Pick a face, or hit shuffle. Every word is theirs, and every thread is linked.
Joe Abercrombieu/Joe_AbercrombieSays George R.R. Martin unhorsed him in 1981
Mark Lawrenceu/MarkLawrenceFit three fantasy cliches into one sentence
V. E. Schwabu/veschwabDidn't notice Alucard was Dracula spelled backwards
Naomi Noviku/NaomiNovikWrote Uprooted while procrastinating on another book
Brent Weeksu/BrentWeeksRoasted Joe Abercrombie's deep roots in the South. Of England
Hugh Howeyu/hughhoweyRealised mid-answer his heroine came from James Cameron
Christopher Paoliniu/ChristopherPaoliniPitched the Memento director for Eragon. Studio passed
James S. A. Coreyu/JamesSACoreyTold a fan their Rocinante D&D classes were wrong
Tad Williamsu/Tad_WilliamsCut an undead dragon because George R.R. Martin did one
Steven Eriksonu/steveneriksonRevealed which Malazan characters he played in the original game
Mary Robinette Kowalu/maryrobinetteJudged a puppet wedding on AITA as a real puppeteer
Andy Weiru/sephalonAdmitted the pendulum maths was wrong and offered exile
Sam Sykesu/SamSykesFarm boy beats the Dark Lord with crop rotation
Seanan McGuireu/seananmcguireMade thousands of friendship bracelets for StarKid shows
Scott Lynchu/scottlynch78Named a character after a kitten who wasn't regal
Max Brooksu/IamMaxBrooksLeft SNL for zombies the day they fired him
R. A. Salvatoreu/RASalvatoreGot kicked from a WoW group for being himself
C. Robert Cargillu/MassawyrmMailed a stranger his spare Warhammer sergeant
Robert Jackson Bennettu/RobertjbennettExplained fantasy cities with the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers
Peter Wattsu/The-SquidnapperNamed a character Jukka, then met a hundred Jukkas
Chuck Palahniuku/ChuckPalahniuk62Says Fight Club is The Great Gatsby with more punching
Pierce Brownu/DraconesDecided a major death by pulling names from a hat
Django Wexleru/DjangoWexlerCalled real history's battle tactics too implausible for fantasy
Eric Baroneu/ConcernedApeCopy-pasted Leah's line into Elliott's marriage dialogue
Michal Kovaříku/kovarexFactorio's two-lane belts started as an accident
Jens Bergenstenu/jeb_Explained a splash text from a 1997 boss fight
Nathan Adamsu/DinnerboneForgot a cap, so creepers exploded on landing
Tim Schaferu/TimOfLegendNamed Double Fine after a Golden Gate Bridge sign
Josh Sawyeru/jesawyerTranslated every Pillars of Eternity spell incantation
Tim Cainu/TimCainWrote War never changes during The Simpsons
Noel Berryu/NoelFBMadeline's hair is five circles chasing her head
Henrik Fåhraeusu/PDX_WizMade Jan Mayen a country ten minutes after a joke
Ari Gibsonu/Ari_TeamCherrySays Hallownest is an all-nude kingdom
William Pellenu/William_TeamCherryMapped out the cut Forest of Bones from memory
Rami Ismailu/tha_ramiStill cries at the screenshake code he wrote
Daniel Rosenfeld (C418)u/C418Wasn't inspired by Satie until everyone said so
Austin Wintoryu/awintoryHeard the Journey theme on the walk to his car
Bear McCrearyu/bearmccrearyHis twelve-note melody became Galactica's final coordinates
Jonathan Coultonu/jonathancoultonExplained why he never wrote a werewolf song
Matt Parkeru/standupmathsWants 2 and 3 demoted to sub-prime numbers
James Rallison (TheOdd1sOut)u/theodd1soutStill doesn't know which apostrophe James gets
Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal)u/GiantBatFartSwapped a bomb for a kitten in Exploding Kittens
Rob DenBleykeru/robdenbleykerAdmitted every C&H artist just copied Kris
Ryan Northu/qwantzHis site name draws a T-Rex on a keyboard
David Malki !u/WondermarkWas pen pals with a round-the-world pilot as a kid
Don Hertzfeldtu/donhertzfeldtSundance critics thought his made-up language was German
Rebecca Sugaru/rebeccasugarExplained how Masaaki Yuasa ended up animating Adventure Time
Dana Terraceu/AntagonistDanaWrote The Owl House pitch out of spite
Owen Dennisu/oweeeeendennisInvented the pig baby by blurting pig baby
Ian Jones-Quarteyu/IanJQAlmost called his show Punch Buffet
Joe Murrayu/BigJoeWorryMade the meatloaf for Rocko's worst-show episode himself
Craig Bartlettu/CraigBartlettArnold's bedroom was his cousin's attic
Brian McClellanu/BrianMcClellanHis biggest Reddit post is 21 cups of jam
Lois Lowryu/Lois-LowryExplained why there's no money in The Giver
Neal Shustermanu/NealShustermanKeeps a database of every scythe's robe colour
Blake Crouchu/BlakeCrouchPromised never to write time travel again
Anthony Ryanu/Anthony_RyanDodged a spoiler with someone's at the door
Kameron Hurleyu/KameronHurleyGot The Light Brigade from a World of Warcraft flight
Sherwood Smithu/SherwoodSmithHas a polite no from J.R.R. Tolkien framed
Danny Baranowskyu/dannyBstyleWorks in the aether of uncertainty, and a beanbag
Alec Watsonu/TechConnectifyCut a coffee-maker segment and defended the percolator
Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)u/markiplierDenied his feet helicopter at the stroke of midnight
Seth Hendrickson (SethBling)u/SethBlingCoded Flappy Bird into Super Mario World first try
Colin Furzeu/ColinFurzeKeeps spare mannequin legs because you can't chuck legs
Jack Douglass (jacksfilms)u/jacksfilmsMade a typo answering a question about typos
Zach Weinersmithu/MrWeinerExplained why so many SMBC characters wear big glasses
Scott Meyeru/ScottMeyerRocket Hat's adventures all happen out of frame
Phil Lordu/PhilLordSays Chris Miller set his girlfriend's hair on fireA redditor wrote, in r/books: I am Fantasy Author Joe Abercrombie, Ask Me Anything
The real GRRM actually is slightly over nine feet tall, and I did fight him during the author wars of 1981. I was unhorsed in the lists but he was gracious in victory and allowed me to keep my writing hand.
A redditor posted in r/Fantasy: The Definitive Scientific Guide to Eyebrow-Raising in Fantasy Fiction
Ha. Crazy. I'm very conscious of using eyebrows a LOT when I'm doing a first draft, and much of my revision time is spent replacing eyebrow moves with other, more character-specific expressions. When I saw my name at the top…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm Joe Abercrombie - Ask Me Anything
Savine was written with an italicised internal monologue a la her father, but I cut it out after the first part, or maybe the second. While Glokta says to himself all the things he can't or won't say to others…
A redditor posted in r/Fantasy: Most overused line in fantasy
He moved quickly for such a big man, while drawing in the breath he'd forgotten to take, and smiling a smile that didn't reach his eyes.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm Mark Lawrence - 10 years fulltime author, 14 years published, 18th book today - this is my AMA
Jorg was originally Jorge, but then I discovered that Americans would pronounce that Hoor-hey, and that felt so at odds with what I'd been 'saying' in my head for years that I just lopped off the 'e', little suspecting that…
A redditor posted in r/Fantasy: Why are they called the Stabbys?
As the winner of the Stabby for naming the award, I can confirm that they're called the Stabbies because members of r/fantasy liked my suggestion best. I've checked, and it was named in December 2013. I note that my blog…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm V.E. Schwab, Bestselling Author and Whimsical Slytherin--Ask Me Anything!
YES I'VE SEEN IT AND THAT'S WHERE I GOT THE NAME ALUCARD AND NO AT THE TIME I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS DRACULA BACKWARDS PUT IT ON MY TOMBSTONE.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm V.E. Schwab, Bestselling Author and Whimsical Slytherin--Ask Me Anything!
