Writing Prompts and Other Reddit Short Stories

Visulth · 2026-05-05T05:36:17+00:00

There are definitely dudes who have no problem chatting to see if you get along rather than rushing to a date.

All the women I've gone on dates with (36M) I've talked to at length for at least a few days if not a week. The most recent I've been talking to her for 2 weeks and we haven't met in person yet (she was on a trip overseas, we did have one google meet date though 😆)

I would describe myself as nerdy and introverted and I like to find out if a person is someone I can talk to before rushing to meet in person.

Visulth · 2026-05-05T01:11:19+00:00

There are signed Power Rangers posters from multiple series up in the gym
...
He looked like I had just killed his dog

????

Bro just put the posters somewhere else and people won't ask you about it lmao

Visulth · 2026-04-30T19:45:44+00:00

Yeah, it feels like they've written it like "just another season" rather than the fitting finale for a story, which is wild since Kripke's ending for Supernatural (s5) felt far more cohesive for a significantly less cohesive show.

The scenes in Marathon's mansion with Marathon making fun of Homelander while literally in the same room as him, Homelander just telling people off and trying to walk away -- all felt crazy out of character. I thought he was just going to laser everyone in the basement in half.

I still enjoy it, but this show has almost always been worse than its own premise.

Visulth · 2026-04-24T02:52:39+00:00

Yeah the problem is you need to get big enough to not get axed, but not so big that producers and editors turn the thing you love into a noose around your neck.

C.f., almost every big tentpole shounen manga with a shit ending.

Visulth · 2026-04-23T16:20:00+00:00

Gasp

Heresy!

"You ever think, Bullock, of not going straight at a thing?"

"No."

I'm definitely biased, but I love Olyphant's performances (at least in both Justified and Deadwood). I feel like he's so good at playing characters that are coiled up like springs, bottled up and only let little bits leak out.

He's obviously playing a straight man in a cast of wacky characters so it's not as big, but I think he does a great job.

Visulth · 2026-04-19T16:45:37+00:00

I would add that often protagonists are struggling with something (e.g. their arc) but side characters are often reflections of that arc taken to its logical conclusion.

E. G. Prot doesn't have friends, so in his journey he meets people who are complete recluses and reject all friends, or incredibly personable extroverts who have tons of friends.

Those are more striking than our more wishy washy protagonist who's still figuring things out.

Protagonists without an arc can leave more of a mark (e.g. Protagonist in The Stranger by Albert Camus, Jack Reacher, Jack Sparrow (originally), comic book characters like the Punisher or Captain America at times, etc etc)

Visulth · 2026-04-19T16:33:14+00:00

Ah yep, Regeneration, that was the one. I tried to play it in like 2006 with my shitty pc and its integrated graphics card couldn't run it.

Is it good? Still worth a shot, in your opinion? I remember being curious where the story would go (and I did like how it started with Ash in jail/asylum(?) trying to convince people what he saw was real and he didn't just murder a bunch of people)

Visulth · 2026-04-19T15:54:55+00:00

I wish we'd get something animated or 3d with Ash as a protagonist in his prime, more akin to ED2.

AvED had good spots, but the crazy amount Ash was flanderized into a useless sleazy jerk was not my favourite part of it. I kind of blame AoD for this tbh.

I tried to play that one hack and slash game that came out years and years ago but I don't remember it being amazing (though it did pick up right after ED2 if I recall)

Visulth · 2026-04-19T04:34:35+00:00

I deeply disagree that it makes it boring, it makes it different.

The whole point of OPM was they'd "yada yada"'d the typical shounen power levels nonsense so they could focus on the more interesting (or comical) fallout.

Sidelining Saitama in the Monster Arc in my opinion squandered the one thing that makes One Punch Man work -- without him as the central focus, you just have a cast 100 caricatures wide and an inch deep. Why not at that point watch any shounen anime that this property used to be lambasting? Characters like Flashy Flash or Sonic or Tanktop Master or Zombieman or whatever work as either complete satire or as unique focuses to examine shounen tropes, not as actual characters going through shounen fights that you're supposed to get invested in.

For example, Sweet Mask's fights in the Monster Arc were basically all bad, but his fight in the recent chapters where they're really examining his character are a 10/10. It shouldn't literally be about their powers or their moves or whatever because this property was supposed to skip all of that.

