Pokemon Fanfiction General and Writethread

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Seems like recap guy is gone and I'm on phone, so here are some fics from last thread links until someone makes a recap

where is everybody?

I'm just back from work, have had a week like hell, so I'm gonna wind down by listening to music, drinking wine and starting up some very rough prewriting for my new writing project.

And or just call it eff it and go play Sol.

I could use a week long weekend...

>>30570001
Writing, hopefully

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>>30570001
GETTING HYPE TO BE BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN

>>30570001
Dead. rip in pease

Question for more traditional fic writers:

How many mons do you usually want people to carry around. 6 seems like quite a bit when the team is effectively an extension of the character

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Olivia is cute.

>>30570778
and is my wife

>>30570729
1-2 if they're homebodies, 2-4 if they're active. Depending on means and opportunities of course.

>>30570729
I'm partial to 3, as it kinda lets me play around with coverage triangles. Doesn't hurt that I play the games with three bros instead of six

>>30570729
5-6 if they're a big trainer (gym leaders, e4, ace, etc.)
3-4 middle ground
1-2 if they're a new/small trainer, or if they're just pets

For in-game use I find in that a full team of 6 can be too much, personally I usually use 4-5.

What's a facet or timeline of the pokemon universe that you want explored more?

>>30570729
I tend to default to three (3), which is a good balance for beginning Trainers and Trainers who are only beginning to specialize. Beyond that, I usually follow a model of two or three "fixed" mons, including the "signature" / "starter" mon, and four or three slots for rotating an extended team of Pokémon, if the Trainer is able to afford it. This is particularly fitting for eg.: Gym Leaders and Ace Trainers. HM Slave optional.

My Champion-rank donut steels OTOH have only their lead mon, purposely overpowered, and a rotating staff of five plus the trust and recognition in the wild to even be able to periodically "invite" wild mons to form part of the team for a day or two.

>>30571400
Are you me? Post in Spanish twice for yes.

>CAPTCHA
>Calle ã
Silly internet, trying to trick me.

>>30572084
Whatever war Surge was in.

>>30570001
I'll be busy with finals for the rest of the week.

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Any primarina fics out yet? Sfw or nsfw doesn't matter

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Any fic of Anabelle?

>>30570001
in finals hell

>>30576430
Anabel/Looker romance when

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The holidays are upon us so I wrote a new chapter for Errant's Hearth. It's short, sappy and ridiculous. 'Tis the season! Now to plan a particularly heavy chapter of Only Viridian.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12140893/2/The-Errant-s-Hearth
http://archiveofourown.org/works/7991302/chapters/20123515

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>>30579009
>People are already dropping their christmas specials
>I gave up on mine a month before it would be reasonable to start writing it

>>30580920
>>I gave up
That's a ho-ho-horrible thing to do.

>>30581347
I just couldn't muster up the correct amount of fucks to give. I don't even like christmas.

>>30567742
anything good Mtrainer x Fpokemon including snek/foxmons?

just recommend me some hard to find stuff or your own creations.

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http://pastebin.com/RDmw9bsP

First time ever writing smut, hopefully its passable. From the Tsareena thread a few days ago. Better late then never.

Are you guys not moving to a discord too?

>>30582149
If someone makes one I would.

>>30582149
What's wrong with IRC?

>>30582522
IRC is fine and it's been around forever so it's reliable.
Just Discord is pretty much an improved version, in my opinion.
Avatars, inline link displays, multiple channels to a server for great organization, you can even hide channels for a modchat or opt-in rooms, voice channels, video calls in an eventual update iirc.

A lot of other communties seem to have moved there so I was wondering why this thread stuck with IRC

>>30582644
No one saw a need to migrate. Plus, IRC isn't a proprietary platform so people are free to choose a client that fits their purpose.

>multiple channels to a server for great organization, you can even hide channels for a modchat or opt-in rooms

Those are possible via IRC as well.

>Avatars
Not a big loss.

>inline link displays
Some clients can do that.

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>>30581833
>strange berry means haha weed sexy time
>wait
>no it's... IT'S... shrinking...
Darn, that's not my fetish

>>30583080
Just pretend its a really bad trip.

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From previous thread.

Here's a prompt. Lusamine or Ilima get handcuffed to Chicken-chan. Hilarity or something sexy happens. You decide.

>>30581833
Why is this flower so arousing?

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Real chapter update bb

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7771954/chapters/20127616

Every other chapter that I promised would have a fight scene was a lie except this next one. It definitely has a fight scene. Imagine this: actually interesting content for once

precautionary early bump just in case you weirdos actually sleep

>>30584974
I really wish I was sleeping right now. But it's now time to agonize over writing my 3-words-per-day of story, and also finals.

>That feel when you have this desire to make a short fan fiction of sort but you're not sure if it's a good idea or whether you're able to do it right

it was just a stupid idea I came up with about a trainer losing his Crabrawler in Mount Lanakila. And Crabrawler's poke ball being nowhere to be found in the snow and amidst all this, him evolving and not being recognized afterwards.

can't write worth a shit though

>Want to write Tsareena smut
>End up padding the story with plenty of context and character instead of sex.

Welp.

>>30585418
>can't write worth a shit though
>haven't yet written worth a shit
ftfy

Found a bretty gud first draft for a fic idea on Spacebattles: https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/28934506/

The author stated that they'll probably wait one month before doing anything substantial to let more people play the game first, but I'm excited to see where they go with this nevertheless.

>>30587849
What's the premise?

>>30588254
After the events of Sun and Moon, Lillie is staying in Bill's lab while Lusamine recovers from Nihilego's influence. Just read it, it's not that long.

Hello writers. I've been lurking these threads for a long time but never got the confidence to start writing much again until I went to /guz/ and started taking requests and found out that apparently, a lot of people like my smut. I'd like to share some of it here, just got my smut AO3 account approved, is it considered more polite here to just link your account with all your works or link specifically requested things people want to see? If the latter, in terms of SFW I have a hallucinating Guzma, NSFW is a Nanu x Grunts spitroast, Lusamine X Guzma femdom and bondage, and short Kukui X Guzma succ, just let me know which you'd like linked.

>>30588561
Linking to your account is perfectly fine.

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Kind of sucks that magearna has so few short stories. I though it would have been extremely popular when it was shown.

>>30588586
Alright, link in spoiler.

http://archiveofourown.org/users/Boopig/

>>30588931
>503 error
Is ao3 down?

>>30589711
AO3 is 503 for me, too

>>30588561
I think some of your work was linked here too. Did you also did a Guzma fic involving plumeria femdom?

>>30585597
the fate of many a planned short fic

>>30585597
well that works too. Some plot with smut enchances it

>>30588561
Are you planning any Guzma/Moon?

>>30585597
As long as its entertaining/cute I'm not seeing a problem.

up

Any skull grunt (female)?

>>30570778
Olivia fapfic when?

>>30595635
Vanilla fapfic

>>30591192
I did not, I think that's referring to a different /guz/anon.

>>30592589
I really don't know. People have been asking me to but I can't really get behind it.

I'll put my fic here, first time publishing here

http://pastebin.com/d0BpxnEN (only part 1)

It's an Adventure type fic set in Hoenn.

This one is the same only in spanish, for those who can read it and want to know more

https://fanficslandia.com/tema/fanfic-despert%C3%B3-en-oldale.52875/ (Up to part 4)

>>30596588
Hmm, don't know if it's a Spanish thing, but dialogue is usually associated with quotation marks rather than dashes (").

