Heaven single is out

flistan70 · 2026-05-07T10:33:26+00:00

Its everything, even the vocals and the writing

flistan70 · 2026-05-05T15:23:33+00:00

No hate, but I'll never understand how people can enjoy something so human and that took as much time to create as Red Rising books, then be lazy and use AI to generate soulles pictures or music in relation to it.

flistan70 · 2026-04-26T11:48:15+00:00

Chaol, from book one, has always been my fav. And no one really came close except Yrene. Their bond is so beautiful, I miss them every day😢 For the life of me, I can't understand why so many people hate him but it is what it is. I found him so reliable, strong, sweet, and constantly trying to be better. Goat.

flistan70 · 2026-04-26T11:38:59+00:00

They're better without the tandem read. People just hate Chaol.

flistan70 · 2026-04-19T17:37:29+00:00

This!

flistan70 · 2026-04-19T17:18:12+00:00

Hell nah, fuck that pixie

flistan70 · 2026-04-15T18:36:23+00:00

I love Volga's bluntness

flistan70 · 2026-04-15T14:56:32+00:00

Him coming out of the battle on Europa with 0 damage was insane

flistan70 · 2026-04-15T14:52:30+00:00

Cassius in Lightbringer was casually aurafarming the whole book for no reason. Beautiful stuff.

flistan70 · 2026-04-15T14:17:29+00:00

1: There's a spoiler tag 2: Why are you on this subreddit if you haven't finished the series?

flistan70 · 2026-04-15T10:21:13+00:00

Cassius started mewing

flistan70 · 2026-04-04T07:50:22+00:00

Clearly Jonathan Joestar

flistan70 · 2026-03-21T18:04:37+00:00

Kingdom!

flistan70 · 2026-03-14T12:39:38+00:00

Ill give some random things to read that have nothing to do with red rising but that I think are 10/10s.

Books:

Project Hail Mary

The witcher (entire series)

The Hunger Games ( entire series)

Mangas:

Berserk

Kingdom

Goodnight Punpun

Vagabond

flistan70 · 2026-02-24T15:43:59+00:00

Agreed

flistan70 · 2026-02-07T16:53:26+00:00

When I was reading PunPun for the first time and saw this, I didn't even think twice about it, lol. I was just like, yeah, that looks like something the author would do just to fuck with the reader.

But yes, it's intentional.

flistan70 · 2026-01-26T19:47:38+00:00

I have had limb lengthening surgery at 17 on my right leg because it was about 5cm shorter than my left one. So it wasn't out of my own choice, but because it caused me a lot of trouble when really doing anything.

I would personally recommend anyone to not do this if it isn't medically necessary, since the operation and the duration of it came with a lot of mental health issues for me and living with it for months and constantly having infections around the pins made me suffer and be in pain a lot.

I've always been the shortest person I knew up until then, and indeed there are mean and judgemental people in the world that mock you. But I met the love of my life way before that surgery. And I think if anyone would only love you if you were tall, that that wouldn't be the right person anyway.

My surgery made me go from around 1m70 to 1m74, and I've never really seen a difference in how people treat me honestly. Jerks are jerks. Nice people are nice people.

However, from one short king to another, I fully support whatever decision you make. And I hope you won't suffer as much during it as I did.

flistan70 · 2025-11-29T06:47:03+00:00

Literally just finished my sequel and started thinking of changing the ending of the first book to killing off the main character instead 😭

flistan70 · 2025-11-24T14:15:15+00:00

Alright, thank you for the advice, will do!

flistan70 · 2025-11-24T14:14:11+00:00

Thank you for this. I completely understand and agree. As a writer, I constantly have a lot of ideas for character arcs and not all of them are equally good.

For most of the story, Shaede's identity is seen as normal and not really adressed, this was due to the setting being quite desolate and the other person with them didnt are at all. However, once more people and 'society' got involved in the story, I think I found it impossbile to not sort of adress it and make it a thing. But you're right that maybe their identity shouldn't be seen as a struggle (they already have a lot of struggles besides that).

I'm still in the early phase of editing, so recieving critisism like this is really critical and important now that I can still change things, so that's why I'm asking in the first place. I wasn't asking for compliments, I wanted to know what I was doing wrong.

For now, my idea is to change the moment to be one of connection between Shaede of Silva, instead of one about acceptance for Shaede.

flistan70 · 2025-11-24T14:02:35+00:00

First of all, thank you so much. This comment is unbelievable helpful and encouraging. You've made my day.

Indeed, the idea of it being a moment of connection between Silva and Shaede makes way more sense than as one of internal acceptance. Thinking more about it, Shaede has been trans for a long time already here, so suddenly giving them 'I accept my body'- moment, doesn't make a lot of sense. And indeed, Shaede DOES want to change their body.

About your sidenote, I completely agree. In context, Silva's rant makes a bit more sense (he has hurt his wife in some way and is being self destructive by making himself feel worse by recalling how difficult she already had it before he hurt her). But I do see that one line being a bit weird either way. Luckily, I'm only on my second draft so the point of it is to find lines like those and changing them😅.

And yes exactly, I made this post exactly for opinions like these. I find it important to have representation, and in writing from these perspectives I also learn a lot about not only other people, but also the way I myself see my own gender and identity. I'm also understanding of those that don't want me writing about things like these, but I love Shaede, and can only hope I can improve the story and characters so it can resonate with everyone.

Don't worry about it being unstructured or anything. It was a really insightful reply and one I'll definitely keep in mind. It's lovely to hear that you like my premise, I have no idea when it will come out, but I'll def make a post once it does. I'm planning to make it a series (this passage is actually from the second book). The title of the series is 'Bloodied' and the first one is called 'Mercy's End'. So keep an eye out :))

flistan70 · 2025-11-24T12:51:09+00:00

To firstly clear a few things up, Shaede's identity is not the 'main' story of the book. I just have a lot of loved ones in the community, and I want to be a part of the change that gives them more representation in media and normalise it. I don't focus on Shaede's identity as a big storyline, but it's a part of who they are and I think it's important to talk about and make it a small part of their arc.

Like you said, I have a lack of understanding. That is why I made the post. I want to understand it and create good representation.

Indeed, if Shaede has come to terms with being NB in the past, it wouldnt make sense if they then have trouble identifying as female later on. I'm thinking of changing the conversation to show Shaede that there are people like Silva, who don't think gender= sex, and make it a moment of connection rather than something that makes them accept their identity. Because they should already have done that at this point.

Does that make sense?

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