01.07.2025
Which other medium besides writing (film, song, game, etc.), would work best for your story and why?

I work with stuff like TV/Cinematic Series/Movies, Graphic Novels/Comics/Manga and (Video) Role Playing Games in mind. Of course an Audiobook or an Audio play would most likely work to.

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02.07.2025
Who would you want to co-create the version of your work from question 1?

If it is finished

Das Gnomo she is a wonderful artist that at the moment works for the YouTube channel Game- Film- Food- Style- Theory especially on LoreFi.
Her Partner, Adventure, they works with Gnomo on the same projects over there.
They are both part of my DND group at biweekly Saturday's. I could ask them for sure but I keep my mouth until they do commissions again or I can pay a full blown project with them.

Our very own participant in some of the prompts that are around here @art_of_goulwenr have you seen his work? If not go and look at it! Others I found around here from the German and international writing bubble.

But for all of them I should at least have a 75% finished product (more than Draft 000.001)

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03.07.2915
If your story were food, what kind?

Right now I am unable to think abstract so I stick with the cozy one that brings you together with friends in front of a TV with a great movie on it.

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04.07.2025
Given access to your wardrobe, what would your MC choose to wear?

1/2
Only if their own clothes got damaged or they need to fit in.

Arkham would probably have a problem with the materials and the fact that she is smaller than me, but would appreciate the fact that I don't use fabric softener and have some very skin revealing options available, thus the change of her getting her skin irritated is minimized, she would probably try out, of curiosity something from my Latex or Vinyl collection, she has heard of that but no really exposure to it, but most likely wouldn't stick to it not only because it would look silly on her, as shoes probably some flip flops or similar, because everything else would just slip off.

Kira I guess she would love my metal, goth and punk outfits despite the fact that she would have a bit of longer arms and legs as me.
A ripped leggings with fishnet underneath, black long top &

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my combat boots should fit her and cover the parts of her legs that otherwise would be revealed.

Ash luckily has a holographic disguise system so she can cover up as whatever she finds fitting around so she wouldn't take not grab anything from my wardrobe but maybe a ship from my SciFi ship collection or as a building nearby.

180 meter long buildings are a rarity here too, but probably more likely than the freaking Enterprise landing (hovering to be precise) mid air in a small town in 2025.

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05.07.2025
What kind of perfume/scent would work for your antagonist?

AI, you know this smell of heated electronics? That with a sent of fresh opened plastic products but turned old somehow.

For AJ it would be something confusing flowery but heavy, melancholic. Maybe a tiny note of cinnamon underlining it and the scent of old books that where kept in a dry room.

And as we are on the topic of scents, but not in the sense of soap or deodorant/perfume, a important scent for a wounded non Terran native states that if they got hurt they release a overwhelming smell of roses and cinnamon, imagine you are in the middle of an flower shop sniffing a spoon full of cinnamon.
It's almost suffocating heavy.

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06.07.2025
MC POV: You get an hour to do absolutely anything (within the possibilities of your world), no restrictions. What do you choose?

1/3
Kira:"Get the Eltaryn to speak with us instead shooting at us on sight."

Arkham:"But wouldn't that lead the Eltaryn to your Homeworld in the first place?"

"I think it's ment like in this reality of ours, not fictional one or mathematical ones. What about you?"

"I'm pretty much living my dream. Okay without death it would be far nicer. Well than probably starting peace talks with the Eltaryn an hour after your contact?"

Ashlei:"I don't think that this would be an answer the question allows to."

"Well since I am the Captain. I allow it."

Arkham:"Hey unfair let us argue like people."

"Arguments for such minor stuff are for political activities. On a ship the streamlining of command is necessary."

"Are you pulling out of an argument with the command card?"
->
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06.07.2025
2/3

"What no, on a ship the captain has the last say, unless it's command is challenged. This is to ensure that the ship functions well & efficient.
We don't need to argue about something that is as minor as this psychological evaluation questions or their wording, such stuff is for politicians & bureaucrats.
It's perfectly fine to have different opinions on a matter but why wasting the energy & time on such stuff instead focusing on real important stuff?"

"And you don't find our psychological wellbeing important?"

