We have transcended to the hyper triangle

love dodecahedron

hhahahaha

WE NEED 4D LOVE PLOTS 2D AND 3D ARE TOO WEAK

Was he ever in the shallow end?

Thats true! Think about protagonists parents

Easy! Any number of extras could die to show that the series is getting super serious and dark, including the protagonist's friends, siblings, girlfriend/boyfriend, comedic relief, or just a random person on the street. The most important thing to remember when killing off characters is that characters dying is inherently dark and serious and should therefore be used at all times when a character is no longer needed for the plot, because the story gets darker and more serious the more people are killed off. Also, these character deaths should be used to give the protagonist the push they need in the moment, but should hold little long-term consequences, no matter the relationship with the protagonist. The protagonist should have the same reaction to the guy down the street dying as they do for their best friend of many years dying.

Or to show how all marriages are secretly dysfunctional so their daughter should just hop into bed with whoever? 🙄

"A couple of married demons gets curb-stomped by protagonist with holy intents"

Exactly! The tragic couple who has a cute baby child who usually has magical powers that gets adopted and then later gets forgotten by the protagonist to show how kindhearted they are and doesn’t highlight how sloppy the writing is. A classic.

That sounds amazing.

Norm Finnegan, Vampire Slayer. Cut to a montage of Norm equipping his gear: stakes, blades, silver, a quick combing of his bushy mustache, and tying the laces of his white new balances, stained with grass juice and old blood.

Imagine a seedy bar scene where he walks in dressed in a tucked in polo shirt, sits at the bar and orders a Shirley temple (aka sprite and grenadine). He talks to the bartender and just avoids using profanity the whole time.

I’m down with every idea presented here

@@nikolascoffey6453 instead of being like Supernatural's Sam and Dean with a classic muscle car, he takes his kids on a cross country road trip all summer in an RV, with hidden weapons all over the place.

And his rival must have a katana

The bigger the better for the forced berserk reference, surely the fans will consume anything with a reference in it

@@darkservantofheaven or a rapier

Or big fucking gun.

Ahh, you mean a garou glaive?

Don't forget that he can also now do "Revolutions" versions and "Resurrections" versions.

In the future: *A Reloaded of a Reloaded!*

The best writers always recycle their previous ideas

@@pokemonmaster0079 what about "redux", "revamped", and "remake/made" (it works for video games). Oh and can't forget about remastered. Seriously this is a great way to look back at old topics with how much the channel has grown (or even how the genre has changed (which they constantly are)). There are a lot of older videos I'd l8ve to see in his current style, if only to throw in the TWA expanded universe ad segment (but really it does feel like JP has adapted his advice overtime (like the Mary Sue video feels dated when you see a comment about how calling character's Mary Sue's now has gone from criticism to bland insult)).

@@vullord666 Don't forget "Retold"

@today was a good day Dude go away

@@eduardopantoja9115 this in like every chain. I get the sense that youtube link is not something I'd want my parents to watch. At this point just report and hope youtube bothers to do anything. Trolls hardly ever actually care when confronted.

@@eduardopantoja9115 I don't rember why, but I'd already blocked this person. Obviously I was correct in my assessment.

WHERE JESUS AND BUDDY NOT ROOMMATES?????

@@vullord666 the comment or the user? I sometimes do both.

Well Said.

Yep

Technically some of these tropes can't really be avoided given the genre, but I get the sentiment.

Dresden files

Yeah I actually deconstruct some of these tropes ones my story and not in a 🎵darkness! No parents!🎵 sort of way (….well mostly, this story is still dark just not grimdark) more of in an examining the tropes sort of way

I created a fictional city for my novel set in modern day Brazil and had to worldbuild it just as much 🤷

Yeah, if a writer is not going to bother to improve their story, they can at least write a consistently bland story so I don't feel compelled to read any part of it.

"It's this place you already know the look of combined with this stuff you're meant to think is outlandish and exciting but are also very familiar with. Moving on, my stand in is super great."

Mega City One in Judge Dredd is literally the comedian to Judge Dredd"s straight man.

in my story's lore, it's not that complex. earth is the most overpopulated planet in the universe, you can get superpowers due to a space rock, wojaks do not exists (i'm just tired of seein them, specialy the edits), and it's located in a city that it's never stated where it's located like springfield, that's it, that's the whole lore.