The original ending was set about 2 chapters later and involved everyone on the rooftop dying :p That's what happens when writers don't get enough sleep.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm V.E. Schwab, Bestselling Author and Whimsical Slytherin--Ask Me Anything!
So originally (as in the very, very early days of drafting), VICIOUS was about a different character entirely, an EO--ExtraOrdinary--who moves to a city and has two different gangs try to recruit him, the Heroes and the Villains (one led…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I’m Naomi Novik, author of Spinning Silver, Uprooted, and the Temeraire series. I also started the Archive of Our Own. AMA!
Procrastination! I was working on Blood of Tyrants, and I was a bit stuck, and instead of buckling down and getting through it, I wrote the sentence Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, and I knew it wasn't…
A redditor wrote, in r/TheScholomance: I’m Naomi Novik, author of The Scholomance series. AMA!
I figured it out after I wrote the scene with Gwen's note (which happened when I was about 70% of the way through Deadly Education). Once I saw her warning I realized that was what she was warning El about (without fully herself knowing what she was seeing).
A redditor wrote, in r/YAwriters: AMA: Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted & the Temeraire series
I'm really fond of ruby myself--I've been using it the most lately because the AO3 is a Ruby On Rails based site, but even aside from that I just like the language so much, I find it super readable and…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I have finally finished my five-volume epic fantasy trilogy, The Lightbringer Series. I'm Brent Weeks. Ask Me Anything!
I hate to admit it, but I think it's the grasp of regional dialect that sets you apart. I mean, I'm a Montana native, and when I read Red Country, I just had to set it down, flabbergasted. This man…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I am Brent Weeks, writer of BFF (Big Fat Fantasy novels) including the Night Angel trilogy and The Lightbringer Series, now returning after 14 years to my first love with NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS. AMA!
Before I wrote the Night Angel trilogy, I wrote another book set in Midcyru, 20 years later. The book was ... a good first effort. I liked the worldbuilding and some of the characters who showed up. I decided to…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I am Brent Weeks, writer of BFF (Big Fat Fantasy novels) including the Night Angel trilogy and The Lightbringer Series, now returning after 14 years to my first love with NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS. AMA!
Oh man, the White and wights are probably the worst thing I ever did to my audiobook listeners. I was thinking of the medieval "wight" which just means a person, a guy, but obviously has archaic-feeling connotations to us, and…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I am Brent Weeks. Best-selling epic fantasy author of Night Angel & Lightbringer. I don't have a movie deal. AMA!
Two, when I finished The Way of Shadows, re-read it for surely the 40th time, and thought, "Why do Durzo and Momma K hang out? Why do they not just kill each other? This MAKES NO GODDAM SENSE!" And then…
A redditor wrote, in r/SiloSeries: AMA: Silo Series Author and Executive Producer Hugh Howey (2026)
I think I was inspired by Ripley from Alien, Sarah Connor from Terminator, and Lindsey from The Abyss. Holy shit. It's James Cameron. He's the one.
A redditor posted in r/SiloSeries: Question about something Marnes mentioned in the book and connection to the show
In the pilot, there was a rabbit loose in a garden that Holston and Marnes rounded up. Holston tells Allison about it, and you see it all on-screen. There was a very elaborate hydroponic garden full of carrots built for…
In a thread on r/SiloSeries: Hugh Howey Cameo Meme Contest - Template Inside
True story: I didn't have sleeves on the first take. After one shot, the director yells "cut," and they sent a shirt out, said it was "too much" with me and Shane both sleeveless out there. Shane turned to me…
A redditor wrote, in r/Eragon: I am Christopher Paolini. AMA (Starting 2pm MT)
If a new movie ever happens, I'd like to be involved as possible. At this point, I understand the story way better than anyone else will who comes in from the outside. Funny thing is, when Fox was starting production…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I'm fantasy/sci-fi author Christopher Paolini. Ask Me Anything!
As for alternate endings, yes. There were a few things I considered but didn't execute. Such as killing Murtagh and Thorn. Having Arya leave with Eragon at the end. Not killing Islanzadí. Having Roran become king. You know, small things like that.
A redditor posted in r/Eragon: This scene in book 2 doesn’t work (chemistry-wise), I’ll prove it to you
So, I got too clever here. I'd been listening to a history of science course from the Great Courses company (thus Orrin's interest in natural philosophy), and that inspired this bit. Originally I wrote the scene with sodium, but then…
A redditor wrote, in r/mildlyinteresting: A dorodango I made: just dirt, water, and time
Ha! I actually worked up that last word "Thardzvergûndnzmal" just to give Gerard Doyle -- who read the audio book -- a challenge. He managed it beautifully.
A redditor posted in r/TheExpanse: The crew of the Roci has started a game of D&D. Here's what I think everyone's playing.
This is incorrect. Holden plays a Cleric, and selects the domains with the widest variety of support and healing spells. He probably carries a weapon, whichever his god favors, but rarely uses it. He's all about the support class. Naomi…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am James SA Corey, author of the Expanse and pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. AMA.
[ty] We knew the last scene when we were plotting book 2. In fact, Ty told Daniel what the last line was, and nearly ten years later that's the last line of dialog we used.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: Hi! I am James SA Corey, author of the Expanse and pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. AMA.
[Daniel] Actually, we cut it back from 12 because the longer version felt a little saggy in the withers. We originally planned just one that we'd sell for pizza money. We build 9- and 12-book outlines while we were writing Caliban's War.
A redditor posted in r/TheExpanse: [Episode 2] Nitpicky physics detail question?
It was a mistake in the VFX. Too late and too expensive to fix when we caught it. Sometimes those things happen. The wrench was supposed to fly down, hit the hull of the Knight, then bounce over the edge…
A redditor wrote, in r/TadWilliams: Tad Williams AMA
No, the ogre was always meant to be what it turns out to be. The dragon was going to be the beast sacrificed (SPOILER HERE) to resurrect Hakatri. It was going to be raised by one of Akhenabi's spells. But…
A redditor wrote, in r/TadWilliams: Tad Williams AMA
Amusingly, that cat and its magical impact in various situations is a direct response to how Tailchaser's Song (selling it and getting it published) -- which, for those who don't know, was my first novel, a fantasy about cats --…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I’m Tad Williams. I have no choice about it. (http://www.tadwilliams.com/
To be honest, SHADOWMARCH was originally conceived as a possible episodic television show. But nobody in television then seemed to get it. One guy said, "But there's already Xena! Who needs more fantasy?"
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hello Reddit, I am Steven Erikson. Please Ask Me Anything.
There's a fair mix of game characters and novel characters. I think I've given brief lists in other interviews, but for the main ones: I was Dancer and Cam was Kellanved (though in the game he called himself Dr Wu)…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hello Reddit, I am novelist Steven Erikson. Please Ask Me Anything.
Tehol blinks in modest surprise, then quickly reaches for his blanket.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hello Reddit, I am novelist Steven Erikson. Please Ask Me Anything.
We were hammering the GURPS magic system into something that worked for our Malazan game-world. We learned early on to keep it mysterious and mysterious it shall remain.
A redditor posted in r/AmItheAsshole: AITA for making our guests participate in our puppet themed wedding?
YTA I'm a professional puppeteer and I think it's lovely that you want puppets incorporated into your wedding. But it's a physically demanding gig and asking people to use muscles that they've never engaged before FOR HOURS will be exhausting…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hello, reddit! I am speculative fiction writer Mary Robinette Kowal. AMA
I was hanging out at Penguicon with Scalzi, Tobias Buckell, Cherie Priest, and Pat Rothfuss. Scalzi was given Pat grief about Name of the Wind and how he started the novel in a tavern and they were eating stew and…
I made the dress that's on the cover of the final book in my series. Making of post.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Andy Weir, author of The Martian, and my new book Project Hail Mary, is out now. AMA!
I had an idea for a guy who appears to be really lucky, but in the end it turns out his cat is really lucky and good stuff happens to the guy because the cat likes him. I decided not to develop that idea.
