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A World Of Pure Imagination

  • First Impressions: Galaxy of Gods by TJJones.

    “Turns out, when gods get bored of eternity, they don’t take up golf—they isekai themselves into a galactic war.” Core Premise & Initial Impression. Galaxy of Gods is a book that I read. It has words… English words. Though if you translated it, it’d be in that language, I guess. It has characters and stuff.…

  • EXTENDED CUT! First Impressions: Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotional Incompetent. By Daniel Newwyn.

    “Magic runs on emotions. Fabrisse runs on pure, undiluted embarrassment.” Core Premise & Initial Impression: Take a young man, and shoot him up with heavy doses of pathetic. And I don’t mean street stuff: the pitifulness of an unheedful galoot, fumbling on the floor, glasses knocked from his head having strolled—with purpose—into a lamppost while…

  • Step-By-Step Guide To Becoming The Protagonist

    We’re all the main characters in our own lives. Only you can live your story. When you passed off that loud gas as squeaky trousers— All you, buddy. When you asked your crush out and the whole school laughed? Probably shouldn’t have cried, but you still commanded centre stage. Even now, while you’re reading instead…

  • First Impressions: What The Gods Left Behind by Zephyr Trillian

    “The gods left their toys behind. The mortals are still figuring out which end goes boom.” Core Premise & Initial Impressions: What The Gods Left Behind bills itself as an epic fantasy novel. “Epic” is about as accurate as it gets. Right from the prologue, the author serves up a sweeping creation myth—presented as the…

  • First Impressions: The Pictomancer by Night Prince.

    “He died for art. But that won’t stop his vision” Core Premise & Initial Impression. The Pictomancer is a LitRPG unlike any you’ve ever read before. Unless you’ve actually read one before— Then yeah. Then it’s just like that. Across the twenty-two chapters I’ve read, it rarely strays from the genre’s staples. With one notable…

  • Write It Ugly: What The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing Taught Me

    (A self-help book published by the editors of Writer’s Digest.) “Always begin with your protagonist. Establish time and place, and announce the stakes.”— N. M. Kelby, self-help author of The Constant Art of Being a Writer “Sometimes one can overanalyze. If you preordain, you stifle yourself. Have a general idea, and let the rest come naturally,…

  • Full Verse Review: Heartworm by Lack Of Poochline

    I’ll just come out and say it—Heartworm is weird. And I don’t mean “kinda weird.” I mean the strain of weird that stares a little too long on the bus when you glance up and feel it lingering. The weird that locks eyes but doesn’t blink. The bus is still. No sound. That weird old…

  • 5 Isekai Dating Red Flags To Watch For

    How to avoid heartbreak, dismemberment, or becoming someone’s magical catalyst Once upon a time, it was simple. You met someone you fancied. The wedding was set for June. And they’d make it too. You knew they would. Call it a hunch. Call it intuition. Call it what it was: a positive test and her father’s…

  • Full Verse Review: Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster’s Power. By KaeNovels.

    Have you ever done something you truly regret? I don’t mean the casual, “Ah, I could’ve handled that better,” kind of regret. I mean the real kind. The kind that wakes you up in a seedy motel room at two in the afternoon on a workday. You scan the room; empty Bud Light cans litter…

  • Five real life inspirations for video game status effects.

    If you’re reading this, you’re probably at least a bit familiar with status ailments in video games. From poison and bleed that drain your hit points, to slow, stun, and sleep that leave you open to combo attacks. We like to think status effects are just game mechanics. But what if they’re not? What if…