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In honor of the Let's Read: Victoria thread finally ending and autosaging. Post your writing, ideas, plot points, characters, bounce ideas off each other, whatever. Let's try to do better than you-know-who, although I suspect that won't be hard at all given that mashing your keyboard may actually turn out work of superior quality.
Won't let me post without a pic, so here goes.
A fan favorite from the Victoria threads:
"Cpl. Lesean T. Jackson, Silver Star for Gallantry in Action against an Enemy of The United States.
While serving as a squad leader, 1st set, 22nd Street Bangers Co., 215th Battalion, during the second day of the Battle of Lake Champlain, Cpl. Jackson's position was the brunt of a ferocious Victorian assault. Low on ammunition and the platoon leadership dead or wounded, Cpl. Jackson rallied the men and ordered a retreat. His rifle broken in repelling a previous wave and wounded in the leg, Cpl. Jackson elected to cover his men's retreat, drawing a personal 'hi-point' sidearm and engaging the Victorian forces. Through out the night, Cpl. Jackson's taunts and intermittent pistol fire sounded from the position. The last heard from Cpl. Jackson was a spirited cry of "215 nigga! We don't run from shit! Come on, you crackas, when I'm done with you I'm comin' for ya's women! 50 States 4 lyf!" When friendly forces retook the position the following day, they found Cpl. Jackson surrounded by no less than ten fallen foes. Cpl. Jackson himself was shoot no less than five times, and had died clutching his platoon's Flag of The United States to his breast, so the Victorians might not defile it. Cpl. Jackson was a soldier's soldier, disciplined twice for the use of PCP in combat but beloved by his men. His final hours show he truly lived up to the highest standards of the United States Army."
Highlights of the Victoria threads' writefaggotry
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bEboZ7n11vZiBFBzpl73vgNp7ccao6CdXTyQ_mhllmY/edit?usp=sharing
Note that writefagging can be anything /k/ related, not just from the previous thread. Get as creative as you want.
I might post something of my own later. Stay tuned.
I got a couple of goofy ideas for the Victoria writefaggotry. As soon as I have something concrete I'll dump it.
Here's a bit of a side, side project. I'm a scifi fag but I've been keeping a post happening novel idea in my back pocket because I'm guessing publishers will like it better. Not a whole lot to see, but here's a few paragraphs:
>A fly flew before him in lazy circles, scarcely deviating from its wake with each pass. If flew on this way with great purpose, purpose that evidently lay forever just a little ahead and to its right. On it went around and around as if waiting for the universe to pity it and intervene. As he watched it with tired eyes he considered the prospect of it being a metaphor of sorts: a commentary on life and living. He decided it wasn't. It flew on and he went back to raiding the ancient cupboards for something edible. He found little. At least the house was bright and the wallpaper cheery. And there were no bodies. He could never be thankful enough for that. In the end he pocketed a few stale granola bars and pushed his way back outside and into the dusty afternoon, the butt of his rifle striking awkwardly on the doorframe as he did.
>It was hot out: ninety maybe. He warded the light away a little with a palm, clearing his brow of sweat as he did so. The lawn of the house, like the others, was dead, though in patches tall grass and weeds grew and a single rosebush struggled defiantly against oblivion. An old red bike sat rusting in the shade of the porch, somehow neglected by spiders. Gingerly he tried the handlebars and found they turned, if noisily. The wheels seemed mostly free. He studied it a long while in appraisal, then finally saddled it uncomfortably and rode away, under inflated tires whirring loudly. The streets hadn't seen maintenance in some time; then again they hadn't seen much wear either. Heat had cracked them in small ways, but they rode smoothly.
As the first bomber roared off the flightdeck of the container ship turned aircraft carrier Shokaku Admiral Tanaka felt a cold relief as the fate of his nation passed from his hands into those of this pilots. To quote another leader on the eve of battle, the die had been cast.
This confrontation had been a long time coming and the amount of subterfuge required, both within and outside his nations borders, had been considerable. The plot had its roots more then a year ago when intelligence reports of a secret Cascadian megaproject began to come out of the intelligence community. No one knew exactly what it was, only that the Chinese where involved and it was costing Cascadia an absurd amount of money, paid via natural resources. Months later, with the start of the second Sino-Vietnamese War and a continuing stream of inconclusive but alarming reports Japan had decided to act.
The Northern Confederation proved an easy, if unpleasant, puppet. Sent to war with a few rumors, stuffed ballot boxes and a conspicuously discounted navy they would adsorb the majority of the losses on the ground and - hopefully - any major Chinese retaliation. If the mission was a success then Japan would claim the Cascadian megaproject, cut off China from one of its major sources of natural resources and force a Chinese puppet state out of its orbit, all for the cost of a few second rate planes and, perhaps, ships.
That is, if he could stop himself from executing the insufferable Northern Confederation representatives long enough.
The prospects of success did not look good.
Love Clancy books, why haven't he written any new books lately?
>>30617055
Being dead tends the slow writing process.
fa/tg/uy here. Hammered this out in honor of the end of Victoria.
It was in Intelligence that the patterns of revolt were first detected, and it was precisely because Intelligence found it that the signs were ignored. And Captain Francis Sawyer wasn't sure he should warn the government before it was too late, anymore.
Knight-Commander Rumford's state funeral hadn't been over a week when the radio broadcasters on the West Coast announced civil disturbances in the former Azanian homeland. Deseret Rangers were raiding suspected terror cells, trying and exectuting the odd counterculturalist here and there. Nothing too unusal, really. The Tzar's elites trained out with the Rangers, the Mojave preparing the Russians for battle in the Sahara, Negev, and Afghanistan. Having a brigade of Cossacks run down thugs in the deserts reclaiming the streets of Los Angeles weren't a surprise. The surprise were the weapons they kept recovering: Kalashnikovs and Chinese make QB-series rifles. Tens of thousands of rifles, millions of rounds. They showed up in Pacifica too, where the Tzar's Naval Infantry trained out of Anchorage. All the better to train to destroy Muslim strongholds in the Phillapines, they said.
However thin the cover story was, Sawyer also knew that there weren't enough assault rifles on the West Coast of the old United States when it all came down to arm even half of the rebels that were killed each month. The Californian registry had been very good at confirming that fact.
