That's quite interesting actually! I'll be sure to check it out.
So... Uh my backstory for my story is kind of boring... But here we go.

About two years ago, I had started to really get into roleplay. I didn't know much about it though, so I kinda sucked at it... For about two weeks. A year later I was talking to my friend and decided to ask about TV shows and stuff, then I asked her if she knew what roleplay was. She didn't so I introduced it to her.
We were obsessed with Steven Universe at the time so we just went off that. So that's when we created this whole alternate universe and everything.
Now... When I was younger and saw the Steven Universe trailers, it looked... Pretty weird, and being honest I probably wouldn't have understood it if I hadn't watched it when I had. Now I'm sorry but, back then I wasn't a very huge anime fan. Everyone kept talking about something called, "My Hero Academia" so I decided to check it out, and fell in love with it. I get my stories based off a lot of things and alot of fandoms so I don't want to bore you by saying every single reason why I created my novel, but I will list the fandoms that come into play in it.
Ok so first Steven Universe, oviously. Then Gravity Falls, FNaF, MHA, and Miraculous Ladybug. Almost All of them are alternate universes. That's all hehe, if you like it, or feel intrigued, feel free to check it out!
https://m.tapas.io/series/A-Tale-of-Anomalies-Steven-Universe-AU-or-TwinAU

My series, Capture the flag, is influenced by Mad Magazine's Spy vs. Spy. I remember getting into it in middle school when I would watch the Mad TV (1995 version) shorts on Youtube. I got the complete casebook on my 15th Birthday and being captivated by the art work and remaking the strips with my art style. That steams from that but it's also my political stance on what America's foreign policy has been for the last couple of years.

Hi! Ok here's the interesting story about Page 8/ Episode 6 of my series. Quite a few people commented "Wow these gems are rude!" And my response was "This is based from an ACTUAL interaction I had. Yes they were that bad."

It happened when I was in the 8th grade. I was a new kid at my middle school (please note this was MIDDLE SCHOOL). Being new, of course I didn't know anybody and the worst period for most new kids is lunch because they have no idea who to sit with. So I just chose this empty section of a table that was adjacent to another table with a bunch of other boys. They started saying "Hey you can't sit there, go somewhere else!" or something like that. I replied back, "I'm new, I just need somewhere to sit." Then they replied, "NO. Go somewhere else!" Because I was 13, really shy and awkward, I left

However, I thought, "Let's take this not so positive experience and use it in a constructive manner!" So that's how this scene was born

My series stemmed from years and YEARS of creating self-insert fanfics/fancomics. As a little kid (I'm talking 5-6 years old) I've drawn myself going on adventures with Mario and Luigi in the Mushroom Kingdom. Then in middle school, it was me with Mega Man characters and Vocaloids. High school and college was me with Fire Emblem characters. And now in the year 2021, it's me/my self-insert living with my fighting game mains (ooohhhh title drop~)
As I've grown up, I've done a lot of things in my life, and I'm hoping to draw from my own experiences and just inject them into the comic in fun ways.

well I watched a heist movie and I thought "hmm i wish i could find more stories like that but gayer"
then a few days later I was staring at a bottle of vodka when it suddenly hit me like "oh i can write that story, yeah i'll write that story"
then about a week later I had a storyboard ready

About Die Instrumente Gottes this is not that interesting but...

My best friend hates this story, not because of the plot but because the MCs hats.
Yeah, the hats

She is a fan of my other story, knows every detail of it and we talk for hours about ASEDO (every time we touch the topic of course) for the past 20 years, but when is about DIG shes like "meh, I hate these hats" I cant but laugh and suffer.
She had some good ideas for stories that never wrote and I offered to draw one of them instead of DIG. I liked one of these to be my first but she never did it and I ended with a frustrated love for her MC, with a draft idea but no script, so I returned to DIG because to draw ASEDO first would be too much for me.

So Die Instrumente Gottes was published first because my bff was too lazy to write a script.

My one was created years ago. I was lying in my bed having random thoughts, as you normally do when I had the random thought "Hey, why don't many protagonists use poison as their abilities?" and I was just scrolling through looking at things that I read and none of them really had poison as a heroic thing.
So I ended up calling one of my friends to make them wake up like the saint I am and he helped me start writing it. And after that, I spent over 3 years constantly changing the story being indecisive. But now the whole poison hero is still there but in a very differing way.

My inspiration for one of my novels, Lucky Charm, just came to me randomly during one of my late-night youtube binges xD I was just watching whatever popped up in my feed and chanced upon a tarot reading about dating (random, ik). Inspiration just sparked out of nowhere and before I knew it, I was wondering... what kind of story I could come up with involving fortune-telling. And well, here I am, writing a BL novel!

