I know it has been over 5 years since you’ve worked on Memoirs, would you ever plan on writing something like that again? I loved it so much, and wanted to know if you had any more work to read, or perhaps something to look forward to in the future.
Memoirs? I don’t… remember ever working on anything like that…? What was I even writing 5 years ago…? Stuff about Sun and Moon, about Alola and gen VII? Doesn’t feel that long ago, oddly enough. You don’t mean my book of weird poetry about Greece, do you? I only released that in 2020 and it’s not really a memoir, but it’s kind of the closest thing I can think of. I suppose the answer in that case would be that I don’t have anything in the pipes at the moment, but easily might in the future. Or… do you mean, like, the first-person narrative style of my Moon playthrough? In which case, again, I suppose I’m not really thinking about doing anything similar in the short term (certainly not for when I play Scarlet, because I do like the writing I did on Moon, but wasn’t really fond of how it dragged out my experience of that game), but I also do kind of have the seeds of ideas for something in a similar style, maybe?
Or… maybe it’s an autocorrect for mottos, which is, like… genuinely something I’m officially still planning to do for gen VIII but haven’t made time for. Because I am a lazy bastard.
Um. I’m… glad you liked whatever it is I wrote, but I’m afraid I’m honestly not sure what you’re talking about.
Pokémaniacal 
This post has honestly kind of haunted me, so I did some Googling. For anyone else who never pieced this together, there’s a person on AO3 who also uses the name Pokémaniacal and co-wrote a series of Five Nights at Freddy fanfictions called Roommates, one of which is titled Memoirs of the Hairless Ape and was published in 2017. They probably thought our Chris was the same person.
Unfortunately for Two Curious Fans, it appears AO3’s Pokémaniacal has not published anything else in ten years. The other co-author also stopped publishing but came back this year to drop a Zootopia fanfiction and then vanish again, which is kind of zen. Life finds a way.
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oh my god thank you so much for figuring it out; this has been bothering me for years
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I mean, there’s apparently a Pokémaniacal-shaped hole in AO3 now. It may be time to expand and corner the market on slice of life fanfiction about a haunted Chuck-E-Cheese!
I don’t have it in me psychologically to read 280,000 words of FNAF fanfiction, but I did click to the 51st and final chapter, where the other Pokémaniacal links to their Tumblr for people who wish to keep in touch. Their header actually directs people to your blog and specifies that they are not you in case there’s any confusion, so a) idk how this submitter missed that lol, and b) it’s entirely possible some of your own readers were exposed to you through them, which is very charming to me.
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