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  The Most Memorable Moments in Stories
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  There were so many memorable moments from Batman Mask of the Phantasm but if I were to name only one spoiler
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  Stakes and Conflict in Stories
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  In terms of conflicts you hate, I don't like it when you manufacture a conflict just for the sake of drama. It happens a lot in romance plots/sub-plots, for example MC: I'm going to choose side characters plan/method instead of love interests Later Love interest is either jealous or begins questioning how MC feels about them and now that is going to be the sub-plot/character motivation for this episode of love antics (added points if side character is actually another potential love interest) Or a none romantic example Side character: Why is MC acting so suspicious, instead of asking them about what they're doing I'm just going to secretly investigate/stalk them Or they ask and the character is just being vague for no reason But like with anything if it's written well enough (and/or for comedy) I'd still forgive it
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  Is it possible to (accurately) judge a book by its cover?
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  I'm fairly old, and have easily bought over 1000 books based on a cover. Offhand, I feel comfortable claiming 99 percent success rate.
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  Story ideas and discussion.
  isekai light novel story ideas retail discussion • • Oathkeeper95

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  @syko Still, it’s a good twist yeah? How many genre clashes go that way besides the whole Neir thing... Still never played the series...
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  CATCHUP
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  @myskaros Uou. That was fast :) Nice to know. Thanks a lot.
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  Who is the most clueless male protagonist?
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  @paulnamida said in Who is the most clueless male protagonist?: @paul-nebeling Bakarina's black hole tier denseness is probably unbeatable. I kind of want to see what would happen if Bakarina met one of these dense male MCs I mean can you imagine what would happen if she met Ichika? I'm sure the two of them will get along fine, but their harems?
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  Favorite day of the week.
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  Voting Monday for Elf Bride, Dendro, and Werewolf (and technically Kokoro, but I won't start that until the ebook comes out). I also need to read LDM one of these days. I might binge it when more is out.
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  What would your power be if you were "Isekaied"
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  I thought of an interesting power so I renewed this thread. Magnet Power to attract or repel two or more things. You can pick whatever you want to be "North" and "South" poles, and they will attract or repel for however long you wish. You can also make more abstract things into poles, such as emotion and thought. This power is soooooooo OP it ain't even funny; you could make an enemies blood repel from their body or make their blood attract to their head. You could even make emotions such as love attract towards you. Now this power has some side effects or we can say passive effects. you will attract and repel things, ppl, emotions, thought etc. passively. a basic example would be if you are male you will attract females and repel males or if you are an introvert you will attract extroverts and repel introverts. now these passive poles will clash with each other as you could be a male introvert but there may be a female introvert, so your power will repel the introverted part of her but will attract the female part, one of the push or pulls will be stronger witch probably be the male <> female pull since the majority of ppl either be one extreme of male or the other of female. While There are introverts, ambiverts, and extroverts, all on a scale.
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  (Unofficial) Windows Phone/Win10/Android Rokujouma Reader. Now in the faraway corner of Windows Store.
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  @chrisg Try again with 0.1.14, the package I uploaded earlier was unsigned. 0.1.13 deadlocks a lot which I didn't notice right away because it works better in some conditions. And check the log (or just click on volume, pop-up will be transparent if what I think would fail did fail).
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  Prime Day Deal on e-books
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  Meh we never will get such a thing in germany. Damn book price binding.
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  Judge Your Waifu!
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  The Great Justus R. Stone has decreed Megumin as "Best Girl, Fight me!" (in his newest top ten list) My faith in lord Justus R. Stone has only deepened! I will even commit the sacrilege of JNC if the holy Sam disagrees and fights back! Do not worry my Lord, even if you do not like to "fite" I will.
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  The "read the manga bro" problem
  light novel manga anime • • Drone205

