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[ArawnNox]

Raonar wrote...

Thanks

I must say this is definitely helping >.

I really hope I manage to create a suitable image of war.

I could toss you a list of thematically appropriate songs via PM if you want. Or I could just post it here for everyone's benefit, if it is a bit off topic.

[Raonar]

PM me, sure

And I don't know if it's all THAT off topic...

Also:

Navras: THE epic WIN of all.

Modifié par Raonar, 12 août 2010 - 08:22 .

[LupusYondergirl]

For fight scenes I like Skinny Puppy, Rammstein, Ministry (just as long as it's post Revenge/Every Day Is Halloween era), some Bauhaus (a lot of the album In The Flat Field), the Front 242 album Tyranny (For You), Funker Vogt's We Came To Kill, stuff like that. Aggressive industrial and EBM, mostly.
For writing smut I usually toss on Christian Death, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, maybe some Sisters of Mercy, that sort of thing. More towards the goth end of the spectrum.
And, for reasons I can't quite explain, when I'm writing stuff with a lot of heavy politics, I like Stromkern and the Cruxshadows. I don't know why, but they just work to get me in the right mindset.
And there are VNV Nation tracks and albums I use as background music to write EVERYTHING.  Since I adore them like I adore oxygen.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 12 août 2010 - 09:04 .

[ArawnNox]

Okay, here goes.

<copypasta>

Battle-

There's the ones I mentioned, here's some more listed by artist.

HammerFall

-Riders of the Storm

-Hearts on Fire

-Back to Back

-Stronger Than All

-Heeding the Call

-By Any Means Necessary

-Punish And Enslave

-Legion

-Blood Bound

Disturbed

-Indestructible

-Ten Thousand Fists

-Pain Redefined

DragonForce (Pretty much anything)

Drowning Pool

-Bodies

E Nomine

-Vater Unser

-E Nomine

-Himmel & Holle

-Der Furst Der Finsternis

-Die Posaunen von Jericho

-Deine Welt

-Mitternacht

-Dracul's Bluthochzeit

-Exitus

E.S. Posthumus

-Pompeii

-Ebla

-Nineveh

-Menouthis

Fear Factory

-Zero Signal

Kamelot

-Karma

Krypteria

-Sweet Revenge

-Lost

Metallica

-Call of the Ktulu (from the S&M album)

Nightwish

-The Poet and the Pendulum

-Dark Chest of Wonders

-Ghost Love Score

-10th Man Down

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

-Beethoven

Tyler Bates (300 Soundtrack)

-To Victory

-Returns a King

-The Hot Gates

-Come and Get Them

-No Mercy

-Fever Dream

-A God King Bleeds

That should do it I'd suggest some songs by Rhapsody/Rhapsody of Fire, but the lead's inability to pronounce english has really begun to bother me.

Now, thats just a list of music I enjoy for battle. If I wanted two, I could write a whole list of stuff reorchestrating the whole game based on location and attitude. But I wont. That would be too time consuming, not very useful, and my musical taste only. >.>

[Sarah1281]

Why is the DA fandom so horrible about reviews? I know people read my stuff and fave it and everything but the lack of reviews are very frustrating. Particularly when people fave practically every DA story you write but never leave a freaking review! 

Admittedly, I don't review every story I read but I do review most of them (or comment on the BSN thread).

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Raonar wrote...

Ok, humble request here....

I am on the verge of beginning the Ostagar battle and am at a loss for inspiration.

Have you lords and ladies any suggestions for a good, inspirational soundtrack? Something that starts with building tension and then slowly escalates, until all hell breaks loose, and all that bardic nonsense.

Or maybe an all-purpose song?

Soundtrack from the movie Gladiator.

I'm thinking of this track for the battle. Starts with the heroic gathering to arms, waiting for the charge, then the battle itself. The music does a good job of making the fight actually feel chaotic and scary.

[ArawnNox]

Sarah1281 wrote...

Why is the DA fandom so horrible about reviews? I know people read my stuff and fave it and everything but the lack of reviews are very frustrating. Particularly when people fave practically every DA story you write but never leave a freaking review! 

Admittedly, I don't review every story I read but I do review most of them (or comment on the BSN thread).

Its not unique to the DA fandom. People fave my artwork, but I don't get much feedback on what they liked or didn't like about what I draw.

[Sarah1281]

ArawnNox wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Why is the DA fandom so horrible about reviews? I know people read my stuff and fave it and everything but the lack of reviews are very frustrating. Particularly when people fave practically every DA story you write but never leave a freaking review! 

Admittedly, I don't review every story I read but I do review most of them (or comment on the BSN thread).

Its not unique to the DA fandom. People fave my artwork, but I don't get much feedback on what they liked or didn't like about what I draw.

I know that most people don't leave reviews in general but for bigger fandoms where it's entirely possible to eventually get 100 reviews for a one-shot then it's far less noticeable and annoying. If I get, say, twenty reviews for a chapter then I'm far less likely to care that several hundred people read it without commenting than if I get four.

[Gilgamesh1138]

Yea same here ArwanNox, my artwork gets faved but people don't leave comments.



