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    Worst Writing Trope

    The 'unproblematic fantasy world' trope. So many, too many authors write worlds with completely unproblematic politics, no societal tensions, and no chance of anything bad happening to anyone important. Here's the thing. Someone, somewhere, is going to yell at this comment 'WISH...
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    What are the minor things that makes MC (any kind) hateable?

    Ok??? I'm wondering why you felt the need to say this
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    What are the minor things that makes MC (any kind) hateable?

    Basic arithmetic. If a character doesn't seem to do basic math with whatever numbers they come across, I struggle to relate with that character on a fundamental level. It's hard to explain this properly, but if a situation arises where doing any amount of math would be the natural, human...
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    The biggest L

    Rather than taking Ls, bro just doesn't seem to get very many actual Ws.
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    Swords. We should talk about them.

    The problem is narrative immersion suffering from authors not understanding what swords are or how medieval combat works in general. As stated, “fast”, “lethal”, and “technical” are the answer. Readers shouldn’t feel like an author is writing a video-game Pokémon battle. Contextual realism...
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    Swords. We should talk about them.

    That’s another thing! The neat part about swords is that they’re really good against specifically soft, fleshy things and not much else, and they also break really easily when used consistently against not those things
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    What makes your lead unique?

    How many guys get Isekai’d in Sandals, swim trunks, and a muscle shirt and that’s just the clothes they have now. Forever. Yikes. That’s it. No underwear, no sleeves, and only technically shoes.
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    Swords. We should talk about them.

    Long live our lovely vampire queen. Thank you for reading the whole thing.
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    Yo... what if we kissed... while mutually stabbing each other... with thematically appropriate...

    Yo... what if we kissed... while mutually stabbing each other... with thematically appropriate weapons corresponding to our philosophies on life... Wouldn't that be epic and funny
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    Swords. We should talk about them.

    I've been reading a lot of fantasy and consuming a lot of fantasy related or adjacent media lately, and one thing I can say with absolute confidence is that outside of clearly deliberate writing choices, no one seems to understand how swords work on a fundamental level in combat. Like, so, so...
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    Your MC just enter a Yo mama joke competition

    His mama a bad bitch, nothing they can say to him. He sucks at giving insults though, so he doesn't win.
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    What is a Hero?

    Again, this debating existing at all without rigorous consensus of all credible participants (including me an you) proves it is subjective. That's what subjective means. Because we aren't debating real phenomena. We're debating fiction. I don't really feel the need to go into anthropology and...
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    it's thirsty, don't be greedy about it

    it's thirsty, don't be greedy about it
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    What the most wholesome thing in your story

    If I had to pick one story, I'd go with my oldest publicly available story (on a different site): One protagonist literally teaches the other how to fall in love.
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    Does anyone else spend too much time making art for their story, rather than writing said story?

    no please teach me how to draw I wish I could make art for my stories
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    What is a Hero?

    You're conflating matters of factual reality with matters of literally analysis. Stop that. The only way to take your statements in good faith is to assume you don't have good enough reading comprehension to participate. In lieu of that, I have to assume you mean this in bad faith, which is...
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    Can I have the progtangonist talk to the reader in story?

    Absolutely yes and in fact please do I'd love to read it
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    What is a Villain?

    I thought I was pretty unambiguous in saying that I reject that exact notion you're trying to imply I'm missing the point for, so maybe I need to reiterate. Classically, villain did mean antagonist. It doesn't anymore, and hasn't for a long time, so I specifically brought up that fact to...
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    What is a Hero?

    It definitionally does. At some point, in any determination of what that 'standard' is, you need to make a fundamentally arbitrary decision that if even a single person is capable of disagreeing with, isn't objective. This is not in any way a bad thing or a problem, it's just a true fact about...
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    Things you want delete in your favorite game

    There's a lot of favorite games, so I'll lightning round one thing from each in no particular order: Bedman's overheads The Heart's 'beat of death' or whatever it's called Steve All the Reward Ticket obtainable only items Neon Green's earpiercing theme when you don't have game volume at 25%...
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