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Spring is a wonderful time of the year​

Announcements
If you're not aware, Trainers of Fanfiction is currently ongoing, so go and check it out! Also, Bulbagarden is currently running a staff drive! The Writers Workshop is currently looking for additional members of the team, but if any other section interests you, give it a look!

New Releases
Nothing this week sadface : (

New Chapters

Completed stories!
None this week.

Review Game
Snuggle Tier List has requested a review of KAIJUMON, either Chapter 2 or a general overview of the entire story.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

sophont (n.): an intelligent being; a being with base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. [Wiktionary]

Evil, they argued, could only have meaning on smaller scales, in the hurt one sophont does to another. (Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep)

How do you define something that is like a human, but not human? The classic RPG solution is to use the word race, but this carries connotations related to the idea of human ethnicity. Sophont (From the Greek σοφός, sophós, ‘wise’) is a 1960s coinage that fills this linguistic gap. A sophont, much like the Old English wiht, is something sentient, a person, but not Homo sapiens.
 
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Announcements
Another week, another newsletter. First up is a reminder that the Bulbagarden staff drive is still ongoing - you have till the 27th to get applications in, and that includes for the Writers Workshop. Otherwise, Trainers of Fanfiction is still running, so keep an eye out for new entries every Wednesday and Saturday

New Releases
@JFrombaugh brings us a sequel to The Joseph and Paxton Show, The Joseph and Alice Podcast
@GastlyGibus returns with Ghosts of the Past

New Chapters
Three new episodes of Pokémon Shine Diamond - Episode 65b, Episode 66a, and Episode 66b, by @LightningTopaz
Week 394e of Live from the Fireside, by Lightning Topaz
Chapter 13 - Kindred Spirits of The Worldslayers, by @Sike Saner
CH2: Dragon Junior of Battle With Me: Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness, by @Snuggle Tier List
Part Five of Dragony, by @canisaries
Part 4 of A Blond Ray of Sunshine, by @Antoshi
Letter Nineteen of Flying in the Dark, by @diamondpearl876

Word of the Week

golem (n.): 1. a clay figure brought to life by magic [Oxford English Dictionary]
2. a fool, a clod, an oaf, an awkward person [Wiktionary]

In Hebrew mythology, a golem (גולם) is an automaton, usually created from clay and animated through the use of magic. In the story of the golem of Prague, the rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel created a golem to protect the Jews of the city from persecution. In modern fantasy a golem is figuratively any magical automaton – which brings us through a circuitous route to National Pokédex #26: Golem.
 
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Summertime is coming. Time to finish the last bits of homework!​

Announcements and Teasers

The Staff Drive is approaching the finishing phase, so if you wanna give it a shot and send an application to join our team, this is your chance! Also, Trainer of Fanfiction is still undergoing, so be ready for the incoming entries!

New releases

The Miraculous Adventures of Cliche Ash and Friends! by @ThatsNotGroudon
Neon Genesis Evangelemon by @El Squibbonator
Anime Remix Special: Giratina and the Remixed Sky Warrior by @LightningTopaz
Land of the Roses [Rewrite] by @Misfit Angel

New chapters

Special 4 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation by @namohysip
Episode 67 of Pokemon Shine Diamond by @LightningTopaz
Week 394f, Part 6 of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz
Chapter 2 of The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika
Chapter 56 of Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey by @Juliko
Chapter 3 of Battle With Me: Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness by @Snuggle Tier List

Completed stories!

None this week.

Review Game

unrepentantAuthor is looking for a review of Different Eyes, with preference for a later chapter (greatest preference on chapter 6). The most recent chapters don't require any background reading, so you can skip right to them!

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

thorough-cough (v.): to cough and fart at the same time [Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (Paraphrased)]

In 1811, Captain Francis Grose of the British Army published his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, and it is to him that we are in debt for this nugget of Georgian vulgarity. One can only hope it was a source of amusement for the poor bloody infantry, slogging it on the battlefields of Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
 
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Good day, writers of Bulbagarden! Here's what's happening around the workshop!

Announcements and Teasers
With June, we have a new monthly bonus for the Review League: Offer 100+ words of plot speculation on an author's work and claim 2 extra bonus points. Also, the Bulbagarden Staff Drive is ending tomorrow, June 3rd!