A redditor wrote, in r/themartian: Psst... I'm Andy Weir. Secret AMA for the next few hours.
The only thing I had set in stone was that he would survive. Pretty much everything else was just made up as I went along. Including the Rich Purnell Maneuver. Originally my plan was for him to just survive until…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I am Andy Weir, author of The Martian, and my new book Artemis, out now. AMA!
Hmm. Well there could be, but it would be expensive. They could ship in flour and salt to make the bread for the buns. But they'd have to import the meat. So it would come frozen. (Definitely no Wendy's in…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Andy Weir, author of The Martian, and my new book Project Hail Mary, is out now. AMA!
Yes I got the pendulum wrong. I will of course go into exile as a result.
A redditor posted in r/Fantasy: Subvert your own Trope!
Farm boy receives quest to go to save the world. Farm boy arrives at Dark Lord's evil realm, realizes he doesn't know shit about swordplay or magic or anything except irrigation and wheat germ seeding. Farm boy solves food crisis…
A redditor posted in r/Fantasy: What "fantasy cliches" occur most often in real life?
Occasionally, eccentric elderly dudes with threadbare robes and long, gray beards will show up on my doorstep and tell me that there is a great prophecy surrounding my destiny and that I must depart with them for a long journey. I call the police pretty frequently.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm Seanan McGuire--Ask Me Anything!
...I can't believe someone finally identified the origins of Karen's name. Congratulations!
Kandi for Tomb Quest, a Mathematical Adventure.
Last year for The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Reprise, I got started on my bracelet making a little later than I would have preferred, and went in with 272 bracelets. I had been aiming for 360--one for every seat…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hello! I'm Seanan McGuire; I write urban fantasy and ghost stories and biological science fiction. AMA!
Hi, AlwaysBeyondHope! I was at San Diego Comic-Con with my girlfriend, crossing the dealer floor to get somewhere--I don't even remember--when we ran into this woman in an absolutely breathtaking Emma Frost costume. We stopped to tell her how fabulous…
A redditor posted in r/gentlemanbastards: Is Gentleman Bastards heavily based off of Robin Hobb's Elderling series or am I losing my mind?
Regal wasn't named after Prince Regal; he was based on a kitten I had at the time named Thor, as the joke was that Thor was a random goof who was anything but regal.
A redditor posted in r/gentlemanbastards: [Red Seas] Is this a mistake?
It's an author mistake, the guy has a certain glib recklessness to his earlier work that sometimes stretched the abilities of even the most nimble-witted copy editors. You should try to spot the bit where he puts a month in…
A redditor wrote, in r/whatsthatbook: Horror anthology for younger readers that existed before 1990
Oh my god, I think you nailed it. Three and a half decades of mystery solved. Thank you!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Max Brooks, author of "World War Z" and the upcoming graphic novel "Harlem Hellfighters". Ask me anything.
Well let me see. I think my transition away from writing jokes for Saturday Night Live would have be the moment when they fired me.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Max Brooks, author of "World War Z" and the upcoming graphic novel "Harlem Hellfighters". Ask me anything.
Ironically, the fact that it was SO different my book was exactly what allowed me to emotionally divorce myself from the final product. I didn't have to watch my characters be mutilated or my story be perverted. As I've said…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Max Brooks, author of "World War Z" and the upcoming graphic novel "Harlem Hellfighters". Ask me anything.
I was actually on the set and I will say that John Candy was a very sweet man. He is very missed. As I write this, my arse is comfortably seated on a chair from the original battle bridge of Spaceball 1.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am R.A. Salvatore, first-time Reddit visitor. I've been writing fantasy novels for 25 years now, and have leaped into video game development with both feet. What a ride!
I can't tell you how many variations of my characters I've run into over the years in Warcraft and Everquest. It's way cool, believe me. I was in a PUG with my character "Bruenorr" and "Innovindil" was the group leader…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am R.A. Salvatore, fantasy writer, geek, gamer...
WotC keeps one, and it's a good thing! Too many books! Too many years! I remember I was thrilled when I started writing "Servant of the Shard" because Jarlaxle could finally be front and center. Then I was terrified because…
In a thread on r/IAmA: I am R.A. Salvatore, fantasy writer, geek, gamer...
Drizzt came off the top of my head, when an editor was pressuring me for a "sidekick" for Wulfgar, the hero of my first book. I just spouted off, "Drizzt Do'Urden of D'aermon N'achezbaernon, the Ninth House of Menzoberranzan." I…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am R.A. Salvatore, first-time Reddit visitor. I've been writing fantasy novels for 25 years now, and have leaped into video game development with both feet. What a ride!
I was in a conference call with DelRey and Lucasfilm when the editors expressed that they loved the outline. (paraphrasing here) "This is exactly what we want, but didn't anyone tell you? You have to kill Chewey." I won't type…
A redditor posted in r/Warhammer: GW Stiffed me on Srgt Castus
Hey brother, GW accidentally sent me two. It's an amazing model, but so distinct there would be no need to ever field two. DM me your addy and I'll pop my spare into the mail and get you straight. EDIT…
A redditor posted in r/Screenwriting: Is 30 to late an age to attempt a career in screenwriting?
Sold my first script (SINISTER) at 35. So you'd have to fail for five years before selling something in order to be on the same track as someone who wrote a Marvel film. When ANYONE in Hollywood says they want a young writer, they mean cheap. You're good.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hey r/Fantasy! I'm novelist and DOCTOR STRANGE screenwriter C. Robert Cargill. AMA!
No one will ever know that your single perfect opening sentence was actually sentence 27, that you cut the first 26, and that you rewrote that sentence 19 more times. They also won't know that the amazing, profound sentence immediately…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hello, I am fantasy author Robert Jackson Bennett. AMA!
For example, the reason the Brooklyn Dodgers are called that is because back at the turn of the century, the city started using electrified trolleys, which moved far, far faster than the horse drawn trolleys. Citizens simply could not conceive…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hello, I am author Robert Jackson Bennett. AMA!
You are dead on. The Rathras characters all pull from Lithuanian words. Kurmini pulls from Kazakh, and Tala from Latin and Greek. The Yarrow language is a bastardized version of Urdu and Punjabi. The races and cultures that use these…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm fantasy author Robert Jackson Bennett - AMA
My editor said, "The fans are saying they all want another, and we agree," and I said, "Are there dollars?" and he said, "Yes, dollars," and I said, "I like those things, so okay." Weirdly this decision became one of…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IamA Science Fiction Author named Peter Watts. I am not any of those other Peter Wattses. AMA, within reason.
And Jukka was the name of a friend of my first known overseas fan, in Finland; I was looking for a name with overtones of icy albino psychopathy, so who better than the Finns? (Actually, the Norwegians-- but I didn't…
A redditor posted in r/scifiwriting: How do I stop from having Peter Watts living rent free in my head?
Please, please do not be discouraged. At least, not by me. I am actually quite cuddly in person. Listen to everyone else here. I officially approve their content. That said, if you don't like me living rent-free in your head, you could always pay me to leave...
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IamA Science Fiction Author named Peter Watts. I am not any of those other Peter Wattses. AMA, within reason.
My original draft of Starfish ended with Lenie crawling up on the shores of North America and dying, so I obviously had no future plans for her until my editor insisted that such an ending was insufficiently triumphal for American audiences and she would have to live.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: Hello, yo, hi, I'm Chuck Palahniuk the worst best bad writr. Neither can I spell or keyboard. Ask away.
A secret: Fight Club is "The Great Gatsby" but with more punching and insomnia. A triangle. A 30-year-old boy in crisis ( nick carraway? ) A gunshot resolution. Voila.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: Hello, yo, hi, I'm Chuck Palahniuk the worst best bad writr. Neither can I spell or keyboard. Ask away.
My original goal, back when I had integrity, was to write all my books with two-word oxymoron titles -- Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, etc. 'Survivor' was first called 'Unnatural Disasters.' But I loved how monsters are usually defined by their…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: We Are Chuck Palahniuk and Chelsea Cain: Running the Bad Dream Factory. Ask Us Anything.
