Pokemon Black, Day 20

Last time on Pokemon Black, I won.

Authors Part 30

Lots today.

Concrit: The Commune

By far, the absolute worst kind of fic is the dystopic Hunger Games-spawned fic I have to slog through. The Twilight stuff is easy enough to gloss over, and I'm completely desensitized to the "my parents grounded me so I'm going to write fic about how I'm abused" crap. The HG stuff is its own special category of rage-inducing horror to me.


So, I came into this one kind of pre-irritated. That's not necessarily fair, but at the same time, you asked me to read your crappy fic.


Unrelated: Is this too hard to read? Was doing two separate colors easier? I'm still struggling with Blogger's formatting a bit (as you may have noticed).

Baffling Author Reaction Awards, Part 1

And in the "comments I have no idea how to respond to and can't even tell if they're serious or not" category, we have Matthew Dalzell:


"Excuse me, Act. Since you took such great pains to make us aware of your exceptional reviewing abilities and your likely dislike of our favorite authors, I thought I should mention some things to you with equal frankness:

authors are to be remembered by more than their surnames. As people united by the mutual bond of a love for writing, it follows that we should extend some courtesy and respect to others.

In addition, "Tolkein" will not do. I believe what you're searching for is "J. R. R. Tolkien.""

edit: For some extra lulz/wtfery, you can check out his review on this fic (edit of the edit: and this one). "I personally enjoy wolves very much. I love them both in a literary, and biological way." I wonder if this is an ellaborate troll.

Day 30 Pokemon Reviews (13)

Not much of interest today.

Pokemon Black, Day 19

Last time on Pokemon Black, a castle shot out of the ground?

Authors Part 29

Eh.

Day 29 Pokemon Reviews (13)

There's a nuzlocke/hunger games cross today.

Pokemon Black, Day 18

Last time on Pokemon Black, I considered my team for the League.

Authors Part 28

Almost done almost done almost done.

Day 28 Pokemon Reviews (17)

Actually, decent crop this time.

Authors Part 27

Dammit I meant for this to post before Pokemon Black.

Anyway, a sad lack of crazy today.

Pokemon Black, Day 17

Last time on Pokemon Black, I have to go to Opelucid City to learn about reviving Reshiram.

Day 27 Pokemon Reviews (13)

Ah, the end of a month. When I've already reviewed lots of the people posting and can skip merrily along.

Pokemon Black, Day 16

Last time on Pokemon Black, time to head to Relic Castle.

Authors Part 26

 Small batch today.

Day 26 Pokemon Reviews (12)

Caught up and nearing the end.

Authors Part 25

In which, among other things, Mr. Breasts defends himself.

Pokemon Black, Day 15

Last time on Pokemon Black, Dragonspiral Tower! Today on Pokemon Black, more Dragonspiral Tower!

Concrit: Ira Est...

I freaking loved this fic. You all can watch as I flounder around foolishly and my inclination to assume the worst of the author's ability gets the best of me-- enjoy (boyfriend sure did).


The other thing I didn't mention but that was really important and well-done here was the lack of handholding. DON'T TALK DOWN TO THE READER DAMMIT.


(edit: meanwhile, the author for this one was kind of ungrateful... people are so wildly unpredictable.)

Day 25 Pokemon Reviews (13)

Eh, not much.

Pokemon Black, Day 14

Last time on Pokemon Black, seems I can finally get into Dragonspiral Tower!

Authors Part 24

Some longer ones.

Next time on Dragon Quill

Well, we're approaching the end of this month.

If you look at the Future Books post, you'll see that stuff is ranked on likelihood. Stuff listed as more likely requires fewer votes. Think of it as a compromise between democracy and my favorite form of government provided I'm on top, dictatorship.

