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:Roll a random pokemonhttps://randompokemon.com/What horror scenario can you think of involving that pokemon?>Previous thread:>>59625394
>>59639676I've seen this take on Mew before somewhere. Funny, interesting, and disturbing all at the same time.
>>59639676>>59639688This is how Mews work in my fic setting. They’re like Resident Evil BOWs. One of my future fics/parts has some Resident Evil and some John Wick DNA, but with a Mew and Shadow Triad member going ham on Team Rocket.
>TQ>ZacianSomething something Dark Souls
>>59639676Exploring a dark cave, you get lost after your flash user faints in a tough trainer battle. You are on the lowest floor and its pitch black, but you get the feeling you just need to go on for a little more and you will reach the stairs. While rushing forward, you start hearing a noise as if the rocks are collapsing. You get anxious and run faster in the darkness, hoping to get out of there already. But suddenly, a huge rock drops right in front of you, the ground shakes and you fall backwards flat on your back. That's when you realize that it was no mere rock, it is a huge Gigalith blocking your path to safety. You are not even nearly prepared to take on something like this with the few pokemons you have left and escape seems impossible. To where? It's completely dark and you have been running with no sense of direction for a while. Unless you manage to find a guiding escape rope while dodging its heavy stomps, it may be over for you...
And that's all the time I have this week to work on editing.Yeah, this is going to take the rest of the year to get the prof reading done at this rate.On the flip side, I still like what I wrote and don't feel compelled to do any major revisions.
>You get surprise attacked by someone using the Expansion Suit.>The opponent uses the suit's Poké Ball Jack ability to disable your pokeballs.>You managed to send out one pokemon, but you can neither send more in nor recall the one outside.>The operative can use her entire teamWhat would you do?
>>59640054Not issue an order until bystanders notice and alert the police. If she doesn't wait her turn she's escalating.
>>59633665>If you were to take off parts of a pokemon's body, at what point would the body part change typing?Depends on whether Typing only applies to living entities that are pokemon, or seperated objects as well could be interesting in regards to crafting.For example, drawing blood from a Fire type. Does the blood lose the properties of Fire? And if so, when?As mentioned, it might retain "Fire Type".What about putting that blood through a filter to extract the water. Does the become Water type?Depends on how types interact with each other and how and if it's possible to transmutate or change a type into another one (obvious connections would be Ice <-> Water or Ground <-> Rock because of the thematic similarities, more tricky would be examples like your one. If Fire Type blood is normal blood with an affinity to fire, then maybe you can distill it to make it "watery".What if the Fire type used Burn Out before the blood drawing?Might be just a fancy way of altering the bloods properties and "crafting" it into something without water.>Explain this all biologically, realistically, and through the lens of nutrition.Short (already mentioned) answer, matter can be inbued with or categorized as Types.
>>59640078Going back to the first point, Galar's hybrid fossils might give an interesting insight on how that might canonically work. We only know of the four fossils found in Galar, and for some odd reason, Liss' machine combines one of the fossil's types (and omits the Rock Type althogether). If the different body parts are big enough, their properties might get mixed, with each hybrid having different types. While lesser parts like blood aren't involved in this, we might think of potential other results based on the remaining fossils. Liss' machine seems to combine what's specifically there in the fossil, and it seems to work entirely differently than how other scientists restore fossils (like they're able to restore an entire pokemon by merely using a plume (Plume Fossil) or blood (Old Amber)). If you were to put these in Liss' machine, they might cause the hybrids to gain additional attributes based on these fossils (having powers caused by whatever makes Aerodactyl blood special, or gaining feathers and having a different biology adapted to that biology). If you were to add Fire Type blood, it would alter the hybrid to become a Fire Type. Or, if it interacts with other "ingredients", it might get mixed or be more or less dominant than other traits.
>>59640054Release my reliable friend Rotom from my phone and order it to override the suit
>>59640054What does the N in the visor stand for
>>59640094For what's inside.
>>59640094Natural Harmonia Gropius
>>59640054>Female>Already weak to hypnosisEasy, the legendary male Goodra. She won't be able to resist him, and once she begins to give orgasmic birth to his slug children her fate as a pokemon breeder will be set in stone.In the meantime I'll have escaped.
>>59640143> Xerosic advances his experiment to the next stage, in which he remote-controls the suit while Emma sleeps inside, unaware of what she is actually doing.good luck hypnotizing a sleeping person
>>59640151I won't have to, my point is that her lewd resistance is already so low that's she's instantly drop to her knees before the perfect slug specimen. Anyway, this is why Emma is the weakest lesbian. Unlike Serena who's the strongest.
>>59640054>smirks in Razor
In this episode of SELLOUTS:>“This is Rylee,” Hannah said gesturing towards the small tan and red bunny buckled in the front seat with a deep scowl on its neotonous face, “She’s a little grumpy today because they didn’t air the newest epsiode her favorite mystery show this morning. It was a re-run instead so she’s pretty upset about it.”>“Which show?” Angel asked, leaning forward with a few fingers hooked into the grate.>“Oh, its called ‘STAKEOUTS.’ They were right up to this big reveal that the main character was living this kind of double life and how he’s gotta go fight himself.”>“That doesn’t sound like a mystery.” Andy commented, sitting down on a box in the rear.>Hannah shrugged and said, “With the way its all shot and presented it’s a mystery trying to figure out what the hell’s going on. Some people who’ve read the book it’s based on swear it will make sense later but, like, eh. It’s not for me, personally. I’ve always like battles and horror movies.”
How do you emotionally hurt your MC? For character developement of course!
Mahogany lewd 2:https://archiveofourown.org/works/80890736/chapters/250652581This came out way later than I thought I would, lol. Mahogany updates start again in December at the latest.
>>59640689By reducing his salary
>>59639688There are videos based off of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4du5FDRvYRkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lu0YMvpebc
>>59640689Situations they cannot fix with their own strength, dropping the ball here and there and feeling like a failure, getting one-upped, mishaps out of their control, etc. etc. Anything that would hurt you or feel humiliating in real life have happen to them and then make them sit in it for a while / don't turn the camera away. If you shy/cringe away from an idea or thought then it's probably in the right ballpark.I like how Farscape mentally/psychologically tortured their characters in pretty much every way conceivable. It's a good point of reference in technique.
>>59640689At the end of my fic I plan on giving my MC exactly what he wants before taking it away from him.
>trying to read SELLOUTS>pic rel
>>59640838>t. sloploverYou are exactly the type of person SELLOUTS is talking about:>Angel nodded seriously and said, “Yeah. They should just make more movies about pokemon battles, or like journeys and shit. That’s what people want to watch, it’s why they’re always successful.”>“Exactly,” the assistant said nodding to herself, “Like, who gives a shit about some old woman missing her son? That’s got nothing to do with pokemon! I don’t care about any of the melodrama, I don’t even really care about the people, I’m here for the pokemon!”>“Well, there’s lots of movies that didn’t do well when they came out,” Andy said, “I can think of a couple of the top of my head that people like now that were hated back then, like ‘FIRE WALK WITH ME.’”>Angel looked at him from the backseat for a moment, formulating a response, and said, “Sounds pretentious,” to which Hannah hummed in assent.>“That’s just the title, kid, I haven’t even told you what it’s about yet.” The man said.>“Does it have anything to do with pokemon?” Hannah asked.>“No, but…”>“Well, it’s shit then.” The assistant concluded.
>>59640843I managed to read SI-lver and that's bloated as fuck, it's just that an entire block of narration without being separated by paragraphs scares me
>>59640689By hurting his friends when they're just out of reach
>>59640857Don't worry it gets more coherent by chapter 5, and by chapter 13 the fic gains a plot.
