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Are we actually talking about main characters, or do you mean secondary characters? It's hard to move a story forward without new secondary characters. They're just transient characters that are designed to move the story forward. Unless your story is just a solo survival story, then...

Not giving 1-star reviews just invalidates the point of having a 5 star system. Why not just have a 3-star system where we all agree 1 isn't mean. As an author, if you want to improve (myself included), then you have to harden yourself against low reviews, because they're the ones that can...

I'm the opposite. My asthma triggers the worst during summer and fall (due to pollen). Winter is one of the few times of year that I feel like I can breathe easily. Of course, mandatory gripe about cold weather sucking though.

That's what I get for phone posting lol

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ni No Kuni yet.

'Tis a mystery. My theory is there is a points system with attrition. Getting a favorite is worth x, getting a view is worth y, getting a reader is worth z. Every day the total is checked, and then ranked. Getting front page removes some % of your points, less for lower ranks, less still for...

I do 1.6k (my aim is 1.5k) and publish twice a week. I've hit trending multiple times and have over 1k readers across platforms. It's doable. The advice I've read from big name sucesses is that between 1.5 to 2k is the sweetspot for a variety of reasons. That said, there will always be...

It'll evaporate quick-ish in summer temperatures. Of course, those fumes are really explosive, but on a good windy day with a large pan in a field, nothing will come of that.

English. When I was learning spanish I found I could think in it after a while, and that the spanish brain had a different personality.

If they all didn't, the government would have to kill them. Then there is a general revolt, and the government. Self sacrifice is a core tenant to preventing tyrany. Their parents are actually the ones who should fight to prevent their labor.

In a general Christian sense, it roughly means the divine spark in each individual. Their soul. Their will. Whatever you want to call it.

Stealing the Goose from the common was written in the 1600s. A time before the US and when individuals didn't have property rights, only lords did. Furthermore. In a country with property rights, the issues the poem brings up were solved. Food is no longer a scarcity. To argue low quality...

The alone in the forest argument is a simplification of the more nuanced argument to form a heuristic to determine a right. The more in depth determination comes from the idea of the Logos, and allthat entails. Abilities that I as an individual can exert in the world and manifest some change...

Nice poem. In the US obesity affects even the poorest of poor. We suffer from everyone eating too many geese. The poem is less powerful when the word geese is replaced with "Current generation iPhone"

I agree that Epstein didn't actually kill himself in prison. (However prison suicides do occur so the point stands.)

The US basic constitutional rights are self supporting, and don't suffer any of these logical issues. You have no right to clean air or water (nor would you in nature for that matter). All the other rights, such as free speech, search and seizure, quartering troops etc imply property and...

Slave revolts were a thing. Epstein killed himself in prison. You can never guarantee that forced labor will continue. Thus, it isn't a right, just a constraint someone is attempting to force on you. (Inb4 "the government could kill you so you don't have free speech")

Techically, you can never force someone to work for you, so labeling anything that requires someone else's labor as a "right" is just marxist word play to try to convince midwits that they're being mistreated by the bourgeois. I say technically, because the person being forced has willpower and...

If you mean, should the ability to do x be given its own guarantees, then in my opinion yes. The US constitution and bill of rights are rights being given rights. It is a way of having the government have to fight itself to remove those rights. A "right" without rights is just a "gift" the...

I'm at anime matsuri in Houston this weekend. Anyone else go to conventions, or am I just a lone degenerate on this forum (as if)?