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372 posts and 82 image replies omitted.>>37332Found out about it right after discovering
https://www.touhou-project.com/ last month. A few of the regulars there participated. Sometimes they host competitions too. Anyone here go there?
Warning, NSFW prompt:
“You may now, uh… which one is the bride?” The priest asked confusedly. Nidalee didn’t care to wait any longer, leaning in and giving you a big, hard smooch on your lips before deciding to simply walk out of the building with you. She dragged you along, holding your hand the entire way back to the limousine… nobody showed up for the wedding- after all, you two only met three days ago. The entire ride back to your place was full of wet, sloppy, gagging as she fucked your throat the whooole way there~ Grabbing at the back of your head, cupping your chin, squeezing your cheeks, pulling your hair… you loved it. Every second of it. That’s why you asked to marry after only one sleepless night with her~
>>39122You can't. People will interpret it as they will. The best a writer can do is be definitive and consistent with the characters they're writing.
As an anti-example; General Ironwood from RWBY. He's supposed to be paranoid, using military discipline and force to solve problems and being a military thinker. However he's still on the side of good. However the writers of RT needed a conflict between him and RWBY, so they had him just jump from paranoid into dictatorial insanity, banking on a plan that may not work, abandoning the planet and the people of it, and shooting down rescue ships and so on. Not to mention a lack of proper military tactics and defenses against a horde enemy. This was a terrible attempt to make him a villain and to prevent the "literally me/dindu" aspect (and failed anyway since most fans still like the General).
So to prevent this
A) Consistent antagonist/negative portrayal or if not, then write a proper twist reveal such as in Disney's Atlantis with Commander Rourke
B) Make sure to have your protagonist/positive character portrayals consistent and make sense within the narrative framework. For example Luke Skywalker.
https://archive.org/details/fanfictiondotnet_repack is an archive of all fanfiction.net fanfics as of 2016 prior to a set of purges, so it's a good archive for stuff up until that point.
https://fichub.net/ https://fictionhunt.com/https://ff2ebook.com/ These are helpful in finding more recently deleted fanfics
Some fanfiction can be found in archive.is but that was a while ago.
Repost of an AU someone posted on /siberia/ months back:
I feel like if General Plan Ost somehow was a real thing, we would see a manifest destiny happening in Russia in the 70s, I can just imagine how niche it would be.
>Germans looking for a quick fortune start colonizing the Eastern Lebensraum>People start building the Berlin-Kazan train track and massacre the locals for their scalps>Small German homesteads surrounded by white-washed stone walls, Siberian horses, vegetables, imported Holstein cows and Latvian slaves starts popping up everywhere in the Eastern European marshland being attacked by the natives. whom they try to fight by making a circle fort out of their wagons and using their kar89 against their mosin>Dirlewanger Bandito brigade (10000 Reichsmarks reward alive or dead) ties a whole Belarusian village onto a single piece of a train track and gains an official pardon by the new corrupt marshal of the new town of Moscowein and becomes its sheriff.>Today's retarded Reichsburger movement, believing the nazi federal government to be authoritarian and bad, start immigrating to the East in droves to escape its rule and become today's nazi cowboys>Saloon brawls happen all the time but everyone even the women drink German lager and carry ww2 pistols>Rumors that a tribe of Polish winged hussars, central Asian Mongol raiders, Kazakh kipchacks and Russian horse riders with face paint, armed with PPS are starting to pillage the German colonizer's train tracks yelling AYAYAYAYAYYAYAYYA and taking everyone captives to be sacrificed to big chief man of steel in Yekaterinburg socialist khanate>the local natives of Tatarstan use all their farm animals to pull a disabled IS-3 tank onto the train tracks so they can rob the German supertrain when it has to slow down.>former gang member on that specific train who came from greater Finlandia called John Marston (Jan Manstein) survives the attack by asking the tribe's leader to do a luger standoff at high noon behind the old burned Belarusian barn. he loses an ear but is spared by tribe leader for bravery>he continues his mission given by the Gestapo to hunt down the last member of his former gang named Arthur, his journey takes him to the Caucasus where he meets Chechnyan bandoliers and befriends them>they assist him in finding the location of Arthur and killing him>he later retires in his barn near Moscowein and is executed by the Gestapo government representatives and 200 Sturmtruppen das Kolonialbrigade who attack his barn with mg 43, except his wife and children manage to escape and save his book called Bloodmeridian and SoilLinks to pic 1 and 3 that I found interesting
https://archive.ph/zfJ3A https://bellumartishistoriamilitar.blogspot.com/2016/05/el-primer-cigarrillo-cosacos-en-el.html>>41906Plot wise, seems very clique.
