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The update I mentioned yesterday but didn't, for various reasons, actually do.
( So, my life, like that's what you're interested in )
The pokemon category is pretty dismal. Allow me to direct my dear readers to Pokemon: Lento Legends by pokemaster. A review for the story (which is written in script format) says it's great, so much so that the reviewer asks the author if they work for the 'pokemon company'. Much as the poor writing in the category upsets me, the reviews are truly enough to destroy my faith in humanity. Luckily I lost that a while back, but still.
Which is a passable segue considering my caffeine-fried, tired brain, to Keleri, who asked me to review her story, Gods and Demons, which does not suck. Actually, she asked me to review it quite a while ago (ironically, I got her email just as I received the whiny 'how dare your review not praise me' email from someone already thoroughly mocked.) but I've been too busy to do it, or else too tired to focus on a story that is written above a second-grade reading level.
So anyway. The story doesn't suck. It's an OT story that involves a protagonist with dead parents and weird-colored eyes, a new region, new pokemon, and it still doesn't suck. Let us all applaud Keleri for…not sucking.
Yes, I am very, very tired right now.
Keleri's story manages to deal with things with quite a good deal of realism. Weird eyes = no friends because people don't like them, not OMG so PRETTTTY!!! as is so often the case. She has some sort of plot setting up, although beyond the introductory chapter and a few later hints, there's no clear sign of what it is. I'm sure it'll be interesting when she gets to it. My only real problem with it is some of the characterization, as I dislike it when there are antagonists that harass characters without real reason. The story also has many very nice metaphors and similes in the description, which is a real rarity. Go check it out.
And if anyone else wants to 'submit' a story for me to read (I won't review unless it's yours and you ask, I'm just curious what people think of other stuff), comment here, email me, annoy me by putting it in an anonymous review on my stories, risk my eternal wrath by putting it in a signed review on my stories, or try to send me a psychic message through your computer. Or anything else you can think up.
( So, my life, like that's what you're interested in )
The pokemon category is pretty dismal. Allow me to direct my dear readers to Pokemon: Lento Legends by pokemaster. A review for the story (which is written in script format) says it's great, so much so that the reviewer asks the author if they work for the 'pokemon company'. Much as the poor writing in the category upsets me, the reviews are truly enough to destroy my faith in humanity. Luckily I lost that a while back, but still.
Which is a passable segue considering my caffeine-fried, tired brain, to Keleri, who asked me to review her story, Gods and Demons, which does not suck. Actually, she asked me to review it quite a while ago (ironically, I got her email just as I received the whiny 'how dare your review not praise me' email from someone already thoroughly mocked.) but I've been too busy to do it, or else too tired to focus on a story that is written above a second-grade reading level.
So anyway. The story doesn't suck. It's an OT story that involves a protagonist with dead parents and weird-colored eyes, a new region, new pokemon, and it still doesn't suck. Let us all applaud Keleri for…not sucking.
Yes, I am very, very tired right now.
Keleri's story manages to deal with things with quite a good deal of realism. Weird eyes = no friends because people don't like them, not OMG so PRETTTTY!!! as is so often the case. She has some sort of plot setting up, although beyond the introductory chapter and a few later hints, there's no clear sign of what it is. I'm sure it'll be interesting when she gets to it. My only real problem with it is some of the characterization, as I dislike it when there are antagonists that harass characters without real reason. The story also has many very nice metaphors and similes in the description, which is a real rarity. Go check it out.
And if anyone else wants to 'submit' a story for me to read (I won't review unless it's yours and you ask, I'm just curious what people think of other stuff), comment here, email me, annoy me by putting it in an anonymous review on my stories, risk my eternal wrath by putting it in a signed review on my stories, or try to send me a psychic message through your computer. Or anything else you can think up.
