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Trying to find the origin of the term "Demon King" or "魔王" and while originally it merely reveals to the source of evil in Buddhism more or less in regards to how it appears commonly in fiction the first appearance is FUCKING TOLKIEN IT'S ALWAYS TOLKIEN I'M GOING TO SCREAM
The backstory. Harry got it for her one Xmas as a joke. She threw a fit and told him never to bring up the "ferret incident" ever again. She also wears it every day.
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More Malfoid Malfeasance! (Edit: Prompt in the comments!)
#DreaminaCPP @dreamina_ai
Omigosh. I'm dying. The implications. You can imagine McGonagall and Dumbledore gaming this out years in advance. How do we get these two rival families together and split the Malfoys from Voldemort? What better way than romance?!
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I hope you all realize that these are now on the table thanks to @elonmusk 's Roadster.
the Jump System in that would be the same tech you would want for the maneuvering of these.
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Somebody carried volcanic glass from the Yellowstone region to Ohio nearly 2,000 years ago.
At the Hopewell Mound Group, one obsidian point measured more than 17 inches long. Far beyond an ordinary hunting point.
Chemical analysis traces the material back west. The people, their route, and what passed between them are harder to recover.
We have the stone. Imagine having the account of that trip.
The true test of world building is not the consistency of your magic system or how well thought out the socio-economics or your world is. The true test is how much your audience wants to stay immersed in it. It's whether they want to return to it.
Think about Wonderland or Oz, neither make a lick of sense but people love to come back to them again and again and reimagine them.
Harry Potter clearly passes that test.
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people are giving him shit but he's making a good point:
drawing entertaining comics is the EASY part of reviving american comics. the hard part is that comics aren't sold anywhere. manga's in every convenience store in japan, america's distribution infrastructure is totally gone
sure, you can go to specific hobby shops if your town even has one, you can pick up a handful of big names there, but as long as comics are contained to small niche stores it'll remain a small niche industry. the current circumstances make it impossible for comics to go through a boom.
there's also no real pipeline from "guy who draws comics for fun" to "person who does it professionally" the way there is in japan. the webcomic boom in the 2000s is proof of that: every talented comic artist was left to languish in digital obscurity or reinvent their own printing and distribution system from the ground up. they received 0 institutional support, 0 offers from major companies, nothing. there was never any chance for them to make their way into convenience stores and supermarkets to pick up a broader audience. everything, from the ground up, from marketing to printing to audience growth, had to be handled by them personally.
meanwhile in japan, a guy can draw a webcomic for fun called one punch man and get it turned into an anime smash hit
american talent is exceptional; nobody controlling the purse strings wants to invest in it. that is the real problem holding everyone back. you could draw the greatest comic in history and you'd still be stuck trying to twitter trendhop to fundraise a kickstarter to get a single volume published.
Every man has at least one or two chunks of wood in their workshop for years that started out like this.





