>>30617227
Sawyer had learned at the Victorian War College at Dartmouth that his nation had a special relationship with the Tzar from it's founding, that without him the tanks and materiale needed for the heroic young officers to carry out their duties under the light hand of their commanders never would've existed, and the rebirth of the America-That-Was would've been strangled in it's crib by the Liberal Democrats. Victoria Square was a famous site on campus, where the footprint of a temple once stood to false gods and erroneous beliefs that sent well-meaning people to their doom. He wondered if there would be a memorial for those in Augusta whose belief that Beijing and Moscow would never arm their enemies would eventually doom them.
Internal threats were a bit more concerning.
In launching a crusade, Victoria needed it's own manufacturing facilities. With Cold Fusion and ample hydroelectrical power, the esrtwhile allies of the fledgeling confederation needed the historic manufacturing capabilities of the North American continent. The Arsenal of Christendom, as it were. The effort was positively Stalinist in scope, but within a year Willow Run was recreated with duplicates up and down the Mississippi, the war machine cranking out T-34's, M113's, and Tiger II tanks, as well as uniforms, bullets, and small vehicles, primarily variations of the 1964 Volkswagen Beetle and the related Kubelwagen.
The effectiveness of Victorian Armor in the wars overseas were dubious against early twenty-first century hardware, where much like the battles against the Federalists and the Azanians, the strategy seemed to revolve around waiting for the enemy to run out of parts for their advanced equipment, then rushing in to capitalize.
The Tzar approved, of course. It seemed to Sawyer that the man was more than happy to fight to the last American.
>>30617233
In any case, the great war factories that had sprung up required the most computerization of any Victorian endeavor outside of technical universities and museums. CORN supplied the labor for most of the Victorian War Effort, and it was here that black markets for digital contraband festered. Here a printing shop had a press taken out of service, where it's daily roll of manuals was replaced by ancient books someone had saved on something called a PDF. There a sewing machine would produce old Betty Ross flags. Someone had re-engineered the Welrod gun, and by law that man was swinging from a tree in Missouri, a hundred yards from the entrance to the machine shop he produced it at.
Samples of most sorts of contraband were kept in a box near his desk, Sawyer being the type to fill out detailed summaries, filing reports the General Staff would never read, but the junior officers found critical. And eye-opening.
Not coincidentally, the most eye-opening contraband was the vintage pornography.
In theory, everyone could get pornography. It wasn't strictly forbidden. By law, at least. That's what Citizen's Councils and the Old Maid Network were for. In spite of the best efforts to make sure that photography was limited to public events, there was always someone with a bathroom development studio, and that person could get you pictures of his wife naked for $20 a pop. Drawn pornography was more common, but the reinvention of Tijuana Bibles in Miami had ensured that it was more easily concealable.
But there was nothing like old-school pornography circa 1995 to 2025.
For one thing, there was a decided lack of hair products needed to replicate many of the female hairstyles from earlier in the era. Later in the era, as tastes for more voluptuous women became more prevalent, it posed a starker contrast with modern women that most young men couldn't help but notice.
>>30617240
A lot of them were natural. Sawyer, who was three when the United States breathed it's last, had only seen a generation of women with a drastically lowered caloric intake. Without the global shipping lanes and refridgeration plants of old, it was impossible to get fruit out of season or meat from further away than a train could take the actual cow. In a video with a woman doing suggestive things to a banana, the lasting impression was the banana. None grew north of the equator anywhere on Earth, as far as Sawyer knew. 'How did it get there?', he marveled.
He also marveled that a black and a white could have sex with no lasting reprecussions. Again, technically breaking no laws, but it was something a Victorian town father looked down upon, usually with a rope in his hand. Victorians were even-handed about this sort of thing, however. Which meant they hung both parties.
Sawyer sighed. On his desk he had three dozen reports on the topic, and many others. His shouts. His warnings. "Help! The Chinese and Russians are fighting Proxy Wars On Our Soil!" "This Crusade is Bleeding us Dry!" "The people who run our factories know there was a better world once!"
Sawyer knew there was a better world, once. It was in his box. A Welrod, number fifteen of six hundred, with only fifty ever recovered and how many more runs completed? An American flag, folded properly with thirteen stars in a circle. A copy of Farenheit 451, which he'd yet to read. A copy of Lowrider Magazine and Better Homes and Gardens, circa 2017. A smuggled thumb drive containing the complete works of a woman called Vanessa Blue. Several burned DVD's that were mislabled "Strategic Defense Initiative Briefing, Chapters 4 through 6", but seemed to contain nothing of the sort.
The America that was.
>>30617241
The Captain rubbed the bridge of his nose and stared at the ceiling, resting his eyes from his typeprinter. He hadn't been a good student of history, but he knew something about Hitler. His instructor at the War College had taught him that Hitler failed because he didn't prosecute the war properly. He moved forward, treating it as a race war rather than a stategic conflict. The Aryans would win because the Aryans were the Master Race, and all would fall into place. Their ideology had won out over reason. It was starting to occur, the past few months, that Sawyer lived in a world where ideology DID win over reason. At least in the short run.
It also occured to Sawyer that complacency in the General Staff was often the death of many an Arab army. They were the old guard, in those systems, while the dynamic thinkers were often the junior officers. Which is why the one-time dictators over there were often "Colonel" this or that.
He worked for a general staff that despised Intelligence, he knew. It was a culture in his army that went back to the beginning, with the oft-celebrated Knight-Commander Rumford sleeping through basic things like weather briefings and logistical summaries. It was a wonder they never noticed how far junior officers carried the people around the flagpole.
Sawyer could warn them of what was coming, sure. If they read it. But perhaps it didn't matter. Whatever victory ideology could win, reason would win in the end.
God Bless America.
>>30617055
Putin got an advanced copy of the last book he helped write where Russia annexes Crimea and had him polloiumed.
>>30617246
Good shit anon
Let's rewrite Azania from Victoria into a dangerous enemy vs the lolwomen they ended up being
>1/2
Their defining characteristics are: high-tech gadgets, radical feminism
So, let's take that and make it crazier.