I take it back. The whole video is loosely a subtle Harry Dresden reference.

tbf the whole thing is an in joke between the author and the publisher

@@matthiasbindl7085 Yep. It started with the first book.

PARCORE!!!!

@@TheStonewall117 one does not yell parkour. One simply do parkour.

indeed!

It's also because new books are being written which tend to be influenced by what's currently happening in the real world so sums of those books pave the way for the evolution of the genre

Not only that, but the genre overall will change over time, bringing different tropes, pitfalls, concepts and real-world influences into play. The world in which Dragon Ball was written is very clearly not the same world in which Fairy Tail was written.

Mental health?! Thatsbig.

@@marocat4749 verrrry big

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@@gamedome8802 tone deaf

It’s interesting but you need to be extra careful with putting them together to make sure the story don’t look like Frankenstein’s monster. For example, unicorn races, using some of the usual unicorn depictions, they are one of last things that should be in a race. And if you change them too much, they would just be a horse with a horn and maybe some magic. It’s not a bad thing depending on what you are trying to do, but you should keep the changes in mind.

the sims

Honestly I feel that cofee talk is a good urban fantasy that does something like that

Theres a series called serafina dragonborn that at times can be immensely cringe inducing but does have that kind of setting. When it isn't doing a 50 shades of grey ripoff it's a fun urban fantasy with decent world building but a bit of a dumbass ending.

I can see people or creature that can cast fire magic buying more sweets and vegetables because casting fire magic burns more calories and sugars

Tryhard gang!

tryhard gang represent also if I made an urban fantasy setting then wizards would either run on coffee or on caster sugar, meaning magic's rare because they suck at staying healthy

imagine not making your own mythology from scratch This comment was made by the TRYHARD GANG

Based

Indeed, the "Karen" is the most terrifying monster of all.

An urban fantasy about a retail worker hunting monsters who shop at his or her (or xir/their, if you want a nonbinary character) store?

@@canaisyoung3601 That's Five Nights at Freddy's

@@Piromanofeliz Original comment is a positive statement. However, the term "based" can only be applied to normative statements. Try learning the meanings of words before using them.

Chainsaw man it's a pretty good urban fantasy it's gets very dark though but dose have somethings in common.

@@trackingdifbeatsaber8203 If we're bringing up weeb shit, and you're into visual novels, check out Tsukihime and the (2004) Fate/Stay Night visual novel, not the anime. Pretty damn good as far as urban fantasy goes.

@@Razor1473 I didn't have a good time with the anime dropped it around episode 5 so probably won't. however with lockdown I have plenty of time i didnt really like anything about it what dose the graphic novel do better?

@@trackingdifbeatsaber8203 if u re goin to watch anime just watch fate zero Fate stay night night are garbage

They do this in the Monster Hunter International series. There are multiple chosen ones who serve as champions for various factions.

Well, being attacked by faeries in an IKEA store would be a fun scene, but the rest is shit. :)

Or you know what would be actually interesting? An IKEA store inhabited by Wichtel/Heinzelmännchen who have mistaken it for a real home. They would like to do some housework, but they can't because everything is always perfect and it drives them crazy. But then a Poltergeist moves in and throws stuff around and the Wichtel are happy, because they are now able to help out and fulfill what they consider their purpose.

Only if it's the scp ikea.

"Can you freaks let me do the horizontal tango in peace?! Geez..."

i got 17, but i don't like writing romance, then i rolled again. got a 9, then 8, 2 and then FINALLY 15 lol

I'm surprised how they even condone hunting rare MYTHOLOGICAL creatures. We protect other animal species that could kill us out of an understanding that endangered species and extinction are bad things for the environment (especially when it's our fault). Actually, how has the entire world's environment not been shaped by the abundance of mythological species (of which there is only ever one member of, but like a billion one membered species).

Because of the government and stuff!

Of all the Urban Fantasy series, one of the best to tackle this plot point was actually Devil May Cry. Yes, the wacky woohoo pizza man himself. And the answer is: demon hunting actually DOES pay well if you know what you're doing. But Dante is just really bad at managing his money, he blows all his money on designer coats until he doesn't even have enough money for pizza and utility bills. So in the DMC franchise, you have to be extra sure that you didn't dump ALL your points into demon hunting, and have some left over for basic economics

@@TARINunit9 not only that, but it is also stated that dante actually has to pay for all infrastructure damage his battle with demons cause, and there is also the debt with angelo Dante is very deep into financial problems

@@SterneStarfrost Actually I'm kind of curious how he was found liable for any of that. DMC1: unless Mallet Island was declared a UNESCO Heritage Site nobody needs to pay for any of that. DMC2: doesn't fucking exist, so moving on. DMC3: I would think that was Arkham's guilt, because Dante didn't have anything to do with the Temenigru. That said, Dante did lose his first shop in chapter 1, so if he didn't have insurance then yeah he lost a lot of money there. DMC4: not a lot was actually destroyed, just the monolith in the middle of Fortuna square. Though the end-credits scenes show that Dante was never actually paid for that job (Lady nabbed all the money instead)

Oh, it was. And it was good.

