I'm getting the impression that the current fandom generally disregards everything that deviates from canon further than Peggy Sue and/or isn't crack. Is Peggy Sue even still a thing in Eva fandom? Like, I remember like five or six years ago that genre underwent what I can only describe as an arms ...

The thing about writing is that when it comes down to it, we all borrow from one another--there's no such thing as pure originality. Instead it's all sort of regurgitated and remixed into something new every single time. We all have our sources of inspiration, those bits of story that others write t...

Good thing Shinji's only two days from retirement.

Yeah, I agree with Glor, this fic’s starting at a much higher point relationship-wise between the two. There’s already a rock-solid base established between them. To pull off a breakup, you’d need to somehow ruin all that and why bother in fighting upstream like that just to end in a darkfic where t...

Fair enough. I mean, I'm not trying to push you into it RIGHT THIS MOMENT. Just, y'know, something to think about down the line if you do the lore dump.

A map's not super difficult. As long as you have a basic paint program and a template, you can go to town with little to no skills. Might not look the prettiest, but your audience'll get the idea. Like, I'll easily admit I have no skills in graphic design and have only worked with MS Pai...

I just wanted to say that, even just four chapters in, I am already enthralled. It’s already up there as one of my favorite post-3I renditions (and might even surpass the rest of the competition if it keeps up). The characters are dead on, and it doesn’t feel like we’ve missed a beat with th...

I'm quite enjoying this. I think it's sometimes forgotten that while Shinji's natural state is that of a passive character, when put in certain situations he can dish what Asuka deals out right back at her. Maybe not as well , but enough to hold his ground. I'm really glad to see tha...

I am absolutely adoring these Asuka/Misato scenes. The Misato/Shinji mother/son dynamic gets a lot of play, as does Asuka/Shinji (obviously), but Misato/Asuka mother/daughter tends to really get overshadowed in fanfiction (probably because the show makes a point not to do much with it...

Ah, but that's not the argument that was being refuted. Xard claimed it was a colossal failure as fiction, and it's not (or rather, it's not by several commonly used metrics). Imperfect, yes. Failure, not so much. But I wasn't arguing Xard's point, now was I? I just brou...

The problem isn't that NGE doesn't resolve itself (in the literal sense), the problem is that people don't like its resolution because it clashes against their resolutive expectations created by similar fiction. Typically, either everyone dies or every lives happily ever after. ...

No, it's exactly the opposite. It gives us enough to work it out and then focuses on the main thrust of the story. We don't need to see what happens to the other characters to know how it all works out because the show gives us enough to figure it out for ourselves. Yeah, sorry. I'm jus...

Meh. All that crap was unimportant. We got enough to tell us that people who were dead were there in Instrumentality, and that everyone was getting the same treatment Shinji did, and that Shinji (and by implication everyone else) eventually worked it all out. EoE was good and useful in its ...

On the topic of Eva's fictional quality: I subscribe to a few simple rules when it comes to storytelling. One of them is that if you introduce something, you'd damned better be willing to resolve it. You can subvert the rules of storytelling, you can twist them in unorthodox ways; but at the...

IIRC, we never got confirmation on what degree it was, did we? For all we know, she went to some no-name community college (via web courses?) and got a general Associates degree.

Earth's going to be having Rei winter for the next fifty years anyway, it doesn't need that to deal with. Unless it's caused by a possible bout of super-volcanism, that's doubtful. From where Shinji and Asuka are at the end in reference to Rei, if Rei had shot dust/smoke/dirt/whatev...

IME the best results come from one writer with lots of beta readers. It's always good to have lots of people handy to call you on your bullshit. True, but I don't really consider beta's to be part of the writing team, because they amount to editors and critics rather than pure creative ...

The perfect Eva fan-fic is like the holy grail, its hard to find. No one person can do it, it takes a team of people to make a perfect one, that way no one persons preference excels the others, creating a perfect balance for a perfect work. I am currently working on that with three members from thi...

(the fact that said principles are also liars and manipulative little fuckwits doesn't help; no change in Gendo, of course, but it amounts to character derailment for most everyone else). I'd argue against this, actually; though mostly in cases like The Second Try where it wasn'...

Peggy Sue is tricky to get right. You almost have to deconstruct the basic premise to get a good story out of it these days. 'Character A fixes everything that went wrong' is boring. 'Character A tries to fix everything but the BUTTERFLY OF DOOM COMETH' is far more entertaining. This...