Recent content by ascanius

Hey I really like your Google maps overlay. How did you do go about doing it. How time intensive was it?

Ok first I find the writing with color site little more than a socjus writers dogma, to be consumed and followed with no critical though. My opinion, others may disagree but that is how I have found it. Second. Writing a story that has slavery in it doesn't make you a racist, no matter how...

I have a few questions. What is her situation? Does she live in constant fear of a beating or is life fairly relaxed by a slaves standards. Is her life defined be fear or something else. What is her master like, who is her enemy. Ask what would her perfect day be like. I ask because...

For me this would depend on how it's described. I don't really think I would find this as gross unless described in such manner. It's creepy as all f*k though :). Though I have something similar, with demons, no question it is bad though. What's wrong with talking about it? It's weird...

yes we are all born knowing how to fight but like any skill practice makes perfect. There is a vast difference between a child throwing a tantrum and what Bruce Lee is talking about. Even he says 'it is easy to put on a show but to truly express ones self is very difficult.' A child fighting...

Fighting as self expressions carries the prerequisite of having a mentor who trains the character to the point where they are capable of fighting/self expression. Bruce Lee had mentors who trained him. The good mentor is one who teaches without destroying the perspicacious mind. Also it...

Terrible, horrible. Change the names and it could be any generic sifi TV show. The only thing that makes it have anything to do with the books are the names. I watched the whole season streaming, for free, that is all it merits, free. Problems. Doesn't have anything to do with the books...

Thank you so much. While reading these three posts one of my characters plot, that I have been struggling with, popped into completion. I don't know how to explain it but thank you, thank you!

I'm not really understanding the big deal, nor do I get how this is rape. It doesn't seem like she looses the ability to choose, have free will, unless she become part of his hive mind kinda thing. It seems to me that unless he explicitly demands sex, she has a choice. Let me explain. If it...

I love this level of nerd! OK my thoughts, subsurface scattering (sss)and lighting are two things you need to look into. The skin is great but is missing something, this is where sss comes in, skin is one of the hardest things to get to look real. Second lighting. Look into the point...

Some thoughts. The background made me think she was on Mars at night, or space. Upon closer inspection I noticed that there is a lake behind her. The very sharp contrast between the night sky and the rocks makes it seem that there is no atmosphere, there needs to be a gradual change. Two the...

I see problems with this though. It just becomes a game of what if. what if there was less violence could just as well be less romance, sex, anything really. I have no doubt that any scene in any book or movie could be written or filmed with less violence are anything else for that matter...

I really don't understand how this is gratuitous violence, I assume you are talking about when bran was thrown out the window.. The reasons behind what happened seem very clear and logical to me.

OK, see this is why I asked. To me the glorification of violence is more what daesh posts to YouTube. Your version seems.... More like plot or setting preferences than any sort of glorification. Couldn't say it better, really couldn't. Looking at Hellenistic Greece they had a completely...

What does it mean to avoid the glorification of violence? What that violence can only ever be bad? Anything can qualify as the glorification of violence depending on the readers perspective. Funny how an examination of when violence is necessary is never a topic but non-violence permeates...