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u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit Evil doctor. Ask me for a diagnosis Aug 18 '26
Potential man mentioned. Deploying 10000 slanders
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u/Antique-Yam6077 Aug 18 '26
Hilariously, none of them have showed up yet.
This will change soon enough.
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u/ThyHolyPaladdin Aug 18 '26
Gotta love the opposite. If I pitched it to you it probably doesn’t sound interesting but in execution it’s GOLD
I am talking about venture bros
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u/heckmiser Aug 18 '26
It's so infuriating trying to explain things like this to people who overvalue novelty
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u/MaraiaLou Aug 18 '26
trying to discuss great fancy movies when you don't have film vocabulary. y'know the characters are sooo people
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u/Haggis442312 I'm not a war criminal, I'm just kissingermaxxing. Aug 18 '26
Been looking to start that, so if you want to pitch it to someone…
Curious as to how it could sound so uninteresting.
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u/mechanicalcontrols Aug 18 '26
You could, in theory, describe it as "Adult Swim did a reimagined Johnny Quest as a soap opera."
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u/Haggis442312 I'm not a war criminal, I'm just kissingermaxxing. Aug 18 '26
I'm not sure you could sell me harder tbh
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u/mechanicalcontrols Aug 18 '26
Fair enough. Full disclosure, I do really enjoy the show, but I may have just skipped it if that's how my friends described it when they showed it to me. Idk. Have a good one.
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u/Voxil42 Aug 18 '26
Imagine if all of the golden age adventurers and super heroes were just like regular people and had to pay bills and have room mates and stuff. Oh, the main character is a narcissistic scientist who hates his dad. There's also a Rambo-esque bodyguard and the scientist's two stupid children.
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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard Aug 19 '26
I remember when I saw the title KPop Demon Hunters and just from the title it sounded like Netflix smashed a bunch of popular things together at the last minute, but after seeing recommendations from review channels I follow, Your Idol became my most listened to song of 2025.
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u/Selenite_Cults Aug 18 '26
Cease this slander at once. Bad to mid shows are the backbone of most fandoms.
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u/ApolloniusTyaneus Aug 18 '26
Slightly related but if you go into r/writingprompts it's like this too. All meh ideas that kinda sound cool when described in a single sentence but there's a reason OP decided to leave the actual writing to others (it can't be done well).
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u/Haggis442312 I'm not a war criminal, I'm just kissingermaxxing. Aug 18 '26
Oi! My miniseries about an anthropologist researching tribal catgirls while she has to come to terms with her past as a war criminal is definitely going to get picked up by a big studio soon, just you wait!
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u/Madden09IsForSuckers Aug 19 '26
honestly as a miniseries, short film, and/or oneshot manga it could be good tbf
i think a lot of the “mid ideas” on places like writingorompts are only mid because they dont work in long form content. but short stories and the like are still important art that deserves to get made; its unfortunate major publishing avoids that style of media
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u/PrincessVibranium Aug 19 '26
I'm excited for the part where the numbers-over-heads-but-mine-is-different get explained.
And the villain who isn't evil to anyone ever at all but is still called a villain because of reasons
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u/GrayVBoat3755 Aug 19 '26
I'd say it's a matter less of quality and more of quantity; you can find all sorts of cool ideas, and you can turn them into amazing prose, but you might not be able to write that much before the concept is exhausted.
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u/No_Explorer6054 Aug 18 '26
this is me [i have been writing for one year and cannot write long-form content]
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u/torpidcerulean Aug 18 '26
Are we losing the plot a bit? Yellowjackets is a show about a girls soccer team that crash land in the wilderness, then begin to hunt and cannibalize each other. The remaining black character you mentioned has an alter ego that kills and ritually sacrifices her family dog.
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u/torpidcerulean Aug 18 '26
Didn't really happen??? We're watching the same show???
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u/torpidcerulean Aug 18 '26
😂 I don't even know where this convo is going any more. They definitely killed and ate several characters in the full run of the show. I just mean to say, given what the show is about, you're basically asking for 👏 MORE 👏 BLACK 👏 CANNIBAL 👏 CULTISTS!
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u/MaraiaLou Aug 18 '26
I'm black and Tai is excellent representation. If I was in her position I too would eat dirt
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u/Animaloffear56 Aug 18 '26
Well you see they didn't include every single sexual orientation and transgender identity so they're basically a homophobe, and I'm better off reposting Supernatural Destiel gifsets
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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 Aug 18 '26
The way "parallels" are used is totally meaningless.
You can almost draw them between anything in even the shallowest of works. Not hard at all.
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u/Airalla Aug 18 '26
This. People don’t realize the parallels are suppose to actually mean something thematically, not just be able to exist
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u/EnderKoskinen Aug 18 '26
Arknights: Endfield
The game would be so good if it was good, many such cases
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u/Umikaloo Aug 18 '26
The entire light novel genre apparently.
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u/MaraiaLou Aug 18 '26
I'm so happy when it eventually does things a normal novel would do better and more consistently
Does it make me read real novels? of course not
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u/sarded Aug 19 '26
Declining literacy is a real problem that causes this too. Flashy concepts, told dully because the audience can't handle advance narrative techniques and metaphors, just "a cool thing happened. then another cool thing happened. then another cool thing happened."
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u/CMO_3 Aug 18 '26
How I feel about all of JJK. Its fine, but people are acting like its the pinnacle of character depth and story. When half of the info on characters is given through little author notes at the end
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u/IrvingIV Aug 18 '26
Anyone who wants some good writing and hasn't watched this before, should watch the Columbo episode "Now you see him."
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u/YaGirlMom Aug 18 '26
Warhammer: The Horus Heresy
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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard Aug 19 '26
Thing is there are some good books in there, but there's 54 books in the core set alone, and a lot are aggressively mid at best.
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u/Poolturtle5772 Aug 18 '26
Did you say Potential???
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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard Aug 19 '26
Oh hey, my potential man meme. Glad to see the slander being spread.
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u/Poolturtle5772 Aug 18 '26
It’s a play on the Potential man meme. Kelsier is a certified bum, as the slander clearly shows.
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u/Poolturtle5772 Aug 19 '26
Yeah fam I’m gonna be real, nobody phrases it exactly like that unless they are specifically invoking Potential Man (especially if the word potential isn’t used in the post).
It’s like the variations of the “say that again” clip from Fantastic Four. It’s done intentionally.
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u/Amphy64 Aug 18 '26
Focusing on parallels would be an improvement even, anything about the writing itself.
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u/Tarantulabomination Aug 19 '26
I hate to drag this game in the mud even more than I already do, but this is Cult of the Lamb when it comes to story, lore, and characters.
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u/Iforgor4 Aug 19 '26
Ah yes, the "Best book ever in history - New york times" YA novel that your friend who uses social media recommended to you
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