Thousand Roads

A Pokémon fansite dedicated to the creative side of the Pokémon fandom, especially fanfiction.

claydol

Trashman

Posted October 31 2017 on NaNoWriMon

I'm getting the 500 error, I dunno what that is. My username's CornSyrup, with the url being cornsyrup, and I'm trying to put in an Unown named Toothbrush.

Please help?

squirtle

Mistletoe

Posted October 30 2017 on NaNoWriMon

Hello! I have tried to use both links in my forum siganture, but the actual Mon is not showing, only the link text. I have created my novel. Do I need to wait until November for it to work, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

hoppip

feather--weather

Website: NaNoWriMo

Posted October 28 2017 on NaNoWriMon

I'm receiving an error and I think it's because my NaNoWriMo username has double dashes in it - when the page loads I get an error rhat I have to enter a novel this season (which I have) but I noticed that the username field says "feather-weather" and not "feather--weather"

rayquaza-mega

Negrek Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted October 28 2017 on On the Origin of Ash Betrayal Fics in reply to Farla

That's an interesting theory, and one I think it might be possible to get a sense of by looking at the timing of Arceus' emergence as a player in betrayal 'fics. Was there an earlier trend of some other legendary "choosing" Ash, which was then replaced with Arceus once it was introduced, or did that trope instead emerge around the time The Lightning Thief was released? It would be much less clear if it showed up later than either of them, of course.

As far as aura goes, specifically, I think the simplest explanation for that is just that Ash was shown to be an aura user in the eighth movie, people thought it was cool, and so it's been an exaggerated part of his character in fanfic ever since. I'm not sure how early "aura" was introduced to pokémon canon, but it was referenced in Gen III (the Gamecube games) at least. I doubt anything aura-related was an import from another fandom. Easy enough to check the movie influence, anyway: see whether the emergence of "aura Ash" happens around the time of its release.

It would definitely be interesting to know how big of an overlap there is between Percy Jackson and Pokémon fans and whether there might have been some crosstalk there--or, of course, there's a lurking variable and the originator is some other shared fandom entirely!

rayquaza-mega

Negrek Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted October 28 2017 on NaNoWriMon in reply to Dani Hyrosha

Unfortunately, no, as far as I can tell the YWP does not provide any way for third parties to access word count data, so NaNoWriMon and other custom word counters can't be used for it.

rayquaza-mega

Negrek Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted October 28 2017 in reply to Flowers3

Thanks for taking the time to leave such a nice comment. I'm glad you find the NaNoWriMon so useful--and good luck with your novel!

hoopa

Flowers3

Posted October 26 2017

Hi! =) I just wanted to say that I love the idea of NaNoWriMon, and adding my new litten for this year's novel is super motivating! Thank you for making this website! litten

kingler

Dani Hyrosha

Posted October 25 2017 on NaNoWriMon

I don't know if this has been asked, but does this work with the YWP page? I have a five year old obsessed with Pokemon and would love to use this as her wordcounter.

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