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Four question marks? Calm down my friend. Too much enthusiasm; it’s overwhelming.

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I mean if we go with actual cultures that produced Vikings, raiding was only one thing they did. In fact it was mostly done by young dumbass men with something to prove. It just became a fixture in our perception of them because the swarms of glory seeking incels created generational trauma for...

You have fewer wards than I have chapters of poorly thought out dubcon smut freely available online. Your mortal concept of shame evades and baffles me.

Embarrassed? Bah. I willingly wrote a 300+ chapter incredibly morally bankrupt smutty Warcraft fanfiction and placed it online immediately. That was unironically my first attempt at writing anything that was longer than a school paper. I’m proud of myself for the sheer balls of it and nothing...

Adapt to the world initially, find a stable point, assess plausible long term goals. If I’m given a briefing and allowed to choose my power? Plant growth and control. At baseline this will let me farm super effectively, which would be incredibly useful in a world with consistent food shortages...

“There must be something that makes people act like that” is definitely a belief a lot of people have, not to mention the killers themselves, so I could use that one.

I like the idea in broad strokes, and it gave me another idea. More than half of the people I know who have mental situations (ADD, anxiety, etc) like to externalize them. Having what my friend calls Jerk Brain actually be an external entity stalking and fucking with people who are neurotypical...

So I am slowly planning out a Real Book (tm) and the core magic system is based on belief. I won’t go into it, but the part I thought would make for a fun prompt is that excess magical energy from belief pools and eventually calcifies into creatures. These creatures tend to be built around...

Also, to actually answer the question. I mean I’d be two and would permanently lose my wife and daughter because perfectly reproducing my old life would be impossible, but there are *some* positives. I’d cry for an extended period first, since controversially I like my life despite being deep in...

Clickbait titles disguising ads? In this most sacred of forums?

I can think of incredibly few stories that I’ve read that had footnotes. One published example was a YA novel series with a djinn character who could think about multiple things at once. Narratively we are told that most of the time that bandwidth was used for analyzing the situation and making...

Woah! Woah! Hold up. That should be in spoiler tags or something. It’s a little too intense to just have it hanging out like that. I don’t know if my heart can take such a graphic description of heinous villainy.

Personally I don’t use much in the way of prologues, but the ones I have seen that worked best for me were essentially a narratively relevant hype train. The opening sequence of an anime in literary form. Something that hints at what this book is about while establishing some baseline...

My story is an isekai but the specific nature of the Isekai and his powers derived from it is a bit weird and has long term implications.

I saw enough combat clips to see how someone could call it soulslike. It’s a shallow comparison, but it’s a melee focused system where you have a quick dodge move and have to manage a stamina meter. Mostly I think it started as a way to make fun of the fact that a random, ostensibly normal...

The fear and hunger games have a moon god whose job includes “revealing truth” which seems very on brand for a god of light. “Shining a light” on something is a phrase for a reason. Rher is a very cynical asshole and looks for the worst in people, and the process known as “moon scorching” at...

Weirdly enough the thing I’ve seen in a movie that freaked me the fuck out more than anything else was actually the villain in the movie Kingsmen. Not a monster, even quite funny and charming, but utterly monstrous. Making everyone on earth overwhelmingly WANT to kill everyone around them...

I want villains that are cool or competent. Either one of these is enough to get me onboard. Most Disney villains that people remember the names of are cool, some are competent, few are relatable Gaston is cool. He’s an unmitigated ass, but you can buy into the hype and enjoy his antics...

You aren’t writing a million word novel. You are writing a chapter. One chapter that is planned to be part of a million word novel and slots into a prearranged outline now that you are trying to be a planner instead of a pantser, but you should still focus on the task at hand. You can have a...