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Recent content by slamdunkrai

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    Pokémon Broken Things

    1.6 - Through the City of Fire By this point in the story, the voices of our major characters have been quite well established. I have some of the comments left on this chapter in front of me as I write this, and I note that in 2019 the readers of this story seem to have been of the opinion...
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    Pokémon Broken Things

    1.5 - Until the World Moves On This chapter aims to do something extremely difficult, which is to try and sell a character entering a doom loop and severely contemplating what the world would look like if she were to kill herself shortly after having a conversation with a Pokémon Centre about...
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    Pokémon Broken Things

    1.4 - Period With each passing chapter and each new perspective, the absence of Cuicatl's perspective becomes more pronounced. In this chapter Kekoa observes her; sure, he spends much of the chapter doing other things, but she's never that far away from focus: when Kekoa trounces the trainer...
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    Pokémon Broken Things

    1.3 - Almost Natural What struck me most about this chapter is that it vacillates the most of the three so far in its tone, which is endemic to the sort of story this is. When the narrative acquaints the reader with Genesis at the start of this chapter, she's on her way away from home for a...
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    Pokémon Broken Things

    1.2 - Firemane How strange it is that this chapter should take its name from the trainer who didn't take Pixie, for whatever reason. Being inclined to try and read into this some symbolic significance, I want to say that in this we see Pixie's life to this point as a series of almosts and...
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    it's really funny that Z-A's main story ends once you've caught them and very little about this...

    it's really funny that Z-A's main story ends once you've caught them and very little about this is raised other than corbeau and your companions going, like, "[PLAYER], you saved kalos, and you are the best at this. congratulations. also, darkrai isn't going to suffer any more because of you"...
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    so here's the thing: I ran hot and cold on a lot of the mega evos introduced for Z-A and mega...

    so here's the thing: I ran hot and cold on a lot of the mega evos introduced for Z-A and mega dimension, a number of whose designs I thought were far too visually busy or otherwise uninteresting; I also usually tend to think that big scary eyeball motifs are trite, so mega darkrai's design...
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    Pokémon Broken Things

    1.1: Prologue Once this chapter settles into the second-person perspective and situates the reader in Rachel's head, around the time where she scans the trainers who have come along for the introductory presentation, the prose eases into something like a detective from a Chandler or a Hammett...
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    Pokémon tarnishing

    Heyo! I'd been meaning to check this one out for a while, and this is as good a season as any for it; I do often tell anyone who asks that you can never get enough kyeughfic. I went through all four chapters thus far. For a start, this is an incredibly well-constructed story! You have a...
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    Pokémon What the Gods Gave Me

    Heyo! Here for catnip, thought I'd give the first three chapters a read. The rules dictate that only one chapter is necessary, of course, but I was entranced enough by it that I ended up dedicating a good chunk of my morning to this thing, lol. I'll start by echoing some praise laid out above by...
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    yo, jackie bday! we love to see it -- hope you have a good one, my friend! :>

    yo, jackie bday! we love to see it -- hope you have a good one, my friend! :>
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    ayy, happy birthday! hope you have a good one friendo :]

    ayy, happy birthday! hope you have a good one friendo :]
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    again, an extremely belated reply on my part, but cheers muchly! :)

    again, an extremely belated reply on my part, but cheers muchly! :)
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    oh god it's not even CLOSE to my birthday anymore is it thank you, though! I appreciate it a...

    oh god it's not even CLOSE to my birthday anymore is it thank you, though! I appreciate it a whole bunch -- I did see this earlier and I just forgot to comment, hehe
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    Review Blitz III: Points and Logging Thread

    Fic title: the envy of eden Link: https://forums.thousandroads.net/index.php?threads/the-envy-of-eden.351/page-9#post-51296 Chapters: 3 Theme: no lord help me I will get to 40 points by the time the theme switches over nvm I think I'll simply have to wait til tomorrow
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