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  1. Jerynboe

    Writing Who's that side character(s) that you naturally gel with that you give them more relevance

    Lividia, a young black dragon in my first story who can transform into a human form (natch), was intended to be just one of many girls that the MC meets in his travels. I decided that she would be narcissistic and arrogant to the point of blatantly ignoring reality whenever it ran counter to her...
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    Who Do You Want To Be Stuck With?

    Asmongold is by far the safest option and the one most likely to take me to Taco Bell afterwards if we don’t end up hating each other. If he starts annoying me I can perhaps talk to him about my 330 chapter erotic wow fanfiction.
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    Energy bar

    Gravity girl explicitly gets backlash if she overuses her power, which causes her to vomit and generally stop moving and doing athletic stuff, though that seems to have become an effectively moot point as she’s trained herself. It’s presumably still an issue that she is managing, but her limits...
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    Ever Gotten Reached Out?

    Nah. Closest was when someone tried to repost my first novel copy pasted onto webnovel. I responded by aggressively reposting it myself far past where he was and commenting on every chapter about things I would have done differently looking back on it, like a directors commentary. He was...
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    Is dual wielding overrated?

    Like most things it can be done well in an interesting way. For example, if the weapons are actually intended for different purposes and compliment each other. Using a weapon in one hand that is intended for offense and the other hand is something intended and used for defense (like a shield...
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    One Weird Power Fantasy Trope

    Only way I could see this being done well is if there was some kind of cost to using the most OP BS. Like, idk, have the MC start throwing up any time he instantly annihilates a swarm of enemies with a wave of scintillating purple energy. “Noooo. I can’t rely on OP CHEAT MOVE #7 because it...
  7. Jerynboe

    The Pressure Of Marriage.

    Not the whole down payment, no, but 20% of what we eventually spent on a down payment yes. The awful thing? We went with the cheapest caterer we could find, got married in a public park because we thought it would be cheaper (and it WAS cheaper than a lot of places), she wore an heirloom dress...
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    The Pressure Of Marriage.

    Idk man. I’m also a married 30 year old with a child. I’m pretty dang happy despite the additional stress. I think our culture has just gone out of its way to emphasize the drawbacks of marriage/having kids for some reason, which when combined with the terrible economy leads to lots of people...
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    Name for God's City

    I like mashing together words with the right etymology. In a dnd setting I made, there was a country called Heimriel where a dead god was buried under the capital with many a weird side effect ensuing. Heim meaning home in several Northern European and Germanic languages, and iel which is at the...
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    Litrpg system justification?

    Is it important to the plot? Does knowing where the system comes from contribute meaningfully? If not, then absolutely do not bother telling us where it comes from. Do not half ass it. Do not handwave it. Let it be a bit of bedrock default assumption for the world, fit it into the world’s...
  11. Jerynboe

    Hey

    I was doing just fine before I met you I drink too much and that's an issue, but I'm okay Hey, you tell your friends it was nice to meet them But I hope I never see them again
  12. Jerynboe

    Writing Prompt You create Magical Girls.

    Go to college and approach naive girls in majors that they believe will allow them to “change/save the world!” I’ll still need to be choosy to avoid the ones that are only doing this performatively or so they can feel like saints without actually helping anyone, as well as political extremists...
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    How can I impress my crush?

    T pose to assert dominance. Alternatively, based on my own experience, accidentally wait until her friend group exiles her for petty reasons and then invite her to play D&D or some other TTRPG with you as the GM. At this point, you need to routinely talk to her but out of sheer awkwardness/...
  14. Jerynboe

    I-Phone VS Samsung

    Do you want to do custom things outside of what apple allows on their App Store? Pick Samsung. Otherwise it’s just personal preference and not that big a deal.
  15. Jerynboe

    How many chapters do you post per week?

    I post once a week for my main story, usually 3500-4500 words. Thats the one where I’m genuinely trying to hone my craft, make it as good as I can manage. I have an editing process and everything. I have other stories that I write just for fun, when I feel up for it, and those have far less set...
  16. Jerynboe

    The Plot without the Protagonist

    Continue to do bitch work on a pirate ship after being kidnapped and pressed into service, for most of the main cast. Sebastien dies due to not having the MC to team up with to survive an undead siege. They lost like 40% of their men even with a group of powerful allies of convenience. Main...
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    I goofed on the limitation of a character’s ability

    Honestly reminds me of a TTRPG game I ran with a very modular power system where you buy powers by spending points. One of the players was a wizard, who had a budget of points he could reallocate into any other power by doing a ritual. We all vastly underestimated how strong it would be. At one...
  18. Jerynboe

    What's your perspective on cannibalism?

    It’s probably the most intense form of desecration of a body short of necrophilia. The most absolute form of turning another human into an object to serve your own needs. It’s absolutely disgusting, and taboo in a lot of cultures. Often it has extra mythological baggage tacked on. That said...
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    Fantasy metals tier list

    The vibe I get for them in stories I’ve read is: Adamantine is steel but more so. Harder, denser, stronger tensile strength, harder to forge, probably heavier. Mythril is aluminum but with the strength of steel (if not better). Sometimes it’s also related to silver and has similar properties...
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    Writing More interesting start for an isekai.

    Obviously the goddess must eventually negotiate with him in good faith after he avoids every fated murder attempt. Incidentally, tossing in another attempt: Plane is going down and the pilot had a random brain aneurism. MC rushes into the cockpit and executes a perfect emergency landing, saving...
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