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oh yeah? well *i* met a traveller from an antique land who says that’s total bullshit

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I think the idea of having racial traits like mermaids can swim well and elves an do magic well would be funny if humans could walk well. The persistance Hunter thing. I'm debating because of that post that said "I love fantasy. I can escape to a place where race is real" yeah their all exactly like humans except some of them are skinny and smart and some are short and dumb. Some of them are better at mining than others so their the mining class and some are better at stealing than others so we're not giving them jobs (it's not the other way around we promise) I mean of course it's realistic to have problems like I just said teiflings aren't magically good at stealing they just were marginalized because they look like demons. Anyways humans they can really walk

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I use JP for Jean Paul on here and also on paper (hand written) and I must look crazy to my family because I am J. P. and also it's first person Enalore so it's like I/me

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The Legend of Drizzt: Legacy of the Drow covers by Chris Rallis; art direction by Kara Kenna.

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"I have such a headache."

- My Durge, Riz'zodan, after face smacking his way out of his mind flayer pod on the nautiloid

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whatever didn't kill me turned me into this

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A Waterlogged Portrait

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There was a period in my life where I really didn’t understand why people write fanfiction when they could be writing their own stories and characters. But over time I eventually figured it out. People can’t see all the ideas in your head unless you write them, your characters need to have a substantial amount of writing and be of a certain quality for anyone to be able to get invested in them, and they have to be open to reading something completely foreign to them in the first place. But for fanfiction people are already invested in the characters, they already know stuff about the story and setting. The writer doesn’t have to do a ton of work setting all that up and can instead get right to writing the juicy scenes they want without committing to writing a whole bunch to establish everything. And at the end of the day theres no guarantee anyone else will like your characters, but if its a story about a character they already like then its so much easier to get people to read it. These definite advantages are very appealing.

That said, there are also disadvantages. Someone with no interest in the property it’s based on is more unlikely to read fanfiction than original work, both because they don’t have any interest in reading a work that is derived from something they have no connection to and because fanfiction expects reader to have at least a baseline understanding of the story. Another thing is that readers might disagree with your interpretations and headcanons about characters and events. It’s also harder to get published, and people who do “file the serial numbers off” a long fanfic are frequently looked down upon for understandable reasons. One of the major parts of it that I saw as a downside, which was the reason I used to not understand why people write it, is that it is ultimately a derivative work that cannot exist without its source material, and it is not a purely original work of your own creation.

That last part, about pure originality, is what eventually led to me realizing that “hey maybe a derivative fan work can still be valuable and gold”. As I was trying to work on my own things, and trying to be wholly original, I came to realize how impossible it is the come up with ideas that are not at least partially shaped by your perception of the world and how the things you’ve seen have affected your tastes. You can’t write a work of fantasy, sci fi, or any other fiction genre without reflecting the art in the genre that you have experience with. The most extreme version of realizing that no idea exists in a vacuum was when I was trying to come up with names for things. Coming up with a name for something without any outside influences is essentially impossible other than by throwing random syllables around and creating something that hasn’t been used by chance, and even then the syllables you choose will be reflective of the language you speak and other factors that influence your thoughts and who you are.

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In a world where werewolves are just shape shifters, I think their drawback should be much like vampires drinking blood, they eat human.

The human shape is huge but like I said a few weeks ago, we eat 4 pounds of food a day unlike make animals which each a good fraction of their body weight.

4 pounds of human is probably an arm or something the flaw of course is that if you bite a human they turn into a werewolf, so you have to kill the whole human unless you aren't guilty about killing

Also I think your memory should still be bad the way a lot of werewolves will not remember what they did as wolves. JP would probably benefit from having DID... Just make one guy do all the hard stuff.

be pretty normal if he had normal DID but I never thought of the memory thing until just now. Well he wouldn't be that normal. DID is usually a childhood thing werewolf isn't so yoj already have a lot of

Stuff

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I just had to share this cursed object that the internet dared to market to me as a valentines day gift, anniversary present, or WEDDING BAND.

I mean there’s just no way this thing doesn’t steal souls, right?

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scheduling lethal company gaming sessions via discord events. made an event banner for one

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[very clearly enamored AND elated] He fucking bit me.

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Foraging Finds

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everyone riding the train today got 250 xp after a level 32 dracula wandered onto the tracks

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she's venus mcflytrap bitch!!! god her doll looks SO GOOD

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fuck therapy i wanna beat the shit out of someone