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As a deaf person working on her own story, this discussion of Wildbow's deafness and how it affects his writing is interesting.
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RC Cola posted:Can you elaborate? Just, it brings to mind that I might want a beta reader capable of spotting those kinds of issues.
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Hungry posted:So, I've been writing a web serial for almost nine months now, called Katalepsis. You had me at lesbian supernatural soap opera.
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Yeah I dropped He Who Fights With Monsters because its main character is an absolute jackass and there was no sign the narrative disapproved of his actions. Besides, he was extremely irritating. His reasoning for casually violating social norms is also bullshit and reeks of a privileged white male perspective.
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Don't get me wrong, I hold no love for nobles. gently caress nobles. But Jason also exhibited that attitude toward that priest of the god of knowledge and the god herself, when he was trying to ask for something from them. And they gave it to him. And when I left off, he wasn't really suffering much consequence from mouthing off.
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Larry Parrish posted:if your critique of a story is simply 'I dont like the protagonist' your critique is trash tbh. i mean it's fine to say it's bad because its a power fantasy but its dumb to say it's bad because it's a power fantasy that i, personally, do not share I've read stories with unlikable protagonists that were better than this. My critique isn't just about not liking the protagonist.
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Royal Road is not a very LGBT friendly site. The majority of the transgender authors I know abandoned it and moved to Scribblehub. Their cited reasons include lack of action on many of the transphobic reviews they received, the admin staff's tolerance of people complaining about them making Nazis into villains, the staff refusing to have LGBT tags because "half of the stories on those tags are porn and this isn't a porn site", and stuff like that. In short, both the general readerbase and the admin staff suck. They cited Scribblehub as being far more friendly to them.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Any scribblehub recs from them? With or without Nazis as villains. I'll get on this later today. I've been meaning to do a big effortpost about transgender webserial writers anyways.
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So, here is my transgender author effortpost! Unfortunately, I don't know of many if any stories from a transmaculine perspective. Those're all from a transfeminine perspective. Anyways, first I must note a few things. One, those stories tend to have a transgender main character who for some reason experience a body change to fit their gender. This is because, in essence, they are transgender wish fulfillment. Two, some of those stories don't shy away from sex and the ways transgender people relate to their own bodies. Three, they're written from the perspective of a minority that has to deal with a hostile world, and some of those stories aggressively wear their progressive politics on their sleeves. If you can deal with those things, read on. Also please don't be goons at them. Transgender people get a lot of poo poo already. Anyways, I'm gonna feature one story from each author--a lot of them have a bunch of works. The basic premise of Kammi Kettu is one day many people abruptly are changed along with a bunch of other phenomena like half of Seattle being replaced with strange ruins and a dragon freaking out in New York. Lives are lost in the confusion. The Emerged, those transformed by the Emergence, have to deal with a lot of prejudice and fear. Human-passing Emerged get it better than the weirder looking ones. Some of the Emerged play superhero and supervillain. Also, Neo-Nazis as villains. It follows a transgender woman who is transformed into a foxgirl and her career as a puckish rogue stealing from assholes and confounding superheroes and supervillains alike. Songbird features a teenager who grows spikes and gets shadowy powers and stuff like that. She is the subject of a horrible misunderstanding. The early part of the story is rather dark, but after a certain point it brightens considerably. This is closely entwined with Kammi Kettu, with a number of crossover chapters featuring meetings between the main characters of the two stories, told from the perspective of that main character. Also it has some lore on why the Emergence happened. Deviled Egg has the basic premise of the main character getting turned into a succubus type devil by the botched ritual of a wizard in the same apartment complex. It has a 4channer going to hell for his hateful ways, by the way. Ricochet has the main character awakening her alternate superhero form (a thing in this setting) and discovering said form is a girl. Also, she adjusts to her speedster powers and ends up having tangles with authority and a supervillain with the power to steal others' powers. No relation to Kammi Kettu, by the way, it's a separate setting. The Other World is Leaking is basically urban fantasy. I still need to read more of it. Cuddle & Monster takes a different tack than the other stories, where the main character is the subject of an attempted animal transformation spell by an evil warlock and instead turned into a stuffed animal who starts to influence the warlock in a better direction Birthrights I haven't read yet, but its premise seems to be main character finds his grandmother's legacy and goes exploring the world she had adventures in. Jotnar: Mother of Monsters has the main character the subject of an attempted ritual to turn her into Loki's bride so Ragnarok, the end of the world, can start. She has her objections to that. The Three Laws of Magic takes place in a world where magic can only directly affect a person with their consent. I recommend checking out those authors' profiles for their other works. Scribblehub also has a transgender tag, unlike a certain site whose initials is RR. I also have a story posted (I'm transgender myself), but it's only two chapters so far. I've been working on the third chapter. When I have more posted, I'll link it.
