Negrek's Nominations

Although this is only one chapter in, it's an extremely promising story that already shows an interesting premise, snappy prose, and a deft handling of both character and action scenes. Definitely one to watch… assuming it updates again someday.

The first story arc in this 'fic largely takes place within a hyper-religious community that believes pokémon training to be immoral, and throughout we get glimpses into a Kanto caught in the crossfire of a revolutionary movement and the rise of a powerful crime syndicate. Rediamond does a great job of putting his own spin on the pokémon world's history, and future chapters promise to explore it even farther from a variety of different angles.

The first story arc in this 'fic largely takes place within a hyper-religious community that believes pokémon training to be immoral, and throughout we get glimpses into a Kanto caught in the crossfire of a revolutionary movement and the rise of a powerful crime syndicate. Rediamond does a great job of putting his own spin on the pokémon world's history, and future chapters promise to explore it even farther from a variety of different angles.

I defy you to read the 'fic and not d'aww at these two at least once. Seriously.

Although it's only two chapters in at this point, this 'fic has already gone a long way towards building up an intriguing world and characters. We're looking at a world where guilds and exploration teams are talked of in the past tense, and ChaosCaptain's characters are in a much more dire situation than your typical confused former human and happy-go-lucky exploration team pal.

Despite the fact that pokéballs have never been invented, pokémon remain second-class citizens. GingerDixie does a great job of getting into the head of various pokémon characters as they navigate in a world on the brink of violent revolution.

Cutlerine is a relentless writer who's done more than anyone in recent memory to explore the limits of what constitutes "fanfiction." And they do it all on an impressive update schedule (seriously, if you've never had to do some kind of updated adventure game, you don't understand how hard this is) while keeping the quality consistently high.

Ysavvryl started and completed a >200,000-word chapterfic this year, in addition to continuing her Pokédex One-Shots collection (more than 350 done so far), and that's not even an atypical yearly output for her. She's obviously got lots of stories to tell and the drive to get them all out there for others to enjoy.