>Government
The Republic of Azania is a matriarchal republic. It's head of state is an elected Queen who wears the Belt of Hyppolita (thing a WWE chamption belt). The Queen is an executive with line-item veto power over laws brought from the Assembly, which is capped at 1000 legislators, whom may only be women in good legal standing. The Assembly is a multiparty parliament elected by a biennial national vote, seats are alotted proportionally. The Queen is elected from among the Countesses of the various counties of Azania and serves a ten year reign, and may be removed by a vote-of-no-confidence by 2/3 of the Countesses and the reign may be extended by a simple majority of that group. Countess is a heriditary title and began when land ownership was redistributed after men were kicked out of power. Since they have a disdain for marriage, the successor need not be biological. If there is no named successor, a new Countess is chosen in an election of female landowners with an instant runoff system. The Countess's seat may not be unfilled for longer than two years.
>Society
Azania is an openly matriarchal society. Men may not vote and are either the property of a woman or the state. While man-owners are forbidden from killing or crippling their men and are responsible for feeding and clothing them. This slavery is, in some ways, superior to the plague-ridden wilderness of the rest of America. However, it is also maintained through nanomachines which serve both to track men and additionally to activate their pain receptors either on command or if they leave the borders of Azania.
>>30619880
One of the other cornerstones of Azania is eugenics. From an early age, men and women are educated and tested for genetic defects, athletic ability, IQ, beauty, as well as loyalty to the state. Those who fail to pass a certain cutoff are not allowed to breed. Azania utilizes, among other measures, a computerized system to ensure that above average and males and females produce superior children. The crowning achievement of Azania, however, is it's cloning program. In an annual grand tournament, each County sends forth a number of its best and brightest women to compete in a variety of intellectual and athletic competitions (the most popular of which is televized chessboxing) for a number of cloning slots. These winners have the privilege of their genetic material being used for a batch of 100 clones.
>Military
The Azanian military is a small, high-tech force. Its soldiers are clones of the best and brightest women of Azania, put through rigorous gene therapy and surgical augmentation to produce towering supersoldiers known as Amazons. Through a combination of high-tech airpower, mechanization, drones, power armor, and other high-tech gadgets, the Azanian Armed Forces make up for their small numbers. They are, in a sense, the diametric opposite of Victoria.
>>30619880
>It's head of state is an elected Queen who wears the Belt of Hyppolita (thing a WWE chamption belt).
Is... is she elected in a cage match?
>>30620055
>psycho lesbians in power armor whose queen is chosen by cage match
That's insane enough for Victoria
>>30620148
And that's why Victoria had to get rid of televisions.
>>30620148
>psycho lesbian eugenicists
FTFY, either way though, it's better than Lind
>>30617119
kek
actually though the new ghostwriter is pretty interesting. reading some of his other stuff was fun, even if tactics wise it was kinda hokey.
>>30616459
>>30616587
Well, since this thread is actually going places, I might as well put my money where my mouth is. And yes, I started the thread.
Stand by, writefag data incoming.
>>30620156
Perfect.
I need to write a bit about the Victorians getting their shit pushed in by Gulf Arab-funded Appalachians.
Thinking of this as background:
>so there's a massive world war/collapse in the Americas, with Japan, China, and Russia being the few surviving powers
>all three need oil
>Young leadership in the Gulf Arab states sells them oil, but has trouble with delivery on the high seas now that the RN and USN are no more.
>Arabs invest in a navy manned by Anglosphere and European refugees
>Shit gets torn up in the name of Allah and the almighty dirham
>Secure trade routes with Africa and access to rare earth metals
>Billy Boy's stand-in and the Tsar try their alt-right vatnik fap fantasy of a crusade
>Reverse T.E. Lawrence in West Virginia and Pennsylvania as our Bedouin adviser heroes lead the locals in blowing up Kraft's precious Wehraboo train network
So long as the Americans fight tribe against tribe they will be a little people, a silly people; greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are.
>>30620293
For today's dose of entertaining insanity, I'm going to talk about Doing-Things, my personal (and purposefully unreleased) writing project that mostly serves as a fun escape from actual work, and entertain the small circle of close friends I actually release it to.
The main "modern" Doing-Things continuity includes DTH, DTHE, DTHNG, and the current DTHW. Basic (non-spoiler) descriptions below, mostly old copypasta:
>DTH
>Tom Clancy's La Blue Girl StrikerS Destiny: Rogue Spear
>DTHE
>Tom Clancy's Allison & Lillia Flashback 2012: Lelouch Of The Galactic Heroes New Testament
>DTHNG
>Tom Clancy's Warhammer 40,000 Only: 4chan /tg/ Edition
>DTHW
>Tom Clancy's Sliders SG-1 GTS: Mezzo Overfiend of All Fears Edition
Astute readers may notice that I've been killing /a/ and /m/ threads with this for months.
Pic related.
>>30620427
God that would be amazing trolling. Just have all the 'bad factions' in his books like the anti-monarchists or the minorities curb stomping his wehrboo republic back into Wisconsin .
And then email this trollfic directly to him.
>>30620469
I was thinking of having a substantial portion of the Euro refugees be ethnic Germans who convert to Islam.
>>30620511
Ethnic German muslims who have recreated the Prussian state.
>>30620804
Perfect
>>30620804
>>30620809
Muslim Fallschirmjager acting as an advance force for an Arab-Brazilian-Japanese naval landing at Norfolk, supported by guerrillas operating out of the Blue Ridge mountains.
Goal is to be rolling up I-95 to Richmond at D+30.
Next stages are to capture the US-301 bridge onto the MD peninsula, followed by a campaign into Northern VA against the Woodrow Wilson, Memorial, Teddy Roosevelt, and Chain Bridges. Unconventional and airborne forces will also seize the bridge at Harper's Ferry in advance of the northern armored pincer, with the goal of surrounding and bypassing DC in the drive north towards the heart of Victoria.
Allahu ackbar.
I didn't have time to ask this in the Victoria thread so felt I should bring this up here. Throughout the entire course of the "novel" did Rumford ever have sex? I know he doesn't get married but what about sex? Looking through the archive it doesn't seem like its mentioned at all. He's in a platonic relationship with Maria while living in sin with her, but that seems to be the extent of it. Honestly this guy comes across as a tumblrist "asexual", "aromantic", schizophrenic psychopath.
