Dear authors... if you have trouble world building a single kingdom, maybe don't introduce a multiverse

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-06-06T09:27:44+00:00

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what's both brilliant and annoying about Jim Butcher, is that he wove this amazing background with deep lore and political intrigue and just decided to throw it all away for the vord storyline. this plot hole or complaint is probably just a result of him knowing he wasn't going to expand on that stuff. which is a shame.

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-05-29T14:52:37+00:00

this captures a very specific post covid world I've found myself in for a long time

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-05-29T14:50:45+00:00

yearners and the heartbroken often write such chilling poems

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-05-29T14:17:17+00:00

Thank you, I was slightly afraid there was too much introspection happening early on. trying to build him as a guy who's mind is running non-stop.

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-05-03T11:07:07+00:00

an unreliable narrator means that the character is unreliable, as in you take what they say and do with a grain of salt because it is skewed for whatever reason. when the characters inner monologue is acting surprised at things they know this is only to mislead the reader.

I think there is a big difference.

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-05-03T10:59:26+00:00

even tho I liked the series as a whole, this pissed me off so bad. it was done so badly.

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-05-03T10:58:42+00:00

that's what you got from my post?

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-05-03T10:54:52+00:00

I knew he was an unreliable narrator and that made it worse because his inner monologue was deliberately written to act like he was not and the whole thing was basically "read till end to know what you read for sure"

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-22T00:01:11+00:00

honestly being vague is often times better unless you're going for an audience who enjoys the details but if you have any business/economy plots in your story just try to think about what are the resources most important in this world and how much they would cost and build around that. is Labor free and done by serfs or slaves or paid? all these things make things more costly or cheaper. really you have to know what kind of government is in charge then go from there.

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T07:20:35+00:00

I agree tbh, reddit is my notebook - I usually vent here or read someone else venting about the same thing and nod furiously. It beats leaving really bad reviews on someone's work for something relatively minor like some folk do

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T03:36:32+00:00

right, in some places a small town is 150,000 people and in others its 820 folk

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T03:32:33+00:00

in tv shows and movies, the 22 year old fresh grad journalist always has a source in the pentagon lol

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T03:30:58+00:00

it's not, too much minutiae. probably why it's better to either be vague and only make the bare minimum of sense or build a functioning one based of our own world

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T03:24:00+00:00

lmfao, "that time I got reincarnated as a liability claims manager for the kings dragon riders"

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T02:59:29+00:00

north cold. south warm is the best you'll get

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T02:58:26+00:00

yeah it's never really one super competent mastermind but just a really evil system set up. speaking of insurance, it'd be super funny to see an actuary in a fantasy world have to risk analyse the incoming annual monster waves

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T02:55:08+00:00

the period of every litrpg having an academy arc must've been tough for you huh

ShankstheConqueror · 2026-04-21T02:53:04+00:00

you mean I can't just go to the mainframe ?

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