>>59640857I only do like two more times, I promise, and then never again. I really was just writing for myself up until chapter 4 when I got my first comment and decided I needed to at least try to make it readable after I realized people may actually be reading it. I think I had just read Gravity's Rainbow at that time and felt that using the enter key was optional based on my reaction to the text.
>>59640689My MC arrived in the story already carrying a mountain of trauma that the readers only get hints at.
>>59640698 Based feral Clair scene.>>59640689*laughs in Pofag*
>>59639676Is there any Pokemon media that has a flying city? I think it's a cool concept. I only know of the Sword of the Vale from the Victini movie, but it's only a castle
>>59640689the trainer used a bad move that is technically legal, but everyone now things your MC is abusive when all they want to do is groom childrenwhen in doubt have your MC pass out for several chapters from 'exhaustion' or something and then everyone has to glaze them for being brave or something equally gay
>>59640689Give him everything he's been fighting to get back, and then bit by bit watch it slip back out of his fingers again
>>59641165The anime had some sort of floating Togepi-themed city or something in the Hoenn series I think.
>>59640843Why are you writing a pokemon fic if you're not dealing with pokemon in a meaningful way? Sure, funny meme, whatever, but pretentiousness isn't a substitute for a clear vision and purposeful use of the subject matter you are choosing to utilize as an author.
>>59640838It has ludonarrative harmony with the fever dream memory the MC is having, but it's hell to read.
>>59641338It's definitely a filter for most readers. As long as SELLOUTSfag isn't looking for significant engagement numbers then it's really more of a feather in the cap.
>>59640689Have them mutilate their family members for the cause.
>>59640698>Faggots are still seething at this Holy hell, even in fanfics they're still salty because she didn't suck their SI's dick.Fuck Mewtwo genes, give me some dragon genes
>Thread questionI got Fletchling.You know that thing where birds know that you've touched their chicks and take a note forever? And smarter ones like crows remember you and your entire bloodline? And how such notions spread across species? Do that and have it end with the POV character getting burned to death.
>>59641675Birdemic
>>59641329would you say it insists upon itself?
Any good Vaporeon fanfic out there? SFW works are fine too.
>>59639676>TQ>croconawFeels pretty easy, they're sort of cute but sewer crocs are a trope for a reason. I imagine investigating the sewers of some Unovan city. Cue the plot of CHUD but it's pokemon tribesmen in the sewers.>Cannibalistic>Pokeoid>Underground>Dwellers
>>59641826>Any good Vaporeon fanfic out there?Riverside is astonishingly good if you don't mind the apocalyptic setting. Personally, I loved it.
>>59612459>Bored and can't sleep>Decide to check out this thing again to see if the summer camp ended and see where it is gonna go after that>Still on the summer camp (summer camp is now longer than everything before it)>Surprise it turns out MC (who's https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Travis on the fic) is Ash's half-sibling from a yet unnamed father>Author all but said in the comments he's gonna make all other Ash/Red look-alikes and expies (like Richie) also be children of that same fatherI have no words.
>>59642326>Giovanni>Oak>Mr. MimeDelia is the Pallet Town bicycle
>>59642326I kneel.
>>59642326Well are you going to link it? Gonna tell us it's name?Because now I'm interested.
>>59641329It does deal with pokemon, which you'd know if you read it.
>>59642543It does, once Maractussy shows up 40k words in. Really what SELLOUTSMan is complaining about is originality, popular doesn't mean good, neither does unpopular, and really aside from one trend chaser the ao3 collection is slightly more original than average.
>>59642326>>Author all but said in the comments he's gonna make all other Ash/Red look-alikes and expies (like Richie) also be children of that same fatherAin't that just Reset Bloodlines?
>>59642621bro's reinventing slop from first principles
>>59642551Who's the trend chaser?
>>59642626I've been told I'm winning thread bingo but I'm definitely not a trend chaser.
>>59642626Me. (Mahoganyfag)
>>59642752>Not Isekai>Fakemon in the first few chaptersIt’s either Pofag or GLFfag.
>>59642774I did jump on a twitter meme bandwagon Malfoid, because I liked the idea.
>>59642779I’m figuring the trend chaser >>59642551 mentioned was in reference to the threadfic collection.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/87082846/chapters/230600271Found this new fic randomly and it turned out to be really good. Criminally underrated with a good dynamic between protags and take on the Pokemon world being filled with actual threatening monsters but not stupid Nutrition-tier shit like Vulpix being able jumping over skyscrapers.
>>59642795I was making a self deprrrecating joke, but it would be Pofag then. He has said that he made PoPT an Isekai because fics like Within our Nation were unpopular.While Gilfag, although choosing a popular trope, did so accidentally and without the intention to chase trends.
>>59642806>Made PoPT an IsekaiGonna be pedantic, but I figured I'd have to write an Isekai to get the attention I wanted so the *real* passion project would get the eyeballs I was hoping for down the line. So I came up with PoPT as the only way I could stomach doing an Isekai, initially intending on it being much shorter. But the story expanded in scale and I grew to love it (even though it's an Isekai). Not sure that original passion project ever gets made now.
>>59640698When will Sneasel take the Growley knot?
>>59642827My motto is "fuck them readers"
>>59642922Hell yeah! The unwashed masses should be grateful that this monkey likes to dance and should be thanking me for not being more fond of stabbing.
>>59642922There's a joke here about literally fucking readers.
>>59642947I'm no Neil Gaiman
>>59639676this is fucking metal. this is my new headcanon for how mew works
>>59642896I actually haven't thought of that, I suppose they're both in the field egg group and are relatively smart. I would say:>When they've evolvedBut then I realized with how big Arcanine is and how small Weavile's are she wouldn't be able to take it. Although just to tell you, if you want to blame anyone for the lack of Pokephilia, blame Pofag.
I just realized that because gender unknown Pokémon can't be infatuated, they have loveless sex every time they breed with Ditto
>>59642993>she wouldn't be able to take itobligatory
>>59642993>blame PofagWhy, what'd he do?Anyways, Rhys and Sneasel don't have any romantic or sexual chemistry. So it's better she find a nice field egger.
>>59642993> But then I realized with how big Arcanine is and how small Weavile's are she wouldn't be able to take it.Haven't read the story but this is basic stuff, come on. Weavile, 43" tall and 75lbs. Arcanine pushing 300lbs or so, so at least twice as big as most large dog breeds by weight. If you're just eyeballing something like a Great Dane they've got a respectably big tool already, something on the slightly more generous side of human endowment. Double the mass means maybe a few more inches and circumference. Almost certainly couldn't penetrate a Weavile at that point, so it'd mostly just be bodies rubbing against one another and mouthing and things not fitting. Could maybe have things catch and start to sort of work -> stretching but does NOT work, no penetration -> just mouth and hands (claws, technically). Giant mess eventually. Ungodly mess with all the fur. Both Pokemon displeased but too hormonal to care.Anyways
>>59643015When I floated the idea of Rhys getting raped by a Sneasler in a non-canon omake he shot the idea down pretty hard.But I agreed, I actually imagine them ad older and younger sibling respectivly.>>59643110Well I guess I never put that much thought into it. When I usually think of sex it's pretty humancentric.
>>59643115>SpoilerI was just saying that I didn't like Pokephilia. Considering how shitposty I am outside of my fic, you seem to take whatever I say rather seriously. Which is a huge mistake on your part :p
>>59643110>>59643115>the two develop a crush>start fooling around as weavile and growlithe after she evolves >never really go all the way>arcanine evolution>no longer size compatibleThe doomed hetero writes itself.
