’s worth checking out just because it’s so no-holds-barred.
The Other Pokeauthors, Part 65
“If you found my story hard to understand, I’m sorry, but that’s really not my problem. I didn’t write it for you.”