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Yeah, she probably gets the No-Prize here... I could not believe that was a real character, had to check the date of the Marvel Wiki to make sure it wasn't an April Fools thing (suspect it WAS an Assistant Editors Month thing... :D)

September 30th. Time to trek down to Dollar Tree and buy more of the plastic bee skeletons that so freaked out the kids last year (especially the one hoping to be a biologist, who lectured us about exoskeletons and how they differ from skeletons for fifteen minutes - long enough for a real bee...

The two things that bothered me about this: The height of the wall in question. Unless there were some impressive magic involved in its construction, it just does not make sense. Maybe just make it one hundred, fifty feet - keep the rest as-is; the beads barely last long enough to get her up...

Depends entirely on the writer. Some have been able to make the most worthless-seeming abilities (like, oh, BOUNCING) become vital. Others can make Superman seem useless...

Matter Eater Lad from the planet Bismoll. He saved the Legion a few times, IIRC. Even Bouncing Boy (who could inflate his body and ... well... bounce) managed to be a true hero a few times. The really "useless" powers wound up in the Legion of Substitute Heroes - Infectious Lad (briefly, due...

As a writer and a reader, I generally prefer stories were romance is a B or C plot over the main one. But then, I am a guy and the typical audience for Romantassy seems to be women, so my view is probably not relevant.

A backlog is good. I caught up to mine, unfortunately, and am having a hard time with it now...

Not exactly but when I was younger I would get ideas that I would start writing, only to find someone else had just published something so close to it that I'd be accused of plagiarism if I finished. Hasn't happened for years though.

I keep seeing this thread title as "Trendy Flag Usage" ... Which might include harem. I;ve never read harem stories but the main complaints I've seen is that there's never any reason the reader can see for all these girls to fall for the bland MC, who often comes across as a wish-fulfillment...

They have their fans, not all of them fictional.

Please, we call them "worshippers" ... or were you referring to anatomy?

Is that one of Will Farrell's very few good roles? With Emily Blunt as the Author? If so, did not catch that subtest but did find it ... well, much funnier than most of his movies.

Honestly, if I knew I'd share. Only met one who discussed it under their own name, and lost contact a few years ago (before COVID so they may no longer be around - and I'm blanking on what the name was). There has been some discussion of this on Substack though, and you might be able to find...

It's more paid internship. I heard Clancy was a bit of a tightwad (though he did get a few others started in the business), but most of them have their farm under generous contracts and only a few demand kickbacks from unassigned stuff written under their own names while under contract (I've...

I actually had a group try to recruit me for this in college, and explained how and why it works. There is a line where this is allowed and where it is not. If the real author understands enough of the process to write about it competently (and, far more importantly, to discuss it competently...

They are being paid to write, using someone else's characters. The providing author acts as a mentor and partial editor for the novice. They are paid (and fairly generously from what I've heard but I do not know for a fact) and, unless they have REALLY bad contracts, or do not wish to have...

And you wonder why some cultures revere cats as gods?

You would have better odds of drawing readers if you included a link

Part of my world's backstory is that the man who would become the Moon Lord, the God of the (first of, briefly, three) moons was a mortal who caught the eye of the sun goddess. She kept coming down to meet up with him, and when she revealed what she was, the other gods forced her to leave him...

Had a DM in college whose prep time for an adventure of any length amounted to "fifteen minutes to draw a map, ten to write out one trap. up to half an hour looking up monster stats and making notes on strange abilities." Didn't matter if this would be a multi-session dungeon or a half-hour...