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...I got Mark Twain.

Not that I'm complaining but that feels wrong somehow, haha.

I think it indicates that the fate of the Grim Dark Far Future hinges, uncharacteristically, one one person, one moment: when (not if) Magnus finds himself on the Golden Throne... what does he do with it? Guilliman has one idea. The Emperor had another. The Hexarchy (minus Omegon) have a third. But who can know the mind of Magnus?

I'm not sure about the state of the Throne and the Webway Project. Scape said that the Emperor was ensconced on the Throne during the Heresy, which implies something happened. I meant to ask but I'm not sure I got round to it. It's possible the Emperor just thought his Project was more important than the boys' squabbles, and kept on it until Lorgar impressed him with the absolute importance of taking down the Wolf.

Which... implies that Malcador survives. If the Webway is not broken, the Emperor can just leave the Throne, no consequences. He still gets lashed into it afterwards, and the Project is cut off and abandoned - but Malcador the Sigilite lives, and Malcador knows.

Given that he was already building a Chapter of his own, I think we now know who the real driver behind Perry and Morty's decision was.

And if, somehow, he lives for ten millennia - then he is the one person who knows what Magnus will see when he takes the throne.

I said Bobby Gulls is the (dae)Man with the Plan - but the Sigilite certainly has a scheme to match him.

hS

Typos corrected with gratitude. ^_^

As you've noted, Good Omens and Strange & Norrell are based on the TV adaptations, but honestly, both of those adaptations are really close to the books. I'm referencing the adaptations so I have concrete visuals, but it could just as easily be the books.

I'm also not taking characters from the end of their storylines. With one exception (on Hampstead Heath, if you want a meaningless spoiler), everyone I'm using is from the first third or so of their story. What that means is a bit variable, but there's no real story spoilers, and I'm trying (trying!) to introduce people so you don't have to have read them.

The idea of a hybrid somewhere was central to my initial conception of this story. I think the very first idea I had was to do Chicago and have Harry Dresden running around; then I passed through police/detective shows in New York; and then I landed in London, and haven't moved on since.

hS

Overblot is not a character. Magic users in this setting have this nasty side-effect to their magic called "blot"; accumulate enough of this stuff without letting it subside causes the mage to overblot – transform into a Superpowered Evil Side, which will kill them if left untreated.

I'm glad Momoka gets a break! And it shows how critical she is to this team's overall function. At least this way, it's giving Inasuke a bit more narrative focus than usual, since he's usually drowned out by the two more outspoken men. He's pretty picky about canons, isn't he? There are plenty of Disney creations that are more mainstream for him to consume, but he seems annoyed that Twisted Wonderland even exists! And as Kaguya says, it's just as valid to exist as a canon as anything else. That's definitely a weakness on Inasuke's part, in terms of doing the PPC duty, but it also gives you lots more opportunity to torment the poor boy!

—doctorlit would mostly just play to fight the Disney villain Overblots, not that he has time to play it

The original fic to be precise (for those not aware I work on 5 'fics at once during NaNoWriMo, aiming to write 10k in each)

And it's come back saying I write like Dan Brown...

I'll admit that I haven't really polished up the bit of the fic I put in so it might change once that's been done, but as it is I'm not entirely sure if I'm happy or not.

Nova

Hope you have an awesome day!

This is a Magnus who actually did nothing wrong, right? He lacks the peak degree of arrogance that drove the original to ignore his father's orders under the assumption that only he, Magnus, was wise enough to perceive Horus' corruption and thus had to deliver the warning by means only he could accomplish (and prove Dad wrong about Nikaea while he was at it).

Now, in this case, Magnus making the more humble choice to respect the Emperor's edict leads directly to Magnus being crushed like a bug by his father, blinded by the lies of Russ. Magnus might have some resentment about that, but what's he going to do? The Emperor's already a barely living shell whose mind is in eternal torment. If the Warp whispers to the Crimson King of vengeance, or of making the Emperor see the folly of listening to Russ instead of him, the worst thing Magnus can do to the Emperor is leave him right where he is.

