<2022-02-03T19:35:00.000Z> Umlauts: What's your story idea brother?
<2022-02-03T19:38:14.000Z> Umlauts: Because I'm flattered you want to use my autism to write a story with it. I'm just not sure how helpful it is for anyone other than me to use as a guide.
<2022-02-03T19:49:04.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I don't know yet
<2022-02-03T19:49:48.000Z> AnimeTradCath: What you've laid out is similar to some of the ideas floating around in my head, just more fleshed out and condensed
<2022-02-03T19:51:10.000Z> Umlauts: There's a lot of underlying assumptions in it that I don't necessarily elaborate on because I've written it primarily for myself.
<2022-02-03T19:51:24.000Z> Umlauts attached file https://i.poastcdn.org/caab38f29755b303efecea04e2934ab03d1f3db108d8cf9f99128d08c6265019.docx
<2022-02-03T19:51:34.000Z> Umlauts: THis is the setting primer I've written.
<2022-02-03T19:51:54.000Z> Umlauts: A lot of it is in the thread and a lot of it isn't, some of it is even outdated compared to the thread.
<2022-02-03T19:52:12.000Z> Umlauts: You have my blessing, go write about giant robots doing cool shit.
<2022-02-03T19:53:17.000Z> Umlauts: If you ever run into a question about the world building just shoot me a DM and I'll answer it as soon as I've had a schizoid episode to come up with an answer lmao.
<2022-06-20T20:59:56.000Z> AnimeTradCath: What's your process for writing?
<2022-06-20T21:01:28.000Z> Umlauts attached file https://i.poastcdn.org/f1489d07ce8e0662666acb49e3cee2a1e9d81a57670e76caebf921be0f16d823.png
<2022-06-20T21:02:54.000Z> Umlauts: Can't describe it more accurately then that
<2022-06-20T21:03:31.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Damn, I haven't even gotten there.
<2022-06-20T21:03:51.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I just have ideas floating in the ether of my mind
<2022-06-20T21:04:05.000Z> Umlauts: Sometimes you gotta try forcing yourself by writing them down
<2022-06-20T21:04:14.000Z> Umlauts: Even if I spend a lot of time chewing on ideas
<2022-06-20T21:05:29.000Z> AnimeTradCath: That's my biggest hangup
<2022-06-20T21:07:30.000Z> Umlauts: Are the ideas coherent enough to start a scene with?
<2022-06-20T21:23:15.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Currently I have two ideas. The first is a detective in a cyberpunk city stumbling upon a Lovecraftian cult worshipping a Blood God. The second is a Bounty Hunter hunting down a werewolf, a Man twisted by occult magic and science, in a Transylvania-esque town with a Cyberpunk aesthetic.
<2022-06-20T21:28:05.000Z> Umlauts: Well okay.
<2022-06-20T21:28:11.000Z> Umlauts: Start by writing the outline for a scene
<2022-06-20T21:28:17.000Z> Umlauts: Or a mood setting paragraph
<2022-06-20T21:28:27.000Z> Umlauts: I'd go with the bounty hunting one because that's fairly easy to start
<2022-06-20T21:28:52.000Z> Umlauts: Since you can just go full on western with it
<2022-06-20T21:29:44.000Z> Umlauts: The detective one you could just start with a first person internal monologue a la noir but I personally find that tricky.
<2022-06-20T21:32:34.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I basically came to both of these ideas from the simple premise of having a Lovecraftian noir, but with a heavy 80's neon aesthetic.
<2022-06-20T21:40:35.000Z> Umlauts: Seems breddy good
<2022-06-20T21:40:42.000Z> Umlauts: With that I'd focus a lot on setting mood
<2022-06-20T21:41:03.000Z> Umlauts: Maybe take inspiration from Max Payne 1 & 2?
<2022-06-20T22:31:38.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Do you know any other tales that have a Dark and Gloomy mood and aesthetic?
<2022-06-21T08:12:36.000Z> Umlauts: The entire Noir genre for one.
<2022-06-21T08:14:46.000Z> Umlauts: Otherwise REH's Solomon Kane stories, Lovecraft's stories, Gothic fiction (Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde etc), cyberpunk literature
<2022-06-21T08:15:29.000Z> Umlauts: From the top of my head. But it also depends on what you mean with "Dark and gloomy mood".
