You may or may not remember Old Fanfiction Book Club! Back in early 2019, I started rereading and annotating Rachel's Pokémon Journey, the first fic I ever posted, written between the ages of twelve and fourteen. It was never completed, but it got up to twenty-one chapters. However, I only annotated up to chapter fifteen.
This is because we're about to hit the point where thirteen-year-old me cheerfully mishandles a serious topic that adult me has very strong feelings about, and I'm not sure whether I'll be able to annotate without getting too personal.
Still, I've just reread![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zarla's Howl of a Growlithe, the fic that originally inspired twelve-year-old Riona to start writing this twenty years ago, and it's put me in a nostalgic mood. I've found myself thinking fondly back to Old Fanfiction Book Club. I had fun annotating this! I'm going to try to start it up again.
Just... be aware that this section of the fic is going to attempt to tackle a sensitive subject, and it's going to do it badly.
Fuller details, if anyone wants them in advance (highlight to read, just in case anyone's concerned about spoilers for Rachel's Pokémon Journey): there's an apparent suicide that later turns out to be murder.
Previously on Old Fanfiction Book Club: Rachel defeats Brock and meets a mysterious girl named Leena, who gives her a Dratini that apparently demanded to be brought to Rachel specifically. How this Dratini knows who Rachel is, or why it wanted her to own it, is never explained.
Original author's note on chapter sixteen: Yes, the reviewer chars are coming... starting in this chapter, actually. And the storyline is gonna get darker. Much darker.
I wrote the first fifteen chapters before I started posting them to fanfiction.net, so this is the first chapter I posted as soon as I wrote it, meaning I can pinpoint when it was written! Both of these chapters were written and posted in May 2002, so it's been some time since October 2000, when I first started writing this fic. I'm thirteen and cool now and that means I'm going to make things dark >:(
( Rachel's Pokémon Journey, Chapter Sixteen, with annotations. )
Original author's note for chapter seventeen: *grins* Another chapter for you people!
( Rachel's Pokémon Journey, Chapter Seventeen, with annotations. )
In the next instalment of Old Fanfiction Book Club: drama! emotions! Sparky's tragic backstory! suddenly I remember this is a Pokémon story and make someone catch a Pokémon!
This is because we're about to hit the point where thirteen-year-old me cheerfully mishandles a serious topic that adult me has very strong feelings about, and I'm not sure whether I'll be able to annotate without getting too personal.
Still, I've just reread
zarla's Howl of a Growlithe, the fic that originally inspired twelve-year-old Riona to start writing this twenty years ago, and it's put me in a nostalgic mood. I've found myself thinking fondly back to Old Fanfiction Book Club. I had fun annotating this! I'm going to try to start it up again.Just... be aware that this section of the fic is going to attempt to tackle a sensitive subject, and it's going to do it badly.
Fuller details, if anyone wants them in advance (highlight to read, just in case anyone's concerned about spoilers for Rachel's Pokémon Journey): there's an apparent suicide that later turns out to be murder.
Previously on Old Fanfiction Book Club: Rachel defeats Brock and meets a mysterious girl named Leena, who gives her a Dratini that apparently demanded to be brought to Rachel specifically. How this Dratini knows who Rachel is, or why it wanted her to own it, is never explained.
Original author's note on chapter sixteen: Yes, the reviewer chars are coming... starting in this chapter, actually. And the storyline is gonna get darker. Much darker.
I wrote the first fifteen chapters before I started posting them to fanfiction.net, so this is the first chapter I posted as soon as I wrote it, meaning I can pinpoint when it was written! Both of these chapters were written and posted in May 2002, so it's been some time since October 2000, when I first started writing this fic. I'm thirteen and cool now and that means I'm going to make things dark >:(
( Rachel's Pokémon Journey, Chapter Sixteen, with annotations. )
Original author's note for chapter seventeen: *grins* Another chapter for you people!
( Rachel's Pokémon Journey, Chapter Seventeen, with annotations. )
In the next instalment of Old Fanfiction Book Club: drama! emotions! Sparky's tragic backstory! suddenly I remember this is a Pokémon story and make someone catch a Pokémon!