I mean, the hat thing is primarily a Dresden Files joke AFAIK.

@@AaronRotenberg agreed - that was the first thing I thought of.

They are really horny though. Especially in the later ones, when it doesn't have a lot to do with the plot and is honestly just kind of weird and awkward.

@@RorikH Also the whole "I'm low-key sexist but I'm just old-fashioned so that's fine actually" is definitely a choice.

@@Healermain15 ugh just don’t read the book. There are plenty of nice PC Saint Sarkesian approved stories you can read.

Nah. It’s just an ez reboot.

It's easy to see that this is more like an expansion of the original, rather than a total remake.

Seems more like this is the second chapter. Considering what a goldmine of cliches urban fantasy is I don't think even he could contain it in one video.

Drinks only spring water scooped under a full moon (by a virgin)?

@@johannageisel5390 An alternate way to defend yourself from vampires is binging fast food. Kill them with your cholesterol.

@@cwovictor3281 And diabetes. Has a diabetic vampire hunter been done before?

A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

When a Horrible Writing Advice gets a sequel before the new Game of Thrones book is released

@@TechnoMinarchistBall never gets old

Early Dresden Files was _real_ bad about this tbh. I'm still pissed about _one_ betrayal on that scale, two would be enough to make me swear that off forever.

Ever heard this anime called Gate? It is about the Japanese Defense Force fighting against fantasy creatures and elves.

@@ahniandfriends123 one of my favorites. In fact, it was the show that got me into the whole anime thing in the first place.

It's a pretty common and solid concept, but it's also what he's describing when he talks about detectives and monsters of the week. X-Files, any anime with government involvement (Death Note, Parasyte), Torchwood, X-Files, etc etc. It's a good simple setup, the detective or cop plot gives a simple procedural formula for creating MOTW stories, which allows them to dole out the fantasy slowly taking from numerous sources. MIB, RIPD, a half a dozen comics characters, Buffy to some extent, though her organisation is informal, all fit this bill. Every Stargate, etc etc.

So the Men in Black comics.

@@ahniandfriends123 Gate is alright but if something like that were to be done in a different way i think i would rather it be done "imperium foot soldiers discover a genestealer cult". In other words instead of one shotting a dragon with a tank they end up in a hot mess that they really arent prepared for.

He did touch on tech for military applications in his Sci Fi war story video and I think civilian applications minorly in his civilizations video.

Yes. I'm writing Sci-fi fantasy at the moment, and I want to put in the effort to make all parts plausible enough, or as plausible as it gets when you have mech knights fighting gravity-bending space Kaijus, and ancient wars between deities who represent the fundamental forces of the cosmos in which they fling galaxies at each other. For instance, the energy source of most very high-tech equipment is linked to magic. Magic comes from a parallel universe where everything is energy, and wormholes are used by the "magical" factions, while the other factions use warp drives. But the magic factions don't rule the universe because technology is more advanced than magic, at the cost of spending more energy. AI exists and can achieve sentience and self-awareness, but not everything is controlled by AI because there's a hostile alien species of energy beings who appear in deep-space and hijack electronic equipment, making entire fleets of "Robot zombies" and "Spaceship zombies" who can, in large numbers, devastate entire regions of space. But everything is fine if you turn your ship's systems off and scare them away with a few shots. Those creatures in reality come from the same parallel universe as magic, and are related to Fairies. (Fairies are also energy beings, and the undisputed masters of magic, but since they require very little resources to meet their needs, they only inhabit a single star system, the mythical Fatum (provisional name) star system.) Anyways, I enjoy the worldbuilding aspect of writing. And it's an excellent source for ideas. People have to do it more.

@@renard6012 Damn, I love those concepts. Getting very Babylon 5 or Farscape vibes. Reminds me of some stuff I had cooking in my head that I never wrote down cause I have a separate more grounded Sci Fi and a Fantasy setting.

