Surprised I even need to clarify this, but any comment that misgenders Lily Orchard will be removed immediately. Like, use your heads, people.

It's so weird how Lily wants her fiction to be bland, inoffensive, gentle, soothing, and conflict-free. And yet her entire online personality is 'I threw it on the ground'

"artists draw, writers write" People who write and illustrate graphic novels: *i have no such weaknesses*

“characters don’t have sexual agency, you made them that way” CHARACTERS DON'T EXIST, YOU MADE THEM

Imagine getting sexually assulted, becoming a worse person due to trauma, working on yourself, writing a character based on that, and getting called a misogynistic pig 💀

"Zuko's story isn't about redemption, it's about recovery!" Can't it be both?

lily orchard wrote a guide on how to write fanservice for lily orchard

That "Don't pair adults with minors" rule is so funny coming from her

“Don’t make a comedy into a drama” >Bojack Horseman >Gintama >Moral Orel >Barry >Everything Everywhere All At Once

These don't feel like writing tips. They feel like "you can't write this story that way because I don't like it"

"Only have one straight white cis character" *praises Friends*

I feel like if Lily left her children's cartoon bubble for a moment and watched something like, say, Midsommar, her head would explode.

How Lily Orchard can literally write some of the most vile shit I have ever seen and then preach that the best stuff is only clean and conflictless is insane to me.

"Slice of Life has always been a more popular genre than action/adventure" Ah yes, the best selling movie Avengers Endgame, the Slice of Life.

"don’t turn a comedy into a drama, it annoys people" nearly every comedy I enjoy becomes deeper than the surface, turning into a drama

Im years late to this but why do I get the feeling that Lily only understands the term "enemy" or "antagonist" to also mean "abuser". You can have characters be enemies and antagonistic to each other without it necessarily being considered abusive.

the way she ends so many of these with "youre a huge turd" makes her seem like shes on the same level of a kid who still thinks "poopyhead" is the worst insult on earth

"Artists draw, writers write" all the comic artists out there who write their own comics: Well, shit fam, you got me there

These sound more like a guide to pleasing Lily Orchard instead of good writing advice.

As a gay man, I hate this idea that characters shoul never conform to stereotypes. Lots of people in real-life do, the key to me seems to be to make them fully-fledged people with their own internal complexities, conflicts, motivations, and reasons why they feel more comfortable being this way. Flamboyant gay men exist and have the right to representation too, especially since for many it's as a deconstruction of gender norms, and we don't necessarily need a token manly gay to contrast him to, at some point it's falling into a whole bunch of different clichés. There's always room for nuance in fiction.

Coming back to rewatch this for the fourth or fifth time and realizing something interesting: Lily's standard for a "good character" is not a character who is interesting, or one who is entertaining, or one who serves the story well. It's all about making a character that represents an ideal, supports a specific standard and gets a very specific reaction from the right kind of people. It has nothing to do with the actual story the character is a part of.

She literally said in her Owl House review that she's sick of world building in fantasy worlds. How....that's the point of a fantasy world! Not everything has to be slice of life but that's what she wants from a show that clearly isn't taking that route!

These writing tips are all just like “If you kill your supporting character at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="707">11:47</a> p.m. near a young oak tree at the hands of their former friend using a rusty steak knife, you’re a huge turd.”

As an autistic person, I feel so patronizing at her attempt at bossing around autistic rep. Some autistic people are ethically dubious numberphiles, and as long as that's depicted realistically and empathetically I don't mind. (And lily's anti-dramady advice PISSES ME OFF. There are plenty of shows that do that really well, like Moral Orel.) And as a rape survivor- in my opinion it's dangerous to act like abusers can't abuse because that completely ignores the cycle of abuse.

Lily never did that middle school worksheet where they go over the difference between facts and opinions, did she?

Lily needs to be beat with the, "There are many kinds of love," stick. Platonic, Romantic, Familial, Obsessive, Unconditional, etc. For crying out loud, I love my friends and family, to death; but I don't think hanging out with them, going to get dinner, hugging or snuggling on a couch watching a movie, or kissing the forehead or cheek goodbye means all of them are potential "partners." I literally scream at the thought. They're irreplaceable pieces of my life, but let's be real, how we show we care about each other is different from one to another and to varying degrees. It's love, but not the kind of love Miss Orchard seems to think is the only thing that exists.

