Jerry: (Meowth) He took my virtue~ *swoons* Tom: Hey, don’t joke about that in this fic!
Meowth/Scyther OTP! /ducks
...now I want to write a crack!alternate take on the fight where Meowth has a ton of foeyay with the Scyther and they end up making out. >.> Gross, but at least it'd be funny compared to this narmtastic excuse for a battle scene. And oy, the padding. D:
In fanfiction and in real life, pious little speeches about how empty the life of anyone who disagrees with you must be make you NO friends. Pious little speeches about how your specific stance on something infinitely enriches your life, given in a way that implies that no other stance on the matter can possibly be half so enlightened or half as satisfying, have exactly the same effect, because they’re essentially the same thing.
So don’t break them out during arguments, no matter how justified you believe you are. It’s condescending, it’s blinkered, and it’s going to make even people who share your stance uncomfortable. …And, shall we say, the effect becomes greater as one moves further from your particular point of view.
And this is what gives Cori's fics their infamous awfulness. The entire fucking mindset.
Also? Constantly mentioning how anyone who disagrees with you is slow-witted, sleazy, or sociopathic does NOT actually make you look better by comparison! It just makes you seem like you lack the competence to defend your own position, so you’re reduced to whining, “But they’re all stuuuupid or meeeean or eeeeevil!”
Shades of Essie, Zach, Missy and Patrick, anyone? XD And Cassie in her more vindictive moments.
…It’s funny how Cori Falls tends to portray insane!Ash that way post-Break-From-Canon. Some tiny smidgen of self-awareness seeping through?
LOL, possibly. Maybe a part of her knew how crazy she sounded at that point.
...nah.
He raised his blades once more, but this time, I didn't close my eyes. I would meet my death with a defiant stare. No, he definitely wouldn't forget this battle anytime soon. Even after his wounds had healed, my final words and my dead eyes would still pierce into his soul. Jerry: *screaming with laughter* Tom: *slapping the table in a fit of uncontrollable laughing* Jerry: She wrote that with a straight face! Tom: Meowth th’ poetic emo! Jerry: *in a pompous voice* My final worlds and my dead eyes would still pierce into his soul. Tom: *with a heavy accent* I am ze Vampire Meowthstat! Feel my eternal agony and existential angst, mortal! Ze deep darkness of my decadent heart weel overwhelm you! Jerry: But is Meowth TEARING HIM APAAAAAAWT? Tom: His dead eyes will make th’ Scyther FED UP WITH THIS WIRRRRRLD! Jerry: (Future!Scyther) Because I have no friends… EVERYBODY BETRAY ME! Tom: (Meowth) You’re just a chicken! Chip-chip-chip-chip-cheep! Jerry: Never mind that, if we’re assuming fights to the death are commonplace in this Scyther pack, Meowth is hardly going to be this Scyther’s first kill… Tom: (Scyther) I DID NAHT KILL THEM. I DID NAHT. OH HAI RIVAL! *SLASH*
I was wondering when The Room would show up again! <3
Meowth: Keep your stupid comments in your stupid pocket!
As for the "twerps" having that conversation...again, I never saw that ep. :/ But I doubt they could be bothered to discuss Team Rocket when Tracey just got a new Pokemon. :P
That I had thoughts and feelings...and that I could get hurt. Jerry: (Meowth) And dat it really hurts my feelin’s when dey don’t hand ova their Pokémon!
Hahaha, that was a good riff!
If they were cruel enough to laugh at Jessie after what had happened to her, then why wouldn't they laugh at me, too? Guardian’s Song: Oh, COME THE **** ON! Meowth has been slashed to bloody shreds! You’re HONESTLY comparing that to Jessie’s HAIRCUT?! You’re honestly comparing that to Jessie’s haircut!
Cori Falls, what was WRONG with you?!
I could tl;dr about the hypocrisy of this considering what happens to Ash later on in her saga, but...nah.
I think Cori was drunk on her own "triggers" when she wrote this. Also LOL at Deus Ex Miyamoto. Like she'd take a break from partying with James's stoner grandparents to tend to emo!Meowth.
I didn't know what Miyamoto's spirit was doing here, Tom: (Miyamoto) The plot demanded it.
James's grandparents: Welcome to our world, Miya.
She seated herself by the water, and Tom: (Meowth) – she turned out to be a disguised Gastly, and promptly shoved me in.
Meowth: RRRRROWL! KITTY HAET WATER! *hiss, scratch* Mittens: And that's where I get it from! :D
And I don't think the gun scene was in the show. I never saw that ep, either, but I doubt TR would make jokes THAT sadistic.
The whole scene with Meowth and Miyamoto is just so boring and schmaltzy and weepy and once again I can't believe Cori "had to" write this shit OVER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS GETTING UNWANTED HAIRCUTS. HAIRCUTS!