You also got some run ons going on, not sure if it's a thing there either. If you can, Google up 'run on' sentences, read them up, and see if that can be patched up.

Otherwise the plot seems straightforward, with some angry fellow who wants out of a town being pushed into possibly taking on champion. Kinda wonder why he is so sore though.

>>30596914
Dashes it's a spanish thing, I know in english use more the (") but it's very awkward to me, in fact in the spanish forum suggest to do dashes

About run on, yes that's a very spanish thing (there's no real translation about this [Oraciones Yuxtapuestas, Encabalgamiento, Oraciones Corridas]) My friends and people who read it (spanish version) say nothing about this, it's interesting knowing this, I guess translation it's a bit harder than I tought

Thank you for your time

>Rosalia bonding time
how cruel, gardener should have stopped the illusion as soon as she started crying

>>30599279
considering that anon's particular works, I'm not sure if he ever makes the MC a kind person

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trying to ramp up character flaws bump

>>30595635
She's doomed to be single so...never. Unless someone writes one.

>>30603541

i was all ready to go on this spiel about your chapter and you've already left it in the dust

>>30604698
Chapter 8 and 9 were so slow and I wanna go fast. You can spiel wherever, though.

>>30582644
For me, Discord is a no-no.

> Proprietary and centralized data management model - you can not host your own space.
> Related to the above, centralized service means you either accept any changes they push or BTFO.
>No dedicated clients - have to depend on a webpage to connect to channels, and authentication is shared across profiles unless you use something like Firefox's Private Browsing mode.
> No privacy advocation - ToS and developer AMAs establish that they would and will hand out any and all user information in case of LEO requests.

IRC has existed forever, had never failed anyone, and can be made use of by both dedicated programs like hexchat, or a variety of web gateways like the one Rizon usually advertises.

If we were to move to something more "recent", I'd take Jabber MUCs, or probably Matrix.

>>30582880

there isn't an IRC client in existence that has even a fraction of the features that Discord has. IRC somehow manages to be one of the most bare-bones chat clients in existence while still being completely unfriendly and convoluted to new users. having to do bullshit workarounds for a basic task like letting users preview youtube videos I'm posting is obnoxious and sometimes straight up doesn't work (if .yt doesn't cooperate you're shit out of luck).

I can tolerate IRC because I forced myself to start using it a few years back when I wanted to chat at the holdout communities who refuse to use something else, but I still feel like its obsolete and the obtuseness of the clients is a major reason the size of the community on there is never going to increase in size significantly.

>>30606208
Discord "obsoletes" IRC similarly to how reddit and facebook "obsolete" 4chan.

>>30606208
>It if can't preview links it's bad

I'm on IRC for the features, not for the eyecandy. There's no harm in right-clicking a youtube link and picking "open in web browser" in the context menu, AFAIK most external clients have that and works.

(If the bots are not working, that's a matter to bring to their devs / implementors, IRC has nothing to do there)

In any case, being able to support extensible features would be a +1 for me to support Jabber / XMPP as an IRC replacement. The problem there is that most XMPP clients don't advertise what extensions do they support, so you have to spend time doing trial and error.

Anyone have any Adventure fics where the trainer goes throughout the region? Looking for something simple, but still good. Romance between trainers is fine

What happened to that one anon who wrote a story with a PokeStar Studios girl getting a reality check and going around Unova? Last I remember, she went against Roxie.

So I'm thinking of writing a PMD fic and I'm wondering about food sources in a Pokemon-only world. I mean, we already know they eat plants (apples, berries etc.) from playing the games, but what about stuff like crops and livestock? Do far

Would it be plausible for Pokemon to breed non-sentient animals like cows, fish and goats for the sole purpose of food? Or will I have to take the edgy route and talk about how Pokemon get their protein by eating each other?

>>30606952
>Would it be plausible for Pokemon to breed non-sentient animals like cows, fish and goats for the sole purpose of food?

I wouldn't consider it impossible if they're mentally advanced enough to form human-esque civilizations.

>>30606952
Not all animals are Pokemon, so I wouldn't be opposed to it. You'll probably want to keep it vague, though.

>>30606952
>Presumably "Do farms exist?"
There's no particular reason they wouldn't. Not if things like berries and apples are on the tray.

>Pokémon food-farming IRL animals
Now that would be an interesting perspective to take a look at things. I don't see why not, though for a number of reasons I can't see that kind of activity taking primary "economic" focus - the main reason being that for food-farming animals to be efficient you need lots of automatization, and you are bound to eventually end where eg.: McDonalds and KFC are re: mutant chickens or something.

Unless the IRL animals are farmed as food for the novelty value, not for the food requirement.

Also: if IRL animals exist and are available to eat, it is not unfeasible for marine Pokémon to rely on plankton.

>>30607052
That's a good point. Thanks. It might be a bit weird writing about how a family of Pokemon are sitting down to enjoy a lovely steak.

By the way, what's a NFE Pokemon that's doesn't have ridiculously min-maxed stats but has the potential to become either physically or specially strong?

>>30607187
>what's a NFE Pokemon that's doesn't have ridiculously min-maxed stats but has the potential to become either physically or specially strong?
Eevee, along with all the pokemon that evolve into balanced/mixed attackers (a lot of starters and pseudos fall into this list)

>>30606327
this isn't even remotely comparable considering reddit, facebook and 4chan aren't at all competing with one another. i'd consider it more like how Google Chrome obsoletes Internet Explorer or how internet forums outdated the BBS

>>30606952

nothing edgy about having pokemon eating each other unless its handled in a mature way. honestly I'd prefer that to some goofy attempt to bypass any potential moral dillemas about a pokemon society with predators in it by making some animals more sentient than others

>>30607349
I guess that makes sense if you don't consider points raised by >>30604907 a problem at all.
(It actually doesn't because neither of your examples involve changing from a low-feature but open protocol to a specific vendor-locked platform.)

>>30607417
>making some animals more sentient than others

You don't consider it to be possible to make Pokémon sapient but still sufficiently "not human"?

>>30607417
>making some animals more sentient than others
That's basically what humans are. I'll concede to your point though, considering that Pokedex entries already describe how some Pokemon eat others. Still, I believe the idea might too dark in tone for the type of fic I'm writing (lighthearted, goofy fun adventures).

>>30607647
I don't think there is a Turkey Pokemon yet, so they could eat that. You could also just use our own Soy Burger as an excuse. Heck, steal from Ghost in the Shell and say they prepare veggies in a way that tastes like meat.

>>30608111
How would that work in a pseudo-medieval style society?

>>30608135
Extremely well

http://www.thedailymeal.com/news/no-garlic-or-meat-eating-korean-buddhist-monk/70714

There's tons of articles about how these recipes have been passed around for generations, possibly even beating Medieval times.

Though if anyone asks too much, just say that necessity is the mother of invention, or that an Arcanine better eat veggies if it doesn't want to get teamed up on by the cute mons.

>>30608135
spices man. They can go for miles. Made from berry stems or parts of the plant grounded up, the right mixture of spices and seasoning can make something taste just like meat

>>30606952
I think you can have pokemon eat pokemon without being edgy as long as there's a firm line distinguishing civilized from feral. Animal livestock makes sense though. It's probably necessary for any town with a triple digit population.