The story revolves around a cynical author who has a bleak outlook on love due to past trauma. But most importantly, his fear of love is caused by his belief of the ominous fortune-telling he received nine years prior! The central focus of this story is his journey on acceptance and finding love with his new editor from South Korea ^^

I came up with Hiraeth after I had carpal and ulnar tunnel surgery on my dominant hand. I was going through a creative withdrawl since I could barely draw through the pain (it lasted from October to December 2020), and I couldn’t use my hand for a week after surgery. Once I could draw again, I was really inspired by animatics on YouTube and I couldn’t help myself anymore. I began to design a new character, but wasn’t feeling the anatomy considering I had a more cartoony style and learned more accurate anatomy in school. So I decided to change up my style, and that night at 4 am, I came up with the design of the main character (Mina). For the next week, I came up with the characters anywhere from 3 am to 5 am. I kept developing the story and characters, and a few months later, I realized that all of the characters represent a part of me and that my mind just decided to use it as a coping mechanism for everything going on. I talked with my therapist about it, and she agreed that it was a very healthy coping mechanism for me!
I really hope you guys find it interesting! I’ve been putting my heart and soul into it, I have a lot planned for it, and it updates every Saturday!

Your story was hella interesting! I was a huge Power Ranger fan when I was younger, too. marathoned everything from season 13-20, Dino Thunder to Super Megaforce (can't believe that was an actual season name lmfao). I tried to get into Kamen Rider a while ago too and started with Kamen Rider Doubles or something along those lines, but I wasn't a big fan. think Kamen Rider Decade would be a better jumping in point for me?

the inspiration for "Goodbye, Rival" came from a time I had to learn to let go of pretty much my only friend at the time. don't wanna bore you with all the details, but she was kind of delusional - she thought pokemon were real and existed in another dimension and that adults are all inherently evil, and I'm talking about a 13-16 year old here. when I met her, like you'd expect from a lonely kid who watches too much anime, I tried to "save" her. thought if I showed her how nonsensical and absurd she was being with enough persistence, she'd come to reality and be all the better for it. but I was trying to force her to change while she was desperate for someone to tell her she's doesn't need to, so our relationship wasn't really healthy. still, we were both so desperate to have a friend we just kinda stuck together anyway.
until I realized the harsh truth, that you can't change people. even for the better. change is a choice one needs to make, and while you can help them make the choice, you can't make it for them. and if they choose not to change, all you can do is let them go and hope for the best.

so that's why I wrote a cheesy shonen parody lmao

I loved video games as a kid (still do) and was asked by a friend why don't I try making one of my own. I began writing a lot over the years and realized I loved writing stories (not just for games). I wanted make a webcomic, but I can't really draw, so I do my best with webnovels.

Battle shonen anime/manga inspired my story. They were these amazing stories I enjoyed growing up (naruto, Dragonball z, hunter x hunter, etc). The fights in a cartoon would usually be quickly resolved with like a few punches, but anime went into detail about abilities and unique uses. The battles themselves feel like part of the story and not just something minor. I thought it would be cool if all the battle shonen stories came together in some way. This lead to me creating my own original story.

The Forgotten Queen was, honest to god, a project I did not have a moment to think about. For, it was a project I came up with on the spot because I saw a free book cover I really liked, and I just needed to have that book cover. So, BAM, I created a summary, characters, and the first few chapters. I soon started to fall in love with the plot, and it no longer was just a random book I liked for the cover, which I switched out for a commissioned cover cause of Tapas, but it was my pride and joy. Of course, I hit writer's block quite often, but I eventually got past that recently and pumped out a heaven's load of chapters. Like, eight. It was an adventure, but I feel like it is a well done practice novel. Now, I am working on a new one that I will talk about below it is a true put to work of this practice novel.

Now, I am not saying TFG is a practice run, but it was a novel I used to greatly improve and practice new styles of my writing. With that said, i took upon a novel idea that has been circulating in my head for quite some time. I always love to write about dragons, monsters, and magic. So, why not put that together with a sprinkle of harry potter influence, and you have The Black Dragon. I really wanted to try my hand in the show not tell aspect, so I include both, a smidge of show, a smidge of tell, and I really like how it has been progressing so far. Again, I have everything plotted out this time, so I am not jumping head first like I did in TFG. I plan on building and 8-10 chapter buffer before I start releasing it. I have a sample chapter up right now to showcase what will be seen!