Basically, does crazy-ass Tsarist Knight Rumford die a virgin?
>>30621042
As far as I can tell, he did not have sex throughout the course of the book
>>30621042
I assume he dies a virgin. His one experience being attracted to a woman confused him "Because he spent all his life fighting [and] never really thought about it." Like he's fuckin' Ryu or something. Add in the Christianity, the insane disgust for women, etc..
>>30621049
Another question, since you're the leader of this great crusade - what happened to the American South by the end of the book? Did some sort of Confederate rump state exist even after Rumford nuked Atlanta?
>>30621251
The Old South takes control of the Confederacy and things are fine and dandy. Evidently they become big fans of LAVs, enough that they can spare a regiment in Rumford's attack on Azania
>>30621042
>while living in sin with her
This would mean it's not platonic. That's the "sin" part: fucking without being marriage. Kids these days I swear.
To answer your question, there's no evidence that Rumford has any attraction whatsoever for the opposite sex. If this were a different book, he'd be a serial killer who cut out womens' eyes and tongues and replaced them with beads and scraps of leather because that would be rectifying the deficiencies they were born with.
In fact, my headcanon is that the reason Maria turns him down is because she's terrified about all the taxidermy equipment he has in the basement. I realize the simpler answer is just that he's repulsive, but sometimes it's fun to make things more interesting.
>>30621340
Awesome, thanks.
I'm going to write them as being the Northern Confederation's client state with a shitty army that gets chewed up by Appalachian rebels in some sort of moonshine-fueled version of Afghanistan.
>>30621042
>>30621049
>>30621126
>>30621448
I forget, is Rumford or Kraft Lind's Mary Sue in this whole horrid affair?
Also, what's the general consensus of /k/ on Lind's work? All I'm feeling is maximum cringe and disgust.
>>30621765
It's a composite. And real talk: every single "good" guy in the book is expected to think just like Lind so what's the point in saying one or another is unmistakably him?
Why would one feel anything else?
>>30621876
Just curious what /k/ thinks, because somehow this guy has fans that gush over his stuff online. Although it's very possible they're all of the sockpuppet/56k modem basement dweller/serial killer variety.
What do you guys think?
>>30621983
His views on society make strawmen look reasonable, he has less understanding of military matters than a CoD kiddie and is writing is worse then most shitty fanfics save for the fact someone copy edited it.
The fact that some people legitimately enjoy it is confusing and a bit soul-crushing.
>>30622067
If he were just a tiny bit less ridiculous he'd be Eric Flint or John Ringo and those faggots sell books like it's going out of style. In general, people read garbage.
>>30622067
I was hoping we were all on the same page. Anyway, I'll post some more Doing-Things stuff in a bit. We need something that isn't directly related to this depressing cringefest. Hell, even my early middle school-era fanfic isn't as cringeworthy as this.
Also, forgot my trip.
>>30622087
>If he were just a tiny bit less ridiculous he'd be Eric Flint or John Ringo
I have no idea if he's better or worse than Ringo. Worse writer, for sure, and way more than racist than Ringo, but at least his disgust with women doesn't end up with him beating up/molesting kids.
>>30622205
It's the childish "everything I do is right everyone agrees with me and my retarded sense of humor" that reminds me of Ringo. But credit where due, Ringo is a better author who doesn't ruthlessly exterminate narrative tension wherever it might lurk.
>>30622239
Ringo at least has his characters prove their right by being bad asses. Insane to the point of a 14 year old bragging on the play ground about how he can fuck women to blindness then kill a thousand brown people, but still a reason. Shit I'm finding the good points in the Ghost series what am I doing
So, does anyone want to make /k/ book club a more permanent fixture? The discussion and commentary around Victoria was some of the most fun and at times interesting I've had in a while on /k/. We don't have to read total trash either, we could read something more interesting, but I think we ought to do this again.
>>30622603
This. 4chan nerds more writrfag generals in general
>TFW writer
>Drawfags get all the threads
>>30622603
It's a great idea.
>>30622717
This. We need more writing threads.
That said, anyone want Doing-Things stuff? It's my current massive crossover fanfic disaster, and of course it's pretty crazy. The latest installment was basically 240 pages of oh dear god /a/, /m/, /k/, /d/, and /tg/ just exploded across my screen help help save me. I can probably find a scene or two somewhere in the 4000+ page franchise to spew onto /k/ to get things going. Anyone interested?
>>30622603
I'd like to see it become a thing on /k/
>>30622768
Hell, I'd go as far as to say I'd like /write/ in outright, though I don't see 4chan providing much useful feedback on the broad spectrum. Presumably there would be good and bad threads like any other board
>We found the guy who was hoarding the global supply of .22LR.
>>30623038
YES
Let's read this next, we've probably all read it, but not in a while, and I read it before I knew anything about guns and anything about the retardation of max brooks
>select all trains
>>30622603
Yes. I absolutely agree.
>>30623038
>.22 bounces around in zombie skulls
this book hurt my head
>>30622897
That's true.
I'm sort of at a loss as to how to introduce Doing-Things (DT) to a /k/ audience, given that it's well over four thousand pages long currently. Here's a quick, nasty, very basic timeline:
>divergence point sometime in early 2000s w/ WWZ and rediscovery of magic
>DTEX happens here
>abortive Arume invasion
>Old Races return
>SDF-1 crashes
>DTH takes place here
>Space War One/SW1
>humanity moves into space
>formation of FPA and New Britannian Empire
>Road to DTHE period here, DTHE Side Stories etc
>DTHE begins properly 100+ years after SW1
>DTHW takes place over a decade later
Note that I intentionally don't give dates, so I can fiddle with the chronology as needed to prevent internal paradoxes and so forth.
Feel free to comment. Not even sure anyone even cares.
>>30623305
Promise Space Nuggets and we're in.
>>30623519
There's a couple fairly regular Nugget users, including a main character who used to use a PU-scoped sniper as his primary arm until it got lost when his home planet got destroyed.
So yeah, there technically are Space Nuggets.
