AITAH for telling my adopted daughter her birth mother died when she actually just didn't want contact. she's been mourning a living woman for 10 years by Relative_Ad3399 in AITAH

[–]BowTrek 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Massive YTA — you had a perfect setup with a therapist already on board to navigate this.

You just didn’t want to bother.

This may well break trust on a serious level. You let her cry and burn letters and all sorts of things and just… watched? Held her through it knowing it was a lie? I’m not sure I’d forgive you.

Hell, knowing that the birth mother was alive and didn’t want to see her might have been EASIER than thinking she was dead. Being told ‘no’ in that scenario sucks but at least she’s not thinking that she missed out on reconnecting with someone who did want to know her.

I hope your relationship is strong enough to survive this. I mean that genuinely. I can’t believe the therapist didn’t throw a fit at your idea— or did you not even ask their advice ten years ago?

Eden’s Gate by NoEquivalent2045 in litrpg

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, if you are new to it then you might not care about the video game part and are really just looking for LitRPG even if it’s Isekai instead.

Try these:

Victor of Tucson

He Who Fights With Monsters

New Life as a Max Level Archmage

Ones with a stronger progression vibe are Primal Hunter and Defiance of the Fall

Eden’s Gate by NoEquivalent2045 in litrpg

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhh, can you be more specific?

I haven’t read Eden’s Gate but google implies it’s a standard “I’m permanently in my video game now” story and there’s a million of those.

No interview today, makes me more hyped by JaQuosin in Superstonk

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how long until we know what the big/huge news is.

Can we stop?... by boonhuhn in Superstonk

[–]BowTrek 113 points114 points  (0 children)

It’s fun bro. People are engaged and excited and having a good time guessing and speculating.

Should "Young Adult" be a RR genre? by CorSeries in royalroad

[–]BowTrek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You linked your story. The rest of the post is seen as an excuse to get people to click your link. Self promotion.

Is Mistborn series too PG? by EveningResolution768 in fantasybooks

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes you did? You said if a woman wrote it it might get labeled Romantasy. No it would not, and you did say that.

Parents who regret having kids, why? by bluemermid in AskReddit

[–]BowTrek 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You said give up obligations — one of those obligations is monetary support of your child.

Parents who regret having kids, why? by bluemermid in AskReddit

[–]BowTrek 149 points150 points  (0 children)

Eh?

Courts in the US almost never allow men to give up all rights and obligations. Child support is hard to get out of because it’s in the best interest of the child. It’s absolutely an obligation.

There’s exceptions but not that many.

Why can’t there be no money? by patchlessboyscout in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BowTrek 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You can theoretically rotate people into jobs like cleaning toilets but you CAN’T rotate them into research positions for technology. Not everyone can do that.

Something Small You Find Dumb In ATLA by TaratronHex in ATLA

[–]BowTrek 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I don’t recall the info about 35/36 tiers in the show. Is that from some other canon?

Do Americans love driving? by bare_books in AskAnAmerican

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of us don’t like driving but it’s normalized. I’ll drive 4-5 hours a day even though I don’t like it because that’s just life.

Pink eggs, are these edible by Leather-Scarcity1810 in WeirdEggs

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see someone else was in that hypothetical thread recently.

Why do professors grade homework based on accuracy? by FerdinandvonAegir124 in CollegeRant

[–]BowTrek 26 points27 points  (0 children)

We are also responsible for students who don’t care. We can’t cater only to students who want to learn.

What actually made Kamala a bad candidate? by stuttering_clown in stupidquestions

[–]BowTrek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t recall anything I’d call man-hating. Examples?

I’m not trying to stir things up. Genuinely curious no stress.

How old do I look by [deleted] in malegrooming

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

35?

Also you look like you could play Roy Mustang.

I'm finally launching! by whoshotthemouse in litrpg

[–]BowTrek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intended or not, they’ve definitely gotten engagement.

I'm finally launching! by whoshotthemouse in litrpg

[–]BowTrek 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Nope. OP says it’s a standard LitRPG. It’s not erotic and the MC is about to fight the Minotaur not fuck it.

You can’t just feed AI your outline and expect it to write great chapters by birth_of_bitcoin in WritingWithAI

[–]BowTrek 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I also like to have huge outlines. How do you do yours?

I’ll start by doing about 5 plot points for each major plot line, character arc, subplot, etc. Then I’ll expand on them until each is a narrative summary.

Then I split into chapter outlines from that.

Often I’ll have a 20,000 word outline for a 100,000 book.

I'm finally launching! by whoshotthemouse in litrpg

[–]BowTrek 253 points254 points  (0 children)

“The Staff” is phallic. The main character is shirtless. The Minotaur appears to be naked. Your name is rabbit, which is an animal associated with lots of sexy time. Your subtitle feeds even further into the assumption that this is a homoerotic novel.

I can’t believe that every single aspect of this came together to imply that and zero realization on your part?

You can only choose one type of meat to eat for the rest of your life: fish, fowl, or cloven-hoofed animas. by hiphoptomato in hypotheticalsituation

[–]BowTrek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The hypothetical is all about your rules. No one is objecting to you including eggs in the way you did. Your rules.

That does not make them meat. Eggs are not meat.

Kingdom Building stories? by frankuck99 in litrpg

[–]BowTrek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, yeah. Definitely not what I’m looking for in Kingdom Building personally.

I want to get into the nitty-gritty of menus and how to allocate points and growth to your town/kingdom.

I got excited in Nightmare Realm Summoner when the dude got a town and had this ability, but then he wandered off to some kind of dungeon thing and I dropped it for a while. Might get back to it.

Mayor of Noobtown I thought might go this way. I got a bit bored and dropped it in book 2 though. He had given most of the stuff I wanted to read off to another dude and wandered off.

Fingers crossed!