New releases
In Beta by @namohysip

New chapters
Chapter 21 of A Blond Ray of Sunshine by @Antoshi TEEN: - A Blond Ray of Sunshine (5/26/2019: Chapter 21)
Chapter 23 of PMD: Pathways of Aspiration by @p-bugle TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Pathways of Aspiration
Chapter 46 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Chapter 3 of The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika TEEN: - The Legendarian Chronicles
Week 394g of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Live from the Fireside, Season 15 (Week 394g: The Legend of Princess Melanie, part 7)
Episodes 2, 3 and an interlude of Anime Remix Special: Giratina and the Remixed Sky Warrior by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Anime Remix Special: Giratina and the Remixed Sky Warrior
Chapter 2 of Land of the Roses by @Misfit Angel TEEN: - Land of the Roses [rewrite]
Chapter 4 of Battle With Me: Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness by @Snuggle Tier List TEEN: - Battle With Me: Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness

Completed stories!
Dragony by @canisaries ! Congratulations!

Review Game
kintsugi is looking for a review of Dungeons & Dragonite. At just two chapters and a short prologue, it should be a short read!

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
meta (adj.): (of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre: self-referential [Oxford English Dictionary]

In the original Greek, meta (μετά) was a prefix meaning simply ‘after’, ‘with’, or ‘beyond’, and could be used in a similar fashion to the way the Latin post is used in modern English. Its use in English comes from a misinterpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, taken to mean “the science beyond the physical”; as opposed to “the book that comes after the book called Physics”. In common usage meta is now shorthand for any self-referential creative work.
 
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Announcements and Teasers
I don't believe we have anything of note to announce this week. However, I hope that with some new promotional material recently released for Sword and Shield, we'll soon have some Gen VIII pokémon appearing in the workshop!

New releases
Revelry in the Dark by @Jared DiCarlo

New chapters
Chapter 2 of The Joseph and Alice Podcast by JFrombaugh EVERYONE: - The Joseph & Alice Podcast
Chapter 4 of The Legendarian Chronicles by Chibi Pika TEEN: - The Legendarian Chronicles
Chapter 2 of Neon Genesis EvangeleMon by El Squibbonator EVERYONE: - Neon Genesis EvangeléMon
Chapter 22 of A Blond Ray of Sunshine by Antoshi TEEN: - A Blond Ray of Sunshine (6/5/2019: Chapter 22)
uhhhh, snippet 1..? of Three Paths to MonOrg by Cryptic TEEN: - Three Paths to MonOrg
Week 395 of Live from the Fireside by LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Live From the Fireside: Season 15 (Week 395: Epona and Christine)
Episodes 4, 5 and 6 of ARS: Giratina and the Remixed Sky Warrior by LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Anime Remix Special: Giratina and the Remixed Sky Warrior

Completed stories!
Dark Shadow Rises!!! by @Jared DiCarlo ! Congratulations!

Review Game
kintsugi is looking for a review of Dungeons & Dragonite. At just two chapters and a short prologue, it should be a short read!

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
This week’s word comes from the evocative vocabulary of the Celtic fringe:

fossick (v.): 1. to be troublesome.
2. to search for something; to rummage. [Wiktionary]

Fossick has its origins in Cornwall, deriving from the Cornish feusik, ‘fortunate’. Mining culture runs deep in the Cornish lexicon. It would appear fossick arrives in Australian and New Zealand English through the emigration of Cornish miners to new opportunities elsewhere in the Empire.
 
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Announcements
We've got nothing of note to announce this week!

New Releases
The 1K Words Oneshots Series by @Cresselia92. The themes and ratings of this series will be varied, so keep an eye out!

New Chapters

Completed stories!
None this week.

Review Game
kintsugi is looking for a review of Dungeons & Dragonite. At just two chapters and a short prologue, it should be a short read!

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

Henchman

henchman (n.): a faithful follower or political supporter, especially one prepared to engage in crime or violence by way of service. [Oxford English Dictionary]

Originally from the Old English hengestman – literally ‘horseman’, a henchman was originally a groom, a servant who looked after horses. The term fell out of use in English but was retained in Scots, where somehow it was muddled in the 19th century, possibly through a misunderstanding of Sir Walter Scot’s writing, into the modern meaning of an insalubrious servant.
 
