A thread for the creation and discussion of fan fiction and other fanworks - anything that involves a story and/or reading. What've you been reading? What've you been writing? What would you like to see more of?>Thread question:What's a mon or mechanic you want to see more often?>Previous thread:>>58801360
>>58821035A Legendary blessing a Pokémon to make them more powerful than their peers. I’m Pofag’s and I kinda think I’m on to something
>>58821035>What's a mon or mechanic you want to see more often?CLAYDOL
I wish I had someone who was both uninvested in my story but still willing to talk about it so I could bounce plot important mechanics without trial-by-firing it with my readers. I'm not sure how many of these I'm cooking with and how many are straight ass, and it'd suck to get to some of these things only for it to note jive with a lot of the readers because by then it would be too late to change.>>58821043That's a lot more common than you might think, it's just typically not organically acquired like your story's was. Every other isekaijin ends up being a chosen mortal blessed by the heavens in some way prior to their arrival. Foxfucker, Silver eyes, every PLA story...
>>58821058>a chosen mortal blessed by the heavens in some way prior to their arrival, Foxfucker, Silver eyes, every PLAI more meant the “organically given to them” part as you said. BoC’s Ninetales being extra OP because it was picked by Giratina is kinda lame considering how OP Lee is anyways. It’s like giving a terrorist a nuke. As far as Legendary Blessings go, I really like traces of the Legendary that blessed the Pokémon in particular to show back up. For example, a Ho-Oh blesses an Arcanine and that Arcanine can use Sacred Fire, or Lugia blessing a Dragonite and it can use Aeroblast etc.As for the earlier part of your post, I started running into the same issue. I’d try to be vague asking for feedback/ a consult in here on things I was working on but I got sniffed out pretty quickly the moment I had to clarify specifics. Now I just trust my outline and do my best to make it not suck, which is effective more than half the time I guess. If you’re IMOanon, feel free to DM me on QQ. Not having an editor to tell us our idea’s good or shit sucks.
>>58821096IMO (in my opinion, not IMOanon) any idea being good or bad depends entirely on execution. Some horrendous sounding ideas become iconic (rubber pirate who can't swim, plumber who jumps on turtles) while plenty of good ideas end up boring and forgotten because they either play it generic and safe or they can't stick the landing and fumble something important. I'd worry less about if an idea is good or not and more about how you can deliver an idea you want to do properly.
>>58821043I think something like that is happening in Silver Eyes. Silver's Joltik absorbed the lightning from a Zapdos feather which could give it a huge power boost in the future.
>>58821096>If you’re IMOanonNah wasn't me. I've been out of commission all week with the flu, I'm just hitting the point where I can stay concentrated enough to stare at a screen.>>58821043>>58821525With exceptions I tend to prefer more subtle intervention from god-like beings in a story than a direct power boost. Like, the difference between a Suicune giving water powers to some protagonist, versus said protagonist always seeming to find clean water to drink when he needs it, no mater where he goes.
>>58822071This is just direct, definitive evidence that the grunts wear plague doctor masks to avoid the damn flu. You cannot convince me otherwise.(Please, bro, be okay.)
Which side are you on?>Real>Faker
Why is there so much isekai genderbender yuritroon shit these days?Can't believe I'm saying this, but even OOC trAsh betrayal fics would be preferable.
>>58822204Lesbians make everything acceptable
>>58822204Attractive woman is easy peasy mode and authors realized that, they also wanted to make it clear that even if they don't have a dick now they still want to fuck women and not get fucked
>>58822204Remember that running gag about Ash crossdressing? It had consequences
>>58822204Can't have your OC getting dicked down, that's too submissive and encourages problematic heterosexual relationships.
>>58822204>hmm.. my writing is shit and uninteresting...>I know! yuribait!
>>58822111Faker!? I think you're the fake Mew around here. You're not even good enough to be my fIa'klel make you eat those words!
>>58822204Mental illness of course.
>>58822204I understand I will write a genderbent isekai protagonist who gets knocked the fuck up to appease you.
>>58822672Based. If you're going for gigabased have the father be one of her Pokemon.
