Recent content by Queshire

Oh it's absolutely great fun. All the joy of putting together little mental legos to build a world.

Widen where you look beyond traditionally publushed prose stories and there's plenty of stuff taking place in a modern setting that featuring highly fantastic elements.

Honestly I think cell phones get overlooked too much in fiction. Imagine what you can do with a character talking to someone else over the phone when something happens to the person on the other side of the line. Will the hero manage to get there in time? OoOo~ tension.

Eh? What would count as an objectively bad thing in this case? Spelling mistakes...?

Haha. No. Fuck that bitch.

Hah.... it's been so hard to find time to watch anime these days. I tend to read manga instead, though even that runs into the time crunch. Frieren is good even if most of the people talking about it have the media literacy of a salmon.

My primary concern is a matter of practicality more than anything else. It's hard enough to break into creative industries as is without having to compete with AI. Even in just fan circles AI assisted work bloats the number you have to compete with.

I doubt you'll find much support for AI in a writing forum.

Hrm. I'd go with, "the color drained from their face" or something like that. If someone is already familiar with the trope they get it, but also makes sense for those not familiar with the trope.

Hrm. Honestly I'd probably say Grand Theft Auto. The meaninglessness would get to them.

I don't know. A 'lack of imagination' strikes me as an accurate enough description for those people that'd rather bitch about a work based only on a trailer rather than, ya know, give it a shot on its own merits.

How political am I allowed to get with this conversation? 0.o

On the one hand word choice does inevitably affect tone. A magic school's cafeteria gives off a different vibe than a magic school's great hall even if, functionally they're the exact same thing. On the other hand you're still writing for modern day people even if your story does not take place...

I haven't read any Wuxia, but I've read several Xanxia stories. Much, muuuuuuuuch higher levels of magic in those than Wuxia.

Personally I would just avoid the whole thing by having the culture in question wait until 17 or 18 or whatever instead of marrying people young.