>>30607647
>MC casually mentions that humans are actually animals and not pokemon
>partner is mortified and tries to hide the fact that pokemon eat animals for fear of upsetting MC

>>30608506
>as long as there's a firm line distinguishing civilized from feral

It's a common cheat and it can work, but it's a cheat nonetheless.

>>30608565
Is that a bad thing?

>>30606716
>>30596588

I post mine before, if you know spanish is up to part 4, but in english only part 1

>>30608593
Sigue posteando en Español, es glorioso. Es bueno ver otros escritores en Español por aquí.

>>30608587
The problem with cheating your way out of the predation issue is that the vast majority of the time you end up with situations where murdering people for suvival is a necessity but somehow society looks and feels just like a contemporary human society the writer is familiar with. That's idiotic and breaks immersion.

If you decide to cheat, admit to yourself what exactly you're doing and be thorough about the execution. No weaseling yourself out of the darkness that is harsh realism in a world of monsters. You can have sapient-on-sapient predation and the various implications that come from it (e.g. heavy tribalism/class divides), or you can break the world so it doesn't need to become a problem in the first place (e.g. mundane animals, mystery dungeon-created Pokémon being "mindless").

Keep in mind that the latter risks turning your world into a stock talking animal cartoon unless you take serious efforts to not make it like that.

>>30608895
Wait, do the Pokemon in Mystery Dungeon games get murdered? I thought they were always fainted.

As soon as finals are done, I'm going to want something to do before I start up winter session, so I'm thinking of finally coming back to some old hobbies. What region would be best to allow for a good Trainer fic? I've a soft spot for Kanto, but I'm vaguely interested in Sinnoh after finishing a nuzlocke. Black 2 has me wanting a Unova story, too, but I can't decide.

>>30609009
I'm talking about fanfiction here.

>>30608785
Saber que alguien más postea en español da un respiro de alivio ¿Tienes un escrito que quieras compartir? Sería bueno intercambiar ideas

>>30609344
Hay muchos que hablan Español, pero 4chan es un sitio Americano.

>>30608895
I'm a fan of the artificial Mystery Dungeon 'Mons. A good justification for people to go all out against them, and rescuing can be considered when you find a delirious REAL 'Mon in there.

>>30609705
>artificial Mystery Dungeon 'Mons
Like spirits created by the energy of the mystery dungeons? That's an interesting way of putting it. How does recruiting work though?

>>30609344
Hace mucho que no publico en Español, debiera volver a eso.

En el intertanto:

>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11281844/1/Humanillo-loquillo-el-romance-es-para-los-Nidoran
>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11048465/1/Cuasi-Legendario
>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10510865/1/No-Apto

>>30609736
There are real people that go into them and slowly start losing it, Dark Souls style, as they keep getting overwhelmed. When you knock someone out and they don't vanish, you end up rescuing them since you realize what is happening.

Or at least that's what I told myself in Super, when I equipped the Dragonair with the bazooka known as

H Y P E R B E A M
Y Y
P P
E E
R R
B B
E E
A A
M M

and blew everything.

Dang, I can not into formatting.

>>30608506

I imagine professional hunters are a mainstay of any large PMD town. Some sufficiently motivated predators could make a solid living hunting down large quantities of prey Pokemon in the wild each day, dragging their bodies back to town, dressing them up like a human butcher, and then selling them back to other predators in town for a profit.

Some predators who have lived in a town their whole life may be so used to buying their meat at a local market that they may have never actually hunted for themselves...

>>30570778
Requesting her being Thirsty for Guzma

Feeling really conflicted because anons are giving me a lot of good ideas and I can't decide which one to use in my story about cute Pokemon children exploring mystery dungeons and ranking up in the world

>>30609900
Maybe some can, but if a society depends on hunting over farming, there are sustainability issues

/r/-ing something lewd with anabel. There are literally no fics with her.

>>30610136
If cute, it's better to go with the artificial 'Mons and Soy meat.

However, the thing you should do is focus on the story and write.

>>30609143
you could dive into the new region to cash in on new S/M stories, or do some weird crossover with it and Kanto and see how that works

>>30610163
You can probably switch it over to fishing, and you could up the tech level if you add large fishing fleets, or trim it down if you have water types doing aquaculture. I know lots of fish would get caught the. You start pulling up seaweed.

>>30609900
Another thing to look out for is the size difference. Even discounting some 'Mons like Wailord, you still have super tiny Pokémon like Joltik who would fit in the hands of the NFE starters.

>>30612222
I do have to wonder how the whole size thing works in the PMD world, in terms of what the Pokemon think about it. Would a Wailord be discriminated against for being so huge and cumbersome? And would a Joltik get disrespected too for being so small and able to get manhandled by just about anything? I can't think of any time in the actual games where the size of super huge or super small Pokemon was given much attention.

>>30612843
I don't think it's brought much up in the games, not counting the encounters with the legendaries.

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Just got a funny idea of a Joltik hiding in a Zoroark's hair and shooting lighting at unsuspecting 'Mons.

>>30612935
>>30612843
It's probably more related to each individual story. Cutiefly probably won't show up unless the story uses them as a Tinkerbell stand in, otherwise you'd probably see more stories that have Pikachu and Riolu/Lucario being teased about being the smallest starters.

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>"...but the truth is as [fennecs] get older they get more territorial and skittish, especially when they are not fixed..."

See? I am not wrong.

>>30613255
>Advice for Val:
>Stop forgetting things
>Vines are useful
>...Spay your girlfriend?

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>>30567742
The dex has a pretty good taste this time around.

>>30613627
Rotom is into that thicc liligant ass

>>30606735
Apparently he's still working on it, but had to take a break for school.

So I started writing a fanfic about six years ago, I lost interest halfway through when things started to get a bit bloated but playing Pokemon Moon has kind of reinvigorated my interest in the series again. Heck I was kinda thinking of just reusing my old story concept and just kinda retooling it for Sun and Moon. Plus I could wipe the slate clean and stuff which is always cool. What do y'all think?

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5196885/1/GREEN_Act_1

>>30617715
Any M-Mienshao X Trainer fics out there? I checked the catalog but only found one with a F-Mienshao.

>>30617919
Didn't mean to reply, sorry!

>>30617715
Holy shit I remember that from 420chan. Could be interesting.

noon bumo

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I originally wrote this for guz/the Team Skull general but then I realized we had a writefag general too.

I'm noticing a lot of Pokephilia and journey fic and such here, so I'm not sure if it'll be to anyone's taste, but here's an explicit Guzma/Fem Reader piece (who is to be imagined as a generic female Team Skull grunt if you aren't big on the whole self-insertion thing). It has pheromone drugging, size difference and emotional masochism.

> http://archiveofourown.org/works/8784718

>>30619174
>That end
Damn if there was one way to leave a cliffhanger it's that way. I say it was a good/lewd read, even if self insert isn't my thing. Is this really it for you though?

Also don't worry about audience. There is usually someone who reads anything thrown at them.

>>30619824
Probably, though it depends on if I can get over myself or not. Most likely a long break is needed.

Thank you very much for your time/attention and providing your thoughts.

>>30619174
>emotional masochism
So close for regular masochism. Oh well. Still works for me too

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Hey, I looking for the source of a quote I ran across sometime during gen 5 or 6 (trying to find the source/context for a story I'm writing).

It goes along the lines of "Pokemon appear in front of people in grass because they want to grow stronger" or something of that nature.

