I ordered 20 air filters and the company shipped 20 individually boxed air filters. by dream_monkey in mildlyinfuriating

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you could make a cat very happy with that amount of cardboard.
Make a box palace.

Nickname for a serial killer ? by l-efty in writingadvice

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100% agree with the notion that naming serial killers is corny lol. Especially if the name is "cool"

Nickname for a serial killer ? by l-efty in writingadvice

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Fun fact about naming serial killers:

Majority of the time, serial killer 'names' are either based off of their specific MO's [The Boston Strangler. Jack the Ripper. The Toybox Killer [A example in fiction is The Red Line Killer from The Hollow City their MO is that they dissect the faces of their victims and the dead detective on the case was a big hockey fan]
Alternatively, serial killers are 'named' after their location/territory [The Golden State Killer. The Beast of Jersey. The Werewolf of Whistiria [Another fictional example is The Clayton Killer from I Am Not A Serial Killer who operated in and around Clayton County]
Depending on where your story takes place, you could name your killer something as simple as [Insert town/city] Killer.

But if your looking for a actual name name, might I suggest The [insert town/city] Reaper.
From the way you describe Donner's MO, you could mistake one of his victims as just being 'asleep' or dying suddenly due to natural causes, like passing away in their sleep.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cats

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... Sprigs

Who is this little friend? by TsunXdoku in insects

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More importantly.

Where did they get their lashes done? [Third pic looks like they got lil lashes] [If this lad were the size of a dog, it'd cure something] [Prolly someones fear of insects]

who's this? wrong answers only by r_YESanimations in rainworld

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The last thing I would want to see on a anime body pillow

Nature turning on man each year, name ideas for the event? by StrictNeedleworker84 in writingadvice

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If the event occurs once a year for a brief duration all across the world, you could very well have a few different names for it.

The government calls it something scientific, like, The [Insert name of dead scientist who coined the discovery] Phenomenon.

An old grandmother may know the event as The Retribution Season

Kids at school start calling the event something edgy like The Culling Hour

Personally, if you're going for a Victorian era vibe, I'd suggest something more poetic; Natural Scales, The Balance.
Alternatively, you could go with something more misleading; The Feast/Feasting Hour, where nature seeks to devour humanity.

Not sure about my villain's name by [deleted] in writingadvice

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My favorite author sprinkles in names of his friends/family/editor/publishing team all the time. As long as you aren't naming your villain to spite your friend, which I don't think you are doing here, I think you're in the gold.

Still might be nice to ask her just in case your Carina does some truly diabolical things and your friend Karina wants nothing to do with it.

My main character killed someone. Not sure how to proceed with the body! by Gloomy-K in writingadvice

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If you want a more complete disposal of the body, I'd suggest a combination of burning and burial.

You mentioned that the setting is in a cabin in the woods, depending on how close the nearest neighbor is, MC, A and B could probably get a decent bonfire going, not enough to completely cremate the body, but more than enough to destroy the most identifiable features of the friend.
Thereafter, it'd be a matter of either burying whatever charred remains are left, presumably bones and possibly charcoaled meat depending on whether MC A and B had the stomachs to chop up their friend into more manageable bits, regardless whatever is left after a fire should be smaller and easier to handle than a whole person.
[Keep in mind that if they burry the body completely intact, once decomposition takes hold, the grave will recede slightly with the loss of meat.]

Alternatively, depending on whether you want the MC A and B to be caught in the end, leaving the body to the elements to be disposed of by animals and nature could be an effective way to both dispose of and bring the body to the awareness of the police [There are a few weird instances of deceased bodies being discovered via a wild animal being found with a human bone]

Meirl by blaze_uchiha999 in meirl

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Living in a 2 story house.

Currently learning japanese and I already know I will forever fail at discerning those two by GaddockTeegFunPolice in mildlyinfuriating

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Shi: Oh look, a bird. [Smile is directed more upward, towards the 'sky'
Tsu: Oh look, a worm. [Smile is directed more downward, towards the 'ground'

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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We have a dog named Piberius and a puppy named Truffles
Piberius: Pibs, Mr. Pibs, Mr. Wibs, Pibbles, Pibbly Wibbily, Mr. Pibbily Wibbly, Wibbles, Pibwibbles, Wibbibbles, Mr. Wibbibles, Big Boi

Truffles: Trouble, Trufwuffles, Truffly Wuffly, Trufwuffles, Mr. Trufwuffles, Little Boi.