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Announcements
As you may have already noticed, we have a new moderator on the team. Namohysip joins us this week to help keep things ticking over in the Workshop, and I'm sure we're all looking forward to working with him.

New Chapters
Chapter 5: Herpity Derp of Battle With Me: Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness, by @Snuggle Tier List
Chapter 8: Bounty of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Instruments of Creation, by @The Desert Cat
Chapter 39- Burn Away of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation, by @namohysip
Chapter 4: Remember, a Rose has Thorns of Land of the Roses, by @Misfit Angel
Episode 70: Doc Brock of Pokémon Shine Diamond, by @LightningTopaz
Week 397: The Legend of Kaitou of Live from the Fireside, by LightningTopaz
Letter Twenty of Flying in the Dark, by @diamondpearl876
Last 'Mon Standing from The 1K Words Oneshots Series, by @Cresselia92
Chapter 6: Aboard the S.S. Anne from The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika
Chapter 2: Dreams and Deaths of Revelry in the Dark, by @Jared DiCarlo
Chapter 23 of A Blond Ray of Sunshine, by @Antoshi

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

juggernaut (n.): 1. the form of Krishna worshipped in Puri, Orissa, where in the annual festival his image is dragged through the streets on a heavy chariot.
2. a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force. [Oxford English Dictionary]

Juggernaut is one of those strange Anglicisms that derive from one Indian word or another, a linguistic legacy of empire. Juggernaut comes from the Hindi jagannāth (जगन्नाथ), ‘Lord of the Universe’, one of the names of the god Krishna. With a typical English refusal to be simple or logical, the word was somehow subsequently Anglicised using a Greek suffix.
 
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Nothing better than some drinks and a pool to fight the summer heat!​

Announcements and Teasers

The Pelipper Post Office is unusually calm, with various Pokémon snoozing in the reception while waiting for the titular Pelippers to bring some news. So, why not follow their example and relax with some reading and writing?

New Releases

None this week.

New Chapters

Reader FAHT CHEHK #1 of Battle With Me: Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness, by @Snuggle Tier List
Episode 71b of Pokémon Shine Diamond, by @LightningTopaz
Episode 72a of Pokémon Shine Diamond, by @LightningTopaz
Week 398 of Live from the Fireside, by @LightningTopaz
Chapter 7 of The Legendarian Chronicles, by @Chibi Pika
Chapter 57 of Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey, by @Juliko
Chapter 24 of A Blond Ray of Sunshine, by @Antoshi

Review Game

Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

caterpillar (n.): 1. the larva of a butterfly or moth, which has a segmented body resembling a worm with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of leg-like appendages. [Oxford English Dictionary]
2. a person who preys on others; an extortioner. [Dictionary.com]

From the Old French chatepelose, ‘hairy cat’, we get caterpillar – which as we all know, is very hungry. Perhaps that’s why the word is partially influenced by the obsolete piller, ‘ravager’ or ‘despoiler’. In the 15th century caterpillar took on the figurative sense of a person who is a pest, a parasite.
 
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Hold your Ponytas, Ash! Here's what's happening around the Workshop!

Announcements and Teasers
Nothing of note to announce this week.

New releases
Nothing to note this week!

New chapters
Chapter 5 of Land of the Roses by @Misfit Angel TEEN: - Land of the Roses [rewrite]
Chapter 8 of The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika TEEN: - The Legendarian Chronicles
Letter 21 of Flying in the Dark by @diamondpearl876 TEEN: - Flying in the Dark
Chapter 58 of Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey by @Juliko TEEN: - Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey
Chapter 51 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Chapters 4 and 5 of Revelry in the Dark by @Jared DiCarlo MATURE: - Revelry in the Dark (a My Hero Academia fanfic)

Completed stories!
Nothing to note this week!

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
butterfly (n.): a nectar-feeding insect with two pair of large, typically brightly coloured wings that are coveted with microscopic scales. [Oxford English Dictionary]

It has been charmingly suggested that butterfly is a corruption of ‘flutter-by’ - and while this etymology has a certain poetic neatness to it, it is alas wrong. The alternate theory that it derives from the Old English bēatan (to beat or smash) is also probably untrue. Butterfly is more or less the modern form of butorflēorge, literally ‘butter fly’, probably originally meaning the male brimstone butterfly (Gonepteyrx rhamni).
 
