Inter-Dimensional Traveler
Most of my characters are celibate or asexual and rarely think about love, relationships or sex. I think it's because I happen to be asexual in real life so I don't really think about the love lives of my characters. Usually, if I have to give a justification, it's that the characters are too busy saving the day to worry about that kind of thing. This isn't just protagonists, but side characters as well.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
-Cults. IDK why, but they're everywhere in my stories. They fascinate me, in the macabre sort of sense. -Characters with Abusive Parents. -Deadpan Snarker characters. -An emphasis on friendship relations, moreso than on romantic relations. -Horror elements, not counting the cult stuff
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Rhinestone Cowboy
For me, it's bishonen characters and general 90's nostalgia.
Lover of anime, video games, old-school Rock & Roll music, yaoi, horror, motorcycles, classic cars, trains, and historical fiction
I feel like this is an oddly specific niche for me to have but I love when the protagonist temporarily gains an evil persona due to an outside force. Bonus points if it's due to a species that assimilates, like the Cybermen. The best example for me would probably have to be when the Doctor briefly gained an evil personality thanks to the Cybermen.
I've got a soft spot for otherworldly beings that are genuinely friendly. For example, I've got one in one of my works-in-progress that's set up like a typical demonic deal-maker, but it's actually benevolent (unless you try to rip it off), and only ends up causing more problems than it solves by complete accident.
Another thing that I like a lot is fairies that will absolutely wreck you if given a reason. Half my Fairy-type Fakemon fit that description to some degree, and in one of my original works-in-progress, fae are essentially demons by another name. I'm also considering having the nature spirits in my original game project act this way, being generally benevolent but having zero tolerance for anyone messing up their territory.
Most of the settings I use are volcanic, arid, mountainous and warm. Irrespective of whether they are on Earth or on other planets. Probably because I despise temperate climates and volcanoes and mountains are more geologically interesting.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
That there is a seal.
Seals, as in the animal, show up prominently a lot in my works. Whether it's outright sentient seals, seal-like fantasy races or aliens, or even just a character having a seal motif, seals will be there. If not seals, walruses or manatees. I also usually include a character or two who is very competent or powerful, but also somehow incompetent or silly. Sometimes this ties into the seal motif, if, like seals, they are clumsy or silly in "ordinary" situations, but incredibly good within their element or under the right circumstances.
Data is imaginary. This burrito is real.
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
My historical fic features (early prototype of) Navy SEALs, does that count for anything? 
My Creator Thumbprint tends to be:
- Female protagonists, mainly.
- American or Canadian characters, along with a few British people.
- Characters with a unusual accent
- Generally, Like Reality, Unless Noted
- Artistic License – History
- Artistic License – Geography (which ties in with the third bullet point).
- LGBT characters not being defined by being LGBT.
A Gentleman Pirate
So many of my stories involve either swordfights, poisoning, or both. Not sure what this says about me.
It’s not about the desti-something, it’s about the whatever.
I like writing characters who are hyper-rational, who never hold the Idiot Ball, and always do the smart thing no matter what.
My thumbprints seem to be disabilities (usually some degree of hearing or visual impairment or autism, as those are the disabilities I have personal experience with) and experimenting with gender or sexuality.
By now, it should be clear to all except the most dense of us that sheep are secretly conspiring to kill us all and steal our pants.
the weird looking turtle
my usual fortes had been:
- flawed, queer main of characters of color (mainly african, hispanic, Asian, or mixed race)
- gender noncomformity
- deconstructions and subversions on common character tropes
- cat people, fish people, and plant folk are commonplace as well.
- deep platonic and familial bonds among non-blood related people.
- for some reason most my antagonist are either rich white people, eldritch beings, ancient evils, or a satan-analogues.
- or Light Is Not Good and Well-Intentioned Extremist
- Interspecies Romance and Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?
- light grey vs dark grey morality
- mental and physical disabilities
- sexy white-haired tan-skinned sociopaths
- expies...expies everywhere
and a whole bunch more I refuse to elaborate on.
resident yokai admirer
- Inverted Greying Morality
- The Epic
Edited by Afrovenator on Jul 26th 2021 at 1:53:41 PM
Scar himself looks like foreign, weak, and with very female moves.
