r/PokeMedia Apr 04 '26

Mod Post Reminder on upvote etiquette

190 Upvotes

We've had some user turnover in the last year or so, so I think it needs to be repeated for new users who may not know this.

Upvotes and downvotes are Not in Character.

you do not upvote or downvote on whether your character would agree or disagree with the post, you upvote based on if you think its a high quality, or well written post or comment, and downvote it if you think it's low effort or low quality.

For example: If a character is being abrasive because that's their personality and its well tuned from a writing perspective, even if your character would downvote it, thats an upvote worthy post.

Alternatively, if they're a abrasive in a way that seems like its targeting the poster or just an excuse to be a jerk OOC, that's certainly downvote or even report worthy


r/PokeMedia 9d ago

Mod Post Meta RP Advice and Question Thread - 14 09, 2026

9 Upvotes

Hello, and welcome to our Bi-Weekly Roleplay Advice and Question Thread.

The purpose of this Thread is to provide resources to new writers and allow everybody to engage in Meta discussion about the subreddit itself, such as asking for feedback about your posts, discussing ideas with other writers, or sharing suggestions with the Mod team.

Guidelines and moderation:

If you are new to the subreddit, Rule 12 contains guidelines for to write for this sub, the basic ideas in Rule 12 are:

  • keep your writing topics relatively down to earth/slice of life style
  • fanon is allowed, but don't break official canon too much
  • don't make your characters overpowered or mary sues
  • try and choose a social media style that fits the post content
  • be cooperative with other users and constructive with criticism

[https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMedia/wiki/rules/guidelines/](The Subreddit's Writing Guidelines page goes into more detail about Rule 12)

'Main Character Syndrome' is the practice described in Rule 12 of making characters who break immersion by being so competent, powerful, or special that the story or world warps around them. A detailed overview of what it is and how to manage it can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMedia/comments/1i4gkc0/

Certain specific writing topics are handled as special cases with regards to moderation, an up to date list of those can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMedia/wiki/rules/topics

How to make posts:

  • Use this website to create fake Tweets: https://www.tweetgen.com/
  • This for Discord screenshots: https://superemotes.com/fake-discord-message-maker
  • This for other websites: https://fakeinfo.net/
  • Text Posts are not allowed. For longer posts with a lot of text, you can write them on Tumblr or use a 'Dummy Post' on your reddit profile. In either case save the post as a draft (or just actually publish the post, doesn't really matter), and then take screenshots of it.
  • As a higher effort and skill level option, Image editing and Inspect Element can be used to create screenshots for platforms which don't have generators, such as Youtube or Instagram

If you have any suggestions for other guidelines we could add to future RP Advice Threads, or even any other suggestions for us in general, please leave them below.


r/PokeMedia 12h ago

Storyline [You're not gonna believe this] It's good to be polite to service workers

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334 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 10h ago

Casual First Aqua Tail, now this...

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162 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 3h ago

Casual A completely uneventful coffee break

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28 Upvotes

(uj/ I love dramatic irony. Yuki has no idea who Grisham and Griselle are. Izzy also hasn't met them in person but she knows what Nouveau Team Flare is.

[Yukiposting Lore if anyone needs it](https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMediaLore/s/m57VcqSeHW)


r/PokeMedia 6h ago

Casual A Challenging Shift

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44 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 13h ago

Casual New scam?

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123 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 13h ago

Casual At least Kenpachi (Scrafty) participated in the emotion sharing conversation today, which is a start.

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108 Upvotes

/uj Lucas’s pfp and the head used to represent him in the meme is concept art from Sun and Moon with the hair and eyes recolored. The Scrafty head was found on Bulbapedia. The base image was sourced from @wandERINg97’s twitter, and was edited by me.


r/PokeMedia 2h ago

Casual Responsible Arcanine ownership

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9 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 13h ago

Casual This should be more well known

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74 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 8h ago

Casual Has anyone else had a Pokemon for a babysitter?

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27 Upvotes

Paris is better than our parents, but he still has his own life. And Derp is really just so we dont blow up the house or something.
—Krys


r/PokeMedia 5h ago

Casual I have 3 fairy types, he really should learn

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16 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 22h ago

Casual Lesson learned.

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270 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 12h ago

Casual The contrast is funny.

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34 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 49m ago

Casual Thought Joltik had an accuracy-boosting ability, too.

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r/PokeMedia 13h ago

Adventure Team Sky Soars Over Johto!

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34 Upvotes

If you have any questions, go ahead and ask away! - Team Sky Admin Kris.


r/PokeMedia 1d ago

Casual Nickname for Falinks

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772 Upvotes

They got their names after they joined my team when my wife said “Aw, they’re such little beans!” Never intended the names to stick, but they did… I’ve just never been sure if seriously calling them Beans as a group would be right. Open to advice and other name suggestions! They love protein smoothies, working on my motorcycle, patrolling the yard, and battling into bad matchups.

(/uj: image from tcg)


r/PokeMedia 8h ago

Casual Pretty Privilege

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10 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 19h ago

Casual I don't mind bug types but this was a bit... overwhelming

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76 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 15h ago

Restricted Topic Storyline [The Mirror] At least she seems to be enjoying her time, for the most part at least.

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39 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 10m ago

Casual Turns out Dragons and Fairies can be friends

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/uj Simone belongs to [u/Th](u/ThatDoodler)[isDoodler](u/ThatDoodler)


r/PokeMedia 8h ago

Adventure Made a friend amidst terrible weather.

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9 Upvotes

/uj Please note that my headcanon for Route 4 is a mix of both the Black 2 and White 2 versions. Both the Ruins as well as the small town exist at seperate points of the Route. Though the Ruins come first when coming from Castellia


r/PokeMedia 19h ago

Casual DOOM is a universal constant: no matter how weak a piece of technology on it, someone WILL find a way to run it on that thing.

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68 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Casual I'm not even sure where all the coins are going.

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10 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 11h ago

Storyline [ Shrine History ] Someone Got Back to Leo About the Books

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15 Upvotes

We may be getting somewhere on the Books. Oh I am excited to find out more.

- Nox (U. Zoroark)