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  1. Just finished and uploaded the latest chapter of “Ben 10: A Bend In Reality”.  No lemons, but there’s plenty of action to be had, and it sets up the lemon for the next chapter.

    As always, let me know what you guys think in a review.  If you have any criticisms, make sure they’re of the constructive variety.  Hope you all enjoy!

  2. Has anyone seen Interspecies Reviewers?  For those who haven’t, it’s about a ragtag group of adventurers in a fantasy land that goes to different brothels comprised of different fantasy race girls give reviews on them.  It presents a lot of interesting concepts and shows that the writers put a lot of time and effort into fleshing these girls out, what turns them on, what they like and don’t like, etc.

    One of the first concepts brought up is something that would fit well in a “Would you rather…?” scenario and asks which is more important in a sexual partner – age or appearance.  The human of the group, Stunk (yes, that’s his name) thinks age doesn’t matter as long as the girl looks fine, but Zel (an elf in the group) and the others think that age is more important.  As such, Zel and the others would rather get with an elderly-looking human woman who’s in her 60s or 70s, as opposed to a young-looking elf woman who’s 500+ years old.  Adding to that is that, apparently, older elves have a musky smell to them that magical races are sensitive to, but humans aren’t.

    What do you guys think?  Age or appearance?

  3. 4 minutes ago, Strange_idea said:

    Yeah, but they're very western expressions. I dunno.

    Well, India, back in the day, had a patriarchal system comparable to that of the Romans, though they also had a cultural emphasis on men being able to please their women.  After all, we are talking about the culture that literally wrote the book on neet ways to have sex – the Kama Sutra.

    7 minutes ago, Strange_idea said:

    I feel just having the bear and snake grumble to each other and move on would be enough but I see why you went there. 

    I had to tie things up with Kaa, and a hungry bear attacking him before they plummet to their deaths seemed like the best way to do it.

  4. Just now, Strange_idea said:

    Don't really see the hypnosis.

    It’s there.  If she were fully free of Kaa’s hypnosis, she would’ve immediately realized that Mowgli wasn’t the Jungle Spirit and run off elsewhere.

    2 minutes ago, Strange_idea said:

    And I question where shanti learned that language.

    You’re saying that a small village doesn’t have at least one person who curses or has foul language?

    3 minutes ago, Strange_idea said:

    though i think the end carried on a bit too long.

    Well, I tried to play that out logically, and given that this is a one-shot, I had to tie up some loose ends.

    4 minutes ago, Strange_idea said:

    But otherwise it's quite well done! 

    Thank you! :) 

  5. 1 minute ago, Red_Light_Zone said:

    You know OLD isnt explicitly staby-staby yandere. It's just that the person is doing everything they can to be with the one person they love above all others. It's not always violent, but it can be more subtle like manipulating them and their friends, finding any excuse to he around them, subconsciously forcing and training them to be obedient, etc.

    I guess it’s bad no matter how you slice it.

  6. 5 minutes ago, Red_Light_Zone said:

    I think that's just Obcessive Love Syndrome. (Aka yandere syndrome).

    It can also be Erotomania (Falling in love with someone of higher status, or someone you think is higher status) This can be applied to heroes or saviors as they're often seen as above others in the eyes of the mentally ill person.

     

    I don’t know about yandere syndrome, as the most common examples I’ve seen of that tend to be of the “stabby-stabby” variety, and that’s not what I’m going for.

    Maybe that last one.

    The girl in question was a high-achieving valedictorian whom everyone, even the hero, Angel Blade, looked up to, and for the most part, appeared to be sane.  She’s attacked by a gang of monsters who nearly assault her before Angel Blade saved her, and then she does end up assaulted by a monster (who turns out to be the deen of her school).  When Angel Blade comes to save her, the girl (in something of a dazed trance) lezzes out with AB, and when AB nearly gets assaulted by the same monster, the two end up working together to take it down.  The girl expresses her thanks before fainting, and that’s the last we see of her.

    Needless to say, I imagine someone wouldn’t be all right in the head after experiences like those.  So, I considered a type of follow-up where the girl expresses her gratitude, and it’s clear that her experiences have changed her a good bit.  What do you think?

