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Recent content by Avernus

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    Fallen Writers

    Erratic Bonehead on SB has died at 27. He had a short rally yesterday where he had the energy to make a final post, then his death was announced shortly thereafter. 27 was way too young, poor guy.
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    What does "AI Assisted" even mean?

    Yeah. Thing is, "AI" writing isn't popular at all; as far as I can tell there's two basic positions on it, "don't care" and "hate it". Which in turn means there's no positive reason to admit using it (outside of, perhaps, being too honest for your own good), since it will be either ignored or...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    I mean, blatantly evil protagonists like that are a thing in fanfic, but they tend to be deeply unpopular and the audience keeps screaming at the author to have them tortured or killed. Which is probably very unpleasant for most authors. People typically don't like protagonists that are vile...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    As far as the "humbling fetish" goes, I think it's largely the common phenomena where somebody decides that if something is good - humility and struggle in this case - then a whole lot must be even better. It's a lot like the idea common in fiction that if real military training is hard, then...
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    Fallen Writers

    ShayneT, writer on SB has died from congestive heart failure.
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    Will of The Force (Star Wars / Worm)

    Youngish, in his apparent 30s.
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    Are You Afraid of the Dark? [Worm AU fanfic]

    PRT is going to be disappointed they never got the chance to arrest him, especially Piggot. Also funny that Coil didn't pick "be on a car out of town like the Dark ordered" as one of his two timelines. But he was too high on "I always win" and general vindictiveness to pick that option.
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    It eats him. Just sucks his head in and then the rest of the body while making chewing motions as he flails and struggles until there's nothing left but the Hat. Then it emits a loud burp.
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    "Realistic" superpower martial arts?

    A few thoughts on fighting with super strength. The fact that the fighter's strength is so much higher compared to their (and their opponent's) mass is going to make a number of moves possible that wouldn't work for a normal person. I recall how in Cobra a method of Cobra cyborgs getting behind...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Heh, reminds me of an old dead Worm fanfic where the protagonist told the canon characters he'd read about their world as a work of fiction, and they came to the conclusion that he was a delusional precognitive interpreting his future sight as memories of reading about Earth Bet in another world.
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    Broken Pictures

    I keep getting Likes for that picture, so I do assume others can see it. It's happened with other "broken" pics of mine too; keep getting Likes, nobody mentions anything about it being broken.
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    Broken Pictures

    Another example here, a picture I posted just yesterday looks like a string of numbers and letters. The picture appears when I open it to edit, though. No VPN, Firefox on a PC. Picture copied from Omicron's Final Fantasy Let's Play on SV, where it's been visible unbroken for over 2 years and...
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    Two Sentence Story (Horror, humor, tragedy, anything!)

    "The Dragonslayer knew his job would be difficult from the start. But he didn't expect the wrongful-death lawsuit."
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Also, in many cases cherry picking low showings. It's always "phasers can get stopped by packing crates" (and we'll ignore that they are dial-a-yield), not "phasers can disintegrate entire walls of solid rock". Also, a related bad fanfic trope: the idea that "realistic" military forces should...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Related, some "HFY" fics are like that. Both in being right wing and being genocidally anti-alien (and often using the "xeno" term)." Also, fics that have tags like "rational protagonist".
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