Thread:RubyTheMaster/@comment-4750363-20130605200748/@comment-4750363-20130611162805

FlakyPorcupine wrote: Again, this is more from my own experiance, but how should Pokemon be handled? The quality of the pastas don't tend to stem from the subject of it, but more from the effectiveness in writing and whether (or how much) blood/gore it has. Whether a Pokepasta is good or not mostly comes from the individual authors themselves. Because H. Phone just posted in this thread, I would say that his pasta Ethan's Confession is probably one of the more original gaming pastas I've seen in general. Hey, that is a really good Pokémon pasta! It is certainly better than most.

Now you do have a point, the quality of a story is completely unrelated to its theme. A story can have the most used storyline ever AND be awesome, and another story can have a never-seen-before plot AND end being a mess.

I personally have a few qualms with Poképastas...more specifically, that, well, there seems to be an underlying theme. From my own experience, I keep stumbling under the same theme. Disgruntled Pokémon, abandoned Pokémon, and blood and gore. I'll admit that, after such a long exposure to those things, my appreciation of Pokepastas has decreased. Since the prohibition on Poképastas, I have only seen like four or five that stayed in the site...because they were original.

But it also makes it much rewarding to read an original plot! And I make sure to spread them as much as I can.