>>30623305
>4000+ pages
That seems too long.
>>30623305
I don't mean to be a dick, but this seems pretty cringeworthy t b h
>>30624003
DTHE alone is 26 episodes and 17 side stories, at around 3100 pages. DTHW is getting pretty up there at around 1200 pages, including the latest installment, Movie The 1st, which is exactly 240 pages long. I've been writing DT and its related/predecessor works for something like a decade so far, so that kind of page count isn't too surprising.
wouldyouliketoknowmore.jpg
>>30624040
It's my "internal" fanfic project, not meant for public distribution; basically, it's something I can let my imagination run wild on and not worry about what other people will think, and I certainly don't use it as a creepy as fuck political statement. At least I have the sense not to vanity publish it like you-know-who, right?
tl;dr: It's just done for fun.
>>30624041
>>30624070
Alright, I'm neither of the other anons, but - I am kinda interested in seeing just what it is you've come up with here.
So, as far as delivery goes, maybe post a small sample and see how it gets received.
>>30624168
I'm honestly not sure where to start, there's just so much content, some of it good, some of it average, and as much as I hate to admit it, some of it that's just kinda bad. I hope there's more of the former than the latter, but that could just be wishful thinking. Some installments also have less /k/ content than others, just because of the kind of stories they are.
Hold on, I'll post the reading order episode guide for DTHE. Maybe someone can pick an installment and I'll loot it for a good sample. As always, I won't release the entire thing, because of DT's very nature as an internal project.
>>30624335
Reading Order (1st part)
1. DTHE Episode 1 (The Tactical Prince)
2. DTHE Episode 2 (Loose Ends And All That)
3. DTHE Episode 3 (Shooting Star Escape)
4. DTHE Episode 4 (The Trouble With New Neighbors)
5. DTHE Episode 5 (The End Of Empire)
6. DTHE Episode 6 (The Inspector Cometh)
7. DTHE Episode 7 (We Were Stalkers Once, And Young)
8. DTHE Side Story 1 (The Dirty Angel Gets Her Wings)
9. DTHE Side Story 2 (Strange Relations On the Pudding Run To Glastonbury)
10. DTHE Episode 8 (Helping Others Meet The Parents)
11. DTHE Side Story 3 (A Treasure Beyond All Price)
12. DTHE Episode 9 (Waylay Tourism In Nephrenti County)
13. DTHE Side Story 4 (The Price Of Forgiveness)
14. DTHE Episode 9.5 (Mad Mayhem On The SDF Express)
15. DTHE Side Story 5 (A Tale Of Fog, Blood, And Love In Old California)
16. DTHE Side Story 6 (The Hatchling That Leapt Into Space, And The Hero Who Came Home)
17. DTHE Side Story 7 (Living Free With A Vengeance In The Home Of The Brave)
18. DTHE Side Story 8 (Expensive Freedom, Contractual Obligations, And A Child’s Wish)
19. DTHE Episode 10 (Two Knights And A Queen On The Uplifted Board)
20. DTHE Side Story 9 (The Three Stooges Meet The Festering Wound)
21. DTHE Side Story 10 (Surprising Politics, Family Ties, And Ecclesiastical Law Enforcement)
22. DTHE Episode 11 (Back To The Zone In A Handbasket)
23. DTHE Episode 12 (Marital Madness In Hibikino Town)
24. DTHE Episode 13 (Defiant Battle Amongst The Whispering Pines)
25. DTHE Side Story 11 (The Demons Of Dust And Agony)
26. DTHE Episode 14 (Unauthorized Exploration, Rainy Days, And A Painful Possession)
>>30624346
Reading Order Part 2
27. DTHE Episode 15 (Finding Trouble When You’re Trying To Avoid It)
28. DTHE Episode 16 (A Contentious Hoard)
29. DTHE Episode 17 (Havoc And Happiness For The Holidays)
30. DTHE Side Story 12 (The Demon Inside The Black Box)
31. DTHE Episode 18 (Loving Confessions And An Unequal Festival)
32. DTHE Episode 19 (Small Mistakes, Catastrophic Errors, And A Cold Tomb)
33. DTHE Side Story 13 (A Test Of Courage And Honor, To The Death)
34. DTHE Episode 20 (The Diva’s Cursed Hideaway)
35. DTHE Side Story 14 (Burning Down The Cross)
36. DTHE Episode 21 (Outside Influences And Needlessly Lost Innocence)
37. DTHE Episode 22 (Noble Actions, Disused Shrines, And Bloody Map Lines Of Empire)
38. DTHE Side Story 15 (Opposing Forces And Greyish Shades Of Immoral Money)
39. DTHE Side Story 16 (Ominous Rebirth, Castaways, And Good Causes)
40. DTHE Episode 23 (A Certain Tactical Teacher)
41. DTHE Episode 24 (Bureaucracy, Outside Sales, And That Thing Which Corrupts)
42. DTHE Side Story 17 (A Tournament Of Romance, Honor, And Freedom)
43. DTHE Episode 25 (Helping Lovers Meet The Grandparents/Mad Tangle, Part 1)
44. DTHE Episode 26 (Live Music, Girls, And Ammo)
Actually, I might have an idea for a good passage if nobody chooses anything. I'll stand by for a bit just in case.
I'm running into another problem.
Even the smallest scenes in DT tend to run far, far over the maximum character limit for 4chan posts. Part of that is my predilection towards lengthy story sequences, sometimes in excess of fifty pages per, but other times comes from my need for extreme technical accuracy. Finding a passage that'll fit within even a few posts might be a problem.
This might take a while.
>>30624743
Just dump it on pastebin and then link it here. I know of other writefags who do it that way when they hit the character limit and don't want to bother breaking it into separate posts.
>>30616459
I had an idea of an FBI profiler with a famous actor brother who gets involved in the seedy side of hollywood while working on case, rubbing shoulders with movie stars and connected people
but then I found out Ray Donovan was a thing so I got nothing now. At best it would have been typical true crime books for lonely housewives but its all I had
>>30625373
Make the FBI profiler and famous actor women and swap Hollywood for the porn industry.
>>30625570
I'd read it.
