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TheCrimsonDM


Big fan of fantasy and lesbians. If you want magic, lesbians, or ponies, you've come to the right place. Follow me itch.io if you want to see my visual novels. https://thecrimsondm-vanillia.itch.io/

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  • 36 weeks
    wow, nine years already huh?

    It was nine years ago i began posting stories on fimfiction, nine years to the date for the first chapter of Heart of Stone. I can't believe how much I've done in that time. Writing fanfictions, drawing comics, finally making visual novels and games (which was one of my dreams) and even publishing my own original books.

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  • 47 weeks
    Heart of Magic Ending

    howdy folks

    it's been far too long, but at long last this story is in fact over. And with it, what is probably the single longest project i've done in terms of word count. a rough estimation is over 700k words from heart of stone to the end of heart of magic. But no matter how long or short, its been a blast to work on it and finish it.

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  • 67 weeks
    Trixie is Pregnant and the world is ending!

    Well i did not expect to actually finish this today. Well it's a bit of a short ending, I'm sorry to say but it's an ending. Not a lot of fanfictions tend to get endings and I knew I wanted to finish this one. It's been a blast making this and though I'm not too sure what my next fan project will be, I will make more stuff.

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  • 67 weeks
    Chapter Sixty Six is out!

    Chapter SIxty Six is finally here, never fear for the Bubble Queen is near!
    edit: correction up to chapter sixty nine is out. there might be one more chapter in the near future.

    chapter link

    and as always thanks for reading XD

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  • 68 weeks
    Chapter Sixty Five is Out!

    Hello
    Here is another chapter in the adventures of a half crazed pregnant are and her unwitting fiance

    chapter link

    Honestly this is probably one of my favorite chapters I've written. It's just so bubbly. Sometimes I look at this old story, and just scratch my head wondering how I could make things that were so chaotic?

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Nov
5th
2018

The DeadPool Character Archtype · 4:28am Nov 5th, 2018

So I'm gonna be honest and just say that the Deadpool character archtype is one of of my favorite villian/anti hero archtypes. What do I mean by the Deadpool character archtype? Let me start with just a few examples I know of. Obviously we have Deadpool, the most fourth wall breaking of them all possibly, then we have Handsome Jack, the most villainous of the three... maybe, finally I will activate my Alucard... bad pun, not sorry, yes Alucard (From the abridged series specifically) is the last example of this I can easily think of. What is it that makes these three characters so fun, funny, badass, and most importantly entertaining?

well let's take a look at what these characters actually 'do' in order to achieve some of these things. First of all their funny, almost universally in this sort of 'better than thou' arrogant and sarcastic way. The humor is on par with characters like Harry Dresden who constantly acts better than his opponent berating them and feigning anger at some of the silliest things on rare occasion. But then why is Mr. Dresden not on this list. That is because of reason number two that makes them so awesome. They have the skills, power, and expertise to backup their sassy mouths. They generally have power on the level of any good old fashion Marry sue. Of course unlike the timed honored Marry Sue, everyone usually hates these guys. Especially the good guys. How many good guys really like Deadpool or Alucard? Not many, if any (other than Japanese Pinkie Pie of course, she loves deadpool XP) And as for entertaining we can't go wrong in talking about how much fun it is to say, watch Alucard enjoying a good episode of Adventure Time, have his TV destroyed and then go on a vampire hunting fit of rage because it was a 70 inch flat screen plasma TV that the vampires just so happened to destroy. Not because you know, the vampires are killing people, not they hurt his tv, so they must die. Or Handsome Jack naming his diamond pony Butt Stallion after you, the player. These are entertaining, selfish, and usually very hilarious feats.

So I covered some of the things that make this character archetype work, now how to implement it? Really it takes a lot of work, and I'd imagine mostly in learning how to tell a good joke. Even in the middle of an epic combat scene, learning how to set up a good punch line and follow it through with both physical action and word play is important to crafting such a character. Red vs Blue has some of the best examples of doing this in combat, sometimes foreshadowing the joke early in a season only to pay off at the very end of the season.

Now there is one other aspect of this that can usually go forgotten and it is that some part of these characters are often times relatable. Almost always they have a dark origin story that makes you understand why they are so careless about killing if not outright loving it. A story that shows you that these characters don't respect the world for good reasons. This last part can be the real challenge, because how does one go about creating a dark, sad, and often times twisted background story without hurting the humor of the present day? This tight rope balancing act truly is one of the hardest to achieve, but if you can manage it, you've got a goldmine on your hands.

Well as usual here is a funny link to help showcase this humor with Fluttershy as our co-proffessor today. Enjoy Fluttershy's lesson on Alucard comedy.

And as always, thanks for reading. XD

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PS: I forgot that Perfect Cell from the abridged series and possibly Frieza again from the same series might also count here.

Comment posted by Luna Aeterna Solutae deleted Nov 5th, 2018
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