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Post by Jherek Everfull on Oct 26, 2017 14:07:31 GMT -8
Oh no! I've gone and gotten my humor in the safe zone! I can remove the above linked naughtiness, if you would like. I know it's not as amusing to everyone.  |
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Post by notARobot on Oct 26, 2017 14:16:29 GMT -8
You can if you want -- I don't think it's a big deal for anybody, though. Certainly not for me. I was being facetious with my earlier comment, although it has been pointed out to me that that wasn't entirely clear. Maybe I missed something, but I glanced at the stuff you posted and it didn't jump out at me as particularly "naughty", anyways  |
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Post by Jherek Everfull on Oct 26, 2017 14:55:10 GMT -8
Some of those comics get a bit wild. The episodes of Action Figure therapy can also gen a bit much. "Honey Badger Blood Orgy" and "Best Buy Teabagging" are nuts. Don't mess with stanley!
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Post by Ezeze on Nov 8, 2017 13:42:52 GMT -8
So I've started reading Worm. The writing is a little clunky and ham-fisted, at least in the first couple of chapters. I'm assuming that smoothes out later on given the praise you've heaped on it, notARobot  but I will keep you posted! |
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Post by notARobot on Nov 8, 2017 14:31:48 GMT -8
There's definitely some clunkiness in places -- Worm is the author's first novel-length piece of writing, and...well, yeah, parts of it read more like a rough draft than a finished copy. Wildbow is actually in the process of editing and revising it, so even the guy who wrote it freely admits that Worm's prose shows room for improvement. Having said that, I didn't feel like its roughness (or rawness or whatever you want to call it) detracted much, if any, from my enjoyment of it. My main complaint is that it's probably longer than it needs to be...I'm reminded of something Stephen King says in his autobiographical book On Writing, where he repeatedly asserts that some of the best advice he can give to aspiring authors is "Kill your darlings". He's talking about being willing to take the red pen to your work in the revision phase, and strike out every single word that isn't absolutely necessary to the story. I readily agree that Worm could stand a bit of the Stephen King treatment -- 'ham-fisted', though? That's pretty harsh. Is it mostly just the focus on Taylor's problems at school, and the cliched teenage-angstyness? Because that does abate pretty quickly. Maybe you'll wind up not liking it -- that's okay! I'm sure it's not for everybody. What really leaped out at me about it, though, was the strength of Worm's characterization and the author's aptitude for world-building. Both of those are probably the sort of thing you don't start picking up on until you're a good ways into the story, but IMHO Wildbow has a unique gift for creating complex characters that draw you in and make you care about them, and then he throws them into a richly detailed world that's immersive enough that you'll catch yourself forgetting it's not real. Please do I hope you enjoy the rest of it more than the first few chapters! |
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Post by Ezeze on Nov 8, 2017 16:05:23 GMT -8
Either Emma has some super subtle mind-based super powers - in which case I will admit that it's very bold of the author to allude to it so directly in chapter 2, and a good touch - or I'm going to be a little pissy that Mr G acts so inconsistently.
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Post by GravityEmblem on Nov 8, 2017 16:36:04 GMT -8
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Post by notARobot on Nov 8, 2017 16:36:31 GMT -8
Are you talking about {Spoiler (Insinuation 2.3 & 2.4)} Mr. Gladly offering to help Taylor at the end of 2.3, then ignoring the bullying she receives in the hallway in 2.4? That does get explicitly addressed, a little later on. You may very well have cause to be pissy about it, anyways  |
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Post by Daos on Nov 8, 2017 17:00:45 GMT -8
Today I learned there is such a thing as Smash Bros fanfic.
I remember I once wrote a fanfic story for Final Fantasy 6 back when I was around 13 or so--completely original characters. I remember there was a miner, a merchant, an esper and a ninja moogle. I even published it somewhere on the 'net, but I don't remember where (it likely isn't still up by now), which is too bad, because I don't know what happened to the story itself. I don't have it on any files anywhere. Guess it's lost to the ages. But it's weird how many details I remember to this day.
I also wrote some pretty bad Ronin Warriors fanfic, back when I was 15. Self-insert author and everything. Gary Stu as heck. My main character even died, twice, to save the world but kept coming back. I think I have a physical copy of it somewhere around here.
