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CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
So I’ve never played Kingdom Hearts
 
and I don’t watch Rick and Morty
 
So why am I suddenly picturing a KH/R&M crossover in which Rick successfully creates an artificial keyblade that resembles a car key and is wielded like a chainsaw, all because he lost his keys and decided he was going to ensure that would never happen again?
Kano Kosaka

Anonymous Sadist
Something I’d like to do or like to see done is this idea that’s been floating in my head.
 
It’s a sort of Romance (Possibly also Comedy), and the main characters are a changeling who lives in disguise, and his best friend, who doesn’t know he’s a changeling. His friend never had any luck with the ladies, and after his most recent attempt at romance, he’s starting to worry that he’ll be alone forever. The changeling feels sorry for him, because he’s known the guy for years, and he hates to see him like this. So, he makes another identity, and this one’s a mare. He arranges for his friend to meet with this “mare” and says he’s sure that they’ll get along great. So, they go out, and after a couple of dates, the changeling realizes that he’s actually falling in love with his best friend. So now he has to juggle being this stallion’s best friend with being his marefriend, without arousing any suspicion. All while trying to convince himself that it’s not gay if he’s a mare during.
Agent Luna

I’d like to write a fic but as with any kind of art I do, I want everything perfect and overwhelm myself to where I don’t do any of it.
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I’d like to write a fic but as with any kind of art I do, I want everything perfect and overwhelm myself to where I don’t do any of it.
 
Every writing has three drafts.
 
Forgive my crassness, but the First Draft is basically word vomit. Pour literally everything onto the paper, no matter how awkward or stupid or whatever it is. Put it ALL down.
 
The second draft is where you sit down and start chipping away at your work, taking out what fits, adding in new ideas you’ve had. I liken it to working on a sculpture; you have a big ol’ pile of clay to work with, now to mold the basic shape. Tear off extra unneeded bits, stick on bits you think would work well.
 
The third draft is where you get closer to “perfect”. Even published authors who make millions of dollars will never reach “perfect”, but by God, they try. You can too. Remember, YOU are your own harshest critic.
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@Marx  
I’d love to have people make art for scenes of my fanfiction too. But I don’t have enough popularity for people to do it for free, and commissions cost money.
Silent_Witness
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I’ve been doing some thinking about that Persona story I’m still working on- specifically, how the main character accesses the Velvet Room. Initially, I was going to have it be like in the games, accesssed through a door only the character can see. But now, I’m playing around with the idea of the Velvet Room being accessed through an app on the character’s phone. Cellphones are kind of important in the story, since they’re used to summon Personas, and access the world of Shadows (to the point that the main antagonist shuts down cell signals to try and lock the main party out, which actually works for a while until they manage to find another way in).
 
I just thought of including it because of how heavily cell phones are featured in the story, plus it fits in with the rest of the SMT games that feature a mysterious program that allows you to control otherworldly powers downloading itself onto your device of choice.
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
So I’m considering the implications of a superhero with more than one secret identity.
 
I don’t mean like a legacy title, I mean like a group of people happen upon some super-powered suit or artifact or henshin device or proxy body or whatever, and take turns controlling it based on who’s available or which one has skills or knowledge most relevant to the situation.
 
As far as the public knows, though, it’s just one person in a suit like every other superhero, so the group has to agree upon a sort of persona for the hero so whoever is acting as them has a guideline of what is or isn’t in or out of character for them.
Kano Kosaka

Anonymous Sadist
@CobaltTheMadMage  
That sounds really interesting. Maybe it could also have certain powers that are only active when a certain person is using/wearing it, depending on their personality and/or skills. It would have the same base powers for all users, of course. Then a villain would have the perfect plan to stop the hero, except a different person is using it now, so his plan backfires because they have abilities he didn’t account for.
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
@Average S. Wordsmith  
Or even just mundane skills or knowledge that one user possesses that another doesn’t. Different powers would be interesting, just so long as it wouldn’t make it too obvious that this wasn’t the same hero that they encountered last time.
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Okay, I’ve decided that not only will Torn Like Cotton be a Cotton Cloudy fic and in first person, but it’ll have fewer, longer chapters. I’ve really got my work cut out for me with this, Before Apple Bloom??? and One Thing Mite Change a Lot…
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