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  1. QuercusMalus

    Top 5 Shf Users who you can beat in a fist fight!!!

    Unfair. As a tree I don't have fists. Though given how well vampires do not deal with wooden stakes, I might be able to take Envy.
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    Nicknames Are Given

    What?
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    Vegan Karens!

    Start eating a Slim Jim or beef jerky well describing to them, in great detail, what it tastes like, what the texture is like, and how grateful you are of the animals that gave their all to produce it. Seriously though, they're allowed there beliefs and if they are not obnoxious I'll even...
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    Is your worldbuilding is populated enough?

    Volume 1: Density is probably roughly 3 billion. Down more than half from it's peak of 8 billion. Volume 2 onward: set ~50 yrs after Volume 1. Population is probably a fifth of what it had been in Volume 1.
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    Guys name a few epic speeches

    "This is not a negotiation, a suggestion, a deal, an entreaty, an agreement, a compromise, or a capitulation. It's my triumphant return, you fuckers." — Accelerator
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    Written into a corner.

    No.
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    I think a scammer DM me on fictionpress again.

    Send them some ultrasketchy furry/bronnie smut that you ran through 5 or 6 language translates to and from English and a host of other languages until it's a hot mess. Than ask them to help you with grammar.
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    Written into a corner.

    Nah, a bet just means risking something against someone else on the basis of a future outcome. It all depends on how the schools charter of rules is worded. If it's vaguely worded, even if it is only usually enforced for severe offenses, the Headmaster can just argue that as he is aware of the...
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    Written into a corner.

    Third option: Headmaster refuses to accept his disenrollment and instead points out that betting and gambling are against the code of conduct that students agree to upon enrollment, so instead him and his rival are to be punished with some form of menial labor, that they must complete together.
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    Written into a corner.

    Have someone he trusts/looks up to give him a smack offside the head and tell him to stop being such a prat. That his method of being 'honorable' is anything but. He isn't doing anything other than making himself a martyr so he can wallow in his self pity.
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    Stupid things that make you laugh

    Oh good, it's not just me.
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    Written into a corner.

    Schools royal charter is revoked and then a new charter is issued, causing it to reopen under a new name, new administration. MC can now come back without going back on his word as he left the school, but that school no longer exists.
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    What romance tropes you like and don't?

    Yeah. Hard pass. I've already had seven funerals in the past four years for close family members(none covid related) and had to watch that grief up close. I don't need that in my fiction, especially if I'm reading to relax.
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    Readers, do you ever regret giving a story the review you gave it?

    You missed 'No, I don't regret it because I'll just update my review.' If a story tanks, I can update my review. If story was bad from the start I probably dropped it early. It would have to be pretty horrible for me to bother leaving a bad review from the get go.
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    What romance tropes you like and don't?

    I absolutely hate, with the white hot heat of a thousand suns, any of the 'romance' stories where one party has power over the other so they can't say no, but eventually that person comes to love them as well. That's not romance, that's Stockholm syndrome. Just give me a healthy, cute...
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    So many pointless Isekai

    You are confusing 'memorized in school to pass a test/class' with actual understanding and being able to apply it. Compounded with isekai when most modern skills are going to be useless. I can drive a car mean fuckall when the best personal mode of transport is a horse drawn carriage. Even if...
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    I need story ideas

    Give them an existential crisis and decide to be good people.
  18. QuercusMalus

    Writing American High Schools

    Usually not until university. Before that, it is either the juvi or rich boarding schools, so neither super common. Maybe some of the catholic schools. But not the public schools. Most schools have buses for the students who live outside a certain distance. Especially in rural areas. If you...
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    Language in Fantasy when lacking the origin behind the word.

    Yeah, I have been mostly trying to avoid very modern slang and references to recent historical figures but otherwise the focus is more on keeping the story readable without having to resort to extended explanations in story or as an authors note. I have introduced a few in world relevant slang...
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    Language in Fantasy when lacking the origin behind the word.

    How thoroughly do you purge your stories of words and/or concepts that wouldn't exist in either a fantasy/alt history context? Some things are fairly easy replacements, like instead of describing someone as 'christ-like', use 'godlike' or 'messiah' and it becomes less tied to a specific...
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