I feel your pain Sarah!

[Miri1984]

I think it's a symptom of not knowing what to say, and also being shy. I'm a very shy person IRL, but a total extrovert online, so if I like something I'll review it (often at length). But sometimes I like something SOOO much that I'm speechless and can't review it - hence a couple of people who've gotten reviews from me that are just "guh" or "wow". I still try to write something though, because I know how much I love feedback.

[ArawnNox]

I know I can't bring myself to comment on a lot of artist's pics because of personal shyness. I'm always afraid of coming off like a gushing fanboy >.>

[LupusYondergirl]

I don't review as often as I like since I read on my iphone a lot, and reviewing on there is a huge pain. The mobile site never wants to keep me logged in.



(Speaking of, does anyone allow anon reviews? I never have, I worry it'll just lead to a lot of trolls. I wonder sometimes if I should, though. Not that I can complain about how many reviews I get now, I'm just greedy like that.)

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I don't review as often as I like since I read on my iphone a lot, and reviewing on there is a huge pain. The mobile site never wants to keep me logged in.

(Speaking of, does anyone allow anon reviews? I never have, I worry it'll just lead to a lot of trolls. I wonder sometimes if I should, though. Not that I can complain about how many reviews I get now, I'm just greedy like that.)

I always do. Yes, you can open yourself to stupid reviews (like if you have two characters listed but the story doesn't have them as the pairing then there might be the occasional 'oh, this fails. Take it out of the Character X/Character Y listing' like the one I got earlier this week) but the great thing about anonymous reviews? You can remove them very easily. Just go to the 'reviews' section of your log-in area and hit the sub-category 'remove reviews.' For signed ones you have to report them or remove the whole story to get rid of them but since it's so easy to get rid of anonymous ones that you don't like I think it's well worth it to allow them.

[SurelyForth]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I don't review as often as I like since I read on my iphone a lot, and reviewing on there is a huge pain. The mobile site never wants to keep me logged in.

(Speaking of, does anyone allow anon reviews? I never have, I worry it'll just lead to a lot of trolls. I wonder sometimes if I should, though. Not that I can complain about how many reviews I get now, I'm just greedy like that.)

I allow them and I'm extremely happy with my decision; I have an anon reviewer who is pretty much the only thing that keeps me writing sometimes. And I've not had any issues with trolls or crazies because of it. 

And I would like to express my frustration that I am getting favorited like crazy now but my hits and reviews are incredibly low. It's baffling, to be honest. 

Clarification: The low reviews/hits- not baffling, but the ratio of favorites to reviews/hits is.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 12 août 2010 - 11:07 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Same here. I'm working on the assumption that hits are off this month, though. I'm still getting the same number of reviews and favorites per chapter as I usually do, but only half the hits.

[Miri1984]

I allow anon reviews. Got a few funny ones but no trolls as yet. I figure if they're going to bother to read the whole thing and then leave a trollish review, good on them!

[Gilgamesh1138]

Same here Surely! My ratios are wack.

[TanithAeyrs]

I'm okay with anon reviews too. So far I haven't really gotten any trolls, but I'm sure they'll show up eventually. Like everything else in life, not everyone is going to be happy with what I do. They're entitled to their opinion, if there is constructive criticism great, if it's just complaints - oh,well. I have one anon reviewer that is really sweet and offers great encouragement.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

I allow anon reviews and don't regret it. Only had ONE weird/stupid review (which was either a censored swear word or they intentionally wrote '****').



I don't think you have to worry And spam reviews or offensive tripe can always be deleted by your hand.

[Tellervo]

I see that we briefly discussed music. I can't provide much help, but I can provide some hilarity, perhaps:



I listen to soft stuff when writing fight scenes (Enya/Adiemus/Zeitler/Etc.) and hard stuff when writing sex/romance (Type O/Tool/Etc.). So "What should I listen to while writing an epic fight scene?" Hm...this

[LupusYondergirl]

If we're back to music, I realized something... for drunk scenes? I ALWAYS listen to the Pogues. Sometimes I might throw on some other more traditional Irish folk (I have a weakness for the stuff from my Irish Studies minor), but without fail at some point I will need to hear Shane MacGowan to write drunk Wardens.

God I love him. I swear, he's the WB Yeats of the late 20th Century.

[Sarah1281]

@Lupus: Thanks so much for the review.

[LupusYondergirl]

No problem! I feel bad since I do read your stuff all the time and I don't think I ever review.

[jenncgf]

I allow anon reviews and have had zero problems. Not that I get a ton of reviews either. I get REALLY excited if I get 6 in a chapter. Ah, well.

I've decided to not let it get to me unless I don't get *any* reviews on a particular chapter. When that happens, I do get discouraged.

Modifié par jenncgf, 13 août 2010 - 01:14 .

[LupusYondergirl]

I have one chapter with no reviews, and I reread it constantly trying to figure out WHAT DID I DO WRONG WHY DOESN'T ANYONE LOVE ME ANYMORE WHAT HAPPENED?



*ahem*

Sorry.



And I just put up the first two chapters of my prequel story.