Inverted gender roles.
Let's see. . .
- Futuristic Technology Porn
- Green Aesops
- Cool aircraft, whether real or fictional
- Stories set in The Deep South (especially North Carolina)
- Inventive and well-thought-out alien or alternate biologies
- Extremely dark Genre Deconstruction
- References to anime and manga, or stories that use tropes associated with them
- Order Versus Chaos with neither side being good or bad
- Cats
- Owls
Edited by ElSquibbonator on Aug 22nd 2021 at 1:28:35 PM
- Weird Lynchian dreams that are either a reflection of the character's thoughts and doubts or a prophetic look into their future.
- I usually write Crime drama plotlines with minor sci-fi and magical realism elements
- Elements of alternate history and reality that provide a more egalitarian depiction of a period gender-wise. (Racism is still a thing though). Think Kill Bill or Warrior (US).
-protagonists are Mifune or Clint Eastwood-esque classical anti-heroes,tend to be lone wolves, but not exactly stoic and brooding. Have convictions and goals though this is usually a personal gain thing and sometimes at the expense of others. They are usually hypocrites as well, and more often than not have some really dirty skeletons in their closets.
- Guns, loads of them. I grew up with heroic bloodshed, revisionist western and jidaigeki films so I really like the arthousey type of action.
Edited by YouSitTightBuddy on Aug 27th 2021 at 8:18:39 AM
pain
Lucas the Dreamer
Cognitive Worlds. So many ideas I have use this concept.
Why waste time when you can see the last sunset last?
The one and only AstralCat
- Shout Outs to One Piece and This Bites! in my Pokémon Mystery Dungeon-inspired story.
Edited by jacksonk987 on Aug 29th 2021 at 10:44:21 AM
Thousand Dreamers, Watashi wa Saikyo, and Believe slap so hard.
bro visited his friend
Every single thing I write tends to involve examinations and explorations of institutions, policy and inner workings, whether Obstructive, Beleaguered, Corrupt or Vast. It gets in the way when I want to tell stories that I don't need to include them.
AMA about my unfinished writing projects
"Mental Illness" is one of mine.
In any story I write, the cast tend to all suffer from various of mental illnesses (due to their own circumstances) that also tend to make them more realistic and relatable as characters.
Dwar of Helium
If super-science is involved, I like to imagine the designs (weapons, vehicles, Powered Armor, etc.) as having a very Diesel Punk aesthetic.
Now, I'm going to ask you that question once more. And if you say no, I'm going to shoot you through the head. - John Cleese
- Buff guys and voluptuous women. What can I say, I know what I like. Chances are if the protagonist, should they be male, isn't buff at the start of the story, he certainly will be by the end.
- Evil Religious Leaders. I'll be the first to admit I'm not really fond of the influence churches have, and chances are if there's a pastor of a large church, he's up to something sinister or is at least somehow hypocritical.
- References to B-Movies. Chances are you can find more than a few. Hector Gibbs responding to Matthew powering up with "ooh~! Witchy!" anyone?
- Evil Reactionaries / Far Right Conservatives. In particular social conservatives. Expect hypocrisy and scheming for either local or more widespread control.
- Horror. I'm really big into horror, and more than a few times my works veer into a sort of action horror genre. My biggest influences are Clive Barker, Brian Yuzna, Cronenberg, and Stephen King. Expect at least a few shout outs to their work.
- Subverting the typical "people who die first" expectation. Matthew, my typical protagonist, is a blond football player.
- At least one twist villain. Whoever you think the villain is at the start, it's probably not them. Crowley in book 1, Francisco Roman in book 2, Henderson in book 3, Elijah Gibbs in book 4...
Guns. I love guns.
I love them so much that even master swordsmen and other melee weapon masters who come over to Earth eventually come to learn how to use firearms as secondary armaments. The greatest swordfighter in all my stories picks up how to use Remington 700 after she gets transported to Earth and have her ass kicked by bad guys armed with guns.
I'm fond of both cool guns and more practical ones, and currently one of my favorite guns is a double-barrelled shotgun. If a setting has a gun, it has that gun, or at least its precursors.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.