JX Valentine

Ready for Chapter 4+ ? Just checking, so I can more than likely get those in this week.

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My post was simply an general warning against posts like mew-nani's. That post was off-topic, and in case anyone else decided to post and say get back to the story or mayhaps comment that their reviewing style is different, that warning post is there.

If anything was off-topic completely, then the matter would have been handled differently. As it was, mew_nani just pushed the thread over a bit, and since they weren't the only ones who had to be told originally, I decided to keep things generally.

From now on, however, anyone who goes off-topic will have their post fully examined to make sure that they are on-topic. There will be no more general warnings that don't apply to certain people. The post that I did was based only on what I had seen before whenever there are small discussions to help the author, where others say what was said. Given what I had seen here, I expected more posts like the one above mine, and it was a general warning.

Feel free, however, to continue discussing what you were to free Digimon Kaiser's confusion about AUs. I fear that he's a bit lost on what you two were discussing between AUs, canon, and crossovers.

Well, let's move that hot bed over somewhere else! (We can make a thread for it eventually too.)

I don't think I throw canon out the window to the standard that you seem to be naming it at - for example, you still won't see a Charizard using Explosion, or Paul being nice to Ash. But then again, that's because I don't really like fics with canon characters in them as a rule.

While Generation 2021 isn't an AU per se (it's another canon entirely), enough rules are broken so that it doesn't follow the normal trainer fic convention - or most other conventions, for that matter. When I post the later chapters, you'll see what I mean.

(Also, whatever happened to that eboaaaaああああ thing?)

Oh I plan on experimenting ;) ;) ;)

A year and a month, approximately. And yes, I'm reassured by that :3

I'm definitely going to be revising it heavily. And releasing the rewritten version along with the third "generation" of the writing, complete with the proper spelling of "Buizel" (and perhaps dabbling in leaving the pokémon names in lowercase). Reminds you of anything? XD

Oh, oh, the irony. It kills me. Depending on whether you'd seen it or not, in which case it may not be so coincidental :(

At any rate, thanks, I'm usually shy with requests, I don't know why. So sorry about not sending you back then. But I'm quite well. Oh so stricken by the teenage woes and twists and turns of the real world which is beginning to become more than just an underdog yapping away at my heels, never to be feared. But really, I can't complain, not when I look at all that which is good in life :]

How about you my love, how have you been?

I'm patient...sometimes! But I'd want to do something related to business and writing, and I like marketing and advertising, so I think a copy writer is ideal for meal! But I'm only 16, I've still got some time to think about it

Publisher or editor isn't really right for me, I want to be a copy writer! I think it'd be cool to be behind all of that

Also, if you think you're hard on me now, wait till you see Chapter 3 of Generation 2021 and get a request from me to review it. You are going to have a field day pointing out what kinds of problem there are. Just telling you that now so you're ready XD

Whereas I'm smack dab in the middle of it all, saying "14,000 words is perfect!".

Also, an analogy involving an elephant? How many of those are there for you to cram in? XD

I need to advertise my tasty dream bits more. Or not. I'm not sure how that would work.

Also, my browser has a habit of taking whatever text I paste and putting it automatically into my search bar. So I had the chance to search the Internet for the phrase "Your dreams are tasty. :(" I don't want to imagine the results.

So...Sims! I started a whole new neighborhood too. It's called Polonius, and it's full of weird gay Sims. I swear. Every single sim in that neighborhood is gay with the exception of four. Actually, it's mostly my male sims that are all falling over one another. (I blame my naming theme. I have way more male names than female, unfortunately, so that explains half of it. I don't know about the rest.) But the Wiggin males all have sims following them around thinking they're hot.

Yeah, I obviously have the Wiggins running around another neighborhood. This makes eight different neighborhoods. Let me tell you about one in particular, named Helicon. (Thank you Asimov.)

There are a few hacks for the Sims 2 that I have: InTeen (which allows for Adults and Teenagers to have relations, and for Teens to WooHoo and have babbies) and Autonomous Casual Romance (which allows the sims to take their relationships in their own hands). To test these hacks out, I built a spare neigborhood and plopped down a house with two Andy sims (one adult, one teenager) and two Angel sims (one adult, one teenager).

The two Andys (Andies like the mints?) are in a relationship. Then my OTP senses starting tingling, and now the house is full of love. Everyone is together and it's funny to watch them all fight over the beds as they try to WooHoo one another. No babies though, because that might get confusing. o_O Though the Andies have the memory of "Had first kiss with Andrew" which is hilarious to read.