>>58822676"Typhlosion, not again!" >BO
>>58821035https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Apriblender
>>58821035>What's a mon or mechanic you want to see more often?Cyberspace>inb4 seizuresjust wear sunglasses
>>58822204Troonism is on the rise so it's just more common overall, kids who grew up watching Ash crossdressing are now old enough to afford dresses HRT and write fics, and troons prefer women because they're not women they're failed straight men and also because they typically grew up being bullied by men so they find more comfort with women.
>>58822860>kids who grew up with LikoAnime will develop hypnotism fetishfixing coming soon
>>58822868>>kids who grew up with LikoAnimeAll two of them.
>>58822204Girl protags are popular. Isekai is popular. Writers trend chase. Shouldn't be hard to figure that one out.
>>58822881>Girl protags are popularPopular where? The biggest trend in anime and fics is still "straight white dude with a harem of thirsty bitches".
>>58822868Is one of her powers hypnosis or is that the power of a reocurring villain or something?
Uh… even more PoPT for those who partake. Been really productive this week.https://archiveofourown.org/works/66210784/chapters/202657911#comments
>>58822902I see this a lot more with quests, but girl MCs just get more engagement for less effort. Regular fics are the same especially on places like Spacebattles. Good writing makes this irrelevant, so I should probably have described this as an engagement crutch rather than some kind of proper popularity value judgement. Same as how gamer fic shit gets play even if it's total crap, or the harem fics you're describing. It gets people in the door.
>>58822937not even that, the anime has like over 5 scenes of characters getting hypnotized that are unrelated between each other
>>58821035Seviper.
>>58822949Yeah that makes more sense. Standards for femcs are way lower.
>>58822204>tfw incorporating yuri and at minimum like two other topics that have been discussed as cancer in the last few threads into your fic>>58822945Holy shit dude, nice. I'm falling further behind by the minute
>>58822868Yugioh had a corruption arc in like every season, where are my corruption fetish fics?
>>58822985You'll get your toxic yaoi love triangle between Yugi Yami and Kaiba and you'll like it.
>Be retard>Close all tabs by accident>Including Vermilion PD>Open it and see a second review>"Good for him">A second commision comment bot had hit his ficThat is peak humiliation ritual.
>>58823019>tfw never got any bot commentstheir algorithm knows I'm a broke bitch who couldn't be scammed even if I believed them
>>58823019>>58823024Mine just got hit with two bots for the first time in months, a fresh wave may be coming
>>58822204Name at least TEN fics that are like that.>These daysName at least ten other fics that started last year.You fags whine, cry and shit themselves over this shit but this supposed ***invasion*** is always ALWAYS just Touch the Skies and that one that's set in the Crown Tundra whose name I forget.I swear 70% of this thread posts are just schizos fighting ghosts and imaginary opponents.And then, and this admittedly may be goomba fallacy, you fags also complain about male harem self-insert reincarnation power fantasy.What the FUCK do you niggers even what?
>>58823058>What the FUCK do you niggers even whatA crossover
>>58823058>What the FUCK do you niggers even what?A character-driven narrative that explores a specific theme in depth, with strong stakes, gripping drama without pointless grimderp that can still be balanced with humor, romance that builds the characters' growth instead of consuming it like a tumor, and a story that maintains the importance of humans and their bonds with Pokemon without one or the other becoming the sole focus.Which is why I'm trying to write it.
>want to write a fanfic>scared to post it because I humiliated myself by an autistic meltdown on another fic's thread and I'm afraid of being recognized and people (rightfully) giving me shit for itI hate myself.
>>58823085You give other people's memory too much credit. Post it anyways.
>>58823085Use an alt and scrub any potential identifiers? Unless you pretty much told them what your story would be, in which case lol lmao. Stay quiet and if too many people remember and bring it up then simply apologize and admit to having a bad day that time.
