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There's a reference to a specific work in this chapter that I can't explain on here (hint: it's something Alex says), but I just want to say that anyone who gets it is automatically awesome. This is also one of the chapters where my self-imposed restriction of not letting myself use words...

This chapter was actually really hard to write, so I imagine it might be really hard to follow. The basic problem as I ran into it is that text isn't a good medium for chaotic battles, especially team-on-team ones. The original draft even had Marita in there too, but I cut her involvement...

Chapter 33 - Everyone's Price Something about Alex’s father didn’t sit well with Terry. He couldn’t put his finger on exactly what, but the man seemed downright off the previous night. It couldn’t have been simple embarrassment at getting so caught up in the man’s insincere threats—he’d...

I wouldn't say it's the worst Pokemon article ever, but a lot of their facts seem kinda trivial and/or pointless. I'll give credit where it's due, however. "Belle of the Pokeball" is a mildly amusing pun.

If their argument is "Pokemon are living beings who shouldn't be forced to fight," then they shouldn't make their message rely on the implication that living beings need a specific reason to exist...

Because this is SS, and nearly every action has consequences. As the cast is learning to various degrees. But putting my characters through hell is a recurring theme—life's a dog and then you die, after all. And Silver refers to Giovanni's Team Rocket-hating son, for the record, who I...

Yeah. I see it as being kind of like the Greco-Roman pantheon. There are legendaries which are flat-up gods in this world, like Arceus/Dialga/Palkia, Mew, the pixies, and Kyogre/Groudon/Rayquaza. Those are the ones people in SS generally refer to when they talk about "the gods." Then there...

Yeah, Conquest is pretty addicting. Unfortunately there isn't really any way to work it into this story any more than I already have, since I think the warrior dynamic is pretty cool. It's a little ironic in a way considering that I made Pokemon Stadium of all things into an actual thing...

It was a really weird experience playing Pokemon Conquest and realizing at some point that the reason Nene stood out so much to me was that she looks a lot like how I imagine Sam looking (although Sam's obviously not a ninja and looks a little less moe). And on that note, I'm probably leaping a...

The only comments coming to mind this time is that I want World of Pokecraft to be a real thing, and that Pokemon Conquest is spectacularly addicting. Chapter 29 - Closing In Salavan was significantly worse than Ha Tinh. Oh, Adair could imagine why someone would label Salavan superior just...

One of the more annoying things about finally getting around to playing Pokemon Conquest is that I keep wanting to slip some kind of reference to it into SS. I probably won't, but still, it's strongly tempting (and it'd make more sense than the Dragon Age reference from a while back). Oh well...

And people with guns kill a lot more people a lot more easily. Fact is American gun culture comes with a really high gun crime rate compared to other countries. This shooting wouldn't have happened if guns were restricted.

It was a set-up, basically. Richard's plan was to go to some businessmen who had New Rocket ties, pretending to "expose" them (since Richard's actual, real job is in finance and investment, he can do this on an official level), then have Adrian pretend to be a New Rocket member whose job was to...

It's probably bad luck of me to say this, but I'm kind of surprised I got away with the previous chapter. The jokes seemed to me like they wouldn't pass 'Gym muster, even though none are really that bad by the standards of my non-Pokemon writing. Then again, some of the stuff I got away with...

Two things combined to delay this one: Vacation and writer's block. SS is (I think quite obviously) written off the cuff—to the point where some chapters are actually done entirely stream-of-consciousness with no prior planning—and only the major plot points are defined in advance. This makes...

The worst part of writing this chapter actually came from something that won't appear on the Gym, namely the nicknames for Alex's Pokemon I'm going to use whenever I get around to FF.net'ing this series (she continues the theme of mythological nicknames by drawing from Norse mythology, because...

Because they already make scandalous amounts of money doing the same thing they've done for over ten years, so why change now?

For long-time fans. But a lot of the younger fans watching the show weren't actually alive back when Misty left the team. They didn't watch the first few seasons and haven't experienced the repetitive nature of the anime firsthand. BW might be old to people who grew up on the first season...

All I really have to say about this chapter is that it's interesting the names I wind up using for new characters. I'm terrible at coming up with names, so I either draw on various and esoteric sources and hope no one notices, or I go to name databases and pull names at random. In this chapter...

When I first heard Lady Gaga, I had some fun because that beat was sick. Then I took a ride on a disco stick.