Their AI system to read the picture of the empty shelf is baloney. It’s literally 50-50 whether it will accept it. RIP pro shopper. I don’t really care, but I thought it was funny, because the photos literally perfect.
Edit: I spelt Exclusion wrong. Go ahead and stone me Reddit.
So I am writing a series I’ve been working on for eight years. I originally wrote the first drafts when I was very young and was generally insensitive. But I believe my core concepts were very good and I am using them to rewrite the series. I went through a series of struggles in my life, and dealt with some of these topics. My question is if these topics are acceptable socially, or if it will drive people away from the story. Because I aim for the audience to be young adult. It’s not supposed to be a completely dark fantasy. And I feel like it’s a sensitive topic, and something that I haven’t talked to other writers about. I’ve tried to do basic research but most books with similar topics, end up being fully adult fiction, or more hardcore dark fantasy.
So here are my topics I cover in my story:
Suicide: this is a very common topic in my story. Mainly because of one reason. The mechanic surrounding the main protagonist and antagonist. Both of them, cannot stay dead. They are both the same soul, split in half. What is does it makes it to where neither of them can truly die, and they have a power that I call Rebirth.
1: Suicide with Orion: The Original holder of the soul. Who made a deal with a powerful being far beyond the abyss named HaHe’eder. In exchange for half of his soul, he would become immortal, able to end the terrible war himself. He did end the war. And another, and another, for 30,000 years he ended humanities wars. He attempted to stop all bloodshed. Realizing that it was not possible, that life itself was inherently cruel, and there was no solution to its brutality. When the story starts, he’s 60,000 years old. And his philosophy is completely twisted. He believes that humans are not good for themselves, existence is doomed to fail. He researched every piece of written literature for thousands of years, he tried to stop the violence of humanity for even longer. But nothing ever worked, no matter what he did humanity would not stop killing each other. His immortality drove him mad. He tried to kill himself thousands of times, he longs for death. It’s all he wants, silence, to finally end his miserable existence. And he ends up, twisting that philosophy, to humanity needs to end, all of it needs to end, and that is the only true mercy. Most of his suicidal tendencies is history, his philosophy is twisted and dark, but it’s not physically on page as much.
2: Suicide with Kai: Now Kai is a different story. He is 16 when the story starts. He was born a stillborn baby on Earth with no life. Now HaHe’eder did not intend for the Other half of Orions soul to ever find a vessel, simply cast it into the abyss. And for 60,000 years it floated, through thousands of galaxies is over an incredible amount of distance. And that soul bound to that baby. Kai goes entire life without ever realizing who he really is. It’s a Isekai, so what happens is, when he dies on Earth, he is pulled across an infinite space, to Elythra, the world where his soul originated from. And his body rebuilt, the first rebirth. Now here’s the more dark topic. Kai uses this Rebirth as a power. He’s weak, he’s not trained. In fact when he uses his “powers” called Aethermancy, he explodes his own body. Where he supposed to use his connection to the Aether the force that runs through things to manipulate the elements, it backfires. Because of his unnatural soul. A single punch explodes his arm, but release as a powerful fire explosion. So he’s not very durable, his body as a resource runs thin. And multiple times throughout the series, he kills himself to come back quicker. These moments are tense, it’s not easy for him to do, against every human instinct. But he does it anyway. Their heartfelt moments with the main female character, where she makes him never commit suicide. Every life that he goes through, matters and is important. No matter if he loses an arm, he promises, that he he’ll fight to his end, but never end himself early. And he also has complex feelings, similar to Orion. Depression plagues him from the trauma that he goes through, no amount of immortality saves him from the pain that he has. And there are times in the story, where he wishes that he didn’t have this power. And is Suicidal in a sense.
So these themes are heavy and seen frequently through throughout the story. And other themes like it, like suicide in mortal people. But I feel like it makes it more real. Immortality, and what it would do to a man, is one of the main themes of this entire story. So I feel like these themes are very fitting. But I just really don’t want it to be a fully dark fantasy. Because the world is full of hope. Full of life. Full of beauty. I’m a very big fan of philosophy, and a lot of those themes of Existentialism, Nihilism, stoicism, and more carryover. Do you think that if I do it correctly, there’s a place where dark themes can have weight but not be the only focus in a fantasy series?
“Is there a problem? Get my order.” is extremely aggressive. A lot of Dashers deal with shit like this all the time. What I usually try to do is be calm and professional. And try to be as nice as I can to de-escalate the situation. This aggressive customer who tipped zero dollars, ended up tipping me 10 on arrival. And I delivered both orders on time. This is not always an option and I understand that, and you should never be treated badly when you’re waiting on food. But sometimes being professional and trying to de-escalate, the situation can turn things around.
I have genuinely no idea what this flag is or what it means. They were waving it in front of a Hispanic restaurant in my home town. If it’s something offensive I apologize. It’s the same on both sides.