What lily wants are small character centric stories where the characters don’t have personalities, and no conflict. So effectively a glass of water

Even the "good" tips are written so condescendingly that it makes one want to break them out of spite

Lily hating the concept of redemption is hillarious because: 1) she likes Hazbin Hotel, a show about trying to redeem sinners 2) pretty sure she needs some redemption herself lol

"Rule 41:Rape victims(survivors) shouldn't be villains" stood out to me because there's an old Punisher comic where the villain was a rape survivor, she was raped by a taxi driver, and then began serial killing taxi drivers. Punisher goes undercover as a taxi driver, and finds her. He tries to talk her out of this, but he ends up killing her in defense. He later monologues that she had gone after the wrong people. If she had gone after rapists, he'd have gladly helped her. Also, Punisher is the protagonist of his stories, but certainly not a hero, which I think broke another one of Lily's "rules".

“characters don’t have sexual agency, you made them that way” characters don’t have emotions, you made them that way

In Aladdin, there's a scene where magic-empowered Jaffar tries to wish for Jasmine to be in love with him and while he's arguing with Djinni, she notices Aladdin trying to steal the lamp back. She kisses Jaffar when he's about to notice, but the power is in Jasmine's hands entirely at that point because it's CLEARLY a trick to fool the bad guy. Once again, *context is key*

Okay, but, the thing is...why do people have such a hard time believing in a character not wanting to kill people? I have moments where I want to sock someone in the face, sure, but...killing people is killing people. If I found out I even accidentally killed someone, it would turn my stomach. I think the majority of us would be horrified if we went into a fight intending to just rough someone up and ended up accidentally killing them. I never understood the argument some people put forth about how "X hero is okay with beating down on villains but not killing them???" because, motherfucker, beating someone to a pulp is a whole different level from actually killing them. Is it so hard to believe that fictional characters would have the same hang-ups as us everyday people?

“11. Don’t pair adults with minors. That’s pedophilia.” That’s a VERY BOLD thing to add in from someone who’s written Stockholm.

I find it really ironic that Lily shits on redemption arcs but she likes a show like "Hazbin Hotel" where its entire premise is literally redeeming people.

i absolutely hate the blanket statement of "never make a character kiss their abuser" because Captain Spaceboy from Omori is one of the best depictions of abuse survivors i've ever seen and he kisses Sweetheart before eventually realizing she's a horrible person (at least in the hikkikomori route) and beginning his recovery. that entire arc wouldn't hit as hard if he wasn't affectionate with Sweetheart at the start. you can depict toxic relationships, as long as you acknowledge that they're toxic.

"Fans do not need to be serviced" "Here is an exact checklist of how you need to represent all the minorities in specific ways"

Zuko literally burned down Kyoshi village, he wasn't a good guy in the beginning. So yeah, it was a redemption arc.

"I don't think kids will understand not sparing a villain." Disney Villains Who Get Murdered Left and Right: 👁👄👁

A comment on the "killing is bad" and Aang section: Aang gives Ozai a fate worse than death (for him), he strips him of what made him so proud and egotistical. He lost his bending, something he held above his own life. If he died, he woulda been happy, since it was to a superior bender. But having it ripped away literally broke him.

Also with rule 14 people who may not realize they may be gay/trans/ace, seeing it as a metaphor in a character could be an eye opening experience.

I will forever defend Aang not killing the fire lord, because as much as people think it's a cop-out to a logical solution, THEMATICALLY it's right for the series. The fire lord's life is spared because of the beliefs of the very culture his country wiped out. It comes full circle to the events the kickstarted the series, while showing both the fire lord and the audience that the air nomads' culture has value and deserved to survive. Throwing it away would have just been proving the villain right.

