Instead it was "what if the pokemon were replaced with human girls I was allowed to own."
Day ruined.
Possibly the weirdest thing about this one, is if that's what I think you're talking about, it's, like... old stuff. Actually 90s old, almost as old as the pokemon series itself, comprising an entire weirdly
extensively developed setting that's had at least several hundred thousand (and I'm pretty sure actually multiple millions of) words of fiction written for it, some of which is somehow even
not smut. There's like an entire fandom that sprung up in the early years of pokemon around that specific conceit and has been, like, propagating and sustaining itself ever since.
There was a period a decade or two ago I was kinda' fascinated by several of the larger stories involved in the whole pokegirl mess. Like, it's often
remarkably horrible shit on several different levels, but some of the authors were actively aware of that and seemed to try to handle the stuff involved with a degree of tastefulness, to the extent that was even remotely possible (which, considering there's monster girl encyclopedia and monmusu quest stories on this very site, is probably more possible than would be expected).
... failed, mostly, but it was the digging-below-the-barrel's-bottom fanfiction equivalent of watching a particularly slow motion train wreck. It's definitely one of the bits of personal reading history I've never quite reached a point of being sure how I feel about it. I don't
regret it, exactly (there's worse settings out there... somehow), but there's definitely some mixed feelings involved, ha.