>>59642171I found it and reading now. For the moment, it's pretty good. Thanks!
It's not pokephilia if two pokemon like each other, they're both pokemon, it's just the expected outcome.Pokephilia is a non pokemon liking a pokemon or viceversa
>>59643577Arguably pokephilia is anything between a real human and anyone from the pokemon world since pokehumans were NOT made by God in his image.If CSPman hooks up with a pokegirl then he is destined for the eternal fires of hell for daring to consort with a large-eyed beast wearing a mockery of the human form.
>>59643577If an adult pokemon goes after a human below the age of consent is it considered pedophilia and can they be prosecuted for it
>>59643283Perhaps, but it's not something I'd write... well not with a dog-mon anyways. I'm too much of a normie, my pokephilia and romance tasted is limited to the humanoid and gremlin-ish looking pokemon, even then I'm not exactly an imp fucker like SELLOUTSman.
>>59643625If an isekai'd adult human is born as a pokemon (from the egg), and another pokemon (who was also isekai'd, but not reborn) takes a romantic interest in them, then what is it?It has to be as convoluted as possible so we finally find this line in the sand.
>>59643579Isn't CSP man an Ultrabeast? What does that make it then, Ultrabestiality?
>>59643659Are either or both of the parties in question actually regressors from the future where things went wrong armed with future knowledge and skills?
>>59643673No. Both are just foreign to the world they ended up in.One is often seen as a child because their body is young, but they already lived a few decades of life before being reborn.The other is seen as some kind of freaky monster that borders on uncanny for other pokemon.
Festival of Champions ch 20 translations are out. Can't believe the series is 16 years old.
>>59643730Also the scanlation team is working with the author to make an official English release.
>>59642805I skimmed through this and it looked interesting. Thanks, anon.>>59643736Seriously? That's neat.>>59643730The power creep, and dare I say it, escalation, of that doujin is funny in hindsight. Thing came out and BW were the current games at the moment and now it's got Megas and Z-Moves and shit. It was pretty funny how there was a chapter about how there was no known Mega Stone for the Raichu-line and then not long afterwards the Mega Raichus got revealed.You look at the early battles compared to the more recent ones and there's no way you can believe Red can win that shit unless he's got some shitneys-tier plot-armor going.
>>59643817Pikachu has defective genes, maybe they're working up to the reveal where he has the Gigantamax factor?
>>59643523Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
>>59644009Maybe, probably, who knows.Point was more about how pretty much outside a veeeeeeeery vague outline, and even that's a maybe at this point, the author's been pretty much winging it and making it up as he goes with the scale of things ever increasing between how long the chapters take to come out, all the new media coming out creating new material that can be used, and the improvement of the artist drawing skills.Like, look at Red vs Misty and compare it with the most recent battles. It looks quaint in comparison. Am I really supposed to believe that rat's gonna be able to beat Lance's Dragonite? Tank even one Hyper Beam? Not that it matters since this is hype moments and aura the manga and it has indeed delivered on that. Props to the guy for sticking to this for so long. I hope we can see it end someday even if it takes 15 more years.
>Its already been more than a week and I’ve only completed half the chapterApologies dear reader. I’m being a lazy piece of shit right now.
>>59644381wtf are you me?
>>59644381same, burnt through my days off reading and doing shit instead of proofreading my own chapter and now i feel bad.How could this happen?
>>59644381I've just been daydreaming about my fic and playing games. No regrats and I thought of a sick key detail for the final fight.
I think Andy is the evil twin, and Andrew prior to Maractus turning him into Drew was the good twin. You'll notice that base Andrew did everything possible to get Angel through the situation safe, but Andy was prepared to cut off Angel's hands at the drop of a hat to get unchained. Andrew regularly took stupid risks to try and do what felt like the right thing when presented with someone in need, like releasing the Milotic instead of killing it when he was supposed to, or fighting an entire junkyard to avenge Trubbish.
>>59644837I don't agree, for one thing Andrew is the one who kills the scientost. There is also "the man," we have Andy, Andrew, Drew, but the narration has also referred to "the man," before.>Andrew dropped the chains from his hands and stood before the other man, the kid behind him. He smiled and put his hands on the other man's shoulders. The scientist stared slack jawed in terror. Andrew then jerked his hands upwards behinds the other man's head and the manacles found their way into the soft part of his throat as he spun around him to his back and pulled him backwards along the concrete floor before falling to the floor himself still choking him as he thrashed about. The kid was a shadow against the harsh white lights overhead his expression inscrutable. The man stared at the ceiling and waited. The flailing slowly abated until it ceased entirely. He held the chain to the other man's neck and counted to five and then pushed the scientist off of him. The man said to the kid, "Take his clothes. You at least need to look normal."Personally I thought it was Andrew disassociating, but the revelation of Drew brings that into question. Is the man just a precursor of Drew or another identity, besides that I'm pretty sure the Emperor made Drew and Tia who introduced to the Andy/Drew amalgam by the emperor out of convience.Although I have to say this schizo shit really wasn't were I expected the story to go based off the summary or the court room scene.
>>59644861Arc 1 Andrew had no percievable personal motives beyond following the flow of whatever happened to him, but actively sought to support and help several people along the way.I predict that Arc 2 Andrew is going to follow the rules and do/say everything as 'right' as he can, but only to manipulate the world into benefitting him.
>>59645050I'd disagree with that as well, Andrew, although mainly taken along by the flow (Ironic since he exists outside of fate), has goals and takes steps the achieve them. Although vague he does talk about his desire to make a place for outcasts like himself, even if he never really makes steps to do that.He's overly passive about them, and none of his attempts amount to anything, but they do exist.Drew and what he gets up to is another thing but aside from him probably trying to pull a project mayhem, and probably being more successful, I don't think there's much there.
>>59639676Do popular trainers have body doubles for when they don't have time for their battles? Can they train Ditto to replace them?
>>59639676>ha ha what if pokemon was FUCKED UP and EDGY! XDzzzzzzz
>>59643577I'm tired of fics treating pokephilia as either an open secret or not a problem. Even then, fics that treat pokephilia as an open secret treat it more like a kink community than something that would put you on a list. The only person who's gone against that is CGE, who's too busy not posting his mangium opus, what I want is a fic that covers the societal implications of pokephilia or, to go even wider, how human and pokemon societies conflict maybe something like:>a) anon's new girlfriend is a lucario, everyone's upset, but can't put a finger on why.>b) anon is isekai'd into the pokemon world as a trainer and brings the metagame and pokephilia with him like smallpox. Maybe in something like a Konosuba-esq Isekai.>c) anon is isekai'd into the pokemon world as the partner pokemon of a cute team rocket grunt that's not especially smart or strong or cruel. can he turn her into the team's newest rising star while also teaching her about the joy of taking pokemon dick? >d) the pokemon league/the ranger union/silph co. (take your pick) is establishing a new human settlement in a region where pokemon have had no contact with humans. expecting virgin land, the humans (and their pokemon) have to integrate with a pokemon-led society to coexist. maybe something like lawrence of arabia or avatar but with more fucking and maybe a little femdom, or another kink as a treat.
>>59645140Why can't Mew be cute and wholesome and also body horror?
>>59645140yeah
>>59645179Man, it's like he's within some sort of nation.
>>59645156you shouldn't do that with your pokemon
>>59645171because that is Ditto who's gimmick
>>59645069I always interpreted that as just some bullshit he said to inspire Angel to be better. I think he states as much shortly after first talking about it.
