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I just have to raise an objection here. I know you mentioned a death as a simple example, but I just feel disgusted by death scenes that are trying to get the reader to cry. If it's done right, the crying should happen at the character's wake, when characters are talking about the good...

Traditionally, fairies don't like being called fairies. Also, they live everywhere, and I do mean literally everywhere, not just in boulders. (Also, currently studying the dictionary of fairies and I have yet to find such a story as the one you mentioned.)

Oh wow! That source is REALLY good! I just gave it the acid test. I looked up it's definition of "Goblin" and "Hobgoblin." It gave the classical lore answer, not the modern pop-culture answer, which earns this site MAJOR points in my book. (Or rather, it gave something fairly close to the...

I'm reading this. https://archive.org/details/BriggsKatharineMaryAnEncyclopediaOfFairies/page/n63/mode/2up

Did that as well, and I actually have gotten a good result from other sources already. I'm currently reading Katharine Mary Briggs' "A Dictionary of Fairies" on a recommendation of a reddit thread someone linked me to. It seems to be exactly what I was looking for.

That might seem like a decent list to the average person, but it doesn't have Dullahans, Cait sith, Church Grims, or many other creatures associated with the fey. The fact I know over twice the number of fey creatures as are on that list winds up meaning it's rather insufficient to me. It...

I'm trying to look up an appropriate fey creature from traditional English or Scottish folk lore to fill a guardian role in my story. It needs to be physically small in appearance, and someone enticing in terms of looking cute and innocent in appearance, but has a role of a guardian to some...

Oh yes, I think we're actually starting to see exactly that happening right now. Most of the series that are acclaimed for taking "a different approach" toward these common tropes, those "different approaches" are all just re-asserting old tropes that had fallen off for a while. Fair enough. I...

Eh, what can I say? It was the easiest concept at hand to point out where every single person with magic had creative and interesting ways their powers could be applied besides the brute-force approach of throwing fireballs at the enemy. The point was that it doesn't need to just be the...

No problem with that. The premise of my post says nothing against the protagonist finding exploits in their own power. I'm just saying equally or similarly powerful exploits should exist in the other magic systems of the world as well, and it should be possible for other characters to figure...

Like I said, mental gymnastics. I think having an explanation, but not a good one, why something that stretches the imagination is the case is the very definition of mental gymnastics.

Not seen The Watchmen, but The Boys? That's not how real people would react to superpowers, that's how hollywood actors would react to superpowers. The way real people would react would be something more along the lines of WORM. That series looks exactly like what the world might turn into if...

It can also apply in reverse, such as was the case with Death Mage. In that series, a lot of the applications of death magic (other than maybe the golems he was able to create) seemed pretty reasonable for things that would come as a result of Death magic. Instead, the mental gymnastics that...

We have seen this common trope a lot these days. The protagonist has a seldom used and under-appreciated magic system, but they somehow twist it to make it amazingly OP. This seems like a somewhat game inspired thing. It's often the case in CCGs, MMORPGs, Mobas, and anything else that has...

Since Raven's Dagger seems to have truly abandoned his Agathara Loop series after the 2nd loop, I have been kicking around some ideas for a magical girl with time-travel powers of my own in order to continue the story concept. I really fell in love with the concept Raven's Dagger put forward in...

I would usually advise caution with making your first fiction a fan-fic that includes an OC, but it seems strange to say that now with all the great advice others are giving in here. This is some good stuff, so yes, if you are actually able to follow through on what they're saying then you...

Yeah, so far as I'm aware, there are really only 2 "correct" ways to do Harem. Either the Mushoku Tensei way, or the Rumiko Takahashi way. The Mushoku Tensei way is more well known today because it's the one that is more recent in mind due to both the webnovel and Anime having come out a lot...

Well, the answer to this question is a lot more obvious and very uncomplicated if you actually know what the "lit" in litRPG stands for. lit = literary. Literary RPG. As in, it's an RPG in book/webnovel form. And before you ask, yes, yes this definition of litRPG ABSOLUTELY does include things...

And this is exactly why the Aquebus, and later the Musket, was able to come into popularity. The longbow is a powerful weapon. The early Aquebus was even inferior to the longbow in every way. However, the MAJOR advantage that the Aquebus had over the longbow was that it required next to no...

I'd actually have to say the most surprising thing about the experience was how easy it became after making the first 50-100 words. It's something that sounds really hard to anyone who's never done it before, but really most of the work is on the research and prep end. You need to get some idea...