<2022-06-21T14:44:47.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I'm thinking more or less Gothic Fiction
<2022-06-21T14:46:17.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Pretty much this kind of aesthetic  https://i.poastcdn.org/e13e88b3081e4d0d991e7b3948a4fb5c4867411ad19e6e69474807f896ac8db6.jpg
<2022-06-21T15:17:39.000Z> Umlauts: Then you should read gothic and cyberpunk fiction
<2022-06-21T18:20:55.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Imagine Blondie from the Good, the Bad, the Ugly but mixed with a Medieval Knight from the high medieval period.
<2022-06-21T18:21:40.000Z> Umlauts attached file https://i.poastcdn.org/8f9e8480f2b9baee4c47cd8334c8b62bb885f63cffcf8423f3dbb78891212275.jpg
<2022-06-21T18:22:06.000Z> Umlauts: But generally we call that the 'Knight Errant' as an archetype
<2022-06-21T18:22:45.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Now add a bit of cyberpunk and that's what I want to convey.
<2022-06-21T18:23:14.000Z> Umlauts: I would strongly recommend you read the Cyberpunk 2020 rpg books
<2022-06-21T18:24:18.000Z> Umlauts: You're basically describing what's called a "Street Samurai" but without the weebery in rpg parlance
<2022-06-21T18:24:30.000Z> Umlauts: (or Solo as the class is called in Cyberpunk 2020)
<2022-06-21T18:28:25.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I'll check it out for an aesthetic influence, but I'll have the Gothic influence be the most prominent.
<2022-06-21T18:30:00.000Z> Umlauts: Cyberpunk is a descendant of gothic fiction tbh. It's views of technology are not too dissimilar from a lot of the famous gothic authors.
<2022-06-21T18:36:30.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I personally want more 18th/19th century secluded villages than seedy corporate underbelly for this story.
<2022-06-21T19:05:38.000Z> Umlauts: So very much like the western "Gunslinger shows up, shoots local nigger, fucks off"
<2022-06-21T19:06:13.000Z> Umlauts: Were I you I'd juxtapose the secluded places compared to the corporate shitholes drenched in neon that would be cities.
<2022-06-21T19:06:24.000Z> Umlauts: Shows up in some cyberpunk, but not all
<2022-06-21T19:12:53.000Z> AnimeTradCath: More like "Western Gunslinger shows up, shoots local nigger/European Folklore monsters, fucks off" with a healthy dash of the cyberpunk aesthetic.
<2022-06-21T19:13:23.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Gothic Western Gunslinger*
<2022-06-21T19:15:35.000Z> Umlauts: Solomon Kane, but 600 years later
<2022-06-21T19:16:31.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Basically Gunslingers with swords, fighting Vampires and Werewolves in High Gothic Medieval Castles and everything is drenched in shadows, mist, and neon.
<2022-06-21T19:16:53.000Z> Umlauts: Lmao so basically you want to write Cyberpunk Van Helsing
<2022-06-21T19:25:48.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Basically, but make Van Helsing that Knight Errant picture that you sent.
<2022-06-21T19:26:16.000Z> Umlauts: YEah that is basically Van helsing as is, or the fantasy Witch Hunter archetype
<2022-06-21T19:40:12.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Thank you for helping me clarify and process what I am going for.
<2022-06-21T19:41:46.000Z> Umlauts: No problem.
<2022-06-21T19:41:48.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Basically it's 21XX and all those Classical Gothic Monsters are the abominable spawn of both science and occultism.
<2022-06-21T19:41:59.000Z> Umlauts: Highly based.
<2022-06-21T19:59:10.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Now that I've pinpointed the setting/aesthetic, I just have to have the Muses help me write.
<2022-06-21T20:02:13.000Z> Umlauts: Just force those fickle bitches to help you by sitting down and writing a mood setting paragraph
<2022-06-21T20:12:57.000Z> AnimeTradCath: Hell Yeah!
<2022-06-21T20:47:03.000Z> AnimeTradCath: They are quite fickle. There have been numerous times where I have come up with a great passage only for it to be lost as I had no means of writing it down.
<2022-06-21T20:50:51.000Z> Umlauts: Why you gotta keep your pimp hand strong
<2022-06-21T20:50:59.000Z> Umlauts: And be a meticulous notetaker lmao
<2022-06-21T20:54:44.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I guess that I have to learn to smack a bitch
<2022-07-01T18:15:49.000Z> AnimeTradCath: I just realized that I inadvertently named my protagonist Adolf by other means
<2022-07-01T18:24:23.000Z> Umlauts: Lmao based