 Hello there, I am I am back along with a little Danny DeVito here And so a week ago I was celebrating a thousand subscribers So I just told you guys to send in your questions and I'm gonna answer them now However, since last week I have gained a whole bunch more subscribers and I now have about 7900. So Yeah, that's six times higher than where it was last week. So I guess you could look at this as a 1,000 sub Q&A celebration or a 7,800 thousand billion trillion sub celebration look Point is you asked a bunch of questions and now I'm here to answer them But before I do that, I just want to do a couple of things Quick shout out to all the people that have been subscribed to me from the beginning or for a very long time because I mean Back when I had like 10 subs or 30 subs or whatever It really meant a lot to me to see just those few numbers like seeing your video get no views versus getting like six views Is a pretty big difference. So it's sent thanks a lot to everybody that did that and of those people a special thank you to Rachel Aranda who I believe actually found me on Goodreads originally and she's been there since Almost the beginning. I think I had started for like I had been doing this for like a month before she started commenting on my reviews and liking them and following them and everything and just seeing one person Actually follow me and know that they are interested in what I have to say actually having just one person That's a fan. It really does make a huge difference. So huge shout out to her. It really does mean the world to me and third and and lastly Daniel Green who is another booktuber all like all linked to his channel somewhere a lot of you probably found me through him because My wheel of time world-building analysis once that had started to pick up a little bit He actually saw it and then went on his channel and said hey guys. I'm sick today So please watch this and after that it jump-started my growth like crazy. So Huge huge thanks to him. I I am super grateful and also I just have one quick announcement here Since my channel has been Growing a whole bunch lately There have been a lot of people who have been messaging me or sending me emails or whatever just to ask me Hey, will you review my book or hey? Will you examine the world? They've created and But please stop doing that look like I know you want someone to review your work I get that but um, there's only one of me and I've already had a whole bunch of people do this The first guy that asked me to review his book. He gave me a free copy of it I'm gonna review his as for the rest of you if you're really really still interested in the future the near future I'm going to set up some sort of patreon page or something so that you can request it there but right now I just I really can't be doing that and also as for World-building stuff and books that are like only partway completed You really should get a proper editor for those Because like I'm not a proper editor. I'm here to to review completed works completed professional works and I Mean it. You really can't take that same level of scrutiny to a first draft anyway, so That being said, please just quit doing that in the future after this goes up I'm just gonna delete them without even responding. Okay with all that out of the way. Let's get to the questions Some of these have been paraphrased or combines together because people asked multiple similar questions So I didn't want to repeat myself too much So I just did that and also because some of them are just worded weirdly or have odd grammar So that out of the way, let's get going. What are you studying slash? What is your career slash profession goals? So at the moment, I'm actually going to school to become an accountant because you know That's like actually a pretty decent job. However. I do want to be a writer I want to be a novelist like I know that's not exactly an uncommon opinion, especially not among my audience, but You know, it's something that I really want to do something that I am passionate about However, I want to have like an actual decent job before I throw all my eggs into that basket because the odds of actually making it Are pretty low. Have you done any writing or world building yourself? Oh, yeah, tons like like I said I want to be a professional so I've done a whole bunch. I have I mean I'm currently working on various projects at the moment Just in terms of writing and in terms of world building. I actually used to just do that for fun like I just create a world and try and Populate it try and make it more realistic or more crazy depending on what mood I was in at that point in time And it works great for like D&D campaigns or just if you want to write a story Have you had any relevant education to literary analysis outside of high school? Nope, not at all What show slash book has the best world building the expanse by a pretty big margin because if any of you have ever Watch that show or read the book, you know that it takes place mostly just in Earth's solar system and That in and of itself sets it apart from a lot of other space opera science fiction stories because most of them are on a Much larger scale and so this one not only is the technology much more realistic And and it follows physics a lot closer than most of those other stories do but we're seeing humanity actually transition from just being an earth Sorry species that's just trapped on earth to one that will eventually expand out and control the stars And so that alone is just absolutely fascinating to me So that sets it apart from others and like I said everything's pretty consistent The only odd part that I've noticed is that By that point in the future most labor should be done by machines if not all labor But I mean the authors have also admitted that that would detract from the sort of story They want to tell so I won't I won't give them too much grief for that. Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons? Only every Saturday. Do you live in Seattle? Nope. I live in Colorado I'm not sure why you would think I live in Seattle Do I do I look like a Seattle person or something? I Yeah, whatever you seem like a history buff. What's your favorite period in history? so This was actually kind of a difficult question to answer I had to think about it for a while, but After some after some thought I do I did eventually have to settle on the early modern peck period or the age of exploration Which I mean they're kind of the same thing they overlap a lot the modern world was basically created in the early modern period because Think about it people in Europe went west and then realized hey There's two gigantic continents there that weren't there before or that we didn't know about before so the world suddenly became a whole Lot bigger and that must have been crazy surreal to them But even beyond that that's when we started to really see the rise of things like global trade of things like modern democracies of things like Modern capitalism like those are what created the modern world or rather those are a huge part of the modern world and so Just seeing all of them in their infancy and seeing how they came to be and seeing how they were created is I mean It's just absolutely fascinating What's your glasses prescription also? You're very cute So I actually went looking to try and find what my glasses prescription was because it's on a sheet of paper buried somewhere in here But after searching for like 25 minutes, I couldn't find it and I had to start getting to filming So I was like, okay, whatever. I'll just tell them that I don't remember And the only reason I didn't cut that question out is because somebody called me cute And I wanted all of you to know that has anyone ever told you that you look just like Bradley from extreme love autism So at first I didn't know what this question was talking about But then I looked it up and I saw that the actor who plays Bradley in that show is named Lewis Thoreau And I actually have been compared to him before because a couple months ago I actually did a roast on reddit, which I'll think I'll link that down below because it's actually pretty funny But yeah, there was someone in the comments there that said I looked like Lewis Thoreau with AIDS So I was like, okay, that was actually pretty funny. So yes, I have been compared to him Which one do you like more dogs or cats dogs, you know cats are cats are all right, but like dogs is your dog an American Mastiff Say hi Oscar Yeah, so this is Oscar and when we got him they They told us that he was 50% pitbull and 50% Dutch Shepherd What I can tell you for sure is that he is 100% good boy What would you suggest someone do if they wanted to get back into reading regularly so I would probably suggest doing it before bed Because see I don't know about you, but I have had problems sleeping in the past because you know before bedtime I'd be like playing video games or surfing the internet or being on my phone or something and that you know That stimulates your brain a lot and also like just having the blue light hits you It prevents you from falling asleep easily So what I started doing is I started reading before bed and that really does help you drift off a lot more So if you just set up aside some time to do it and you try and go to bed around the same time every night Then eventually you'll start reading a lot more regularly Do you plan on starting a discord server where people can better communicate with you? I do plan on that I will probably get it up soon, but you know, I've I don't know exactly What I would want to be on there precisely like I don't know what sort of rules I would want to have so It'll be a little bit, but you know, I'll I'll get it up. I promise. How was your childhood pretty good? I mean, you know had had some issues, but those were those were mostly my fault. I Wasn't like a Dickensian Street urchin or anything What YA series did you read when you were younger like Percy Jackson Artemis foul 39 clues, etc Well, I read Percy Jackson and Artemis foul, and I thought they were great And I also read like the sequel series is to Percy Jackson. I read things like the Hunger Games I mean, I read around a little bit. I definitely had more of a I definitely enjoyed the fantasy sort of stuff a lot more or occasionally the science fiction stuff a lot more than the like dystopian stuff or the more realistic YA stuff I I just wasn't that big of a fan of it when I was younger as I've gotten older that's changed But you know a lot of things have changed. Do you like political books? I don't really read them because I Mean not that I don't enjoy getting other people's perspectives on that. It's just that I Mean, that's what the news is You know that the news is mostly just political opinions nowadays the internet is I mean it's fucking full of them nowadays and I'm on Twitter, so I'm constantly getting hit with it all the time and Political books. I mean, I'm sure there's some good ones out there like I've read bits of them Especially older ones like is because they have some historical value things like I've read parts of mine Conf because it's just interesting to get inside someone's head like that, but I mean overall I just I really can't do political books nowadays What was the first book you ever read that made you think a lot in a reflective way? So I can't really pinpoint one specific book However, there were some book series that I enjoyed more than others and also like some standalone books that I enjoyed more than others and As I started reading more and more of those I started to wonder to myself like why do I like these? But I don't like those how come I liked the first Hunger Games book But I didn't really like the second or third ones all that much like why was that so I started thinking a lot more About it and trying to think like okay. What what about this appeal to me? What did it why? just things like that and as time has gone on I've become you know more critical about stuff like that and also Thinking more deeply about everything so I wish I could pinpoint one specific book or one specific series, but I can't sorry What do you think of the world building of Harry Potter and Tolkien Harry Potter's world building? I think is not all that amazing to be honest Just because there's a lot of stuff that could be more explored or a lot of stuff that doesn't make quite that much sense but when you consider like just how Just how magical it is. I know that sounds stupid But like just how magical it is and how every time you I read about it I just feel like a little kid again. I'm it's super excited. I Really can't have be too harsh on it. I just I just can't sorry and also when you consider that It's still an expanding universe because the Fantastic Beasts movies are still coming out We don't know everything about it. So that also makes it even harder to judge As for Tolkien, I'm not a super Big buff of his world building like some people are like I mean some people have an encyclopedia encyclopedia like knowledge of Middle-earth, but I just don't and so that being said I think it is one of the most Expansive fictional worlds ever made and I think that he really did lay the groundwork for pretty much all modern fantasy when he did that So I think it deserves nothing but respect. Hey guys, so I actually lost some of the footage here The question that was gonna be here was how old are you