I have googled it, but I shit you not, google vomits out 2 million results in tandem with pokemon fucking go. Anyone remember anything concerning this?

>>30623920
Put quotes around it anon. It'll only show exactly what's inside the quotes.
You can also do "site:pastebin.com" to show only results on the pastebin domain

I may or may not be a cyberstalker

Requesting any plot/charater-focused fics about Sun Moon characters or set in Alola.

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Bug your Pokemon

>>30623920
Canalave Library myths. It's part of the Pokémon world in-universe mythos.

>http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sinnoh_myths

>>30626606
fbi pls go

Uo

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page 8 bump

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The sudden, crushing realization that writing fanfics only sets you up for failure in the writing world because it never forces you to write your own settings.

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>>30631510
This is why you also make your own settings on the side. It's what I did. I'm going to write a tabletop campaign set in it for my players next to help flesh out more of the world and get an idea for human interaction in it.

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>>30631510
>Implying the writing world isn't just about selling your heart and soul to publishing firms
>Implying my own settings wouldn't just be reskins of already existing ideas and franchises already

This is my favorite thing, but like hell if I'm ever going to make money off of it honestly. I'd probably settle to ride a meh job and give up vidya altogether so that I could fill the rest of my days with writing.

>>30631510
PMD has a very bare bones setting, desu. Literally any building you do for it is yours.

>>30631510
I think fanfiction only hinders you like this if the only thing you ever write is fanfiction, which ideally would not be the case. If you want to be a good writer you shouldn't just base the entirety of your writing off of other IPs.

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PROJECT UPDATE BUMP
(aka "We're at page 8, I have an excuse to >blog")

Finally resolved my (immediate) issues with BSTF's sequel, so that shit's straightened out and ready to go. Work on the intro resumes!

Came up with another story today, about a naval officer with a Decidueye being transferred to the command of a (WWII-era) destroyer. The pokemon he receives as part of his new post don't like the one he took with him, liked the old captain better, and the crew mistrusts a bad omen pokemon like >ghostowl (that's like 'deathdeath'!). Meanwhile, they have to fight in a war or something, idk. Is this a concept anyone would be interested in, or would I just be writing for myself and maybe one other person?

Unfortunately, I've made little progress on getting these thread prompts down. Why can't I wrap (hurr) my mind around the watersneks? I can't even answer THAT question, let alone the question of how I want to do this.

Anyway, that's why I haven't written anything yet. Feel free to crucify me.

Exit question: Should Decidueye (F) get the brass (D)?
I think I already know what the answers are going to be

>>30631510
>2016
>fell for the "fanfiction is not writing" meme

>CAPTCHA
>Sold Road

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>>30634012
I'd read it. Naval life is a good place to find some superstition about ghosts too.

Ghost birb is not for lewd.

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>>30634012
Sounds quite interesting. I like these new naval-type stories the thread has been getting recently.
Third chapter of FC is almost finished btw. I've been lurking all this time, not dead. Humans finally will be a thing and interact with the Pokemon. Yikes.

>>30635157
I was wondering where you ran off to!

Hope you don't think I'm stepping on your toes. I was talking to a beta reader about some real old plans (and attached lore/worldbuilding) when the concept just popped right out of the text at me. It was bizarre, and kinda scary. Almost like a ghost.

Which others besides us two though?

>>30634012
Sounds like an interesting little piece. How fucked does everything end up by the end? Wartime naval stories don't close out without taking on at least a little water.

Nothing wrong with a little Brass/Owl. A long time at sea stuck in a box with death possibly looming on the horizon is as good a reason as any to blow off some steam.

>>30635199
Spoopy. Also don't worry, my toes are made of steel. There was one other guy who was writing a pirate story. It was quite good, but I don't remember any recent updates to it.

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>>30631510
Guys I'm serious. I need help. I've been doing nothing but fanfiction for a long time. I can come up with good plots, fleshed out character, and shitty settings. How learn make setting

so after spending some time catching up on Broken Ideals the story is apparently ending in like... two chapters? this seriously may be the longest PMD fic ever written let alone the longest one to ever get finished but it seems like the author finally headed towards the conclusion they wanted

I think I'd like to give this story a proper lengthy review once the epilogue gets posted

>>30635778
>how learn make setting
Ask yourself what sort of setting your characters and plot facilitate (more so your plot) and begin to build ideas for your setting from there.

Use the Socratic method to do this or the Vryheid method, as I've come to know it: Ask question after question until your answers have reached a point where answering further would be too tedious, irrelevant or outright impossible because it would require you to explain atomic science.

A few examples of questions you ask:
What time would this happen?
What place would this happen?
Is there magic/high-tech/low-tech/no-tech?
How do the characters live?
How does the conflict unfold, and what sort of systems have failed to prevent said conflict, if there are any at all?

Answer enough questions and you'll have the makings of a setting, because you've created a system or rules, places and ideals to set your story against.

>>30635778
If you can come up with good plots and characters, making a setting is as simple as "What do I need to accommodate this?"

>>30636363
got the right of it, especially with the questions. Generally when people ask me for worldbuilding advice I tell them this:
>Get a list of everything you think is cool or would enjoy writing
>Link them together in ways that facilitates your plot and characters, cut EVERYTHING else
>Ask "Why?" and "How?" to every point and combination of points, record and modify.
>Refine until there's no rough edges but don't go too crazy or you'll break it.
>Fill in the gaps as naturally as possible.
>Start writing.

I do like trying to pry open a world and figure out how it works as described above, an environment with colorful means to solve basic issues such as food growth and law enforcement is far more interesting than a vaguely defined fantasy land which exists only to house setpieces for the main character. But I would say a good starting point is to figure out what kind of story you want to tell, and base your world on how gritty or kid-friendly, fantastical or down to earth you want the themes to be.

I'm really thinking of writing a yuri fic about Olivia/Mallow. The only problem is that I'm not sure how to write it exactly. I can see two ways of it going down.

>Story is from Mallow's POV, she basically frets about her feelings for Olivia before confessing. Then story is from Olivia's POV as she doesn't know quite how to take the confession, then the two get together

Or

>Olivia begins to realize she has feelings for her young captain and tries to push those feels aside, only for Mallow to start flirting

Which seems the better way to go?

Bamp

>>30637584
The latter. More opportunities for choosing how things develop.

>>30635157
Wuddup orange bro! I thought you were dead

>>30637584
As a rule of thumb, avoid switching POVs. 99% of the time it's retarded.

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Do you guys want Wicke x UB-01? I just roleplayed that and could adapt it to a fic.

>>30640401
that...sounds interesting actually. As long as you link it to a pastebin you should be fin

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>start reading story
>infrequent spelling errors but nothing so bad as to make it unreadable
>actually getting suckered into it despite my initial misgivings, characters are interesting and it looks to be building up to an interesting climax
>suddenly cuts out like halfway through, hasn't been updated for half a year

WHY DOES EVERYONE DO THIS, I NEED TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS

IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR

>>30616405
>hey bby wanna /ssssssssssssssssss/?

>>30641239
Welcome to fanfiction, it is certainly an interesting if sad -to us- phenomena. I guess some people just get fed up of their own stories, or of writing in general, or they jump fandoms and stuff. While I can't speak for everyone, I would probably guess one of the main reasons that happens is

>>30635778
...make a setting revolving around the plot? Obstacles and paths can really carve one out of thin air.

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Anything with best girl yet?