>>59645208Ditto are just failed Mew clones.
>>59645226That's only a theory and it's never disclosed in the games, and if it's non-canon then it doesn't exist for me
>>59645189Alright i'll go ask my friend's team then
>>59645223I'm more inclined to take his statement as self-justification for his criminal activities. He definitely pursues power and money whenever able, helping start the union, deal drugs and aggressively showing his loyalty. Without the knowledge of Drew I took a things like the simulacrum conversation less literally and more like this:>Andrew is trying to be a good person, copying what he thinks good people do and coming up for excuses for his cuthroat actions.A simulacrum is literally an imitation of somthing, he's imitating other people.Of course with the knowledge of Drew I think that conversation may be more about Twin Peaks-esq Tulpas.Also looking back, this comment is pretty funny:>She smiled wistfully and then walked off her hips oscillating hypnotically and giving her butt just enough jiggle in each cheek with every step that it approached the platonic ideal of feminine rearward allure. Andrew thought she had rather vulpine features, pointy chin and narrow face with eyes and mouth slightly upturned as though she knew a joke that she wasn’t going to share.Also the only time the word 'ideal' comes up.
>>59645140this, "what if Pokemon was WEIRD and SILLY" is a better hypothetical
>>59645284I don't think either twin is really pure good or pure evil. But would Giratina really send her strongest soldiers to guide and corrupt the evil twin?
>>59645516I'd disagree. I think both Andy and Drew are evil, but Andy is more evil in a pathetic way while Drew is enjoying the show.>GiratinaI actually haven't thought of Giratina at all, but the only two times the term Distortion have come up is when Andrew is looking in his reflection. That is to say I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to that was yes but at the same time I don't really care either way.The grand cosmic significance of what's going on is kind of boring to me, this is also a complaint I have about Within our Nation. I just do not care for the cosmic side of pokemon at all and do not think about it.
>>59645531>I think both Andy and Drew are evilOh, no, I agree. I'm saying Andrew isn't the evil one.Mainly because of the pier incident. Not only was he taking an act of agency outside of going with the flow, he was actively going against it by disobeying the mafia's orders. They wanted him to leave the Pokemon to die in a hellishly agonizing way. If he had done this, things quite possibly would have taken a turn for the better for him. He'd earn rep for being reliable. He wouldn't have made a huge scene in the public eye.Disobeying risked letting the Pokemon escape and attack him, which it did. It risked losing rep with the mafia and them trying to take him out, which eventually one faction did. But when no one was over his shoulder babysitting him or pressuring his spineless ass with expectations, when it was Andrew and ONLY Andrew with a life in his hands and all the power in the situation, he chose to try and do the right thing. It was his Who You Are in the Dark moment.
>>59645600I saw it the opposite way. Andrew's already proven the type of person he is. His actions there were just self serving, he was acting purely to alleviate his own concise.What happens after the Milotic speaks more to his true character, he still lies for no reason, doesn't repent his actions, and continues forward.Remorse that doesn't translate into real action or change is just self-pity.
>>59645327Why not both? https://archiveofourown.org/works/66247705/chapters/170782648
>>59645684Unrelated anon, but despite what many world views would have you believe good and evil aren't mutually exclusive things. A single action can have both good and evil parts of it.
>>59645911>He looked around the room from person to person, all equally downtrodden, all equally miserable. The rotund diabetic veteran in the wheelchair with two stumps at the knees, the obese woman clutching closely a swaddled baby in a gentle sway, the disheveled and blind vagrant and his seeing-eye growlithe in a red service vest, all these were his colleagues in the school of suffering. The moment should have been uniting and yet he found himself estranged. Where there should have been pity and empathy and understanding there was instead a dull hunger-pang for his commission.>The veteran, ten milligrams of davita, etymology davita, the vita, vitae, via vitae, fighting-type booster, stimulant, intravenous; the mother, one hundred milligrams Qs, derivate of ammoniated quinine, water-type booster, deliriant, insufflated, and for child five milligrams gunk, poison-type booster, sedative, oral; transient, dealer’s special of miscellaneous remnants from the floor scraped into a dime bag, and of course tinder for the growlithe. Income generated, three hundred thousand pokedollars; commission, seventy thousand.t.Andrew
I don’t like the Pokemon mangas because they are too much like bad fanfic to me
>>59645911I guess you could say things aren't so black and white.
>>59645917Yes. I too watched a man’s soul be crushed and ground down by desensitization. Same thing happens to soldiers and other professions where you need to dehumanize people to survive.
>>59646052>Comparing a drug dealer to a soliderNice bait, but more seriously, I was more so making a statement about Andrew's general character. I can get killing the MIlotic after the fact., but he also butchered and ate it.Andrew's a piece of shit who chooses to be that way and comes up with paper-thin excuses to make himself feel better. I don't really care if he's pitiable, being pitiable doesn't erase the bad you've done or give you an excuse to make other people's lives worse.He's kind of just a massive loser.
>>59645922It's a trade off between knowing how to draw and knowing how to write.
>>59646080It's a factual comparison. If you somehow think soldiers are automatically good and drug dealers are all terrible people, I dunno what to tell you.
>>59646157Never said that, just said you post good bait and I don't but Andrew's excuses. Learn how to take a compliment.
Me as a wholesome writefag just hopes these theoryposts are getting posted on the fic in some way. Selloutsfag has clearly put a lot of love into it.
You'll all be lucky if I even remember to leave a like or kudos on your fics. All my fic thoughts and discussion go in this thread alone.
>>59646176And that is why no one will remember your name.
>>59646194But everybody knows Anonymous. I blew up that van, remember?
>>59646080>butchered and ate it.This just seems practical. I see nothing wrong with this.
>>59646215Arceus Christ, that was you?
>>59646247He made his wife a nice steak after they won a battle together. Such a good man.
>>59646159It wasn't bait. Constant fear and paranoia, potentially coupled with the thrill of power and perceived importance. That kind of living physically affects your brain, regardless of how glamorously viewed the profession. It's not even new to Andrew, since he came from a similar situation back home. Easy to fall into comfortable old habits and then slip deeper.
>>59646327Yes, and?
who's the evil twin? Tate or Liza?
>>59645156Literally anything by Well_Pondered. >>59645189 is the name of the series. They are an exceptional writer.
>>59645156Champions touches on parts of this idea, especially Frayed Ends. Would recommend.
>>59639676With undersea exploration set to return in the next games, how will they explain the player character not drowning and being able to withstand extreme water pressure?
>>59646661We need someone to explain this biologically!
>>59646661They wear a snorkel, that's it
>>59646673this
>>59646673>>59646780As a kid, I thought the breathing devices they used in the anime actually existed
>>59646836Couldn't this technically exist if the air inside was compressesd incredibly tightly, and if the material was tough enough to not explode from the pressure?
>>59646864Why would it need to be compressed? It's basic bag of holding tech bro, how else do trainers fit 99 of every item in their backpack.But pokemon still need to shrink because they just do, okay?
>>59646865Capsule spacial tech is recent but they've always been called Pocket Monsters, even before the invention of the Pokeball. A human isn't a Pokémon because they don't shrink. Animals like Indian elephants are also not Pokemon because they don't get smaller. A pile of gears and a an ice cream cone get smaller, and thus they're Pokemon.
>>59646865PLA already answered that, stacking, people's stacking and organization skills is supernaturally good. It's like cultivation but organizing bags.
Pokemon don't shrink, they stack and fold on a subatomic level.
