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I'm glad you took the time to sleep on it before answering because you hit the nail on the head. What you voiced was EXACTLY what I was concerned about, but I was also doubting myself and worried that I was overthinking it. Her behavior isn't "medicalized" or framed diagnostically. She's not...

According to ChatGPT (so basically voodoo but the math looks legit?) you'd need a 98,000 metric-ton counterweight to accelerate a 70kg mass to solar-system escape velocity (launched equatorially in a prograde direction relative to Earth). Of course, at that velocity any meat-based projectile...

Asperger syndrome is not a valid diagnosis anymore, it was merged into ASD in the DSM-V in 2013. There's not even an ICD-11 code for it, so it can't be charted (and therefore billed, which is how you know its for real, LOL). Probably why you don't hear about it as much these days. It's mostly...

I tend to focus on sensory details more than appearance. Smell is one that I think people often forget about but can do a lot of heavy lifting in the reader’s imagination with very few words needed.

This was my thinking exactly. Not going to lie, I was disappointed that the tag request was shot down with no explanation but, like I said, not my site.

Take all the time you need. I appreciate you giving it consideration. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking about this. I was half expecting the answers to be some version of "stop overthinking it".

Hi readers, I've been thinking myself in circles on this and figured I'd see what everyone else's thoughts on it might be. For background, I recently submitted a request to add a 'neurodivergent character' tag and it got shot down. I'm not here to re-litigate that. This is not my site, it's...

When I started? Official recognition/canonization would have put me over the moon. Unrealistic? Totally, but hey dream big right? Now? IDK man, some readers would be great I guess.

My fictional version is mentioned in passing, unnamed, in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it anecdote in book 2. I don’t do self-inserts.

Shot down in less than an hour. Response given: "a". Cool beans.

Bumping from the grave to ask for this tag. There is an "autism" tag but many of the settings in stories here don't fit with modern classification of autism/ADHD/depression/cPTSD yet feature characters who would be recognizable to anyone familiar with the symptoms.

Most of the time a trying to scam you into forking over money for their “art” which is just AI slop that anyone can generate without paying real-art prices.

I mean, I like putting random knowledge drops in the dialogue. Why not?

Unfortunately, yes. Once you've seen enough of them or played with the chatbots enough yourself, you can pick out their very specific phrases and syntax pretty easily. I actually recommend people play with some of them for that reason. You'll get scammers who use AI to craft their messages...

Think about what you're trying to say with the fight scene. Action sequences can be a great way to show character, background, growth, or regression without a single line of exposition. Does the meek one suddenly go feral? Why? Just how deadly is your heavy hitter? Are they happy about it...

Both in the sig. Enjoy and please let me know what you think!

It's not actually in the story yet, but I realized it sounded too much like an Isekai title to not post it: "My wife is a thirteen-billion-year-old sun with a congenital chill deficiency and an incurable case of the zoomies."

Dialogue, hands down. Specifically my deuteragonist, she's my id and gets to say all the things I want to say.

I'm pretty late to the thread but I thought I'd throw my hat in. I think the books in my sig align well with what you mentioned in the OP: soft, cute romance - this is mostly subtextual, but what's there is pretty cute comedy with deadpan humor - I learned my sense of humor from Pratchett...

You hadn't, but thank you! I was definitely going for a certain look, I'm glad you like them.