>>30642017

lmfao

bird orbs

>>30613082
I'd imagine the joltik would be more amused by making the zoroark's hair go up via static at inconvenient times

>>30641239
>deadfics
If only there were a kind of writer out there who finishes stories before posting them online.

>>30648654
There are. But what would be the point? In particular if it is anything longer than a shortfic.

>>30648913
>But what would be the point?
To avoid being responsible for causing >>30641239?

>>30648654
You keep saying this is the ideal way to write, but I'm still not convinced.

Yes, it ensures stories aren't left unfinished, but it also prevents writers from getting advice on each part one by one so they can then improve later parts. If they make a mistake or a bad decision regarding grammar/plot/etc. early on, and they don't know that it's bad, they'll repeat it later on because they never found out it was wrong. In such a situation, the whole story would suffer from the same problems, as opposed to those problems disappearing and the story improving over time due to the writer getting advice based off each prior part and then applying it to the next part.

I do agree that your method is a good solution for people who are already confident in their abilities and/or just want to write the whole story at once and post it without having to wait for feedback along the way. But it isn't a good method for people who are still learning, or feel like they could still improve their writing, or just prefer to have help during the actual creative process instead of only at the end.

That said, I'm still new at this whole creative writing thing and I also belong to that aforementioned "still learning or feel like they could still improve their writing" category, so I don't speak from very much experience on this topic. But that's just the way I feel about this. Conveyed in a rambling manner, I reckon.

>>30652611
x2

>UB in Pmd
>Buzzwole just rushes in the glacier palace
>Other UBs chase him
>destroy the bittercold before the MC can even start fighting Kyurem

>>30651020
It's how I write, and—excepting serials—most works are produced with "book" as the unit.

>it ensures stories aren't left unfinished
It ensures that the reader who trusted you is not stranded.

>it also prevents writers from getting advice on each part
Really? Please explain how by intending not to make a story public until it is fully prepared that an author cannot possibly petition someone to read draft material and provide critique during the story's preparation.

>those problems disappearing and the story improving over time
You won't see the broad flaws until it is complete (and perhaps a while after it's completed, during a conversation that seemed to be about a different aspect of the work) so all "improving over time" means is that Chapter 1 needs the most fixes and Chapter ω the fewest.

>your method is a good solution for people who are already confident in their abilities
It is not a matter of confidence but courage. My only confidence was that I would have a lot to learn, to improve, and ultimately to overcome.

In time, I did. And now, I continue to.

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>Fic is set in an AU with no pokemon
>fic barely even mentions pokemon

Y A M E R O
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>>30655383
Jesus christ this. One I read last year actually mentioned a german shepherd. The author couldn't even be bothered to make it a mightyena or a manectric.

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>heated conversations where you barely have to describe the scene anymore

>>30656779
You mean "heated conversations where you barely have time to describe the scene because the dialogue is moving so quickly that narration would spoil the pace," right?

>>30655295
>>it ensures stories aren't left unfinished
>It ensures that the reader who trusted you is not stranded.
These are both true. Come to think of it, the second statement actually kinda looks like a corollary to the first.

>petition someone to read draft material and provide critique during the story's preparation.
In my defense, I didn't factor this option into my argument; I was thinking in terms of writers keeping the story to themselves and doing proofreading by themselves before public release, because that's the only way I've ever known myself. If a writer is able to find another person to read drafts and aid in proofreading before the actual publication, then I agree that solves the problem I mentioned.

>all "improving over time" means is that Chapter 1 needs the most fixes and Chapter ω the fewest.
That's still an improvement tho

>It is not a matter of confidence but courage
I thought those were synonyms. Can you elaborate?

>>30658107
>>30655295

>petition someone to read draft material and provide critique during the story's preparation.
To be fair, having betareaders does not provide you the same, or in some cases not even similar, reaction to your work than just releasing to the general audience. But then again, nothing will. You could always do a sort of "reviewer screening", sans the reviewing, releasing ontly to a set of known people who are *not* into specifically processing your work.

>Confidence vs Courage
I'm not cge but there is a large difference, and one that is very relevant to artistic working. tl;dr: confidence tells you that your writing plan / outline / plot are good, courage tells you that it's worth the hassle to make them happen.

>>30657750
I mean sure, if I wanted to get incredibly technical about saying "haha quotation marks" and then writing the dank internal dialogue which drives the improvements I'm trying to make to my main character (which are the opposite of improvements actually)

I've described this room like three times already, I don't need to do it a fourth.

>>30658107
Confidence is so strongly anticipating success that you don't fear failure.
Courage is taking action however daunting the challenge and dreadful the consequence of failure.

>>30658477
Your room has become boring.

>>30567742
Does anyone know if that sexual biology Pokemon fic was ever updated?

also anything with Tsareena/Steene?

>>30656759
But German Shepherds are public domain...

>>30658695
When you're dealing with a character whose obsessing almost fanatically over a single person in the room, I can't imagine I'd need to describe the kind of papers are tacked to the walls at that moment. In comparison to the situation, the room is boring.

>>30658860
the updates stopped entirely. Guess the guy who made it got bored. Oh well, it happens.

>>30659058
I stand corrected.
You despise your room.

>When you're dealing with a character whose obsessing almost fanatically over a single person
Get a restraining order for the sake of argument and carry at least a can of mace.

>>30658266
>courage tells you that it's worth the hassle to make them happen.
Or to pull the trigger even if they're not.

They become increasingly relevant the less the other is present.

>>30655383
>>30658879
>take franchise
>take out the franchise's titular element
>normalize
>write 'fanfic'
what's even the point?

>>30660233
filler space to replace names and make OC the likes of fifty shades of gray.
Either way the title is only used to attract trap the audience

>>30658879
Haha, very funny asshole

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>wrote a 5 page paper this week in one day
>can't come up with a satisfactory topic for my fic
I hate my inconsistent creativity.

i'm primarily a 2d artist but sometimes i get overwhelmed with the BURNING DESIRE TO WRITE and then i shit something out and don't write again for like three years
any tips for making myself write more regularly

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I was struck by something before bed and instead of going to sleep I actually put it to paper and got this:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12267292/1/Haunted

>>30662318
If you're an artist you could always draw out something and put words to it. Then eventually, you can put words to just the pictures in your head. And voila, you can write without having to draw too.

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>>30662318
For me getting started was just convincing myself I was going to write every day. The process by which I did so is depicted in this attached image.

I haven't always been successful, but I'm writing a hell of a lot more now than I was before.

>>30576430
Seconded, please. A fic where she fucks the male mc and then gets all flustered because she's not supposed to sleep with her employees would be hot as fuck

>>30662723
>gets all flustered because she's not supposed to sleep with her employees
Still waiting on a Looker/Anabel fic

>>30608895

>Keep in mind that the latter risks turning your world into a stock talking animal cartoon unless you take serious efforts to not make it like that.

To be fair, that risk is kinda baked into the cake for PMD as a premise. In order to transport Pokémon into a setting where they worry about building huts and about money unlike their mainline depictions, you have to deal with how they got there in the first place instead of just keeping on doing what they're doing.

A sloppy rationalization will inherently send a PMD fic into "stock talking animal cartoon" territory, while a more nuanced one will make things feel more plausible.

