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I'm gonna lay odds that this might get buried. I can't pay anyone like a professional, sorry. I guess your payment is that you get to draw pretty much whatever you want given a vague concept. And showcase your work here. Basically, I have a revision of the Bible. All this started because I...

They should have vagina or they're no different from a pre-op transgirl. Also, no balls.

I think Korra at season 4 sorta is okay. She actually has struggles and regrets, and has to get herself together. If we're going by the idea that one video said about "if you replace them with a man, and nothing has changed, you're doing it wrong" so who would Korra be as a man? And the answer...

The trolley problem is wrong-headed to start with. Basically, it has two unlikeable options, and basically encourages psychopathic thinking. Instead of asking "how can we save the five?" it wants to bully you into being a murderer through action or being a manslaughterer through inaction. And...

I like the Dragoon approach. If you don't understand the reference, there's an anime back from the 90s called Ryuki Densho, or Dragoon in America. It was awesome cheese with really terrible stock lines. It's also softcore porn. The prologue starts at some distant scene (that we never get to...

I like writing names not as Romanized Japanese, nor as English, but literally using Google Translate to write kanji or other text. Such as 秋の星虹の乙女 for the ridiculously fanciful name Autumn Star Rainbow Maiden. Which makes audiobooks impossible. Although, sometimes I do use English text, just...

Been marathoning short Youtubes about better film and books. So I'm making this thread about videos about making better stories. Mostly from anime and cartoons. On the "strong" female versus the strong female. About the kishotenketsu story structure vs the three act structure. Utopian...

As to #3, I'm honestly wracking my brain thinking of something alternative to plot and character. Either events happen, or characters do things. Or a mix of the two. I suppose if I had to reach, maybe non-driven story? Kinda just a cozy novel where people kinda hang around. Suffice it to say...

The problem with em dashes is that some of those examples could use semicolons, commas, or parentheses. And usually the em dash creates a situation where unlike parentheses or some other type of bracket, the sidetrack wasn't helpful (remove it), or required a reread because em dashes don't as...

Em-dashes sometimes fail to register on certain publising sites. So I hate them and always replace them with regular dashes.

The internet in theory means easy looking up of things, more connection, and the ability to post things for others to see. In practice, it only really does the last. There is a deal where people typically went outside and verified things. Now with Wikipedia able to update information, there is...

(Shave the planet, y'all) David woke up with a start. His mothers urged him back to bed. "It's too hot to get up, David," one of his mothers said. These days, it was difficult to tell who was your father was thanks to the sperm donors, none of the women knew who the father was. Something about...

This plus the entire isekai genre. Status bars like an RPG. Carbon copy fantasy with no worldbuilding. Redoing stories to be "modern". Trying to rush the novel.

Ambrosia is a somewhat crazy beggar woman with amnesia up to about age nine who and falls in love with a crossdressing prince. Also, in a few spots in the story, she successfully convinced herself that she's actually dead and/or in a mental institution because her fantasy adventure doesn't feel...

I think a story can have a realistic happy end. Here's an example story from watching a film on a plane trip. A woman attends a shiva (Jewish mourning festival) at the request of her in-laws. We find out she's a prostitute, she's bisexual, and that both the guy she had sex with this morning is...

Why I said what I said. Fanfiction isn't hated by readers. They gobble that stuff up. It's hated by writers. Writers look at not only fanfiction but also copycat manga or novels (yes, we can tell if your book is inspired by the popularity of Solo Leveling), and get annoyed as they watch their...

Are you kidding? Look at the foot traffic to my book. Now look at a fanfiction. Any fanfiction. I'll wager the number of people who have read and like it orders in the thousands. Btw, it doesn't help that my book has a gigantic eyesore before you hit page 1. Some asshole, peeved that I removed...

Sorry, I'm gonna rant. So anyway, I was looking at the word "sorceror" as opposed to "sorcerer," and it says that it's a common misspelling rather than a spelling variant. And then it occurred to me, who actually decides such things? If the something is commonly spelled that way, why isn't the...

There was an online article about this. Basically, teenage through college age students are being propagandized by anti-natal ideas. I think they said there's about a 4% of abortion among married, and about 40% among unmarried, but most of the the millennials assume they can wait until like 45...

Nowadays some vampires even just have an aversion to garlic. I think in Mayonaka Punch, garlic just gives them diarrhea. And then of course there's the Twilight series. *cringe_induced_amnesia* Wait, what novel was I talking about?