Writing feel stilted and awkward, entirely composed out of short fragmented sentences.
>>41907Thanks, probably won't continue. I was excited to write it but I've never done anything like it before.
I was going to call the story 'The Death Of John Smith'. It was vaguely inspired by The Madness Of Hercules.
The plot was going to revolve around a husband's murder of his wife, split into two narratives.
The first narrative would be his release from prison after serving a life sentence and his struggle thereafter. I was going to send him through the stages of grief, and eventually he would suffer a psychotic break as he experiences hallucinations of his dead wife speaking to him. The story would end with him being consigned to a psychiatric ward.
The second narrative was going to be the lead up to the murder. I was going to interweave the narratives so that they ran parallel.
I had so many ideas for this. It was going to be about the failure of his struggle to forge an identity seperate from that of a murderer.
The next chapter was going to be about a barbacue in his family home with his wife and daughters, as well as their friends and his mother. The chapter was going to end with him pouring his cup of red wine on a myrtle plant in his backgarden, transfixed with his anger at his wife and invasive paranoid thoughts of her cheating on him. I was going to describe the wine mixing with the soil and appearing as though it were blood (in a vague allusion to a part in the Aeneid).
I was gonna be a smart ass and call that chapter 'Libations'. I also planned for him to murder his wife with a carving knife in front of his daughters, and describe their screams like that of a banshee.
The woman who recognises him in the first chapter was an allusion to his mother, which was a theme I was going to try and develop.
I guess it will all just be another unwritten story.
>>36501>>36517>>36519Been unable to work on this properly for the past half year, but I've begun to make a return to my writing and I with how much of a block this has been for my story's progression I thought I might as well try to get some feedback on some ideas, thoughts and questions I've formulated over this time. Additionally I've ended up having so many ideas that I've begun drafting out several other stories of different settings. One is set in a distant future of a post-apocalyptic world and another two which I'm intending as a sword and sorcery story. For the former the question of language is not an issue, its set on Earth. The latter however are set in fictional worlds and it's a significant challenge.
Tolkien's LOTR, whatever you may think of its themes or story, is a masterful example of world-building, with languages and names that have meaning and entire cultural histories. Part of this understanding is materialism; there are material origins and pressures that change and form languages, so it can't just be random nonsense noises, there needs to be a method to the madness so to speak. But even then the Silmarillion was never completed and was finished post-humously. So how did he organize writing The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings?
That being said, writing out an entire language, world history and environment is a monumental task, and by the time I'd be done writing out a history and languages properly, it would be years and years, not to mention that it takes away from the adventure; If I already know what will happen as I write it out, where's the fun? The adventure? While I would and do want to create a fictional language to support and maintain consistency within my story(s) what I write will be in real world languages like Russian, English or Spanish, this being an example of Translation Convention; in short call a space a spade.
So a major problem is primarily Names and nouns: the names of places/locations like cities and mountains or of objects and people have their origins in cultural development. Tiamat did not get her name because the Mesopotamians thought it sounded cool, it is linked to Ancient words for the sea and . While modern naming barely focuses on the meaning of names, the names themselves have origins in meaning. For a simplistic example, Leif Eriksson, whose father was Erik the Red, hence Eriksson and the name Leif which comes from the word Leifr that means heir. So when I create a name, it can't just be some jibberish. The names Tolkien came up with for this characters had meaning and consistency relative to the history and culture of Middle Earth. Sure I can create placeholder names, but at some point these things come into play. I don't like lazy cop-outs either. The Mistborn series is interesting, but the "magitech" devices for translation always felt like a handwaving method that doesn't actually try. Maybe its just some OCD autism on my part, but it bothers me.
>>4049Its kimda like how most male fanfic wroters whe they srotd romance only wanna do yuri.
But from what I see, most yaoi fanfic writers do het or yuri as well.
And they do non sexual yaoi too
>>44193Questionable Questing, SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity. I used to use Fanfiction.net back in my early days of writing but later found it to not really be as suitable for actual discussion about the stories as the more forum-styled sites.
Also, on another note, any Sonic fans ITT? I recently began publishing a fic set in the Archie Comics continuity (more specifically around the setting of the 90s SatAM cartoon) where Robotuyghets body-snatched and becomes a more serious threat because the new Robotnik understands how more subtle forms of oppression and methods of social engineering can be more effective in producing compliance long term than more overtly violent ones.
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