Ah so they are a little bit faster
Only when it rains. 
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I like the way you think! LOL!
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ayo magic is real???
what would you do with all that power?
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Teach others our peaceful ways
BY FORCE
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THIS.
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Hmmm. I’d be tempted to create the perfect world but then it’d be sad to leave this one behind.
I fear that fixing the world would be harder than creating a new one but if I had the power to do so, I’d want to try.
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Mmm yes works every time
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Sigh. I’m questioning everything again.
Sometimes I worry if in the remote possibility my books would gain any type of traction, they’d catch an eye of one of those religious fanatics that love boycotting Netflix, etc. Because my books treat demons as normal people and there are people that think this approach teaches people to be evil or something.
On the other hand, that would be a nice publicity stunt, lol.
But there are other reasons why I think about that. I have no problem talking to internet strangers about it but when it comes to in-person, I struggle because I don’t know how to explain WHY I’m writing about demons. There’s no particular reason. I just do.
It’s even worse with family. How do I go about telling my mom that my book is about a couple of teenage half-demon boys that fall in love?
My mom is no “Karen,” she’s not the kind to shun or boycott but I have never seen her embrace the strange either.
And there’s also the other side to this. Someone could misinterpret the message of my stories and claim that my book says that being gay is evil so it makes sense that they’re demons. Sigh. How do I avoid that?
I’ve been second guessing myself about this topic for a long time. I treat demons as a fantasy species, I could call them a made up name, or, darn it, I could call them elves, but I’d be losing something if I did. Because if I talk in my book about stigma against demons, I don’t have to go further into it. It’s easy to understand. If I say that angels are the opposite of demons, there’s not a whole much more I have to add to it.
The more new concepts I introduce, the more time I’d have to spend explaining them.
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It’s never the job title or various aspects of jobs, but the way they culminate together.
So, the Assassin’s Journals seperates “Assassin’s” into categories:
- Big game bounty hunters
- Magic game bounty hunters
- Official law via bounty hunting
- Secret law via bounty hunting
- Temporal disturbances (making sure timelines of countless worlds don’t cause problems)
- International disturbances (making sure subject kingdoms don’t screw over the Empire)
- Internal disturbances (keeping all the assassins under control)
- Records and statistics
(Various sub-segments not listed to category, as well.)
Now, this is WAAAAAY more than merely being able to kill people privately, but as they all have to be damned good at murder, the title Assassin being applied to these groups isn’t too surprising.
My MC is #4, will work for #5-#7 and the unlabled, shows promise in #2, and creates #8, will become a local head to #4 after hardship.
And I don’t think she’s killed a single person in the series, so far.
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Overlord features a skeleton wizard taking over the world and nobody gave a dragonquest slime about it.
Mostly because was busy being offended over Redo of Healer, Rising of Shield Hero, and My Hero Academia.
I directly address paganism vs monotheism in several of my projects-I am in more danger than you of being can cancelled.
OOh, that sounds really interesting!
Have you ever tried to talk to people about it? And I don’t mean friends or writing/reading enthusiasts.
Like family, non-atheist family. How did you handle it?
…
I fear that a question, do you even believe in God, will come up in this type of conversation. And I don’t know how to answer that. Because I do but I keep my fantasy world sort of separate from my beliefs. I don’t see one excluding the other but I don’t know how to back this up.
At the same time, my universe has 6 religions already as is, and though it’s mostly fictional, there are grains of my true beliefs or plain fascinations within them.
I guess my true, deep-down beliefs aren’t 100% aligned with my “official” religion.
People tend to see these topics as black and white. You either believe and preach it 100% or you’re out.
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I’m about 3.5 books in in it, haven’t posted a thing. Honestly, thinking on it, it’s probably my best story, currently.
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Ah yeah, I get those frustrations. I have similar feelings about my current story - I tackle relegion, specifically Hinduism (which is what I was born into), and eventually showed corruption amongst the gods and that the gods’ so-called vessels were just pretending, but I know that my relegion, at times, can be very… intense (look at hindu-muslim conflicts, it’s all over my country), and there are a lot of orthodox people that would make their followers believe anything if they thought my book was bad in terms of values (eventually, the relegion as a government system is toppled). I wasn’t writing it for my audience, but I would like to see my book in Indian bookstores, too, someday. And eventually, I decided to just make up my own system of gods and relegion.
Angels and Demons would be a similar conflict, I think. And it’s also hard to guess how much you’re overthinking or how much of it could be real issues. And it’s hard to discuss these things with family because they might see it as something else entirely.
I’ve tried pitching my book to my mother. She’s told me explictly before, not to write about relegion (because it makes life so much harder if the book gets into a controversy), and yet my book is not really ABOUT the relegion. It’s about relegion as a government. It’s confusing how to draw that line and explain that to readers without actually explaining it.
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Yeah. Kudos to you for pitching it to your mom.
I keep wondering if I do the same with mine.
I don’t know, maybe she’d be cool with it. Maybe I don’t give her enough credit.
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The thing is, I don’t even know the answer to that question for myself. I’m already an older teen - almost an adult, and I should be able to define that by now.
And the struggle with that is that I’ve had genuine moments when I actually love partaking in relegious events - I just wonder if that’s because it’s a part of my culture and makes me feel connected to my extended family, or if it’s something more. And I’m not generally relegious. I don’t feel connected to ‘god’ when I do anything relegious. I just… feel connected to myself.
Yeah, this is a very hard thing to explain.
This. This is so true, and it makes it so hard to define your own feelings.
It’s always the maybe…
But maybe you could try hinting at it? Asking what she thinks of fantasy books with similar elements before explicitly telling her you write something like that?
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The culture aspect is huge.
I think my biggest problem is that I have to learn how to talk about it, how to confidently say what it is about, without undermining myself.
You see, I thought I had that part down, but then recently, I had to answer the question, what do you write about, expecting more than “about fantasy” and I felt so stuck.
I should practice this.
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Yes, this is so hard to define! And I don’t want to go give them the logline, because that feels like I’m pitching the book to them, and I don’t feel too confident about that. But then, if I want to define the themes, how do I tell them it’s about Relegion and Politics and the move towards democracies.
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I do have another story idea set in the world of Alterra that is different from the anthology that I am working on.
I have the general idea down I just have to tweak it a bit.
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