>>30625307
Hold on, let me try this:
http://pastebin.com/YhTJSD2R
>>30626283
Well that's an interesting excerpt. If nothing else you've got me curious because you seem to have combined STALKER with tentacle monsters in a non-sexual scenario while throwing in several anime and movie crossovers that mostly seem to work... at least within this little excerpt. The attention on the firearms and ammunition specifically is also a nice touch. It could use some editing since even in this short section there one or two clunky sentences.
>>30626555
That's actually pretty early work, very old stuff. DTHE really didn't hit its stride until maybe Side Stories 6-8 and episode 10... And, honestly, the clunkiness is part of its experimental, internal use only nature. I'm always trying new things and some of them don't work out, which is why I don't release them fully to the public. That said, attention to detail is my strong suit. Extreme technical accuracy is a prerequisite for DT installments for a variety of reasons; for example, some very brief sentences in DTHW Movie The 1st literally took weeks to research, because I wanted to get the technical details just right.
I can expound on that scene's background if you want, or just keep going.
>>30622768
May I propose the works of Tom Kratman? Another of the Baen boys, the two obvious choices would be A Desert Called Peace and Caliphate. The first os the start of a trilogy in which Arabs fly a zepplin into the not-WTC and Kratman's self insert kicks their asses all day long and then spoiler\ crucifies not-Osama and Nukes the Kabba \spoiler. The other involves Muslim cyberninjas. Anyone interested?
>>30623595
Those sound more like regular nuggets in space. We want space nuggets
>>30626643
I'd say just keep going. Personally I want to see more of this world if only to get a better feel of it.
>>30626669
I'm not the one running the Let's Read threads, I think Billy Boy is.
>>30626683
You should see some of the NORINCO products in late DTHE/DTHW.
>>30626704
I'll try to find something interesting. There's a huge number of non-combat scenes that do worldbuilding (of which there's a LOT), or I can just give a general plot synopsis of each series. It's up to you guys which you'd like better.
I kinda want to write about post-apocalyptic naval combat in the Gulf of Mexico
>>30616459
>Share ideas with randos on the internet.
And have one of you bastards steal it? As if. I'll post a link when I finish writing it.
I'll post a short story on here after some fine tooth comb editing tomorrow. It's a side story I wrote to a larger plan of which I have a novel/novella already written. Essentially a Gunslinger Girl fanfiction (probably lost some of you right there) that is less focused on the sneaky music case stuff and intelligence gathering and a lot more military/up front inspired, room to room killing, violent assassination and headquarters wiping. Takes place in Canada with an actually organized FLQ taking the place of the Padania. Next novel/novella the characters will head for Italy.
Also, within perhaps the next week or over the weekend I'll probably start a thread to collect a large pool of characters for a story I'm working on.
>>30622346
i mean, at least Ringo is self-aware enough to acknowledge that the Ghost series is tripe.
>>30628124
Personally, I quite liked Gunslinger Girl, so you had my interest there.
And since I had to look up FLQ, you definitely have my interest now. Can't wait to see what it is you've got going.
>>30616459
It's been years since the fall of the Old Order, and our society has never been so successful. In the old world you basically had to watch out for a handful of things: Muslim terrorists, obesity, Godless heathens, and cancer.
Today we worry about none of that stuff, we live in a peaceful and positive society. People today don't even own enough food to become fat, much less morbidly obese people are too worried about bubonic plague to care about cancer at 70, and since the Confederation banned Muslims, Atheists, Heretics, and free speech in general, hanging the dissenters, we haven't worried about societal upheaval.
If our wars of the mid 21st century taught us anything, it's that Retroculture trumped all, but we made one mistake, we did not go Retro enough...
When the Tibetans invaded with muskets, we were surprised to see them mow down our Jagers when our rifles jammed, so we sent bow and swordsmen. In the 9th Crusade our swordsmen, trained in the "Kunst des Fechtens" or "School of Fencing" were demolished by Saracen peasants with rocks, yet the tide turned when our first units of "Faustkämpfers" or "boxers" hit the field.
Here we are today, though. We sit atop the most powerful nation in the world. Our military might cannot be matched, as our soldiers armed with nothing but their wit engage in close quarters combat with the enemy, and always emerge victorious. Our navy is unrivaled since we ditched boats in lieu of well-trained swim teams.
Yes, this is truly the dawn of a new era, where what is old is new, and what is new is powerful. Already our politicians are talking about strengthening our immune systems by banning antibiotics, and strengthening our women by banning epidurals and their right to speak. Soon there will only be us, our fists, and our light rail systems, and then, we will be completely unstoppable.
>Hermann Kühn, III Faustkämpfers Division
(Note, it is still pronounced "third" but we outlawed the use of Arabic numerals)
I'm still working on something. Bump to keep the thread alive until then.
>>30620427
But is there an ayatollah of rock and roll?
>>30622603
I wouldn't mind it
>>30616459
Was the Ohio Valley area ever touched on?
I have an idea for an mildly roman-themed American inheritor state that arises in that area.
May do some writefagging based on a scifi story I'm working on ending up with these Victoria shits. Is anyone interested?
>>30616459
Fuckin' Bumped.
>>30619887
I wanna fuck those amazons
>>30623038
>we threw out all of the assault rifles
>and their ammuntition
>to make a completely unnecesary new weapon system
>in two years
I hate that book so much. Basic bitch AR15+G19 is best for the scenario
>>30637459
That's what this thread is for, do it.
Been trying to find good, short Doing-Things segments for pastebinning, as well as work on DTHW 7. Obviously it's taken a while, but I think I have a good choice.
Anyone still interested?
>>30637459
>>30638123
The jump klaxon sounded, and the USS Stringfellow Walker found herself in orbit over a familiar blue green planet. The problem was, of course, that the usual orbital activity was missing. The ISS, long on display at the Armstrong City Museum on Luna, was in orbit though dark and cold. Captain Chris Nance, the Walker's CO, sighed.
"Did we end up in some sort of alternate universe again?" he exclaimed. This was about the fourth time it had happened. "Send the message to the admiral that we're going to be late. Again."
"Aye, sir. Transmitted, and reply received. Passing it to you, sir."
