Trabia Garden

Let's keep up the momentum on Old Fanfiction Book Club! We've almost hit the point where I stopped writing, and I don't want to deprive you of baby Riona's literary masterwork for another two years.


Previously on Old Fanfiction Book Club: having read a lot of melodramatic angstfic, I throw a character off a cliff for no good reason.

Original author's note on chapter eighteen: Okay, okay, I'll update! Sheesh. (I posted this in July 2002, two months after the last update; I was just about to turn fourteen.)


( Rachel's Pokémon Journey, Chapter Eighteen, with annotations. )


Chapter eighteen, as mentioned, was posted in July of 2002, and then six months passed before I posted chapter nineteen, below, in January of 2003. (Judging from the author's note, it's possible this delay was due to being overwhelmed by the number of characters.) I think there's visible improvement in the writing style, although it's possible the shift to third person exaggerates the difference. My writing's still a bit clumsy in this chapter, but I'm starting to get the hang of it.

By this point I'm well into my fourteenth year. (Or... technically my fifteenth year, I suppose, because your first year ends when you turn one. Anyway, I'm fourteen and a half.)


Original author's note on chapter nineteen: Okay, there are now officially TOO MANY CHARACTERS. If I put in any more than the eight plus one (deceased) already in Rachel’s group, it’s going to get way too complicated. It already IS too complicated, actually.

Sorry to the others who sent in characters. They’ll all get cameo appearances, of course, but I’m afraid that’s the best I can do. Again, I’m really really sorry.

I’m also going to stop writing personal responses to all the reviewers. I just don’t have enough time anymore. Hopefully this won’t lower the amount of reviews I get...

Oh, and I’m writing this chapter in third-person. If all goes well, it’s staying that way.


( Rachel's Pokémon Journey, Chapter Nineteen, with annotations. )


In the next instalment of Old Fanfiction Book Club: we meet a helpful young man and nothing goes wrong.

Only one instalment to go before we run out of Rachel's Pokémon Journey! I'm sort of sad I didn't stick with this fic for longer; I'd love to know where all this nonsense was going. I certainly had no idea when I was writing it.

The Giedroyc-O'Leary-Dawson-Widdicombe episode of Would I Lie to You? just aired! It's a great episode; do watch it if you haven't yet (here, for people in the UK, is the iPlayer link). I attended the recording of this, and I now have a little more to say about it.


( On a claim that was curiously absent from my original recording recap. )


I have no idea how to end this entry. Erm. Have a cool animated fight scene? It's a trailer for something called RWBY, animated by Monty Oum, the guy who made the Dead Fantasy series of Final Fantasy/Dead or Alive crossover videos. 'Cool animated fight scenes' seem to be very much his thing. I don't usually much care for fight scenes, but I've watched the entirety of Dead Fantasy to date, and that's over half an hour of fighting. (The RWBY trailer is a much more manageable three-and-a-half minutes.)