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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

I found the Dreamwidth archive for Laburnum and Foxglove's missions, among others: https://rc88.dreamwidth.org/

Hello everyone, this is the original poster. I would like to relay another message at the request of the Bramanditook. I appreciate your patience in all of this.

"Bramandintook on gmail wants a copy of the deleted messages."