Rather, if Magnus takes his father's place on the Throne, he'll do it out of mercy and a desire to use its power for the good of the Imperium. Once he's there, even if Guillman thinks he has a leash on his brother, I reckon he'll find out pretty quickly that he miscalculated. For all Guilliman has been living with the Warp, he wasn't made to grok it like Magnus does. He simply cannot out-psyker the greatest living psyker with the full might of the Golden Throne behind him.

And, by the way, if Magnus doesn't bust up the throneroom as in canon, is it still fully functional, and the Webway pretty much secure? Forgive me if I'm forgetting something—but if we're talking about a Golden Throne that isn't being held together with duct tape and prayers, that's even worse for Chaos once Magnus takes over.

It still might be bad for the Imperium, too, though. It's like Galadriel says: Magnus might start using the power out of a desire to do good, but it is a power both great and terrible. Instead of a golden god, you would have a Cyclopean, red as the sky before a storm, unbounded by the bastions of the earth...

~Neshomeh

Cory Doctorow shows up a lot.

Specifically, the sensual-to-explicit slash fics.

I plan to expand on this AU eventually 🤭

Charles Dickens 🤣🤣🤣

Interesting, because I have no idea who that is. Guess I have some new books to check out!

even the bit where I straight up made Thorin quote Mr Darcy, and I even took out the blatant references to Hobbits and whatnot. I got Mark Twain.

Honestly, I think this AI needs a bit of updating. It hasn't gotten any new authors to compare to since the last time I ran into it, in like... 2013, haha. I get the feeling that any allusions to magic tend to immediately give you JKR as a result, because somehow my original worldbuilding regency-fantasy AU for Supernatural and my modern Selkie AU for Yuri on Ice got JKR and the one common denominator between the two is... magic.

Also got Chuck Palahniuk on a very Good Omens-esque angel bureaucracy fic, so. Huh.

This will not tell you if your writing is good or bad, funny or boring. It can tell you if you frequently use words, punctuation, and sentence structures in ways that correspond to another author's use of words, punctuation, and sentence structures, but that's about it. It's worth looking at How it works and Is it accurate? on the site to understand the tool before you draw conclusions based on it.

~Neshomeh

I was gonna dump my entire solo-written body of work in there, but it says very long texts are cut before analyzing. Alas. One story at a time, then, and I'll tally the results.

• "Introducing Ilraen" (FicPsych story) - Neil Gaiman

...

Welp, those are my results, then. Later, dudes!

Nah, kidding. That's my early work, and an interlude. It'll be interesting to see what happens as we approach the present and look at missions to various continua.

• "Family Ties" (Potterverse mission) - J. K. Rowling
• "What Friends Will Do" (Young Wizards mission) - J. K. Rowling
• "Harry Potter and the Dragonriders of Pern" (that) - J. K. Rowling
• "Gestalt Therapy" (FicPsych story, 2008 Epidemic/Invasion) - overall: Bram Stoker; Part 1: Isaac Asimov; Part 2: Bram Stoker; Part 3: Kurt Vonnegut; Part 4: Bram Stoker; Part 5: Cory Doctorow.
• "The Smasher" (Super Smash Bros. mission) - Cory Doctorow
• "Ilraen's Journal" (interlude) - Kurt Vonnegut
• "The Girl and Her Dragon" (How to Train Your Dragon mission) - J. K. Rowling
• "The Adventure Begins With One Step" (Lord of the Rings mission) - Isaac Asimov
• "Ring Child" (megacrossover mission) - overall: Dan Brown; Part 1: Dan Brown; Part 2: Cory Doctorow
• "Nume: Ten Years Thence" (interlude) - Isaac Asimov
• "Morning After" (interlude) - J. K. Rowling
• "Never Let Go" (Phantom of the Opera mission) - Kurt Vonnegut
• "Full Metal and the Hogwarts Mishap" (HP x Fullmetal Alchemist mission) - J. K. Rowling
• "A Friend in Deed" (Skyrim fic) - Dan Brown
• "Green Glass" (Skyrim fic) - Ray Bradbury
• "Eyes on the Horizon" (Skyrim fic) - Kurt Vonnegut
• "So the Mountains May Echo" (Skyrim fic) - Dan Brown (same results for both chapters separately and together)
• "When Will We See You Again?" (Dragonriders of Pern prompt fic) - J. D. Salinger
• "What Am I Forgetting?" (PPC prompt fic) - Isaac Asimov
• "Paint the Town Green" (PPC prompt fic) - Stephanie Meyer [Aaaaaahhhh! ... But no, I get it. It's because of Gall's inner monologue and blatant thirst, isn't it?]
• "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time" (PPC prompt fic) - Douglas Adams
• "Racing: Sky" (DRoP prompt fic) - David Foster Wallace
• "Practical Skills" (PPC prompt fic) - Neil Gaiman
• "Season's Beginning" (DRoP prompt fic) - Charles Dickens
• "The Spires of Prospero" (Warhammer 40k poem) - David Foster Wallace
• "The Long Night of Agent Supernumerary" (interlude) - James Fenimore Cooper [Seriously? The Leatherstocking guy? THIS I don't get.]
• "Something Beyond" (HP fic) - J. K. Rowling [Big shocker there.]
• "Missing Time" (FicPsych story) - Kurt Vonnegut
• "The Phantomess of the Opera and the Half-Blood Prince" (HP x PotO mission) - Jack London [Huh, this is the first time JKR hasn't been returned on a sample involving the Potterverse.]