The main reason to separate hard and soft magic has to do with your stories conflicts that must be resolved. Think of it like this. If you want magic to be part of the problems solution, you don’t want it to feel like an asspull. Which is why you need a somewhat hard one, since otherwise it becomes unclear how the problem was solved and will feel cheap. If magic has an only limited impact on problem solving, or just causes them, going soft is generally preferred. Since you otherwise waste time and limit the audiences imagination, on what’s possible.

So you mean game based plots Technically he’s already done them

and then SON OF URBAN FANTASY.

Don't forget about Urban Fantasy: Revenge of the Island!

And finally, just Urban Fantasy again so anyone talking about it has to include the publication date in parentheses every. Single. Time.

I'm a let Dr chef know you're on the internet again

Godamnit Bright got through the firewall again

Guys, let Dr. Bright do this to keep his focus away from the all-purpose coffee machine. At least he won't order cups of Explodium anytime soon.

@@deactivated6252 This is true...at least this activity is harmless...mostly anyway

Dante himself stuck Greek mythology into his Circles of Hell, so you're in good company.

That sounds like a Hellboy thing. Wont lie. 😅

I think you mean "Franchise Reboots Rebooted".

That would be uncomfortably meta, but this is not "Amazing Writing Advice", so I'm all for it.

Frenchise reboots rebooted yayyy

I don't know. Since a lot of the reboots are trying to be more racially and sexually diverse, he may wuss out or gloss over it. Speaking of which, anyone who doesn't think that urban fantasy can be or shouldn't be used as a metaphor for racial and ethnic discrimination has never seen this short-lived Comedy Central show "Ugly Americans". It might have been hit-or-miss on it, but it did do it.

I love The Dresden Files, but Jim Butcher needs to write with both hands.

@@RorikH aaaaaaaamen to that brotha

Mortal instruments. Enough said.

It's almost like humans are weirdly sexual sometimes

@@RorikH thanks I'm stealing that

Write it down, all of it. Once you stop day dreaming about your world, it starts to fade fast. I drew some concept art a while ago, and I barely remember what was for or I forget completely and the overly simplified note I made, make no sense.

@@QseftJohn This isn't the important stuff, just me being extra. This would only come up if A) Kalendros wakes up (not happening) or B) if I decide to use it to show Lier becoming omnipotent, which is not going to happen because I won't have room in between....what is the gender for a Rebis? I'll just call Lier's final state (s)he. Anyway, won't have room between (s)he having a heartfelt discussion with the reader while I try to silence them because they passed the 4th wall. I am an ambitious bastard.

@@shadowofhawk55 I feel you man, I constantly think how awesome my worlds are, but are to distract to actually write it. I recommend making notes to not get lost in your mythos, that can be fun all on it's own

I think that you sould write it as a guide then, if your story becomes a commercial success, you can always make several books with the lore so even your grandkids can live from it. 😉😉

@@calamitoso0066 Nah, I ain't Tolkien. His stuff is infinitely better than the dark fantasy shit I come up with.

Two urban fantasy series with no secret world: the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews (hybrid between postapocalytic fights against mythological monsters and the crime noir aspect of urban fantasy) and The Hollows by Kim Harrison (a witch, a vampire and a clan of pixies living together in a old church). Both have romantic subplots (without beimg the main focus) and magic is common knowledge and common use of spells in everyday life.

Luminine (not sure if spelled correctly) is a story about a young witch and a werewolf in fantasy world similar to our own.

I think Animorphs handles this pretty well, even though it's technically sci-fi and not urban fantasy. Oh no! Alien slugs are taking over the world! We have to keep this a secret! Because we don't know who is secretly an alien slug, and trusting the wrong person will lead to us being caught and most likely tortured and eventually killed. If we fall, the world is doomed. And spoilers. The world finds out about the alien slugs, when the protagonists realize things have gotten to complex for 4 kids and some aliens to stop.

What about the words when paranormal is a "self keeping secret"? So when mundie sees something supermatural, they either forget or their mind forcefully rationalize it. (Sometimes it kills the supernatural thing in question.)

What about if the reason is a combination some sort of side effect from the industrial revolution and the fantasy world's politics.

Yup, and you can't have it take place in a more obscure city like Omsk or Utrecht for example. Or just, you know, use your imagination and create your own city.

The fact that people live in Omsk is already fantasy as is.

