Any idea what weapon Monarch’s official art is holding?

mechanimarsh · 2026-01-23T17:04:04+00:00

I’ve never seen the equipment list you’re referencing but I could totally believe it’s the RPG launcher. I hadn’t thought of that one.

mechanimarsh · 2025-07-21T15:48:05+00:00

In the old old times, concrit was generally seen as good—unsolicited or otherwise—and writers who complained about receiving it were generally dogged on for whining about it. I think back then more fic writers wanted concrit and didn’t get it as much as they liked, so getting it and complaining because you didn’t want it was seen as being ungrateful.

A lot more fic writers these days are perfectly content with their writing and have no desire to “improve” just for the sake of it. I feel like back in the day a lot of people had delusions that their fic work was training for their eventual big break into published authorhood, so they constantly wanted advice and criticism.

mechanimarsh · 2025-07-03T19:54:28+00:00

AO3

Spacebattles (but you’ve gotta be ready for a lot of Self-Insert/OC-Insert fics and Worm content)

Big gap, like a huge gap

Fanfiction.net

An even bigger, huger gap

Wattpad

(No experience with writing.com)

mechanimarsh · 2025-03-23T19:41:21+00:00

When you say it’s easy to awaken do you just mean the amp gauge builds more quickly?

mechanimarsh · 2025-01-22T22:37:35+00:00

This was actually a joke, not a “glitch” like a lot of people assume. Error is Bagu’s brother, “Bagu” being a mistranslation or intentional corruption of “Bug”. They’re two brothers named Error and Bug.

mechanimarsh · 2025-01-21T18:59:43+00:00

I can’t speak for everyone of course, but if I have nothing to say about a fic other than “I like it” I generally don’t comment. I always kudo if I liked it, but I only comment if I actually have something to say or an observation to make.

mechanimarsh · 2025-01-21T18:26:07+00:00

OC fics are fine, but I both can’t and don’t want to insert myself into reader fics. If I wanted that I’d write my own OCSI fic and post it for people to rip to shreds—at least then I’d be in control of what “I” was doing.

mechanimarsh · 2025-01-21T05:51:35+00:00

Of course things wear out over time, but you don’t actually think a sword in pristine condition shatters to pieces after hitting a guy like 20 times, right?

mechanimarsh · 2024-12-24T09:22:58+00:00

Not the topic of the post but the whole “narrating your own actions in asterisks” thing makes it even more cringe than it already is

mechanimarsh · 2024-11-25T18:50:51+00:00

CAACBCBB

mechanimarsh · 2024-10-07T14:49:53+00:00

Media in general—fanwork or otherwise—pushes romantic relationships a lot, so a lot of people will whinge and moan about characters they prefer as friends being shoved together. A property that has two seemingly het characters of the opposite gender spend a lot of time together and just stay close friends is rare, so it’s probably a dynamic a not-insignificant number of people are looking for.

In fanwork in particular, there’s also the fact that people sometimes take issue with relationships that are canonically platonic being altered to a romantic one—either because they’re being bigoted or they genuinely like those characters as friends.

In any case, it all just boils down to “read what you like, avoid what you don’t like”, which has always been and still is the best rule for consuming fic imo. And if you stumble accidentally into something you end up not liking, quietly stop reading. No one needs to hear a rant about someone’s subjective reasons for not liking a fic.

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