New Veteren

[Suicune's Fire]

I appreciate all the warm welcomes.
I'm very glad to find a community that is highly populated by folks my age. In a lot of others the most dated answer to the 'what was your first game?' thread is FR/LG.

To answer some of the inquiries made:

- Admittingly, I have not dabbled much in Pokemon writing. I did attempt to write a Pokemon creepypasta some years ago but don't feel it came out good. A handful of years prior to that, I wrote a phony GSC cheat. That's literally it.

- I'm quite insecure about my writing because along with my perfectionism, I get distracted easily because my focus isn't constantly on the writing and have yet to complete a fanfic I've begun.

- I'm happy to contribute art but bear in mind that I have long work hours, 12pm-8pm PST. An observation I'd made tonight has suggested to me that I could possibly have 2 hours pruned from my shift after this week, however. *crosses fingers*.

- I'm not into RPGs. The single exeption being when my best friend and I used to do something of that style of fanficing via AIM in high school. Techincally it actually goes back to middle school, before we had AIM, and she even had internet, we'd do it either in person or over the phone. Our biggest anime focus however was Digimon season 4 not Pokemon though we did so a bit of something Pokemon in the back of eigth grade History class during boring movie showings.

Question: The wild Pokemon that show up on this forum, presumably you have to be on a team to claim them as I'd tried to claim one and it just took me to the guide page. How do I join a team?

No worries. :] And yeah, a lot of us grew up together on this forum's predecessor, which is awesome. cx

Ah, don't sweat about contributing your writing. It's only if you want to share it with us! And trust me, there are a lot of perfectionists around so you're not alone. xD If you don't feel like posting anything, you don't have to! But if you want some feedback or you just want to post something you've written, feel free. Otherwise, enjoy the other aspects of the forum! :D

Yes, so currently we have the Pokemon Go PXR Edition event going on in this section. You can join a team by posting in the Mystic, Instinct or Valor (totally go for Valor ;D) threads and you'll be assigned to whichever team you choose. Don't be intimidated by all the threads around--just participate in whatever you'd like to! Once you join a team, a new forum will open up to you which only members of your team can see!

[Lucifer]

I've joined Valor. :)

[Suicune's Fire]

I've joined Valor. :)

I'm so happy you did. c: Now let's kick some butt! >:D

[Lucifer]

I'm ready!
I'm confident that after tomorrow my work shift will be ending earlier so I'll have more free time.

[Suicune's Fire]

I'm ready!
I'm confident that after tomorrow my work shift will be ending earlier so I'll have more free time.

No stress. x) Thanks for joining! 8D

[Lucifer]

It's my pleasure and scratch the last, I believe this temp job is done.

[Noblejanobii]

Shame you joined Valor, most of them are just butt heads except my double agent buddy.

As for your experience with writing, you don't have to write a complete fanfiction. My fellow writing moderator, EmeraldSky, runs a weekly prompt thread. Just go look through those and see what you like, then write a short story and post it. It's great practice.

[AD]

Shame you joined Valor, most of them are just butt heads except my double agent buddy

my head, is in fact, not a butt.

[Dratini]

There's no such thing as too old for anything, in my opinion. Although, I would never grow up if I had the choice. Welcome! Glad you're no curse -- I'd tell you to leave otherwise (kidding).

[Lucifer]

NOTICE: Come 11/28 (since my account is currently under 3 months old :P), I shall become Shadow of Existence.

Shame you joined Valor, most of them are just butt heads

Well to be honest I can sometimes be a butthead, so I'll fit right in.