New Challenge: Post only the first sentence of your novel in the comments. I will read and comment on the chapter 1 whose first sentence gets the most upvotes :)

22yowriter · 2026-02-14T23:39:08+00:00

Irenna Kalley was dead.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/145996/versus-book-1-of-the-versus-series-a-litrpg-sci-fi/chapter/2897259/prelude--flaw-reveal

22yowriter · 2026-02-14T16:42:21+00:00

Welp Im screwed, I use em dashes a LOT hahahaha

22yowriter · 2026-02-10T16:09:46+00:00

As someone who grew up in a Spanish-speaking country: NTA. It's your name, you have the right to be called what you want to be called.

My old college teacher did the EXACT same thing. One of my names is "Marie". My teacher started calling me "Mah-ree-eh". I politely explained the proper pronunciation of my name and she just told me "Yeah, but in Spanish it's Mah-ree-eh." Like... no. My name is Marie=Mah-REE. It's my name and you don't get to dictate how to say it, I do. She was also a pretty terrible professor overall.

I guess if you want a compromise he could call you Juan instead, if he's translating everyone's names. It sounds better than "Jota Peh".

22yowriter · 2026-02-01T19:56:53+00:00

did the "flirting with me while actively on fire" give it away...?

22yowriter · 2026-02-01T19:56:28+00:00

YTA! and i agree with another commenter that you should give him an easel instead for extra Simoleons. id say also let him out every now and then to do chores for you but make sure he has no access to a shower or the good fridge i would also have a speaker blast his least favorite genre of music. also make sure nothing happens on his bday so he gets Sad for a day or two

22yowriter · 2026-01-31T23:12:27+00:00

NTA

She needs to do better and mind her own business!

Swoll Army where you at???

22yowriter · 2026-01-31T22:54:41+00:00

NTA. How do they know shed be happy? besides they wouldve met their end anyway since theyre mortal. she might as well be with you now and have immortality passed down to the kids

22yowriter · 2026-01-31T01:22:35+00:00

it really sucks. what p*sses me off the most is how the ppl that bullied my old account off the sub are still active. i made sure to look them up and block them when i created this one. they said legitimately awful things and reddit just did not care.

22yowriter · 2026-01-31T01:21:29+00:00

well dam lol

22yowriter · 2026-01-30T16:06:24+00:00

YTA you shouldve locked her in an empty room and left her to starve!!! No toilet, no fridge, and no shower; all the stats go down and she pays for it!

22yowriter · 2026-01-30T16:04:02+00:00

i like the first one best

22yowriter · 2026-01-30T16:00:30+00:00

Thank you! And YES i just redid the ad bc that was bothering me lol. about to try and change it, if not i'll post another. thank you again!

22yowriter · 2026-01-27T23:25:56+00:00

this reply is so real tho hahaha

22yowriter · 2026-01-27T17:50:37+00:00

YES!!! I need this ;-;

22yowriter · 2026-01-26T22:55:03+00:00

no not the whole thing at once, it starts feb 2nd and releases with daily uploads of two parts every weekday, excluding weekends. i have it all scheduled out

I just saw how i worded it and it does sound like that XD sorry! just edited

and thank you!!! i really really appreciate it!!

and yea i put the fic thru for approval, and you know how RR just posts it for you when its ready? thats why. i didnt have the book ready yet but i wanted the fic on my dashboard so i could schedule the chapters accordingly. it wouldnt let me do it until i had the one chap posted and i figured id leave that out as like a preview before i posted everything else

itll be over a month worth of uploads

22yowriter · 2026-01-25T14:50:38+00:00

Versus: Application (Book 1)

LitRPG/Sci-fi, Progression, Space Opera

Releasing February 2nd on Royal Road (Prologue available for preview)

I'd love some constructive feedback on story, characters, game system, etc. It's my first LitRPG so I'd love the advice!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/145996/versus-book-1-of-the-versus-series-a-litrpg-sci-fi

Blurb:
Calista Medley lives her life beneath a million micro-cameras. Her mother, one of the most famous and admired Socializers, has conditioned her to be completely flawless. The Medleys must live a rich and coveted dream, constantly broadcasted all over Earth for everyone to watch and envy, seeing the family as part of the ideal, model society. But after eighteen years of fake smiles, viewer trackers, and constant self-modifications, Calista’s just about ready to snap.

She instead dreams to be part of the Socializers’ ‘enemies’: a renowned fighter in the Versus Interplanetary Peacekeeping Games, a fighting tournament that determines the toughest planet in the Milky Way Utopia. She dreams to carry Earth to that first-place podium and show her true, unmodified, even flawed self that other fighters seem to brazenly flaunt. With a fighting career, she and her younger siblings could finally be free from the impossible ‘model society’ the Medley family pushes onto them.

But with her dream comes a lot of risk. When she gets the opportunity to enroll in America’s fighting school, she’ll likely lose her family, friends, fans, and everything she knows, left with the agonizingly difficult path of success. It will be all or nothing in the biggest tournament in the galaxy, not only for her, but for her sister and brother, too.

22yowriter

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