"Thank you, lieutenant." Nance skimmed the message. It contained, as all the ones before it had, the same order to find out what was what and report in when needed. "I need a fucking drink." he said, as he stood and walked to his stateroom. Hopefully, the investigative ground expedition would be worthwhile.
Thoughts? If decent I'll continue.
>>30626704, if you're still here, here's another DTHE fragment, this time from episode 12. Sorry it's so late, had a lot to do today.
http://pastebin.com/j4RkY557
>>30629637
I'll see if I can get it in a new G-Doc in an hour or so. Don't expect too much, I've just got a high school education, no fancy writing classes or that.
>>30640139
Holy hell, you've got Macross and some Star Trek in there. I'm actually impressed I recognized most of the lingo, and even more impressed you used said lingo appropriately. Unsure how this all fits with the previous excerpt, but that's a minor inconvenience. The guy asked for more of the world and there we have it. Its massively diverse, that's for sure.
Also, does this mean your story includes Indiana Jones, STALKER, Star Trek, Macross, and more all in one universe? How do you maintain internal consistency and balance "power levels" of characters, ships, and weaponry?
You ever consider putting it on someplace like fanfiction.net?
>>30640758
Alright, it's finished so far as I can see, two 3-4 am edits should do the trick.
Also of note, I'm admittedly not much of a fighter so please excuse me if the hand to hand scenes don't feel right. I'll be the first to admit I'm kind of grasping at straws with it. Long ass link below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_L4sZBCMQ1dV8Ulm4YLNIamPZ9p6GQgXyNlDAsV7VTk/edit?usp=sharing
I might do World War Z, Red Storm Rising, or The Killer Angels next
>>30642135
I support any and all of these. WWZ would probably be the most similar in format to your previous let's read because it is dumb.
Can we all agree that Rainbow Six is a terrible book?
>hurr durr turrurists
>turrurisms wanna kill da world cuz population controlz!!
>o noez we gota stop them
>we did stop them!
>da end :)
Most overrated piece of shit that took way too long to read.
>>30642135
I'd recommend WWZ because of how fucking stupid it is
>>30642135
If we're talking near future WTF-grade military fiction, Deep Sound Channel by Joe Buff might be applicable. Written in 2000, it documents the 2010+ war between the US and the German/South African Axis. It's meant to be an homage to WW2 spy and sub movies but with more tactical nukes than a playthrough of Fallout 3. The protagonist is the captain of an advanced Virginia submarine performing ops with CIA and SEAL teams (think Star Trek). He faces off against evil neonazi sub officers with enough characterization to feel bad when they take losses, but do enough horrid things to justify getting turned into irradiated plasma. I liked the series when I was young, but after a while it got increasingly hokey. Notable scenes from the books include a South African engineered super plague, liberating a Muslim work camp in Germany and the nuking of Chatham Island because lolevil.
>>30641402
I've included hundreds, if not thousands of fictional franchises in Doing-Things over the years, from blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos to huge universe-building blocks. And yes, they're all in one universe, more or less (there's actually a few related universes that are connected in one way or another). As for consistency and balance, well, I have massive collated archives of previous installments that I constantly refer to; sometimes working out the continuity makes a single page take days or even weeks to write as a result. I also try to avoid writer fiat and build at least a consistent narrative, with "power levels" arranged in believable ways.
That said, Doing-Things is my internal use only project, the one I can experiment with and not worry about what the public will think. That's my reasoning for not making it publicly available through fanfiction.net or other open sites.
Might have some more series tidbits later. Not sure, working hard on DTHW 7 and don't have much time to search thousands of pages for illustrative segments.
>>30643151
Oh, and one last thing I forgot: The "main" character in the last excerpt is actually from the Nanoha franchise (albeit heavily modified to fit into DT), and a callback to an earlier DT series.
Sometimes I add something into one installment, then it evolves internally through the DT franchise into something wholly different than its prototype.
Anyone still interested?
>>30641460
Gotta say, I'm liking this. The prose seems solid and I love the details.
Regarding the hand-to-hand scenes - I'm almost completely inexperienced so don't take me too seriously here - they seemed accurate and therefore believable.
All in all, damn good read and I'd like to see more if you've got it.
>>30643022
>>30642194
This desu. Part of what made the Victoria thread so fun was how shitty the source material was. WWZ is as bad, if not worse, in terms of /k/ related details. However Brooks is a much better author than fuccboi Lind so you writefags might not have as much fun roasting him as milfags will.
>>30624355
Wait a second, we're you that nigga who has an entire part in his book dedicated to a crazy tycoon owner that desiderate to make a Star Destroyer from Star Wars, and he fights someone who made the Enterprise?
>>30649488
Nope. Not me at all. Hell, I've never even heard of that before.
>select all monorails
CAPTCHA IS BECOMING A LIGHT RAIL ENTHUSIAST RUN
>>30649621
Well there was an annon in the lind threads who talked of making a book where humanity achieved post-scarcity and it had a bunch of crazy shit like that.
>>30649488
>>30649621
No, I'm a different lorefag. I posted a few synopses in thread 1. I got another mass mashup universe. Also, the radio DJ made the USS Defiant because he wanted a ship small enough to run circles around the executive's ISD. Mostly because the exec was supported some dumbass causes and became the epitome of spoiled plutocracy.
It's also got references to Pokemon, SMAC, The Mote in God's Eye, Battlestar Galactica, Love Hina, Grand Theft Auto, Fallout and The Onion.
>>30649666
>The Onion
Make it. Really though, mind sharing with us? Concept sounded dank in the threads.
>>30649682
Unfortunately, it's more a bunch of plot outlines rather than anything worth reading. I just posted that shit because I couldn't believe Victoria somehow out-crazied me.
I did plan out the Earth-Xabraxiq Pod Wars, though. Kim Jong-Il's roach form in Team America: World Police and the Psi Cactus from Outlaw Star turn out to some of the many Pod Leaders. They invade the Orion Arm every 7 years, each time gaining more territory before being repulsed.
>>30649796
So how long til you are able to finish the book if you work on it? I'd prefer 2 write fags in /k/ so one doesn't have a monopoly.
>>30649828
Sorry, but it's almost impossible at this point. It really started back around 2000 with my brother but at this point I have a kid, family, day job and guns. I could get rolling if the next few years weren't so busy.