"What no! Ark, Imzadi at the moment you & your wellbeing are important to me, as it is with the crew, but if I have to argue about every decision because the FC, XO's or other crew members challenge me, where do we go?
I love you but can we keep a clear head here?
You & I have different opinions maybe even point of views, but it's okay we can still work together & live ->

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06.07.2025
3/3
...together & work alongside each other."

"As long as you don't pull out on important discussions."

"If this discussion is important to you, then please tell me why?"

"To be honest?"

"I expect that. Yes, go on."

"It isn't, well it is kind of. I challenged you for 2 reasons. 1. to learn you arguments, because I suck in having an argument with a clear head & 2. I love the passion you demonstrate while arguing your point, have you ever noticed that you make a little sigh pause without saying anything or breathing visibily. I love this tender moment of you showing vulnerability. It shows that my strong, beloved & expirienced Captain is still Terran at her core."

"Abby I'm not sure if I'm offended or if this was just incredibly sweet. Can I get more of that without arguments please?"

"How did you always say one step right?"

Arkham lend her head against kiras shoulder.

"Right."

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07.07.2025 Ketchup
If you could live the life of one of your characters, which one?

No one in the actual story just someone in the broader universe and basically I do in a way in the SR:SIRAU... If everything fails maybe I should put that as the actual story?
No need for a real timeline than but I think that would get to meta 4 wall bending for my own liking, that said. How you define a 4 wall break in a 4 wall break story that respects the real 4 wall but shuts on the on in the narrative...?

{Please insert Woodchuck meme question here}

To a degree I would love to be part of an Utopia but I think I'm exactly where I am right now because -insert reason I haven't found yet.-

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08.07.2025
Antagonist POV: You can eliminate any obstacle except people; no killing. What do you choose?

AI: No Killing is necessary if you contain them in small enough enclosures. Would it be more "humane?" Isn't that a terrible racist word if you take into account that other sentient & sapient species exist? Like Human rights?
But that's not your question, collect the Eltaryn, put them into cages, find out how they tick, take this bio organic weaponary the Roaches have & deconstruct them, make the Rillaz talk, manipulate their Genes so we can understand each other without them being an incredible danger, put them in the same prison with all leaders who refuse to act accordingly to their threat."

Ariaene Johnsen:"Their are more than 2000 different ways you can stop people without killing them only ~125 would be considered peaceful & even less non hostile or decent. Obviously regain my full memory capacity."

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09.07.2025
Who is your most powerful character? In what way?

In the story or the universe?
Story wise
The Ghoz'Tarc/A.S.H.L.E.I. Stealth Scouting Space ship with weapons capable of tearing holes into planets if necessary. The propulsion system tears into the sub layers of reality and submerges the ship mostly in it.
And not to mention Portal technology exists, which can be weaponized too, powered by an friendly A.I. (Ashlei) & almost infinite energy.
And the fact that Ghoz'Tarc isn't even a combat focused ship.
However AI is a recent development on ships in universe.

Antagonist Infernale aka AI the person(s?) that have no face, no name but are pretty well connected.
Puppet mastery or pawn control one could say. Imagine someone with seemingly infinite resources or backups from people you wouldn't expect to be involved in basically private military borderline terrorist activities. Yet whoever is behind all of this smoke is unknown.

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10.07.2025
You have to leave Earth, and you can only immigrate to one of the settings you’ve written. Where do you go?

That's no problem I always wanted to see what's spring is like on Jupiter and Mars...

Boring probably, but give me a space ship out of one of my universes or Star Trek and it's Bon Voyage Earth I probably won't come back at all...
Or maybe I find enough people I can convince to join Gaia Unika from the Star Ryde Universe and take out people that are bad for the planet our climate or mental health of minorities that aren't braindead like genderrists, racists, sexists or ableists that simply forgot to die in time.

Edit of course we would also purge billionaires and corrupt politicians but most of them already fall in one of the above categories.

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11.07.2025 How is your current WIP going? Anything you'd like to share about it?

Just crossed the 21.000 words line tonight including editing notes and alternate solutions for some scenes.
Even with only 100 words a week it's still progress.

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12.07.2025
Are you comfortable promoting your own work?

Nope I rather promote others works at least I have a good old German job education as Kauffrau im Einzelhandel (Sales woman in singular tradement... basically a shop owner who sells stuff in direct customer contact in its own shop) before they changed it so I had such useful stuff like book keeping, promotions, etc etc and if I get into flow you could put me onto the Hamburger Fischmarkt let me yell at people like crazy to buy fresh catched books etc.