>>30612843

I would presume it depends on whatever the "norm" is locally. In general, I would assume the local architecture serves the locals first, with an infrastructure designed to be as accessible as possible to visitors with ad hoc solutions filling the gaps. i.e. in your hypothetical Wailord example, an eatery may choose to simply position itself by a body of water and clear some space for the Wailord to sidle up against a dock or a deck rather than try to stuff it into a building on land.

>>30617715
Yo, Your fic is really damn good . I just stared reading it a couple hours ago and I think you should definitely do it for sun/moon. Seems that there are a bunch of people on ff that want more as well. Really cool concept.

I can see Predation being a thing when an Explorer or Dungeon Diver heads to unmapped lands. Once you start up civilization, the Barbarians are either integrated or exterminated.

What do you guys think of Bittercold and other such beings? I actually like the idea of it, since it serves as a good counter to all of the power available to Pokémon. It forces them, and the writer, to think about doing something besides attacking.

>>30664486
Seeing as how my BBEG is already a lesser parallel of Dark Matter in concept, I can't really complain about black forces of nature that are mostly beyond -- or at least can reliably stay the fuck away from -- physical violence. To tell the truth, though, it's not nearly as fun to write as an actual character would be. Sure, it's beyond fatigue and battle to a large degree, but that makes them distant and boring. If it's not going to let you fight it with a giant clusterfuck firestorm, but it's also not going to have driving motives other than killing/eating the world, then what's the point? I gave my (mostly) mortal BBEG in Ears respect and an army, which served the same purpose of survival as well as actually made things interesting.

>>30664712
Yeah, Dark Matter and Bittercold aren't something you can really anthromorphosize, even remembering what they do in the games. They're more like natural disasters, something that happens and you just have to prepare for.

I will say that I like it as a /tg/ person. It's a good way to reset the board when magic gets out of hand in a setting.

You did make me interested in Ears, since the talk you have here makes it more attractive.

>>30665135
Ears, for what it is, is fuckin good shit right there MMHMM (right there), but the sequel is ultimately just babby's discordant first fantasy novel with their waifu as the main character. If you were into Super and Gates, and you're not opposed to aggressively cherishing your special doggo, I'd recommend it.

>>30665259
I've seen decent threads with worse ideas, so I'll bite.

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>>30567742
I'm trying to come up with a team of Air Pirates for a freeform RP and I'm kind of stuck on a name.

I know reoccurring antagonists will include Anne and Bonny and their own in-organization rivals Mary and Read.

>>30664486
>>30664486

The Bittercold to me wasn't as much of a "villain" so much as an unstoppable force of nature- an entity similar to Nyx from Persona 3 in that it was created by the collective unconsciouness of the entire Pokemon world yearning for destruction. The real antagonists of the game were Kyurem and Munna's gang, groups of Pokemon that took a nihilistic viewpoint towards it all and just wanted to see the world to destruction, even though they felt like the Bittercold was impossible to combat regardless of whether or not they intervened. A lot like Takaya in Persona 3, actually.

Hmm...

>>30662527
>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12267292/1/Haunted
Melia sounds like an acrobatic human for a while, and the use of reflexive third person without being possessive until the second time leaves us uncertain that Melia is a mismagius until "reward" is mentioned. Exchange "a creaky old" with "this old" before she refers to herself by species, and be more descriptive early so we know that "Melia flipped upside down" and "twirled about in the air" doesn't simply mean she's inappropriately gymnastic.

Nighttime is implied late in the piece; unless I overlooked it, time wasn't established early so either it's a longer monologue by the ghost in diagetic time than reader time, or that it's not daytime should be mentioned much earlier—preferably while establishing the scene.

—

You've got a lot of simile and abstract imagery going on and that would be great, except you forgot to make it mean something to Dorian; it seems like this is intentional in the sense that it not meaning anything to Dorian is crucial to the theme of this piece, but we never see how it not being meaningful to him is meaningful. End to end, he is just being a dull foil, his speaking lines and very presence just something to give pulses of momentum to Melia's soliloquy.

There are a couple of really useful plot devices that you established in this piece that could turn this into a dialogue instead of a monologue to a mannequin. I think you could develop this into a 4k or better and make this concept into a statement.

>>30567742
weird since she likes getting touched there in refresh, i guess it's her clit or something

>>30664486
BBEG? Big Badass Enemy... Gerbil?

Also, I haven't played any of the recent PMD games (I haven't finished Sky nor given a good reason why the newer ones are better) so much of what little I know of those creatures basically equates them to, say, Necron from FF IX. So I can't really give a good opinion except for the fact that I like that there are non-Pokémon creatures in the Pokémon world and now some of them are being given a bit more prominent roles.

As >>30665135 says, it is a good way to "reset the board", and to provide orthogonal / transversal threats I guess.

>>30666093
The Cloud Boarders.

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someone wrote a Buzzwole vs Anabel greentext a few thread back and i decided to just write a short drabble about it.

>Start writing
>No idea how to really describe stuff/ can't find the right words
>End up with a mess that could be way better.
Every time.

>>30670635
>can't find the right words
It's no more possible to capture the whole scene that you imagine in words than it is to paint a portrait and feel a pulse on the figure's neck.

Worry more about having the right amount of description than about the words being right. You can easily adjust word choice in review, but you need to write the material to be able to review it.

>>30670519
My 2DS died, so I can't comment on Gates except that I actually liked how mean everyone was. Super is good, but you can tell when the Dang It Ron Paul people started writing the script. Really good rollercoaster of emotions, though.

>>30666267
When a Pokémon uses an Evoker, do they summon things that look like a Trainer, or their Evolved/Mega Forms?

>>30674018
now throw it against the wall

>>30668781
'Preciate the feedback cge! I'm going to look into all of what you said. I was a bit conflicted about the whole thing being too short and wondered about running it longer and it becoming dull, but I think doing so will help smooth out a lot of the wrinkles that Dorian's flatness causes.

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ribombump

Also, because I know there's at least one person with an interest in this matter: the Ribombee story I've been writing should arrive very soon. Now that I'm done with finals at last, I've got enough free time to work on it and, ideally, finish it within a few days. The first half probably won't come out today, but it most likely will tomorrow, and the second half soon afterward.

>>30677107
OR of the story. Sounds good! Can't wait for the product.
Just a minor check, is the Ribombee a male?

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>>30677281
I just hope you like it. It's certainly been a long time coming, but I think it's getting to the point where it's not too bad. Though the main question now is whether or not I actually pull off the "cute" aspect. I think I mentioned sometime before that this'll be my first real attempt at writing something with any cute in it, so hopefully it won't flop in that regard.
and yes, he is male

>>30675801
>and wondered about running it longer and it becoming dull
It would if it continued to be wholly Melia monologue—already we readers' most direct connection with Dorian is that we can sympathize with his growing irritated. Push that too far and we'll begin to question why he's tolerating it rather than accepting it as a choice he made off-camera as reported/established by Melia in the beginning of this text.

My suggestion for lengthening it is recognition that you have a message in this text but its delivery is awkward because there is no story arc to make it more than an elaborate exposition of that message. You have plenty of plot mechanics in the text already to work from, but the objective of literature is to show the message, not just tell it. (And when you're telling it in code, it struggles to stand alone.)

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>>30677107
I'm also looking forward to it, ever since reading that mothimXvespiquen fic (by mimiga I think?) I've been on the lookout for more bees.
I hope your finals went well too.