Of course I remember. The troll went into the glass case with items that include the penguin sewn by a mortician and the laser-cut wooden plaque portrait of Brad Pitt. Sadly, for the young man who painted me as the…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I am Pierce Brown, writer of the Red Rising Saga and its fifth book, Dark Age. AMA!
No one else has been pulled from a hat, because I haven't faced a dilemma like that in a bit. But I still have the hat, sooooo
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I am Pierce Brown, writer of the Red Rising Saga and its fifth book, Dark Age. AMA!
Had to drop it. Funny thing. I had "by felicity" in the first draft, and my editor Mike Braff told me to buck up and go all in. He was Felicia's first champion
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I am Pierce Brown, writer of the Red Rising Saga and its fifth book, Dark Age. AMA!
I go off of the sound I want their name to make. For instance, I think Vs have a sort of cutting sound. So characters like Sevro, Victra, Vixus have a certain vicious emphasis. A has a sort of condescending…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm Pierce Brown, Word Writer, Former NBC Page, and Sevro's One True Father. Ask me anything.
Sometimes I carry an old leather chair with the legs cut off it to write in the woods at night. Everything can see you. You can only see your screen.
A redditor posted in r/Fantasy: What’s the most creative military tactic you’ve read about?
Hmm. Driving a bunch of elephants through snowy passes to descend on an unsuspecting enemy who's barely seen elephants before? Tying torches to the horns of oxen and stampeding them into the enemy camp at night, so they think a…
A redditor posted in r/boardgames: What game have you impulse bought from hype/misconception and almost immediately regretted?
I bought Twlight Struggle because it sounded awesome and was highly ranked. Once it arrived and I read the rules, I was totally psyched about it, but realized that literally none of my friends would ever play a 3 hour 1v1 Cold War game with me. T_T
A redditor posted in r/StardewValley: Finally decided to marry Elliot and he immediately gives me the ick 😭
This is a mistake. He was supposed to say this if you marry Leah When I'm doing dialogues like this I will often copy and paste an entry from another data sheet first, just to get the formatting right. Then…
In a thread on r/AndroidGaming: I'm ConcernedApe, creator of Stardew Valley. Ask me anything!
Yeah, the mines used to be procedurally generated, and had things like boss fights, treasure rooms, and goblin cities in them. I was also planning on allowing you to build buildings down there, and even do cave farming. It was…
A redditor wrote, in r/AndroidGaming: I'm ConcernedApe, creator of Stardew Valley. Ask me anything!
haha actually, no... it was an oversight on my part. But once something like that is in the game and becomes part of the lore, you can't really change it. Nor would I want to!
A redditor posted in r/StardewValley: We met Eric Barone and he’s super chill :)
hey, it was great meeting you guys! it was fun to do the doodles, my only regret is that I wish I had drawn morris' arms a little longer...
A redditor wrote, in r/AndroidGaming: I'm ConcernedApe, creator of Stardew Valley. Ask me anything!
One idea that never made it in was to have a rival farmer that moved to town at the same time as you, and you'd be kind of competing with them to be the best farmer... I'm glad I scrapped…
A redditor wrote, in r/factorio: I'm the founder of factorio - kovarex. AMA
It was a coincidence. With the first version of belts that had no curves, things tended to stay on one part of the belt after corner. After some time, we started to use it, but to make it really useful…
A redditor wrote, in r/factorio: I'm the founder of factorio - kovarex. AMA
Hamsters. In the next major update, you will have to feed them.
A redditor posted in r/Minecraft: 10 Things You Might Not Know In Minecraft (Different from the usual ones)
I can give you a 10th one, as this hasn't been identified on the wiki for over 2 years now... Splash 299, "I see your vocabulary has improved!" is not a reference to the translations, but a reference to "Lands…
A redditor wrote, in r/ChoosingBeggars: Different kind of CB (yes, I answered the questions, it was mandatory after all! ;) )
I did this too. Sent an email to id Software complaining about Quake 3 and got a response in the lines of "Those are some interesting ideas." They were obviously not impressed ;)
A redditor posted in r/Minecraft: Twitter / jeb_: With the help of reddit and ...
Some more info: I liked Shale / Seashale, but this isn't shale and maybe we want to add actual shale in the future. I liked Neptone / Nepton, but I want to avoid referencing Roman mythology (Neptune) if possible. Same…
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: TeamMojang: Redstone Repeater video
Yeah there was some discussion about this in the previous reddit post. I had originally used 1,2,5,7 to decrease the number of blocks required to make values 1 through 10. A fellow redditor suggested I should use 1,3,5,6 instead because…
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: I found this clip on my brothers laptop and it infuriates me so much.
When I added this as a feature, I wanted them to take the fall time into consideration for their fuse - so big drops would explode quicker. I forgot to add a cap onto it though, and so for a…
A redditor posted in r/Minecraft: BIG NEWS! We have found the SEED of Minecraft's title-screen background PANORAMA!
Interesting stuff, nice work! The first title screen panorama was actually originally in-game render of a live world, with custom worldgen and the seed "splash" 100. I would have figured this was a screenshot from that, but consider me surprised…
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: I am Dinnerbone, a Minecraft developer. Ask Me Absolutely Anything.
Yes. Now go back to rubbing that belly, and do it like you mean it.
In a thread on r/Minecraft: I am Dinnerbone, a Minecraft developer. Ask Me Absolutely Anything.
I once knew a guy named Teabone, a very long time ago. He was kind to me and was a very cool guy, so I took this name in respect to him.
In a thread on r/IAmA: We're Humble Indie Bundle V: creators of Psychonauts, LIMBO, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Bastion, and Humble Bundle. Ask us anything!
I remember trying to think of a name for the company that summed up everything that we were about, but that didn't work because that's impossible. Then I thought of how Rare didn't really mean anything (except it sounded vaguely…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am a Tim Schafer, ask me about Loom! Or anything you want!
I put that line in as a joke and was about to cut it but Ron Gilbert said no, leave it in, and he was right. And that's when I learned that the normal human tendency is to over-censor yourself…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IamA Tim Schafer, creator of Psychonauts! Ask me Anything!
Originally, the game had two final levels. One in Raz's mind that was his memories of the circus. One was in Oleander's mind, in his father's butcher shop. Our publisher was pushing us to cut one level, so we combined the last two! :)
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am a Tim Schafer, ask me about Loom! Or anything you want!
How appropriate, as I do raise cows and milk them and sell the milk for a living! I take pride in my work as a dairy farmer, and appreciate you noticing that it carries into everything that I do!
A redditor posted in r/projecteternity: Obsidian: Please tone down your ghosts
Folks, we've heard your feedback loud and clear. We'll be beefing up and doubling the number of spirits in Deadfire.
A redditor wrote, in r/projecteternity: Spellcasting incantations
The spellcasting incantations in Pillars of Eternity are all in Eld Aedyran and Engwithan. "A ulu thenn." = To ashes. "Moeith ixi anath." = Power of my soul. "Lavaru bion sik." = Speech cuts flesh. "Brith u lichna." = Bond…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are Obsidian Entertainment, purveyors of fine computer role-playing games since 2003. Ask us anything!
I've studied a fair amount of medieval French history and I'm always borrowing bits and pieces for elements in the world. I've always loved the city of Carcassonne and I thought it was interesting that it slowly developed into this…
A redditor wrote, in r/AskReddit: What video game line is so iconic that anyone can recognize the game it’s from?
Hehe, I wrote that line during a commercial break while watching The Simpsons, and the rest of the introduction after the show was over. I’ve never written anything again as good, so The Simpsons must be my muse.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fallout: Todd Howard should go the Tim Cain route and have his face be the icon for the Fallout 4 exe file.
To be fair, I had no idea that icon was in the game. Another programmer added it secretly as the "large" size icon, and I never used large icons in Windows 95 so I just saw the regular Fallout icon…
A redditor posted in r/Fallout: Possible Seussian connection to Fallout
I would love to tell you that there was a connection. But the truth is that the colors blue and yellow were used for the vault suit in Fallout because they were under-utilized colors from the limited palette of colors…
A redditor posted in r/gamedev: How is the hair in celeste made?