It seems many people have been using their first novels as a practice run, or in other terms, a Trial Run. :[]

(Yup, that's it. That's the whole story behind this novel. I had a killer plot in mind but didn't want to write it just yet. I needed to go on a trial run with writing novels)

This comic that I am making right now all began after I watched the show, "Boboiboy". I was so immersed in the show where I began creating my own comic out of it. That was 7 years ago and that badly drawn comic of mine which I drew on paper was the start of this journey that I'm currently in. That comic is drawn badly and the plot was worse. It took me 2 years to finally have an idea. This idea was created after I watch a specific episode of the "What If" show on Facebook. That episode got me all fired up and gave me a lot of ideas for my story. Because of that comic I made years ago, I decided to maybe write the plot first before making a comic so that I have something to use as a guide. And that story I wrote which would serve only as a guide became so massive that I decided to just make it as a novel. It took me 4 years of writing to finally start the comic.

An interesting story about my story? Not sure if it's particularly interesting, but I originally came up with the idea as far back as 2017 as part of a trio of works revolved around character design and practice. These were all intended to be more serious/professional public art pieces. The projects in question were: Project Attribute, Project Type, Project Summon and were all named after terms in the Yugioh Trading Card Game. Attribute are elements, but I used it more as attributing personalities. Type is class (like Warrior, Machine, Beast, Sea Serpent), but mine was a mix of Archetypes (Hero/Magician/Explorer) and the Major Arcana in an attempt to better understand psychological concepts.. Summon is how monsters are played onto the field and I used that as a base for the earliest concepts for the story.

Eventually, Summon spawned off into it's own thing once I explored the concept and decided to go all in and make it real. The "SUMMON" of today is nothing like how it began, but incorporates a little of all 3, the importance of character and psychology, understanding and breaking people and a clear love for one of my all time favorite series and games. That's the origins in a nutshell. TL;DR my story was originally part of a public art series, but I explored the idea and decided to have it be it's own thing.

Your love for Tokusatsu completely caught my attention. I might be your target audience so I'll give it a read.

Wow! Great background and great graphic affects in your story! You have a skill for humor that actually fits your scenes and plot. Subscribed and yes, definitely reading! I may take a bit from post to post because I'm currently scheduling my own, but I'm so there!

My story about my story:

This isn't the first thing I've written but it's the first I'm brave enough to publish. I have severe social anxiety, so it isn't failure I fear but success. I'll let friends read my work but that's as far as I go, even when they beg me to publish.

I've been writing my entire life. I practically lived at the library when I was a kid. I wasn't popular in school and I don't have the kind of family I want to talk about. My support came from the strangest of places: my bullies.

No matter how much they tormented me all week, when it was Friday -- creative writing day, they begged for my story first and would sacrifice their own sharing time to let me go over. After class, they would stay and ask me questions about what I wrote, like how I came up with the idea and how long it took me to write. In high school, the bullies weren't there but I still wasn't popular, until again, creative writing class. I was known as the story teller in school. I was still treated like I was worthless by my family, but their treatment was tolerable because of these classmates who made me feel like I was worth something, even when they were mean to me every other day.

I never stopped writing. It was the one thing I had that no one could take from me. When it came to sharing my work, though, that's where I drew the line. I was too afraid. I don't know why, exactly. It's just always been a thing for me, this social anxiety and fear of attention. Publishing on Tapas, my first time ever doing this anywhere, was my daughter's idea. She's pushed me out of my shell time and time again. She's been my biggest supporter.

I don't know why I'm finally ready after all this time, or why I feel so close to this one. I've written a 3 part saga based on my own heritage, and it wasn't close to being this deeply impactful to me. I dreamed this one but that's nothing new. Most of my stories come from my dreams, which aren't as chaotic as "normal" dreams. This one, though, seems to come from somewhere deep and at the same time, far away.

Because of my daughter, I became obsessed with Asian cinema. C-Dramas and K-Dramas, mostly. I don't even watch anything out of Hollywood anymore. This could be what has influenced my dreams, but my stories are always my own. I researched the h*ll out of Ancient China for this novel, like medicine, warfare, Daoism, even natural landmarks and horticulture. I have an enormous bookmark list and have even consulted content creators on YouTube located in China. I'm kind of OCD when it comes to historical accuracy lol.

I think if there was something that is a personal pet peeve, it would be the yin and yang theme. Yang is traditionally the masculine (white) while yin is the feminine (black). In my story, however, the female lead is represented with white while he is with black. It was necessary for their personalities and characteristics, and it's nothing that interferes with the story. It will, actually, make perfect sense as the story progresses.

Thank you for sharing your story's backstory and inviting others to do the same. I found some interesting shares on here and have subbed a few. It's nice to meet you!

The Tale of The Butterfly And The Crane

This might make you laugh ... I don't know if they put the same brace on your wrist as my dad, but there was a hard piece that extended into the palm of his hand. He was moving his fingers to exercise them one day, and I asked him to hold his middle two fingers onto the palm piece while keeping the pointer finger and pinky finger out. I told him, "There .. you're Spiderman!" He just looked at me like I had lost my mind and shook his head. Good to hear you're much better and it paid off for you! And you're so very welcome.

my funny story is. litterally yesterday at 2:45 am i came up with the whole idea and plot and names for my story and characters. when i was sleep deprived. at 2:45am to 3:39am. and i baised the main concept after me cause i am an insomniac who cannot for the life of me turn my brain off to get sleep. i just started making the story today. here it is:https://tapas.io/episode/2241858

I'll keep mine short.