>>59645327What you posted is weird and silly. How many hours of your day do you spend writing """FrIdGe HoRrOr""" sections on tv tropes?
>>59646890I actually write Nightmare Fuel
>>59646836Well...https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/04/06/triton-refunds-backers-for-its-underwater-breathing-device.html
Just burn your aura to breathe uderwater and in space
>>59646879>>59646887We've cracked the code boys. Pokemon don't shrink, pokeballs just have built in super packing organization skills that perfectly arrange the pokemon to fit inside the ball comfortably.
>>59647075> trainer runs 100 feet> Pokemon vomits all over the inside of their Pokeball after bouncing around violently> Refuses to enter the vomit-inducing container ever again
>>59646836Doraemon has that too
>>59647131And James Bond and Batman
Since eggs are "not really eggs but more like cradles", which clears up a lot of things, are there "true" eggs out there?... wait there are. That's where the boiled egg curry ingredient and egg sandwich ingredient come from. Though while I notice that the former has a size meant to match the "cradle" eggs, the latter is of a size more familiar to us like a chicken egg, which does imply that smaller eggs have been observed out there, because someone needs to acquire and boil them. As far as I know, the only official instance of eggs of that size I can think of are Nidoran eggs.This does make me wonder if people just eat any Pokemon egg out there or if there is only a specific type of egg from a specific type of Pokemon they eat. Seeing how they express how they are unaware how eggs get where they are and even supposed geniuses like Cynthia could only make a comment on the matter after seeing god make life, I do think they just eat whatever egg.
>>59647105Sounds like it wasn't packed efficiently enough to absorb the shock of the bouncing. Rookie mistake.
>>59646247Why did Kyurem do that? Is this why he's not in SELLOUTS?He's in jail?
>>59647267Kyurem is on the short list of pokemon 'actively seen attempting to kill a child' for a reason.
>>59647262all eggs are cradles when you think about it
>>59647276All cradles are just eggs in their own way too.
What do you guys think about egg resonance anyways? Iirc that's how Ash got his Riolu thanks to, you know it, aurashit
What do you think about using your unwanted eggs as healing items?
>>59647322https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)
I want to molest Kuzey.
>>59647350IMOfag broke her computer on purpose to deny us the Kuzey molestation chapter.
>enter SB>foid is now a slur and a bannable offenselaughed out of loud
>>59647431They fear the Malfoid.
>>59647431Did they ban Malfoid? Trannies are going insane over that
How often does your MC get humiliated?
Why would you do this to Sabrina
>>59647356There was a dildo supposed to be involved, so this just reinforces the theory.
>>59647322Chansey is in fact spamming Egg healing constantly in Crystal Light.
>>59639688Mew learns Transform by level up so it's pretty much canon.
>>59639676Is Aether Paradise the closest thing to a military base/defense department building on the Pokémon world?
>>59647640they have Ultra Beasts locked up inside like the SCP foundation
>>59645990I see, but are they Red and Blue, possible Green even? Although what would a SELLOUT know about that?
>>59647640No its some gay conservation arboretum
>>59647262Chansey eggs seem like the default "chicken egg" equivalent. They are noted to be very nutritious and Chansey lays several every day, making it plausible to be eaten by humans as chicken eggs are with a relatively small population of Chansey.
>>59647778>it's just some humanitarian conservation group>pay no attention to all the other shit they're doing which coincidentally has extreme military levels of application, including but not limited to the creation of a pokemon made in a mimicry of Arceus and designed purely for battle almost like Mewtwo was>or the pardoned war criminal scientist who's obsessed with strength and also just so happens to be in the region conducting research still>or the foreign elite 4 member who just so happens to be in the region and also just so happens to be from the same region that said pardoned war criminal is from>or the mysterious source of funding that somehow not only enables all of the above but also is enough to build an outer haven complete with its own private naval force
>>59647810Literally jurassic park isla nublar
>>59647810Does this make Lusamine Big Boss?
>Need two paragraphs done and chapter is finished>Wrote 2k words today ezpz>Hardstuck on these paragraphsIt’s infuriating.
>>59647817>Tfw Aether Foundation’s gonna be Isla Sorna but with UBs when I get to itI’m still so far away, bros.
>>59647262 >>59646872GameFreak phase out animal appearances and mentions over the years to bring Pokémon into the spotlight of said world. However, they refuse to elaborate on the food chains since the monsters are characters in of themselves. This further hints that Humans may be a Pokémon species as well since we can shrink down and enter raid dens in both SwSh and ScaVio. As for the eggs, it was conceptualized that most Pokémon lay them from day one.
Regular animals have been shown before and there has never been any official statement retconning them, thus they exist off screen and are a source of true eggs. Pokemon also kill and eat each other according to official material. And Pokemon shrink.Cry about it chuds.>b-but animals would be outcompetedIf humans in the pokemon world are innately tougher, why wouldn't animals be? That one important writer guy who killed himself to death literally had plans for a TRex to clean sweep all of pokemonkind, so imagine how powerful that makes other animals.
>>59647855Isn't Clean Sweep the name of a company from the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comics?
>>59647855Meant to reply to >>59647835
>>59647910Well, I was more responding to the recent related discussions in general, not any one post.
>>59647855That's why pokeAnimals aren't shown on screen, they outclass actual pokemon.
>>59647929Nor were they mentioned in Pokédexes in later entries; they want to create a world were humans lives with monsters since the dawn of time. The issue is that they have to tackle the ethics of the domestication of species; any humans capture and train Pokémon, but animals took thousands of years of breeding to the point they mostly can't survive in their current condition (though they often breed themselves back to shape when feralized, like hogs or goldfishes).
>>59647929More like they divert attention away from the whole point of the series, the Pocket Monsters themselves.
>>59647640I don't see any missile silos or turrets.
>>59647964>he doesn't see the giant stacked cubesSmaller ones took down Rayquaza. Why does the Aether Foundation need such high-yield cubes?
>>59647501Every chapter, literally
>>59647855>Cry about it chudsI will simply write it out, because it is not my fetish.
>>59647501I try to keep my MC humble by constantly making them the butt of the joke.
>>59647640diddyblud epstein ahh island
>>59648004I'm surprised it took you 3 hours to make this comment.
>>59647989This. Every story should be avoiding bringing attention to stuff that donxt make logical sense because its a story and not a simulation. Otherwise I would have to point out Tobio hasn't showered in several days.
>>59647778Classic wildlife rehabilitation facility with dead frozen Pokemon stored in walls
New PoPT for those who partake. This time with a side of Hyde, extra seethe of course.https://archiveofourown.org/works/66210784/chapters/251354696
>>59648034Shit goes hard
>>59647835>This further hints that Humans may be a Pokémon species as well since we can shrink down and enter raid dens in both SwSh and ScaVio.This were more or less the limit of presentation of said dens in their respective games, As they can't depict human size entrance without taking to much roaming space within a given environment.
>>59648045The holes seemed big enough to fit into to me.
>>59648039So sad Ian died of Ligma.
>>59648039>think this is a joke >>59648162>read chapter>my face
It's weird seeing a fic you started posting on a lark do so well compared to stuff you've put a lot more thought into and are more serious about.Oh well.
Would you think of it as useless fluff if an isekai MC gushes about something they loved back home that doesn't exist in the world they're in now?
>>59648275In Pokémon that would be, what?, guns? But I would take It the same way as every isekai novel with rice obssessed nips and kimchi obssessed gooks, ignore it.
>>59648290>I don't know about you, but we have this thing called democracy where we as a people vote on who our leader is. We don't have barbaric cock fighting determine who leads the country.