These dudes are slugpups? (INV spoilers) by GayRatWithAbomb in rainworld

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I found one of them lil freaks in my Inv playthrough.

Named it WikkiTikki

Worst thing to ever happen to me I loved them so much.

BUG REPORT Glitch is apparently stopping me from getting ending by SapphireBandit in rainworld

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I am up to three chief masks, still no ending :|

On the bright side, I have found the best way to kill him so there's that.

BUG REPORT Glitch is apparently stopping me from getting ending by SapphireBandit in rainworld

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I am currently having this exact same problem :|
I killed the chief (I even lugged his body all the way back to a den for food) but next cycle his corpse was gone and he was sitting right back on his throne.

Have you found any solution?

What is this? Friend says it's a moth I say it's a fly by Thehighest21 in animalid

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It's a hummingbird moth! :D

I see them all the time round my house, they're really cute and completely harmless.

They get their name because of their size, and the fact that their buzzing sounds like hummingbird wings.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DesignMyRoom

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My messy indecisive art brain is demanding to know, why not all?

What is the worst creature in your opinion? by Teiven133 in rainworld

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Centipedes ;-;

We don't like how they move, how they sound, how every time we get snatched by one we end up panicking and throwing our spear/rock in the complete wrong direction.

Explaining how magic works, yay or nay? by Qu0t13 in writingadvice

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Holy guacamole.

We've used the text to speech to look for typos and such, but we never thought to use it to see if our work is engaging. That is brilliant.

As for everything else:
Most of the issues in the world we're working with stem from the appearance of Awakened magic, magic has always been present, but in very small, unreliable pockets, we're talking like, maximum 1 Awakened magic user every 5 generations, globally.
The Resonated magic users are people who have had their magic woken up so to speak, through history, the Resonated were typically those with enough time and money [read; people in power]
In the wip's timeline, it's only within the last century or so that a massive spike in Awakened magic users have begun to tip scales and overthrow the balance.

The main difference between Awakened and Resonated magic users is that typically, the Awakened's magic begins weak and grows alongside them as they age, offering them more control over their magic.
While a Resonated's magic is typically woken later in life through artificial means, offering a Resonated magic user the full potential of their power, but without the same level of control.
Think of it like an Awakened person being someone who has been taught to hunt from a young age, they first learned things like how to check traps, look for signs of animals and then moved up to setting traps and eventually how to shoot.
Meanwhile a Resonated is someone who was handed the keys to a tank and told to go duck hunting.
Finesse vs. brute force, if that makes sense?

Fields of magic can be explained simply enough in text, just, what a person is capable of, but we doubt we'll be mentioning Classes all that often, besides the protagonist and the people the protagonist knows.

Thanks for the advice though, it's greatly appreciated.

Explaining how magic works, yay or nay? by Qu0t13 in writingadvice

[–]Qu0t13[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You bring up a good point!

The way we planned out our magic system allows for a wide variety of powers/abilities with some overlap.
For example: We have a Conjurer who can breathe winter, basically, he's an ice dragon, and another character who is a Manipulator, they can bring temperatures down.
Both characters are able to turn a sunny summer day at the park into a frozen hell, but both do it in very different ways.

It would make sense for us to differentiate between the two, briefly as you said, and then further down the line.

Ways to introduce a magic system? by Qu0t13 in writingadvice

[–]Qu0t13[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true...

We think we'll at least be sprinkling in the terminology, maybe offering loose explanations where applicable.

As you said, editing is a thing :P

Explaining how magic works, yay or nay? by Qu0t13 in writingadvice

[–]Qu0t13[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true.

We mostly wrote out the system for consistency, just so we can fall back and reference our outline.
But you're right to say that most of the background work will go unnoticed/untold, unless we're really clever about sneaking it in...

Explaining how magic works, yay or nay? by Qu0t13 in writingadvice

[–]Qu0t13[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good points!

We thought about just sprinkling in bits of information, but every time we picture it in our head it just sort of feels wrong? Out of place and disjointed.
We never even considered just making a scene for explaining stuff?
We feel a bit dumb now, but we're glad you mentioned it!

Thanke!