German's can imagine me being the person on a Jahrmarkt/Kirmes selling the local lottery tickets with a microphone & the typical "Gewinne, Gewinne, Freie Auswahl, eure Chance auf tolle Preise, jedes Los ist auf jedenfall ein Gewinn, 20 für 15, 12 für 10, 6 für 6."

Would I advertise myself like that heck no I'm sitting under the couch and saying fearfully"miep."

BTW @hthomsenwrites first book is still available for 0,99€, ends today visit his profile & look for it.🙂
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13.07.2025
Do you regularly write reviews of others' work or promote them?

No but I recommend stuff I find extraordinary good. Like books, comics, let's plays, games or visual novels, music, etc.
Well okay recently I found myself to do a bit of tiny reviews like with DoraKone a just lovely playable visual novel about lesbian romance and a pokemon go like augmented reality game.

If I find it again I link the tiny revie here.😅

Edit:
Wasn't that long ago so here is the link
nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/1…

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14.07.2025
What’s your favorite format to release your work (ebook, paperback, audiobook, etc.)? Why?

I want at least one physical copy if I ever finish Star Ryde. Because that is something I need for my own satisfaction. For my own sense of achievement.

Otherwise I only can answer this from the perspective of a reading person. I love pocket books, the different design the soft covers and the Chaos they create in a shelf because no one ever had the idea to make them the same size.

Audiobooks are great as long they are labeled correctly and treated with respect. I always remember that butchered Terry Pratchett one where a German TV/Radio station made an Audio play out of a Disc world book and inserted a SONG about CARS and Driving Licenses into it.
Why is Death's Granddaughter singing? That doesn't fit her character. She never sings. And why does she even now what a car is???
Give me that Heine Soup advertisement in Star Trek again please...

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15.07.2025
How emotionally intelligent is your MC?

I try to give all 3 of my MCs and my SCs as well emotional intelligence that's makes them capable of interacting with each other without getting in trouble or hurting people.

Of course not all Characters are equal and react differently in different situations but I think that a missing born empathy can be reached with knowledge and a certain wisdom over time of course this needs some sort of learning and pattern recognition and not everyone is capable in the same way of doing this but I'm sure that most people can reach a good emotional intelligence one way or another and I try to portrait this with all of my characters.

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16.07.2025
SC POV: What do you do to calm down when you’re angry?
1/2

J."Dad told me a thing, don't dwell on anger make it useful to you. So before I joined the Alliance, as a teen, I already had the habit of doing something, fixing the machines on the farm, care for the life stock after all we where a small colony & don't get a shock traditionalists about eating, yes real meat & unprocessed plants, very rare fungal stuff, no lab meat, no enzyme printed stuff, I was able to take an animals life with 11 if necessary, with 13 I took them for the annual harvest celebration. I also good at working constructional stuff, preparing the ground etc.
At the academy I learned how to train properly. Workouts help a great bit but if I'm really angry I need some one like the Captain to hold me. We are friends for a long time & she can keep up with me physically. What you think she doesn't look like that? You... ➡️
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2/2 16.07.2025
⬅️ ... would be shocked. You might expect that Dr. Kaiden would be more capable of that, given his shape but I tell you,
Kira went through S.H.A.D.E. training 6 different combat styles even, she climbs regularly & has a mean left.
She could punch you in 1G & you would think it's 0G while you stumble backwards. Luckily she always pulls her punches is very careful not to hurt someone. If I ask her if we could fight & cuddle like old friends, she knows that I'm not really well so she probably wouldn't say no. Don't look at me like this yes I'm 198 tall and? Yes I love cuddling.
Second best thing in the world.
Why second? Well I heart Sex is the best but I'm not really into that so I stick to the second best."

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17.07.2025
Your MC's boss has done a job performance appraisal, share a few details.
1/2
Looking through my notes & posts I seemingly never named that one admiral that sees Anika & Kira as a sort of daughters (& I realized I switched around letters in names & names again.😔).
So here is Admiral Ron Hackett Anderson (imagine him as a mix of Actor Ron Perlman, the Mass Effect Characters Admiral Hacket & Captain/Chancellor Anderson), short Admiral R.H.A. or H.A.