As an autistic man, I do think a non-autistic person can have a valid look and opinion on what is/isn't good autistic representation, provided they do the research and preferably talk to actual autistic people.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2777">46:17</a> so what im hearing is....as a bisexual I can write EVERYONE in impractical armour? a winner is me

Essentially she's saying, 'I only like bland, character centric, conflicless stories, therefore everyone should write that.'

“Werewolves work best as a metaphor for predators” really rubs me the wrong way because most werewolf characters were turned into werewolves against their will. Her metaphor implies people who have been preyed upon and hurt by abusive monsters are doomed to become predatory abusive monsters themselves. Ironically while complaining about how one metaphor treats a group of people as others, she supports another metaphor that treats a group of people as others. Werewolves as predators” also paints predators and abusers as having no control over their actions. Not thinking beyond the surface level seems to be a chronic problem of Lily’s.

Alternate title: Two Friends Progressively Lose Their Minds For Over Two Hours.

The “don’t turn a comedy into a drama, it annoys people” rule sheds some more light on her recent reaction to Dungeon Meshi. One of the things I and so many other people love about the series is that tonal shift. It eases you into an inherently silly premise of adventurers cooking monsters and unravels into a much darker story about grief, desire and what it means to be alive. And yet, the series is still about food and how living is inherently tied to food! But, according to Lily, no. None of that. The series has to stay the same the entire way through, never evolving or maturing. Because, of course, that annoys people (her).

If this list taught me anything, it’s that Lily is allergic to complexity.

also "if lesbians like a character then they're better" shut up !!! lesbians aren't superior we're just people oh my GOD

If she wanted to make passive-aggressive jabs at cartoons that she's angry with, that's fine, but she didn't have to glorify it by calling it "writing advice."

This reads less like writing advice and more like a manifesto against steven universe and she-ra

The amount of advice about managing a fandom is so wild because, like A) why would you give advice for managing a fandom to people looking for writing advice? Isn’t that putting the cart way before the horse? B) what credentials do you have to be giving advice on this? You don’t have a fandom around anything you’ve worked on. It’s like a food critic going into the kitchen to tell the chef how to cook. Just because you’re in the space doesn’t mean you know best on how it works.

Someone said this in the comments and it stuck with me; "if a character's kill count is over 10,000 innocent lives, they are irredeemable" So in Lily's mind numbers decide the chance of redemption, that mindset lacks one thing, intent. Going by her logic, a soldier in a war story being ordered to, and then later forced to drop a bomb killing 10,000 people is worse than a serial killer in a horror book maliciously choosing, torturing, and killing 10 people in the cruelest way possible

Why are so many of these "tips" just "Don't do this, or you are a huge turd." Just comes off as "I don't like this, if you do it, I hate you."

"Friends is more popular than any anime because it's low stakes" In my favorite anime the highest stakes are either imaginary sequences or a girl getting bitten by a mean cat lol

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Lily: "Dont try and do what Avatar did" Me: (remembering the countless times Lily b!tched about how Steven U should have done what Avatar did)

"artists draw, writers write" me, a comic artist who writes his own stories: guess i'll just die

I love the archery rule because they have several rules about how stories don’t need to be realistic but yet want bows to be hyper realistic for some reason

I think #24 was aimed at Zuko. Also, with the unredeemable kill count rule, the Doctor from Doctor Who has a kill count somewhere in the trillions, yet people still love and adore them.

But an anti-hero still does heroic things, doesn't he? A villain protagonist just means it's a bad guy who's a protagonist. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Protagonists aren't inherently heroic or good.

There are three types of adults who enjoy children's animated shows - People who are chill and like what they like - Insecure people who claim they're actually super dark and mature - Whatever the hell this was

Tip 8 reminds me of the undertale rules in which you can spare just 1 enemy and get the normal ending 😂

As a trans (and ace) person, I actually disagree with tip 14. I like reading trans metaphors generally more than I like trans main characters. Trans representation is important and having trans characters is great, but when it comes to writing the topic, it's easier for me to consume media that is indirectly telling that same story instead of media that is directly reflecting my trauma back at me.

"Mom ! I killed 9999 people." "I still love you, daughter."

Lily: Stick with either comedy or drama and don’t start with comedy only for the story to become dramatic William Shakespeare: Guess I won’t write Romeo and Juliet now.

