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personality power and the police
May. 18th, 2023 11:10 pmTraining supers would be fun. Especially if they were few (and thus you were stuck with what you had), or if their powers were dependent on their personality.
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superscales
Apr. 7th, 2023 10:02 pmOne thing that a world's history really matters in is how much time they have had to analyze superpowers.
Even in the basic sense of categorizing them as types and by strength.
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Even in the basic sense of categorizing them as types and by strength.
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a superfight
Jul. 15th, 2022 11:53 pmThere's going to be a fight between two superteams. Neither of which is very defined.
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Oppressing the Supers
Jul. 13th, 2022 12:07 amThere's one definitely way you could oppress supers.
Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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magic and fairy tales
Jun. 26th, 2022 12:04 amWhat sort of fairy tales would wizards tell? The tales of Beedle the Bard lack the true folktale ring. (Though, I grant you, are not much different from some other literary attempts at fairy tales I have seen.)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice would have obvious value in cautioning young wizards about their magic. The young wizards might prefer "Master and Pupil" or "Farmer Weathersky" in return, though I ponder the magic in it. Suppose the world doesn't have that kind of wild shapeshifting magic. Perhaps you can only do one or two shapes, or only animate beings. . . but then, we tell fairy tales where we have none of the magic involved.
Could be interesting.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice would have obvious value in cautioning young wizards about their magic. The young wizards might prefer "Master and Pupil" or "Farmer Weathersky" in return, though I ponder the magic in it. Suppose the world doesn't have that kind of wild shapeshifting magic. Perhaps you can only do one or two shapes, or only animate beings. . . but then, we tell fairy tales where we have none of the magic involved.
Could be interesting.
fun and games
Feb. 16th, 2022 07:33 pmThe heroine cheerfully informs me that between her studies and her playmates' chores, she and they play fairy tales.
She tells them the story from her lessons, and they act them out.
At least it gives me another way to slither in information short of her reading or reciting her lessons.
She tells them the story from her lessons, and they act them out.
At least it gives me another way to slither in information short of her reading or reciting her lessons.
here comes a book
Aug. 20th, 2021 11:21 pmThere I was, innocently writing up how my heroine was packing.
Including some text books.
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Including some text books.
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out of the military
Jun. 3rd, 2021 10:51 pmSo the heroine -- who has slogged into a military front and thrown her weight around with her magic -- now has some intelligence of vital importance.
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rambling through
May. 15th, 2021 11:55 pmA bildungsroman is more rambling and less plot driven than most stories, because the inner journey is the important thing.
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society and the superhero
Mar. 16th, 2021 11:22 pmThere's some major questions before you can even consider the question of realism in superheroes. How many are they? How powerful are they? What are their origin(s) or metaorigin(s)? Are they random, and if so, what is random?
Then there's the questions that synergize.
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Then there's the questions that synergize.
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down the years
Mar. 6th, 2021 10:04 pmAh, the bildungsroman! I know the years ahead. I know many events that will happen in them.
I even know that some will happen before others!
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I even know that some will happen before others!
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planning a project
Feb. 22nd, 2021 10:48 pmAll the girls are putting their heads together for their project. What shall they do, what shall they do? It's crucial. It's their master project and required to graduate. (They could work on ones of their own, but aren't that silly.)
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slithering in the explanations
Feb. 14th, 2021 09:36 pmFinding places to explain why the children of royalty and nobility do not play with the children of servants, even when they are very young: because you have to stop the friendships entirely at a relatively young age.
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mischief and dwarves
Dec. 17th, 2020 11:42 pmVery mischievous, are dwarves. That's what explains echoes, after all: dwarves mockingly repeating what you said.
Now how to convey this when it's just part of the wild and wonderful world that some young people are taking the tour of. And not an in-depth one. This is to alert them to how things are to influence their decisions in career and school paths. As in, deciding whether they would rather engage in ordinary jobs of farming, baking, sewing, and the like, or keeping the dwarves' mischief out of their lives.
Now how to convey this when it's just part of the wild and wonderful world that some young people are taking the tour of. And not an in-depth one. This is to alert them to how things are to influence their decisions in career and school paths. As in, deciding whether they would rather engage in ordinary jobs of farming, baking, sewing, and the like, or keeping the dwarves' mischief out of their lives.
