Recent content by rktho

It's a very complicated concept because disabled people are dehumanized in a myriad of mutually exclusive ways. Many disabled people feel that they don't want people to focus on what they can do, because, well, we don't make a big deal when abled people do those same things. They feel that by...

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I think that’s the best idea so far! I think having to move a lot would give her a lot of personality. Maybe she gets cranky when she goes a long time without moving, because she starts losing body heat. Sort of like ADHD restlessness but with a different underlying cause (although speaking from...

My character does move to a hot spring, but a lot of the story is going to involve traveling.

I’ve decided to avoid elemental themes in this work as I find it cliché. I also don’t think I’ve breath/abilities would make sense unless my dragons were magic. As for defeating the point of the disability subtext— you’re correct on that, but I don’t think it’s subtext if it’s a literal...

I think dragons thermoregulating through fire breath would pose an interesting challenge for one who can’t produce fire. I could make them warm-blooded to sidestep the issue, but I think it makes for more engaging worldbuilding if I try and work with the limitations of cold blood. I actually did...

I'm drafting a story with a cast of dragons. The protagonist has a disability preventing her from breathing fire. Her particular species is just about large enough to carry an adult sheep in their talons. This world is fairly technologically advanced (they haven't figured out how to harness...

I use made-up ones, but I can only come up with a good fantasy swear once in a blue moon. The best I have are shnat (basically, sh*t) and barschut (dammit) which are from separate languages, so only my bilingual characters use both regularly. On a side note, I have a character named Javuk who...

Hey Steerpike! How are things at the other site?

Yeah, that sounds good.

I have a character who lives in the carcass of a gigantic war beast he's turned into a tent. I'm heavily leaning towards a giant elephant creature, but if 'oliphaunt' is like 'hobbit' for fantasy writers, I could call it a war mammoth, or else choose a different beast to gigantify (taking...

Well, their "god" is a human, but they don't know what he looks like. They only know that everything that ever happens is written into existence by him. He's called the Rishnaran, which means writer. Actually, my GSV saw the Rishnaran's world in a vision and saw that they have the power to...

Something a dragon could feasibly encounter and (if prepared) fight if it actually existed. Something a dragon would find as they were travelling.

Oh, it'd be up there with the really big ones for sure. The biggest dragons in my story are twice the size of Kodiak bears. I'm not sure anything that isn't absolutely gigantic would inspire awe in them.

So I'm writing a story in which all the characters are dragons and I had an interesting idea. What if the dragons had a creature of legend that was different across all dragon cultures but possessed enough similar traits to be recognized as the same legend? A creature larger than the lives of...