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This is a Pro-Filler household. If you can't get behind seeing the principal cast go furniture shopping, or swimming at the beach with watermelon a eating contest, or having an episode that's a faux-D&D session, then I'm afraid you're not welcome.

And if you think content that was in the original work but involved character interaction or explanations on key systems in the world, but didn't necessarily advance the central plot, counts as Filler... Well, we're a good, ROB-fearing family, and that just won't be tolerated.

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Wanna write a slasher horror story set in the trenches of WW1, with the villain being a werewolf that represents the unending hunger of the war machine, as well as war's indiscriminate nature.

Need at least one scene where hungry soldiers (ideally, young men so as to symbolize nationalism) pillage some sheep, and one scene set in both regular fog as well as the fog of a chemical weapon attack. The latter will, obviously, be purely suspense, while the former is a scene with a death in it.

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The thing I love about the "why so serious?" line is that it works for every iteration of the Joker, but each of them would mean something different by it. I want you to picture Batman (1966) Joker delivering the line with that exaggerated "buh" expression Romero likes to put on as though he's genuinely shocked at Batman's reaction to his antics, versus Batman: The Animated Series (1992) Joker dropping a "why so serious, Batsy?" with Hamill's smug, almost sensual sneer.

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Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauled the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literature’s long-term survival 

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hey when you make posts, i just want you to know, thou/thee/thy/thine/ye are like he/you(object)/your/yours/you(subject) okay? "thou art wearing shoes," "i will wear shoes for thee," okay?

you say thine if the next word starts with a vowel and thy if the next word starts with a consonant and they both mean "your" so "thine own shoes," "thy shoes," okay?

and ye means you and refers to the subject of a sentence, "ye members of the brotherhood of shoes," okay? you need this information to create better knight yaoi. i'm personally more interested in nun yuri but we are a community

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i love when settings have a place called Evil City or something and the citizens are all campy villains in flamboyant little outfits. and it’s just a functional city with a mayor and taxes and cafes, it’s just your barista has a giant spider on her head and you’re unsure if it’s a decoration or a pet or if it’s mind controlling her and this very nice cappuccino was made by a telepathic spider

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Self-insert prompt: our heroes have journeyed to a derelict space station or underwater research base in order to retrieve an object, substance or piece of data that’s needed to avert a world-ending catastrophe. In spite of the facility ostensibly having been abandoned for decades, when the airlock finally cycles open you’re there to greet them. What the fuck are you doing there, and how does it relate to their mission?

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New favorite robot girl design concept just dropped. Almost reminds me of a gag out of Nichijou or OPM:

Credit to @Kichii on pixiv because we don't support Twitter in this house. Link in alt-text.

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New favorite genre is non-SI, non-Isekai fiction where the main character is aware of the genre or story concept they're a part of.

The main examples I've found so far - again, barring stories where it's like "i got sucked into this game I'm playing/story I'm reading and know all the best decisions for a good-end" - are:

I’m the Protagonist of a Harem Manga, but I’m Gay So Every Day Is Hell

A World Where Everything Definitely Becomes BL vs. the Man Who Definitely Doesn’t Want to Be in a BL

; and,

All of Humanity Is Yuri Except Me.

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Moral imperative to turn things made by shitty people into allegories of the things they hate.

Danny Phantom? His clone is biologically female. He's male. Pick which direction they're going. He transforms into something his parents hate and want to vivisect, and who exists in secret as an entire culture.

Timantha Turner? I've met an NB trans-femme that legally changed their name to Puppy. Timantha can have her name and her t4t relationship with Troy Tang.

Harriet Potter? Just go read A Skirt's Not So Bad After All. Fuck Joan.

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Magical Girl, but it's just two versions of someone from different dimensions switching places to solve each other's problems. The "magically summoned" items are just their actual propert piggybacking.

You've got traditional Magic Hammer of Love and Justice bashing away evil demons in one dimension and This Knife I Found shanking... something from the more mundane universe? Dinosaurs? Displaced Vikings? I dunno, man...

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Prompt: An almost stereotypical CyberPunk Dystopia where language has been whitewashed and made "family friendly".

Like how people are saying "unalive" for death and killing, or referring to drugs as candy.

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Parahuman OC or SI who gets pushed through the wringer without triggering, only for them to find out the much-anticipated sequel to a game they like is canceled because of the S9 or an Endbringer, and essentially turn into the hulk.

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Like, okay. We can look at it two ways.

First is structure, second is worldbuilding.

The OG trilogy is what I consider to be a pretty stereotypical wuxia story. Po's place at the end of the third and throughout the fourth are where it develops into a proper xianxia story. Plus, you know, there's various points where tropes come up throughout the story (such as Crane having an attack called "Wings of Justice" that he calls out or the existence of the Wuxi Fingerhold).

