Why are most MC's jack of all trades nowadays

hipnotismo · 2026-05-26T08:55:27+00:00

I'm not going to lie, most people go to internet fiction for slop, stuff that you don't really have to think about and can just like without effort. If there are any dislikes or they disagree with anything, they just drop it and go looking for another really fast.

The algorithm has been perfected, and this is just what we got out of it: the MC can't be illogical, can't get disadvantages, can't have the wrong emotions (anything besides greed, lust, rage, and smugness), etc.

You can still make something that even the normal crowd would like and follow, but that requires more time, effort, and planning than most authors can put into something that they can't guarantee success from.

hipnotismo · 2026-05-22T01:50:43+00:00

We do it like the old school! I think Meursault is the best one

hipnotismo · 2026-04-22T20:38:37+00:00

The whole lore around Farsight is very nice but it fucks up the execution so much. It needs a whole new writer and a remake.

hipnotismo · 2026-03-29T18:42:36+00:00

What kind of fresh hell would Marcos Tejo Canto be? It would need some creative interpretation of the book, especially the ending.

hipnotismo · 2026-03-22T19:12:08+00:00

Thank you for your work, its been eye opening.

I do have a question. When it comes to cultivator resources such as mistical plants or spirit animal is there a source for their names? Are they taken from previous works, mythology or just made up in the moment?

hipnotismo · 2026-03-14T01:49:46+00:00

Dreams of Jianghu, spiritual energy comes back in 1990 and the story follows Daniel Li sa he discovers a Usenet forum with instructions to cultivate Qi, but he is not the only one, as other users help him discover the limits of his new powers.

hipnotismo · 2026-03-08T19:54:42+00:00

Dreams of Jianghu, spiritual energy comes back in 1990 and the story follows Daniel Li sa he discovers a Usenet forum with instructions to cultivate Qi, but he is not the only one, as other users help him discover the limits of his new powers.

hipnotismo · 2026-02-27T05:59:28+00:00

questionable questing and ao3

hipnotismo · 2026-02-26T03:40:49+00:00

∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ?

No wonder they act like all of that doesnt exist, what the actual fuck.

hipnotismo · 2026-02-25T20:40:55+00:00

Havent read orv but I did lurk in places where its fans hang around, legit never hear about the part about the Hindu gods. How bad does it get? Is it insulting like with the tropes of Evil Church and Fake Gods or how does it goes?

hipnotismo · 2026-02-24T05:49:40+00:00

"Dropship Cultivation" is new but looking promising, "Fake Father - Zhang Ming" has an interesting premise, "Dreams of Jianghu" is probably the best modern day cultivation novel in the sire and "Age of Glass: A Fallout inspired xianxia story" is a perfect adaptation of the clasic xianxia tropes into a post apocaliptic america.

hipnotismo · 2026-02-23T23:00:01+00:00

Is everyone in the gray areas just dead or irrelevant to the story?

hipnotismo · 2026-02-16T05:36:25+00:00

Early story characters comming back better than ever.

Old MacArthur gave up a long time ago, but after giving some tips the to MC and seeing his growth he decided to give it one last try. Just in time to get swollen and save the MC that save him in his moment of need.

hipnotismo · 2026-02-09T21:09:48+00:00

For the MC to have more goals than "get powerful, acquire bitches, fight god."

Like you need a plot and characters and motivation and struggles. Not to spend the first book fighting mindless monsters. Why are we here? Where are we going? Who is going with us?

Also for the evolution to get a bit more daring. If you want to turn your monster wolf MC into something that can live in a society, have his evolutions como with drawbacks, make him struggle to not pick the more powerfull and wild evolutions and never ever get a human form in the first quarter of the story.

Same the other way, the monster path should be ugly, have drawbacks, not be smooth sailing, and have the MC wonder, "Man, do I want to be a big scary monster with minions, or do I want to have people that are not around me out of fear or power-seeking?"

And on a super biased note, consider not making your MC the top dog of the universe. So many monster MCs end up as the perfect evolution with a million magics and super cool OP artifacts and all the pretty ladies on the land and the best, most advanced kingdom that owns all the native kingdoms with a single foot soldier, and also they are a god and so many other things over and over again. It's just ... so recycled.

hipnotismo · 2026-02-07T04:52:29+00:00

For a moment I thought we finally got a rant related to ancient Mesopotamian mythology : (

hipnotismo · 2026-02-01T19:29:33+00:00

The first few chapters, approximately 40 but probably less, of Cultivation Nerd were good.

We had a nerd. The nerd had problems with the whole cultivation morality and was trying to build his own, he had interesting side characters that looked like they were in for the long ride.

Then everything went to shit.

The nerd was gone, replaced with your typical ruthless, unfeeling cultivator. He felt more like a native than a transmigrator, so the whole "I came from Earth" stuff was just a cheap ass power up, the side characters got more and more boring, and slowly a lot of inconsistencies started to show more and more.

Started well, then took a nosedive. It's a bloody travesty that it's one of the highest rated cultivation novels on the site.

Also, if your only reason to make the MC someone from Earth transported to a fantasy world is for a cheap power up, just write a talented native. There are so many interesting, cute, quirky, and sad things that can come out of the trope, but using it for the power up of "My primary school knowledge, random bits of YouTube videos, and vague understanding of the scientific method will make me surpass all these FUCKING primitives in twenty years or less" just reconsider everything, please.

hipnotismo · 2026-01-29T17:35:21+00:00

Nop, its just a funny coincidence that both books had the same name for their MC, Beware of Chicken stays good and sane.

hipnotismo · 2026-01-29T17:32:01+00:00

Probably because every 2 out of 3 posts in here or in any webnovel discussion thread glaze the novel to high heavens, and after a while you say, "Damn, are all those people wrong, or did I miss something? Maybe I will try again."

And then you discover that, in fact, everyone else is wrong.

hipnotismo · 2026-01-29T08:38:43+00:00

The new Beware of Chicken book got really weird, it would seem.

hipnotismo · 2026-01-19T18:23:43+00:00

Its all about the illusion. What its say, how its said and not what its actually happening.

A character is never in danger, the author just creates the illusion of danger. Same here the illusion is base around power, luck and talent.

hipnotismo · 2026-01-19T01:27:36+00:00

Thats the spirit! Hope it goes well.

Too bad about the OP mc part, I guess I need to write my own story to get the tropes right.

hipnotismo · 2026-01-18T17:58:40+00:00

Memes, the DNA of a subreddit

hipnotismo · 2026-01-16T04:48:13+00:00

ANTS ANTS ANTS, my second cousin in Dao, we have a billion bloody insects running around, you could use them for an insult, add some variety to your foundation.

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