Hey, I coded Madeline's hair in Celeste. The character sprite is drawn without her hair, and then we add it in afterwards in real time. The hair is a list of about 5 or 6 points that follow each other…
A redditor posted in r/celestegame: Were Noel Berry and Matt Thorson born in Vancouver, Canada?
We've lived in Vancouver for 5+ years, but we're both from elsewhere in Canada. Our original prototype (the PICO-8 game) was called "Everest" but we chose Celeste after searching for mountain names in British Columbia, and that one stuck.
A redditor wrote, in r/NintendoSwitch: Hey, we're the dev team behind Celeste! Ask us Anything!
It started off as kind of a reference to old arcade games, where you'd collect random fruit or something as points. We thought it'd be funny to have a collection that gave you points but the points didn't actually mean…
A redditor posted in r/celestegame: The Game Rickrolled Me While i Was Digging in sfx.bank Filename wow_so_secret (Audio Only)
Haha I remember Kevin making this as a joke during development, but I had no idea he left it in the SFX bank. good find :p
A redditor posted in r/paradoxplaza: Can someone explain the whole "Jan Mayen" thing.
When I was new at Paradox, one of my first assignments was to help with Heart of Darkness, which was in crunch/panic mode. One late night during that crunch, I noticed that the province of Jan Mayen not only existed…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: WeAre the developers of Europa Universalis IV - just about to release a huge new expansion AMA!
Cats were not invented until 1838, along with monocles and top hats.
A redditor wrote, in r/eu4: TIL that navies can prevent ZoC recapture
As the person who wrote a good chunk of the ZoC code in ages long gone I can tell you that this is 100% an oversight, it definitely just checks for hostile units without looking at whether they are boats.
A redditor wrote, in r/gaming: We are Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight! Ask us anything!
Vespa to Hornet was intentional. There was an old concept here that may still apply: Hornet was the 'Child of Three Queens,' one birthed, one raised, one trained. It is from the third queen that Hornet took her name. Whether…
A redditor wrote, in r/NintendoSwitch: We're Team Cherry and we just released Hollow Knight on Nintendo Switch! Ask us anything!
There's not really a concept of 'clothes' in Hallownest. There are cloaks, but most of the bugs are naked. It's an all nude kingdom.
A redditor wrote, in r/gaming: We are Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight! Ask us anything!
We did experiment with a full dream diving system (Dream levels in every NPC's head!), but it ended up feeling really disjointed and distracted from exploring the world. The time we saved making dream levels went into more fully fleshing…
A redditor wrote, in r/NintendoSwitch: We're Team Cherry and we just released Hollow Knight on Nintendo Switch! Ask us anything!
Off the top of my head: * It was at the very bottom of the world, accessed via the bottom-right of Deepnest * You earned the MOnarch Wings there by fighting a huge bony creature that would chase you across…
A redditor wrote, in r/NintendoSwitch: We're Team Cherry and we just released Hollow Knight on Nintendo Switch! Ask us anything!
Oh man, we have the best idea for Hollow Knight 2. I was just thinking about it the other day. We'll share some more info about it in ten years, please keep an eye on our social media channels.
A redditor wrote, in r/gaming: We are Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight! Ask us anything!
You know that little nook that Cornifer sits in in the Fungal Wastes? Once Cornifer leaves that nook was so empty and sad. We needed someone to come in and fill that nook up, so we turned to Mr Mushroom. Thankyou Mr Mushroom.
A redditor wrote, in r/NuclearThrone: Vlambeer AMA! Ask all your burning questions you've always wanted an answer to!
/// Sleep var m = argument0; var t = m UberCont.opt_freeze 50 / (50 + global.sleepAcc); global.sleepAcc += m; if (t < 1 || instance_exists(GenCont)) return 0; t += current_time; while (current_time < t) { }; /*time = get_timer() /…
In a thread on r/NuclearThrone: Vlambeer AMA! Ask all your burning questions you've always wanted an answer to!
The IDPD isn't fascinated by the mutants, they just don't like those sudden portals in their world with machinegun fish coming out of them, so they go inverse-Pacific Rim on them.
A redditor wrote, in r/electronicmusic: I am Daniel “C418” Rosenfeld, composer of Minecraft and other electronic albums. I make a bleep de bloop AMA
Originally, I wasn’t inspired by him, but as soon as I released alpha and everyone told me I was inspired by Satie, I got inspired by Satie.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am the composer and sound designer of Minecraft. AMA
The first songs I did for Minecraft were around the time when it still was merely a tech demo. And the only thing you were able to do was place blocks, erase them, and spawn stupidly running mobs. Those were…
A redditor wrote, in r/starterpacks: The "music producer that nobody's really heard of but is still pretty well off" starter pack
Not a single one of these things apply to me though, lol. (Let’s see here. I hate SoundCloud, I don’t use Logic, I barely live in Europe anymore. I don’t use colorful midi controllers, I don’t rent, I hate granola…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Austin Wintory, the composer for Journey, Monaco, flOw, and the upcoming Banner Saga - AMA!
The easiest was probably the main theme ("Nascence"). I wrote it the day I first spoke with Jenova, days after Flower came out. We met at the Sony Santa Monica office and he told me what he was looking for…
A redditor posted in r/PS4: Austin Wintory celebrating ps4 lunch by selling his Journey soundtrack for $1
To those asking if lunch will be served ... YES! I am buying it now. However, I am alone in my studio which means likely there won't be enough to go around ... Nonetheless your sharing of my $1 offer is deeply appreciated <3
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I Am Bear McCreary (@bearmccreary), composer for "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome," "The Walking Dead" and other cool stuff. AMA!
Then, over a year later, Ron called me and told me (SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!) that he needed the final coordinates for the ship's last jump to be channeled through Kara, remembering the song she was taught as a little girl. So…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I Am Bear McCreary (@bearmccreary), composer for "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome," "The Walking Dead" and other cool stuff. AMA!
So, in Season 2, there was a chance to introduce the 'National Anthem' of the Colonies. It was written in the script that it should be the old 'BSG' Theme. However, I wanted to re-arrange the theme and make it…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I Am Bear McCreary (@bearmccreary), composer for "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome," "The Walking Dead" and other cool stuff. AMA!
As for why I picked the Gamelan sound for the Final Five, it was really that I wrote the melody first and found the sound fit it. (One of the rare instances where a melody came first). Years later, a…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are the organizers of JoCo Cruise. Ask us anything!
You know, it is a little strange that I have never found my way to werewolves. I think there might be something about them that I don't find all that compelling. Once a month you turn into a wolf, who…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: From the Humble Music Bundle: Damian Kulash of OK Go, Jonathan Coulton, Christopher Tin, MC Frontalot, and Humble Bundle! Ask us anything!
Kim Swift (the project lead) came to one of my shows in Seattle and came up to the merch table to say hi and ask if I had ever thought about writing for games.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: From the Humble Music Bundle: Damian Kulash of OK Go, Jonathan Coulton, Christopher Tin, MC Frontalot, and Humble Bundle! Ask us anything!
I have taken to leaving out the offending lines, and it sort of functions as a moment of silence for Benoit, which feels right. I don't like the idea of changing lyrics if I can help it. Songs are not wikipedia articles.
A redditor posted in r/badmathematics: Do you have any mathematical beliefs that border on being crank-y?
My crank belief would be that 2 and 3 are not prime. They’re too small to really have factors and so only meet the criteria for prime-ness by default. 5 is the smallest prime which is bigger than a composite…
A redditor posted in r/math: Anyone else can’t seem to get rid of the “math voice”?
Without loss of generality, we would like to apologise.
