User blog comment:Danatblair/What makes a good poke pasta?/@comment-7706473-20131013082948

Your resolve... Wow, I'm getting fired up, haha! That being said, I'm sick right now, so I'm going to space on the 'Inktober' fest. Perhaps I'll be a halfway-entry if my job doesn't leave me dead on my feet.

Hmn... For pokepasta, I've always felt that it's the feeling of something familiar and 'good', something 'comforting' that mixes with the unpleasantness of the modern world. We can count on pokemon, right? It's commercially designed to make us feel better. About ourselves, about life. The idea of it betraying us is frightening because it implies that something - a malevolent programmer, or the general cruelty of humanity - wants to take even something designed to market itself as 'fun' and 'cute' and destroy it.

I like sorrow. I like unlikable narrators who get away with it all, and I like good people suffering unjustly - but I'm not a good target audience. If I had to guess what worked well for me *as well as* working for other people... Scenes of horror mixed with cuteness. Sorrow - everyone likes a good cry, and there's nothing like seeing something so dear, so dearly destroyed. Schadenfreude is great! Well, I hope this helped somewhat..!