Graceling 60 (34%)
Wither 58 (33%)
Battle Royale 53 (30%)
Elantris 28 (16%)
House of Night 24 (13%)
Temeraire 22 (12%)
Sexteen/XVI 22 (12%)
Witchblade 12 (6%)
Eon/Eona 10 (5%)
The Scorpio Races 10 (5%)

See, from this, it should go Graceling, Wither, Battle Royale, and then Elantris as a distant fourth. But I really want to do Wither, while Graceling was a lower tier, so I'm going with Wither first. Then there's the issue that Battle Royale had 44% of voters voting against in the other poll. Not sure what to make of that.

Currently, I'm planning on doing Wither, then Graceling. Graceling, though, looks like it's more a Hunger Games level time investment (or more) than Summoning or Gemma were, so I may put that off in order to do it properly. Maybe I'll do Elantris early, since I think it'd be easier given it'll be the second time through.

I'm also considering what to do with WWZ. You may notice it's not on the poll, that's because I was always going to do it and it's listed as such. Since the chapters are somewhat standalone, I'm considering doing those for interludes - I'll start a book on the beginning of a month, and if it runs over or finishes under, I'll post WWZ until the next month starts.

And I think it'd be fun to do a first-gen run at some point, with Blue. As a bonus, my computer can actually run that, so I can get easy screenshots and you can glory in 90s gameboy graphics.

Lastly, I finally read the beginning of the initial trilogy of Exalted books (a widely hated batch) and found them intriguing from a writing perspective, so I'm thinking of doing those. (They'd also be a nice break.)

At the end of the month, when I move on to Wither, I'll post a new poll set.

Concrit: Current

This fic was a complete disaster. However, the author took my bafflement really well.

Day 24 Pokemon Reviews (37)

...I'm caught up?

Huh. How'd that happen?

Pokemon Black, Day 13

Last time on Pokemon Black, my pokemon were underleveled so I explored the area first before heading back to the gym. This time on Pokemon Black, the gym!

Authors Part 23

A Wild Contributor Appears!

Hey, guys. I'm not Farla. Some of you may know me from Reviewing Rowling (which I have not abandoned, I promise!) or my time spent in the Pokemon fanfic arena, or just from seeing me absentmindly commenting on Farla's rantings.

The Great and Wonderful Farla is allowing me to post some of my reviews over here. They'll largely be original fiction review from my time spent modding over at Figment. Figment doesn't have a page where you can view your past reviews, and I want to keep track of mine for my own reference as well as for a place to direct people who request from me so they can see what they're getting in to.

You'll be getting some short reviews from me, as well some some long, comprehensive crits.

So, that's my story. Enjoy this "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" screencap from Yahoo!'s homepage. I hate you, Yahoo.

Day 23 Pokemon Reviews (28)

Actually, I think the stories are averaging as much better written.

Pokemon Black, Day 12

Last time on Pokemon Black, I see Cheren and some Plasma member, so naturally I figure it's a good time to take a break. Now I 'll go check it out.

Authors Part 22

It's all just a matter of different styles, you know?

Day 22 Pokemon Reviews (25)

 Now just thirty or so behind.

Authors Part 21

Right, I still need to post these, don't I?

Day 21 Pokemon Reviews (24)

You run as fast as you can to stay in one place...

Pokemon Black, Day 11

Last time on Pokemon Black, I reached Twist Mountain.

Authors Part 20

Day 20 Pokemon Reviews (23)

Now forty behind.

Authors Part 19

Only two today, but there's still plenty of delicious crazy.

Day 19 Pokemon Reviews (13)

So terribly behind...

Pokemon Black, Day 10

Last time on Pokemon Black, Celestial Tower!

Authors Part 18

Day 18 Pokemon Reviews (12)

And back to the usual spot of thirty behind.

Pokemon Black, Day 9

Back to exploring the lovely world of Pokemon Black! My game suddenly cycled to Autumn, so I'm going to go do the deerling thing.

Authors Part 17

Insanity.

Day 17 Pokemon Reviews (45)

Catching back up...

Authors Part 16

Rather meh today.

