alottalotta

[alottalotta]

The Second Outcome: One Year Later

Hi! I'm alottalotta, the author of The Second Outcome, the fanfic linked in this post. It's been a full year since the last chapter has been uploaded, and I wanted to talk about how I've felt about it since then, because I've been thinking about it a bit. So get cozy, cause this is going to be quite a long post.

In February of 2024, I discovered a comment on a video called 'Why "The Untold Story of Pecharunt" is a Lie' by gmedley,

where I found a comment by a user named Okeana Aster (who at the time went by Oceane on YouTube, but has since changed their YouTube name, so I will be referring to the user as Okeana from now on) talking about the story, when in a reply they made a reference to an AU they were thinking of, where the main difference was we told Kieran about seeing the ogre at the festival instead of keeping it a secret from him. They went into large detail as well, going into depth about all sorts of scenes that changed as a result, even as far as Mochi Mayhem, with a completely changed ending. I thought a lot about that comment, and when I saw that it was only an idea, I decided to write about it myself (I asked Okeana about writing it down in another post on the official Pokemon YouTube channel, and they never got back to me, so I just made an assumption that it would be okay to write about it as long as I make it clear it wasn't my idea). Some time later, I started writing a draft of it while working on other things, but it ended up in a lot of procrastination and rewrites, until early March 2024, when I got the story finalized and finally begun writing it. The protag was unnamed in Okeana's version, but I decided to use Florian as the protag for the AU, simply because I hadn't seen many people writing Kieran/Florian fics (this was in early 2024, Kieran/Florian didn't even have a proper tag at the time). However, you are absolutely free to substitute Florian for Juliana if you so choose, considering I didn't characterize them separately. One month later, I finished it, and uploaded every chapter daily.

After writing it, I tried to capture that same success that the fic got by writing two sequels, adapting Indigo Disk and Mochi Mayhem, respectively. I was able to use more of my ideas for the Indigo Disk adaptation, mainly because Okeana had no major ideas for it put into words online, but in the case of Mochi Mayhem, the ending was actually written down already, so I adapted that. Unfortunately, both of those fics failed to receive the same success that the original fic had, which was really demotivating to me, and I think it might be a big contributor as to why I decided to just stop writing; I got hooked on the praise and success I got from The Second Outcome, and continued to write hoping to reach that level again. It just wasn't really fun anymore, I was out of ideas, out of motivation to write, and I just kinda moved on. Looking back at it now, I shouldn't have let the lack of hits and comments get to me; I should have appreciated the audience I had gathered while I did. I want to start writing again, but I also don't want to get my hopes up thinking I'm going to get the same kind of success I had before.

After a few more months and a couple of interactions with Okeana over YouTube comments, I started to realize that we didn't really see eye-to-eye on things. They despise Carmine, and I don't. In their version of the AU, they likely demonized her, and because I don't, I tried to make Carmine more sympathetic and understandable, which I don't think they would appreciate. I later found out their reason for hating Carmine so much, which I will not disclose out of respect for their privacy, but it's something we disagree on regardless, and something that likely would have a major impact on the story, considering that Carmine is the villain in this case.

If I do pick up writing again, it will likely be for other fandoms (looking forward to writing a Pikmin fic sometime soon, love that franchise, amazing games frfr), but at some point I would like to start writing for this fandom again, because I enjoyed interacting with this community that got me started. A major shoutout to dipplinduo for getting me into writing fics in the first place, and for signal boosting one of my fics that I wrote, very kind of you, and I appreciate you for that. To the rest of this community, thank you so much for checking out and supporting my fics, I'm really grateful to have had the audience I developed, and I hope to make more content in the future.

[alottalotta]

Signal Boosting a Gifted Dipplinshipping Fic

**** NOT MY FIC ****

So it quite literally just came to my attention that someone on ao3 (they go by "alottalotta"), wrote a beautiful oneshot based on a prompt featured on my blog at one point. Something along the lines of, what if Juliana didn't forgive Kieran right away [at the end of Indigo Disk]? This gift was published in March, and I am only now realizing it in September. Oof, right. SO!

I want to do my due diligence for this lovely author. I could not find a a matching Tumblr username and I'm unsure of who they are on Tumblr (so I couldn't see if they made their own post to reblog, and unfortunately couldn't find one with this fic in general on Tumblr). I may have missed it, but either way, I'm hoping people can recognize that my sole intention is to bring more love to this fic and this author's hard work by using my platform to signal boost it. I will always read and support any gifted works given to me (including artwork), and I am incredibly honored to be thought of. Will keep an eye on my gifted area on AO3 now that I know what to be on the lookout for. :) <3

With love,

dipplinduo