Recent content by blotchybrothblobs

Apart from reading comprehension, I'd like to focus on the inability to concentrate on reading. That feeling that OP's friend expressed, that reading even a single paragraph makes them feel extremely bored and sluggish. Personally, if I start thinking "This is boring, I don't wanna do that...

Yeah, but if it's not done annoyingly, I'd just gloss over it and keep reading. I believe someone can be ultra-nationalist and also be polite/reserved. Ex. Just because someone really likes one sports team and wants them to demolish every other team doesn't mean that they have to scream...

Yeah, lottery. Wahoo. The Author determines who gets lucky, though. Solo leveling has one of the worst power systems imo. Sung Jin Woo got the Shadow Monarch's powers because god's creations decided to do that, and then bam, everyone else is irrelevant. There's a grand total of one lady who can...

It starts with the author. The author has a story to tell, a lesson to teach, an idea to sell. They determine where to start and which steps to take next. If the parts of a story are put together cohesively, then a theme will naturally develop as its center of mass. If an idea is...

One morning, a snake slithered across a rainbow, and with a burst of green light, turned into a boy toting an axe along. The boy asked a man standing at the edge of the rainbow a question. "I cut a great, tall tree in an empty forest yesterday, and I left before it fell. But if no one was there...

My word! My favorite word is word!

grass

I think it depends on how the author wants their magic to work. They could say that using up mana is separate from stamina, and thus someone who has 0/100 mana but 80/100 stamina can still draw their sword and fight, or that it's somehow entangled with stamina or mental strain, and a person...