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[farla]

So another fifteen reviews. In the treadmill that is my reviewing life, that means my current total reviews is 1930. A quick check through says that most of the Homestuck fic I reviewed is still up, so I guess some of the older pokemon stuff must have been deleted.

That's 73 reviews posted to the Homestuck category, 144 (a gross!) reviews given to all Homestuck fic, and currently a mere 25 stories remaining in the category - I've reached the first page! (watch that change by the time I wake up tomorrow).

Also people are still doing the favoriting thing and the category continues to be review poor in general. It's enough to make one ponder endnotes on the subject of how this isn't supposed to be a huge deal.

In terms of my own reviews, our insanity streak continues.

Name: Nauran
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1915784/
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Subject: Warning

I don't want to waste your time, and I don't intend on blocking anyone from
reviewing my stories, no matter if it's a massive, useless compliment, a
demand for updating, constructive criticism or just simple flaming.

I can't know if you ever get any messages similar to this one, and I can't
know if you'll ever have anything to do with my stories, since our irrelevancy
to each other is endless. But just to help both of us out, don't review my
stories if you really think you can't.

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I know he's been popping up, but does anyone remember the backstory here? Where'd he first come from?

Name: Yukina-Raven
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/89323/
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Subject: re: review

You're actually incorrect with some of the grammar corrections. :) But thank
you, I will keep your advice in mind.

The kids are much older in this story and events, which have not been revealed
in the story yet, have changed them. They are not suppose to sound exactly the
same.

Thanks for the review.

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So the idea writing dialogue properly is just an opinion is not confined to pokemon stuff.

Name: Highfeather
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1977212/
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Subject: WELL

Personally that was my first Homestuck fanfiction, and second, it's a review.
It's suppose to have good marks. Wtf.

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Name: TinyAngryPuppy
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1994580/
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Subject: Review

Hey firstly thanks for your thoughtful review, I'd respond via the review
responder but it's not working. I kinda wish you'd read the slightly better
version on AO3 because it's had more editing done to it but oh well.
Secondly, I can tell you're a real pro at creative writing and I plan to read
some of your homestuck stuff soon! But as a result of that I think you're
overestimating the SRS BZNS aspect of this stuff. Reading your profile makes
it look like you're on a crusade to piss people off, and if that's the case
maybe you're going about it wrong. It's possible to give constructive
criticism in a manner that doesn't offend them. I'd never claim my fanfiction
is perfect- or anywhere near!- but as a hobby and something done for fun, I
don't really appreciate having this kind of judgement on it.
Regarding your specific critiques, as I state on the Ao3 version, this was a
crack challenge fic that was always supposed to be a little stupid and a
little OOC. I've never written vampires or tentacles before and frankly am not
interested in either. However, I wrote it because the premise was stupid
enough to me to be funny. The fact that you took it so seriously (or seemed to
have) is slightly alarming! The ridiculous level of purpleness in the
beginning should have been warning enough.
Now this has gotten far too long, so let me finish by stating a few points
quickly and not elaborating on them.
-I spend 8-10 hours per day learning Chinese, a language with practically no
punctuation at all.
-Almost all my remaining time is taken up with military duties
-I know how to punctuate grammar but I forget the finer details after 9 hours
of chinese work
-In the hour or so of free time I get per day, I don't feel like doing more
nitty-gritty language stuff

tl:dr chill and let people have fun sometimes, it's not up to you to save the
English language

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And that one started off so well.

BloodyCrystal was sane, though.

Comments

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Near as I can tell, GhetsisFan thought Nauran was a friend of yours because he also left a negative review on Ash's Little Girl. Then GhetsisFan backpedaled on the insults he'd been flinging at Nauran because he later commented on that story again to say that your review as a little too negative. Maybe Nauran googles himself or maybe someone who follows you is a friend of his, but one way or another he found out about The Invasion of Farla and left a review sarcastically suggesting he also be inserted into the story. GhetsisFan apparently missed the sarcasm.

It's all really very weird and I'm still not entirely sure what's going on with either of them.

[farla.livejournal.com]

...that sort of makes sense, I guess.

I don't know why people have to make hating me so complex. I shouldn't need a flowchart to keep track of this kind of thing.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

On that note, I haven't totally caught up with The Invasion of Farla yet — it's kind of exhausting reading such long strings of tedious battle sequences — but so far I'm quite happy with my appearance! I get to have red hair and ride a tropius! I'm clearly awesome!

