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[Feign]

Then we can overuse 'deus ex machina" moments. As well as plot twists due to what the viewer reads. And we'll have 'twists'.

And we'll have soooo many red herrings, it'd make the reader cry.

 

[JX Valentine]

And then . . . it was revealed that the bad guys had Pokemon as well, that had come through a portal in the Egyptian desert three days previously!

Needs more children's card games.

 

[Feign]

lol... then the monsters realizing they were somewhat powerless, dived into cards to be forced into turn based fighting, and the take over of the world went quite slow.

*looks at TCGs in general*

 

[Astinus]

Since I always come up with soundtracks for things, and this made me think of it...

Similar to Armageddon, only that is so much overkill that you no longer know why you are still reading it.

I DON'T WANT TO CLOSE MY EYES
I DON'T WANT TO FALL ASLEEP
CAUSE I'LL MISS YOU BABY
AND I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING

*runs*

That's also payback for this:

Also, to Asty... Does this mean that one of the orphans can be Val Wiggin? *ducks!*

And she's not EAxis ugly. She's Wiggin-Takaishi ugly.

 

[Misheard Whisper]

And then Kenji-san, who always refers to himself in third person complete with Japanese honorific, even though he's not Japanese, saved the day by whacking the bad guys' Pokemon with giant playing cards and yelling 'SNAP!' Ten evil Pokemon fell this way before the rest of them surrendered before his sheer awesomeness. They begged for death, but Kenji-san refused because he was merciful. They then committed suicide because they had been denied the honour of dying by Kenji-san's godly hand.

=P

EDIT: Ninja'd. Twice. Fail.

 

[Feign]

I DON'T WANT TO CLOSE MY EYES
I DON'T WANT TO FALL ASLEEP
CAUSE I'LL MISS YOU BABY
AND I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING

*runs*

That's payback for this:


And she's not EAxis ugly. She's Wiggin-Takaishi ugly.

Ohhhh we're playing that game eh? Well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

and also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRjDEoRB8Y&feature=fvw

 

[Astinus]

Ohhhh we're playing that game eh? Well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

They totally played that song at a baseball game I went to. Over 3000 people experienced that.

and also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRjDEoRB8Y&feature=fvw

I see you, and raise you a this and a this.

 

[Bay]

Armageddon? Haha, I still stay for the explosions and action, Michael Bay style. :D And oh, animal crackers too. :P

NO I'M NOT MICHAEL BAY. MY USERNAME DOES NOT REFLECT THIS! D:

 

[Feign]

Then I shall bring in the nostalgia win and have this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEO9Mfmn4M

and to stay on topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo

and even more on topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a64VLtXTEZQ

and this one will have you saying one word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPgr94VYA4

 

[Misheard Whisper]

Indeed. *is bricked* Indeed. *bricked again* Inde- *shotgunned*

 

[Miz en Scène]

How do changes in the real world affect your writing?
They don't affect my writing style in general, except maybe some references to the depression or so (when i fell like it) but it does affect my posting schedule. Right now, I'm on a somewhat tight schedule of maybe posting on and off after 4.00 p.m. while doing some other stuff. Weekends are better as I post on and off the entire day as oppsed to after 4p.m. and I can actually keep going until after 1.00 a.m.

Maybe next week I might not log in at all because I got to study for a trial exam but still...

Oh and too stay on topic...

Lulz, Indeed, I've always loved Robot Chicken, it puts too shame every other parody I've watched.

Robot chicken's finest indeed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su2NVKayZ8U&feature=related
On the subject of Pokemon. Indeed...

Indeed, indeed, indeed, *looks at SD's shot corpse*. Must...refrain...from...saying...INDE-! *shot*

 

[JX Valentine]

I DON'T WANT TO CLOSE MY EYES
I DON'T WANT TO FALL ASLEEP
CAUSE I'LL MISS YOU BABY
AND I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING

That was totally unnecessary, and I think I may have to withhold you from any fun involving strawberry daiquiri-flavored jello and Olympic-sized swimming pools. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

and also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRjDEoRB8Y&feature=fvw

I see you, and raise you a this and a this.

Then I shall bring in the nostalgia win and have this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEO9Mfmn4M

and to stay on topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS90V8BQGo

and even more on topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a64VLtXTEZQ

and this one will have you saying one word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPgr94VYA4

Robot chicken's finest indeed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su2NVKayZ8U&feature=related

I'm just glad having dial-up means YouTube and I aren't friends anymore. :D


That said, hows about a new writing topic?

Do you do TV Tropes-crawls, in which you browse articles on TV Tropes for hours on end? If so, do tropes appear in your fanfics (consciously or not)? And if so, share with us a few memorable ones.

(Will answer later, although I think AEM would get a page and a half of tropes I put in for giggles and "this fanfiction is a thinly veiled pack of geeky inside jokes.")

 

[icomeanon6]

That was totally unnecessary, and I think I may have to withhold you from any fun involving strawberry daiquiri-flavored jello and Olympic-sized swimming pools. :(

Note to self: don't read posts without understanding the context.

Do you do TV Tropes-crawls, in which you browse articles on TV Tropes for hours on end? If so, do tropes appear in your fanfics (consciously or not)? And if so, share with us a few memorable ones.

I actually just came to the lounge to take a break from a TV Tropes-crawl, and it's taking all my willpower to resist going back now.

Tropes appear in almost every piece of fiction, and my fanfics are absolutely no exception. My usual trope usage manifests in the form of "Darker and Edgier," which is pretty common for fanfiction. I also made a point to use "Genre Savviness" in my parody. TV Tropes is the place to go if you make the mistake of thinking that you have a lot of new ideas.