That's the point though. Years and years of advertising and media exposure has given places like New York, London and Paris a reputation so far from reality, they've become myths in themselves. Everyone knows the idealized, Hollywood-movie version of these cities and what it represents, just like everyone knows what vampires and werewolves represent. The location is a character in itself, and just like the monsters, it's nothing more than a myth come to life. Yeah, Utrecht is pretty dope, but if you have to explain every landmark, local legend and even the general feel of the city, you might as well write a whole new city into existance.

@@mynamejeff3545 Why can’t there be a setting in a well known shithole. I want an Urabn Fantasy in an iconic city like Detroit, or Gaza, or 2003 Baghdad.

@@thetigerking2613 That'd be pretty funny. "Yes, there are undead monsters walking around [city] and there have been for centuries. No one has noticed yet because they look better than the human inhabitants."

Love triangle...the sequel

And if that doesn't work throw in a love dodecahedron

Everything in YA stories is just setting for the LOVE TRIANGLE.

A whole space opera episode would be nice.

Something like Dan Dare or Buck Rogers? I would love to hear about that because I, in all seriousness love, LOVE, Dan Dare...

@@renard6012 Honor Harrington is more like the very model of a modern space captain, at least judging by your average 20xxs space opera series; "Those dumb bureaucratic peacenics loaded our madeupton torpedo launchers with blanks, and now, because of that, Justice Badass and her crew will suffer in the crustacean claws of the C'ommie space invaders... Bud don't worry, she'll live up to her name and spawn an endless stream of sequels."

I mean, what's there to write about? They're always morally righteous, charismatic, attractive (very important), half the female crew is in love with him (also very important), never loses, always flawlessly pulls off "one in a million" maneuvers and plans, eventually becomes the last hope of the universe and he's always whi- *this post has been removed*

@@floricel_112 In other words, prime TWA material.

Vampires or dragons portrayed as CEOs of shady corporations because they hoard wealth at the expense of the common people? Nah! Vampires as hot emo guys that never hurt anyone despite being inherently predatory? Real shit!

CW's Supergirl is such a prime FUCKING example

@@cwovictor3281 Dang, Shadowrun really nailed that part of Dragons.

Better would be social commentary which is perfectly in line with supernatural setting: From the moment they stopped burning heretics at the stake the whole society has been in last few centuries inevitably going down the hill.

@@useodyseeorbitchute9450 Ok, boomer

Granted I read those books years ago, but I don't actually remember there being an actual reason for the masquerade in those books.

Ooooooh hey I remember reading her books when I was -mentally ill- 13.

@@crocodileguy4319 I don't think anybody's truly mentally sound at that age, don't know how Middle School teachers deal with it...

@@erikrinard7908 Teachers are usually the ones to cause it.

Who?

Redditors

@@subhamraj5365 I thought of "Nice Guys", but yeah redditors also fit.^^

Don't be ashamed of that, maybe your characters are interesting enough that they don't need to be edgy

To be fair, a block of cheese *does* have a few edges on it. (Of course, they aren't exactly *sharp* edges, but still...)

Just read some old Heavy Metal or Metal Hurlant magazines. You will find plenty of inspiration to do bloody, boozy and booby stories.

Yes, I too hate murderhobos. I can't count the amount of times a campaign had to stop because an idiot pulled a GTA style "massacre"... I was _this_ close to murder several PCs for the first time in years... Luckily those people simply faded away from the table we had, and we went back to good ol' neckbeard drama... I can handle that. In my opinion the only good alignments for role-playing are: Neutral good and lawful evil. All the rest are either boring or annoying derailing trash. Especially the chaotic ones. Those two force you to think before acting. If people need to know the character's alignment to guess how their character is going to act... Well, they should learn how to role-play, because they don't know!

@@DonVigaDeFierro The flaw of the character alignment is that it describes how a character may interact but it's highly inefficient to build a personnality, someone will not be neutral, lawful, evil or whatever all the time with everybody. And some alignment doesn't makes sense to me because it represent the exact same behavior, like the chaotic good and the lawful evil.

Hey! That’s my black leather-wearing young adult! I was cheating on my frenemy with benefits to be with them after they broke up with their vampire/werewolf hybrid SO because it’s the third act and the SO decided to have an emotionless affair with the hunky fishman! Mind you, I only discovered this while following the fishman to a coffee shop, where he flirted with a barista who is secretly a chosen new avatar of Vishnu. And in front of the barista’s angsty detective husband/rival who I am also sleeping with on and off! Screw the love triangle, I’m aiming for a love d20.

