In which I get to review the same story twice, because the author still hasn’t figured out how to block me.
Also contains a high school AU with a protagonist named “Moon Selene”, because her parents just hated her that much.
Tag: Pokemon fanfic
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 38
“Today I get to pick my lifelong partner, companion, and friend: I get to pick my first Pokemon. Of course, I’m picking Tepig. Who wouldn’t? Strong, dependable, great evolution. You can’t lose!
Of course, someone else will want Tepig, which is why I’m rushing to the lab right now. I will be the first there and I will get my Tepig!”
But trainers totally don’t treat pokemon as disposable objects, shut up you joy-hating hippie scum!!!
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 37
Mostly just miscategorized anime fic today.
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 36
Meh fic today. There was a semi-interesting one, but the author took it down.
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 35
Lot of standalone author’s notes today.
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 34
Nicely varied crop today. There’s a grimdark war story that’s currently nothing but a hilariously overdetailed summary, as well as some idiot who thought crowdsourcing whether or not pokemon could talk was a wise idea. Also a good-ish story about the Alola PC freaking out at the nihilego’s similarity to Lillie, though it seems to have mixed up cause and effect. Also also a Team Plasma story, but no idea where that’s going.
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 33
Today we have a high school AU that felt the need to specify characters’ EV values but not how a quadruped can use a toothbrush, an edgy grimdark story about all of America (literally, the landmass) being teleported into the the pokeworld, and a humanized pokemon story that thought a humanized gardevoir was a better vehicle for addressing toxic masculinity than a just plain human character. Is it just me or is this batch weirder than normal?
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 32
Lots of people who don’t understand how to tag their story as anime-related.
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 31
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12250511/1/Red-The-Liberator
[Red is tired of people treating Pokemon with such disrespect.]
Yet he still believes pokemon aren’t people, apparently.
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 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.”
[25] The Other Pokereviews, Part 30
Biblepunk fantasy where Giratina is literally Satan. Also, some hilarious misunderstanding of gamma rays and DNA.
[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.
[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.
Pokereplies Part 8
“When I played Black 2, I beat Cheren with a Riolu, and I beat Iris with the same Lucario. Would you rather I used my plan B, which was a Zorua? Does that seem more rare to you? I thought so.” (more…)