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Highlights:
-The Top 10 OP videos
-His 4kids video
-His video on Why Riverdale is Awful
-His video on Psychonauts
-His video on Magical Girls
-His video on Harem Anime

I'll have to check them out at some point, they sound like they might be really interesting.

(and more plugs are good!)

- Tomash

Yes, I agree! Writing death gods as mustache-twirling villains is pretty boring.

Here's an example of a non-villainous death god, from the D&D game I'm currently playing:

The Voice of Life and Death is an integral part of the universe who probably came into being when souls were created--or maybe she created souls; it's hard to tell. She's the one who maintains the cycle of reincarnation and determines when a soul is ready to pass on to the next world. Very occasionally, someone manages to get an audience with her, mostly to beg for the life of a loved one; she grants these requests sometimes, but only if she really thinks you have a good argument.

She cares about the world and its existence, and cares about keeping order between life and death. She doesn't mind necromancy, for the most part--creating zombies is fine in her book, since it doesn't mess with anybody's soul--but the second you interfere with the cycle of reincarnation, you're on her shit list. This is why necromancers who do experiment on souls often try to achieve immortality--they don't want to be anywhere near the Voice when she is riled up about their twisted experiments.

Nowadays, she presents as a middle-aged, heavyset black woman who is fond of tea and cookies and tries to sneak some reading in between souls. She hasn't always been female, though; she's been male, androgynous, or even an entirely bodiless force, and she's been known to change depending on who's looking at her.

Her clerics are midwives, doctors, morticians, and occasionally serial killers, though the latter don't seem to last long and she treats them more like annoying fanboys than serious followers, and soon sends them on to the next life, hoping they'll grow out of their immaturity. The Voice sees death as a normal part of life, but doesn't like it when the decisions of mortals force someone to die before their time. She dislikes war, partly because it causes so many untimely deaths and partly because it swamps her with work, which always makes her irritable.

However, would you mind if I added some more?

Overly Sarcastic Productions is a channel talking about several topics: some classic litterature books, history, mythology, and tropes, all arranged with illustrations and/or drawings to live up the presentations. And all of it is more than worth the watching.

Shadiversity animates a channel where medieval and fantasy weaponry, castles and the likes are the (main) name of the game : Always wondered how well-constructed the castle of Lord of the Rings were? How fantasy would impact castles? What sort of weapons were the most adapted to women, orcs, elves, dwarves, dragon riders, skeletons, etc? Wondering how practical a weapon on the back is (surprisingly better than expected for axes)? Stop reading this and watch his channel.

And then comes Mother's Basement, where the big deal are openings and how they're constructed, but also animes, who can also be made fun of through nice 'publicity videos' around one popular trope of the genre. Also, strong opinions against Sword Art Online. Another time sink you need in your life.

Terrible Writing Advice is almost exactly what it says: a channel of videos with terrible writing advice, presented in a comedic and snarky way. That advice is a pretty decent primer on what not to do when trying to write an alien ecosystem or cyberpunk story or whatever, especially since there's often some good advice mixed in that gets dismissed as pointless or too much effort.

- Tomash

Aka the only way for French people to have them because we only got the first five tomes of the Dresden Files (at least we've got all of Codex Alera. Now.). Especially on the day it's out.

Which isn't to say they're bad, but they don't star Gandalf on crack with an IV of Red Bull. :-P

The setting I'm thinking about would have gods for Light/Darkness, classical elements, and Life and Death...

I'd like to make the Death goddess of that world something more like 'authentic' Hades and Hela, and reincarnation... and having necromancers and undeads on the goodish side.

Namely by having soul-eating demons, so walking corpses without a soul to nom and pretty much laced with death magic wreaking havoc with their 'body' could potentially be goodish. Until you find necromancers deciding 'why not use that on other livings', but hey, duckers are everywhere...

Also, not best thread for it, but hurrah for Dresden!Hades (and Overly Sarcastic on Youtube for spotting that Cerberus pun too!).

I wonder what is provoking that delay... Still, today Dresden fans can still get Butcher's second short stories books in the Dresdenverse, Brief Cases, to help with the waiting!

Did I mention it has a short story involving Mouse and Maggie's PoV besides Dresden's (I'm not spoiling anything, it was announced to be in that book for a while)?

^_~ At the 2014 London Gathering, Fractal Dawn spent the entire pre-Gathering period aggressively plugging Codex Alera. Her favourite factoid was the story about where the series came from, which Wikipedia helpfully describes:

The inspiration for the series came from a bet Butcher was challenged to by a member of the Del Rey Online Writer's Workshop. The challenger bet that Butcher could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and he countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon".

I've read them; they're enjoyable, though I feel like the pacing is somewhat off at times. I've not really felt the urge to reread them, which saddens me a bit.

hS

Making old characters that came from humans (folklore, depictions of concepts, etc.) very human because they came from humanity is a really cool way to tackle the challenge of humanizing inhuman things. You guys make me want to read more Terry Pratchett stuff more and more every day.

-Twistey

The Santa makes sense, considering... aren't some older versions of Santa from various cultures scary? I remember hearing that from somewhere a long time ago, but I don't know the details.

-Twistey

Go read Codex Alera. It's great. Full of good characters, it's got a setting that's Cool As Hell (Albeit derivative in some places), and it's got Butcher's trademark snark to go with it. It's great.

...There's also a lot of really horrifying kinda-NSFW stuff, especially in the first book. It's regarded with the proper level of revulsion, but still... squick and horror and such warnings.

Are you thinking of something like what the Library of the Damned does? [WARNING: Link is to a rare mission of C*l*br*an. Viewer discretion is advised.]

That is, featuring OCs that are specifically characterized to be a moral counterpoint to your self-insert/badfic self?

However, this community wants nothing more to do with zdimensia/Bramandin/etc. It is abundantly clear that we are bad for her, and she is bad for us. We would quite like it if she would move on with her life and allow us to do the same with ours, but she keeps forcing herself on us, and you are helping her to persist in doing it. Please stop now.

~Neshomeh