...God, why does this make me want to write horrible Essie!fic where Katara loses one of her hair loopies or something and goes into broken babbling weepy little girl who just lost her mommy mode and needs Aang to fight Zhao to defend her honor. Complete with Zhao taunting Aang about how he "touched" Katara in a mean way.
Jerry: - in loving love-love, with loving love, and in the name of lovely loving love -
Cory Matthews: Sometimes two people who love each other are in love, and because of that love, they love each other.
And yay for the only time Cori ever acknowledges that Ash Ketchum does indeed have good points!
Would it have been so hard to drag in that sainted grandpa James has in these fics? The way he’s described, he should be James’s guardian angel! Why does Miyamoto have to do double-duty for both of them?
At the very least, James would have appreciated it while he was still living with his parents and Jessiebelle!
James's Grandpa: Well, his grandma and I couldn't start work until we were sure James was smart enough to understand our magic wicca powers. ...then he turned seventeen and we got tired of waiting around.
[assessment of Meowth's unfortunate role in Cori!Jessie and Cori!James's relationship]
The sad thing is, in spite of this? Meowth's the one who fights harder to stay in-character later on in these fics. I think this is why, too. He knows what his main purpose is among his friends, so he gets a little revenge by refusing to bend to Cori's will 100%.
At least until Cori throws canon out the window.
Having bad things happen to the characters in the past doesn’t make the story realistic and gritty and tense and other such inexplicably venerated things. If bad things have happened in the past, but the author makes it blatantly clear that nothing in the present will do “real harm” to her woobies, then the readers will, in fact, know this is the land of Hurt/Comfort Happyland, where everything is fuzzy and nothing hurts.
There’s NOTHING WRONG WHATSOEVER WITH WRITING HURT/COMFORT HAPPYLAND. I enjoy reading Hurt/Comfort Happyland, because I have no need to assure myself how ~tough~ and ~edgy~ and ~in touch with the cruel realities of the world~ I am. But please don’t pretend, as Miss Falls is doing, that you are writing some deep and dramatic tale of tragedy and woe and triumphing over adversity.
*APPLAUDS*
The sad thing is, I've probably fallen into that trap a little myself with my fics. >.> Or at least that's one more thing I need to be mindful of from now on. Cause even if someone moved on from a crappy past and is happy now, bad shit can still happen.
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Tom: Hey, don’t joke about that in this fic!
Meowth/Scyther OTP! /ducks
...now I want to write a crack!alternate take on the fight where Meowth has a ton of foeyay with the Scyther and they end up making out. >.> Gross, but at least it'd be funny compared to this narmtastic excuse for a battle scene. And oy, the padding. D:
In fanfiction and in real life, pious little speeches about how empty the life of anyone who disagrees with you must be make you NO friends. Pious little speeches about how your specific stance on something infinitely enriches your life, given in a way that implies that no other stance on the matter can possibly be half so enlightened or half as satisfying, have exactly the same effect, because they’re essentially the same thing.
So don’t break them out during arguments, no matter how justified you believe you are. It’s condescending, it’s blinkered, and it’s going to make even people who share your stance uncomfortable. …And, shall we say, the effect becomes greater as one moves further from your particular point of view.
And this is what gives Cori's fics their infamous awfulness. The entire fucking mindset.
Also? Constantly mentioning how anyone who disagrees with you is slow-witted, sleazy, or sociopathic does NOT actually make you look better by comparison! It just makes you seem like you lack the competence to defend your own position, so you’re reduced to whining, “But they’re all stuuuupid or meeeean or eeeeevil!”
Shades of Essie, Zach, Missy and Patrick, anyone? XD And Cassie in her more vindictive moments.
…It’s funny how Cori Falls tends to portray insane!Ash that way post-Break-From-Canon. Some tiny smidgen of self-awareness seeping through?
LOL, possibly. Maybe a part of her knew how crazy she sounded at that point.
...nah.
He raised his blades once
more, but this time, I didn't close my eyes. I would meet my death with a
defiant stare. No, he definitely wouldn't forget this battle anytime soon. Even
after his wounds had healed, my final words and my dead eyes would still pierce
into his soul.
Jerry: *screaming with laughter*
Tom: *slapping the table in a fit of uncontrollable laughing*
Jerry: She wrote that with a straight face!
Tom: Meowth th’ poetic emo!
Jerry: *in a pompous voice* My final worlds and my dead eyes would still pierce into his soul.
Tom: *with a heavy accent* I am ze Vampire Meowthstat! Feel my eternal agony and existential angst, mortal! Ze deep darkness of my decadent heart weel overwhelm you!
Jerry: But is Meowth TEARING HIM APAAAAAAWT?
