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    Writing What You Aint

    This does somewhat derail the thread, so apologies to the Dark One, but I am genuinely curious. Close enough for what? Because I can imagine multiple different answers to that question and I'm pretty you are probably correct for some of them and almost certainly wrong for others. Edit: I...
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    Writing What You Aint

    There is a lot I think is correct in this response. Researching everything you can about the group is something you should be doing, regardless of whatever else you're doing to supplement. In addition to just googling and reading books, I'd highly recommend trying to follow some people of the...
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    Writing What You Aint

    I mean that one's geography, it doesn't count. How can anyone expect us to know where anything is in this country when half the important borders are just plain squares? Plus, you got the right state at least. That or I also am vastly mistaken about the reach of those mountains
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    Writing What You Aint

    I feel like treating sensitivity readers as though their only purpose is to point out things that are "offensive" is missing half the point of working with one. Let's say you're an author writing about America but you've never been there yourself. You have an American read over your work to...
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    Writing What You Aint

    And hiring a sensitivity reader can be a way to help do that. A lot of the vitriol I've directed towards that path recently somewhat baffles me honestly. If it's something your publisher is demanding of you, where you have to follow the sensitivity reader's suggestions in order to publish, I...
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    Fortunately. Unfortunately.

    Unfortunately, Schwarenegger was still spending his immortal life educating people on how to stay safe from the plaque, and thus didn't have time for Barbie's war of the rings
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    Fortunately. Unfortunately.

    Fortunately, Barbie (who had been able to save both herself and a remnant of humanity from Glargablorg's plague using her vast medical expertise) saw how both Midge and Glargablorg were willing to do anything for the rings of fortune. She accepted the new career set for her, leader and protector...
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    Fortunately. Unfortunately.

    Unfortunately Glargablorg, hero of a million multiverses, noted that the all the world has become complacent with regards to sickness and plague. He begins selectively evolving his new virus that was able to overcome these strengthed immune systems to unleash upon the world and defeat all those...
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    Fortunately. Unfortunately.

    Fortunately, once the leprechauns ate all of this fortune, they used it's power to create magic rings of luck that they began to hide within their pots of gold to be found by those clever enough to reach the end of the rainbows
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    Does anybody have references about gender disphoria in the fantasy gender?

    Cemetery Boys is a modern urban fantasy book with a trans man as the main character. It's post transition though, so it focuses less on dysphoria and more on transphobia. It does feature a gendered magic system though, if that's relevant to your interest. Plus the voice actor for the audiobook...
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    Does this break any rule?

    Also not staff, but I can still link to the forum rules https://mythicscribes.com/community/threads/forum-rules.9/ Skimming through them a bit to jog my memory. It kinda falls under sensitive topics. Which the rules advise to approach with extra care and gravity rather than outright prohibiting...
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    Ask me about Alexandria, or the broader Hellenistic world

    My current writing project is heavily inspired by various events and aspects of the city of Alexandria. As such I've already been reading enough into it to know a good deal more than the average person on the city (which, to be fair, is not saying much. I asked an intelligent and well read...
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    Narrowing down a mercenary company name.

    Nice to see that the forum collectively decided to help "narrow down" by suggesting even more options. ;) Out of the options you listed "The Devil's Guard" and "The Bloody Company' are the ones that sound best to my ear. Short and sweet, and have a nice ring to them.
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    Plot questions

    Was the plan to erase everyone's memories something that had been the settlers' plan from the beginning, or was it something that was forced upon them without their knowledge? If the former, then what were the settlers' reasons for wanting this? If the latter, then is there any possibility that...
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    Fortunately. Unfortunately.

    (Far worse than Ban's switching sides was me providing a response that's not actually part of the story, so let's try that again) Unfortunately, Dagon's Craigslist ads attracted the attention of Davy Jones. So Dagon's assault on the sea was now even stronger
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