But back to Polonius. I restarted the Wiggin legacy with Andy and Angel as toddlers and played through their lives and then hacked their children into existence. So Scotty made a return. I forgot how awkward he is as a teenager. (And how stupid he is as a child. He once danced next to Andy's dirty toilet.) And instead of hacking him pregnant, I'm skipping the pregnancies and giving him the kids he's had before. (I never got past generation 3 yet of the legacy. Baw.) But I can't have Scotty be alone, so I got him a boyfriend.

An alien boyfriend. :o I downloaded him from someone else, but finding a good picture of him was difficult, so you get one of my own. Here he is being flirted with. He's obviously the green one. His name's Telesto.

He's the reason Scotty got arrested. Since teenagers can sneak out of the house if they have friends (explains why Andy never did lulz), Scotty really wanted to sneak out with Telesto. Like, these two were all over one another (Thanks to ACR) and Scotty told me twice that he wanted to sneak out. And still, what Scotty wants, Scotty gets. He sneaked (snuck? o_o) out of the house under the "watchful" eye of his older brother Stevie.

Then returned home a few hours later in handcuffs. I lol'd so much at him. The cop was all like "Why do Scott's parents suck so much?" It is Andy and Angel.

To further talk about ACR and Andy and Angel, ACR screwed me over. Currently in my game, generation three is running around. (Scotty and his older brothers Stephen and Alvin have a child each, and Ender [Scott's twin brother] has three children...with a man named Scot.) But Andy and Angel decided to WooHoo twice in the space of five minutes. They WooHoo'd, slept a bit, WooHoo'd again, and Andy ran off to puke in the toilet. I thought that meant the WooHoo was bad, but instead I found out he was pregnant. And he was a week from becoming older and unable to have children. :( So now the youngest kid of generation two will be younger than generation three.

Now I know why Angel is an alcoholic. Every time I send a sim to the dance club, Angel's at the bar the entire time.

I just realized that I haven't really talked about my sims in over a year. That needs to be rectified. I have quite a few good-looking ones now. I'll start working on a who's who list. Because there is Al, and most of the time Al beats out Scotty as my favorite sim ever. (Okay, who am I kidding. I have pictures of Alvin on my phone so I can show my coworkers. I have officially crossed that line and I can't return.)

Next on my list of things to tell you: working at Ghetto Right! :D We recently had employee satisfaction survey meetings. I think that says it all.

Holy crap this thing is long

:0 you want to be a publisher? That's so cool! Being a publisher always struck me as a cool job! I'm glad you're applying to grad school rather than grinding out each day doing some crap job

Not too much, not anymore at least. I had a lot going on in my life last year, that's why I wasn't here. My house had a fire, I went through a whole depression phase (probably because of it), a kid in my school killed himself and my dog died. It was a whole crazy year, but now I'm much better. I didn't want to drag any of that craziness on here and be "that" guy, so I just kept outta here. But I'm fine now. Now, besides me spilling my whole life story onto you, what's up?

1.) What else is?

-or-

2.) Does that mean you're going to make like a Hypno and kidnap me?

Some day I shall brighten up your profile with the story of Scotty getting arrested and why Andy is pregnant (for the twelfth damn time), but not today. :[

You may have noticed that we got along just fine when you were giving constructive criticism on the things I actually asked you for constructive criticism on. It's only after you decided to take it upon yourself to give me advice I'd never asked for after having exchanged the equivalent of five minutes' conversation with me that things turned sour.

Remember the whole "sarah palin parah salin" joke? Kekkkejejemejeeejejkekekekeke

oh my...our past conversations are simply delicious jaxy malcolm ;)

You've stopped taking what I said out of context and have begun to misquote me entirely. I never said that half of all fanfiction writers steal their plots. I said that every fanfiction writer steals their plot, along with every original fiction writer and every other producer of media in the history of time. My point was that originality probably isn't possible, and is probably a bad idea anyway. The sweet spot for originality is to take something that everyone already knows about and change a few minor details here and there...In other words, very nearly a perfect recreation of the original product.

This is why fanfiction is so popular, and this is why the best plots are typically ones built around the Hero's Journey, the Three Act structure, or something else formulaic. It's why Shakespeare was able to sell the exact same comedy to his audience by swapping characters and a few details of the situation over two dozen times. Making radical changes to the way things work usually just alienates your audience. You don't want to make up new measurements, calendars, or currencies if the setting doesn't demand it, you don't want to bunch up plot twists too close together or sprinkle them around too liberally, you don't want a character who's unlike anything seen before (because he'll probably be outside human experience and thus impossible to relate to, if nothing else).

You're thoroughly taking everything I'm saying out of context. The only reason I brought up fanfiction in the first place was because fanfiction was basically the same as what I was doing, and that if Azurne took issue with my approach, then logically she should have the exact same problem with regular fanfiction. Far from the explicit condemnation of fanfiction you seem to be reading in my statements, I was implying that fanfiction was a good thing.