Recent content by Queshire

Less is more when it comes to character descriptions. Just give the readers enough to paint in the rest with their imagination.

It's a lego Evee. Honestly, I'm lowkey impressed with how Lego basically managed to revitalize itself through licensing other properties like Pokemon or Star Trek. (Even if I still miss Bionicle. That was always so cool when I was a kid.)

Oh boy, I can answer this! Artistically anime & manga has always had a connection to the west. It's not always easy to see now, but if you look at something like Astroboy you can see how things like the large eyes, small mouth and relatively simplified limbs descend from things like early...

Ehhhh... they're the protagonist, but I don't know if that makes them good. The execution in the story can also do a lot to make the protagonist's actions seem a lot more palatable than they might be otherwise. We see all the choices & events that lead to the protagonist doing what they do along...

Well, I'm not sure about the history, but I can understand why. A lot of traditional Asian cultural aspects are stereotyped as being graceful or elegant. That pairs nicely with the goal of Elves a lot of the time.

Well you should always aim to put your own spin on things of course, but there's plenty of stories that use cultivation systems or bind spirits.

I know -of- Reverend Insanity, but I'm afraid I haven't read it. I know it's well known enough in certain circles that you might want to change the name from Gu to something else though.

Nah, as far as I'm aware all the episodes of Voyager still happen. The time shenanigans just massively reduced how long it took them to get back home. That said, most of my Star Trek knowledge is second hand. I've seen a fair bit of the Original Series and Deep Space Nine. I've been meaning to...

Honestly I think it's pretty interesting to think about. It'd have to be a mix of desperation, making due with what you have available, experimentation and, of course, survivorship bias. You know, once upon a time someone makes a waterskein out of some animal's gut because it holds liquid...

Is that a bad thing? 0_o EDIT: Haven't actually had a chance to watch the video at the time of typing this. Waiting to use it as background noise at work.

Word choice and sentence structure can do a lot in a fight scene. Something like, "Left. Right. Punch!" Can be useful for someone who is, say, panicking somewhat during the fight while, "He swayed between the goblins axe swings before stricking back with a crushing uppercut." Would work with a...

Considering where we are I rather think it's safe to say that we're all either writers here or aspiring writers. As such, I would hope that we all possess the eye necessary to realize that any medium has its inherent strengths and weaknesses. When working in prose it is a relatively simple...

Wait, do you mean humanoid mentally, humanoid as in walking on two feet or humanoid as in anime style dragon girls?

To be fair, even if they're both a kid with their monster type stories Digimon is still a very different beast than Pokemon.

My protagonist is initially from an urban fantasy version of modern day earth. Her form of magic involves pulling in magic from the environment, shaping it like clay and releasing it as spell. Instead of just drawing in general magic she can be more specific than that like drawing thunder from...