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You can kinda tell where I started petering out on energy to do detailed summaries.
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Interesting analysis that makes it clear that many of the stories I want to write won't get massively popular. But I've already accepted that.
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Specifically some of the things I want to write are fairly niche, especially the porn.
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Related to an early topic I was talking about, what're good sites to post porn on?
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Thanks for your suggestions!
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I recently found a story that I quite like: To Play With Magic Part of why I like it is because everyone seems to have their own deal going on and the main character basically is dealing with a tragedy in her past and growing somewhat as a person. Also lots of playing around with magic. It's one of those LitRPG deals, but the aim seems to be to try to subvert the system.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:The wand of cure hysteria was just a cute joke that went over her head, that was good. And then it came back up and each time got a little worse. Wait the Stray Cat characters aren't at least 18? If that's the case, definitely dropping the story
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Cardiovorax posted:Googled that just now and by explicit statement of the author, the main character of that story is seventeen years old, as is her girlfriend. So yeah. Okay, yeah, story dropped.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Is there anything good in the vein of (I'm sorry Hungry) Katalepsis, Unsong, Pact, for the occult stuff? There're a number of quests on Sufficient Velocity inspired by the game Cultist Simulator, that generally has some of that kind of thing. Of course, they're of varying quality. I also run one such quest which I just brought back from hiatus though I've no idea how good it is. I do try my best, at least, and created a reasonably distinct setting I guess. https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/invisible-cults.56948/
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Oh, neat! Cult Sim carved its way into my mind the week it released and I haven't been able to get it out since. Embarassingly large portions of my brain are now dedicated to thinking about the Lithomachy and the Intercalate. I'd say probably a tier below or so, I'm not as good an author as that game's author. But do expect way more character interaction.
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I tend to ignore the ads that just displays a list of genres and some guy looking cool or whatever, but I've clicked on a few that looked a bit more interesting. But overall statistical data is more important than anecdotal data for deciding if ads're worth it, and I'm glad Royal Road provides them.
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Megazver posted:So you think KU's audience off-sets the fact that you probably can't get any new RR readers? Are there enough stats on RR to see if KU readers then go to RR to read the latest chapters or if it's just the people who jumped onboard during the first book? I've seen other authors report that KU is simply the more profitable route, multiple times.
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awesmoe posted:That’s what the elves in outcast did so all had the same Savagely Optimized ranger build even when it didn’t spark joy (and they got rolled when something that it wasn’t optimized for showed up) Honestly that's still carrying an idiot ball. There's a reason why armies in the real world have a variety of different roles and have had since early in history. Even someone who isn't a military expert like me know that much. I mean, in my story Slime Slime Slime there are broadly accepted ways to distribute your stats for different aims and militaries are terrifyingly optimized with standard builds that complement each other. The only reason there aren't many high level powerhouses is that xp doesn't exist and the only way to level up is to overcome a substantially risky challenge. This presents two barriers: not dying (or for crafters becoming super broke) and finding a suitable challenge (difficult if you don't want to travel far and wide). Mind, classes are often somewhat personalized which means people sometimes have to fall back on their own judgment for what abilities to pick up but no real trap options exist anyways.
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A big flaming stink posted:they weren't a military force; they were a town militia ruled by extremely old people extremely set in their ways That makes sense then.
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Bremen posted:I actually like that, and Agenda of the Villainess seems to be doing the same thing (the implication is that the marriage was anulled at least partially for political reasons that had nothing to do with the MC). The Villainess genre is kind of interesting since the original, or at least most well known example, was a parody where it's blatantly obvious the MC isn't in danger, and therefor it's left to some of the imitations to actually try playing it straight. From what I've heard, the whole villainess genre originates from the webnovel Kenkyo, Kenjitsu o Motto ni Ikite Orimasu ("I Will Live with Humility and Dependability as My Motto") which only has a fan translation which I've read some of. Interestingly, said original work has no fantasy elements aside from the reincarnation itself but rather is set in a fancy private school in modern times. It does have the MC unknowingly subverting her inevitable doom by being a giant weirdo.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Ta! ...Which story is this? Also, I know of one story where the MC acquires a cloaca (she gets turned into a naga/lamia/snake lady) and remarks how weird it feels to have one. Though it's a pretty cool story overall, quite queer and having its funny moments.