  7. Been re-watching the hentai Angel Blade lately, and I’ve been getting some story ideas, but I’m having trouble putting them together.  Namely, the title character saves another girl from the monsters, and they’re hints that the two may have some feelings for each other.  My idea involves the girl being a little too grateful towards Angel Blade and is all over her due to her experiences.

    However, because of that “too grateful” bit, I’m wondering if there’s some psychological disorder or whatnot I should be aware of.  You know, kind of like Stockholm Syndrome, except here it’s aimed at your savior, not your captor.  Does anyone know of such a thing?

  8. If you’ll pardon me, I just reset my password for this website, but I can’t seem to do the same for the website where all the stories are.  I went through the process of resetting it there and it said that it reset, but every time I try to log in there, instead of seeing my username in the corner, all I get is the login option.  What am I doing wrong?

  9. Everyone, I have a little announcement to make.  I’ve discussed this a bit with a few others, but I’m letting everyone know now.

    As you might recall, I posted a challenge forum some time ago about Spider-Man rewriting reality into on that goes right for him and he gets a harem composed of the lovely ladies he’s dated or had an interest in.  However, since no one seems to want to do it, or at least do it in a way that I like, I’ve decided to take it upon myself to write it.  Currently, in addition to the other things I’ve got going on, I’m in the process of writing the first chapter.

    The story will be called “Spider’s Snap” for reasons that’ll be obvious when you see it.

    If you have any thoughts, questions, or suggestions, please let me know either through here or in a Direct/Private Message with me.

  10. 14 hours ago, Strange_idea said:

    The authors killed off maid marian to establish high stakes then killed off robin for thr shock value. The series couldn't recover and cancelled itself.

    Not hard to see why.

    In that same video I watched, the narrator (calls herself Red) felt that what happened with Quicksilver in “Age of Ultron” was a bad example as well.

    “Broadly, a plot twist is bad, or at least ineffectual, if it ticks one of these boxes:

    • The twist contradicts canon or makes no sense
    • The twist isn't as clever as it thinks it is
    • The twist is less interesting than the un-twisty natural progression of the plot
    • Or the twist has no meaningful impact…

    She then proceeds to point out why Quicksilver’s death ticks all of those boxes.  When she gets to the 3rd one, she presents this interesting “What if?”

    “Category three; the twist is less interesting than not having the twist.  I want you to picture, for a moment, a world where Quicksilver existed for the events of 'Civil War', 'Infinity War', and 'Endgame'.  He’d already started outgrowing his angry, jaded personality and began recognizing the Avengers as heroes, seeing them do their absolute damnedest to save Sokovia from a problem he indirectly helped cause.  He started off hating Tony but changed his mind to help side with him instead, recognizing that all Tony wanted was to fix the problems he caused. 

    “So, if Quicksilver survives the ‘Age of Ultron’, he becomes an Avenger, most likely just as fiercely loyal to them as he was to Ultron, just in time for them to tear themselves apart in ‘Civil War’.  Say he sides with Tony, seeing the Accords as just another step in Tony’s journey away from being the weapons dealer he hated.  It puts him in opposition against his sister, the first time they’ve really fought.  And it would be really cool to see them fight, even if it probably wouldn’t last long. 

    “Say he survives 'the snap' in ‘Infinity War,’ the first time he’s separated from his sister.  The way they played out ‘Endgame’, during those 5 years, there were almost no active supers on the planet; Thor was getting drunk, Hulk was getting therapy, but I don’t see Quicksilver taking Armaggedon lying down.  He could be doing his damnedest to keep the peace Flash-style, maybe even clashing with Hawkeye’s ‘one-man vigilante' crusade; a narrative foil situation, each of them responding to the loss of their family in very different ways.  Maybe he’s doing for Earth what Captain Marvel is doing for the rest of the galaxy, desperately running around keeping things working while the rest of the team searches for a real solution because he’s the only one with the powers to do it.  Then Wanda comes back after ‘the snap’ and suddenly there’s a five year age difference between these twins.  Wanda’s still mourning Vision, Pietro’s just happy she’s alive, and-my god!  The emotional baggage they could unpack there.  There is so much potential here, but ‘Age of Ultron’ wanted a death and Pietro was available, so...sucks to be him."