Tip 34 was definitely only there as a jab to Steven Universe because of it's "Steven only" perspective. I can't think of any other story/show that would be a jab at.

how can someone sound like a crybaby conservative and like a crybaby liberal at the same time its like genuinely impressive

So the ACTUAL writing tips I've learned from this video are "have fun, do what works, don't be a bigot", and I'm here for it

Hey guys! Quick story, I actually quit writing my passion project of 2 years a few months after watching Lily's content. Her tips made me think my story was too flawed to save. Back in December, I watched this video, and it inspired me to start writing it again. I came back to thank you for helping me see past Lily's black-and-white ideas and come into my own as a writer. I owe you two a lot. Edit: Thank you to everyone for all your support! Your replies always make my day. Happy writing to us all! May we live to see our own hour-long videos on Lily's channel.

The “don’t use reclaimed slurs in your work” that’s cool… then how do I reclaim them????

This video honestly helped me so much. At the time it came out I was surrounded by people who thought like Lily, and being lonely and desperate to fit in I was starting to fall into that "You must never engage with any problematic media or you're a disgusting person" rabbit hole. It was miserable being in that headspace, and what these people decided was ""problematic"" was abitrary and could change on a dime. This video helped me see how limiting that is, and helped me get out of it. Fun thing, thanks to this video's recommendation I did go and watch 'Snatch' not too long afterwards. Another thing was also being in a book club with my friends from uni, and it had become an infamous running joke of me showing up having not read the book. I could only ever be on the edge of the discussion, never able to properly engage with what everyone was talking about. After watching this video and you guys begging people to engage more with different media I got off my ass and started reading more regularly again. Since then I have read some fantastic and engaging books. It was just the boost I needed. I love that all the work on this channel encourages people to engage more with stories and media they love and share that joy. This video came out just when I needed it to. Thank you.

Adding "Makes you a huge turd" to each message will definitely make people take your advice seriously as honest writing advice ,and not some salty complaint letter

the fact that lily will ban, block, and silence ANYONE who even mentions Steven Universe because she's "so tired of talking about Steven Universe" BUT SHE TALKS ABOUT IT ALL THE TIIIIME UGH

So, I basically came here because I saw another video responding to this thread and I just felt the need to marinate in it a little longer. I’m currently on #8 in this video and already “The tone of Steven Universe doesn’t accommodate the actions of the Diamonds” is a more cogent criticism of Steven Universe than anything Lily Orchard has said. I don’t even think I AGREE with it but it’s something that can at least bear an argument.

There is also an example that completely debunks the 8th point about a character killing 10,000 people being irredeemable. Luke Skywalker and the rest of the rebels are now hopelessly irredeemable by that logic. They blew up the Death Star twice.

I didn't ask to be born, I have to live with it. My characters didn't ask to be written, they have to live with it... now if you'll excuse me, I have an over-the-top violent torture scene to write, followed by an unnecessary sex scene where enemies become lovers but continue to try to kill each other anyway, after one of them murdered an entire populus of 10,001 people and still gets redeemed anyway; just for you Lily.

The idea of telling the queer community they can't use queer as a reclaimed slur to mean something descriptive or positive is baffling to me. I quite like the word.

5 - it is very important for lessons in children’s media to not tell kids that you should kill people you perceive as evil

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="71">1:11</a>:30 I have a big old problem with this one. 1 her “tip” implies that only woman can be rape victims (wtf?) and 2 it entirely depends on execution… one of my favorite series berserk, the main villain Griffith was raped as a child and the main hero Guts was also raped as a child. It has a big effect on who they both are as people and effects the story in a very sad and very compelling way. You don’t have to write everyone as a hero, that’s not the point of a story, they can be human, they can have nuance, it’s not banned to write complex characters with compelling and tragic backstories, Griffith is not a villain because he was raped, Griffith is a villain because he is a vile and selfish person, guts is not the hero because he was raped he is the hero because he is a complex man with study morals and can preserve through anything. She has horrible tips

Honestly disagree on Aang being a simp, Aang has disagreed with Katara a lot

The constant "you're a huge turd" thing is so cringy it hurts.

