It's been a while since I've talked about this but I'm starting to feel the writing bug again.

I have, at present, a very basic idea of
-Protagonist is trying to become accllimated to new life and spends most of childhood wondering if he's insane or just very imaginative
-[Upheaval Event]
-Protagonist forced to confront the idea that Fantasy World is not so idyllic. Anger to be used as tool to propel protagonist towards primary goal which is

'This will never happen again'.
what needs to happen to create the world in which this is true

this isn't even the skeleton of a plot, it's like the suggestion of a certain boniness of the plot

I have a bunch of setting details but a setting does not make a story

So, what is the story?
If I'm writing Isekai and Isekai is basically just a power fantasy I'm half-tempted to embrace it and just write from the heart
What I want is a better world and I'm writing this out of spite to fulfil a niche interest
so fuck it

Engage plan: World Optimization.

for everyone new to whatever the hell this is, hi, I'm Lox, I'm bouncing around the idea of writing a gay isekai novel because my taste is trash but also the genre I really want to like has almost nothing I actually like in it.

So, spite-creation it is.

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in which case don't!

I'm also sort of... wondering how I should go about this.

Should I just commit to writing the whole thing and then posting it? Should I do it a chapter at a time? Write the first few, post, then continue from there?

What is a good place for original fiction, is AO3 a good idea, should I go elsewhere, what
I haven't done this sort of thing since I was like
in high school

"but also the genre I really want to like has almost nothing I actually like in it." boy howdy do I feel this.

I really like Isekai as a genre!

Like, conceptually!

It is. all. Garbage.

the only isekai series that I've seen and don't consider to be some form of garbage is El-Hazard, and that's going like twenty five years back. And the sequel series do suck. Apart from that, SAO is my junk food favourite, but everything else is just harem shit and the worst excesses of the male power fantasy.

basically

also i'm gay as a daisy in may

ask me how many stories cater to that

it's not zero but it's not a large number

internet consensus seems to be that royalroad is a good option?

Okay

Notes on worldbuilding:
I get antsy if I don't have consistent rules to work from for the setting, so as far as the fantastic elements go

1. Everything is comprised, instead of matter and energy, a single unified Substance. The locals probably don't understand what particles and waves and what not are, but learned scholars do understand that physical objects in the right circumstances can be convinced quite easily to become insubstantial forms of energy.

2. The conditions under which these changes can be brought about and directed are, obviously, subjects of keen interest by the aforementioned scholars, both because they are (as far as we know) the fundamental underpinnings of the universe and understanding them brings mankind closer to understanding of everything as a whole-

but also because very smart people in the distant past worked out that, with a little ingenuity and determination and a fierce instinct to rip off the 'WARNING: DO NOT PUSH' label on the big red button of the universe and push it anyway, Substance can be tricked into thinking.

This process is Magic, a discipline where very serious people who did very serious things like going to University and being talked at for twenty hours a week and not sleeping for most of the rest achieve things like 'turn the air into fire' by shamelessly stealing resources from other people who've already done most of the work.

Key guidelines to magic are:
-Magic needs fuel to work its shit. The most readily available fuel is energy-form Substance- living things form an internal well of it that's replenished by eating and sleeping, but it also exists out in the environment in the form of things like light/heat/sound, etc

-It takes 'fuel' to draw in energy, though, and the cost of making Substance move increases the further away you get from the epicenter of a magical effect.
-Matter-form Substance can be converted to energy-form for more fuel, but conversion costs fuel and takes time, so it's slow and subject to the same limitations of distance

-Magic is stupid and uncreative. It will do exactly what it is told to do until it runs out of fuel or it's told to stop.

-Anybody can do magic.
Why doesn't everyone do it?
Because it takes time and dedication to learn and if you create a spell with no exit condition and no safety features in play it will keep going until it eats its own platform (you).

Teachers also tend to charge for their services and because of the safety issue most books on the subject are closely guarded

There may also be creatures with innate capacities to manipulate Substance in specific, limited, ways
-not sure yet
-more on this later

I have no earthly idea why naming characters is like the hardest part

what safety measures would exist in a place like this
in the real world, when working with dangerous forces like electricity, we have things like fuses that are supposed to trip or break if they detect a drop in current or too much at once