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After finishing what’s currently posted of Traipsingexodus’ Homunculus series, I have come to notice that the amount of recognition it isn’t getting is just outright disrespectful. So I’m gonna write a review of each of its parts, trying to convince people to actually click on it. I can see why it might not appeal to some. The series features no canon characters and holds sexuality very close to its core in many cases. If you're someone that would end up closing the tab after reading the summaries of the series, this is the part where I write an essay about why you’re missing out.
Early on, Homunculus explores the intelligence of pokemon and they interact with the world of humans (and it does this first and foremost with sexuality). There are many touchy, sensitive topics that most seasoned authors would likely wag their finger at--usually on the claims that bringing attention to such things would end up shaping the colors of the entire story. And they were right, it did. And Tex hit it out of the fucking park. The stories of Homunculus tackle these kinds of things better than you could hope for, and still it finds the space for a colorful swathe of OCs and attentive worldbuilding.
The series starts in the most biased sort of way it can. Tex introduces the mindsets and internal politics of his setting through the lens of some asshole researcher fucking his gardevoir who gets deported from a country and almost loses his job. While the original purpose might have partly been to reprimand gardevoirfags that think it’s all sunshines and rainbows, it opens up the series guns-blazing and introduces you to a world that comes in many flavors, and not all of those flavors are the ones you wanted on your plate. Scholar's Folly, while an ample introduction to the first slew of characters, was mostly okay. Incredible enough to stand on its own without the characters it's propping up? Well, maybe, but it's chronologically the first step in the series. (cont)
