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Recent content by Oth
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Days Gone By: A Memoir of the Gallian Front
Wonder if the Lion's unit will ever cross paths with Squad 422, their uses pretty much coincide. Albeit the Nameless function pretty much as a penal battalion that simply refuses to die and mutated themselves into the world's first spec-ops unit as a result, while Finch has more cohesive training.- Words: 51
- Oth
- Post #12
- Forum: Creative Writing
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Well Done or Medium Well steak? (aka first post to be able to edit full account details)
Medium well, well-done (often by garbage cooks) tends to be more charcoal than meat. Preferably medium to medium-rare, but again garbage chefs and the fast-cheap-good food triangle. -
Days Gone By: A Memoir of the Gallian Front
Silencers, likely. Will be truly unique if silencers/suppressors show up this early in the WW2-equivalent. Unfortunately IR cameras are still far off for even primitive NVGs. Did Finch just invent a barebones Kill House? If not, might be a good idea for CQB training later.- Words: 47
- Oth
- Post #8
- Forum: Creative Writing
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Sort of. I find removal of account/profile personalisation helps enforce a detached/objective...
Sort of. I find removal of account/profile personalisation helps enforce a detached/objective mindset when posting online, useful with my control issues. Not perfect and does fail from time to time, but works to achieve some measure of separation. You can likely tell that nothing in this...- Oth
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Story made by Artificial Intelligence aka (mathematical models)
Opinion. AI-assisted/beta'ed with oversight and correction? Acceptable, as much a tool as spellcheck, word autocomplete and thesaurus. Wholesale chunks of AI-generated content with/without author-defined key points linking the generated content? Heavily disapprove. Majority of full-AI generated... -
SI/isekai authors: In Medias Res
Agreed. Further observation, recommend beginning said story with companions/acquaintainces to prevent "lost in their own head" issues, either "offscreen" befriended or immediately encountered within Chapter 1/2, thus soft-enforcing the MC to interact with local surroundings at temporary expense... -
Crawling through the sand
Ouch. Ves'sere was more important to Inawsam than she herself would admit. Apparently appeasing crawlerfolk is pretty important in Chamistaya, to point where an incompetent/bigoted harbourmaster can be written off entirely rather than offend a crawler's Voice? Seems like crawlers occupy a...- Words: 100
- Oth
- Post #11
- Forum: Creative Writing
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Crawling through the sand
So, Middle Ages-esque generational nutrition deficit resulting in notable physique differences? As in nobility and chivalry were genuinely larger than the peasanthood? Fun. Elaboration on Inawsam does redeem her somewhat, though addition of a bit of her visibly rolling with the loss of Ves'sere...- Words: 100
- Oth
- Post #8
- Forum: Creative Writing
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Crawling through the sand
Oh dear. Was the Draves gang ambushing Ves'sere an attack of opportunity, or did Inawsam lead them right to him? If so, lost a fair amount of sympathy for her. And just when Ves'sere was about to take her on as an apprentice too. Nice to see the cultural divide between the crawlerfolk and the...- Words: 87
- Oth
- Post #6
- Forum: Creative Writing
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Crawling through the sand
Wonderful. Strong tones of John Carter here, mixed with Dune mysticism. Assuming Crawlers are semi-autonomous botships? Very interesting how Sycieb and presumably other crawler-servants venerate their machines, to point of explicitly declining claim of ownership/captaincy of their machines...- Words: 59
- Oth
- Post #3
- Forum: Creative Writing
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Headpats are the best, correct?
Unsure, visually they look so, but no frame of reference. Top of head experiences (minor) pain when pressure exerted on, so likely only emotional/social aspect can be enjoyed. Opinion. Exceedingly rare gesture IRL unless performed deliberately, suppose. Most familial relations stick to hugging... -
What are your most hated fanfic tropes
Suggestion. Select stories that involve less-than-perfect event sequences where status quo is not preserved and the good guys prevail at a cost, and bid yourself in as genuine reinforcements to tip the scales. Fair amount of flexibility is required due to the stations of canon being derailed... -
Question: what should I allow to influence the direction of a story?
Opinion. Common assumption is for most fics not to last log, unfortunately, hence assumed concerns of said stories ending well before reaching said "fanservice" points. At least as far as observation claims. ADD: Light novel example provided would technically fall under the "long tease"... -
Question: what should I allow to influence the direction of a story?
That is the thing - still remember some offhand gripes that "slow romance" and "lewds eventually" tags serve as red flags for SFW fics in denial. Implication that the story is just a long tease with no payoff. Hence the nervousness. -
Fandoms you'd like to see more fanfiction for?
Such is the problem of constantly escalating powersets, exemplified by BESRMoW and System stories. Very quickly most native threats are no longer a factor to the protagonist(s) and the story loses a lot of impact, or the wider geopolitical aftershocks of a sudden hegemon manifesting become too...