Awful as in mean and cruel or awful as in they aren’t good, and they tend to sugarcoat things or something else?
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Awful as in they’re crap. Substanceless.
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So, the reviews aren’t helpful as you would like them to be?
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Yes.
And they’re like UwU I am HERE for this bisexual mess!
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What? LOL!
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Maybe check out StoryGraph.
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I don’t know what goes through their mind.
Whats that?
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It’s basically a Goodreads not owned by Amazon. It has some features that Goodreads doesn’t which are nice but I don’t know a single person that is not using both as it’s not great for other things.
But the reviews I’ve read (which aren’t many) seem to be actual reviews and trigger warnings are easily accessible and ranked by how extreme the things are.
You can also transfer everything from Goodreads to it with a few clicks but it takes quite awhile if you have a lot on Goodreads.
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Why can’t I write something that I like and want to write, alongside the stories that I am gonna write? 
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I sometimes find the laundry list of content warnings for books on StoryGraph hilarious. The mere mention of a controversial topic gets flagged and suddenly every book looks like the worst, most brutal thing ever written. (There’s the option not see content warnings of course, and I like that the average book rating by users is not as visible as Goodreads).
Yeah, I like the idea of an actual review. And trigger warnings being organized.
MAybe I will try it.
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Maybe I am curious, but I can use some assistance.
I made an error in both chapters one and two which are starting to nag at me. This is something I really should have placed more thought in.
Anyway, I am well aware that this is my fictional story and idea, but I want to know how to execute this properly.
How in the world does ridiculously looking human robot birth a half breed by a mage?
This sounds so bizarre and the funny, yet scary thing is that I actually like it that way.
Moving on, in my fictional world a Machina is robot that comes in five stages or rather levels. The fifth level is where the Machina look so unbelievably human that if you were to put a Machina and a human next to each other then you couldn’t spot the difference unless you look at their eyes.
Still, a Machina Level 5 is very much a robot regardless of their totally human appearance. How do I slightly explain how a female Machina gives birth and how Machina’s mate overall?
I am curious to know. Because my characters are Mage-Machina which mean they are Machina capable of wielding magical powers.
I rather not go into full-blown detail, yet I am very much curious.
I shall use some material as planning work or something for background information.
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How about the mages don’t procreate with machina but instead bestow magical powers onto machina, allowing them to wield magic while still being robots? Because to me it doesn’t make sense for a non-living thing to be able to reproduce with a living thing, it’s like breeding someone with a vacuum cleaner 
Unless you throw something like whoever creates machinas puts human reproductive cells in the Level 5 Machinas, allowing them to reproduce, but the end result will still be a half human and half mage so I’m not sure.
Or you can make cyborg mages? So DNA-wise they’re 100% mage but they have body parts replaced with technology?
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I’ve got a thread idea and I thought I’d ask here. This Discord server that I’m in has a channel for showcasing excerpts of your work as a form of advertising your story—if people like the paragraphs you’ve written, they might check out your book to read more. I’m thinking of making a thread similar to that, with a few differences.
Well for one, you don’t have to share a paragraph from a Wattpad story or a draft that you already have up. You can share any kind of snippet as long as it’s a part of your writing that you feel like sharing. And while it can serve as advertisement, it’s less about getting readers and more about showcasing snippets. You can also drop “before and after” excerpts—say, you’ve rewritten a paragraph while editing and want to show people what the same scene looked like in the previous draft and what it looks like now. You can also show “progress snippets,” like showing what your writing looked like years ago vs what your writing is like now. Plus it can also serve as motivation for those who want to share their writing but haven’t completed a story yet.
Any thoughts? Not sure if I’ll make it yet, I just want to gauge interest first 
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One thing I want to mention is that Level 5 Machina have incredible superhuman capabilities due to being robotic. Yet they don’t wield Magecraft.
Mage-Machina could be a small race of magic wielding Machina that were created by a genius Mage. However, that genius Mage’s whereabouts are unknown, yet will play in important role in the story somehow.
Damn-it! Now, I’m mad at myself because I should have waited to jot some notes down that could have proven useful for this story! Ugh!!!
I like the whole cyborg thing though.
Side Note:
Something tells me that I am going to have to rewrite chapters one and two of my novel to make it “better”. I am not happy with the rushed outcome.
Fuck it! I am going to have to rewrite the WHOLE entire first draft because I am getting different ideas for the second draft that I should have written down in notes.
I could make changes for the third draft, but this shit is nagging at me now!
By being a synthetic uterus. Likely not through a birth canal.
Right now we are at the testing phase for premature babies (animals) getting a 2nd chance uterus.
And if you wanted to bill it that way for your robot lady, do so.
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Nice in theory but I’ve seen threads like that and it seemed like if you don’t put rules on, people just post their excerpt and don’t read anyone else’s and that would just become an advertising thread.
The threads that do work usually ask that you review one and only then you can post one.
The problem with that is that it’s just quick get done with it instead of an active thread with regulars (if I understand what you’re asking for). I’d love something like that too but I can’t commit to being very active on it either because life.
Not sure what the best approach to it is.
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Congrats 
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I’ve done that with WN. Although I can live without the standalone, it’s painful to watch it wither into nothing and I can’t do anything to save it. Also had that experience with another big traditional house, I didn’t even get a release in the end.
In short, I don’t trust any external publisher anymore. Rather just release and control my own. I don’t get readers, but at least I have creative control.
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