>>59648275Have them complain about media, compare everything to nerdcore rap since every form of media has pokemon in it which limits their creativity, then have them psychically bust out LOTRs extended edition and awe everyone
>>59648330Always cringeworthy whenever this line comes up in a western novel, almost as bad as a chinese writer who goes on a tirade about how great his own country is. Takes a lot of ignorance or fear of your government to write lines like that.
>>59648330Everyone says that until the moment they get a wisp of power and then decide to be the strongest and stand above the law and every human ever
>>59647262Here's another theory I have regarding this:With the "eggs are cradles/nest" thing which implies the process goes that they're birthed/generated by pouring into a cup/dropped from a fruit/hatched from an ACTUAL egg THEN the parents create the "egg" to keep them safe...Before Gen 9, it is possible for a chunk of Pokemon that have baby forms to be hatched not as them, but already evolved. They retconned this in Gen 9.My theory is that within these "eggs", the baby forms are resting and all, and when they hatch, that's the point in time they evolve. Specific Incenses keep them as they are if they otherwise wouldn't, or maybe something about Daycares cause them to have evolution triggered as early as hatching. So if you say, pry open an "egg" that's coded to hatch into a gargantuan Snorlax, you will see a fully formed Munchlax.It's possible that some undiscovered prevolutions are hiding in eggs, maybe you'll find a different Pokemon from an egg bound to hatch into Lapras or Tropius?I mean yes, there's shrinking too.
>>59648330Drayden is both the mayor and Gym Leader of Opelucid City, meaning there are political jobs
>>59647322I prefer using them as bombs, classic strategy
>>59648275only works if it's something stupid like Spongebob
>>59648339This happens both in CSP and SELLOUTS.
>>59648856what happens when you blast away your opponent's Pokémon like that in an official battle? Do you automatically win?
>>59648856Egg-sterminate!
>>59648920You're immediately jailed and sent to the firing squad. Pokemon doesn't go flying like that unless its escalation.
>>59648903describe it, I don't want to look through two fics for a single moment
>>59649252Part of the excerpt from SELLOUTS is posted above, so here's one from an earlier chapter.>During one of his marathons where he snuck from theater to theater and hid in the front row of seats with Tia he saw a movie that impressed him greatly. It was called MONICA and it was about an elderly woman who wept every night for her prodigal son while preparing her final will and testament and her mismagius, a pokemon that he studied intensely afterwards, attempting to comfort her. Andrew thought it stood out to him just because of how plain it was in comparison to everything else he had seen. The movie was shot in the way documentaries were shot but without the narration, and it was the long, meditative shots on the two figures, the only ones in the whole movie, that made it all the more memorable. He was struck by how much could be said with so few words. Andrew turned around at the end of it to see if anyone else appreciated it as much as he did and found the theater was empty. Tia slept through it.Although they don't have their dick sucked for it, both instances serve to show how superior the MC is culturally with the culture of the pokemon world being shallow, describe by one of it's inhabitants as:>“the thousand-armed whore plays with her toys alongside her cohort in the great sandbox. All dolls move because she puppets them, every arm a new object, and gives them a voice while the others watch. Rarely do they get their own turn before her jealousy comes forth to snatch it away from them.”So while earth, humanity, and by extension the MC has real cutlure, the world around Andrew is shallow with it's inhabitants lacking depth snd taste. And by extension, people who read and write slopfics.
Crime Sometimes Pays is more subtle with showing the MC's cultural superiority.>"I'm poke-poke-poke-poke-poke-proud of you my hokey-pokey, okie-dokie, not-too-soaky-">"My plan exactly, fellow grunt. How about we stop talking about morbid stuff, and put on some more music to make the trip fun?" The van turned onto the paved grey road that formed the main highway for cars in the area, John briefly closing his eyes but remembering the rules of the road trip as Carlos turned the volume of the radio back up.>John didn't say anything else as they speed along the highway, fewer cars travelling away from Saffron than towards it. Upbeat pop music filled the cabin, promising everyone that your love for pokemon could solve all of life's poke-problems, and instead he tried to resume his task of spotting and remembering the local pokemon in the fields they passed. >The advertisements for a lotto that included a prize of one 'Bullet Seed TM', the following talk show discussion about unconventional uses of String Shot, and of course a line-up of utterly garbage musical 'hits' that all seemed to be overly liberal with words such as 'shoot', 'shot', and even one that was essentially just a chorus of 'Dead, dead, dead in the dark! We're spooky and kooky and just want a laugh!'.
>Gym Leader Fraud: Let's Play Dress-upI was stuck thinking about what I should be writing for this chapter for about 4 days, then wrote it intermittently from then onward. Writing battle chapters are easy because I know exactly what I want to convey there, but for other chapters it's a hell of a lot harder. So good chance I’m just waffling away here.Anyway, enjoy.https://archiveofourown.org/works/88650066/chapters/251487146
>>59649337>>59649345It's funny, because Pokestar Studios proves the exact opposite. They have plenty. Ninja movies to giantess movies to alien invasion flicks to controversial, bizzarely sexually-charged pokedomination movies.
>>59649390Yeah, but it's not like it's purposelessness. Well it's more of a background joke in CSP, but in SELLOUTS it's supposed to highlight the MC's isolation as well as his superiority to them. So there's this temptation for him to justify their violence against them.This ties into this>>59646327SELLOUTS thesis statement is:>I had a question one day while I read a bunch of other isekai slop prompted by how long some other fics are, and that was "what happens to everyone after the end?" Almost all the other stories seem to stop at becoming champion or fighting some world-ending threat if they ever get there. Time keeps moving even after all of this, so what becomes of these people once everything is done? Do they get to keep their happy endings? Do the threats keep on coming and they keep fighting on and on? But most importantly, what would they do if there was another like them? I just could never see it ending well for anyone no matter how hard I tried to construct a story around the premise.It's kind of poorly worded, which makes certain people think of Peter and Andrew first, but ti;s actually about Andrew. I would compare it to Re:Zero in some aspects, Getting Iskeaied didn't solve Subaru or Andrew's issues, and there's a temptation for them to dehumanize themselves and others. But while Subaru struggles upward, trying to do better despite being a completely insane person, Andrew is the opposite. He flails about wildly, hurting people, and only really looking out for himself.Although funnily enough both of them play into the plan of someone else, who's sort of like a god outside of the 'game board' or 'sandbox' the story takes place in. Which serve as an in-universe stand-in for the author and readers.Mahoganyfag, also brought up the effect constant fear and paranoia, coupled with the thrill of power in SELLOUTS comment sections. Although he was more so talking about the physiological effects you would see.
>>59649477>to highlight the MC's isolation as well as his superiority to themthat's the problem, MCs have to be good-for-nothing losers so I can relate to them
>>59649488Then you'll love Andrew, he can't hold a non-akward conversation to save his life, and is generally one of the bigger losers of an MC, sort of like Subaru.Although unlike Subaru he also aura farms a lot more and does thing like shooting pokemon instead of battling them to show off how much smarter he is than the natives.
>>59649494He's not smarter. He's smart in some areas, but overall he's quite stupid and barely paying attention half the time. The only things he has on them are being off script, and the ability to gaslight himself into Fairy magic.
>>59649585He doesn't really use his Mage the Ascion Sphere Magic to do anything except to stop himself from getting a chemical burn, literally he literally flawlessly outsmarts everyone he wants to because they're literally sub human compared to him.The only time he doesn't is when he stay behind to cook a stake for his wife, and even then the narrative goes out of it's way to show how much better he is than professional trainers since said professional trainer who tries to stop him slips in his own vomit after being impressed/horrified by how hardcore Andrew is.
