axolotl

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Well, it is late and I am out of beer, so have some stopping-point commentary!

1) omg,

pseudogeek, your art is wonderful!! I'd seen only a bit of your work before and saw that you seemed to be really talented, but I love your work on this fic. THE GIOVANNI+GHESTIS PICTURE IS SO COOL. And the Black "dress???" scene was adorable, omg, your chibis, they warm the cockles of my heart. I am really looking forward to seeing more of your art crop up as we continue!

axolotl also mentioned that you helped them work out the extended poke ball analogy paragraph, and I wanted to tell you that I really love that paragraph actually! So thumbs up because I think you also had a part of that! I found it really insightful and I think it helped open up the way I think of the pokemon universe a bit more.

2)

axolotl I have already been typing excitedly at you over IM for the past like four hours or something about HOW MANY FEELS your fic gives me, but:

I love every single characterization you have. EVERY SINGLE ONE. ALL OF THE CHARACTERS. YOU NAILED THEM ALL. I know we've discussed some of the rough spots that you have in this fic but I legitimately DO NOT CARE, because all you have to do is make any character open their mouth and suddenly everything is awesome! While I may not agree with all of your characterizations, I do think that they all have a strong basis in canon, and so this is kind of like going on vacation from the headcanon I usually live in to visit this beautiful exotic new world wtheire Silver is extremely messed up but also extremely serene, and also nothing hurts.

The fact that you have a "real plot" (at least what I consider to be a real plot) with so many tendrils all over the place, and yet you still manage to keep it coherent, is SO COOL. I am bad at juggling many plots, and not only do you have a lot of plots, you have a lot of HUGE plots. Just woah.

IRIS. Did I mention I love your characters because I love your characters you are really making me like Iris ;_;

I love it when you throw in moments of random humor or ridiculousness, like the Team Rocket speech (ahhhhh I am still amazed ahhhhh), and Silver's quirky non-humor, and also...everything that comes out of Iris's mouth. SUDDENLY CYNTHIA

I love your fight scenes :D

I love that you dig into mythology to support so much of this fic because I already talked to you about how this fic has a sort of myth-like feel to it, and connecting it to myth helps solidify that! I do feel that Silver as a (I don't even know what kind of) hero is interesting in that it seems to incorporate a lot of sublime elements for him? Like "holy crap, this is all so much bigger than me, I'm fucked." I don't know. I might be talking out of my rump because it is late and I am also slightly tipsy but YOU USE MYTH AND THAT GIVES ME FEELS.