Man, I Need To Play A Pokémon Game Now.

[rionaleonhart]

Apparently, zarla's Pokémon website, Neglected Pokémon Lovers Unite!, had its tenth anniversary a few days ago!

'What?' you may ask. 'You've never mentioned this website before. Is it important?'

You probably weren't actually asking that, but I am going to tell you anyway. It is important. It is so important

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[rionaleonhart]

I got to the beginning of the fourth disc, I think, and then my memory card broke. I was most distressed. It would be nice to complete it some day. I seem to remember that Rose was pretty cool, and I quite liked the combat system. Also that the translation was fairly terrible.

Hee, what an introduction to slash!

Regarding 'sporking': I wrote a couple of MSTs, years ago. They were not very good. (I actually desperately wanted someone to MST my fanfiction, which is perhaps a slightly odd ambition. Not sure what I was thinking there.)

[reipan]

I wrote a couple of MSTs, years ago. They were not very good. (I actually desperately wanted someone to MST my fanfiction, which is perhaps a slightly odd ambition. Not sure what I was thinking there.)

Ahahahahaha. Remember that one summer when we wrote fics for one another to MST? What larks.

[/hijacking someone else's comment thread]

[captlebubbles]

I actually desperately wanted someone to MST my fanfiction

I actually started a fic about two years ago with the intent of having it MST'ed, but it kept straying out of 'Intentionably MST'able' to 'Kind of good, if you change a few things'. How pathetic am I, that I can't even manage to write a Mary Sue when I want to? (I think it's because shortly after beginning my first Mary Sue fic, I discovered the OFUM, and Elrond's rules about writing fic are so ingrained in my memory I can't break them even on purpose.)

It's still in my notebook somewhere. Perhaps I should take it out and work on it.

[wolfy_writing]

- Prior to discovering fandom, my primary Internet activity was searching for Anti-Pokémon websites and writing stories about the website creators being attacked by Pokémon on their guestbooks.

THAT'S RIGHT: WHEN I DISCOVERED THE INTERNET, THE FIRST THING FOR WHICH I USED IT WAS BEING A TROLL. I am not proud of this.

Still, you were the cutest troll ever! "You don't like my show? Vulpix attack, RAWR!"

My first few fanfic were Doctor Who and X-Men, which didn't get posted because archives would fold and go under the moment I sent them. One was an attempt to fit Gambit into the X-Men movieverse, which I honestly think wasn't that bad. The other was a weird Sue of MASSIVE TRAUMA and implausible Dalek-kiling skills, who hooked up with the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan. I think it ended with "She died, and everyone was sad."

I can't remember what the first fanfic I read was, but I started with The Prydonian Archive for Doctor Who fic, which was full of extremely weird porn. That probably influenced my future fanfic development.

[reipan]

THAT'S RIGHT: WHEN I DISCOVERED THE INTERNET, THE FIRST THING FOR WHICH I USED IT WAS BEING A TROLL. I am not proud of this.Last summer, I dug up what I hope was the current email address of the creator of a certain website I briefly frequented and wrote her a long message apologising deeply for our brief, yet intense, email flamewar when I was twelve - which was, I hasten to add, entirely my fault. We've all been there. (She hasn't replied, but I feel better for having done it

[rionaleonhart]

I find your story of apologetic e-mails terribly charming!

and was mildly perplexed at this shameless, wanton description of two men cuddling.

Goodness, yes. What is the world coming to? (I am quite glad you did not know who Zell and Squall were, because that story was appallingly, ridiculously OOC.)

I remember your Missingno fic! I am quite sad that it is no longer around, alas.

[reipan]

Well, memories of the whole episode kept coming back to me and making me cringe, so I thought that maybe if I could track down the lady in question and apologise I might be able to make my peace with the foibles of yesteryear. ...or something. As I say, she hasn't replied, but knowing that I've actually made the apology has let me stop beating myself up about silly things I did seven years ago. So this story has a happy ending.

(I am quite glad you did not know who Zell and Squall were, because that story was appallingly, ridiculously OOC.)

So I found out several years later! I've now moved on from having no idea who Zell and Squall are to having only the vaguest idea of who Zell and Squall are, so as far as gross miscarriages of fanfic accuracy are concerned I'm still just taking your word for it.

(P.S. My, my, old chap, aren't we speaking formally all of a sudden?)

[moogle62]

Butting in here to say this:

this has made me a permanent sucker for well-written angst - OH MY GOD, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE. Er. Goddd, I if I find well-written angst in a fic (admittedly this is rare now, because my standards of 'well-written angst' have kind of sky-rocketed since I got out of the 'reading all the terribly-written angst and liking it' phase of being 12/13 (what is it about that age, seriously?), but goddd, nothing can make me fall in love with someone's writing faster. This is because I am 100% ridiculous.

When I am writing something in which angst happens now, I have to be reeeeeally stringent with myself, or it goes all heavy-handed and self-indulgent. FAIL, MOOG.

[proleptic_fancy]

Oh, wow, nostalgia! I remember looking for Harry Potter fanart on our crappy little modem back when the books first came out. I couldn't have been more than like eight at the time. Then after I moved into a neighborhood with actual kids my age, they got me hooked on the old Sonic games I had but never played before that, so that ended up being my first real fandom

[tigriswolf]

If I recall correctly, I think my first fics were "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" crossovers with anything I could imagine. And a "Digimon" fic where Ken was one of the digi-destined's twin brother. I also wrote a lot of Harry Potter that had pretty language but no plot.

[rionaleonhart]

Crossovers with everything is a pretty great point at which to get into fanfiction, I feel. It took me about five years to get to that stage, and it is such a fun stage that I rather regret taking half a decade to discover its illogical joys.