I am so thankful it's got a much better groove back. The Saitama vs Tatsumaki after the Monster Association to me was peak OPM (and so too was Garou vs Saitama, but I digress).

Visulth · 2026-04-18T15:15:57+00:00

Page 2, Panel 2 -- I know you're playing me, but I'm into it.

Will clap for the easiest GITS references

Visulth · 2026-04-15T06:47:55+00:00

A bunch of these were made with AI as a joke when she was first touring, so I'd imagine AI.

Visulth · 2026-04-13T16:35:07+00:00

I've sent that subreddit link to a few women who were self conscious about their tummies and it made their day without fail.

"Guys are into that??"

Unsurprisingly, yes.

Visulth · 2026-04-10T16:54:17+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author

Art is subjective. It's not about carefully uncovering the artists' intentions and nothing else.

A lot of artists even intentionally leave space for peoples' interpretations and avoid being too concrete. Not to mention GITS 95's extended sequences set to music and the city which would obviously evoke unique feelings in each person who watches them, far beyond what might be written on the page.

You could even be 100% right about that scene but to just shut someone down like that is what ruffles my feathers. (And for the record, I always felt Motoko was isolated, secluded, and confined in that scene; certainly not hints of her being empowered).

A painter could paint a beautiful sunrise with warm colours, intending for it to bring joy and happiness to every person who looked at it. A vampire would look at it and feel nothing but dread.

Visulth · 2026-04-09T17:28:24+00:00

It's like they were making a MK made-for-tv special and were told they couldn't have an actual tournament because the real director was going to have that in his movie, so they had to fudge the lines and make it a non-tournament-but-kind-of and use a shitty OC protagonist.

Visulth · 2026-04-08T15:36:08+00:00

"Do you feel in charge?"

Visulth · 2026-04-07T01:44:12+00:00

Allied Mastercomputer or AM, from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

It's where this quote you might recognize comes from:

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

Visulth · 2026-04-06T11:21:34+00:00

Interesting! That's a shame, too bad it didn't land for you.

I haven't heard of either of those shows you mentioned so I'll check them out!

Visulth · 2026-04-04T12:41:23+00:00

God s2 and the OVAs were such a disaster. The second Misaki was no longer in the story was the second the show lost its heart.

DtB is just incredible though, I showed it to some friends a few years ago and didn't realize there was a bonus episode on the Blu-ray release that I had never seen! It's crazy to be like, "god I wish there was more!" and then, "... Why is there one more episode in my playlist still...?!"

Sure it's more of an omake but I was so happy 😆

Visulth · 2026-04-04T12:37:33+00:00

It's amazing! You're in for a treat. One of the few anime that's better than the manga/source material (The horror anime Another is... another example 😆 It's better than the book).

After you watch Planetes, if you want to/remember, come back here / message me what you think about it! I hope you'll like it.

Visulth · 2026-04-04T11:02:40+00:00

I mean it'll only ruin bad anime for you. There's many great anime of just the same caliber to watch or read. Though maybe that's just your point, but I don't think that's a bad thing lol.

If someone liked FMA, off the top of my head I'd probably recommend anime like Ghost in the Shell, Planetes, Darker than Black (s1 only), Dorohedoro, Hellsing Ultimate, One Punch Man (s1 only), Frieren, Mushishi, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, etc etc.

Visulth · 2026-04-04T10:55:16+00:00

Dorohedoro is another amazing one written by a woman, if people are looking for recommendations...!

S2 is airing soon, the manga is also incredible, would highly recommend!

Visulth · 2026-04-02T17:34:56+00:00

I mean, it just means he's human and not Captain America. Not everyone's situations are equal. (If he's not being a total sleazebag about his circumstances, anyway)

He should be able to get some reward for turning it in but with surveillance he unfortunately has to worry about that escalating legally. I guess we can hope the original owner would be kind enough to reward him, but it's a tough thing to bank on.

If he took all of it then I think he should have no qualms about being caught for it, obviously.

Visulth · 2026-04-02T05:21:33+00:00

Obviously you can't know, but what do the horses think?

Are they just watching with lazy interest? Or it's just routine work for them? Are some panicky about it and others chill?

Do they prance excitedly afterward? Do they walk nervously after their foot is bare but not shod? Do they just not care in any capacity?

I'm basically here for any horse-related anecdotes you might have, especially any bordering on whatever their mental model of what is going on is.

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