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It's a power fantasy that's easy to write. Extra points if the protag was wronged™️ earlier and can justify this DARVO nonsense to themselves. darvo - deny, accuse, reversing victim and offender. Comes up in abusive relationships.

> Can you suggest me some manga/manhwa similar to Doraemon? I think you need to bust out the Miyazaki movies. Have you seen Porco Rosso?

Closest webnovel I can think of is Stray Cat Strut.

https://ask.metafilter.com/371850/Historical-fiction-set-in-Ancient-Greece-about-ordinary-people Tom Holt's Goat Song/The Olive Orchard is a favorite. Also Guy Gabriel Kay's Sailing to Byzantium

My brain says the best system is the nervous system, but I have a gut feeling the digestive system is cooler, yo.

Thread is now about the Battle of Trent!

It's fucking wood That's dryads you're thinking of. Much less splintery.

That's a oneant. Treants are more than twice as strong as a oneant.

Just receiving blueprints is kinds corny. More compelling would be to be half-possesed by some old-timey engineer.

All those names are chuuni. Pick some trait, title, practice, or pedestrian noun. Notable if not murderers' names from fiction: Red Wedding, Recent Runes, the Chairmaker, the Doctor, the Limper, the Ring-bearer.

If you think about it, Le Guin, Tolkien, or Aaronovitch's writings wouldn't be better for having a System. Not saying you shouldn't write with one, just that it locks you into a certain structure. > They had Guild Cards that showed stats rather than a System, and I think it worked out really...

> Use TK. This is the essential lubricant of the rough first draft. It’s a habit I learned from working as a reporter, but didn’t realize the novel-writing magic of it until I read this advice from Cory Doctorow. TK is an editing mark that means “to come” and is equivalent to leaving a blank or...

Write out chunks on index cards.

Good smut: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/619162/an-incubus-life/

> Stockholm syndrome only happens during kidnapping. Stockholm syndrome was more that hostages hated the cops and the psychiatrist after the cops fucked up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome > This analysis was provided by Nils Bejerot after he was criticized on Swedish radio...

Only if they were iskeaied by a lamp in their first life. Also, Cinnamon Bun is at the inevitable moth arc stage in it's storytelling. https://www.scribblehub.com/series/112564/cinnamon-bun/

Try cutting as much as you can from it, and see if it works better. There's a certain lack of energy and drama in the sentences right now.

> Plus, I feel as if these stories would be much better if they didn't nerf every character's Intelligence in order for the MC to look smart and cool. In that case, the writers at kakuyomu.jp and syosetu would have to work harder, rather than just leveraging formulae.

As long as you maintain self-consistency, or highlight via alarm and spit-takes when some OP character breaks the rules, then it's all good. Honestly, there are times when I enjoy magical systems with obscured elements and obscured systems. People don't dunk on Tolkein, Le Guin, or Yoon Ha...

... nothing. I'm fine. *sniff*