Revolutionary heroes ranging from John Brown to Kim Il-Sung are isekai’d to a fantasy world that parodies shows like ‘the rising of the shield hero’ to break the chains of slavery in all forms once more and liberate the fantasy workers and the peasants from the yoke of feudal oppression while hunting down so-called “heroes” summoned by the feudal lords who intend to use them as tools to preserve their power and the economic base of their feudalistic slave economy.
Show me Stalin riding a chocobo or some shit leading a calvary charge against slaver caravans!
Show me Marx, Engels, and Lenin working together in the cities inspiring the proto-proletariate to take up arms against the feudal robber-barons and their land-leechs that bleed them dry
Show me Mao, Tito, and bonus character Jan Žižka, on a rural bro-venture with the three in a competitive rivalry to see who can organize the greatest peasant rebellion between the three!
I’ve wanted to make a comic like this (though without any specific historical figure, I think an everyman protagonist would work better for reaching libs) but I’ve never quite managed to write a version that felt right.
I’d like to write a fictional book like that too but I’ve been in a hell of a quagmire for a writers block for a bit over a year now.
I know what you mean! It’s so hard to find the time to write my own stuff, I’m always writing things for work and then just don’t have the drive to really work on my stuff after that.
Yep that plus having writing reports or articles for my party, really not a cool time for having a writing block at this time. Like the most I’ll write nowadays is when something tilts me in that special way that gets under your skin like fiberglass in the interdigital space between your fingers.
That’s how I use AI in my writing. If I’m struggling with a scene, I get the AI to write it, and then it is so awful that it makes me want to write better out of sheer spite, so I end up getting my work done. I can’t really do that for my own personal projects though.
Oof I can’t imagine asking the tickle-me-elmo to write my story for me, even if it’s to get something down on paper I can stare at and turn red mad and nude over to redo the whole thing. At least for me it’s a whole self-reliance thing (juche gang) combined with being a bit super self-controling when it comes to using possible proverbial crutches/training wheels. Honestly I should just schedule some time in the week to just sit there and stare at a piece of paper with pencil at hand with the intent of just cranking out one-shot stories until the block is bulldozed.
It helps that I’m mostly motivated by spite, and often have confidence issues with my writing, so when I see something awful and generic as the “alternative” to what I am going to write, it really helps inspire me to keep going. I used to just look up bad writing in general, but AI has streamlined the process of finding terrible writing to compare my own too quite a bit. It helps stop me from getting into the cycle of nonstop revision as well, because I’m comparing my work to something worse, not some hypothetical perfect version in my head. It mainly works for me because I have deadlines to meet and do need to get stuff done even when I’m just not feeling it at all.
Sometimes just putting aside time for a quick idea can work really well for people! It is a little hit or miss for me, but it has helped me with writer’s block in the past. Just writing something you want to, with no rules, no audience in mind, just trying to create something to get back into the habit can be really effective. Creativity is a skill like any other, and like any other skill, it needs practice and discipline for you to keep going with it.
Well heres to us and anyone else dealing with the block to get over the hump one way or another!
also I can’t believe we don’t have a toasting emoji.
I kinda want to share some of my writing ideas in the literature comm sometime just for the hell of jt
I should probably share more stuff in the art com too, it would probably get me more motivated to do stuff outside of just work.
We should both go for it, it’ll be rough at first I think, but it’ll be better for both of us longer term!
(This is the only other vaguely “toast” themed emoji I could find)