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Heya! Never say never, but I will say that it's not on my radar atm. I might pick it back up one day, but I currently have no plans to do so I'm afraid.

Yeah kind of expected that. You wouldn't be opposed to having it commissioned someday, will you? So I can start saving up :)

Heh maybe, but no promises. Commissions are currently closed and will be for the foreseeable future. The price is also 5 cents per word at the moment even if they do reopen and I know that can be pretty prohibitive to most people.

probably, never watched RoP

please don't, the plot contrivances will eat your brain cells

Who Mark Grayson

Heya, they deleted me off of FF. This website and HF have all my stories, even more than FF did in fact. Archive of Our Own and Scribble Hub also have some of my work, I'm slowly in the process of reposting my catalog on those two websites.

really wish there was an easy way to just download all your stuff off HF. half my favs on there are your stories lol

Its weird, I thought I had a really cool eye catching plot hook for The Soul Engine, but now fifty chapters in I get people who tell me that the start actually almost turned them off to the story but they're glad they pushed past it and kept going because it got better.

And I'm just like "THE START WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HOOK FFS"

a hook that doesn't complement the story tends to be a detriment lol

but all things need to consider the degree of which you do things

it's like avengers endgame, you know, the big scene where everyone shows up, you waited 10 years for it

but do the same thing in dragonflight and it's just cringe, not even the scalies cared about warcraft like that

lol go ahead

lmao exactly like this

lemme pull you into the convo

it kinda shitty writing, but it fun

It's either OP isekai or... that's about it

I just see now that there's a lot of new emotional entanglements that should arise from adulthood, and the ways to deal with them with the power over death tend to be new and unexplored

For example, "Ginny cheats on Harry" tends to be a common trope, but inflicting physical pain is so... mundane... muggle even. As the master of death, you could pull an entire life's experience on to her, make her regret, self-blame, you know, delicious emotional pain

There's a massive audience for anything with levels and gameification, tbh. Even places like QQ and SB and the other forum websites, that sort of thing is huge among certain readers, but on top of that, its ginormous on RR in the form of the LitRPG category. Entire writing careers have been launched off of LitRPG on RR.

I can kind of understand the desire for gameification, just like how games that realistically portray romance don't do as well as games that make romance about how many gifts you give a girl. It's just, you know, the "I'm in the game as an NPC" seems like a very small subgenre, you know?

And it doesn't seem like it could become anything of literary value or, I don't know, drama? Like, it's hard to feel stakes or investment of feelings? I dunno, I just feel there's a barrier there that stops it from having more than a large niche audience

Lmao, had a youtube video where someone took the first 15 chapters of one of my fics and fed it through TTS linked to me this week. Whats funny is its just pure smut xD

Yeah, I think these were TTS too, but I guess TTS works better with Chinese for some reason because they could inflect with more emotion than English TTS, so it's... passable? It's pretty good for already 'fast food' kind of stories, anyway, though absolutely disgusting if it's, you know, 'poisonous' stories that are awful in some way

Ah a lot of those probably spawned from a Webnovel called The Legendary Mechanic which is a somewhat Sci-Fi Fantasy story. I don't know if it started the huge I'm an NPC and I can give quest and shit in an MMO thing. But it sure did popularized it. I remember finding tons of copycats after it got famous or popular enough I guess.

But the only one I can thing of that works that I'd keep reading, outside of it being a good story innately, are ones set in MMOs that really exist, like wow

Not with the new MCU nah. Time Travel fics that revisit the first ten years of the MCU are still my jam tho

Yeah, I still see a lot of MCU fanfics in China set around the 2012 Avengers 1 era, usually mixed with Gwen Stacy on some level because she's the favorite best girl and gets the best statistics on these web novel sites here

I guess I just think it'd be a difficult challenge to write a good story based on, well, what's new, so I guess, kinda interested to see what the best would be like

Can wish fulfillment be the end of a story? When I finished Red Dead I felt a feeling of having finally found peace

Not gonna lie, that is not a good acronym for Cyberpunk lmfao.

Also funnily enough, I'm currently plotting out a wish fulfillment Cyberpunk 2077 Time Travel fic.

Yeah, I did find peace with the story at the end, especially the new ending, but it also makes me angry and sad :(

Optimus Thick In "Transformers: In Search of Dump Truck"

Sorry lol, but I get that request almost daily. If I did that, I'd have about 30 people I needed to let know before you even. I also don't know when I'll be taking new commissions.

Also it should probably be said, since you might not know, but my price is 5 cents per word, which is $50 per 1000 words and a bit prohibitive for some people.

Do you know anybody who'd be free then?

Not really, no. Don't have that much contact with my peers if I'm being honest