And, for a laugh:

• "The Cabin" (explicit PPC fic) - Kurt Vonnegut

... Okay, that's less of a laugh than I was expecting. Huh.

Let's look at the results! I submitted a total of 37 samples, counting individual chapters but not the overall story results. Here's the tally of my author hits from highest to lowest:

• JKR - 7
• Kurt Vonnegut - 6
• Isaac Asimov - 4
• Dan Brown - 4
• Cory Doctorow - 3
• Neil Gaiman - 2
• Bram Stoker - 2
• David Foster Wallace - 2
• Ray Bradbury - 1
• J. D. Salinger - 1
• Stephanie Meyer - 1
• Douglas Adams - 1
• Charles Dickens - 1
• James Fenimore Cooper - 1
• Jack London - 1

Fascinating. J. K. Rowling I get—plenty of these sample use lots of words that come up in Rowling's work—but I haven't read enough Vonnegut to say where that's coming from. It's more interesting when you break things down a bit more:

Non-missions only:

• Kurt Vonnegut - 5
• Isaac Asimov - 3
• Dan Brown - 3
• Neil Gaiman - 2
• Bram Stoker - 2
• J. K. Rowling - 2
• David Foster Wallace - 2
• Cory Doctorow - 1
• Ray Bradbury - 1
• J. D. Salinger - 1
• Stephanie Meyer - 1
• Douglas Adams - 1
• Charles Dickens - 1
• James Fenimore Cooper - 1

Missions only:

• J. K. Rowling - 5
• Cory Doctorow - 2
• Isaac Asimov - 1
• Dan Brown - 1
• Kurt Vonnegut - 1
• Jack London - 1

Just Skyrim fic:

• Dan Brown - 3
• Ray Bradbury - 1
• Kurt Vonnegut - 1

Just Pern promptfic:

• J. D. Salinger - 1
• David Foster Wallace - 1
• Charles Dickens - 1

It seems pretty clear most of my JKR-ness is coming from missions, partly because several of them involve the Potterverse and thus naturally hit a lot of the same word choices. Plus the one actual HP fanfic. So, what style do I write most like overall?

A classic science fiction author with a dry sense of humor and keen awareness of both humanity's foibles and its potential.

I can dig it. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Yeah, the London setting was obvious, but I like how you're constructing this London out of geographically accurate parts from different canons. It's a really strong follow-up from Sergio's "patchwork geography," which was more focused on landmasses and biomes than an individual city. I see I'm a bit behind on my reading materials, though at least you seem to be using the television versions of Omens and Strange, which I wasn't planning on watching anyway. I'm excited to see how things unfold, in any case!

"Mr. and Mrs. Davenport," eh? Is there a rule that all WWA stories must contain that surname?

A couple typos:
The streetlamps when from burned-out bulbs to Narnia-style lanterns . . .
I think you wanted "went" there?