>>30677771
I think I need Dorian to make an effort to make sense of things and grapple with her obtuse statements to help avoid this becoming pure monologue then. It wouldn't be out of Melia's character to keep rewarding him with bread crumbs or even the outright slice if he tries to piece things together, as difficult as it might be for a rural country boy.

Probably going to add in the circumstances surrounding Melia's capture, or at least a small recap of it, set the physical scene some more (most of the conversation is done as dusk is approaching but I never made mention of it) and might add a bit more to the ending; if Dorian catches on to some of what she's saying, there's less a need to have her end on a cryptic statement, and more of a need to have her end on a grateful one.

Just shy of quints there mang, damn shame.

>>30678191
>rural country boy
Is that what he is?

>Probably going to add in the circumstances surrounding Melia's capture
That's a much more reasonable place to open, since it means you don't need to tell (but rather may show) a lot of the character details you're plugging in along the way.

>quints
It's better that they go to someone deserving of a lucky stroke.

So how active is the Rizon chat?

>>30679948
Forgot to post this, but I have an idea on a Pokemon story, I really want to do, and I wanted to ask some questions.

>>30679948
it gets more activity at night, but there's usually someone on

>>30680074
Ask away. Getting critique can be iffy, but the write thread is pretty good for ideas and advice.

So, a question for those with more experience in writing.

I'm planning my next work, which will be a collection of one-shots about Legendaries. with some of them interwoven together into plot threads or something. But down the line, a one-shots collection.

The issue is what to open with, and that's what I'd like some input on.


Alternatives right now are three:

I could, for example:

* Use one of the entries as the opener, reworking and extending it to serve as an adequate introduction to the work as a whole (eg.: introducing or hinting to some larger-scope concepts).
* Create a separate entry, a sort of "narrator" or "prelude" Episode Zero if you will. Would not need to be tied to the others, and would probably need to focus on something other than a Legendary to function.
* Just pick up any entry to be the "first", and work out a very clear and concise preamble to attach to it.

What are your thoughts on the matter?

>mfw this was going to be a page 9 bump
>but someone page 1'd it ten seconds before I pressed enter
>still manage to make it a page 8 bump

>>30680924
Do any of the entries have something in common? If so, make that the arc, something that seems inconsequential at first but over time builds toward something that emerges at the end and explains why you started, ended, and ordered the material as you did.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6161819/722/Pokedex

I'm writing a bit slower (both 'cause I'm lazy and to give the rest of the pokemon franchise some time to catch up - I don't want to base everything on the games alone) but I've started gen 7 of my pokedex series.

>>30681061
Besides the fact of being centered around Legendaries, they don't share much in common unless one were to look at them on aggregate. They range from slicey-of-lifey to world-defining events, and their timeframes can be separated by millions of years. But all in all, it's about how do they live and what are the things in their lives that make them the "protagonists" of their own time.

The entries would hopefully build towards the idea that Legendaries feel just like us in the world, for example they have to go through the everyday, or perhaps they want to protect the world from this or that threat.

One or two entries might be tied somewhat such as the entries of duo/trio counterparts, but at the end nothing "requires" an order.
Zygarde's entry might be the only one to point to the idea of a sort of common enemy, eventually, and that's only if I don't decide to go with the slicey-of-lifey idea I had for it instead.

Figuring out a potential ordering for the material would be a good idea tho. Right now there's only one external ordering and that is "the order in which they are ready".

>>30684235
so when are you going to write a Furret or Linoone fic?

>>30685228
The real question is when am I going to write any other fic that isn't MoM. I'd have no inspiration, there's no direction with just Furret and Linoone being the subjects.

>>30684235

mimiga doesn't cherish flopwops confirmed

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>>30685302
>implying furret fics don't write themselves

Just kidding, mine's been on the backburner for half a year.

>>30685302
you could write a mustelid love story about strength against the adversity of being bullied by fighting-types

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>>30685766
But I like fighting type flopwops.

>>30662527
Nice a mismagius story.
I also love the message in this story I hope you do more like this its really good.

>>30685834
Now you have the bully.
In the end they all get to be friends, and maybe fuck.
Story ready to go!

>>30685879
I'm already very much the bully. Do as I say, not as I do, and cherish your special doggo.

>>30685617
Backburners are scary and I never want to have one ever.

>>30685954
>and cherish your special doggo.
My special doggos have more tails than yours, but I try the best I can to cherish all of them.

my birb will not be so cherished

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>>30678030
Well, if I can say one thing about this story, it's that there's no shortage of bees. I'll tell you that for free.
Also, my finals were so-so. Not the best showing, but I've had worse. I'm just relieved to have a few weeks off now.

>>30685607
I think he's too busy cherishing that special doggo of his to give any cherishing to anything else. Sad, but true.

Cherishing bump.

>>30683297
All the other Legendaries might mention bits and pieces of an enemy that adds up to what Zygarde fights.

>"I ran into some strange creature that oozed evil and I chased it. It had a weird X."

>"I came because I sensed a terrible presence, but I only found something melting and noticed it had Y."

>"I had a dream that I was fighting some ominous being that had a weird Z. I woke up ready to fight."

And then the final enemy is described with that.

>>>/trash/6682740
So someone made some female hypno thing in the hypno thread. Sharing/linking here

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http://pastebin.com/msgk5dDg
Writefag taken from a Mina thread, not mine.
Premise: Mina gives a handy to a young shota she was tutoring in art.

How shonen do you want your fight scenes? About how overpowered is Punished Panne in the rain but with the Tempest Looplet?

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>>30692179
Just Digimon my stuff up fampai

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Im fucking sorry I haven't been updating you guys as much as i should be.
I havent worked on Desolate Seas for over 3 weeks now, and I've finally gotten back into it very slowly. Moving has been a bitch to me and im still in the process of divorcing her, and some heavy shit from my personal life affected me to the point of loosing interest altogether.
But it light of that, i finally remembered what i should have 2 fucking months ago about the plot and i wrote it down like a smart person for once.
Tldr: Chapter four is comming out never, expect finale around same launch period as star citizen. I spent my free time learning to draw a leaf instead of writing my trash thriller fic.

>>30691803
A little unusual for me. Artists these days...

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>Select all images with Coffee

I'm planning a fic set in Alola. I've never been to Hawaii, so I don't know if more traditional Hawaiian names are common in modern Hawaii or not. Would I be better off using more of those or more names that are common nowadays?

>>30700929
Depends on how much Hawaii you want to go. You could just use standard names, although names with some level of research could do better. At the same time, there may be a balance struck so that people don't baffle themselves over the names (if you care for an audience).

Boop

Found this: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12245248/1/Fury-and-Confusion
Premise: Tapu Koko doesn't show up during the bridge scene. Lillie and Gladion centric. Really enjoying this so far.

>>30704109
Just finished the first chapter, It's really, really good.

Thanks for posting anon

>>30705992
You're welcome.

>>30704109
>Offing the game's protag at the start
Now that is a hook

>>30685954
I've had things on the back burner for 10 years.

>>30700929
I like to imagine that the pokemon world is a fairly multicultural place. In my Sinnoh fic, for example, I balance Japanese names with English/other language names, and feature a more rich language pool than IRL Hokkaido.

>>30707955
Wow, you manage to beat me by just about two years, at least in what regards to writing. Kudos to you!

>>30704109
>protag dies in the beginning
Ehh, not my thing. I tend to like my Pokémon stories being a bit laid back though.

>>30707955
Only ten?

