Roaring Snow As Sand: Author's Commentary

[ainbthech]

A friend of mine did a fanvid and then wrote up this giant "Director's Commentary" thing for it that I enjoyed a whole lot, and so I decided I would try that for this story, which aaaaaaaaaaaate my braaaaaaaaaaaaaain. So if you're bored or secretly care about what goes on inside my pseudonymous head or whatever, you can enjoy reading this! I had

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[bitter_crimson]

I write in LaTeX and if you know what that is and also read Pokemon fanfiction please be my friend.

Haha, *pets you*

People online who do trading are always cloning Pokemon. Why wouldn't someone try to do that in the in-game universe? If pokemon are transmitted digitally as information, that means they can be copied; no one in this universe seems to be worried about encryption, could you really just tap the wire and get Arceus out?

This is cool.

[ainbthech]

My notes had a huge thing about vampire taps and Ethernet but I decided that would be a bit much!

[kitsuneasika]

Yes, I'm female. =P

Anyways, I love that you wrote this all out. I love watching people's thought process when it comes to stories, and since this also includes your impressions of my story, it was like... double the enjoyment, I suppose would be the best way to phrase this. I'm still not sure who the Hiker is, but now that I know what he was trying to do...a sdfghjkl; that is very, very awesome.

[ainbthech]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have this Idea for what the Hiker is up to, that I might be able to even sort of keep having a vague relationship to canon --- we'll see. (And we'll see if I have time to write it. ^^;;) I figured only like three or four people would both finish my crazy-long story and my silly notes, and hoped those people would enjoy them at least, and so far so good. :)

Oh! I forgot to mention this, but I decided to try the present tense only because you did the whole thing that way and it flowed so cleanly; I use it very rarely but I think it can work really well in this kind of story. You're better at it than me but I think I mostly managed!

[kitsuneasika]

Maybe it's a bit egotistical to say so, but I'd love to see you write more about it! I find it so interesting to see where our ideas intersect and where they're completely different. And the Hiker does interest me, especially since you brought up the whole cloning idea. I've actually never seen someone bring that up in a fic, which is weird because, like you said, it's so common in real life

[ainbthech]

I am beyond interested, I am totally reading it and going to comment on it soon

if you want to know who the Hiker is

[ainbthech]

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