Honestly, I'd love to see different authors combine their stories to write their own crossover stories.

@@sxwriter8569 that sounds like Star Wars Legends

@@sxwriter8569 collaboration of different author styles is just a fun idea. It's probably more difficult (two writers trying to morph their individual images into one that works), but I'd love to see more of it even if it turns out a mess.

Every video on the channel is about Deconstruction and Reconstruction in a way. He brings up pit falls and things that do not make sense [deconstruction], and then ironically dismisses all ways to fix them [reconstruction].

Yeah, the prophecy happened no matter what but it was Voldemort's choice as to who was the Chosen One and for some mysterious reason, he happened to pick Harry.

Probably because he read the name Neville Longbottom and decided “lmao there’s no way someone like that will be a threat” LIKE A DUMBASS

@@emblemblade9245 Tom is after all a man who places a lot of emphasis on COOL-sounding names. Changes his own name to sound COOLER and EDGIER and insists that everyone address him as such or die. He read 'Longbottom' as one of the potential chosen ones and laughed for a week.

@@WhiteFangofWar I want J K Rowling to make this canon, she's made a bunch of things canon on a whim, so why not this.

"I'm not actually attracted to any of you, I'm literally contractually obligated to cause as many extra/pre-marital affairs as possible..." -Sucubitch

Ehh, more like he got called out for mistaking paranormal romance with urban fantasy, and now he's making a proper urban fantasy vid. Lol

That takes way too much work. Can't I just write them as caricatures of some black sitcom I watched 20 years ago?

nah let me just do stereotypes and tolken stuff, and cause twitter drama

Also for the love of God, DIVERSITY IS NOT JUST SKIN COLOR AND SEX! Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?! If every character is acting the exact same it doesn't matter what they look like, there's no actual diversity. A wide range of personality types, backgrounds, unique experiences potentially shaped BY their appearance (appearances alone are not defining in any way, it's how other people and the society around us interact with those appearances that create diversity (and this isn't going to be the same every time (also highly dependent on the setting, so fantasy and Sci fi have a lot more freedom than they act like they do (which should be used to create interesting commentary and not just "it doesn't matter")))), physical and mental impairments, illness, and you know just generally the things that make us different. Hell, race isn't even a real thing in humans. It's a social construct developed and maintained in society. Gender roles are literally determine by society. Yes there are things that make us different in biology or that can be seen immediately, but rich diversity goes much deeper than that. It's a conversation between personality, experience, and the society around you. DIVERSITY DOES NOT EXIST IN APPEARANCE ALONE. What irks me so much is people act like white and black people are Inherently polar opposites in everything at birth or fit into these massive generalizations about their likes in music and TV and hobbies and builds and etc. It truly baffles me how I've never seen a depiction of a black man struggling with mental illness or just in general that doesn't say brother or nigga (when you're black and have to look at people crazy when they expect you to talk like that) every five seconds. Personalities aren't built around the color of our skin. They CAN be influenced by it and how society interacts with us because of it, but that's all. There's no formula for how we turn out. On a certain level I can give writers some leeway in that society has ingrained a lot of these generalizations "you don't act black/you sound white" is a common phrase I hear meant as a harmless observation (often from other black people). You know I'd just love to kick this whole Twitter "woke" movement we've got going on in the face and make them realize we both 1) have no actual diversity in anything and 2) the forced "diversity" we're getting is just pertepuating racial (and other group's (idk how else to say that)) stereotypes and pushing people more and more into a forced or preconceived identity. Twitter loves to act like by just doing the bare minimum on the surface (and shutting down any actual conversation) they're improving things (and I guess things are better when you're living on the internet ignorant of the actual state of problems).

Yea, no. I'm just going to add a diverse character to replace/remove a side character/main character and chant about how diverse this character is every 20 seconds with none of the sublety or tact because diversity is the best thing ever. Oh and I'm also making that character an obnoxious mary sue because how else am I going to show off to the audience how awesome diversity is; even of it gets to the point that it breaks the established lore and rules of that world. And also because actually doing research to what i'm writing for is too much work.

The biggest problem is that they usually just pick the first non white person they find, then stop writing the character right then and there, because that's all people are in Hollywood's eyes

@today was a good day I've never seen cuckoldry of this magnitude.