 

[Giratina ♀]

Do you do TV Tropes-crawls, in which you browse articles on TV Tropes for hours on end? If so, do tropes appear in your fanfics (consciously or not)? And if so, share with us a few memorable ones.

Yes. Frequently. I really do love poking around TV Tropes for hours on end, and usually have the sense to make a new window for it so the inevitable flood of trope tabs won't make it too hard to browse other sites. xD I actually didn't know about TV Tropes until... say... a few chapters before Metal Coat ended, so I didn't use many conscious tropes. There were a few tropes I did recognize later on, however... [goes to find PE2K post that lists them]

WARNING: METAL COAT SPOILERS AHEAD.

Spoiler:

Jossed: Since the original plot was laid out before Platinum released in America and I was strictly anti-spoiler at the time, I had no idea that it had included a new ending to the Spear Pillar Incident. When I did finally realize what happened, I spent a few days attempting to link up the two plots. Eventually I gave up. xD

Crowning Moment of Awesome: Chapters 16 and 17, anyone?

Foil: Though unintentional, Kris and Caro eventually turned into (failed, I think) versions of these.

Author Avatar: One word: GIRATINA.

I didn't include the blatantly obvious Stoic character type, because after living through Cyrus for around twenty chapters and a prologue the only memorable thing about him is that I used him at all.

Probably a LOT more than that, though.

 

[Miz en Scène]

Do you do TV Tropes-crawls, in which you browse articles on TV Tropes for hours on end? If so, do tropes appear in your fanfics (consciously or not)? And if so, share with us a few memorable ones.

Unfortunately, with my reading addiction (which coincidentally includes reading; cereal boxes, the back of cd-boxes, random scraps of paper on the floor, and anything with readable words) it's hard to stop. And I think my TCNG fic has that split personality one. I never knew that.... I'm gonna fix that somehow *goes of to fix*.

I just read the Memory Gambit article and I was thinking, I thought Death Note and Dr. Who were original...

At TV Tropes, you'll find out things you didn't know that you didn't know....

 

[Bay]

Do you do TV Tropes-crawls, in which you browse articles on TV Tropes for hours on end? If so, do tropes appear in your fanfics (consciously or not)? And if so, share with us a few memorable ones.
Yeah, a lot. XD There are a few ones NE is under in:

Spoiler:

Crowning Moment: Just loads of them. XD For instance, "JUMP, JACOB, JUMP!" from Chapters 16 and 22. Xatu using Teleport FTW.

Badass Bookworm: Jacob the former professor/archeologist. He's able to kill his friend with a hard punch (and him falling down the stairs) and to use a gun.

Adventurer Archaologist:Bunny, Jacob, and event Ernest fall under that category. Jacob is pitted against Ernest for the plates (who wants to use it for his glory), and then Bunny is pitted against Jacob (who at first wants the plates to know more information about them, but then wants them for his glory too).

Plot Coupon: The plates. Not to be confused with Mac Guffin because the plates do have specific values and powers many people in NE wanted.

Chekhovs' Gun: Jenny's necklace. Seems like just a gift from her uncle to say he's sorry, but later it's revealed to be a broken piece from the plates (and her able to use it on one of her Pokemon).

Jossed: I already got NE finished and all, so everything is laid out already. However, when more info on the 12th movie came out and that the plates do have a huge role in the movie, I have to revise a few things as I actually referenced some events from movies 10 and 11 in NE.

Backstory: Chapter 18 is pretty much a whole backstory of the argument between Ernest and Jacob, but everyone seem to like it. XD There are also two flashback scenes in Chapters 19 and 24 that actually builds up the whole theme of the story.

Simultaneous Arcs: Chapters 19 and 20 of NE. Both occur at the same time, but Chapter 19 is in Bunny and Jenny's POV while Chapter 20 is in Jacob's POV. Oddly enough, Chapter 19 has loads more going on than Chapter 20, but Chapter 20 is longer. :O



I know there's more, so will edit this list if I find them. XD

 

[Misheard Whisper]

Do you do TV Tropes-crawls, in which you browse articles on TV Tropes for hours on end? If so, do tropes appear in your fanfics (consciously or not)? And if so, share with us a few memorable ones.
Absolutely. I can sit there for three hours, just going riiiight through. The Evil Overlord List makes appearances in many of my fics, along with Dangerously Genre Savvy. I'm sick of incompetent villains.

 

[Astinus]

That was totally unnecessary, and I think I may have to withhold you from any fun involving strawberry daiquiri-flavored jello and Olympic-sized swimming pools. :(

Doesn't bother me in the least. :D I'm like an OSC book.

Do you do TV Tropes-crawls, in which you browse articles on TV Tropes for hours on end? If so, do tropes appear in your fanfics (consciously or not)? And if so, share with us a few memorable ones.
Aside from a few brief instances where I checked the tropes page of one of my favorite books, and then a list of songs that sound romantic but aren't, I really haven't been through TVTropes at all.

So I can't really answer the question, except for the fact that I turned a kind of badly written canon character into the woobie little hero that he's supposed to be.

And now he's pregnant.

Oops, crossing stories here.

 

[Misheard Whisper]

TVTropes is pure gold. AND IT'S ALL SO TRUE!! *sobs* Really, it is so hard to avoid some of those tropes~!

And Evil Overlord List is pure win. I know it's not actually a TVTropes thing, but that's where I found it. IT'S ALL TRUUUUUUUUUE! *bawls*

 

[icomeanon6]

So I can't really answer the question, except for the fact that I turned a kind of badly written canon character into the woobie little hero that he's supposed to be.

And now he's pregnant.

Oops, crossing stories here.

Tell me you're not talking about Bean. I would be greatly disturbed if you made Bean pregnant. O_O