Thanks for the support, though.
>>30646310
Thanks, I do have more, but I need to edit and add to it, the first story is sitting finished but unpolished. Maybe I'll get on it over the next few days, the fighting and gun play is expanded a lot more than it is in that story because I just had more to write. The violence is also generally more gnarly. The thing I think it's missing currently though is enough mental anguish, so I might add some before I call it done.
Anyways, thanks for reading it, and for the praise, I appreciate it.
Currently working hard on DTHW 7. Might be able to scrape up another excerpt from earlier DT installments for /k/, though.
Any questions about my previous posts, though? Might want to get a little feedback first.
>>30649828
>>30616633
Lazy circles fly anon here
Story is largely undeveloped, but I could make a side project of it. Was planning on serializing it anyway.
Given this IS 4chan, anyone know any good measures to keep my rights to it secure?
>>30650450
>rights
>4chan
>culture of torrenting and piracy
Kek.
>>30650854
Yeah. Maybe I'll come up with another narrative I'm less interested in pursuing seriously
>>30651146
That's why I hold DT so close, and only post excerpts outside of my inner circle of friends. I think I'll work up some basic plot summaries later, give people an idea of what each DT series is about.
Couldn't hurt, right?
Well, time to put my money where my mouth is and write up those basic "main universe" Doing-Things summaries. Note that this will be a two-parter because they're so damn big.
Doing-Things EX/DTEX: The original. Basically the tale of the Doing-Things Club, a bunch of eccentric, crazy, meddling high-schoolers (a recurring theme in DT) in a very post-WWZ California, more specifically the South San Francisco Bay/Santa Clara County. Highlights include running over tentacle monsters with a salvaged British light tank, running car chases/gunfights with street gangs, and PT boat battles between the U.S. Navy and People's Republic of San Francisco (the Peeps).
Doing-Things H/DTH: A sequel to DTEX, and the first to include "H" PROMOTIONS scenes, thanks to an argument I had with some /b/tard about writing fap-worthy fanfic; I tried to make the sex scenes unfappable but the pilot episode ended up so good I just ran with it. This one's set in basically the same area but many years later, focusing on a very unusual special education class made up mostly of nonhumans such as Drow, Mind Flayers, ghosts, maidroids, Orks, futa vampire schoolteachers, and so forth. Shenanigans include huge mobile suit/naval battles between the U.S. military and the Peeps, modernized coastal monitors with CIWS guns and VLS, large-scale zombie battles, bus chases through shopping malls, school board inspections, gym teacher MASTER ASIA, GEKIGAN GRENADE LAUNCHER, and nearly the entire cast of Gundam Seed Destiny NOT being dumb. The first "kitchen sink" series where tons of existing franchises got thrown in willy-nilly, setting the tone for all later DT installments.
Part 2 will follow soon. Stay tuned.
Doing-Things H EXCESS/DTHE: The longest and most seminal DT series, based around a rather unique schoolboy/country kannushi/STALKER and all the absolutely crazy people who populate his tiny post-SW1 town in what used to be California, and the DT universe in general. Sort of a small-town story at heart, with loving families, tight-knit communities, local clergy, pocket Glocks, phased plasma rifles, mobile suits, VFs, X-Wings, starships, Macross-class SDFs deploying Reflex Itano Circuses, autograph fanboy Gamlin Kizaki, Emperor Lelouch the 1st, The Magician does come back, Reinhard orders a PLANET DANCE, Mace Windu and Tequila Yuen fucking up Zeon remnants, The Battle of Axanar, and oh fuck its all completely out of control help help. Notable for adding vastly more fictional properties to the crossover mix.
Doing-Things H Wanderers/DTHW: The current series. A sort of culmination where tons of characters from many previous DT installments (including side stories and abortive series "pilots" that never made it) come back to form a multiversal intervention force of sorts, and get embroiled in a massive multiversal war that's currently underway. Highlights include a retelling of SAO that's basically Warthunder.exe, LONELY SOLDIER BOYYYYYYYY, MIIU operators basically going full SG-1 and BTFOing bad guys in whatever universe they cross into, a RAF Boulton-Paul Defiant kamikazeing into a Garuda aerial carrier, FPA M4 Sherman prototypes with Gundarium Gamma armor and firing 79.2mm rocket-assisted laser-guided HESH grenades, Catch You Catch Me E1M1 Remix, and the Battle of the Philmarilion Nebula. Note that DTHW includes Movie The 1st, which is the 240-page monster.
Yeah. These will never get released in full, because not only are they my "private" internal fanfic project, I also don't pull any punches when I'm just writing for myself and my buddies. There's something in there that'll offend just about anybody, or at least I think so.
Better to just release excerpts.
>>30653306
>all this
Holy Crap. I guess I'm not alone in turning fan fiction into a semi-cohesive independent universe.
>offend just about anybody
That's another reason why I didn't write it out, especially after Tourette's guy became a substitute teacher at the Battle School and accidentally infected an obnoxious shoggoth-esque hive servitor race that humanity inherited from the Progenitors. Instead of following the usual Word of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson, the Jumbo start sporadically vandalizing future Earth and using their onboard surplus miniguns for religious reasons.
Also:
>Crips & Bloods sign a truce against the Ork menace growing beneath Neo Compton
>Kirk-type war hero becomes Admiral & gains both gay and neonazi fan clubs due to his handsome Aryan features
>Postal's Uncle Dave and Habib reconcile and found an extremist group on a distant desert world. No one takes them seriously until they discover a cache of Dalek technology
>>30653306
My mind got a bit fuzzy halfway through reading this
Sounds confusing and very interesting my man
>>30653306
There's going to be at least a few people who wouldn't give a shit about being offended, this whole thing seems like a experience
>>30654069
I was inspired by the old days of Usenet fanfic sagas, the ones written by the early anime fanbase, with dozens of contributing authors, hundreds of installments, and a sense of epic vastness that really hasn't been seen since.
>>30654621
>>30654634
Thank you. It's been an experience writing it.
Any more questions? Might have some more DT excerpts/story data later on, not sure.
Let's keep this thread alive.