>>58822742NB4 Rotom and Pulseman
>>58823058I just ask for a MC that isn't a goody-two-shoes moron who gets treated like a doormat
>>58823096Logically, I know people are unlikely to remember it, but the fear wormed it's way deep into my mind.>post it anywaysI can't yet, I haven't been able to make time to do more than write down little ideas I get while daydreaming.>>58823107>simply apologize and admit to having a bad day that time.I mean, I pretty much was. A lot of shit piled on from that day and the day before, and I was pissed off. Hell, the part that caused me to explode like I did normally would have just gotten a "well, that was dumb" and I would have moved on, but the anger from all that other stuff caused it to become a full on meltdown. It REALLY wasn't something worth getting so angry over.I really want to apologize, but every time I tried to write it out, it just... didn't feel like enough. Now it's been nearly a year, and it would be even more awkward.
>>58823058Hey fuck you I only complain about Pidgey
>>58823145>Complaining about Pidgey-samaThat's one Sand-Attack as penance, you know.
>>58823135I'm guessing you won't tell us what other fic you had meltdown on lmao?But more seriously, and I know this won't really help, but you are at best making bullet points and general ideas of a fic, not even really writing due to life. I seriously wouldn't stress about something ike posting a fic when you're not even past the beginnings of a draft.I don't want to sound like a prick but that's just how I see it.I am curious though, was it really that bad? I can believe it being awkward after nearly a year. If possible, I suggest you write a private message and just tell firstly that you are indeed sorry for your outburst, that your day was horrendous (don't give details if you remember them, because no mater what happened it doesn't excuse going sicko mode and do explain that. Maybe end it by saying that you needed to get it off your chest.)
>>58823150Aiyeee!!! Save me, Pikachu!
>>58823154>I'm guessing you won't tell us what other fic you had meltdown on lmao?I... don't really want to, so I'll just say was one of those livestream slop fics on QQ (don't know why I like these, desu), which is one of the reasons I'm so embarrassed. You guys should be able to find it pretty quick.>I don't want to sound like a prick but that's just how I see it.Nah, you're right. I've only really been stressing because I thought I'd have it out a lot sooner.>I am curious though, was it really that bad?In all honesty, probably not. I do remember there being enough people complaining out the same thing for the author to consider changing it (which I ironically discouraged, IIRC). It was basically what the author called "Old Testament Arceus" fucking destroying a random Twitch mod who was just doing his job, just dumb, pointless cruelty. Still think I massively overreacted, though. I don't know if he went through with those rewrites...Sorry if this is kind of rambley, I need sleep lol
>>58823085Just write it and post it. Who cares about your sperg out we're all anon in the end. I'm writing absolute dogshit for an audience of nobody but I'm still pushing out monthly chapters because I have a story I want to tell.
>>58823019At this point the commission bots are a premium. I recently got this bizarre comment in Armenian that's at least 2,000 words in total. Running it through google translate gives me things like "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has decided to establish a joint venture with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation." another snippet involves the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs somehow
>>58823282Lolwut
>>58823198Oh the FGO fic. I don't remember the 'sperg out' but I think the author did roll back the whole make the guy live an entire life and then take it all away punishment and instead just blipped the guy out of existence.Probably still the fics weirdest and top overreaction. I don't think Arceus stepped in any point afterwards. An officer Jenny got slashed by a servant after sending a tts twitch donation and went to the hospital and none of the legendaries watching the stream did anything about it.On a related note, I kind of cringe at some of the twitch comments because they are in part playing the character that is the cruel and unsympathetic internet stranger.
>>58823298>and none of the legendaries watching the stream did anything about it.Aren't most legendaries assholes too busy trying to kill each other to care about humans?
>>58823135Literally just get an alt name and post it anon.
>>58823085Anon you need to understand anyone petty and unemployed enough to "track" these sorts of things online is not worth engaging with anyway. Just ignore and continue doing your hobby.
You doin' alright IMOanon?
>>58824003cringe
>>58821035How far can you get away using non-moves on a battle? Like can your Pokémon spit, eye poke or kick its opponent on the nuts? I know Tickle is an actual move but nothing stops any Mon of actually tickling its foe
VPDanon rest assured, you have an actual review now.
>>58824008You need to apply for a license to use techniques not sanctioned by the league. This includes dodging, repositioning, attacking out of turn order, etc. 99.99% of trainers don't get this license, which is reflected in the games.
