AlphSailor@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 3/8/99 2:27:49 PM, krmn@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

..and it would still be horribly wrong, because it's a Pokemon darkfic.

Sorry. That's just my take on it.

There is interest for the darkside that some people would want to
explore. It might be wrong to have evil pokemon trainers and burning
villages, but some people might argue also that it is wrong to have
Pokemon (just like animals) fight for sport. Which is IMO a dark side of
the Pokemon world.

What's so 'wrong' about writing Pokemon Darkfics? Are they any more worse than
SM darkfics? Not much of that a difference, really IMHO.
Personally, I want to read see a decent Pokemon darkfic, because it is
different from WAFFy original series. I want to see BIG changes, not just
subtle and cheap changes. I'm not against writing non-Pokemon  fics, I just
want to see a bit of diversity.

One of the most common reasons for writing a fanfic is not unadulterated 
adulation of the subject matter, but the feeling that something is 
somehow missing from it.  Thus people write dead serious Ranma fanfics
because they feel it raises and then avoids dead serious issues.  Or 
they write Sailor Moon stories with elements of moral ambiguity, 
Evangelion stories with sane protagonists, or Tenchi stories where 
Tenchi is capable of something other than passive responses.  All of 
these concepts are fundamentally incompatible with the original source 
material and that is why they were written in the first place along with 
all the crossovers that could never in a million years be brought to the 
screen.  

Me, I'm not one for Pokemon.  Too chirpy, too campy and too shrill.  
But I don't mind reading a different mood of Pokestory at all.  

Personally though, I'd really like to see more non-dark Pokemon fics,
some waffy fics of Ash and Misty, even short ones would be nice.

How WAFF can you get with ten-year olds?  

Yeah. As of lately, number of pokemon darkfics has been increasing lately.
Perhaps we should slow down things a wee bit? ^_-

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