    15 hours ago, Strange_idea said:

    Of course, the recovery from a BAD twist can be a very good thing. Parralax was both the dumbest decision and best thig that happened to green lantern in the long term.

    That it can, and the change to Parallax was a smart move on their part.

  11. I’ve talked about this a bit with a few people, but I feel like sharing this with everyone.  I saw a video not too long ago talking about plot twists, and the points it gave were quite fascinating.  I’m not about to get into all the details, but there were 5 main takeaways from the video in how plot twists are:

    1. There are many, many ways to screw up a plot twist.
    2. A plot twist is not the same thing as shock bait (doing a shocking subversion for its own sake).
    3. Trying to control your audience’s reaction is an exercise in futility.
    4. Just because the audience can see something coming, that doesn’t automatically make it bad, as it can still be compelling, and sometimes going the expected route works better than the unexpected one.
    5. While spoilers aren’t encouraged, at the same time, they’re not the worst thing ever, and as a creator, you should really be concerned with how your story works on a second viewing anyway.

    In regards to that last bit, I think Alfred Hitchcock said it best when he described suspense:

    Say you have a scene of characters talking about something for about 15 or so minutes, and then, without warning, a bomb goes off underneath where the characters are.  That only evokes surprise from the audience watching the scene who might be more than a little confused about what just happened.

    Now let’s go with the suspense scenario.  The audience is informed ahead of time that there is a bomb underneath where the characters are, and as the scene goes on, the audience finds themselves saying “What’re you idiots doing talking about that stuff?!  Get out! There’s a bomb!”  It’s a feeling of wanting to warn the characters but being unable to.

    As Hitchcock himself said, “In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. The conclusion is that whenever possible the public must be informed. Except when the surprise is a twist, that is, when the unexpected ending is, in itself, the highlight of the story.”

    Does all this make sense to you guys?

  12. Well, I get some of my comic knowledge from Linkara.  He actually commented something on this recently in one of his reviews, namely at the beginning of his review of the “Batman Forever” comic adaptation from about a month ago:

    “No one cares about comic books.  That statement is hyperbolic, but only so much so.  What would be a more accurate statement is that mainstream comic books, the ones focused on superheroes put out by Marvel and DC, are considerably less popular than other mediums, or even other comics in general.  The comics that actually are popular?  Manga, webcomics, stuff directed at kids for schools, that kind of thing.  Those are the markets that continue to have large readerships and money coming in.  And of course, it’s still a fraction of consumers when it comes to other mediums like TV and movies.  As has been pointed out many times before, these days, a mainstream comic, to be super successful, is to have orders in the range of 200,000-300,000 copies.  So that’s the maximum amount of people who will be reading it - not counting digital sales, which there aren’t really any public sales numbers for.  Compare that to, say, Game of Thrones, which has viewership in the millions.  Avengers, Captain Marvel, Black Panther - these movies made billions of dollars.  That’s what I mean when I say no one cares about comic books.  The actual readership numbers of mainstream books are minuscule compared to movies and TV shows. 

    “And it’s not the worst thing in the world, nor is it a judgment of one medium versus another – it’s just a fact of numbers.  More people care about one thing versus another.  Mainstream superhero comics are a niche fanbase, and the industry keeps failing to make it less of one.  This wasn’t always the case, of course.  Sales numbers from the 80s and early 90s were very different than they are today, with several popular books selling in the millions.  And there are a number of reasons why sales went down so sharply in the last 2 decades.  One is the Speculator Boom of the early 90s – artificially driving up prices out of sheer greed so that comics were no longer an inexpensive impulse buy for kids looking for some cheap entertainment, and thus hooking them for life.  Another is the changing face of media distribution, where comics suddenly have more competitors to get the most bang for your buck, i.e. why pay $4 for maybe 10 minutes of entertainment when I can get a Netflix subscription for $10 and have access to a vast library of media that’ll keep me occupied for weeks or months?  And still, another is continuity baggage.  That impulse buy I mentioned before is even more of a detriment because suddenly you’re not buying a single contained story, but part 3 of a 6-part storyline and you have no idea what’s going on in it because everything’s written to be sold in trade paperbacks.

    “But regardless of these factors, the truth remains; movies and TV shows are still more popular than mainstream superhero comic books.”

    That was longer than I had intended, but I think the point gets across well.

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