>>58824024galarians will look you straight in the eye and tell you this unironicaly btw
>>58823058I want a fic about this guy
>>58824013Based threadbro. And it was a CCanon review, which is wordier than the rest of the reviews you’ll get on FFN for months. I’ll hop in and give (much shorter) review tho anon. FFN is such a shit place for reviews.
>>58824003Yeh I'm mostly feeling better now. Annoyed I lost a week of writing time though.>>58824008I'd think it's probably permissible but doesn't carry the same stopping power of a proper move. A random untrained kick isn't going to hurt like a Mega Kick.
>>58824514what about a Mega Kick in the balls?
>>58824817That's ESCALATION. Do that and every Team Rocket grunt will start aiming for the balls.
>>58824838why didn't this grunt escalate after this?
>>58824861Lance de-escalated him to hell before he got the chance.
>>58824861He TANKED that btw
>>58824861
>>58825048A pretty anime girl said that so it must be true!
>>58824013>>58824337thank you so much anons. that review was amazing and way more than I expected, but exactly what I could have hoped for. I changed a few things around the part where he comes to the conclusion about the machine to make it more clear and it's less of a leap. not sure why I thought that part was good the way it was before, my guess is either: in one of the many earlier drafts, that part made what the machine did more obvious or I thought the throwback to the Chansey from the report made it make more sense than it did, plus I already knew what it did, so it just clicked with me when re-reading. but you're completely right about that. also changed the repeating structure for as much of the dialogue as I could, without changing it in every single spot when I thought it was still ok/thought it lost something, because some how I didn't notice that either. I guess I focused too hard on not just saying "he said" "she said" too much and adding more to it and didn't realize how much the structure repeated.and as for the flashbacks, I agree with you, but don't really know what to do about it because I think those scenes are pretty important.I updated it, but it might take a bit for it to show up because ff doesn't update changes immediately. of course I don't expect you to go read it again or anything, but thank you so much for the seriously awesome review and feedback to make it better. I really appreciate it and you're based. I'm also very glad you liked it.
>>58824861How do you escalate against a Dragonite?
>>58825095with the almighty frying pan
>>58825104Dragonsisters...just...don't look...
>>58825117>Clair getting manhandled so hard by a Fairy Type trainer she gets mindbroken and has put on a maid costume and serve him>She becomes a cuckqueanBoner stahp
>>58825104She’s using Steel aura here
>>58825117Made for bratty mating press by fairyGODS.
>>58825117>no fic with tsundere Clair as main heroinefor now
>>58825086>don't really know what to do about it because I think those scenes are pretty important.Yeah, I don't think you can really alter them without risking ruining the overall atmosphere and/or necessitating complex and convoluted rewording/restructuring. I think it's best to let them be and let retards be filtered.>of course I don't expect you to go read it again or anythingLmao, I'm willing to, though it'll be some other day and hopefully without screwing over my sleep (but the bitch bots forced my consciousness because that's just disheartening; all that hard work just to get cyber clankers.)
>>58825145You need to complete the reverse-slander and make her totally correct to not give the PC the badge too
>>58825175What's a good reason?The pc using a pokemon they borrowed or bought from a trainer that beat Clair already?Doping with a technically legal drug?Ultra sandbagging?
>>58825209sex blackmail
>>58825173thanks a lot seriously you're fucking awesome
>>58825209Evil team interrupts during the fight, Clair does most of the work fending them off, PC insists the match goes on because her team is much worse off than his.
>>58825209He said her ass was fat
>>58825145Based, give the Dragon Lady her flowers. I'm still like a full arc before I can start the Clair wank on my end.
>>58825209The PC winning but being absolutely awful to everyone, including their own pokemon. Claire will simply not give a badge to an abuser.
Clair using Roaring Moon as her ace: Y/N?
>>58825327I don’t really like Roaring Moon that much, but it’s a fine choice.
>>58825327>paradox Pokemonno
>>58825327Give her Mega Feraligatr instead
>>58825418she doesn't need to be humiliated even more
I can't manage quite as in-depth as CCanon, but I put a review up for Vermillion PD. Very nice start, dude.
Pits of Po Town. There's a depraved, vile bonus chapter pitch free of charge for you, bro.