[farla.livejournal.com]

Ooh, tropius-riding? That is awesome. They're among the cooler lesser used pokemon.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

I know, right? If I could pick just one pokémon to go on an adventure with, I would almost certainly want to choose a tropius! They're good for transport by land and air, you can walk under their wings like a parasol or umbrella if the weather is disagreeable, they are a renewable food source, and, to top it all off, they're adorable! Who doesn't love long-necked dinosaurs?

Speaking of adorable, not sure if you're lurking my tumblr but you need to see this Not technically a chicken, but probably a related bird, like a quail.

[farla.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeeeee chick! Looking at it I'm sort of glad we haven't tried hatching them though, chickens are terrifyingly tiny enough. That one is brainbreaking to contemplate.

But yes! Long necked dinos have all of the awesome with none of the eating you. And tropius is just so nicely sized for a real partner, not smaller like a lot of pokemon or huge like some of them.

[(Anonymous)]

"But yes! Long necked dinos have all of the awesome with none of the eating you. And tropius is just so nicely sized for a real partner, not smaller like a lot of pokemon or huge like some of them."

I have a feeling you fell into your own trap here. "And tropius is" doesn't make for good grammar by your own standards - it should be "tropius are". Perhaps it was an unconscious slip-up from reviewing all those fics that use it as a proper noun by referring to the species by the same name.
Although, perhaps you should expect people to try and pick nits like that. I wouldn't know.

But I do agree with you that Tropius would be an awesome partner.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Possibly, though to be specific, it's more that one word has a lot of different meanings all crushed into it. I was thinking tropius-the-singular-design-with-set-size. When I was picking pokemon for Lucki, one of the things I was thinking about was which worked as actual partners - as in, you could see it interacting well with a person. Some pokemon are completely unsuited, but a lot are just not that great for it, which I think is a minor failing since that's a large part of what people want when they imagine pokemon.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand what you mean by "tropius-the-singular-design-with-set-size". (Give another example of its usage, maybe? I've never seen it, or any other word, used that way before.)

Which monsters do you believe are the ones that would make terrible partners, anyway? You never know with Pokémon.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I meant the thing as designed, since tropius aren't actually a real species. There is exactly one tropius design, and that's what I'm complimenting here.

And I'm talking on just a practical physical level. A remoraid, for example, wouldn't work well, it wouldn't be able to be out in most places and can't interact with the same things as a person most of the time. A diglet is also terrible, since they seem to be permanently attached to their burrows with only their faces sticking out, and they're also too small.

Ash's pikachu is an example of what I mean here. There's a reason it was a pikachu and not a voltorb. A pikachu can interact with the world and with its trainer in ways a voltorb can't. The pool of appropriate partners narrows further if we're talking about a single pokemon that's more of an equal rather than a pet - it should be closer in size to a human and be relatively versatile, simply because it'll be dealing with a wider range of situations. A pokemon like a pikachu still can work here, but not as well.

[charizamdc.livejournal.com]

Their wings look way too fragile to hold their weight. That's true for lots of pokemon, obviously - most of them, in fact - but in most cases the wings are either so small it's obvious they're not meant to be more than rudders (e.g. Dragonite) or large enough to seem acceptable to my primitive lizard brain (Pigeot). Troipus' wings are in this uncanny valley between the two.

Obviously it's a magic flying dinosaur, so it can have whatever size wings it likes. It just seems off.

[charizamdc.livejournal.com]

Troipus = Tropius, obviously.

I hate this website's wilfully obstructive architecture.

[farla.livejournal.com]

It kind of makes me think of insect wings, which can be smaller in proportion to body, even though obviously it's huge and that doesn't actually apply. Also for some reason having four instead of two makes it seem like it works because clearly FOUR means it's totally flightworthy.

[charizamdc.livejournal.com]

My headcanon is that they spin around like helicopter blades.

[(Anonymous)]

They are quite awesome. Don't try to ride on their heads though.

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

Ooh, lucky. Now I want to be in the story with all my sockpuppetty heart.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Just leave hope someone leaves an anon review suggesting that, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

My thoughts exactly.

[starling-night.livejournal.com]

What? Chinese does so have punctuation, if not tenses. Anyway, that's a stupid excuse for forgetting how to write in your first language.

[farla.livejournal.com]

What's especially galling is just that attitude. Like, fine, so doing Chinese makes you unable to punctuate properly OR proofread it over afterwards OR get someone else to beta read. But you can say "for reason X I guess I screwed up there, oops" instead of "for reason X you shouldn't mention I screwed up".