A redditor wrote, in r/math: Ordered a Klein Bottle from Cliff Stoll. He sent a bunch of photos with the bottle and a really nice note. What a great guy. (Note in comments)
I can confirm that the Cliff you see in the Numberphile videos etc is exactly the Cliff you get in person. Only more so. Real-life Cliff is up to an extra 61.8% more Cliff than Video Cliff.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: It's me, Matt Parker, maths author, youtuber and creator of semi-adequate magic squares. A+M+A
There is a bunch of small stuff which didn't make it into the book. - I wanted to have a section of hash values and hash collisions. I went so far as to use random reference codes on my post-it…
A redditor posted in r/James: What is your favourite thing about being a James
Whenever the teacher was teaching about using s' or 's, they would always use my name an an example. I still don't know which one to use though.
A redditor posted in r/AskReddit: Full-time YouTubers, what's one piece of advice you'd give to an aspiring content creator?
Make the content that you would watch. Don’t follow trends. Growing an audience takes A LOT of hard work, it took me 100 comics to get 100 followers. Don’t worry about the content being bad, everything you make when you…
A redditor posted in r/madlads: u/Theodd1s0ut
I just gave gold to a screenshot of my tweet about giving gold to myself.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, and Shane Small, creators of the card game "Exploding Kittens." Ask us anything.
When we were playing the original version of the game, instead of a kitten there was a bomb card, so the whole time we played everyone was stressing and worrying about "the bomb." I thought it'd be funnier to make…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, and Shane Small, creators of the card game "Exploding Kittens." Ask us anything.
The mantis shrimp is still my favorite animal, ever. Even though its eyes don't work in the way that I wrote they did -- back in 2012 it was still thought that a mantis shrimp could see a "thermonuclear bomb…
A redditor wrote, in r/AskReddit: What can Reddit do to save Nikola Tesla's lab at Wardenclyffe?
Hi reddit, The Oatmeal here. proof. Should I make a KickStarter for this? What would need to be done? Buy the land? Build a museum on it? What's feasible and what is not? Also, I know a guy in Colorado…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We're Cyanide & Happiness, ask us anything!
Basically we all copied Kris. Before it was called Cyanide & Happiness, Kris posted his comics under the name "Comicazi" to the forums of a stick figure death website I ran with Matt and Dave. I really, really liked them…
A redditor posted in r/Dallas: Help with Coyotes- some tips.
6. Paint a fake tunnel onto the side of a rock
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We're Cyanide & Happiness, ask us anything!
We drew that the first time Dave, Matt and I met up in Northern Ireland. After that we flew into Dallas and drove to San Diego where we met Kris for the first time. So cool that it's still there. You found a bit of history.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Ryan North! I write Dinosaur Comics, the Adventure Time comics, and I'm Kickstarting a choose-your- own-path version of Hamlet. AMA
If you follow the letters on a QWERTY keyboard it draws a T-Rex, constellation-style. But beyond that it has the same secret semantics as "xkcd"!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Ryan North, the writer of Dinosaur Comics, Squirrel Girl, Shakespeare Chooseable-Path Adventures, and now a time travel survival guide! AMA
THIS IS A REAL THING I DID AND ONCE YOU SEE THE COMIC ONCE I STORE THE IP AND NEVER SHOW IT AGAIN, INSTEAD SILENTLY REPLACING IT WITH A DIFFERENT COMIC YOU ARE NOT INSANE BUT YOU HAVE BEEN... SELECTED
In a thread on r/IAmA: I'm the guy who does Dinosaur Comics. AMA
My original idea was that every month, I'd switch up the template. At the end of the first month I was going to switch to Astronaut Comics, but the astronaut clip art I had totally sucked and I believe I…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Ryan North, OG webcartoonist and author, including the upcoming HOW TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD. AMA!
FUN FACT: I had this idea early on that "Hah hah hah" would be the SINCERE laugh in the comic, and if they said "Ha ha ha" that was supposed to be an insincere, forced laugh. But then I never…
A redditor posted in r/aviation: This day in history (Dec. 23 1986)- after nine days and four minutes in the sky Voyager returns to Edwards AFB after flying 25,012 miles around the world. It had just five gallons of fuel left in its remaining operational fuel tank on landing. Here’s the takeoff using 14,200 feet of runway.
As a kid, I wrote a letter to Jeana Yeager after this. She very kindly wrote back, we were like pen pals for a minute there. I probably have ~6 letters from her still stashed somewhere.
A redditor wrote, in r/webcomics: The Growing Threat (Wondermark) [OC]
I made the font bigger so now I have no choice but to be more concise
A redditor wrote, in r/comics: r/Comics AMA with Wondermark's David Malki ! Saturday 10am PST
I answered the first part elsewhere but the answer to the second is, not especially. It was a sort of discovery. I've now learned so much about the artform and the history and the process that I have a much…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: ::: don hertzfeldt, filmmaker: AMA
not a real language. it was originally drawn many years ago as a comic strip, and when i came around to animating it i realized there are certain lines that are just way funnier when read than heard. therefore, subtitles…
A redditor wrote, in r/movies: hey it's don hertzfeldt, some sort of animator guy, and maybe you should AMA
oh yeah i forgot about that. somebody put a tree stump in a box, sheared off on one end and sent it to us with a note that said "please enjoy this bookend i fashioned for you out of a…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: ::: don hertzfeldt, filmmaker: AMA
when i was on tour a couple years ago i realized i'd squandered a fantastic opportunity: to hire an actor, male or female, of any age or demographic, to go out on stage every night and answer questions as me…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: hi it's don hertzfeldt (filmmaker) how are you? AMA
the final sequence of "beautiful day" was originally an idea for an entirely different movie. what if someone just can't die? through no fault of their own, for unknown reasons, he just can't die? it was just an interesting half-baked…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe, and former Adventure Time storyboarder, AMA!
That was a long exciting story, how that came to be! One of the AT designers, Michelle Xin, was in a chat room with the incredible animator legend Masaaki Yuasa, while he was answering questions about Kick Heart! She mentioned…
In a thread on r/IAmA: I am Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe, and former Adventure Time storyboarder, AMA!
Tom Herpich actually named Pearl! I wanted their Gems to parallel their personalities. Pearls being automatically smooth and perfect, Amethyst is coarse and rough, and I love how raw Garnets are mysterious with just a little bit of red peeking through hidden inside.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Rebecca Sugar, creator of Steven Universe, and former Adventure Time storyboarder, AMA!
YOU HAVE NOT MISSED YOUR TIME!!! Go go go! Draw every day! It is NEVER too late! Here are books I used to improve, when I was 19. Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth David Chelsea, Perspective for…
A redditor wrote, in r/TheOwlHouse: HOOTY HOOTY! I'm Dana Terrace, creator and EP of The Owl House! ASK ME ANYTHING... If you're brave enough.
I pitched the general idea of an older witch with a young mentee in hell to an old writing partner who told me that no one wants to watch a show about an old lady. So I made a pitch…
A redditor wrote, in r/TheOwlHouse: HOOTY HOOTY! I'm Dana Terrace, creator and EP of The Owl House! ASK ME ANYTHING... If you're brave enough.
On the Boiling Isles 'witch' is a gender-neutral term. Wizards do exist but it's more of a title you can call yourself if you like. Haha there are some scrapped lines that allude to the term 'warlock' being akin to 'edgelord' in the demon realm.
A redditor wrote, in r/TheOwlHouse: HOOTY HOOTY! I'm Dana Terrace, creator and EP of The Owl House! ASK ME ANYTHING... If you're brave enough.
Amity's natural hair is brown, like her father's. Emira and Edric's hair is green, like their mother's. Mrs Blight likes her children to be... Color coordinated.
A redditor wrote, in r/InfinityTrain: I am Owen Dennis, creator of Infinity Train on HBOMax which just released it's 4th and final season today! AMA!
The pig baby was thought up by me. Because we were like "What's gonna be in this car" and then I said these words: "I dunno, I mean it could be anything, like uh... like uh... like a pig baby."…
A redditor wrote, in r/InfinityTrain: I am Owen Dennis, creator of Infinity Train on HBOMax which just released it's 4th and final season today! AMA!
We don't really have "rejected" ideas (unless you count the entirety of the rest of the show). However, this season at one point was going to be about two bank robbers in the old west who got on a train…
A redditor posted in r/vfx: Editor on first stop-motion short, struggling with "unfixable" cleanup errors. How perfect is "good enough"?
