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That reminds me of the time I was in Quora and there was a professional author called Mercedes Lackey. She was a real piece of work, her grumpiness was thick as a fog - I imagine is because she had to survive the meat grinder of the literary market - but she was willing to interact with her audience and new writers.

One of her advice was that ideas were worthless. Having a good idea was nothing compared to writing it down, and nothing compared to writing down good or that can connect with a specific audience. Concomitantly, if you have the absolute worse idea, like an unhinged self-indulgent power fantasy that would make people cringe hard just by hearing it, but you can write in a good enough way, most people won't care it's a terrible idea, including the people who'd cringe at it. Otherwise, you'll have to content yourself with a small audience (maybe even of one).

“Actually, writing extremely self-indulgent OCs and fiction and making overpowered characters is good, do it.”

“Man, I wish anyone would care or ask about what I write.”

The first statement isn’t false necessarily but you have to understand that in most cases it does also lead to the second statement, and if you accept that, I think you’re legitimately cool, but if you don’t, you better be some new age Terry Prachet if you want to have your cake and eat it.

#being an academic i am unable to follow her advice #i was going to write a pity party in the tags #but ill stop here

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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

#fake amnesia is an important plot point in tekkaman blade #also nursing home au is how i see zhongli/ei

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HYV Clark Kent meets HYV Bruce Wayne

#accurate

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I had a dream that Ben Shapiro came to my house and he kept telling me "CT it hurts. I dont want to post any more."

#attention from reactionaries is a helluva drug #i really not gonna lie #but thats how i see him every time he appears in media #a pitiaboe creature #but he cant let go of koch money #its all he has in his life #so he needs to double down everything #its sad and he has only the euphoria of self-destruction #he craves a death that can free him of this torment

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I've wanted a copy of this bad boy for years

#i remember some heterodox theologians wanted to hype up gnosticism as the alternative or even true Christianity #i remember of those discussions and #while i was more familiar with the people who said Voegelin had the ultimate understanding of gnosticism #which he totally didn't #i see things like these im like #is that so #thats the belief system that was supposed to replace Christianity #sure you can make an elaborate and elegant argument about their anti establishment #that is way more qualified than anything i could ever write #but still #it still feels like some gnostic writers were 3rd century prototype redditors #if i wasnt lazy id add the zardoz clip to this post

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kabru dunmeshi is basically a chernobyl survivor who was adopted by an eternally young hot white woman who was going to pamper him for his entire life but instead of wanting to be pampered he was like "mom, i need to become a stalker. i need to return to the Zone" and his elf mom was like "nooo the Zone sucks you'll be shot by a bandit" and he was like "no mom i need to go to the Zone and find out what happened" and she was like "fine" and pulled out a machinegun from her days in the Suicide Squad and trained him to kill while firing on him with live ammunition. Then he went to the Zone and immediately got killed by a pack of wild dogs because elf mom only taught him how to shoot other humans

#this post is kinda written in the style of doom repercussions of evil

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#enlightenment

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I thought of a more comedic plot: the elf spouse is actually easily distracted and doesn't tend to compute the passing of time well ("It was 50 years ago? I thought it was last week!"), so the human spouse is like: "No, honey, it was last week indeed. I'm just at my prime...for a hundred years? Oh, no, no it's been just, like four or five years. See? It's just your impression." And this why the "human" spouses keeps ok their projects while the elf one thinks everything is a-okay.

For elves, the neat part about taking human lovers is the relatively short time of commitment. After reaching 300 years of marriage, you’re starting to get suspicious of your spouse.

#this reminds me of that chinese spy that married a french diplomat #he didnt realize she was a man and their children adopted for 21 years

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If your oc was a canon character what bad takes/gross mischaracterizations would the fandom come up with for them

#mara would be treated as a religious fanatic #tojava would be treated as a horny psychopath

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(OoMH - 1/11) : Sara

Part 1/11.

OoMH (Re: HRtP) is an illustration series featuring my depictions of PC98 characters who makes an appearance in my take of a story for Touhou 1 HRtP.

#nice depiction

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GW designers made interesting decisions imo Ah yes, skitarii - supersoldiers without fear or excess emotions, perfectly obedient murder machines. Lets give them the biggest saddest wettest eyes in existence, adorable little coats and childish backpacks. Our fiercest warriors. Killing enemies by cuteness overload lmao NOT complaining. It makes 40k better.

#horrors of technofanaticism vs adorable little guys

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an alternate timeline

#Adeptus Vocalis

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Acheron in a suit.. Something i designed my self though added elements of her actual outfit into it too!

#looks cool

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The last thing a Necron sees before it has a bad time

#blursed

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Watching the Kaveh quest where they uncover a student loan scam is too real.

#genshin impact

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I like her because there is something wrong with her.

#considering her and rise are victim of soul-crushing expectations #i guess its not that surprising

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This is the highest compliment I can bestow, but Dungeon Meshi reads like it was written for, if not by, Terry Pratchett.

Oh, you have a dungeon with monsters and adventurers? How does it work? Who pays? How do you get enough supplies? People will eat anything when hungry; do they eat the monsters? People will cook feasts from rotten meat and weeds; what feasts can you make with monsters?

By the way, here is a terrible pun about soup.

You want heroes to have peril, but also to live? Easy! Just have a ressurection spell. Well how does it work? What's the point? What would people give to live forever? What would people give to die?

Here's a dwarf whose magical shield is a wok.

And if they come back, it still hurts right? Do people remember? What happens if they forget that, outside of the dungeon, they can't come back? What if the thing that brings them back also ties them to the dungeon more and more, changes them, makes them different without knowing why.

Whilst you were thinking about that, the halfling founded an adventurers guild. It's an actual union with dues etc. btw he's a deadbeat dad apart from this.

The dwarf from earlier carries familial trauma that will haunt you for the next decade. The protagonist holds his sister's skull as the first proof that there is anything left of her. The two female leads share a love so deep that giving it a name would pollute it. The protagonist's sword is a mollusc.

#its always nice that there are authors who go for this kind of world building #i wonder how popular Pratchett is in Japan