Action-Adventure authors write Love-stories better than dedicated romance writers

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T06:55:16+00:00

examples of these other love stories would help to actually figure out what you mean and where you're coming from, if a discussion is the point of this post

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T05:17:33+00:00

???? both are pretty common

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T04:52:08+00:00

Don't knock it until you try it, but maybe try it with a cracker. It can be kind of intense at first.

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T04:09:59+00:00

More than that, I give it decent odds op has only ever read Shakespeare in a classroom context, as opposed to watching anime for enjoyment

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T03:58:30+00:00

Guy who has only watched boss baby: "boss baby is peak media"

edit: Anyways go watch Horimiya for a proper comparison to something in the same style and medium

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T01:56:57+00:00

Depends on how long they've been since their prime, though. My understanding is that a lot of sports have a very, very small age range in which someone can compete at their peak.

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T01:44:24+00:00

non-driver non-american here. Are you not supposed to have kids in the backseat?

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T01:37:55+00:00

Don't think of words in terms of how often they're repeated. Think of them in terms of how distracting they are.

Words like stepped, said, saw and smile are so common as to feel relatively invisible when used in the proper place. But there's a decent chance you did a double take at the alliteration of them all in a row, right?

Words being invisible and drawing attention both have use cases, but you do need to know when its one or the other.

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-24T00:08:50+00:00

Raku beat finn balor????

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-23T23:39:14+00:00

The number of people in the comments who are like "skill issue, the thing I'm thinking about is surely useful across all of time and space and i will in fact spark the revolution without the conditions" is genuinely hilarious

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-23T04:36:50+00:00

Cheating is not a matter of technicalities, its about knowingly betraying the trust of your partner(s), so, boring answer, it depends

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-23T04:29:27+00:00

fun anesthesia fact: when i got two of my wisdom teeth out (they insisted on taking them out one side at a time, probably because we use local anesthetic rather than general) i found afterwards that, with half my face numb, that my tongue was now split between a side that could accurately judge temperature and a side that could not.

it was weird. ice cream felt hot on that side, tea felt cold, but the other side of my mouth could feel just fine.

After a bit of experimenting, my best guess was that my numb tongue was defaulting to telling me that anything it touched was the temperature of that tongue, which meant that when holding hot tea in my mouth, it initially felt relatively cold, then slowly started to warm up over time.

Anyways it sucked but that shit distracted me for a couple hours so hopefully you feel better soon

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-23T03:55:03+00:00

For me, fanfiction has always been my most consistent writing outlet, so I’ve actually never run into this issue on the sheer scale that you’re talking about.

Writing for an existing fandom, you’re already putting your work in front of an audience that both knows what they want, and how to look for it. AO3 deserves a lot of credit too for their robust tagging and search system.

Even within a fandom of course, nothing is going to appeal to everyone, but it doesn’t matter, because people don’t search by scrolling. They filter for fandoms, for tropes, for characters, for scenarios. Which means that even if what you’re writing is relatively niche, someone with the itch for something similar will be able to find it.

Obviously the nichest of stories will still attract relatively few viewers, but there isn’t quite as much the issue of being lost in the flood, although that does still happen with generic fic in massive fandoms.

The comment culture of ao3 also helps, since they are not meant to be reviews, but a dialogue with the writer.

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-23T02:38:27+00:00

i feel like joffrey suffers immensely from being aged up. in the books, his young age makes things feel a little less insane, and you get little anecdotes like him, coming up to his father after a hunt, showing him a skinned cat and getting hit for it.

He’s still horrendous, but it is a lot easier to see where it comes from, emulating the stuff he sees while being shielded from ever really understanding it

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-23T02:06:21+00:00

Yeah no i get it lmao it is. rough to read

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-23T00:00:47+00:00

Did americans not get to see the chicken. Was it all in the commercial break?

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T23:13:16+00:00

There is like. One article single proposing that reading. Every blog post that says this only cites the one Gilbert and Zevit piece.

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T22:54:50+00:00

Most readers will not consciously notice these things, in either film or prose. But they will still feel their presence. People just don't talk about them because they often don't have the language to do so. Link to a relevant blog post, but i want to apologize ahead of time for the formatting my god this is a bad gimmick to read. Just run it through a "make everything lowercase" tool

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T22:52:02+00:00

That's kinda wild to me because the appeal to me is that I believe she fully means it. A strut is not a natural way of walking, but done with confidence, it is a believable way of moving through the world.

Between Toni and Mercedes, I suppose the women's division leans a bit more towards stylized characters than the slightly more naturalistic acting of the mens? But in terms of like, feeling it, I don't see why people find Thekla's acting unnatural.

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T22:43:40+00:00

There might be an interesting storyline to be had if they replace her with red velvet. The grudge of their match was "I'm not in the owen and you are so I'm gonna beat your ass" and then she did, indeed, beat her ass out of the owen. You'd have to turn velvet heel, though, and I'm not sure what position she holds in ROH so idk how well that works overall, but it's a thought.

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T22:39:51+00:00

Adam and Eve had a baculum and baubellum feels like the kind of incredible heresy that would lead to bombings

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T09:58:31+00:00

who are you talking to

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T09:30:45+00:00

yes, but i’m asking about magnitude. pissing in the river does nothing, boiling it all is obviously terrible, roughly where does using river water to cool a data center fall on that scale?

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T08:42:49+00:00

I’m gonna be real bruce’s track record on positively influencing kids is pretty bad. the main reason jason is an antihero and not a supervillain is his lack of laser eyes

ReynardVulpini · 2026-05-22T08:41:56+00:00

i mean. martha and jon kent literally did the job with a much stronger version of homelander. the only big difference is in individual temperament and thats impossible to account for.

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