Lily's whole shtick seems to be "Show creators stupid! Show fans who don't share my gripes stupid! Everyone but me stupid! They should run all their creative decisions past me for approval, because I'm the smartest, unlike you SHEEP."

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1616">26:56</a> stevonnie was never sexualized by the show, but by other characters, and they make a point in the episode that this makes stevonnie uncomfortable, that it's wrong to repeatedly flirt with people who aren't interested. As a teen who developed quicker than other girls I feel so seen in this episode. (Also yeah its fine to not like SU but to repeatedly hate on a children's cartoon for many years after it's airing is not a healthy thing for her to do)

Can we talk about how she called making rape victims villains misogynistic, implicitly saying men can't be raped? Because... Yikes.

This is... just fanfiction. She’s just talking about fanfiction, that’s all she wants to see. And not even the fun kind of fanfiction given the amount of sex shaming she spouts.

I could not imagine Avatar: The Last Airbender having Aang and Katara finally get officially together any earlier than the Finale. Both of them had so much trauma and needed so much growth that it was the perfect conclusion.

"Heroes sparing and redeeming villains is bad." Says the person who stans Star Wars, one of the most iconic examples of this.

Whenever people ask "Why doesn't Batman kill the Joker?" I want to counter with "Why doesn't the State kill the Joker?"

“Rocky horror is written by a terf” …Rocky horror was written by a non-binary person lol. Lily has a tendency to call people she dislikes “terfs” even when the people are literally trans lmao

i think part of me understands the frustration of heroes not killing truly evil villains, but i think it makes sense because no matter how terrible a person may be, it comes down to whether the hero can stomach taking someone's life. we can all imagine that we'll be fine because most of us will never be in this situation, but it's a very traumatizing thing to do and experience. so it makes perfect sense to me why heros would rather not resort to murder. There is kindness to be found in a hero who despite being in the presence of evil, they choose to not take their life because they choose to not subject themself to that trauma and they choose not to subject the people around them to it either, including the villain. i think it's been implied in a lot of heros, but i would love for that point to be more explicit, that they choose not to kill because it would have such a ripple affect that it is not worth taking the life of another person.

About number 19, as an autistic person who has ethical challenges (I'm constantly trying to define rules for something so subjective and case-by-case) and loves maths and physics, people like that DO exist. Edit: Also, some of my characters that I've made are based on stereotypes and are meant to progress far beyond that. I have a cat-themed jewel thief stereotype who's not into dudes and retired to raise children. I have a heroic "chosen one" who had a group of pals, and he became increasingly paranoid, was manipulative, and killed a child just so he could have another chance at life. I have a self-insert, except he's one of the weaker characters, and he's also given his power, not earning it or being chosen. Plus he's distinct enough from me through character development and also serves as a metaphor for authors interacting with their own works.

Remember: when it’s Zuko, he did nothing wrong on his own because it can all be traced back to abused, but when it’s Catra, she doesn’t deserve love or growth because she fought Adora earlier

"rule 11 dont pair adults with children" "rule 12 dont sexualiz3 teenage characters" me: (slowly looks at lily orchard's stockholm)

creating a story is like building with LEGO, you're using the same pieces and parts as everyone else, what matters is how you stack them together to create something enjoyable and stable.

I had a sinking feeling at seeing "LGBTA" twice in a row so it really wasn't surprised to see her go full mask off with telling queer people what words they can use to describe themselves. I don't know this woman (I'm gathering that she's trans based on the clear "do NOT misgender her" statement which doesn't really excuse it) but like... sorry not sorry, as a queer person, I'm going to write stories with queer characters who call themselves queer and that does a lot more for the queer community than perpetuating leftist infighting ever will.

"Thank god Lilly Orchard isn't a real writer..." Shots fired. Shots landed.

Lily: Every executive producer needs to have a creative writing course and accept their faults and criticism (which I too believe as an artist and as an amateur writer). Also Lily: *writes as if she never took a writing course to begin with, never accepts her faults nor any criticism*

Rule 34 is also a Steven Universe vague post, just so everyone is clear.