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I mean everyone agrees that Cthulhu Mythos Fire Vampires became the most iconic and beloved of all mythos creatures. The fact that floating balls of blue fire that absorb the psyches of their victims by burning them alive and integrating them into their own gestalt consciousness have fuckall to...

The fun thing that these stories almost never take into account is attrition. Sure, an elf might potentially live for a thousand years but how many humans make it to 100? How many die from their own body breaking down on its own? Sure, a lot of immortals have superpowers that make them harder to...

Don’t include it as a tag. Instead have a note at the end of the first chapter explaining EXACTLY what kind of sexuality is in there. That’s what I did with my story in relation to the TG tag. TG content is in there but it’s far more in a fetishistic way, rather than one that a trans person...

If I have nothing better to do and the older works seem like something I might enjoy? Sure. It doesn’t have much weight, though. It’s just added to the infinite list of “to read” books, and probably not very high. Kinda the same level as hearing someone mentioning that they read and liked it, if...

Uh. Generally if I feel like a narrator should be in charge of exposition I do it near the beginning of a chapter or when an important thing is happening, as a way of setting the scene. Never more than a paragraph or two at a time. If you need more than a paragraph you damn well better figure...

I’m something of a nerd about this. I go to baby names websites for people. For locations and concepts, I tend to mash words that have certain meanings from other languages together and then doctor the results. One example for something I never put online was when I needed a name for a city...

Insomnia (if you can take it off, if you can’t take it off that becomes problematic) Inability to feel pain (my dad actually has this and he has to be very careful, but anesthesia is great) Any food or drink you consume vanishes before it reaches your stomach (niche, but it means you can eat...

Start making video games. Never release so much as a demo before you switch to cabinetry. Finish one set of shelves. Burn it. Find an old edition D&D druid to reincarnate you. Start a new life as an owl. Start streaming on twitch.

Two people have more disdain for one another than they have respect for the commitment they made to one another. This could be because they have very little respect for the marriage as a partnership for the sake of caring for kids, so at the first sign of trouble they bounce. This is the...

Not only would I die, half of my MCs would probably die. One ascended to godhood at the end of his story, but the other barely survived a Lion attack only a few chapters ago even with magic, and tigers are bigger than lions.

Lost my job recently, but I have an interview for a theoretically better paying one lined up in a few days. I have specialized skills in a fairly narrow field, so I think I’ll be ok even if this one doesn’t work out.

I write for myself, to make something I enjoy writing, and post it on the off chance someone will enjoy it. The fact that anyone does is surreal to me. Comments, even negative comments, are proof that someone cared enough to say something. Readers even talked me into reposting on multiple sites...

A finance bro college grad trapped in the body of a magical twink, learning the value of judicious murder by getting repeatedly screwed over at his new job: being a pirate.

Sheldon from Big Bang theory except he’s an evil dragon also he’s bestgirl’s uncle.

Demon Slayer *would* be the safest option if you weren’t going to be placed into a location frequented by main characters. Demons aren’t *that* common in the grand scheme of things, but Tanjiro and friends literally seek them out. It’s their job. MHA is dangerous but has generally competent...

Some time before the fall of Rome actually. Novik is primarily enjoyable, to me, for her characters. She does a better job than many writers at hand-waving issues of worldbuilding, so only the most egregious stuff really bothers me. Most of her books do well enough at implying an answer exists...

I still adore Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, set in an alternate timeline of the napoleonic wars where sentient dragons exist and serve as an air force, but I have a few concerns when it comes to world building. Most notably the fact that nobody noticed the giant confederation of native...

Self-awareness means a lot, and effort. A lot of the time good acts change to bad ones in peoples perception because their motives are revealed to be impure. A character I’m quite fond of in a fairly mainstream book is a goodboy for two books before really digging into his backstory where he was...

Weirdly enough I get one heck of a high when I check and see that people are still reading my first story. It’s a long, rambling mess I wrote and posted primarily to prove to myself that nothing bad would happen if I posted something mid on the internet, it’s been nearly a year since I updated...

She has persistently and continuously devoted every waking moment to making fetch happen. Even as I type this, she is repeatedly dropping a ragged tennis ball in my lap so I can toss it down the hall.