Tom: His dead eyes will make th’ Scyther FED UP WITH THIS WIRRRRRLD!
Jerry: (Future!Scyther) Because I have no friends… EVERYBODY BETRAY ME!
Tom: (Meowth) You’re just a chicken! Chip-chip-chip-chip-cheep!
Jerry: Never mind that, if we’re assuming fights to the death are commonplace in this Scyther pack, Meowth is hardly going to be this Scyther’s first kill…
Tom: (Scyther) I DID NAHT KILL THEM. I DID NAHT. OH HAI RIVAL! *SLASH*
I was wondering when The Room would show up again! <3
Meowth: Keep your stupid comments in your stupid pocket!
As for the "twerps" having that conversation...again, I never saw that ep. :/ But I doubt they could be bothered to discuss Team Rocket when Tracey just got a new Pokemon. :P
That I had thoughts and feelings...and
that I could get hurt.
Jerry: (Meowth) And dat it really hurts my feelin’s when dey don’t hand ova their Pokémon!
Hahaha, that was a good riff!
If they
were cruel enough to laugh at Jessie after what had happened to her, then why
wouldn't they laugh at me, too?
Guardian’s Song: Oh, COME THE **** ON! Meowth has been slashed to bloody shreds! You’re HONESTLY comparing that to Jessie’s HAIRCUT?! You’re honestly comparing that to Jessie’s haircut!
Cori Falls, what was WRONG with you?!
I could tl;dr about the hypocrisy of this considering what happens to Ash later on in her saga, but...nah.
I think Cori was drunk on her own "triggers" when she wrote this. Also LOL at Deus Ex Miyamoto. Like she'd take a break from partying with James's stoner grandparents to tend to emo!Meowth.
I didn't know what Miyamoto's spirit was doing here,
Tom: (Miyamoto) The plot demanded it.
James's grandparents: Welcome to our world, Miya.
She seated herself by the water, and
Tom: (Meowth) – she turned out to be a disguised Gastly, and promptly shoved me in.
Meowth: RRRRROWL! KITTY HAET WATER! *hiss, scratch*
Mittens: And that's where I get it from! :D
And I don't think the gun scene was in the show. I never saw that ep, either, but I doubt TR would make jokes THAT sadistic.
The whole scene with Meowth and Miyamoto is just so boring and schmaltzy and weepy and once again I can't believe Cori "had to" write this shit OVER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS GETTING UNWANTED HAIRCUTS. HAIRCUTS!
...God, why does this make me want to write horrible Essie!fic where Katara loses one of her hair loopies or something and goes into broken babbling weepy little girl who just lost her mommy mode and needs Aang to fight Zhao to defend her honor. Complete with Zhao taunting Aang about how he "touched" Katara in a mean way.
Jerry: - in loving love-love, with loving love, and in the name of lovely loving love -
Cory Matthews: Sometimes two people who love each other are in love, and because of that love, they love each other.
And yay for the only time Cori ever acknowledges that Ash Ketchum does indeed have good points!
Would it have been so hard to drag in that sainted grandpa James has in these fics? The way he’s described, he should be James’s guardian angel! Why does Miyamoto have to do double-duty for both of them?
At the very least, James would have appreciated it while he was still living with his parents and Jessiebelle!
James's Grandpa: Well, his grandma and I couldn't start work until we were sure James was smart enough to understand our magic wicca powers. ...then he turned seventeen and we got tired of waiting around.
[assessment of Meowth's unfortunate role in Cori!Jessie and Cori!James's relationship]
The sad thing is, in spite of this? Meowth's the one who fights harder to stay in-character later on in these fics. I think this is why, too. He knows what his main purpose is among his friends, so he gets a little revenge by refusing to bend to Cori's will 100%.
At least until Cori throws canon out the window.
Having bad things happen to the characters in the past doesn’t make the story realistic and gritty and tense and other such inexplicably venerated things. If bad things have happened in the past, but the author makes it blatantly clear that nothing in the present will do “real harm” to her woobies, then the readers will, in fact, know this is the land of Hurt/Comfort Happyland, where everything is fuzzy and nothing hurts.
There’s NOTHING WRONG WHATSOEVER WITH WRITING HURT/COMFORT HAPPYLAND. I enjoy reading Hurt/Comfort Happyland, because I have no need to assure myself how ~tough~ and ~edgy~ and ~in touch with the cruel realities of the world~ I am. But please don’t pretend, as Miss Falls is doing, that you are writing some deep and dramatic tale of tragedy and woe and triumphing over adversity.
*APPLAUDS*
The sad thing is, I've probably fallen into that trap a little myself with my fics. >.> Or at least that's one more thing I need to be mindful of from now on. Cause even if someone moved on from a crappy past and is happy now, bad shit can still happen.
*eagerly awaits the last part of this sporking*