>>58823927Honestly, re-reading what I posted here, I agree. Feeling really dumb in hindsight. I tend to catastrophize a lot. Still think I owe the author an apology, though... I'll do it as soon as I have time.
>>58825892can't thank you all enough again for the thoughtful reads and detailed reviews. and yeah, Rookie is his actual first name. I'll touch more on why later.on the competence point, that's basically the core contradiction I'm trying to work with. "skill outpacing confidence." he's not incompetent, but he's a nervous wreck most of the time. then when the moment actually calls for it, he narrows down and executes. but he always returns to being full of doubt and running on nerves. a lot of that is Kano's influence. he taught him to function inside fear and drilled "do the next right thing" into him instead of trying to comfort it away. I'm planning to show more of the cost/limitations of that later on, especially when it's not an adrenaline situation where locking in solves it.also noted on the flashbacks. I wanted them to bleed in, but I get what you mean about the transitions, so I'm going to make the breaks a bit clearer.really happy Rookie and Jenny worked for you and some of the other stuff I was going for, and I'm glad the narration style landed. I genuinely really appreciate all this. this feedback helps a lot and it feels great to hear a couple people say they liked it.
>>58825104Team Rocket overpowers the dragon because they use the power of friendship
>>58826179That and the dragon's into humiliation. Why else would a fully evolved dragon take up a job as a mailman?
>>58826181Times are tough in this economy. Besides, he's a Dragonite. He probably spends like 2 hours every shift delivering mail and the other 6 lazing about in Kalos.
>>58826181He's the equivalent of a jet plane pilot carrying high-priority correspondence in all weather across entire regions AND he gets paid more in one month than you do in an entire year, faggot
>>58826181Dragonite are fond of whimsy and what's more whimsical than being a magical dragon postman?
>>58826196Probably only works like once a week too
>>58826013Shoot!
>>58826176Didn’t mean to double to up on a specific criticism VPDanon (I really didn’t see IMOanon popped in to review until after I posted mine).
Just a question, for primarily Poanon, but what, to you, are the fics that embody what you hate about ill-crafted isekaifics? Like specific fics that get it wrong.I'm not asking so I can hate on them, but I want my mc to have those uglier personality traits that sometimes arise out of those works. However they will be treated seriously and there are consequenses for bad behaviour.
>>58827695You should make a game about Shirona getting vored lmao
>>58827710By an ad
>SI as a rival/irrelevant side character People love it >SI as the canon MC People hate itBut why? At the end of the day it's the same shit because they take all the stuff the canon MC ever did for themselves
>>58828127>they hate itThey do? Sure doesn’t seem like it.
>>58828127Becoming the Canon MC makes the SI feels less "yours" despite the Canon MC being also a SI. It's strange, but it's a big vibes things.If you become the literal Canon MC then your SI is now "guaranteed" all the things the Canon MC does. Takes away the underdog appeal. You're just following the already set "path".It's ultimately just the boring choice.And here's the neat part: You cannot make your SI better than the MC, who's blessed with everything since it is the canon MC, if they are the SI target, then how can you prove your superiority over the super duper gary stu/mary sue the MCs are?Meanwhile if you're a NPC or side-character or rival now you're the underdog, you're taking a world where someone who was not meant to the be MC is now the MC. Now you're fighting against fate. Now you can pretend you're doing this all yourself and that fate is against you and you're beating anyway. There's more interesting relationships to play around around with that character unlike the MC who'll just have their mom at best.
>>58828127Hate is a strong word, I think they're just disinterested. Because writers typically just follow the same story beats. Take Naruto for example, there's like hundreds to thousands of stories that do the sameGenin arc -> wave arc -> chuunin exam with no real changes. We've already seen Naruto's pov, most Naruto SI just follow that same path even if they have, I dunno, rinnegan + kurama sage mode unlocked before that point.At least inserting as someone different, in theory, forces a different path or pov as parallel as it can be sometimes.
