ChaddyManPrime#828480 wrote:^
I would cut someone to see Mitigation, Glass of Wine Rebuilt, Taking Sights, and Kyrie Eleison finished. I like the ones you mentioned too. Also wanna see Gregg's stuff finished.

Working on it.

"If the hedgehogs in winter fear the sting of contact, they will freeze without ever sharing warmth. Lilins are the hedgehogs, and self-preservation their spines. If people in solitude fear the pain of contact, they will die without ever knowing love. Even at the cost of impacting the entire L...

Whole hearted recommendation. Yes for the whole story, but in particular for this chapter.

[url]https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7057744/34/Cast-in-Gold[/url]

I just realized that i wrote a rant defending a fanfiction against its own author. I am not sure how to process this. On the other hand, Gregg himself has visited my thread. I can die happy now. I wouldn't exactly call it a crusade, but I do think my story gets a lot more credit than it deserve...

Chuckman#672282 wrote:I'll be blunt- I'd sell my soul for half your review count.

If you had the people who show up in my story threads I think you'd understand my hate.

Chuckman#672282 wrote:Gregg, cool it, man. You don't need to go around campaigning for people to hate ND. I'll be blunt- I'd sell my soul for half your review count.

Peace.

I'm just saying that the rating for it is misleading. Popularity shouldn't be the determinator of quality.

Clover#672252 wrote:I liked it.

People liked it, but it shouldn't be rated higher than most of the stories on the list.

Nobody Dies belong on that list for a very good reason. Evangelion fanfics are, for a lack of a better analogy, like someone building planes (the fics) out of a hanger of aircraft parts (Evangelion's setting, characters, etc...). Sure, there are bad planes and good planes that c...

I'm honestly not sure that Nobody Dies belongs on that list, much less getting a higher rating than Orchestrating the Silence.

GreggHL : When you say that you're taking the Ree's powers from the charmtrees, does that mean the Ree have all the same powers, or each has moved into their own 'specialty?' If that's a spoiler you don't want to reveal, then that's bene, but it got me curious. It's ...

amitakartok#670618 wrote:I swear by that method myself.

It also kind of helps that for the Ree, I'm taking their powers and physical feats from Exalted charmtrees. Finding something to emulate or a physical, visual reference helps.

That actually brings up a question I had (more out of curiosity than anything else). I remember hearing how George RR Martin said there's essentially architects and gardeners in writing: one plans everything out before they start writing, the other basically starts writing and just sees...

See, I was thinking of things like that, too, Chuckman. Thanks for raising that. And that goes without saying, Bagheera. Gregg did put a lot of work into developing the rules of his story: but they were still his rules. They may have been based on Eva canon, but there was enough deviation to make t...

.....It's a fanfic. The rules of the canon Evangelion universe are transmutable. Part of it is that changes for the sake of changes snaps the suspenders of disbelief. Just having all the Rei clones being sentient and aware is a random change which doesn't match with the universe. You have t...

Yep, real life wins...because real life is a bastard. :uhh: Glad to hear you may come back to it, though, and enjoying the hell out of the Rebuild! Glad you like it. I've been following your writing, as well. Been writing a bit slow because this chapter's kind of filler, and also because th...

It is weird and a bit alarming by how aggressive some people can get when it comes to fan fiction. It's fan fiction: the characters don't belong to anyone except the original creator, it's not for profit, it's supposed to be fun. If you invest in something, and it doesn't appeal...

That's an interesting idea. That would have been a hell of an arc, had it played out. That's also an interesting idea of how to use the 'it's a dream' concept: most writers just employ it and drop it, never to mention it again. Having it present throughout the story would be dif...

I can't judge: I used a deus ex machina in one of my stories. A literal deus ex machina. I even mocked myself in the same story for doing it. It certainly caught me off guard, the way he did it, and I guess he handled it as well as it could be. It did negate something like twenty chapters, thou...

Now I'm confused. I always through SOP here was that I would be told 'stop this new story and write this five year old one which you ended because there was nothing new to write with it' or 'Stop having fun with this fun idea.' Also, blaming me for writing trends which started we...

For the record, I have read ND. Started off alright but got incredibly messy as it went on (hopefully you can have the absolute silliness in check without getting out of hand this time around). It was late when I posted that and I went to bed shortly afterwards so I apologize for my bluntne...