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Announcements and Teasers
Nothing just yet, but we have some news being prepared for later this week, so keep an eye out. Watch this space.

Edit: After some discussion, the team has decided to clarify the wording of one of the Review League rules. "Speedy Review" points are conferred to any review of a recently updated fic, whether or not the review pertains to the most recent update. Previously, this rule was ambiguous, as some reviewers found it intuitive that only reviews of new content would be eligible for this bonus. The new wording is as follows:
  • For speedy reviews done within 48 hours of a fic being released or updated, you will receive 2 extra points. Reviews need not pertain to the latest update.
  • For speedy reviews done within 24 hours of a fic being released or updated, you will receive 4 extra points. Reviews need not pertain to the latest update.
We hope this will encourage more reviews of longer fics that would otherwise not benefit nearly as much from the speedy review incentive!

New releases
Harry Potter and the Magical Creatures by @SinnohEevee TEEN: - Harry Potter and the Magical Creatures [Harry Potter x Pokémon Crossover]]

New chapters
Chapter 9 of The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika TEEN: - The Legendarian Chronicles
Bonus chapter of Hunter, Haunted by @canisaries MATURE: - Hunter, Haunted
Chapter 3 of The Joseph and Alice Podcast by @JFrombaugh EVERYONE: - The Joseph & Alice Podcast
Week 399 of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Live From the Fireside: Season 15 (Week 399: Kanade and the River Demon)
Chapter 7 of Battle With Me: Pokemon XD Gales of Darkness by @Snuggle Tier List TEEN: - Battle With Me: Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness

Completed stories!
Nothing to note this week!

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
paladin (n.): 1. any of the twelve peers of Charlemagne’s court, of whom the Count Palatine was the chief.
2. a knight renowned for heroism and chivalry. [Oxford English Dictionary]

Today a paladin is a common RPG trope, an indisputably virtuous warrior implacably opposed to evil. The concept ultimately comes from medieval romance, notably The Song of Roland, where the paladins are elite knights defending France from the invasion of the Saracens. Paladin, unsurprisingly, is a loanword from French, itself derived from the Latin palatinus (‘palace official’).

Paladins are also my go-to RPG character class! A very good word of the week indeed, thank you Beth.
 
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My first time doing this, hey all~ Glad to get involved with the weeklies. Let's start off with some announcements...

Announcements and Teasers
Just in case anyone's missed it, we've made some adjustments to the Review League's speedy review rule:

After some discussion, the team has decided to clarify the wording of one of the Review League rules. "Speedy Review" points are conferred to any review of a recently updated fic, whether or not the review pertains to the most recent update. Previously, this rule was ambiguous, as some reviewers found it intuitive that only reviews of new content would be eligible for this bonus. The new wording is as follows:
  • For speedy reviews done within 48 hours of a fic being released or updated, you will receive 2 extra points. Reviews need not pertain to the latest update.
  • For speedy reviews done within 24 hours of a fic being released or updated, you will receive 4 extra points. Reviews need not pertain to the latest update.
We hope this will encourage more reviews of longer fics that would otherwise not benefit nearly as much from the speedy review incentive!
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New releases
@Nori 's Poem Anthology TEEN: - Nori's Poem Anthology

New chapters
Episodea 72b and 73a of Pokemon Shine Diamond by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Pokemon Shine Diamond
Interlude 17 of How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps by @AceTrainer14 MATURE: - How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps - Interlude 17
Letter 22 of Flying in the Dark by @diamondpearl876 TEEN: - Flying in the Dark
Chapter 59 of Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey by @Juliko TEEN: - Pokemon: A Marvelous Journey
Chapter 52 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation
Chapter 25 of A Blond Ray of Sunshine by @Antoshi TEEN: - A Blond Ray of Sunshine (7/14/2019: Chapter 25)

Completed stories!
Season 15 of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz. Congratulations!

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week
paranymph (n.): a friend of the bridegroom; a best man; a bridesmaid [Wiktionary]

As usual, all the paranymphs were banned from wearing white.