Also... oof my ex supernatural fan heart is quaking

That also counts.

Early dresden maybe but Jim's books are so well known because he avoids a lot of these pitfalls.

The horny bit was defiantly a slam at butcher but overall most of these complaints don't apply

@@user-qn4xu4tq7n I guess there are a lot of third rate imitators of the Dresden Files that JP is attacking?

Is there a story about a worldwide deity battle royale in which they fight for the minds and prayers of humanity? There should be one.

@@renard6012 that sounds hilarious.

@@renard6012 Late comment, but it exists. It's a manga called "Records of Ragnarok"

Sounds weirdly random considering Artemis was basically the only god in the pantheon to never get married, date, or bang.

@@Bee-zr5pb exactly, so either the author stuffed in Greek gods without any thought, or Artemis has a very scandalous secret, that, if found out, would cause endless teasing by Apollo , and her Hunters would be pretty mad at her too.

I loved those books as a kid. The magic was so violent.

Don't read the mortal instruments

The average Harry Potter fan Vs The average skullduggery pleasent enjoyer

I think I've heard of skullduggery (at least the name) before, but I've never heard a single thing about it. What's it about?

@@thedarklrd6714 a skeleton

Last time I was this early, I was eating a sandwich! Thanks for the help!

Alternatively: "The Dresden Files, but bad." or "The SCP wiki, but shit."

Or just say "Supernatural, but on paper"

SMH just do what Bright did and make your minorities *really* fucking questionable, and represent them with monsters that the setting pretty much said were the minions of an evil dark lord. There will be absolutely *zero* controversies doing things like that... Totally.

@@higueraft571 i was just thinking about token characters on the worse end that and the incident with orcs in dnd

Some advice i got about diversity: Please dont make _everything_ and _everyone_ designed around "diversity" if it means compromising everything else. Nobody will like that. poc's, racists, lgbtq+ community, homophobes, transphobes, libs, cons, lefts, rights, centrists, nobody, and i mean nobody will like that.

Percy Jackson: Allow me to introduce myself

@@heroofthewinds7765 I think its more commentary on it rather than having it. Rick Riordan masterfully weeves people of crazy different backgrounds together but rarely does he talk about issues these groups faced.

@@shadowofhawk55 Honestly if Rick Riordan's books are the gold standard, we still have a long way to go. Diverse cultural backgrounds feel present, but that's all. When I read his books (however many years ago, so this may not be accurate to his current writing), I noticed them there and mentioned and very empowering which I enjoyed (like I remember frank being broken as having Chinese mythological powers + being the son of Mars + something else + 99% chance I'm misremembering book I read a while back), but when it came time for difficult conversations it generally felt like the stock "X is bad" and move on. Even when it was a lot more complex, it wasn't always present in the story because "oh no we gotta get back to saving the world and our normal cast doing normal teenage things". I was surprised at how much the Egyptian series felt like contemporary American teenage shenanigans. The Norse series (got to like book 3 before I fizzled out) actually felt the most diverse in that our main character came from a background of living on the streets and consistently brought that outlook with him as it shaped his encounters. Plus more of the main cast was dealing with real world cultural stuff that felt both present and like it was impacting the story.

@@vullord666 Not the Gold Standard, just really good compared to other things that botch the attempt.

Tbh percy jackson and fablehaven are like the only urban fantasy books I know. Where do you guys find so many of them? Before this video, I wouldn't have thought this was such a huge genre at all.

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That contradicts the concept of Cthulhu itself.

@@MouldMadeMind but it could lead into an interesting about monsters going against expectations. Like vampires walking in daylight, or witch magic actually means being extremely lucky.

The fact that vampires don't just lobby congress to cut the funding to the NSA is the most unrealistic part of the world of darkness.

How could you say that?! Sir newguy is very trustworthy and only wants happiness for the world!!!

Watching the whole video... Yes. It does fall into some of these tropes. Not all of them, though.

It's wish fulfillment. They can't physically relate to the character, but it's more often than not everything they'd want to be in some magic alternate reality (and ngl, I would too). The problem is these characters are just as much blank slates as the "super bland anyone can project onto (but is somehow also the most special and gets every love interest)" character. At some point a good writer needs to sit down and write an actual complex character that experiences development and interacts with the world, and isn't just a list of powers or jane/John Doe personified.

marvel?

@@bonelessvegetal818 I think we found today's smartest man

@@bonelessvegetal818 modern* marvel