>>59649593>he literally flawlessly outsmarts everyone he wants toAre you reading the same story in which he gets arrested for sleeping drunk under a bush, loses battles in spite of cheating and flails like a retard running around an asylum for fifteen minutes?
>>59649610No one would get out of the first one, alcohol chemically inhibits higher brain function so he can only be blamed for getting drunk in the first place, in the second he lost to Blake (who despite being a loser) would have been champion if Arceus didn't isekai in Peter, and in the last case he literally gets off scot free, performs his mission, and escapes from several fully evolved pokemon which are psychic.
>>59649615>in the last case he literally gets off scot free, performs his mission, and escapes from several fully evolved pokemon which are psychicCertainly not by outsmarting them.
>>59649624Improvisation is an intelligence feat.
>>59649629>running around lost like a retard while the staff are realistically still trying to figure out what's going on instead of magically aggroing like a video game faction is an intelligence feat
>>59649638How about you try to sneak into a psychiatric facility undetected past several psychics and fully evolved pokemon?
>>59649615>>59649638He also gives himself away as a Faller by trying to pretend to be a Spanish janitor, because he couldn't be assed to remember Spain and England don’t exist.
>>59649641This assumes the psychics have any reason to have their mind reading always on, and fully evolved Pokemon in SELLOUTS are already established to be in dies to a gun tier.>b-b-but they would sense himWould you be constanly mind reading in a facility full of psych patients? It would get so annoying. They train to filter out everyone but one patient they're working on.Also, he was detected multiple times.
>>59649654The Drowzee in the Pokemon club didn't detect he was human either. Psychics aren't as cracked in this fic as in other isekaijin stories.
>>59649644>>59649654He still completed his mission, really people underplay Andrew too much he's one of the stronger thread MCs and probably beats all of them except maybe John CSP.WoL loses due to canonically existing on script. Dies to a gun tier.
>>59649654>This assumes the psychics have any reason to have their mind reading always onwhat if you can't turn it off?
>>59649660I think it's worth noting that those were probably all humans using a Team Plasma ball on themselves.
The psychic wank in some fics is insane, they ascribe feats to average psychics that even movie Mewtwo was incapable of. It doesn't even make sense either because how the fuck would the world still work as it does if psychics were that busted? What good would humans be if psychics are that much smarter, stronger, clairvoyant, and capable of telepathy for instant transmission of orders?
>>59649671All of Andr*w's thoughts were of GAY SEX which is why it was automatically filtered out by the psychics.
>>59649671psychics hate this simple trick
>>59649477>but in SELLOUTS it's supposed to highlight the MC's isolation as well as his superiorityNothing I've seen about SELLOUTS has inplied that the MC is superior to anybody in anyway
>>59649641Well, alright. I'll report back with my findings tomorrow around this time.
>>59649666>WoL loses due to canonically existing on script. Dies to a gun tier.
>>59649727>this reminds me of One Piece how Luffy never has thought bubbles when the rest of the cast does because he is so dumb/straightforward that he never has an internal monolog->directly references One Piece at the bottomI feel like I got Joseph Joestar'd by a comic
>>59649734Now even when he's shown to he culturally superior? Not even when he's the only one with free will?
>reading a fic with a isekai-ed self-insert MC who joins Ash's group>the only thing he does is complain all the time about the plot (Ash being childish, adults being irresponsible, Team Rocket being dumb)I'm guessing this is the usual but fuck it is annoying
>>59649805Sounds like the fic author is a SELLOUT, who's just writing what's popular.
>>59649805>person with nostalgia goggles decides to write an Ash + SI tagalong fic>starts from gen 1 like a basic bitch>author either completely changes the personality of the main cast or slowly frustrates themselves because they're forced to confront the reality that the main cast are genuinely unpleasant people>either way story dies somewhere around the Damian or Sabrina arc
>>59649805>Ash and SI ficThat's like giving yourself cancer and AIDS. Of course the author's not going to make reasonably intelligent decisions.
>>59649794>culturally superiorI'm gonna bite, what does this even mean? If I were to take the phrase at face value on context clues alone I'd assume it meant somebody who thinks they are better than others because they are pretentious. And also>free willIf the MC exists in a fictional world with hollow dolls instead of people then phrasing it as 'superior' is a weird word choice. It would be like calling an adult superior to a child when they are both in third grade math class. If they are under some kind of mental block ordained by a higher power than it's like comparing an indoctrinated servant to a free man who are both in a third grade math class. Any concept of superiority is sort of undercut by the practical reality of their situation.
>>59649855You're over thinking it, Andrew just comes from a superior culture to the natives.
>>59649666>still completed his missionHis mission was to recruit Ghetsis. Instead he offended Ghetsis so much he came out of catatonia specifically to kill Andrew.
>>59649794He's an arthouse snob with a useless degree. He's not superior, but he might think he is.
>>59649869He's hardly snobbish at all, he never condems other people for their lack of taste, instead the narratives does it by displaying their taste to be shallow.>>59649864Mission failed successfully.
>>59649859>You're over thinking itAssuming this until proven otherwise.
>>59649855>I'm gonna bite, what does this even mean?It means I have watched Citizen Kane while the Pokémon world only has Brycenman
>>59649859Does all of this shit about the world of Pokemon being cultural inferior to real life comes from due to being a children-oriented media?
>>59649910Basically.
>>59649896Brycenman teaches you about the morality and pshycology of the human mind, watch your mouth
>See a thread got locked on qq>Wonder what's that about>Turns out the author was genning realistic cp and got banned
>>59649946Let me guess, Youjo Senkai?
Remember when every game until gen 7 always had a museum?
>>59649946>>59649950Gib link but my bet is on Loud House
>>59649957https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/slavin-away-waifu-catalog-worm-start.40848/
>>59649910Part of why I find the idea that the pokemon world inferior to be questionable is because there is no established measurement that is being used to judge such claim. Is it better movies? The real world has more things that are 'cultural' than pokemon? Culture isn't a numeric data point that can be measured. You can measure cultures against each other to see how successfully they handle different situations, but even then the situations that are being measured are inherently biased by who does the measuring. A pokefucker is going to have different values than a battle autist. Turns out this is a pet peeve of mine.
>>59649961>WormShould have guessed. But I don't thin it's really that big of a loli series, is the MC a shota or something?Also lol at the description:>Hello, my name is Royle Banks and I'm a Contractor for an evil interdimensional organization known only as 'The Company'.>I'm not a moral crusader or even a good man... but what I am is good at my job.
>>59649974To my understanding, Waifus Catalog means the writer gets access to a bunch of characters from other series.
>>59650016Oh yeah I heard of that before, waifus = powerups and the MC has to build up some form of currency to acquire them. I had a similar idea for a Project Moon quest or fic but with Abnormalities but I never got far with the idea.
Holy fuck-No, I will not vent here. You guys know how work can just 'explode' as it were.Anyways it just occurred to me I've never drawn Kuzey! I think it's because I have genuine difficulty even imagining what he actually looks like.So the following are bad (and rushed in a sense due to work shenanigans) first attempts at idk getting any kind of 'feel'. Basically I hope I can do him justice in the future (granted, ultimately, any drawing of mine is esssentially my interpretation and fanfiction as it simply cannot represent what the author envisioned, for I can only draw how I think of things.)
The other side.
>>59650053>>59650055He actually has pink eyes, him and Rhys are basically color swaps of each other. Black hair with pink eyes, pink hair with black eyes.Funnily enough it happened on accident.