It’s obviously Greek, and in its ancient sense, a paranymph (παράνυμφος) was a guest of honour at a wedding. Rather pleasingly, it can still be used as a gender-neutral term in the same way. But paranymph seems to have collected a hotch-potch of additional meanings – it can also, for example, refer to a thought revealed through a slip of the tongue, such as a Freudian slip.
 
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⦁ Mild Violence - Cartoon and fantasy violence are fine in any amount. Blood and gore should not be present, and any deaths should not be violent in nature​
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So I can't have someone like, cut themself or are we talking like something far more than cuts and bruises (like straight up amputation)?
 
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Context is important, but in general terms I'd say simply getting a cut counts as Mild Violence. You can always PM a Workshop moderator if you want opinions on a specific scene
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Ok, that's what I wanted to know. I wasn't going to go to the level of gore and gushing blood. More like, cuts and such. I mean, that's entirely different compared to having a huge gash in your arm and blood gushing out. That would be more a mature rating. Like, when a Pokemon uses scratch or slash or any type of move like that in battle, I was going to have there be blood, but not like gushing out (like a story with a mature rating).
 
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Announcements
There are two big things to announce this week! First is the fate of the Writers Workshop's long-running seasonal awards. tl;dr (shame on you! this is a community built on reading!) there were far too many ritical problems and utter annoyances with running the seasonal awards, so they are being postponed indefinitely.

The next thing to announce is our Summer 2019 Themed Oneshot Competition! We're hoping this'll ease the pain of losing the traditional awards and still capture that competitive spirit for those who are interested in it. The theme for this event is undelivered messages, and further details can be found in the announcement thread. He's hoping this trial event works out well!

New Releases
@LightningTopaz continues her longstanding series with a new season: Live From the Fireside!
@Juliko brings us am older work of hers, Lily Fields, a Little Princess oneshot!

New Chapters

Completed stories!
@Antoshi has completed the fourth part of A Blond Ray of Sunshine: Family Reunion with Chapter 26! Congratulations!

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

29 July – Animalcule

animalcule (n.): a microscopic animal [Oxford English Dictionary]

Each handful of soil hides a vast zoo of animalcules.

A curious word, at once familiar and archaic, animalculum comes from the Latin animal with the addition of the diminuitive -culus. Thus a modern English coinage might be something like ‘minimal’, or ‘animally’. From its 16th century usage animalcule could mean any small animal, a spermatozoa, and of course, a micro-organism.
 
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Announcements
We're one week into registration for our Summer 2019 Themed Oneshot Competition! You still have till the 11th to either enter or sign up as a judge (Though try not to leave it till the last minute).

New Chapters
Chapter 10: Absol and Zorua of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Instruments of Creation, by @The Desert Cat
Chapter 11: Undercover of The Legendarian Chronicles, by @Chibi Pika
letter twenty-four of Flying in the Dark, by @diamondpearl876
Episode 74b: A Trainer and a Child Reunion (Part 2), Episode 75a: Aiding the Enemy! (Part 1), and Episode 75b: (Aiding the Enemy! (Part 2), of Pokémon Shine Diamond, by @LightningTopaz

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

gasconade (n.): extravagant boasting. [Oxford English Dictionary]

You will note, I am sure, the very fine and most admired calibre of our curated language; the height of loquaciousness, pinnacle of interest, where logophilia meets logophagy; surely the envy of fanfiction forums; this honourable section we call Word of the Week. And so we continue this great tradition with a word from the French gasconner (To talk like a Gascon) – because were indeed would we be without throwing around some inter-regional insults?
 
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Female Galarian Weezing confirmed?​

Announcements and Teasers

Hello, everybody! Here's a little reminder that there are about three hours left before the signups for the summer oneshot competition are officially closed. If you are still interested in participating, then take this chance while you still can!

For all participants who have already signed up, remember that you will have the next four weeks to work on your idea, until 23:59 GMT on September 8th. Don't post your stories until the last two days before the deadline, however!

