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A former work had a character getting savagely beaten. A reader guessed that it was representative of my childhood, even going so far as to suggest therapists to deal with healing abuse trauma. My childhood was parentification, not physical abuse. It just made sense for the character to be...

black and white sails to show their "purity". upon their first successful hunt, they dye the sails red with the blood of their "inquisition". Also, black and red are my colors. wait, let me double check. Yup. black shirt with red print, red basketball shorts with a black logo. seriously, 90%...

ahhh, always fun! I recently rewrote my first story on this profile. Lay the Dragon. The original was... *shivers*. Seriously, it was rushed, unpaced, made no sense, smut scenes popping up out of nowhere. The rewrite, I'm actually kinda proud of. it has a few minor details that could've been...

hmm... no, not really. I try to keep some form of laws and logic in my stories, but they're still fantasy. sorry, bud.

lol it was years ago. I'm on my 3rd computer since then, so it would be a complete rewrite from the ground up. And I've currently got 3 active stories and another probably 12 waiting to be written - I'm actually adopting out starts, currently. looking for people that are able and willing to take...

the story I wrote is no longer in existance. I nuked my now-former online presence when I pivoted toward smut. That said, I had typical "fiery death" vampires, but they were the good guys and were generally regarded as weaker than the wolves. The wolves were bad (even kidnapping the...

nah, I didn't mind most of the problems people had with the movies. My only real issue was the sparkly vampires. Which I get. She tried a change to lore and it wasn't to my tastes. I was 19 (my girlfriend's mother required me to see it as a condition of living with them at the time), and was...

as was said by @RepresentingEnvy, there is no more originality. The best you can do is steal ideas from different sources and genres, creating a unique twist. Your idea is "original" because Dr.House wasn't in a fantasy setting.

to each their own :blob_okay: I've seen worse animated movies and shows, and wasted years reading mind-numbing BS. So while time is limited, I don't really mind. I've spent time learning useless skill, like card throwing. I've spent time learning useful skills like blacksmithing and archery...

I try to judge them independently of source material. "The book is better than the movie!!" Well, first off, duh. Secondly, consider it to be it's own universe separate from the books. it's NOT a remake but a telling of a parallel (but different) universe. that's why the MCU is the Marvel...

anime. Throw it on in the background and tune out while I do other things. That's how I write nowadays. I spend 5 minutes of an episode of anime actually watching. The rest, I stare blankly at the screen while my fingers dance over the keyboard.

and as soon as a different trope reaches even half the popularity, it, too, will be massively overdone and beaten to a literal pulpy paste, just like adventurer's guilds have been. Heres the thing though: sadly, that's what people want. So that's what sells. So that's what writers do. until the...

good and evil are not objective. it's entirely subjective, opposite to how most people view it. evil is inherently opposite to how WE think. But a vampire might see it that anything opposite to their requirement to continue life is evil. So yes, a vampire, being opposed to our continued...

It's easy enough to remove the background of an image with Krita. That's the one I use for most image editing. Just create the knight/seal as a background, add the catgirl image as an overlay, eraser tool for the background of the catgirl, combine layers, export as new image. Use canva to add...

let me put it this way: I've written some bad scenes. Abuse, neglect, slaughters, entire towns left painted in blood. And some of it I had to describe in vivid detail for the scene to come across as required for the eventual wrap-up. The trick is not "glorify" it. that is to say, you can't...

Yeah... Don't write smut. Speaking as a smut author, there's so much free porn out there, people won't pay for yours. People pay you for your writing style. For anyone reading who wants to get into writing smut, take it from me. Don't focus too heavily on writing the NSFW scenes. Focus on...

Not a problem to be a little behind. I don't use patreon, so I can't say for that site specifically, but I use subscribestar, as they claim less oversight in their ToS. But to your question, I upload as a pdf. I even do the (title) (copyright) (author) header so it looks even just a little more...

"This too shall pass" and "Per aspera ad astra" (through suffering to the stars).

You are your own worst critic for just this reason. You wrote it so yes, you should like it. if you don't, others won't. That said... You also shouldn't JUST see the perfection, but the imperfections as well.

most of my retcons are from small throwaway mentions, and they're usually just explained away. "X had a bow, why did she attack with her claws, rather than the bow?" uh.... because the bow is low powered, intended for hunting small game like rabbits, not larger game, like humans or deer...