Include Legends of Awesomeness and you've got one of those stories with hundred of fluff chapters between major events.

First Movie: Po is a weakling disciple, inducted due to circumstance, who's actually capable when motivated properly and has secret techniques due to his heritage that can only be brought to bare if he acts in a manner different from other disciples, which causes some amount of friction with the character that would be an obvious love interest if they weren't different species. Once his teacher stops being such a hater, he advances quickly until he's capable of defeating a former disciple of the Sect that has turned to demonic techniques and cultivation. This earns him the respect of his fellow disciples as well as the various inhabitants of the outer sect (the valley of peace). First named attack!

Second Movie: Po is unsure of his position despite being reassured that he's earned it. He's sent with the rest of the core disciples of the Jade Palace to Gongmen City as peacekeepers after the exiled former heir to the city returns with a "secret weapon" that's "stronger than kung fu" to get back at... everyone(?) for not being okay with his genocide of Po's ancestors. Their first conflict is a total beatdown, and it's only after Po confronts his past and achieves inner peace that he's able to truly fight back against Shen's "secret weapon". Also, more love interest things between him and Tigress. Second named attack!

Third Movie: Oogway had a sworn brother who fell to the corrupting influence of demonic cultivation (woo)! And he's back (yay)! And he's pissed (oof)! He uses full-blown qi techniques to put Po and the Five on the backfoot the entire time. Po does well to show how effective his heritage is - while reconnecting with it - by training an ad-hoc militia of low-level cultivators who all flourish under the same motivational techniques he has. They're able to beat back Kai's Bullshit with their own Panda Bullshit! Then Po ascends to the next rank in cultivation by self-sacrifice and gains the full abilities of a qi-using cultivator that lets him summon qi dragons and shit. He beats Kai like a red-headed stepchild after the fact and gets his own Super Cool King Fu Walking Stick.

Fourth Move: We're now firmly in xianxia territory. Po's full adapted to his role and is being pushed to be a teacher in his own right. He regularly uses qi techniques and has surpassed his master in terms of available abilities, if not actual experience or skill. His newest enemy is what really pushes it to xianxia, though: a qi sorceress shapeshifter that's captured the souls of past martial arts masters to fuel her capabilities as a combatant, stealing their most well-known techniques for herself. Po wraps it up figuring out the whole... "teaching" thing is as much about learning as it is passing on knowledge. A perfect start to a Next Generation or a saga ending in Po ascending even further (immortal cultivator Po, anyone?).

Thinking about how KFP is a wuxia/xianxia story... Stressing out about it.

Well, more wuxia until 3-ish, then it's pretty xianxia.

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Thinking about how KFP is a wuxia/xianxia story... Stressing out about it.

Well, more wuxia until 3-ish, then it's pretty xianxia.

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Human Security Officer, 6 hours into his third 12 of the week, bored out of his mind and dripping with sweat because of how humid Hydroponics is: You're good, go on through.

Hydroponics Researcher, likewise a Deathworlder, who got a whiff of his musk while being patted down: Can you collar me like your guard "dog"?

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Rat's Scale from SI to OC

Developed it around 2015 to help me explain why, exactly, my autistic ass can't "just write an SI".

In short: Specific terms are used for a reason, an SI is an SI, an SI/OC is an SI/OC, and an OC is an OC. These are different character types, not synonyms.

An SI is a Self-Insert. I am inserting myself - as I am or as I was. I can write me at any point in my life before the moment I started writing, but that's going to be just me. I don't have powers, I'm not overly brave, and I'm not particularly skilled. I am the definition of a burnt-out gifted kid. I would not survive long by being brave and acting like a hero, and I almost certainly wouldn't develop an ability equivalent to the local flavor of bullshit without outside intervention. And, even then, I'd still be overweight, slow, and a little dumb - unless it's a me before college, in which case, I've got a 5 minute mile and at least look a healthy weight. The protagonists of that fandom need a gardener? Maybe an accountant? A low-level IT guy? Then I'm their man. Otherwise, I'm nothing but fodder or a burden.

An SI/OC is more or less based on me. It's what most people would call an SI. A version of me that may have some negative characteristics sandblasted off or some extra good points tacked on. A me that's capable of casting spells or throwing chakra. A me that can stand up against the dying of the light. My background, or personality, or physical appearance and capabilities might be different, but I'm still largely me. One Rat among many - Into the RatVerse.

An OC, is a new character, created wholesale. They might be based on a character concept - like my myriad Nara expies - but they're still a creation of mine for my use (barring permission to others). They're built, from the ground up, to fit into a setting. Not necessarily the setting the story is taking place, but a setting nonetheless. A mechanic in love with the AI of a tank he scavenged, a punk kid villain turned teen dad, or country-singing cyberpunk trying to shed the stigma of being an "industry plant.