I found myself thinking about where in the scene the eye was focused so much, that one time in one episode of a show we made, we accidentally left the timecode on in one shot. That shot had to go…
In a thread on r/corgi: This is my night, every night.
I have a corgi. I also grew up with a corgi. The corgi in the show is more based on the dog I grew up with, back when people were baffled by what kind of dog a corgi even was…
A redditor wrote, in r/NintendoSwitch: Hi, I'm Ian Jones-Quartey, Creator of Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes and OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes, now on Switch. AMA!
I have a sketchbook with a page full of them that my fellow Exec Producer Toby Jones helped come up with. There are SO MANY. Here's just a few: Lakewood Rumble Super Lakewood Action Plaza (SLAP for short) Knockout…
A redditor wrote, in r/NintendoSwitch: Hi, I'm Ian Jones-Quartey, Creator of Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes and OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes, now on Switch. AMA!
That happened organically! A storyboard artist for "A Heros Fate", Ryann Shannon, pitched the idea of "Special Limited Edition Cowboy Darrell" and it made us laugh so much that we made Darrell's love of cowboys part of his character.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Joe Murray, The creator of the animated 90's series Rocko's Modern Life. Ask me anything.
Well it's basically "the producers' in animation, make the worst show possible so Ralph would get fired. I was at the end of my contract and wanted out. We laughed that I should do a show about Deli meats that…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Joe Murray, The creator of the animated 90's series Rocko's Modern Life. Ask me anything.
I had her in mind from the start, but after developing the show, she didn't seem to fit. The network wanted some more female characters and I wrote "Wake up Maggie ( she was narcoleptic) but I didn't like it…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Joe Murray, The creator of the animated 90's series Rocko's Modern Life. Ask me anything.
A nasty neighbor on our street who always stole our baseballs.
A redditor wrote, in r/90s: I'm Craig Bartlett, creator of Hey Arnold! I'm joined by Lane Toran, the OG voice of Arnold! AMA
When I was Arnold's age, I sometimes visited my cousin up in Concrete, WA. He lived in an attic bedroom that you accessed by pulling down a little staircase like Arnold's. I loved it, it was like a fort where you could really get away from everyone else.
A redditor wrote, in r/90s: I'm Craig Bartlett, creator of Hey Arnold! I'm joined by Lane Toran, the OG voice of Arnold! AMA
Yeah when we first started developing it, Steve Viksten, who was writing it with me, felt strongly that the only way it could go is if they were dead. So we tried some drafts like that. Cut to 2015 when…
A redditor wrote, in r/90s: I'm Craig Bartlett, creator of Hey Arnold! I'm joined by Lane Toran, the OG voice of Arnold! AMA
Ah, it's true. In Arnold's universe, time is elastic. Harold was older by several years for one story, and almost the same age at the rest of them for "Couch," and probably "the Journal." What can I say? We do our best.
Last night I made 21 cups of raspberry jam from the berries I picked from my little patch over the last few days!
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: I'm Brian McClellan, author of the Powder Mage Trilogy. AMA!
It developed over a few months, if I remember right. I originally wanted to do something with Tommy Guns and sorcerers robbing banks, John Dillinger style. Then I saw Sharpe's Rifles and thought it would make a fantastic setting for…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: Hi reddit! I am Lois Lowry, author of The Giver - AMA!
Nope, no money in the world of THE GIVER. I tried to et rid of everything that causes problems in our world. Money was top of the list!
A redditor wrote, in r/books: Hi reddit! I am Lois Lowry, author of The Giver - AMA!
That book is entirely based on facts. Yes, even the dogs and the handkerchief. The characters are fictional...but they follow very closely the lives of actually Danes at the time.
A redditor wrote, in r/books: Hi reddit! I am Lois Lowry, author of The Giver - AMA!
Interesting, and funny, question. I cringe when someone writes in the first person, therefore can't figure out how to describe the narrator, and so has them look into a mirror. "She gazed at her deep blue eyes and her dark…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I’m Neal Shusterman, author of the Arc of a Scythe Series, Unwind and many more – including Roxy, co-authored with my son, Jarrod, coming out on November 9th. AMA.
I keep a database of scythes, who they are, what their preferred gleaning methods are, robe colors, etc. I’m sure that I consulted that database when I chose Hideyoshi to be a grandslayer. Or at least I hope I did…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: I’m Neal Shusterman, author of the Arc of a Scythe Series, Unwind and many more – including Roxy, co-authored with my son, Jarrod, coming out on November 9th. AMA.
Thank you! It was inspired by a school visit, where there was this kid in the back with his hand up, who I kept forgetting to call on. He was so unnoticeable! And after that presentation, I couldn’t stop thinking about that idea of being almost supernaturally unnoticeable.
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: r/Fantasy Virtual Con: Time Travel Panel
Yes. Can't speak for the other panelists, but it's an awful genre to write in. Recursion was so brutal, my partner (who's also my editor) made me promise not to ever write a time-travel story again. When you first start…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: My name is Blake Crouch, author of DARK MATTER, RECURSION, SUMMER FROST, the WAYWARD PINES TRILOGY, and the newly-released UPGRADE.
Like one time I thought I had invented something fancy, I called it a “light microscope.” But it turns out all microscopes are light microscopes and they all basically do what I was inventing it to do…
A redditor wrote, in r/television: Hi I’m Blake Crouch, creator and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Dark Matter”. With the finale just on the horizon, I’m sure you all have a lot of questions. So ask me anything!
Initially we weren't going to do "the plague scene" which is in the book. Partially becasue we were very concerned about its perception/reception in a post COVID world, but also because we felt that Jason watching his wife die would…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hi, I'm Anthony Ryan and I write fantasy and science fiction - AMA
Yes that's Frentis, and in Tower Lord he... oh, sorry, someone's at the door. Must dash.
A redditor wrote, in r/books: Anthony Ryan, author of the Raven's Shadow epic fantasy trilogy. Ask Me Anything!
I wanted him, at least initially, to be as mysterious as possible, hence the absence of a true name. It really came out of his interaction with the Volarians who he fooled into thinking he was their Ally. Also, it was better than Dingbath the Destroyer.
A redditor wrote, in r/books: Anthony Ryan - The Waking Fire - AMA
It was something of a surpise that happened during the course of writing, originally I hadn't intended for Vaelin to have any Dark abilities at all. But as the scale of the story progressed so did the Blood Song. I…
A redditor wrote, in r/books: Hi I'm Kameron Hurley, author of THE LIGHT BRIGADE Ask Me Anything!
The idea of busting soldiers down into beams of light came first. I was playing World of Warcraft and there's this point where you get turned into a ball of light to get transported from a cliff down to a…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: Hey hey I'm Fantasy/SF author Kameron Hurley - AMA
I'm always telling the story that I'm not talented enough to write. I feel this way all the time with the Mirror Empire books, wishing I'd waited ten years to write them cause then I could write them CORRECTLY. But…
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: WEDNESDAY Worldbuilders Ask YOU Anything: Authors and industry people asking community questions - join in!
Prized possession, a letter from JRR Tolkien (not much content--as a brash twenty year old I wrote and asked if I could meet him, he politely declined, but there it is, the famous signature)
A redditor wrote, in r/Fantasy: AMA--I am Fantasy Author Sherwood Smith, grateful to bounce back!
