Chochmah
Chochmah
In a Tokyo full of demons, yokais and sadistic villains, only one vigilante is up to the challenge. Too bad she died and her predecessor is very reluctant high schooler. I think you mean successor. The predecessor is the person who came before her, which is (if I understand properly) the exact opp…
Sure, there are good reasons to have shorter chapters. I focused on eye strain because it came up. There are also good reasons to have longer chapters. However, it should be the decision of the author what their chapter length should be, and for any reason they want. An imposition from the site itse…
My point was that, in the case of something which requires a continuous time to complete, it would indeed be the responsibility of the creator of the media if engaging with it caused problems like eye strain. Examples would be cases like videos that could not be paused and had to be watched all at…
This is a ridiculous and arbitrary restriction for Tapas to impose upon writers. It is the reader's responsibility to rest their eyes, not the author's, and books and phones can be put down at any time for any reason without requiring the reader to reread. If we were discussing, for instance, a lo…
A thing happens, and then more things happen.
I was starting to get a bit tired of my old username, which I won't post here. I still use it from time to time, but for a few reasons (basically, people kept shortening it to something I really didn't like, and apparently it read as feminine and people kept automatically assuming I was a woman desp…
We Jews have it a little better in that regard but only slightly so. I've learned lately that interestingly enough, the highly orthodox Jewish children's media is often a lot more interesting, nuanced, and better-produced and written than the ones meant for more reform/"modern" (with massive quote m…
I've been writing a story that is religiously inspired as well, and just like in your case it was somewhat an accident. I started by throwing in an aside reference to a mezuzah and next thing I knew the main character was an observant Jew and the story was based on what it's like to be a religious m…
Fair point. I generally, for the purposes of novels, do not subscribe to death of the author personally. For me, under most circumstances, the text means what the person who wrote it said it meant. Regardless, I concede that what is explicitly in the text, without outside context, is kinda messed up…
I was a bit mortified by this part too but after learning a bit more about what was meant, I realized it's not as it seems. C.S. Lewis spent a part of his life essentially denying his inner child, being what he thought of as a very stuffy adult who didn't indulge childlike innocence and fun. There…
You misunderstand slightly. I mean when I talk to someone about it, they say both those things. Not that person A is deeply enthralled and person B despises it, but somehow person A experiences both things at once. The only word I can think of to describe this is "bipolar" in its classical sense, th…
Homestuck frightens me. This is not a joke. Every time I hear about it from people who like it, it can be described as something like, "I hate Homestuck. I love Homestuck. I'm obsessed with it. It ruined my life. It's amazing. It's terrible. Read it now. Run away as fast as you can. It will destroy …
Darksiders II. I was so excited - you play as Death, you go around hacking up massive demons like the first game (which was awesome), but now there's Diablo-style RPG elements! I love that kind of game! Unfortunately, they fucked up the story and worldbuilding by bringing it in the most bizarre di…
[The number of times I have failed this reply function is absurd. I'm starting to think there is in fact a problem with it, and I am not just forgetting... Reposted comment, identical to deleted one above.] Yes, it is, though it isn't on Tapas. I ultimately decided not to post links here for sligh…
Apparently there's some scholarly debate about whether Moby Dick is a novel that involves the author's extensive knowledge of the whaling industry, or a treatise on whaling with a framing device. I'm about halfway through it as of this writing, with every intention to finish it. It's definitely no…
Oooh! Ooh! Ooh! I've got some great answers to this. I'll just start out with the names, and discuss each in detail. If you're in a hurry, just skip to 4 - it's the craziest. 1: The Talmud 2: House of Leaves 3: The Principia Mathematica 4: Gravity's Rainbow 1: The Talmud The Talmud is an ext…
Allow me a highly controversial take. Dragon Ball Z. Now, I do have to try and keep in mind the context of when it came out - I'm far too young to have seen it on first release, so one might say I was spoiled and seen others having built upon it by the time I watched it myself, versus others. But …
Short answer: No, this is not enough to start a story, but it's getting there. Longer answer: What you have right now, as other people have said, is a background/setting within which a story could be created, but there's no indication of what the story might actually be. Who's the main character? …
I think these results are sufficient to prove my point that these things are very subjective, and so dependent upon the story in question that a generic quiz is inevitably going to fail in some circumstances - it's simply not possible for an "all-purpose Mary Sue detector" to work in all cases. Fo…
This one contains some of what I would describe as possible issues as well. First two questions: Arenya's hair is blue, which is natural in her world for part dragons but not for normal people... uh, I'll call that unnatural in her world. She has wings and can fly which is an unusual power, but she …
I got 27% for Arenya Azural, a college-aged, blue-haired Jewish quarter-dragon who is infamous at her school - but not because of a positive or negative trait per se (or because everyone wants to sleep with her), but because her appearance is unusual and her first act at the school was to eat ludicr…
I'm not an absolute expert on Alice in Wonderland, but I know some. The general consensus on the book is actually that it's basically a bunch of things that were interesting/important to the author, Lewis Carroll, thrown in a pot. The main character, Alice, was likely named after a child he knew …
Not a Vocaloid fan? Not a problem! I'm not either - that was the whole point after all, that I was writing it with no actual foreknowledge of the source material. I'll go quote hunting tomorrow, I think - expect an update from me with the next 24 hours or so! 
It remained very obscure, so I didn't get much reaction from the community writ large. However, one Vocaloid fan did find it, about 6 months after its initial publishing. Their response - and no, this is not a joke - was to congratulate me on my impressively deep knowledge of the Vocaloids because I…
Some years ago I wrote a Vocaloids fanfiction, in which Hatsune Miku discovers the wonders of heavy metal. I think I was 15. The crux of the joke is that everything I knew about the Vocaloids I gathered from watching two music videos and doing about an hour of online searches, so I basically just ma…
Ask an actual Hindu person for help, is probably the best place to start.
Mayhaps this is odd to say, but I recently stumbled upon something that seems to be mostly tickling my fancy and it was not recommended here: The comic Apricot Cookie(s). It's a magical girl comic (more precisely a parody of them) which based on what I have read so far is quite funny, and also basic…
A fair comment. I will say that, of that which I have seen, it tends to be... for lack of a better term, kind of over-the-top in some sense that makes me feel uncomfortable. I was putting some thought into looking at Konosuba, but then I saw some criticisms of the main character doing things that ar…
[Reposted due to messing up the reply feature, for like the fifth time recently] Sorry for my wrong assumption there. I suspected from "D'aww you're so innocent. Well, have fun with that." that I had upset you or done something wrong from (what I read to be) the tone of the message. I guess I misint…
For what it's worth, if I'm reading a comic I won't even think twice about continuing forward. I'm not just going to miss part of the story like that. I'd sooner stop reading the story entirely than skip around.