New releases

Snowbound: Volume 1 by @Lucas Whitefur
As the Moon Watched On by @TRNatalie

New chapters

Chapter 55 of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation by @namohysip
Episodes 74b, 75a and 75b of Pokemon Shine Diamond by @LightningTopaz
Episodes 76 and 77a of Pokemon Shine Diamond by @LightningTopaz
Week 187 of Live from the Fireside by @LightningTopaz
Chapter 11 of The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika
Chapter 12 of The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika
Episode 3 of Neon Genesis Evangelemon by @El Squibbonator
Chapter 10 of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Instruments of Creation by @The Desert Cat
Letter 24 of Flying in the Dark by @diamondpearl876

Completed stories!

Nothing to note this week!

Review Game

Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

backpfeifengesicht (n.): a slappable face; a face in need of a slap. [Wiktionary]

The man had an entirely unresistable backpfeifengesicht.

Backpfeifengesicht is unsurprisingly, a German word. The advantage of compound words is that there's almost always a word for something - and indeed there's something neat about the concept of a word for a face that it somehow ... smackable. Punchable. A reaction to the, often unintentional, appearance some faces of have of insufferable smugness that just invites violence.
 
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Okay, okay, Misty! I'm sorry the newsletter's late!​

Anyway, here's what's happening around the workshop!

Announcements and Teasers
For those participating in the oneshot contest, we've entered our second week of writing! Time is slowly winding down!

New releases
Pokemon the netflix teen drama movie by @KaylaBaraonda

New chapters
Chapter 24 of PMD: Pathways of Aspiration by @p-bugle TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Pathways of Aspiration
Chapter 12 of The Worldslayers by @Sike Saner TEEN: - The Worldslayers
Letter 25 of Flying in the Dark by @diamondpearl876 TEEN: - Flying in the Dark
Chapter 13 of The Legendarian Chronicles by @Chibi Pika TEEN: - The Legendarian Chronicles
Week 188 of Live From The Fireside by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Live From the Fireside: Season 16 (Week 403: The Swanna Song)
Episodes 77b and 77c of Pokemon Shine Diamond by @LightningTopaz EVERYONE: - Pokemon Shine Diamond
Chapter 6 of Land of the Roses by @Misfit Angel TEEN: - Land of the Roses
Chapters 7 and 8 of Revelry in the Dark by @Jared DiCarlo MATURE: - Revelry in the Dark (a My Hero Academia fanfic)
Chapters 56 and 57 of PMD: Hands of Creation by @namohysip TEEN: - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Hands of Creation

Completed stories!
@Jared DiCarlo has finished PokePark Panic! Congratulations!

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

19 August – Beadledom

beadledom (n.): 1. Beadles collectively, and their characteristics as a class.
2. Stupid or senseless officiousness. [Wiktionary]

“I shall endeavour to limit the occupation of the Beadle of Golden Square to pure beadledom, by prohibiting him from waiting at the evening parties of the trustees, and beating the door-mats of the inhabitants.” (Punch magazine, vol. 13)

There seems to be a positively endless variety of words to describe pomposity and general nettling officiousness. Beadledom, despite being made up of very old elements, only entered the language in the 1800s. The office of beedle goes right back to Anglo-Saxon England (From Old English beodan, ‘to proclaim’), and usually refers to some kind of minor government official.
 
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Another week, another newsletter!
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Announcements
Our Summer 2019 Themed Oneshot Competition is still underway! We've entered the third week of writing! Hopefully you've been making good progress if you're participating! I know I haven't

New Releases
@Jared DiCarlo is back with another story, Digimon Savers: Gaomon's Quest! An introduction and chapter 1 are already available.

New Chapters

Completed stories!
Nothing to announce this week!

Review Game
Patrick Haines would like a review of chapter 3 or 4 of The Archsage War.

Remember, reviews done as part of the Review Game are worth an extra +2 points in the Review League!

Word of the Week

25 August – Cacography

cacography (n.): 1. Bad spelling or punctuation.
2. Poor or illegible handwriting. [Wiktionary]

I cannot abide seeing cacography in fanfiction – at least use a spellchecker!

Cacography is the sign of a creative mind.

I think many of us are guilty of this one, in one form or another. Cacography amusingly sounds ruder than it really is, from the Greek kákos, (κακός), ‘bad’, and the Latin graphia (‘written, writing, etc’). Most obviously it can refer to messy handwriting, but perhaps a more interesting use is as shorthand for elementary spelling, punctuation and grammar sins.
 
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