I technically count as new

(do comments not post if you add links?)

Thank you, @madelyn, for answering my questions.

My favorite books include: The Lord of the Rings, Keeper of the Lost Cities, the Sackett series by Louis L’Amour, Pride and Prejudice, various Shakespeare plays, Rantisia: Search for the Ranta (formatting mistakes, but still enjoyable), The Rise of Ethrundson: Quest of a Thousand Questions (by someone I know, and it is a good story, imo), Daughter of Kings by Isabella Auer (someone I knew, who passed two years ago from cancer; a good story as well), and many more I’m forgetting.

Thank you, @unsung. We can be new members together, then! 🙂

It is. Thank you.

I’d say I go 95% into being totally engrossed and learned and addicted. It is very very close to obsession, heh. I probably am not an all out Tolkien fan, like buying Tolkien stuff all the time, but I do love love love to read the books, and even dare to really like the Silmarillion and even the books about his process of writing the Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings and all of Middle Earth is *intense chef’s kiss*. 😁

Oooof, do I care to share them? Well, not my most recently started WIP, and one of my two oldest is still getting resettled since I changed a whole lot about it recently, adding and improving, but I might be convinced to share some details for my other oldest WIP. I might not be very willing to share details about it without convincing, though.

Anything in-between those three, I am willing to more freely share them. 🙂 I might do that in a different topic, though.

Thank you, and you too!

@unsung

Since I can’t really figure out where to put it, I’m just going to rant about one of my projects here.

The first is just a fun story I’m working on with characters submitted by a bunch of people in another forum I’m on. It is set in a place called Bust, and has tons (200 actually marked down and used, but way more unexplored) of different spots called districts which each has its own setting and theme and it kind of like just a snippet of a world on its own.

The districts are attached by “string theory!” To explain (😂), there are strings that people use to travel from district to district, because you can’t just walk to each one like you could in the real world walk to a park. There are different sets of strings accessible to different people, each working slightly differently, and in different colors so it’s easier to tell. Finding the strings can be a little difficult (on purpose) and makes it fun for those watching someone trying to leave, if the person doesn’t have anyone helping them.

Bust was so named because it was originally meant to be “where people reach when they don’t reach their destination after saying something like ‘the moon or bust!’” Now, it is more a representation of my brain and the weirdness and orderliness and all that of my brain at different times. 😆

Bust is run by it’s only permanent residents: me, but in various different forms and with specific traits amplified, and each one belonging to a specific district, with one elected person as the head of them. These me’s have access to the blue strings (the best ones, and my favorite color) and control of them, and they are of unlimited power and can do whatever they want: move people from district, move residential animals/creatures from district to district, and move object from district to district, and without actually requiring the me’s to be touching the string to make it work. (A rule for the other strings.)

The story is really fun because I’m putting in so many secret references to things I’m obsessed with and characters I like and quotes from things that are amazing and so much fun, especially when people don’t (and when they do) notice. I also really like the story because I get to take some super powerful characters and just humiliate them and make fun of them, because the me’s are supreme in Bust. (And there’s this one district where a giant makes you clean out his stables before you can leave and it’s like the fairytale where the guy has to use the handle of the shovel to actually get it clean, which’s used as the punishment district because it’s fun to watch the super powerful people wading through much trying to figure it out. 🤣)

The plot of the story is that there are two sides to Bust and the two sides are starting to get agitated with the other and fight between each other, and the characters find themselves assigned to a side and it’s kinda pointless, but it’s mostly just to help me practice my humor and give the readers a fun time.

It’s fun, and fun to write, and I have already existing fictional characters in it, which is even more fun. 😀

(At least I saved my reply elsewhere before submitting it)

@denali-christianson

THANK YOU!! I’d love to rant!! (Forgive me if I haven’t read the book in a while, though. I got into a reading rut that lasted more than a year and haven’t worked my way back to Tolkien level, yet, unfortunately. I’m getting closer every day, though! (And it was awful.))

Haha! I’d be more obsessed if I had the funds to support it, heh. I’m possibly more obsessed than I let on, but it’s been a while so it’s faded a little. (My greatest accomplishment, though, is reverse psyching one of my little brothers into reading The Silmarillion. 🤣) Aaa! Lucky you!! I’d love that necklace!!

YESSSSS!! I know, right?? I MAJORLY LOVE world building and so fantasy is like MY THINGGG! *hides my three extra special fantasy worlds*

I have nottt, but!! BUT BUT BUT! I put them on hold at the library and should be able to get them soon! Fingers crossed, though, that I can get them before going on a trip.

Ohh, I may want to swap worldbuilding tips with you at some point… (does anyone know if there is a worldbuilding advice/conversation topic, yet?)

More on Bust:

The only way to leave Bust is by getting on a very specific train and riding it out.

There aren’t many laws in Bust besides the more secular ones of the Ten Commandments, but there are rules about how Bust works, which allows for fictional characters to visit it.

Anyone can get to Bust, through any means, and always on accident. Wherever the character is pulled from in their story, when they leave Bust, they revert back to that moment and it is as if they never left. Everything mental, physical, etc that happened to them while in Bust is undone (which is somewhat because they can have amazing growth or therapy or something but once they back, it’s basically pointless 😢). This rule prevents events in Bust from affecting stories and their characters, while also allowing for everything that happens in Bust to be considered canon (the awesome side of the deal).

ANYWAY… it’s fun. 😁 The rule also means I can take the characters on whatever arc I want without consequences, heehee.

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