between the age difference and some questionable word choices, it's actually coming off kind of skeevy
After seeing this I had to skim the story to see if there was anything worse than "the coupled form of the wandering children" (ugh!), and I have to say it sounded to me like it's intended to be a budding romance (double ugh!). But then I read the summary, and now I'm just utterly, utterly confused.
Carefully, methodically, Oak copied all the information onto a disk, then he wiped the computers memory, then he downloaded a virus that destroyed every bit of software, then he set both computers on fire.
This is a really funny sentence. It could even be intentionally funny, depending on the context. So I went to read the story, and of course it comes right after a grisly description of the scene of a murder. Someday I will learn.
I'd find this contrived for a normal organization, let alone Team Rocket. Generally not a good idea to ignore your entire job description for five bucks of pastry when your boss is Giovanni.
Calling it now. She's going to respond with an explanation of how, actually, Team Rocket guards have canonically been bought off with less. Because of course you've never played R/B/Y and don't know that already.
...Okay. So I know now that my whole Protectors of the Plot Continuum phase was every bit as immature as the Mary Sue fanfic that fueled it. But this story almost makes me want to bring out my assassins again, if only because everyone else is failing so horribly at killing a character that by every rule of common sense really should be dead.
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:51 am (UTC)After seeing this I had to skim the story to see if there was anything worse than "the coupled form of the wandering children" (ugh!), and I have to say it sounded to me like it's intended to be a budding romance (double ugh!). But then I read the summary, and now I'm just utterly, utterly confused.
Carefully, methodically, Oak copied all the information onto a disk, then he wiped the computers memory, then he downloaded a virus that destroyed every bit of software, then he set both computers on fire.
This is a really funny sentence. It could even be intentionally funny, depending on the context. So I went to read the story, and of course it comes right after a grisly description of the scene of a murder. Someday I will learn.
I'd find this contrived for a normal organization, let alone Team Rocket. Generally not a good idea to ignore your entire job description for five bucks of pastry when your boss is Giovanni.
Calling it now. She's going to respond with an explanation of how, actually, Team Rocket guards have canonically been bought off with less. Because of course you've never played R/B/Y and don't know that already.
...Okay. So I know now that my whole Protectors of the Plot Continuum phase was every bit as immature as the Mary Sue fanfic that fueled it. But this story almost makes me want to bring out my assassins again, if only because everyone else is failing so horribly at killing a character that by every rule of common sense really should be dead.