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There are legitimate takes on magic schools that isn't Harry Potter, far better ones even. And boarding schools aren't necessarily an English thing--depending on the situation, you might see people staying in dorms. For example, the school for the deaf I went to had dorms because students would come from afar to attend since there aren't that many deaf schools. Mind, a decent number of students, me included, who lived near enough commuted to school. Really, magic schools work like any trope; there are authors who just ape what other authors are doing without really thinking about it, and there are authors who actually consider how they use the trope.
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LLSix posted:I just bounced off a serial so dumb, I have to share it. The story pitch is that the MC is stuck in a VRMMO and wants to be an alchemist. So far, so good. Three chapters in we learn that she’s stuck in an ultra-realism server, with no stats or character sheet. She does, however, have an inventory. Just, why? If you want to write a fantasy story, do that. Why make a VRMMO story without stats? I don't mind that premise as much and it's in my opinion an interesting take on the concept of VRMMOs. Also the inventory isn't an actual inventory. It's a bag of holding with an inventory style interface and it's limited in how much space it has and only things that can fit within the opening of the bag can be put into it. I suspect the idea is that it was created with the interface.
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https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46799/the-nine-tails-of-alchemy/ The fiction in question. Certain aspects of it wouldn't work if it was a regular fantasy instead of a VRMMO, like the whole thing with people trying to discover how the new game works. Also the super realism is an interesting concept because one of the reasons we don't have games like that is the lack of technological capability for it. We don't even have actual VRMMOs yet. I can easily see how such a game wouldn't be for everyone but some people would absolutely love the experience.
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Megazver posted:I mean, you might want to do a "you're inside a VR" story without endless barf of blue boxes all over the pages. Yeah I actually like the setup in that story the poster rejected. So far it's proving interesting, particularly with stuff like having to worry about transportation of reagents and stuff and the MC amassing a whole lot of tools and also storage shelves and containers and the like because alchemy isn't abstracted out like it is in most games. Also the outside world actually plays some role in the story, in a way that you couldn't get without it being a VRMMO story.
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Bremen posted:I gave this a shot and it was decent? I mean it's not going to be declared a masterpiece, but for a web serial I had no issues with it. It's a VRMMO story about a murder victim stuck in a game while her body is technically alive on life support that just doesn't use litrpg stats but has spatial storage items and there's nothing really wrong with that. Yeah it's just decent at most? I only wrote as much as I did because I thought that person's reasons for dismissing the story were silly, this story definitely isn't on my list of favorite stories. But I don't regret reading it because it had interesting ideas like varying signifiers of power being used instead of a numeric display of how many levels the person has. For example, auras for humans, rune tattoos for I forgot who, and number of tails for kitsune.
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Kyoujin posted:Anyone that's following know what happened with When Immortal Ascension Fails story 6? The whole thing disappeared off RR last week and I assumed it was April fool's but it's still gone. Select volume 2
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Kyoujin posted:Wow I feel dumb now but haven't seen that before. Thanks! Yeah it seems to be a new feature that some but not all authors have adopted
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Some of us don't want to read fanfic of the works of a highly prominent terf
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JKR being a terf is extremely relevant to me by the way since I'm a member of the group she's targeting and harming
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Yeah, like, I'm not gonna judge any of you for reading Harry Potter fanfic, but I will absolutely judge people who continue throwing money JKR's way.
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Peachfart posted:Don't let someone being terrible ruin things you love. Enjoy the scarf and just don't support JKR going forward. Enjoy the fanfics and just don't buy more official Harry Potter. The world is too difficult to add extra optional misery to yourself. Yeah, I agree with this, honestly. I'm not consuming any HP fanfics personally, but, like, I've got plenty of other stuff to enjoy.
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MadHat posted:That is a hard ask, Romance generally does decent couples in whatever configuration you want and rapidly becomes random harem nonsense when any more numbers are added. All it really takes is a writer willing to not make everything revolve around the main character. Which honestly can be a tall ask sometimes in this genre
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RBA-Wintrow posted:I've started reading The Newt & Demon. Honestly, even chapter 1 I found kinda chill for the poo poo that happened in it. Now going to read chapter 2 and onward.
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