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My roommate had been good today. He had fed me twice, and I'd caught the string he'd been waving a lot of times. He'd even let me in late into the evening and petted my almost frozen fur with his warm hands. It was time for a reward. I wanted to pet him too, and he'd pushed my head away when...

Irma couldn't hear the footsteps of the soldiers over her own panting, but she knew they were coming. Mommy had told her to run as fast as she could when they'd broken through the village's palissade, and she had run. She didn't know where to run at first, as everything outside of the fields...

Is that from the Evil Overlord list?

"Sir, you can't possibly be thinking about attacking the Disney-Google-Meta alliance, they're neutral!" "Lieutenant, please tell me where you obtained the information that they're neutral?" "Sir, I have made a thorough search on the internet, interrogated dozens of refugees from the United...

Cracking Christmas? OK, let's try it. "Santa's replacement, Eldritch abomination edition" Oh no! Santa and his elves are sick, and the few unaffected elves are frantically looking for a replacement. A human won't do this time, as Santa's sickness is highly contagious to any living organism...

Yeah, you're probably right, that's going to be a lot of work, and I'll never be able to outsmart an internet crowd of readers. Outsmarting a real life crowd is simple, but once you give people the ability to take time to think and to feed on each other's thoughts, it's a loosing battle. That...

Thanks, I'm going to check it out!

I'll keep your character in mind for an antagonist or an established super. Yes, they're very cool, but a bit too powerful for my group. Thanks! That's the kind of power I'm looking for!

Hi everyone! I've got this story idea macerating in my head about a group of superheroes who've all got the short stick in terms of raw power, but who compensate for it with training and creativity. I've got some ideas for my characters, but I would need a few more of them. Could you help me...

Creating a body would be complicated. Affecting it, however can become gruesome pretty quickly. Yes, there's blood, of course, and you can already do vile things with it, but what about digestive fluids? Or eye humors? Cerebrospinal fluid? Any water mage who could affect those fluids would be...

If you can manipulate isotopes as long as it's water, yeah you've got Hydrogen and Oxygen to play with, but also a bunch of other minerals because water is rarely as pure as H2O. You'll have a hard time arguing that the sea is not water, and it's definitely not only H20. So if you want a Big...

You'd get either really someone really OP (Muhahahaha! Nothing you can throw at me can hurt me, System slaves!), completely pointless (Oh, you negated the +12 bonus of my sharpened sword of annihilation? Well, good for you, sorry for your arm, BTW, I guess you'll have a hard time regrowing it...

I like to open boxes cleanly. So mostly either with a butter knife, scissors, or keys if I don't have the former two on hand.

Dutch. Dutch is like German, but uglier. And don't get me started on the abomination that is Luxemburger: it's an ugly Flemish, which is already the ugly version of Dutch. Sorry for my Benelux friends, you can go ahead and rib me with any French stereotype that you wish, I'll deservedly take...

Your explanations are deep, complex and thorough. However, I feel like that guy after reading you: That being said, if you're really into dissecting settings, your categories might work. The important thing is that they work for you, and help you tell better stories. I still prefer to...

83% of statistics are made up on the spot to serve the argument of the person providing them.

Why would people mass worship gods or demons who are obviously evil? That's something I never really saw the logic behind. Don't get me wrong, a fringe cult of desperate people for a doom demon is perfectly logical, as much as someone dedicating themselves to an evil god of vengeance. The...

So, you've basically got a reverse-isekai premise: naïve protagonist gets thrown into unfamiliar society and tries to strive. That can go a lot of ways! Is your MC capable of passing as a human or a commonly seen spacefaring species? If not, this should be addressed (fantastic racism) or...

OK, let's try this out.

Stealth is action, so you need to lay the stakes, plan your course (if not the character, at least you, writer should know where they are and where they're going), and let your character at it. What is fun with stealth is the margin of error. Can your character run or is it too noisy? Do they...