Tag: kihaku ramblings

Basic Important Law of Writing;

If/When you put minorities in it (in your stories, your world building, your character roster), you need to make sure you keep it BALANCED

If you make the majority of your minority characters in the villain/antagonist slot and not a single one in the heros/protagonist slot (or for that matter, making it that there are more villain minority characters than there are ones that are heros), then there’s a very big problem.

You’re making a message about minorities that should not be; that they are not the good guys, that they are and always will be the thugs/thieves/villains that the irl world so often tries to unfairly portray them in. <- that message there, is not right in the slightest. It is a big slap to the face for a huge potential amount of your reader base.

If the only major female/LGBTA+/POC/disabled characters in your world/story are the ones which are the bad guys, that is not the least bit right.

It’s not even not that hard to fix if you catch it soon enough; simply either add some protagonists/heros which are of the same minority or change some of your existing protagonists into characters of minority (making it that you may not need to change the villains/antagonists at all), or change the villains/antagonists so that they are no longer a minority character. Populate your world with ordinary civilians / background characters which are of the minority. Minority does not mean they don’t exist.

If you think it’s too hard to balance out your use of minorities in your literature, then you are no longer writing properly. I won’t necessarily say your biased or homophobic/albiest/racist for not fixing such errors (though it may not hurt to assess your existing worldview on the matter), but I will however say that you’re being very sloppy/lazy in very a bad way for your writing. To do that is a great disservice to your writing skills as well as your story/world in question if you ignore such a writing problem/challenge.

Be aware of your writing, it will benefit from it.

Y’know I was originally thinking the First FallenSlayer x Thunderdon magic interaction would be all casually like at the bar or something and they’d be all “hey this could lead to something handy”, but now I’d find it much more amusing / semi-cool if it were from a more of an epic but sloppy in-battle impulsive crazy moment that came from a crazy interaction like-

FallenSlayer(FS):*out of magic*”welp I’m about of juice”*sees Thunderdon(TD) fighting Fallenbeasts and gets an idea*

FS:*lands on TS*”hey bighorns”

TD:”huh?”

FS:”Volt me, shock me with all the electricity you can muster.”

TD:”ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY-”

FS:”JUST SHUT UP AND ZAP ME!”

TD:”I’M HERE ZAPPING FALLENBEASTS AND YOU WANT ME TO ZAP YOU INSTEAD?! ARE YOU MAD WOMAN-”

FS:*grabbing and just about yanking TS’s antlers off at this point*”JUST SHOCK ME UP YOU WUSS”

I want a hug pillow tbh.

Not even those weird ecchi/nude kind of pillows. Just a hug pillow endowed with illustrations of bouquets of flowers. Then maybe also have little pockets where you can put dried herbs in (like Lemon Balm, Mint, or Lavender) so you could take a whiff of the soothing smells while hugging it.

It’s kind of amazing if/when you can sense the influence a media has on other medias of it’s type, and often how it influences it differently. Like, it’s independent from the inspiration material but there’ just something there that gives you an excited chill and you just go “oh I know where you got that shit from. Clever clever.”