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Just call it a pickup artist and be done with it.

All of them sound terrible. All of them sound fantastic. All of them depend a LOT on how well they are implemented. As it stands, I have to say, I'm not feeling confident in any of them working out. Reason being, you just asked us what we think of the ideas. That tells me you actually don't...

You seem to have a very strange definition of the world "culture" if you don't think elves who live in trees are very different from humans who live in houses. I actually have had an anthropology course and have based each of the cultures in my world on various structures seen around the world...

Well, if you're looking specifically for Cannibalism, I can't help you here. If you're looking for what the threat title says though, a story in which the MC is reincarnated into a very different culture, I'd say "The Rincarnation of Alysara" does an excellent job. That thing's got a...

I believe this may be the exact reason why many readers do not pick up a series until it has a certain number of chapters.

I didn't misunderstand. I knew you were saying you were against all of it for common sense reasons. But, I was pointing out that the way you phrased that makes it easy to misunderstand so you might want to clean up that lack of clarity.

Might want to watch your phrasing there. The way you phrased this, it looks like you said you are only against rape if it's heterosexual in nature, and you are just fine with homosexual rape.

Right. How about this scenario. Water is diverted from a rural area to the city, thus depriving the people living in that rural area of drinking water. This actually happened near where I live.

The problem is, when you apply this to real world situations, you're not just literally killing people. The sacrifice comes in more forms than that. Say, for instance, taking everyone's right to do X thing that only 30% of the population does in order to benefit the 70%. The 30% are unhappy, the...

This makes me think of a short story called "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." It was basically a short story that was vague and unspecific about all but 3 things. 1. Omelas is an absolute paradise of a city to live in. 2. The only reason they can live in this paradise is because a child is...

As mentioned. The problem is not in the single scenario instance, where you sacrifice the few to save the many one time. The problem arises when you repeat the scenario several times. If you sacrifice the few to save the many twice, it's still not as much of a problem. But, if you sacrifice the...

We see this theme coming up a lot in stories. One famous example of late would be The Last of Us, in which the game's final challenge in the scenario is whether to let the girl you've been escorting the entire game be killed and dissected to find out why she's immune to the zombie virus and...

For something like this, it's at the level where it's all about implementation. You've described the setting and the world building (magic system,) but very little about the plot or focus characters. I will say though, it does sound like a very workable setting depending on those other factors...

Trying desperately to come up with a plan on how to deal with a 2 year old and a 3 year old who's mother just got them some very loud toys for Christmas.

Well, sorry if you were just quick on the response. I stopped editing as soon as you responded, BTW. This forum places time-stamps on edits, so people can check me on that one. My last edit is a minute before your reply every time there. It's not like I edited after your response, which I...

Never watched it, will have to take a look. Also, my last response was me hand-holding you through what proper argumentation looks like. In other words, all I did was say your previous response is not evidence, please present actual evidence. I even went the extra step of pointing out where the...

Right. All you have provided is spurrious sources on a site that can be edited by anyone. I see no actual evidence here, just an intellectual circle-jerk. Look, proving your claim is simple. Just provide one piece of work in all of fiction that satisfies the OP's criteria. To avoid looking...

Issues I have with this plot. Issue #1. This sounds like a ludicrously small-time consiquence for literally swallowing the moon. This story idea is effectively marked off my consideration just for that fact alone. Issue #2. Lycanthrope with a romantic plot, particularly with a female...

Well, clearly it's become a state in which the cliche is the opposite. It is the "humans are evil" narrative that is the cliche. Beings I'm literally the only person in this entire thread who was able to put forward a series that met the criteria, and even that was a case where it stretched the...

Yeah, elves have a complicated history with humans in the classical lore. In the oldest lore out there, elves are portrayed as kidnapping humans. Later, in the 1900s, they are portrayed as always friendly toward humans. Now, in the 2000s, they are portrayed as fighting with humans like certain...