I mean I would say Game of Thrones is better than, say, Percy Jackson & the Olympians. More mature = more conflict for the protagonist to overcome = more sweeter victory. Also, you're allowed to have more realistic villains and trials for your characters, and often times realism enhances the struggle for the progatonists.
But of course, this is a personal preference. Sometimes you can have a great story without getting too mature. Harry Potter for example (although there are certainly some dark themes there). But I really love the show The Magicians, which is kind of a grown up version of Harry Potter. All personal preference, again. But these are some of the reasons someone might want a more mature story.
EDIT: if you're pretty young I would not recommend reading my story. It's not really kid friendly and has some distressing stuff in it. In fact, I'm pretty sure all my stuff does. Except the dragon-dick joke story, but that's obviously not appropriate for a kid either.
did you know you can edit your previous post if no one's responded to it
Did the Magicians get better after awhile? I watched a few episodes back in '22, but I sorta got the sense the writers didn't have a clear idea as to where things were going. Maybe I was wrong though if you're comparing it to Harry Potter, which I'd say is pretty cohesive.
Is that the show where some dude got repeatedly raped by a pedo author so he's trying to destroy the world and only a group of young magicians that apparently all have sex with each other at some point can stop him?
Oh and some other girls get raped by a trickster god or something.
Yeah it didn't get better.
One weird thing they did though is they brought the pedo back and he kept trying to help sometimes with the various shit going down and nobody ever wanted his help just saying "Ew no, you're a pedo."
And he'd get pissy and storm off. Lol.
I feel like though they were setting him up to be the next major threat if there had been another season. Since there was some mention towards the end that the realm or whatever got taken over by some hostile force (again) and I had a feeling it was going to end up being the pedo author.
Did you miss a paragraph between the second and third here? You don't mention anything about the Dolls until the third paragraph so they see to lack connection to anything else going on in the story. You also have several internal contradictions that will be difficult to resolve in the story later.
The setting has potential for several interesting stories to take place in it, but you will want to address some of these problems before you move the plot too far forward. The initial setup actually reminds me a lot of the history from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
No real human being texts like this. Even twelve year olds don't text like this.
Isn't there a series of Watership Down as well?
Unrelated, but I think this might be the most replied-to post in the entirety of Newbie Central with 140+ replies so far.
That probably did contribute to a good deal of it.
Just counted through everything without including any of the meaningless replies (just saying thnx/np, and conversations that could have happened via text), and it's still around 90+ replies
We should be wary. Who knows how big this thread could grow. It could consume all of CYStia.
Since a thread this long deserves a lot more cringe, here's a hypothetical scenario:
***
CYStia has changed.
I feel it in the threads.
I feel it in the reviews.
I smell it in Lounge.
Much that once was is lost, for none now are unbanned who remember it. It began with the forging of the great shitposts. Three were given to the Mods, immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings. Seven to the Edgelords, great spammers and trolls of the forgotten boards. And nine... nine were gifted to the Newbies, who above all else, desire attention.
For within these stories was bound the strength and will to govern each forum.
But they were all of them deceived.
For another topic was made.
In the land of Newbie Central, in the fires of the Warrior Cats Cataclysm, a poster forged in secret a master thread to control all others. And into this thread he poured his cringe, his malice, and his will to dominate all discussion.
One thread to rule them all.
One by one the free boards of CYStia fell to the power of the Cats.
But there were some who resisted.
A last alliance of Mods and Edgelords marched against the armies of Spam, and on the slopes of the Newbie Central they fought for the freedom of CYStia.
Victory was near...
But the power of Warrior Cats could not be undone.
It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Endmaster/etc took up their Banhammer.
The WCs, enemy of the free peoples of CYStia, were defeated.
The topic was locked, and Warrior Cats was banished, never to return.
But the hearts of newbies are easily corrupted, and spam has a will of its own...
It betrayed them to their shame. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend, legend became meme, and for many years Warrior Cats passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer...
The spam came to a Child, who took it deep into Newbie Central, and there it consumed her. Her posts multiplied without end. And in the gloom of the boards, the Cats waited. Darkness crept back into CYStia. Rumor grew of a flood in the forums, whispers of a nameless fear. And the Cats perceived their time had now come.
But something happened that the spam did not intend. It was noticed by the most unlikely creatures imaginable: the Edgelords of CYStia.
For the time will soon come when Edgelords will shape the fortunes of all.
Not accusing anyone of being a Warrior Cat afixionado. That's an old person cringe anyway, right? Get off my lawn, etc. Just adding to the cringe for posterity.
By this logic, you shouldn't be reading any story that's written by a girl. Since everything they write comes from their mind, you'd be indirectly experiencing their mind as a result. Admittedly, I'm being a bit pedantic with this response. I do get what you mean though. (at least I think I do) With that being said, a part of me envies the innocent psychological state you inevitably have currently that would allow you to adopt such a...particular perspective I guess I'll say! (lol :P) I find your perspective interesting though for what its worth! :D
You sound insane
There's two of you?? I guess both of you sound insane then.
