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Any other preferences? Are evil MCs OK? Are non-human MCs OK? Stuff you've looked into but found not to your liking?

Please define unlikeable character, just to be sure. Because there are characters nobody likes (neither inside the story nor as readers/consumers), and there are characters everybody loves to hate (looking at you, Joffrey), and the later are definitely worth keeping around.

Maybe I should have worded that more carefully, I was mostly arguing about the last part about the impact of a movie compared to a book. Movies excel at showing action and the likes, but closely following the thoughts of a character, like an inner monologue, either comes off as weird or ruins...

A lot I haven't seen or read, but the ones I have do not trigger my Gary Stu alarm bells: Sasuke is arrogant and so consumed by his vengeance that he almost ruins everything for everyone multiple times throughout the series. Hajime is also extremely arrogant and uncaring towards basically...

That may be true by something action heavy and fast paced (though even there, I'd say it's up to personal preference), but it's definitely not true for things that focus a lot on the thought process of the main character or the characters in general.

I haven't seen it myself and I doubt I will, I just can't motivate myself for romance/harem-y stuff with male protagonists anymore. That being said, from what I've heard he seems to be dancing in the grey area between a relatable OP protagonist and a Gary Stu, but leaning more towards being...

Among other things. Maybe you could throw us a few characters you are thinking of and we can discuss if they actually are a Mary Sue type or if they get mislabeled as such.

I mean, you left out some key components that differentiate a Mary Sue or Gary Stue from competent character. Stuff like the missing explanations for why they are so good at everything relevant or how they are inexplicably liked by everyone (including the plot) for no reason, to the point where...

One thing worth noting: The act of selling stocks in bulk has an influence on the price, usually lowering it because there is more available. If the one doing the initial selling also happens to have a reputation to be correct in their predictions, others aight follow suit and also sell their...

Guys, you have to try long hair. I recently started and it's really growing on me.

There are a bunch of things that would make the tags better from a user perspective: -Suggesting tags for a story via a dedicated menu would be way more efficient and discrete than making a comment or message, which can come off as calling out the author. If a tag is suggested often enough, it...

Ah, the ever growing conundrum that people, especially readers/consumers, can't differentiate between the perspective a story is told from, or the main-character(s) and their role(s) in the story. We're so used to the protagonist being the 'hero' that the words have almost become synonymous in...

Newspapers became widespread because it became easy and comparatively cheap to create hundreds, if not thousands of copies in a short timeframe. Before that, everything had to be written by hand. Even without a printing press, if your setting has some magic skills or items (self-writing quills)...

Which kinds of errors are left after your standard procedure? Spelling-errors should be gone at that point, and Grammarly should take care of most of the other big errors, at least on the language side. That really only leaves errors in the story itself, as far as I can tell. That's also the...

There is a difference between having to work (hard) for ones goals and suffering. And the latter is neither conducive to nor needed for genuine happiness and purpose.

Very much a dystopia, even if there is no nefarious motivation behind the system. For all the happiness they may feel, it's hollow and handed to them instead of earned (even if they don't know/remember). There are questions to the details of just how much they are tricked out of actually living...

So eating is lewd too, given the involvement of bodily functions? Or breathing? :blob_shock:

Reincarnated as a Spider Personally I like it. MC starts out as a spider, gains an Arachne form rather soon and sadly tends to stay in a fully human form most of the time since learning that. Her partner/other half (it makes sense in context) tends to stay in Arachne form and there are a ton of...

Something from Sabaton? Red Baron Night Witches The Ballad of Bull Attack of the Dead Men The last Battle Winged Hussars Might be hard mode though, given the vastly different topics.