Recent content by Blaflaix

The true benefit of polyamory in fiction, more tragic backstory per character. "My parents are dead." "I thought you said they were deadbeats and traitors?" "That's 3rd dad and 5th mom that are deadbeats. 2nd dad and 3rd mom are traitors. 1st dad and 4th mom are dead." "Dare I ask about...

Well, there's also the extremely common alternative of the dead mother, and loving father. It's just that there's only so much room for affection in the narrative, so they can only budget one parent.

Or all of the above! "Wow, that was a crazy weekend, huh?"

It would fit the setting if the character was a slave, but I've seen several cases where the character is apparently free. Like a high-ranking adventurer, or a student, or a tribe chief. And they're just wearing the collar. So rather than being ownership in-setting, it comes across as the...

Here's a recent thing I've noticed that bugs me. Beastmen in collars. Not as a slave thing, or a fetish thing, just a fashion statement. The Isekai character is walking through the fantasy city and sees an elf with pointy ears and a bow, a dwarf with a beard and an axe, and a catgirl with a...

He has two feasts prepared. Whenever they were winning, he prepared delicious dishes out of enthusiasm. Whenever they were losing, he prepared terrible dishes to distract from the urge to intervene. If they had lost, they would get the bitter taste of defeat, literally.

What annoys me is when the characters and the narrative act like the bad guy is unkillable without anywhere near earning it. "Look, one time this guy shot him with a gun..." "What happened?" "He missed. So obviously he can't be killed!" Even if he is unkillable, that's just a reason to look...

Totally irresponsible elf-rearing. Everybody thinks about the fun parts of having an elf, but nobody thinks about the training or feeding or anything like that. Then they just dump them in the forest and abandon them!

I'm not sure it's worth rewriting the entire thing. You could add a line saying: She started to form a blade, then had to dissipate it to dodge. Or something similar. As it is, saying "If you think I'm letting you just leave–" basically translates to "You won't get away with this!"

I was thinking Politics and Construction. Xianxia is mostly focused on self-improvement, or occasionally sect-building. This would be one that actually ends with “I built something important to the world.” Alongside that, it’s also a kind of mutually agreed bottom-line of behavior. They can...

So to start with, Hidden Realms don't quite make sense. I get mostly what they are, but there's a few rough edges around the seams. The way they are described, as a separate space with exceptionally high spiritual energy that appear sporadically make them sound natural. But then they have rules...

So did she have any plan for stopping them or was it just talk? Because nothing after this actually seems like even an aborted attempt to stop them. Raven got like three actions here, and the MC did [Trash Talk] repeatedly.

"Guns don't kill people, peo... well, okay, when Alchemist makes them, guns do, in fact, kill people."

"Because lava is just like bleach. Only hotter."