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Grima - Tyrant of Despair

Made in collaboration with a certain friend, as it's double Grima day (thank you IS!). This was amazingly fun to work on!

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Nodding repeatedly.

Scaly Grima

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Pros of vampirism: cool commissions from over 100 years ago. Cons? You have to pay to see them.

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girl ash but she looks like leaf

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answer

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No context monstergirl

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*Urban exploring is fun*

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I forget if I've asked this before, but Are You Even Human isn't likely to feature sex scenes to the same degree as Bioshifter, right? Semi-accidentally perving on Maria was... honestly a little more than I'm comfortable with, actually, and while I absolutely adored the Saint Louis Cult of Blasphemy arc in all its Sovereign Masseffect By Way Of Edgy Alice In Wonderland Fanfic glory and tragedy, I'd prefer not to see another high-arousal scene.

I'm afraid I can't promise anything either way, but as always I will supply content warnings and non-graphic summaries for scenes like that when they hit the public release. I do like to explore sexuality in my work, but that doesn't usually mean I want to write an actual sex scene. If it's appropriate for the characters and the situation, however, I will.

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Me when a character starts experiencing an agonizingly, Horrifically, painful transformation :

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she is going to locations

Fae's on her way

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Farrin has lived in these hills, and the ruins at their heart for more winters than she could care to count, she knows the mountains like an old friend, but the forests change between her long sleeps and to these crows she is an oddity, if of agreeable coloration

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I dunno, I've never really encountered that outside of characters whose powers are actually explicitly that kind of conceptual-based silliness.

Look. I'll admit it. I like powerscaling arguments. In the right environments and doses I think they're fun. But I'm also an author, and that means I really get why they annoy people.

It doesn't matter what sort of magic or power system I happen to be writing. They will be there. Hiding in the comment section. Waiting. And then I will type "Borfoloofy had the power to summon tissue paper out of thin air" and they will POUNCE and rapidly start typing "USING BORFOLOOFY'S POWER TO CREATE INFINITE ARBITRARY MATTER, THEY SHOULD EASILY BE ABLE TO CREATE A COMBUSTION ENGINE TO BURN THE TISSUE PAPER AT HEATS HIGH ENOUGH TO—" at which point there may be more words or they may have spontaneously had a stroke and stopped typing, but I will never know, because whatever force caused them to assume a power source was limitless rather than remotely reasonable has infected me and caused my brain to entirely shut off, too.

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i might be still too raw from it, but decided to grab Bioshifter from the "to read"list, started it on thursday, and just broke down yesterday with the birthday chapter and how parts of it just fit. 

so yeah, uh, between that and the several trans (human/but mainly gender) perspectivs, not hitting close to home at all, might have some additional materials for next therapy session.

don't really know where i want to get to with this but whatever. really appreciate the book and music recommendations, and the warnings for the chapters too

I'm glad I can help. Bioshifter will hopefully always remain the harshest thing I write, but I'm very happy it has been transformative for so many people.

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love your books! I have a question about magical girl mechanical heart! which is: from zero to madoka magica, how much are the earth guardians in danger?

Well, the very first chapter features a magical girl who looks like this, so... pretty in danger?

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no context monstergirl

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Like with most things of this nature, there are many different kinds of people who enjoy power scaling. Any particular powerscaling enjoyer falls somewhere on a two-axis scale where the X axis is "understands physics" and the Y axis is "understands stories." At the top-right of that grid you can get some really interesting and fun conversations that both take silly numbers to their logical conclusions and allow for the understanding of fiction to shape the resulting outcomes.

At the bottom-left you of course have the sort of powerscaler that you're describing: completely ignorant of both physics and story structure but fervently of the belief that they're actually way smarter than you at both. These people are not, I think, anywhere close to the majority of the community, but they are both loud and memorable. This is inevitable in almost any fandom.

At the top left you have people that, frankly, aren't powerscalers at all but like to think they are for some reason. They understand stories but not math, and while that allows them to craft very interesting ideas, and make points that may be very accurate to how an actual fight written by one or both of the authors may go, that's not powerscaling. That's fanfiction. Which is awesome, but a completely different thing.

The bottom-right, though. Hoo boy the bottom right. This is the creme de la creme of powerscalers. This is where all the funny shit happens. I unironically love these people. Not because I think they're good at the mental exercise I'm interested in, but because there's just something intrinsically hilarious about saying something like "Samus Aran's Volt Driver is described as firing multiple terawatts of power. It deals two damage per hit. Therefore, the humble Geemer, a literal space rat whose spikes deal twenty damage per hit..."

Look. I'll admit it. I like powerscaling arguments. In the right environments and doses I think they're fun. But I'm also an author, and that means I really get why they annoy people.

It doesn't matter what sort of magic or power system I happen to be writing. They will be there. Hiding in the comment section. Waiting. And then I will type "Borfoloofy had the power to summon tissue paper out of thin air" and they will POUNCE and rapidly start typing "USING BORFOLOOFY'S POWER TO CREATE INFINITE ARBITRARY MATTER, THEY SHOULD EASILY BE ABLE TO CREATE A COMBUSTION ENGINE TO BURN THE TISSUE PAPER AT HEATS HIGH ENOUGH TO—" at which point there may be more words or they may have spontaneously had a stroke and stopped typing, but I will never know, because whatever force caused them to assume a power source was limitless rather than remotely reasonable has infected me and caused my brain to entirely shut off, too.

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gore warning