I'm trying to remember what else, but I think that's about it. Well, I continue to write little short stories about Lost Souls to this day, so you might lump that in as "D&D" fanfic.
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Post by Ezeze on Nov 8, 2017 17:40:01 GMT -8
I started on a fantasy novel once. {Basic plot rundown}I had it all outlined. It was set in the dark ages and was about a young boy with a small group of friends in a little village. He started out the novel trying to impress an older boy in the group who was really good at sports and stuff and liked to use his athleticism to push around the other boys and was a bully.
Then, like, a knight retires to a nearby orchard and all the boys go nuts over how cool this guy is because they are all the sons of bakers and farmers and ministers and boring shit and that guy has been in combat! The older boy tells everyone that he's going to be the knight's squire and get a title and a big castle and really be something.
Then the older boy actually tries to talk the knight into accepting him as his squire and the knight laughs in his face because he's just some punk kid who only thinks he's important because he's out in a podunk town where no one will stand up to him.
and the older boy takes it really hard and is angry and disillusioned and embarrassed. He lashes out at one of the other boys and accidentally kills him (which made sense and was foreshadowed in the actual book I swear)
so the protagonist tries to run and get the knight to help set things right
but it's too late to save the younger boy, and the protagonist is crushed, and the knight (who has issues of his own) decides that he gets to dispense the King's justice and since the older boy wanted to be a noble so badly that means he has to duel the knight and the knight slaughters the older boy because of course he does and the protagonist decides that the knight is just another kind of bully
and throughout the rest of the book he has to struggle with his own conflicting anger at the older boy and his guilt for having even indirectly had a hand in his death as well as his seething resentment of the knight he and the other boys had previously looked up to.
That was supposed to be the jumping off point for a whole series about this kid whose defining characteristics were a kind heart and a severe distrust of authority, encountering elves and magic and such, and I intended it to have lots of messages about the importance of valuing other people and trusting your own judgement and perceptions because unfortunately not everyone is good but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be good yourself. My mistake was trying to make it authentic by doing a bunch of research into, like, medieval child rearing practices and expectations of young men as they reached adulthood and let me tell you that there is no faster way to completely ruin any desire to depict people from that era faster than to do genuine historical research into how they treated their children. Human beings are garbage. |
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Post by Snacs on Nov 13, 2017 14:36:09 GMT -8
Well we both knew it already but so do I, though it's been a hot minute since I've read it. Much lighter fare, but I've always enjoyed Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. |
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Post by Daos on Nov 13, 2017 18:00:18 GMT -8
Yeah, I've been a fan of hers for years now. By the way, is anyone here a fan of Game Grumps? They've been doing a 5E campaign called ' Dragons in Places' for a few weeks now. |
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Post by Snacs on Nov 13, 2017 18:17:11 GMT -8
Yeah, I've been a fan of hers for years now. By the way, is anyone here a fan of Game Grumps? They've been doing a 5E campaign called ' Dragons in Places' for a few weeks now. Same, I found her when she was still in high school. It's weird knowing she's like, an actual rocket scientist and a webcomic artist on the side<_< Makes me feel lazy. I am a casual fan! I really like Dan because I grew up an hour north and one state up from where he grew up, so whenever he talks about Jersey I know what he's talking about lol ;p |
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Post by Daos on Nov 13, 2017 18:29:30 GMT -8
My sister is nuts about Dan. Hell, everyone's nuts about Dan. The funny thing is, I still remember when he first joined the show. He was universally reviled. The comments were plagued with people demanding JonTron be brought back. You'd never guess that now. Everyone loves Dan now.
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Post by Snacs on Nov 13, 2017 18:55:32 GMT -8
My sister is nuts about Dan. Hell, everyone's nuts about Dan. The funny thing is, I still remember when he first joined the show. He was universally reviled. The comments were plagued with people demanding JonTron be brought back. You'd never guess that now. Everyone loves Dan now. I was the minority. I always found JonTron a little boring/forced, at least on the grumps! Youtube let's play wise I mostly watch my favorite and first youtubers Two Best Friends Play, and Super Bear Bros. |
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but I will keep you posted!