Day 16 Pokemon Reviews (28)

And now I'm fifty behind again.

Authors Part 15

In which a number of people do not understand criticism.

Day 15 Pokemon Reviews (24)

Some long ones today. 

Authors Part 14

More people who appreciate concrit, it just happens I was wrong about everything.

Day 14 Pokemon Reviews (8)

And then I was busy at night and fell behind again. Such is life.

There seem to be more people not capitalizing pokemon words but not much improvement on the dialogue front.

Authors Part 13

 A lovely hatecrop today.

Day 13 Pokemon Reviews (24)

Now I'm merely five behind. Seems the posting rate has slowed down at last. Might be my fault or it might be people finally getting all their holiday-related fic out of their systems. Or both.

Authors Part 12

 In which I gain a spat of reviews.

Day 12 Pokemon Reviews (25)

 Down to twenty again.

Authors Part 11

Mix of reasonable to insane.

Day 11 Pokemon Reviews (19)

Stories that have something resembling real grammar today.

Authors Part 10

A bit more diversity today.

Day 10 Pokemon Reviews (16)

And now thirty behind again.

Authors Part 9

Day 9 Pokemon Reviews (24)

Rather meh. Currently a mere twenty behind, though!

Authors Part 8

Day 8 Pokemon Reviews (31)

Got a reasonable amount done, actually. Now back to about as far behind as I was to begin with. I'll win yet.

Authors Part 7

A few teal deer, but nothing much of note.

Day 7 Pokemon Reviews (14)

 Some more pokemon focused stories. Shame they're pretty terrible.

Authors Part 6

A dabble of crazy this time.

Day 6 Pokemon Reviews (18)

Things are more interesting today.

Authors Part 5

Not as much today, whatever that means.

Day 5 Pokemon Reviews (28)

I remembered that it's not like I willingly read romance and main canon character fic willingly anyway, so cutting them out to fester in their ignorance of how to punctuate fucking dialogue god damn people why so hard. If anyone else wants to play concrit blanketing with me, I can post whatever I didn't touch for you to review.

With luck the press will reduce enough that I can go back to playing my game.

Authors Part 4

We continue to lack real insanity. I'm pretty sure that means it's going to explode in some new and terrible fashion.

Day 4 Pokemon (24)

Arg, already so badly behind.

Authors Part 3

Overall there is some distinct reasonableness throughout. I'm not sure how much is just politeness, but still, it's promising. 

Cool as it would be to take the credit, I assume something else is going on. The stories tend not to have many reviews these days, which may be related.

Day 3 Pokemon Reviews (36)

So many stories to do. Hopefully things slow down once people get the late holiday fic out of their system, or else improve.

Authors Part 2

Day 2 Pokemon Reviews (32)

Before we begin:

Sharing Grubloaf, a gift!

“Found it with Dualscar when we were FLARPing tonight. We divvied up the loot like usual, and I got this, but it doesn’t really look like proper treasure to me! Kinda old and boring and laaaaaaaame! So obviously I thought of you!”

This is so perfectly, perfectly Vriska.

Thanks so much for this! It's lovely to see them having a peaceful breather, and the bit about ancestors was touching.

Authors Part 1

As is also traditional, the authors. Some are sane. Some are not.

Pokemon Black, Day 8

Yesterday, l got to the cave. Today, back to the cave!

Day 1 Pokemon Reviews (9)

It's that time of year again!

Rules this time are no real rules. I'll probably be ignoring most romance stories except to bitch about their dialogue, unless I don't. The rare fic I have no opinion at all about will also be ignored.

For those of you new at this, I remind you there's a link to your block page on my profile. Just stick my name there and all's well.

Homestuck Gift Exchange

Some quick reviews for the  Homestuck Gift Exchange.

Pokemon Black, Day 7

Yesterday, lots of cutscenes and I got the bridge open, met another hated gym leader, and went down to explore Cold Storage.