Pitch, a teenage boy who cursed himself into being a rabbit person and now gets mistaken for the Easter bunny, got into a fight with Santa Claus. Pitch knocked Santa out with one punch. But the fat man had it coming.

Gonna get kinda personal, here, but the original inspiration for pretty much my entire love of history, but especially WW2, is my great-grandpa, Vear Jenson. Talking about the war was pretty much banned until he died, and even then, his wife didn't want to hear anything about it. I knew he was a navigator on a bomber, but beyond that, I didn't hear anything about it. It wasn't until I was about twelve, several years after he died, that anyone really began to talk about it. As it turns out, he wasn't just a navigator: he was a highly-decorated soldier, with several awards for valor and a mission on D-Day under his belt. Beyond that, he was also shot down, and was forced to bail out of his plane. From then, I was hooked: I looked everywhere for his military record, something that nobody in my family had ever seen. In the process, I learned about a bunch of other really cool people, and I knew I wanted to write stories about WW2. It wasn't really until COVID hit, though, that I decided on writing a webcomic on it.

I'm creating a story that is in the form of a diary from the main character named Aria Meliden Pheonix, her life is full of chaos for the soul reason of her mothers and twin sisters torture and murder, she is the sole survivor of this. which is unclear on exactly what happened or how to the readers of her diary at first. To be honest this story has been in my head for years now and this is the first time i am ever going to share it, so please tell me any tips about writing! im very new and fresh the the idea of writing! I hope it's a good read! I just also made a new instagram for it please go follow if you wanna learn more!
nyx_phoenix696

Well, how do I put this?

I've been working on this same cycle, no joke, for over three years. Whether it be the setup, which ranged from just a group of kids living alone and trying to survive, to an organization of assassins trying to take down a corrupted king, to its current setup of a reincarnated king trying to take back his land, every incarnation has failed except for this. I've had a lot of help with this current setup, but I mostly find myself invested in creating characters than actually telling a story. I've always wanted to try my hand at writing, so I started with screenplays, but those are impossible to take seriously unless it's tied with a visual medium, so here I am. I can barely understand grammar, but I do try my best, and it's coming along better than I expected it to be. If you like dark fantasy and action-adventure stories, my story might intrigue you!

https://tapas.io/episode/22252981

Love the sound of that!

I guess an interesting story about how my novel came to be. When i was listening to an song about another girl liking a girl, but she has a boyfriend. So, me being the emotional person i am i think what if i made a lesban lovestory but instead of one of my mc's having a girl friend i make the friends and exclude te guy standing in between them. And have them have misunderstandings and other twists to it. Then boom that's how my second novel came to be. Sad but sweet.

This why my sister says i'm too much of a cancer.

An interesting story is that the protagonist of my comic was meant to be the protagonist of an entirely different story... I hated that story tho but I did like the protag so I decided to keep them around, and ended up using them for my comic XD

My story isn't a story, it's really lives of some teenagers who can't decide themselves but learn lessons by themselves and gain something but love
I don't want to spoiler , there are many twists and ups and downs, secrets in my story
Hope you all will enjoy and support my comic

@andersondavid319 Dang! You hit on some relatable themes! I had a VERY similar experience with Sonic the Hedgehog as you did Power Rangers (kinda ironic too, as I remember an interview with one of the old Sonic Saturday Morning Cartoon writers who was lamenting that since they were scheduled at the same time as (the unstoppable juggernaut that is) Power Rangers, Sonic got canceled after 2 seasons. You just can't beat Power Rangers's ratings in their prime). But I left the show and the games when I needed to "grow up" after puberty struck (but it grew SO much strength in my soul over that time apart...).

And years later? Same epiphanies were struck. I could finally love the crap out of the new My Little Pony with my kids (and She-Ra and Rapunzel's Tangled Adventures brought some tears of joy very now and again too). Having 2 boys and raising them with all sorts of shows/media is a nice do-over from the ridiculous segmentation I experienced at their age. I chafe at boxes that I felt forced into as a kid.

So yeah, my comic has a similar emotional development.

Below is a short story (about my story) that I included as a thank you to readers as one of my episodes in my comic. You can read the full story (about my story) in episode 41. Although my story (about my story) isn't funny, there is a good deal of comedy in the book to juxtapose against the bleeding heart that I keep putting out there.

Be sure to click on the image for the full story (incase it got cropped in the forum preview for you too).

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