Admiral H.A.:"Well since her last review Acting Captain Kira Knox was unable to communicate with us directly, we assume that after the possible death of her sister Captain Johanson & our orders to proceed the mission, she does exactly that. Her last log transmission where mostly paperwork, she cleared a complaint against Flight Commander Pakthi's Dresscode violations, referring to her increased ability levels if she...➡️

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2/2 17.07.2025
⬅️... wears less covering clothing. This checks with previous assessments from Captain Johanson, M.I.A., & other Captains before this mission.
We assume that this assessment is correct.
About the stress that Captain Knox goes through, we have to trust on her crew & her ability to step down if necessary.
On a personal note. I don't hide my support for Anika Johanson & Kira Knox as a team, I do not hide my personal emotional involvement & my hope that if not found alive, we at least can return Anika's remains.
I am a close friend to Minister Johanson & have seen both officers grow into competent leaders & capable soldiers after they lost their father & joined the alliance.
I may be biased, but I trust Captain Knox to bring this mission to an successful end, afterwards I recommend her to be considered as the permanent Captain of this crew & ship.
Thank you."

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18.07.2025
The home of your MC is on fire. They can retrieve one item. What is it and why?

Kira the original Foto of her lost Family members. Reasons are obviously that it is the last remaining physical photo of her, her mother, her father and her sisters.
Luckily 24. Century Houses don't burn that easily anymore especially not on colonial planets.

Arkham she owns some old tech she loves to tinker with some items are really old like 22. century. So it might be that or her pilot certification otherwise she doesn't tends to emotional connections with dead objects.

Ash as the Ghoz'Tarc is home in space how you burn something in space is complicated but how you distinct between inside and outside for a space ship in space is more complex than I want to elaborate at this point.

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19.07.2025
Do you use humor in your stories, and if so, what sort of humor (whimsical, sarcastic, satirical, etc.)?

I try to use it sparsely in serious settings it's more a worldbuilding Easter egg stuff there and some times hidden deep or woven into concepts.

In more generous mood light settings it can be really blunt.

In both settings I try to make it a natural feeling occurance.

In Contrast I like lay out stuff for people right in their face but scrambled or have my personal lore scattered in.

In a DND setting I once called an old god Far'Gotan his first name was Sun Toppy. It was a throw away name because I knew most wouldn't remember it next session and turns out I was right but Far'Gotan became a name of a village in another Champaign and Sun Toppy was the villages elder, which the people forgot two sessions later.
If you will it's the Far'Gotan Legacy no one remembers about.

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20.07.2025
Would your antagonist rather travel or be a homebody?

AI: could be a homebody
AJ; travels more than most other life forms.

Are they happy with it? 🤷‍♀️ (Shrug emoji)

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21.07.2025

As a reader, how much detail do you want on characters appearance?

Not much, tell me their behavior and something about the character like visual gender like representation, uses XYZ pronouns, plays Football or showers with dogs and my mind summons a whole backstory and visual style.
I don't need much more and sometimes a name is enough to spawn a whole family in my mind.

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22.07.2025

As a writer, do you use the same level of description you prefer to read?

Not necessarily, I try to deliver the idea of a character, item or location more than the atomic accurate measurements.
I try to deliver a lot of details in scenes that have a slower pacing and sparse details in quicker ones.
And sometimes I shoot with description around the corner nobody expected just to make it feel unique.

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23.07.2027
Your MC is lost in a busy city, and GPS isn’t an option. How do they handle the situation?

Highly unlikely knowing the area of operation and being prepared is a must for planetside missions. It would dependbon the city and if the Ghoz'Tarc is in orbit.
You don't need GPS and maps if a ship in orbit can show you the way by scanning and sending you the information.
If the Ghoz'Tarc isn't around do to reasons unknown it's asking around or figure out which way would be north on this planet and where they need to go.

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26.07.2025
Do you have any fight scenes in your work? What are they like?

Not at the moment, I have a lot of unfinished ones floating around waiting to be finished or implemented into a work.

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27.07.2025
Have you ever written a battle? What kind? Dragon, space, historical....

Historical Space Dragon Battle sounds like a new genre.

I used to write a lot of battle scenes but I never shared them.
And honestly I don't think they where any good for Star Ryde I only write some trainings missions so far and I real struggle to get to my first or battle more appropriate conflict scene at Moment which is why I started implementing scenes from my prompt answers I want to keep.

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