I didnt reply to Petros, only to you. Please use threadded view.
Petros is a wholesome long standing member. You should revere him.
That's impossible. Again, you sound insane
No you don't?
The normal way that you get them. You can look at it in your profile.
Also you JUST got those
I am aware
Do you not have threaded view on or do you just tend to hit reply on the wrong posts?
It is possible for someone who has lots of points to have one of these:
Who would not want one? Look at its kin:
The Octopus Useless Box – A Battle You Can’t Win!
As a completely unrelated aside, this highlights how quickly the world can change. Younger millennials—even some somewhat older millennials—and older Gen Z practically grew up with profile pictures on forums, and are all skilled at typing and so on, but younger Gen Z AND some Gen X and most Boomers have to learn this stuff to participate in forums like this.
For some Gen X and Boomers, the stuff just wasn't invented yet, and for much of Gen Z, the "Internet Forum Golden Age" came before they were born and was over before they really started having unsupervised access to the internet.
I was flabbergasted when I noticed a lot of the Gen Z people I know are mediocre at typing on a keyboard (but of course, super fast with a smart phone). I had mistakenly believed the younger generations would be better at this stuff. But instead technology changed so fast they grew up in an entirely different technology paradigm.
And now all the old folks look down upon me from their ivory towers and laugh in contempt at me for mocking their technological ineptitude in days past. Now I shall dwell in my shame as I slowly become one of them....
Is this Ai generated or did you just search up a picture of a penguin reading a book?
Oh ok. I think it looks pretty good then! It weirdly suits you pretty well all things considered! (I do look forward to the hand drawn image if you ever get around to that though. No pressure or anything though!) lol :P
The kid won't learn anything if they don't understand why they are being disciplined in the first place/why it matters. If anything, its just making the deadline sooner. Instead of "Oh shoot! I need to finish my homework so my teacher doesn't get mad!" its "Oh shoot! I need to finish my homework a day in advance so my mom doesn't get mad!". Once you become independent, you start to view things more in terms of purpose and consequence (obviously it depends on the person but hopefully you get what I'm saying here). Procrastination being bad is kind of an overrated statement anyways. Like, its a surprisingly good way to have your time organize itself in a sense, since it logically checks that you'd want to finish something before the consequence hits as opposed to simply because you tell yourself there will be a consequence if you don't do something at a certain time. Obviously how you should go about rewarding/punishing your kid is pretty nuanced discussion all things considered, its not black and white. I'm mainly just playing devil's advocate towards your perspective if anything! :D lol :P
I realized I did that stupid overstuffed paragraph thing again and was going to shorten my points to make what I said more readable. Now I can't... :( At least I'm catching it more quickly/accurately now! lol :P
Plebs can't edit a post once someone responds.
That's why you'll see this message when editing:
Though it'll be on a beige screen for you.
You can't edit a post after someone's replied to it unless you have magical mod powers silly! :P
It's the weekend. Was Saturday school a common event in your childhood?
This kid's clearly in like, middle school, so there wouldn't be enough homework to last into the weekend. Usually.
Back in my day, we had enough homework that we still did it on Saturday.
In seriousness, the origin of the comment was that what V__V posted was somewhat ambiguous, making it possible to interpret it to mean Saturdays no longer involved homework, as if previously they did: "I no longer have the excuse of homework." So I inferred that either the homework load has lightened to the point that it is a novel thing to have Saturday's free, or that the child was perhaps in one of those quarterly schools or charter schools with weird break schedules.
English has so much freedom, and with it come so many problems.
"No longer" didn't have a particular time attached to it in the sentence. You clarified here you meant it to mean "For this weekend, all homework is done."
But it is not unreasonable to interpret a longer period of time, such as, "For as long as I can remember, I've had to do homework on Saturday. The days were long, the skies dreary. There was always this sense of forbidding in the air—a tension, an ominous electricity. But ever since the students rose up and called ICE on the principal (he's, of course, a citizen, but the students took advantage of the over-aggressive nature of the department), weekend homework is all but a myth. A relic of the ancient past. And now that I no longer have homework to worry about on Saturdays, I have instead been saddled with chores."
Yeah, it was started by a vaguely masochistic teenage boy who thought it was hot that I told him to shut up. Since then it's sorta spread, but mostly as a jokey thing I think
I mean, of course I do, I'm iconic
Can you see this?
Oh, woah.
I leave for an hour, and when I come back, I see what you are. What in the world happened here?
I have the same colored stripes in the background
How do you know she is a witch?
Why is this thread gay now?
Well you want your original account back?
There you go.
BEHOLD!!!
EDIT: lol nvm you did it before I did.
This looks amazing!
The inspiration:
I like Ogre.
It's not that I don't, it's that I don't really know you at all and the others yap about you too much
Not what I meant, I was explaining why I refered to them as maniacs and wasn't trying to br rude. Sorry.
ok.
Wholesome Dog's Birthday Adventure.
OGRE FOREVER!!!
I, too, am quite fond of Ogre.
Yea, you already said so. Oh! Text enricher or whatever it's called works in threads too, I didn't know that before.
