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-Introductions and defining terms Hello everyone. I was watching a recent video that commented on Akira Toriyama's unfortunate passing, and it got me thinking about this subject. Nobody would dispute, his franchise, Dragonball, was undoubtedly a groundbreaking piece of media. For the purpose...

Just found a good video to share. I'll just leave this here for you.

You all know it. The classic plot of the hero summoned from another world to defeat the demon king. At least half of all Isekai are based around this basic core plot, with various permutations on it. Various different ways they try to just off-set it a little bit from that basic core so it...

My niece and nephew have been really into a traditional Irish song called The Rattlin' Bog, mostly because The Wiggles did a version of it. But, after hearing it over and over again for a while, I coincidentally wound up whistling the tune once and came to a startling realization. I remembered...

I am set to dark theme for both the forum and the main site. However, every so often, my theme for the main site will go back to default. There is no consistency to how long it takes or however many times I revisit the site that it goes back to the default theme. I'm guessing this is likely to...

I tried to post this topic a short time ago, and it was completely overrun by trolls to the extent that I requested the mods delete it so I could start afresh hopefully with more productive discussion. Well, they locked it instead, and now I'm re-posting it here with the same initial idea. This...

I just stumbled across this video on Youtube, really good for helping you understand the causes of procrastination and then how to overcome those causes.

I just spent the day making chocolate peanut butter balls for a Christmas party. Those things are incredibly good, but it is unreal just how much of a learning curve it is to figure out how to actually make them right. It's made especially hard by the fact that I have a food sensitivity (which...

Let me start this one with a bit of a personal experience I had reading a manga recently. I read this manga, and it featured a kingdom in which the ruling family is descended from a hero who is a master of the sword. This hero's bloodline, passed down through the royal family, also passes on...

This is inspired by @RepresentingEnvy for her favorite vampire sub-species poll, I thought I'd post a poll based on the actual vampire lore that's out there. So, for those of you who are unaware of what the actual lore behind each is in the poll above, I'll give you all a brief run-down...

So, I just made a post in "looking for" a short time ago asking if anyone knows of a "kicked from the party" based story that doesn't follow the 9 point plot that absolutely every single one of them follow. It's ludicrous how every single one of those stories follows that exact cookie-cutter...

So, I just asked about another theme that was spreading like a cancer a moment ago, but here's one I think would actually be pretty hard to find out there. The "Kicked from the Hero's Party" and, it's spin-off look alike, "Kicked from the S-Rank Party" are coming to be themes that are popping...

I've just noticed recently, there's a crazy amount of regressor stories starting to come out recently. That is to say, stories where the protagonist goes back in time in order to "do things better." However, almost all of them are based around one of two themes. They're all either dealing with a...

Worm, the web fiction to reach #1 in the English original category back in the golden era of the early 2010s where the ridiculous majority of the best web-fictions out there were written. Also famous for being the story that makes it's MC suffer so severely that it can actually traumatize the...

I've recently been engrossed in what has to be one of the most bizzare genre combinations ever. I discovered a series called Super Gene, and it is a sci-fi setting with a cultivation power system. And yet, it works so incredibly well that I would even dare to call it the single best Cultivation...

Long post alert Introduction There are several significant advantages to pulling from old lore and mythologies from the ancient world (Greek, Christian, Chinese, Japanese, and Babylonian) or the classical world (Norse, Icelandic, Slavic) to implement in your writing. The advantages are that...

It's not so much a bug as it is a faulty feature, but it seems there's some kind of auto-complete in the BB code in cases where you post partial BB code. This is a problem, because one of the most common uses of partial BB code I'm aware of is if you're trying to show the code to someone, which...

I have just released my 3rd major series, 2nd which I think has promise to go long-term (new hero god kinda fizzled due to poor planning), and am trying to get the cover art linked in my signature. I opened the BB code and copy-pasted the exact formatting I used on the 1st cover art for Key to...

Yeah, I'm being a slouch right now. ADHD effects kicking in, and I'm just finding myself unable to put down my mobile games and just get behind the computer and write. So, I thought I'd just share that and ask people to give me the "advice" I need to get myself back on track. Namely, I came...

I'm working on a story, but I am having trouble writing interactions between the mother and the MC. MC is a reincarnated person, and he was born in a prison cell where his mother is locked up and chained to the wall. The guards have decided he should stay in the prison cell with her for various...