Just a glimpse at how the world handles the shenanigans of Champion Ash through the eyes of pokeverse social media
When the possibility of Champion Ketchum finally catching an electric type is presented to the world, people go crazy. Friendships are broken, enemies are made, families distressed. Ash? Well he's just chilling.
Oh, this is some good shit. This is
exactly what I've been looking for in terms of "people react to the absolute madness that is Ash Ketchum's life". The giant wall of text from Sunburnttoast going into excessive amounts of detail on how Ash became Grand Champion with a long tangent about the Kanto Civil War. The science nerds trying to get a lock of his hair for good luck. May dropping the bombshell that Ash mentored her back in the day.
Ash's continued love of crossdressing.
Literally everything in this series is great. You're on the list!
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People of Reddit, what was a time when a gut feeling saved you or someone you know's life?
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u/jokerusu69 - 136 Awards
Oh fuck do I have a story for you
I'm getting about as sick of trauma stories in Persona 5 as I am in My Hero Academia. You're not on the list.
All Midoriya wanted was a nice easy villain backstory to dissect. Give him some tragedy, a lot of pain and suffering, a dash of homicidal rage. That was what he wanted. Was that what he got? No.
Though people like to forget it, Midoriya is very good at his hero analyses. He decides to turn his gaze onto the League of Villains, and is surprised with what he finds. At least he finds some company in his situation.
Unfortunately, this doesn't hold up. For one, it's the usual problem of making Izuku
too smart. A master hacker at 11 are you fucking
kidding me? Then there are the typos, and the tense swaps, and just the fact that this is half-baked and could've really stood to be spread over multiple days to maximize Izuku's panic rather than just do it all in one all-nighter, and him discovering so many secrets makes everyone else look incompetent and that's no bueno-
Yeah, you're not on the list.
Mylène created a chat group with most of her classmates just to discuss something weird Lila told her and Ivan.
But who knew it would snowball into a full-blown investigation!
On the plus side, this fic have the Miracuclass figure things out by themselves and doesn't take them to task narratively for it. Unfortunately, the handling of Adrien is not nearly so smooth. There's socially inexperienced and then there's how he's depicted here. Add on the narrative shitting itself whenever it strays off the chatroom format, and this is an easy decision.
You're not on the list.
Hatake Kakashi has been pulled off of ANBU duty to become a jonin teacher. In effort to keep himself at least somewhat entertained as well as to prevent from having to put too much effort into training his genin, he informs them that a jutsu he made up on the spot is too difficult for them to preform and has them practice until he deems them ready. Meanwhile, Team 7 begins taking after Kakashi, and that includes being interested in this jutsu of his as well.
AKA: Kakashi ends up training his team by trying to not train them, the Leaf Village is convinced Kakashi's making mini-Kakashis out of his students, and enemy nin become scarred for life.
I recognize that this is a crack fic, but it fails both at basic characterization and in Japanese cultural knowledge. To the first, fanon is clearly informing the characterization of everyone involved, and I hate it. I hate it with a passion. To the second, the entire premise of the fic is that Team 7 mistake a kancho prank for an actual combat technique, which... just no. Not in such a Japanese-coded setting.
Wouldn't be the first time Naruto authors failed to grasp Naruto lore due to lack of cultural knowledge...
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A glint of navy and a familiar outline parked next to the crew chief stand has his head spinning, and he unconsciously rises out of his chair to get a closer look. Feeling slightly dazed, he begins.
"Hey, did that look like-"
Before he can finish his sentence, the image cuts to an overview of McQueen's pit crew, finally landing on a close up of his new crew chief. Gray haired and stern faced, barking instructions into the head piece. The announcer cuts him off.
"Darrell, it appears McQueen has got himself a pit crew, and look who he has for a crew chief."
It can't be, Smokey thinks, eyes glued to the scream. Louise has his arm in a vice grip. He can feel the crescents of her nails digging into his skin.
"Wow, this is history in the making! Nobody has seen the racing legend in over fifty years!"
For a moment the entire bar goes dead quiet, and Smokey's mind goes blank.
or; The first letter arrives on a Tuesday
I've said before that I like fanfic that slithers into the gaps in canon and makes something out of them. This fic asks the question, "Who did Doc leave behind when he quit racing?" Because he did. Racing isn't a one-man operation. He had a pit crew, people backing him, and by all accounts he threw it all away and fled.
So there's something earnestly real to Smokey's emotions when he sees Doc on TV after fifty years of radio silence. There's anger, of course. But also a lot of confusion. He thought he wanted to know where Doc was, but all this negativity in him makes him reconsider that. In the end, though, it's off to Radiator Springs, and while they don't fully reconcile in the fic's runtime they're clearly on the path.
Heartfelt one-shot. You're on the list.
