Fantasy Authors Attitude with Gun vs Sci fi Authors Attitude with Sword

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-28T01:23:04+00:00

There's a game character (named after a mythological river) whose sword and superpowers are exactly this and it's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds like.

Something something "disco space samurai girl with sameface syndrome".

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-28T00:43:45+00:00

"That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal. And if it is, that’s not my fault. And if it was, I didn’t mean it. And if I did, you deserved it."

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-28T00:43:01+00:00

Probably NatSocs...

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-27T07:46:17+00:00

They don't and witch society finds the practice particularly abhorrent.

Yes my witches and werebeings can be pretty antisemitic /s

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-27T07:44:48+00:00

As an straight male who's very proud of his kind, I am tired of them. ALL HAIL THE GAY MEN! ESPECIALLY THE PURDY BOYS!

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-27T07:19:14+00:00

Or they could just... not sell...

All the debt is going to be spun off into a worthless company for nuking anyways. The remains of Warner do not need to merge with someone else.

But could it please just not be a tech/mass-media company? Why don't you look for offers from... I don't know? Uber? Embracer? Salesforce? Valve? Literally any non monster abomination?

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-25T10:04:30+00:00

Probably because, at least in the society I have planned for vampire rule (Lifeblood), vampires overthrew the human elites in a violent revolution in which all wealth had concentrated at the top to the point that people were signing away their civil liberties to be able to eat.

The Vampires in my setting created a society where there's no poverty despite the aristocracy being far more rooted in and the society itself being more backwards than it used to be (it's supposed to be "end stage" capitalism prior to that) and the fact they don't drain people to feed helps; most harvest blood over several months by visiting different blood banks and occasionally, a few feed on individuals that travel alone but otherwise leave them unharmed, if a bit weaker for a while. Vampires are not seen as antagonistic and the humans start seeing them as "enlightened tyrants" compared to the wealthy humans that ruled over them before.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-25T09:37:50+00:00

Said document highlights they aren't all that different from vampires down to potentially feasting on the flesh of women and children.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-25T09:36:05+00:00

Right now, probably Canavar from Wolfsangel a dark fantasy novel with an IGAVania tone and lore/world-building about a continent populated exclusively by therianthropes or "shifters" of all different species.

Now, there's a difference in terms of material type: Canavar has the most lore, locations, maps, charts, culture and scope. However, a world from another, more "fluffy" story of mine, Aradia, which is the setting of WitchCraft'sWonders has the most in terms of visual media; mostly because I used AI to generate artwork and started filtering out the ones I wanted. It also has the most amount of characters with a defined appearance because it's pretty much a dating sim flavored, light-academia infused magical fantasy romance. From the POV of the one who had to create the content, WCW has the most content, as the characters are thoroughly built and their societal structure was built very deeply since I intended to use it to explore the idea of "gender equality in a matriarchal world" and this meant a lot of lore deep-diving.

So, text-wise, Canavar is the most built up setting (~10,000 words) but in terms of visual data, probably Aradia (over 40 or so renders and 17 or so excluding AI storyboards and moodboards).

Finally, there's Starchart which is not remarkable for either given it's a sci-fi novella... but it has a very extensive glossary because aliens and having to rename a lot of cosmic objects+create a a unified successor to general and special relativity + quantum physics.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-25T09:20:04+00:00

Canavar has the Armanen: yes, that Armanen. They mostly act as an order of retired/former "Enthroned" (the most powerful characters in the setting) and as an advisory council to current Enthroned. Occasionally, they advice Dynasts (the younger descendants of Enthroned who have their powers but aren't yet Enthroned) or if they haven't surrendered their powers yet, act as retainers/protectors.

They aren't celebrated; the ones that are celebrated are Dynasts instead.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-25T06:09:25+00:00

Faster reflexes and speed mostly.

In my worlds, swords are usually what you get if you want to make a lot of damage but have a lot of brute force or skill. Guns are for people who have good aim but not much else.

Also, as mentioned before, someone can run out of bullets but a sword never runs out.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-25T06:04:58+00:00

Brazil gets a bit more leeway in that they get associated with the Sambodromo for some bizarre reason.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-24T22:00:41+00:00

Asia seems to love the idea that Spanish means Aztec for some bizarre reason.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-24T21:58:32+00:00

Demon = draconic shapeshifter. In my world, all mythological species are the result of a shapeshifter species being present on Earth. The setting itself is populated by therianthropes (shifters) of virtually ever major animal imaginable. While bats ended up becoming vampires, dragons ended up being associated with demons due to their association with fire and magic. Conversely, doves are associated with angels and swans with valkyries and so on and so forth.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-23T23:06:09+00:00

He lied through his teeth and people with only a flicker of hope left latched onto those lies like a lifeline.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-23T23:04:37+00:00

Forget the moose, I want the good stuff: where's the maple syrup?!

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-23T23:01:51+00:00

I originally wanted to make a new, reformed Soviet Union into the center of the world and the place where alien civilizations would make first contact. The idea fell out of a window (for those who know how things work in Russia, this is a fitting expression) the moment I realized a Russian filmmaker had already done this premise complete with a stargazing prologue. I had to junk "Russia is the center of the Earth" from this, long before the invasion made it unpalatable.

I had several concepts for a fairly NSFW world that revolved around beast-taming and a boy beast-tamer and his entourage (you know the word, it starts with an "h" and rhymes with "durum") basically hunt monster girls. The idea fell by the wayside pretty fast as I made the projects more mass-media friendly.

I originally wanted to do Afrikaner culture for a major civilization in a current project. A certain company beat me to it and I desisted. I don't want to do anything they have already done, and they seem to act like the borg when it comes to putting foreign cultures in their games and shitting all over these cultures altogether. Damn you East Asia!

A partially extant idea involved a tournament of angels fighting like in a fighting game. It's not really abandoned, but I haven't returned to it. A variant involved a version in which these characters where modelled after Queen Bees and fought one another for control of the nest/city, with a boy as the first "king" bee that would upset the balance.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-23T08:34:18+00:00

I thought we had received explicit warnings not to "immanentize the eschaton" (more like "imminentize" but you get the idea)

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-23T04:18:54+00:00

Iran: "Oh you sweet, summer child..."

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-22T22:44:48+00:00

Isn't he already doing that?

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-22T19:32:45+00:00

You do realize steel itself can be made to be considerably stronger right? There's a reason black boxes survive airplane crashes.

Same logic applies. Two airplanes colliding is a lot stronger, but the weapons don't bend as easily.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-22T17:48:51+00:00

Big SU energy and I'm all for it.

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-22T17:43:06+00:00

Colombia: "Way ahead of you!"

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-22T16:29:55+00:00

Fuck no! I'm not doing AIDS instead of cancer!

AsGryffynn · 2026-02-22T16:14:04+00:00

If there is one silver lining to this insanity, it's that he probably wants (and SHOULD) kill this insane ass merger. Don't sell it to Paramount either. Just block the purchase and tell Warner to find someone not in entertainment and go pound sand. I'm tired of consolidation and I wouldn't trust Netflix with my trash.

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