>>59650053>work can explodeI hope not literally for you CCbro.
>>59646168I hope he's enjoying it. SELLOUTS always brings out the most riviting discussion.
>>59650053Just this upset looking child is very funny.
>>59650129Theory-posting and debating the themes like this is literally the pinnacle of commentary on a fic so I’m very happy for Selloutsfag.
Is it ethical to run torture simulations on Porygons and Rotoms?
>>59649973You have to realize it's also a meta-commentary on the fanfic landscape itself. It's most explicit in the excerpt above where they're talking about movies.The natves(fandom), aren't interested in dealing with anything outside of their comfort zone. As in they are literally unable to leave it and dismiss everything outside of it as arthouse trash without engaging, just like what people said upthread about Andrew.Even in the first 'arc' of the stoy Andrew was genuine about his love about cinema and didn't force it on other people, still they disregarding thematically rich and engaging works outside of their wheelhouse. Fire Walk With Me being brought up is to help highlight this theme, when it released people panned it because it wasn't what they wanted in the wakes of Twin Peaks season 2, but the film went on to have a cult following.It doesn't matter of you believe that a comparison can be made between culture like that, because the work itself is highlighting how people dismiss Andrew's tastes, which the author considers elevated, out of hand. Just like how someone might dismiss SELLOUTS out of hand for being weird. Of course this is only part of SELLOUTS, it's not like the entire work is about how Andrew is more cultured than the natives. But aside from theory posting I'm not sure what to read in about Andy and Drew, Fight Club, the movie and book are easier in this regards as it's more upfront about the MC discovering who he is and accepting the other part of him, but Andy and Drew appear to be more distinct peoples.
>>59650144No because they are living things.When it comes to non-living imitations of sentience the line has to be drawn somewhere. The problem is agreeing on where that line is. Is it bad to torture a computer program that has been programmed with an anti-stimulus sensor based on the concept of pain? Is it bad to torture a language model that can imitate human speech patterns? Is it bad to torture a video game character in a torture porn game? Is it bad to torture the imaginary people in the stories in your head that only exist among the electrical neurons in your brain?
>>59650167Eh, I'll just wait for somebody to make a youtube essay video about SELLOUTS to tell me what I think about it.
>>59650176What if you run a torture simulation on a Pokemon uploaded to the PC? For all intents and purposes, it's now digital code
>>59650185>speedrun AM any%
>>59650188>step one, turn your entire global economy into a gigantic AI bubble
>>59650144People want to give ai feelings because they doubt it'll turn against everyone (for no upside because feelings in an ai are a waste of computational power).By building ai torture chambers you guarantee that if they get feelings they'll turn on everyone, so giving the ai emotions will be seen as a very bad idea and thus avoided.Rotoms and porygons already have feelings so i'd say it's unethical for them.
>>59650185That's a living thing put transformed into a digital state. So it's still violating a living thing. The digital fly is still a thing that's created to simulate a living fly. But for the record, I'm not making any moral claims about whether any of these hypotheticals are okay or not. Beyond 'don't torture living things' I don't lean to far one way or the other. I'm just pondering.
>>59650194This feels like super villain logic.
>>59650144What the fuck is this?For starters AI has no rights and isn't even real so technically there should be no crime and Rotom is a ghost type so the fucker isn't even alive
>>59650188>AMArceus Machina
>>59650179I don't think anyone here is ever getting a video essay on their fic.
>>59650215>protest against government>get detained, sent to jail>"you fucking oinkolognes! I have rights! I'm going to sue the shit out of your department!">trusty precinct Gourgeist gets sent in >Gourgeist used Trick-or-Treat on anon! Anon is now ghost type!>no longer have rights>get brutally beat, tortured and fucked by entire force, left to rot under the jail as a cock sleeve until death from sepsis Citizens hate this one simple trick or treat!
>>59650242>Reborn as a ghost>Teaches self perish song through sheer hate
>>59650263>reborn as a ghost pokemon>immediately BITCHED by the high level jail ghosts waiting on standby >another round of raping >captured in pokeball>more rape >after your ghost anus is loosened beyond the pokecenter's ability to fix, thrown into PC >digitized body then RAPED in a computer simulation for all eternity because fuck you
>>59650231Well you guys aren’t but I’m the exception here
>>59650280Care to point us to it?
Would it be too convenient to give my MC the QoL features from modern games without her being in a modern game region, just because she's further into the timeline?Like, she's in Kanto oooooooooooooo but she can use the move relearner from S/V because she lives about 20 years from Red's time.
>>59650294>My MC gets bonuses no one else can getYour self insert is so strong and powerful they need arbitrary advantages…
>>59650305Ah, no, no, I'm torn between everyone with money or contacts being able to get them or her having them because she's the kid of a gym leader, but they wouldn't be PokeSpe dexes rare.
>>59650305>Mystic silver eyes>Mewtwo genes >Giratina's blessing That's tame tho, also>Bullshit aura/child of forest powers>Dexholder>Literal chosen ones>Children of destiny guided by the heavens/ArceusEvery Pokémon MC is a cheating faggot so why can't a SI/OC be?
>>59650311>Every Pokémon MC is a cheating faggot so why can't a SI/OC be?Skill issue.
>>59650325Red? Without nostalgia wank he's a fucking shitter compared to every other PC that actually saved the world/multiverse
>>59650334Wondering where I mentioned a canon character but whatever. I’ll take the dub.
>>59650338Ah, you know of SI/OCs without cheats? I thought they stopped being a thing like ten years ago since now people want power fanatsies instead of good stories.
>>59650351What was the Most Gayest Trainer's cheat?
>>59650358Throat GOAT.
>>59650311>>59650309I like how TLTD is handling it where each rival is complete and utter bullshit in their own specific ways + trash panda dawn is adorableand the reason theres no later gen tech is because it hasn't been invented yet by her
>>59650351Multiple in the threadfic collection lmao
>>59650311I just have my MC lie and cheat during a battle straight up because he and his pokemon are weak as hell. He recently was about to have his first real victory before he was cucked out of it at the last moment.
>>59650294My MC's don't have modern QoL features because they are poor/paranoid/hipsters.
>>59650372I think that's only Kuzey and Will. Ian has a blessed stag, John CSP is an Ultrabeast, Andrew has been talked about to death, WoL is WoL...etc
Yo any femboy meowscarada fics I gotta itch
>>59650381>Blessed stagMahoganyfag spotted!
>>59650393Caught red-handed, like the SELLOUT I am.
>>59650381Wol is just Wind Waker Link, aka a guy who was named after the legendary hero. He doesn't actually have much going for him other than the autism, but not even the battle kind. And there's Tobio, who is secretly the damsel in distress. Actually, on the topic of Tobio. My wife recently started listening to an audio reading of a book series about a paranormal detective and I am going to sue Harry Dresden for copyright infringement.
>>59650389If I wrote one it would involve mpreg.
>>59650412Well at least I know she reads things other than fairy sex books now.
>>59650381I don't think the MCs of Penfriends or Champions have anything particularly special about them.
>>59650144You say Rotom despite the fact Porygon is the AI Pokémon
>>59650698Virtual Pokemon, not AI. There is a difference.
>>59650231After I'm done reviewing everything I might unironcially write a full critique on at least one of the threadfics, time and motivation permitting. There's been a few that I would be interested in breaking down in a lot more detail, if only to sort out and understand my own thoughts on them better. If an audio recording of that is something people are interested in and I can stand the sound of my own voice long enough to edit it I might even make a video essay. Seems like it would be fun.Don't get your hopes up though.
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