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  I've actually brainwashed my twin boys (not-identical). They both love the idea of reading. When they were learning to crawl, I would read books with me and the book on the floor a couple feet in front of them to encourage them to start crawling. They were extremely curious about what was keeping my attention. We would read stories to them almost every single night before bedtime (punishment for extremely bad behavior was having the story time taken away). My biggest tool I used to brainwash the kids was the concept that "people seek to confirm that which they already believe". I talked about how great school was and told hem what they would be able to do when they learned to read and do math. I got them excited about things like pen and paper role-playing games and more. One kid I was a little too successful at brainwashing, when I told him how long Christmas break was he started crying. When Valentines Day came around the teacher had him fill out a card that had "love is" printed on it he wrote "scool" [sic]. He just got out of kindergarten and two days ago I asked him how he liked his summer break; he said "I don't. I hate breaks." The kid has already read three of the five books from the Prydain Chronicles on his own without help (AKA The Black Cauldron series). I didn't read that series on my own until I was well into first grade. My other son has struggled a little more but seems to be doing much better after he finished the summer reading class we put him in. Back on topic though, I prefer light novels over manga. I would rather read the light novel before watching the Anime or read the manga.
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  Light novel titles
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  I was summoned to another world with the power of magical wish contracts My name is John Smith and I was summoned to another world yada yada human kingdom alliance yada yada demon king yada yada you get the general idea. It turns out I have an extremely broken power as I am able to put an end to the war between humans and demons, well not necessarily as the cost is too great for that. What cost? Well I can grant any wish possible but the wisher needs to pay a price to me that I keep for myself. Now to an extent I can choose what the price is, as I need to think it a fair price and one I want myself. The thing is, if I save someone else's life I think it is only fair that their life belongs to me now. You can see the problem when this is on a world scale. I can not stop the war but I can take the top demons out of the picture, the price is still great but at least if the human alliance shares the price it can be granted. What is the price? Well I am a young healthy teenage boy, the price was well... every cute noble girl. It turns out in the whole alliance there was 1278 cute noble girls. Well there was a bit extra for that price but this was really the main bulk of the price. The other part was money and land, 25% of land and money from each nation part of the alliance. This is how my life started in this other world, wiping out all the top-level demons, getting a harem of girls and starting my own kingdom with a bunch of money too. The war with the demons would only last a few more months before the demons spread across the world scattered and peace fell upon the world. I go on adventures, grant people wishes and lived peacefully. Or so I thought 10 years later all the top-level demons returned, this is why you should be specific when you make a wish. Sigh.
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  Crunchyroll Pass
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  New life+ gone?
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  Thanks guys!
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  "*English* Light Novels"
  • Drone205

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  I kind of talked about it in the first podcast I did, but the biggest thing that holds me back from reading English made works are their art. If the art looks cheap, it makes me think the rest of the product is a cheap cashgrab too. Even some of the better art looks doujinishi quality. Though, I just looked at Varnell's two latest releases that are not in the American Kitsune series, and they look good, especially the third volume character; the first volume art looks off to me though, not quite LN quality. There are good artists out there taking commissions you could contact to create something. If you're going to do an English light novel inspired novel, and you think your story is of high quality, go all out with at least the cover to match the story quality. Here are all of Varnell's works from Goodreads so you can take a peek at them: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/8031812.Brandon_Varnell
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  A new *unofficial* reader application for j-novel.club (**now also for Android**)
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  Oh well, with all the new novels out there to read, I thought I might as well release a new version of the app, too. It mostly fixes two stupid things: It doesn't re-render the whole part when changing a page, but only the pages which will be displayed Put the HTTP cache in the cache directory on Android
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  Updated J-Novel Club app coming soon!
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  @eternal-wanderer I hope so anyway! I think I've determined the source of the issue (hardware acceleration attempts to stretch it using OpenGL bitmap textures but your devices memory is too small for the resolution it tries. Changing the resize method to software before rendering should fix it.
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  Writing from Prompts
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  Prompt: These Donuts are great! Nothing beats a Jelly filled Donut.
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  Appreciate authors/artist/musicians/actors
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