Recent content by TheCrystallineEntity

Back to the topic at hand, of my favourite shows, the only episode that was banned is Steven Universe's Reunited, which was banned in multiple [non-North American and UK] countries because As the saying goes, Legend of Korra walked so Steven Universe could run so Owl House and She-Ra could...

I'm going to defend Spock, not just because he's one of my favourite characters, but also because I relate to him a lot. First, Leonard Nimoy was Jewish. [Not that there weren't Jewish Nazis, but that's a whole other mindfield I'm staying well away from.] Second, I've seen that episode, and...

I'll chime in to finally share my two cents. In my invented universe, all of my species and characters are asexual by default, because they don't have or need genitals. Both their biologies and ways of reproducing are so different from humans and other animals, and this wasn't so much a...

Meta, from the ancient Greek prefix μετά, meaning, roughly, 'after' or 'beyond'. In the modern usage, it means something self-referential. For example, writing a story about an author writing a story, or making a video game that frequently references the fact that you are playing a video game...

The short answer: I don't, and haven't for about 13-14 years now. I first read the series when I was little, with my dad. It provided a small amount of stability in a very tumultuous time in my life. But certain things [such as the tongue-enlargement candy that the Weasley twins feed to...

Six new members joined all on Monday alone. I'm willing to bet they all might be bots.

Unfortunately, my mind immediately goes to the TV Tropes page, 'Heroic Blue Screen of Death' [or Heroic BSD for short]. I say unfortunately because I spent way too much time on TV Tropes in the past. These days I avoid it by virtue of it not accepting my adblocker, and refusing to show any pages...

Technically the first story I ever wrote was when I was 4 or 5. Just a bunch of scribblings in a small notebook. It featured a magic whirlpool [incorrectly written as 'worldpool' more than once] that would isekai little me and several stuffed animals off on adventures. As for the first...

Ooh, that's a different take. I like it. Why go home when there's a magical world to explore.

Ah, a classic portal fantasy setup. Will your characters have difficulty living on Earth again after all of their experiences, or is the actual journey going to take centre stage?

If by easy you mean 'spent his entire life dedicated to linguistics', then, yeah, totally easy. 😄

Hi, and welcome to the forum. Obligatory newcomer spiel: you need 5 posts [commenting on other peoples' posts count] to access the whole forum. To get a wider audience, you could post your writing in the critique request or story showcase, or make a portfolio.

I feel that a few important questions to ask for any scene are: 1) What does the reader need to know right now? 2) What needs to be foreshadowed or hinted at for later developments? 3) What do the characters need to know right now? Figuring out how to organically add information might be one...

Sorry to be pedantic, but Other M doesn't explain anything about Samus' backstory, much less about her parents being killed nor why Ridley is important. But I hate Other M with the fury of a thousand suns for a loooong list of reasons, so I'll focus on your actual question. My ideal Metroid...

When I was in high school, around the time when I read the Silmarillion for the first time, I took a stab at making a conlang. I didn't get very far beyond words for different types of light, darkness, and love, plus a handful of other words. Some of them did become important names/places in...