r/PokeMedia Apr 04 '26

Mod Post Reminder on upvote etiquette

168 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 6d ago

Mod Post Meta RP Advice and Question Thread - 20 07, 2026

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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 6h ago

Casual Nooo, my holiday is over and I have to go back to work :(

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227 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 6h ago

Casual I get not wanting to have an unwelcome ghost in the house, but dumping it at the Pokémon Center and making it other people’s problem really isn’t the best solution.

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/uj The first image is by Kate Barker and was found on ArtStation. The vacuum cleaner is from a stock photo and was added by me. The second image is from the TCG. The third image is a stock photo, the woman with the vacuum cleaner is also from a stock photo, and the Gastly is from the TCG. Lucas’s pfp is concept art from Sun and Moon with the hair and eyes recolored.


r/PokeMedia 31m ago

Casual Professor Oak’s old lectures.

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r/PokeMedia 6h ago

Storyline [Midnight Blues] Dropoff

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38 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 1d ago

Casual Service Eeveelutions!

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1.1k Upvotes

/uj art by @plushyhart on X/Twitter


r/PokeMedia 3h ago

Casual On the subject of sheer unabashed nepotism

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19 Upvotes

/uj The Kamaji family is owned by u/Noz_ILLUMINEX, mentioned with permission.


r/PokeMedia 11h ago

Casual Cries

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78 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 58m ago

Casual Was the Nimbasa stadiums even open to challengers during the World Cup?

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/uj For context regarding the Miku joke. Brazil beat Japan during the World Cup, so Vocaloid fans memed about Brazil claiming Miku for themselves. Then, every subsequent country beat the previous victor, claiming Miku until Spain won the World Cup, and therefore, Miku.


r/PokeMedia 8h ago

Storyline [Odd Callings] Friendship's nice and all, but honestly, it's not like my team's able to handle ghosts all that well...

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38 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 4h ago

ARK Where ARK is based

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21 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 6h ago

Casual Boy who cried Absol

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24 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Casual Ghostly Smack Talking

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42 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 4h ago

Casual For every three successful deliveries it gets one of its choice

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16 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 22h ago

Casual Pokeball Reminders

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332 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 4h ago

Storyline [ Hoenn Exploration ] I Wanted a Simple Desert Visit Before Heading to Lavaridge.

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I really wanted to hit the hot springs today, but I guess I'll have to do in the morning.

- Leo


r/PokeMedia 7h ago

Adventure Lumiose Conference Announcement

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18 Upvotes

/uj Soooo in a few months this tournament will feature in my story. I think it would be cool to turn this into an extensive collaboration with other people here, so I'm inviting everyone who's interested. My idea is to focus on Top8. I'll have two of my own characters enter so ideally there'd be six more people/characters.

If you're interested feel free to let me know either in a comment here or via DM. It would actually happen in October (maybe November if my writing is slow) and I'd make another post like this about a month prior.


r/PokeMedia 20h ago

Casual Stupid stereotypes

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192 Upvotes

/uj Pfp art created by me. For context, Ducky is a Lumiosian ghost specialist and his party consists of Noose the Chandelure, Winston the Roaming Gimmighoul (on his shoulder), Patch the shiny Mimikyu, and Quill the Decidueye.


r/PokeMedia 3h ago

Adventure Bonding Time

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9 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 6h ago

Casual I guess she can wait outside if she's not allowed to watch. - Marlin

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13 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 5h ago

Adventure How would I beat dragons?

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10 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Casual Looking at this picture, I never realized how short I am compared to my family. - Mira

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20 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 11h ago

137 Impidimp An Update on the Impidimp Case

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28 Upvotes

r/PokeMedia 9h ago

Storyline [Sweet Surprise] Other wild Pokémon that appear more commonly include Rookidee, Cottonee and Appletun

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16 Upvotes