>>30708876
Before that I was too young to think about writing seriously. Back then, I would just draw tons of OCs with stitched-together Japanese-sounding names and insert them into my favorite series. And lots of extremely messy comics on notebook paper.

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i'm still waiting for an inspirational fic about a rescue trainer in the artic and his team of musical Spheals

How do I write a good, plot-heavy story without having it fall apart at the seams? Making things cohesive while making characters stay in-character and remain interesting is hard.

>>30710783
I don't think there one single piece of advice that can help you with that. The best thing to do is practice and receive feedback, really. I don't recommend fanfiction.net for this, as the people here usually have very low standards. If I may, I recommend https://forums.spacebattles.com/, specifically the pokemon fanfic thread: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-fanficion-ideas-recs-and-discussion-thread.289307/
The people here are generally helpful and won't hesitate to give you criticism and advice on how to improve your writing.

>>30710783
>Making things cohesive while making characters stay in-character and remain interesting is hard.
Sounds to me like you either need to change the characters or change the plot progression so they line up better

up

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>>30641239
>mfw I gave up on Fic a few years ago.
>mfw when I remember how fun writing it was.

>>30642017
bravo nolan

>>30712752
Maybe I should revisit it.

>>30716010
I think you should, only after eliminating whatever made you give up

>>30716555
Thanks for the advice, anon.

>>30717467
*Ee4ee

bumping at night bump

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>>30710783

This is a long, complicated topic that you'd need several college level English courses to properly explore, but I'm going to make a brief attempt anyways.

Fundamentally, the purpose of any functional piece of art- including a fanfic- should be to transmit an experience to the audience. Do you want your reader to FEEL a certain way? Do you want to explore a certain MESSAGE? Do you want them to simply EXPLAIN something in a new or unusual way? While these central concepts driving a story are often described as "themes", you should realize that there is a difference between the subject of the story and the purpose of one. You should always focus first on creating a strong, core experience for your fanfic before deciding on any of the characters or content, because this concept will serve as a baseline for determining whether potential storyline paths are contributive or disruptive in terms of overall plot development.

Here are some common "feeling" experiences I see driving fanfics:
-Wonder and adventure in a strange land
-Sympathy for victims of tragedy
-Amusement at comedic events

Some "message" experiences:
-Good always triumphs over evil
-The world is a shitty place and only the strong and merciless survive
-True love overcomes all adversity

Finally, some "explanations" that serve as the central experience of a story:
-Lore explaining the origins of Legendaries or the history of the Pokemon universe
-Details regarding the diet, habitat and lifestyle of specific Pokemon

The biggest issue in fanfictions where everything is correct on a "technical" level- the spelling/grammar/word choice is fluid and consistent- is a story that has a muddied purpose or one that arbitrarily switches focus halfway through. Readers may not necessarily articulate this in reviews or be consciously aware of it when reading a story, but they are going to recognize that author suddenly stopped caring about whatever experience attracted them to the story in the first place.

In a nutshell- the first step to good fanfic writing is to pick a central experience you want your story to give, stick to it, and build the rest of your story around this concept. You will be much more likely to finish with an effective, enjoyable, coherent story if you focus on a single primary experience rather than trying to mush a bunch together or flip flopping between them partway through.

Be aware that genres such as the “tragedy” or “coming of age” are NOT central experiences, they are established story structures for building the type of experience the author wants to project.

You must have a planning phase of some sort, because this is when you get to brainstorm major events and character arcs and shuffle them all together in a way that makes sense. You should be able to articulate how any major components of a story contribute directly or indirectly to the central experience. If an event or character does not contribute to the central experience in any way, take it as a hint that you should probably not put it in the story!

Here are some examples of effective story features an author might consider including:
-In a story based on the experience of “good overcomes evil”, a chapter dedicated to the main antagonist and the types of evil, destructive deeds made them so hated and feared in the first place. This is effective because it adds more weight to the protagonist’s eventual ability to overcome such a fearful and terrifying obstacle
-In a story centered on the informative experience of “exploring details of the life of a gym leader”, several paragraphs describing the type of food that the gym’s pokemon eat on a regular basis and where the ingredients come from. This is effective because it is something fundamental to operation of a successful gym that the established game canon goes in little to no detail about

-In a story where the central experience is an angst-driven “life is cruel” message, having the protagonist enter a romantic subplot with one of the supporting cast. This is effective because while not DIRECTLY contributing to the experience, it indirectly contributes if we were to later have said romance fall apart due to a tragic accident or misunderstanding

Here are some examples of ineffective, disruptive story features authors have come up with in stories I have reviewed in the past:
-In a story based on the experience of “people and Pokemon learning to overcome their differences”, switching gears halfway through the story in order to turn the story into an grimdark political drama that sees the protagonist murdering people left and right while treating their pokemon like one dimensional plot devices
-In a story who’s experience is the message “people should be grateful for what they have”, unreasonably tormenting the protagonist for no reason other than the whims of a vindictive demigod antagonist rather than actually teaching the protagonist a lesson

You should be able to ask yourself whether or not writing about a topic is A. interesting to the reader and B. relevant to the experience you are trying to create. The fundamental components of a building an effective, organized plot-heavy fanfic come from the planning phase. Come up with a central experience, brainstorm events that would contribute towards that purpose, and then learn to rearrange and filter out ideas based on what you feel would be the most valuable, and you will end up with stories that “hold themselves together” without any additional work on your part.

>>30719189
>>30719220
>>30719253
Jeez man, you could have started off with something like,"All stories have, by definition, a central idea, and two people with opposing views on that subject."

You also neglected to mention the very important difference between story and setting. Boy oh boy, do I not enjoy stories from people who fail to get this.

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Catalog updated. As usual, sorry for the wait, thanks for your patience, et cetera.

11 fics this time, and only one of them SFW. Naughty, naughty.

Any good fanfics with Scolipede?
NSFW is fine too.

Any female Incineroar fics?

>>30710618
>Six flipper rolls!
>One, two, three, four, one, two, good job!
>Wonderful!
>~<3

I haven't written in over thirty thousand years.
I'll take any short idea to write a fic off.
I can't promise quality or swift delivery, please excuse me for this.

Please no pokéfilia, thank you.

>>30722562
try
>>30710618
There's others in the thread I'm sure, and we have a request doc too!

Its a long fic in spanish.
If you understand spanish give it a try please :)

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11663371/1/Aventura-en-Johto-Gold-Silver-y-Crystal

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>>30722562
Lillie dealing with a protag that has no sense of personal space, at all, like pic related

Quick question, is green cool or for losers?

>>30726095
Green is a very cool color. Most awesome things are green, such as mint, Treeckos and 7-Up. Also take a look at Pokémon: Strongest Mega Evolution - Chespin, Marin and RAYQUAZA are all green, whereas Alain uses magenta-esque colors, the opposite of green.

There's also the fact that Dan GREEN.

tl;dr: GREEN!

>>30722562
Post-SM, recovering Lusamine having to deal with the fallout of her actions while Lillie is in the Kanto league.

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>>30722562
Friendship with a stray Alolan Meowth that eventually evolves into fatface Persian because friendship

>>30726335
you fucking nigger you know what I mean

New bread when?

>>30726095
Whichever way, don't post it in the thread

>>30726095
>>30726602
Keep it in a pastebin/pic and you're good to go. See the OP.
>>30727276
Wait for thread to fall a bit

new thread
>>30728835