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I’ve been thinking about this a lot, I’ve got this quirky gatekeeper..barely used it in a chapter but it feels too good to be forgotten

Asked a fellow author if they can use such character as it won’t serve me, they said the idea’s absurd but they’d think about it, made me wonder is it normal to reuse side character, power or items from other writers

gonna ask it here, will you be okay to let other’s reuse your side character, power system or items, nothing major just something good that can be reused

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot, I’ve got this quirky gatekeeper..barely used it in a chapter but it feels too good to be forgotten

Asked a fellow author if they can use such character as it won’t serve me, they said the idea’s absurd but they’d think about it, made me wonder is it normal to reuse side character, power or items from other writers

gonna ask it here, will you be okay to let other’s reuse your side character, power system or items, nothing major just something good that can be reused

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alright I've been using this long enough to have real opinions now. 3 months 200 generations, freelance social media manager running 3 client accounts. this is tool by tool is genuine feelings, not a feature list

face swap : using it weekly, it's really good. handles group shots, motion, varied lighting and free tier gives you photo face swaps without watermark which is weirdly generous. I'd give it an 8/10 vs FaceFusion locally which is like a 9.5/10 but requires you to set up your own GPU so for browser-based, this is the best I've tried

lip sync : solid for social/UGC content,works in multiple languages which my clients love for localization. not as polished as HeyGen's digital avatars for corporate stuff but for UGC-style ads it actually looks MORE natural because it's real footage, not a generated avatar.

image to video : absolute workhorse,animate any photo with camera motion and the model selection (Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Sora 2, LTX-2) is what makes this so useful . I pick Kling for human subjects and Veo for complex scenes. this tool alone might justify the subscription for me

talking photo : upload photo + audio, photo talks, these consistently get 2-3x the engagement of regular video posts. I don't fully understand why but I'm not going to question it

AI image generator : replaced midjourney for like 80% of what I was doing. not quite the same character and artistry on really specific prompts but for social content and mockups but more than enough.

text to video : genuinely not as good as Runway Gen 4.5 for cinematic stuff and I want to be clear about that but for tiktok-tier content nobody can tell.

voice cloning : surprisingly natural nut could be better

things I barely touch: QR code generator, meme generator, storyboard generator they exist. I'm sure someone uses them. not me.

pricing: $10/mo creator plan. credits roll over (actually matters, some months I produce way more). free tier is there , test before you pay

honest negatives: UI is functional not beautiful and some tools are clearly more polished than others. credit consumption varies by tool and it took me weeks to predict usage accurately and the younger tools feel a bit rough sometimes.

if you only need cinematic video gen.get Runway. if you only need face swap,FaceFusion is free and arguably better but if you need variety? this is the one.

what's everyone else's setup?

before you ask me why’d I even ask that question, my goal is to simply create a community or rather a story written by writers and make a web of it by connecting various such stories for same genre

okay it all started with a simple question a friend asked me about lending her my OC but now im thinking about it

I’ve had this one adventurer in one of my stories who asked very precise and funny details and it’s not much in my story and I’m not planning to use it, a writer friend of mine asked if they can use my character in their story

am mulling about if I should agree that’s why am putting it out here

can you as a writer let other authors reuse items, character and random assets from your story

and that’s not even the major concern about lending it, i don’t think I’ve got a problem with lending that to a friend but the major question is how would you protect that IP

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