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    Writing Prompt Imagine a setting twenty years in the future.

    The Great Collapse began in 2030. The United States was the first to fall, when a hastily - and poorly - written law intended to encourage the use of electric vehicles instead made it functionally illegal to use anything else. Those who could not afford such conveyances lost their jobs or...
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    Which novel/s is/are your hate read?

    Unless stuff read for classes counts (then #1 hate read EVER was "Portrait of the Lady" by Henry James), the only one was the first Thomas Covenant series - read the second first and did not understand what a total POS Covenant was until the final battle in the first series. Barely made it...
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    Funny RPG Trait?

    OR ... link them. They have the stat bonus but only while drunk and both go away together.
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    Social Media

    I belong to two of the three writer's groups I've found on Facebook - one for a site that I've never used (the one I never singed up for on FB either), one for self-published authors, and one general information group (which is where I found this site and Substack IIRC). I've chatted on a few...
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    Funny RPG Trait?

    I once played in a modified Boot Hill game at a convention. My character was the "Drunken Doctor" It's been a few years, but if I recall the progression, for normal characters you have: Sober (no special modifiers) Tipsy (Slight penalty to skills, especially ones requiring motor control, bonus...
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    How many of you are robots without realising?

    I suspect the paid version is close to reliable and the free one not at all but that's just my suspicious nature.
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    Social Media

    So far only used this one and Substack - and have not done a lot of promotion yet.
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    How many of you are robots without realising?

    Hmm. Digital Cowboy: 0 True Blue: 0 And hit the limit of words that can be checked without paying at that. Kind of surprised as I'd expected about 10% or so, despite not using AI to write it. Then again, has anyone tested this with something definitely AI generated to see if it gives any other...
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    What are your some of the most hated tropes?

    Why? I mean, that was an initial theme (before it went gonzo crazy) in "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" and that was not a "dumb" movie at all.
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    Magic World without Cultivation

    Eh, just go ahead and, ah, cultivate your own ideas...
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    What Am I Doing Wrong Here?

    It can take up to 48 hours for a story to be approved - usually takes about 20 but sometimes it takes longer. If the story is a translation, unless you can prove you are the original author, it will be hidden on this site but can be posted to Novel Updates.
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    What are your some of the most hated tropes?

    FASERIP? You have enough Karma for that?
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    What are your some of the most hated tropes?

    If I hadn't encountered it more than once in real life, I'd agree with you... but some have weird self-confidence issues and just refuse to realize they are attractive for some reason.
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    Would Historical Fiction be considered Historical Fanfic?

    With historical persons you do run the risk of playing with myths and legends too. For example, there was a person who spread apple seeds around the country and inspired the tale of Johnny Appleseed; there was also a real Johnny Tremaine, who suffered injuries from working with silver; the two...
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    I thought i somehow got 55 views

    Been there, done that.
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    Would Historical Fiction be considered Historical Fanfic?

    So essentially August Derleth's "Solar Pons" stories?
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    Have you ever been so invested in a story you cried? (twist) (rant)

    End of the 6th and a big part of why they're on the run in 7 IIRC.
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    Zeus, king of the Greek gods!

    I believe the Greek hoplites had the commander in the middle of the second rank (and were usually three or four ranks deep) but I'm not sure. And some of the Greek City-States deviated from traditional structure so it's tough to be certain.
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    What do you consider as harem?

    The duplicating character from ARCSWAT Cast – Grrl Power
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