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  1. John_Owl

    What are your thoughts on using IRL historical figures in fiction?

    lol well, I'm planning on having my main character learn sailing from Blackbeard (transmigrated, now a chinese-esque woman named Mao). Then he'll be the captain while his harem will be the crew. They'll take part in piracy, privateering, trading, mercantile, etc. Basically whatever pays, they'll...
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    What are your thoughts on using IRL historical figures in fiction?

    lol well, I write plot-focused, uncensored sex. And while Teach doesn't have descendants as far as I know, he does have a fandom. Similar to how a lot of modern-day serial killers have fandoms. Still, I'm not overly worried. I wasn't intending to ask permission so much as others' thoughts on it...
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    What are your thoughts on using IRL historical figures in fiction?

    I honestly doubt many infamous pirates have modern foundations, though some "charities" could be considered as such, I suppose. Like those "I wanna be rich, so everyone donate $1 to me" charities. I plan to steer well clear of any direct references to modern figures, but I do plan to have a...
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    What are your thoughts on using IRL historical figures in fiction?

    So, in my current work, I'm introducing a new character. Thing is, I want her to be someone well known from the IRL world's history. She's a sailor that kinda bounces around different crews and sniping the best to her own. She works as a pirate, privateer, trader, merchant, etc. Whatever's...
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    What genres of music do you listen to while writing/reading?

    I've been learning german, so mostly german bands. Been listening to a bit of schandmaul, patty gurdy's german folk, rammstein, etc. also a bit of feuerschwanz and saltatio mortis (their viking metal hits hard). Of course, operatic metal is always a good fallback for me. So Nightwish and...
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    Work?

    I have health issues that preclude me from working elsewhere, and I'm not really qualified for anything remote in my area. So I'm WFH self-employed. I just write whenever I choose. Often times I bounce back and forth between work and writing. 200-300 words here, an hour of work, then back and...
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    Do Not Overplan Fiction At 3AM

    The solution to everything: come up with an in-world plausible explanation, then naturally work it in somehow. For instance... My world is high fantasy. Might, magic, etc., but a lot of it isn't explored, and there are a lot of modern conveniences. why? There are a lot of otherworlders who have...
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    Tell Us About Some Funny Moments You’ve Had with Reader Rage

    She was horrifically abusive toward her son, the MC. Not shown on screen, but mostly just discussed among the characters.
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    Tell Us About Some Funny Moments You’ve Had with Reader Rage

    Not sure if it counts or not, but I wrote a character that is so universally hated that I've had readers say they wanna see punishments against her that would likely get me banned for glorifying certain crimes. Which certainly wouldn't be the intent, but still. Readers: *insert crimes I'd...
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    What is the strangest way to accept tips that you can think of?

    Demand they show up in person to your house in a cosplay of their favorite character from your story to give you their tip - then giving them the address for the annoying Karen neighbor.
  11. John_Owl

    Dwarven town physics...

    How about this: Forge and Smelter hot air goes up, spinning a fan, which increases airflow through a pipe, leading to the outside. This also increases the intake draw on fresh air pipes elsewhere. Same basic principle as a turbo in an engine. Exhaust is expelled, which spins up the turbine...
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    Who would win?.

    My only issue is that the parameter was set "no weapons". I'd assume that means nothing around to craft a weapon with either. Humans actually make for VERY bad predators without some form of killing/damaging tool, especially considering only about 8-12 humans could get within hitting range of...
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    Apparently coming up with your own pantheon is hard… who knew?

    I have 2 in one of my stories thus far that you're welcome to borrow. If you want, that is. Karma and Fate. You can assign them however you want, but in my story, the idea is that Karma decides the body and fate finds it through both space and time. Karma decides if you should get a better life...
  14. John_Owl

    What would you write?

    They'd likely just think it was the leader of their pantheon, I'd think.
  15. John_Owl

    What would you write?

    "I'm the one stealing your socks, not the dryer gnomes! Good luck finding or stopping me!!" Or go for the classic "I am God. Your religion is correct. I'm sorry this took so long, I was on vacation."
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    The Farmer's Dungeon. New novel cover. Thoughts?

    Yup. Illusion Soft is the company that makes it. I use it as a character renderer, since I can't afford Daz3d assets yet. Once I can afford a handful, I'm definitely switching. It has far more variability there, so can do inhuman models as well. With HS2, the best I can do is making the feet...
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    The Farmer's Dungeon. New novel cover. Thoughts?

    I wish. The assets are SOOOO expensive for a copyright license. No, I used Honey Select 2. The "game" allows you to make characters (a fairly in-depth character creator, actually). then a fan made program called StudioNEO2 allows you to use those character to make scenes and renders. The guys...
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    The Farmer's Dungeon. New novel cover. Thoughts?

    lol well, the only one I actually made was Fractured bonds. The rest are AI. And I can't really even take credit for Fractured Bonds because I use a rendering program that lets me make the character, then just insert them into a scene and pose them as I want. Actual art drawn by me would be...
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    The Farmer's Dungeon. New novel cover. Thoughts?

    I'll consider it, but my hand is still sore from using the tablet for 8 hours straight two days in a row lol.
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    Pretty Eyes?

    only five voted for violet thus far? Drizzt is crying.
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