>>58827664>>58827664So as far as specific fics, there was a Johto Isekai fic (something with “Crystal” in the name) that was so egregiously insufferable with the choices it made from the get go I really got inspired to give the finger to low effort, unearned Isekai fics with PoPT. The starter was a Totodile that had Sheer Force, Crunch and Dragon Dance as egg moves. The Isekai’d MC then started humming “Sinnoh Sound” (the radio channel that enabled Sinnoh Pokémon to appear in HGSS) and a Riolu popped up on the first route and began teaching the MC aura. I skipped ahead to the gym fight and of course Riolu swept Falkner.I specifically read this fic because I was starting to really get into setting foundation for PoPT. I’d read BoC, PTV (which I hate even though it’s not trying to be more than shameless power fantasy/ wish fulfillment) and When is a Spoon a Sword (couldn’t do TNN or Hard Enough), but I wanted to see what not-good writers did too. There were elements of BoC and Spoon that bothered me, but the writing was good enough to cover those gripes up. I made certain decisions in PoPT that basically “fixed” the gripes, but the inspiration for making Suzy-Marie truly egregious was that Isekai fic I mentioned. That turned my want of just wanting do my nitpicks of popular Isekai fic tropes to really flipping the bird to the low effort ones.It’s kinda funny to me that a number of commenters wanted certain things to happen early on (aura, Ian gets Zygarde, nutrition) and PoPT basically looked at the audience and said “not today.” Is it still an Isekaislop power fantasy at its core? Yes. But that shitty johto Isekai fic really lit a fire under my ass to really do something a bit different.
>>58828180What's PTV and TNN?
>>58828190Pokémon Trainer Vicky and The New Notmal.
>>58828191Gotcha.Honestly, the humming thing is funny as hell. It's so retarded it loops back into being clever.
>>58828195I thought it was cool until the post-Cherrygrove Shelgon with Hoenn sound.
>>58828127People love underdog beats hero stories
Really goes to show how little I interact with SI/isekai shit that I thought the initial question was asking about making the Self-Insert a side character in the narrative, versus making them the viewpoint MC.
>>58828217That one young Cynthia fic does that.I stopped bothering with it because young Cynthia or not I cannot picture being so fucking retarded and so much of a fucking pussy.Apparently it's being written with AI too so nothing of value was lost.
>>58828180Thanks man!
>>58828223I'm forcing myself to read that one purely to get perspective on how others write the near pasts of regions and characters. It really does read like chatbot RP that was repurposed into a fic.The thing I hate most about it though is that it tries to make every little thing super dramatic.And not just the little things, but the middle things too.And the big things.And it types like this, so every little overblown thing takes up a third of your screen.And the worst part?It never stops.Ever.Not even during relaxed moments, because those have to be filled with marvel zingers too.Quips, even.It's not just annoying, it's an offense.
>>58828316Oh no the Webtoons are infecting prose
>>58828223This current arc fucking sucks. It's so boring.
>>58828195>>58828207>play Hoenn Sound near a harbor>a giant Wailord comes and destroys everything in its pathfunny
>>58828207>>58828494explain
>>58828531In HGSS once you have obtained the National Pokédex, you gain access to the Hoenn and Sinnoh Sound radio channels which cause Pokémon from these regions to appear in tall grass.
>realize my big plot twist is really similar to something I saw in a different game once>realize I named the character with the plot twist after the character from that game who also had the same plot twist>mfw I subconsciously straight up plagiarized an entire character without even changing the name
>>58828746The more sex you cover it up in, the less likely it’ll get found out. When a man’s dick is working, their brain isn’t.
>>58828746iktfb. Recently I jolted in the middle of falling asleep after realizing one of the climax battles I had planned was basically a fucking Jojo fight.
>>58823282Lmao, what fic?
>Have mind-blowing thought for a thematically poignant event, baffled I didn't think of it sooner>It's the penultimate chapter before the final climax, and I'm probably years from getting thereInto The Tome it goes
>>58828746This is one of the reasons why I google any name I come up with.
so are slowpoke retarded in battle? or do they still immediately follow commands
>>58829400They act in real time by using their psychic powers to accelerate their brains 99999x
>>58829400They may as well be like Misty's Psyduck, useless most of the time
>>58829378I know that feel bro. I’ve legit shed tears over scenes I’m over a year away from writing. Luckily that helps keep me going as I slog through the more mundane parts of the story (in comparison).