But when I finally got it out to type up for possible submission, I discovered that there was no description, except a few overused cliches here and there. None. Nada. All talking heads, and references to "the ruin" and "the…
A redditor wrote, in r/Games: Hello /r/Games! We are the creators of the roguelike rhythm game, Crypt of the NecroDancer. Ask us anything!
i work in the nether region twixt fear and trepidation. i drift in the aether of uncertainty, wandering...... wandering.... until a speck of light, perhaps that errant ray from pandora's box, arrives in a gallant flash of insight. it fills…
A redditor wrote, in r/Games: Hello /r/Games! We are the creators of the roguelike rhythm game, Crypt of the NecroDancer. Ask us anything!
it's actually a manually sequenced track. it's a patch from the VST Omnisphere, I can't remember which one. but it does automatic legato-portamento, and I use that to make bends that make it sound all soundfont-y and SNES-y
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are the musicians of the Game Music Bundle (Minecraft, Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV, Mighty Milky Way, Cobalt, etc.) Ask Us Anything!
to be honest, i was really heavily influenced by the Batman Begins score at the time. I don't know if that's the primary influence but I wanted to write something that could score the action-y element as well as the…
A redditor wrote, in r/technologyconnections: Drip Coffee Makers — super simple, super cheap
I had originally planned to talk about how sometimes people will use them to make hot water, but I took it out for two reasons: 1. You can't get rid of the coffee taste. It'll always vaguely be there, so…
A redditor wrote, in r/technologyconnections: Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
In a way I was sort of trying to mimic the Wall of Magic from Mental Floss videos. Though rather than just go with a random assortment of stuff (which I'll grant you there's some truly random stuff peppered in…
A redditor wrote, in r/technologyconnections: Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals (but also absolutely is)
I'm pretty sure I'm just the weird kid many of us were who decided to make videos about the things my weird brain catalogued as interesting.
A redditor wrote, in r/Markiplier: What is the status on Mark’s foot thing? Can he still do it?
This information has been severely telephoned and is jumbled with other things I've said. Exactly how mythological creatures are created. 1) I have only said that I used to be more flexible when I was younger. Never in relation to…
A redditor posted in r/distractible: PSA TO MARK
Do you think I’m going to… stuff Glauber’s salt into all of my computers? Is that what you think? Those are your thoughts? Your mind’s eye sees thus? Perceive you this notion? You surmise this with certainty? This you construe?
A redditor wrote, in r/programming: Yesterday, I used glitches to inject the source code for Flappy Bird into Super Mario World on SNES. Here’s how.
I did it first try :) Of course that's after months of planning and practice.
A redditor posted in r/AskReddit: What YouTube channel do you have an undying hatred for?
Probably not...but... Ctrl+F "SethBling" Whew! EDIT: You guys are making me blush <3
In a thread on r/InternetAMA: IAmA Professional Gaming YouTuber, AMA
It's my AIM screen name from high school. That's how you can tell that I didn't originally plan on internet success.
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: r/Minecraft in r/Minecraft in Minecraft(working phone)
SON, GET BACK TO WORK. THESE COMMAND BLOCKS WONT WRITE THEMSELVES.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: Hi, I’m Colin Furze. I am a British plumber turned Garage Inventor/Video Maker with over 5.5 million video views. I hold over six Guinness World Records for the largest bonfire, the longest motorcycle, the fastest speed on a mobility scooter, the fastest pram and the fastest toilet. AMA!
They were left over from a TV project......you can't chuck legs away
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: Hi, I’m Colin Furze. I am a British plumber turned Garage Inventor/Video Maker with over 5.5 million video views. I hold over six Guinness World Records for the largest bonfire, the longest motorcycle, the fastest speed on a mobility scooter, the fastest pram and the fastest toilet. AMA!
A stroller if you're American. If you're not it's Pam spelt wrong
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Jack Douglass of the YouTube channel Jacksfilms. After 9 years, I'm about to release my biggest video yet, AMA!
Not really because I'm about to mak one BOOM pressure's off.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Jack Douglass of the YouTube channel Jacksfilms, and I'm releasing a board game based on one of my series. AMA!
BECAUSE "JOHNSVIDEOS" DOESN'T QUITE ROLL OFF THE TONGUE DOES IT CYBER-GON
A redditor wrote, in r/funny: The Most American Movie
I often put big glasses on people who I want to seem less emotional. As for gingers, we are an under-represented minority, and our time will come.
A redditor wrote, in r/comics: Asteroid Harvesting
Yeah, in my original script, he cut off chunks to send home, but it was kinda clunky. Probably should've kept it clunky :)
A redditor wrote, in r/comics: The Cycle
I originally had a terrier, then switched to baby, then baby monkey. I think a human baby would work, but lacks that weird specificity. Maybe I should've gone with a koala, but I think in general you need to imply…
A redditor posted in r/whatsthisplant: What is this growing like carpet in my lawn
Lamb's Quarters. One of the tastiest wild greens. Let it get a little big, fill a basket with leaves. Wash them, then drop them in boiling water for a few minutes to get the bitterness out. Drain, squeeze out the…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Scott Meyer, Creator of Basic Instructions, Walt Disney World Cast member and former Stand-up comic. AMA
The Emperor would tell you that Moon-Victory is inevitable. As for Rocket-Hat, he speaks often and does many exciting, action packed things. It just all happens out of frame, and I see no need for that to change.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Scott Meyer, Creator of Basic Instructions, Walt Disney World Cast member and former Stand-up comic. AMA
Originally it was a failed attempt to replicate airline safety cards. The two most similar comics in terms of appearance to mine would most likely be Red Meat and Wondermark.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are Phil Lord and Chris Miller! Everything (especially THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) is awesome! Ask us anything!
Chris lit my girlfriend's hair on fire in college. Ended one relationship and started another
A redditor wrote, in r/ProjectHailMary: Phil Lord & Chris Miller here! We directed the PROJECT HAIL MARY movie - Ask Us Anything on Nov. 18th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET!
well... a Rocky bucket where you have to get the popcorn out from the bottom was... rejected.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are Phil Lord and Chris Miller! Everything (especially THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) is awesome! Ask us anything!
our take on cloudy was originally a lot sillier and less emotional. Amy Pascal taught us how to make it a lot more moving, and as a result it got a lot funnier.
How we know each account is theirs is on their page. A dash means no page: we couldn't find a photo we're allowed to use, or the person keeps their face private.
Research task CompletedFind about 40 authors, webcomic artists and animators who post on Reddit under an account publicly tied to them (verified subreddit flair, an AMA posted from the account, or their own site or socials naming it), and pull each one's best moments from their own history: answering a fan's lore question, revealing a cut idea or an early draft, reacting to fan art, admitting a mistake in their own work, or just being a regular redditor somewhere surprising. Start with the fantasy and sci-fi regulars of r/Fantasy, r/books and their own book subreddits (Andy Weir, Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, V.E. Schwab, Pierce Brown, Naomi Novik, Chuck Palahniuk and peers), creators who post their own comics in r/comics or answer fans in their own comic's subreddit, and showrunners and animators active in their show's subreddit. Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, John Scalzi, Jim Butcher, Margaret Atwood, John Green and Allie Brosh are already covered, so look past them. For each person give: name, reddit username exactly, medium (books, comics or animation), what they're known for in a few words, Wikipedia URL, and the public source tying the account to them with its URL. Then their three to six best moments, each with the full reddit permalink, date, subreddit, score, their exact words, the exact text they were replying to (or the post title), and one line on why it's a great moment. Second task: Find about 45 game developers, YouTubers and streamers, and musicians or producers who post on Reddit under an account publicly tied to them (verified subreddit flair, an AMA posted from the account, or their own site or socials naming it), and pull each one's best moments from their own history: answering a fan's lore question, revealing a cut feature or idea, reacting to fan art or a fan's build, admitting a bug or mistake in their own work, or just being a regular redditor somewhere surprising. For games, start with developers who post in their own game's subreddit: ConcernedApe, Tynan Sylvester, the Factorio team at Wube, Klei, Hello Games, Mojang developers, Larian, Re-Logic, Supergiant and peers. For video, creators with verified flair in their own or hobby subreddits; for music, composers and producers who talk shop with fans. Gabe Newell, Marques Brownlee, Casey Neistat, Michael Stevens, Destin Sandlin, Hank Green, Matthew Mercer and Porter Robinson are already covered, so look past them. For each person give: name, reddit username exactly, medium (games, video or music), studio or channel, what they're known for in a few words, Wikipedia URL, and the public source tying the account to them with its URL. Then their three to six best moments, each with the full reddit permalink, date, subreddit, score, their exact words, the exact text they were replying to (or the post title), and one line on why it's a great moment.