"Mom," Jasmine murmured, as the reached the edge of a tree-filled square . . .
"they"

Also, I'm reading one of the Earth's Children novels right now, so when you first mentioned the horse, my brain was primed to imagine it as a Przewalski-esque primitive horse, but I suppose that's probably not the sort of horse you were imagining in London . . . Heh, okay. Checking Wikipedia, the British Isles saw horses at least as far back as 700,000 BC, while Earth's Children is set in roughly 28,000 BC. So while a primitive horse could appear in the Unraveled London, it would see humans as predators, and probably wouldn't hang out near humans at a bookshop's door. Still, I hope the horsie friend finds their caretakers, or gets taken in by new ones! Horsie friend seems lonely . . .

Oh, and I don't remember if I commented on "A Study in Carnë" while you were posting it, but I definitely read it, and it was quite good!

—doctorlit should probably be researching candidates to vote on right now, but reading and reviewing never ceases!

I want to see if your hypothesis of "the AI assigns Rowling to any fic with HP characters in it" is true by bleeping those characters out.

I can't recall if My Immortal or Thirty Hs is less like the original canon, so I'll use both.

My Immortal first three chapters with HP characters (no ANs besides in-text ones): Cory Doctorow?!

Hmm. Let's try it with more material.

Same as above, except first seven chapters: Rowling.

Same as above, but the names switched in for more generic names (excluding OCs): Rowling still.

So, I don't think it's the AI auto-assigning names because of the HP Characters appearing from this evidence, but one more HP badfic to go, naturally.

Thirty H's first chapter alone (not the AN one): Rowling

Same as above, but with names genericized (except OCs): Stephen King (oh geez pffff)

Thirty H's first seven chapters: Rowling, as expected.

Same as above, but no HP names: Cory Doctorow

Conclusion: It depends on the material. If it is similar to Rowling's writing style (Both of my Mission Ones, My Immortal), then it brings up Rowling no matter the case (unless I shpxed up and left a couple of HP names in My Immortal), but if it isn't (Thirty H's), it gives a different result once the names are replaced.

Interesting.

-kA

RC Hyperbola first.

Mission 1: J.K. Rowling. Uhhhhhhhhhh

Mission 2: J.K. Rowling again. This really worries me...

Mission 4: Cory Doctorow. Okay, so I'm getting better, right?

Mission 5: J.K. Rowling again

As for O'Ryan Keys and crew...

Mission 1: J.K. Rowling again

Interlude 1: Cory Doctorow.

Mission 2: Leo Tolstoy

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As an important note, this is a just-for-fun site, and AI can be wrong. Alongside other things, missions 2 and 5 both had Harry Potter badfic. Perhaps the AI notices Harry Potter characters and is like "yep, just like the author" in certain cases. If one gets Rowling, it isn't a 100% bad thing; your writing isn't like Rowling's morally or socially. It's just similar in style. And AI can mess up and that's okay.

The major takeaway is that this isn't a good or bad site. It's just for fun. And just because your missions consistently get a certain author does not mean you have to agree with it. And, everyone's writing style is different to degrees and probably relies on what someone liked as a child.

It's fun, and it's funny to see AI say "yep, My Immortal is like Rowling's own style."

-kA

(Edit: Even funnier when I filed off the names and it still gave Rowling as what the fic is most like.)

My Immortal: J. K. Rowling O.o

My Inner Life: Ursula K. Le Guin

legolas by laura (whole story): Cory Doctorow

Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami: Cory Doctorow again

Blood Raining Night: Anne Rice

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (first and second chapters): J. K. Rowling again (I think this site gives this result to any fic with HP names in it 🤣)

Forbiden Fruit the Tempation of Edward Cullen: Cory Doctorow again

Halflife: Fulllife Consequences: James Joyce (yay, a new name!)

soulless shell (prologue to chapter 2): James Joyce again

Oh, interesting! I like that, rather than keeping the character roles the same, you've made Urato the central protagonist, and Kaguya into a villain! Talk about weaponizing beauty! That makes it a lot more fun than only changing the setting and keeping the character dynamics the same. I like that Urato is still very rough, and doesn't conform to polite society; making Inasuke a little yokai is funny, too!

—doctorlit

Douglas Adams. I didn't think my writing was that funny or quirky but I guess I was wrong.

I Write Like, a site where you can feed any English text into and find out which famous author's writing style the text is closest to. I fed a few of my stuff in there and I got Charles Dickens and Margaret Atwood among many others.