and I am 22 Will you review slash analyze the world of X? Okay, so I got a lot of comments about these and Not that I don't like requests I mean feel free to make requests. I just I can't guarantee y'all ever get to them Because there's there's a lot being thrown at me right now. I'm I'm very much still getting used to this level of attention I'm I've never had it before But that being said a lot of people asked me to do warhammer like examine the world of Warhammer And I can say right now I'm never gonna do that just because that is also a Gigantic world with a whole bunch of lore and I'm just not familiar with it And it would take me a very very long time to get to a level of familiarity and even then There are people that would know way more than me So if I tried analyzing it and saying hey, this doesn't make sense then they'd all jump on me and in addition to that I Feel like from what I've seen the Warhammer world and the Warhammer 40k world Although then I'm actually not even sure if they're the same thing see that that tells me how much I know But that they both feel pretty solid for the most part like they have some weird aspects to them But nothing really that bad and my world-building analysis series is more to examine shitty world-building as opposed to Good world-building or okay world-building Have you read X? Okay, so this one is kind of similar. It's like have you read this book? Have you read that book and so I can't get to all of them? I'm sorry, but the two most common ones were have you read the Dresden files by Jim Butcher and I have not I haven't read anything by Jim Butcher. I have it on my to read list somewhere down the line But I don't know when it'll I'll get to it and then also a lot of people ask me Have you read the King Killer Chronicles that one? I'm going to read very soon. Don't worry because I got a copy of the name of the wind and Another one was have you read the berserk manga? I have read it I think it's amazing, but I'm probably not gonna do any reviews of it or anything on this channel because it's mostly book-focused as opposed to Manga or graphic novel focused, but who knows I might talk about it at some point Who are your top sci-fi slash fantasy authors? Darren Shan is my favorite author overall and he mostly writes science fiction or fantasy actually really just fantasy But Brandon Sanderson is quickly catching up to him. He's probably my favorite fantasy author overall I know that might sound kind of weird, but I'm sorry Darren Shan I just feel is a little bit better Who knows how this will go because they're both still creating work depending on how it goes Sanderson might go ahead of him. But yes, those are my two favorite sci-fi slash fantasy authors What is your favorite book of all time? So I don't have a favorite individual book of all time because there's just There's too many like I wouldn't be able to choose between them but my favorite book series of all time is the demonata by Darren Shan because I Mean holy fuck. That's amazing if you could Somehow combine the last four books in that series into one then that would be my favorite book of all time by a huge margin But like if you've read the series, you'll know what I'm talking about like books seven through ten They're all equally amazing. I think just in slightly different ways And if they were all in the same book, it would blow absolutely everything else out of the water Is there anything you do to decide if a book is worth reading slash reading more of? So I don't really have a specific method for this I kind of wish I did because when you ask that question I started thinking about it a lot more and I realized like well no I don't I don't really have a way of deciding but no I just kind of When I look at a book summary and everything I think like okay Does that sound like something I would enjoy but I also usually will try and look through reviews and stuff if I'm not If I'm not sure because to me that's what reviews are reviews are Would you enjoy this yes or no because you enjoy these certain aspects? but also I'll admit I am a sucker for good cover art and As you get part way through the story you can usually get a pretty good idea of the skill of the author and What sort of plot you're gonna be dealing with by the time you're about 40 pages in or less a lot of the time really Like I said, there's not a specific Method I use but if there's something that's just totally intolerable to you or you just cannot stand the writing or something within the first 50 pages then You're probably not gonna enjoy the book. I'm sorry. I can't be more specific, but that's about all I can say What's your opinion on book-to-film adaptations or even book-to-TV series? I think it's a great thing No, really. I do. I think that Sometimes the adaptations, you know, they they fall and they're they're awful. They're terrible That and that's just you know, that's just life, but other times they do Actually improve upon the source material like in some ways the expanse I think the show improves upon the books in certain ways like I'm not gonna say it's better than the books but you know, you know in some ways it expands upon certain characters it Expands upon certain parts of the world it expands upon some of the technology and also visually it's pretty great it just gives it to you so you can actually see something that looks neat and so because of that I think that Adaptations are a good thing overall. Have you got many plans for videos or series you intend on making? Yeah, I've got a couple nothing super concrete But you know, we'll see how it goes like obviously I want to do more world-building analysis My next one will be coming out at the beginning of March, so don't worry like it's already scripted out and everything I'm just gonna get it edited and voiced over and all that but then I also want to make a series called how to world-build because the world-building analysis like I said earlier is more about shitty world-building whereas the how-to world-build will be more like a Tutorials sort of like how to world-build a fantasy military is the first one that I'm writing and then they'll also be like how to world-build a city How to world-build an evil empire that sort of stuff, so I can give people advice if they want it And also talk a little bit about how hey if you want something to be unique you could try it this way I'm also gonna continue doing reviews, so if you enjoy those then Don't worry like I'm still gonna keep doing them I do want to read some more science fiction this year because the past like Year and some change I've been reading a lot of fantasy and I don't want to say I'm getting burnt out on it, but It's just a lot of fantasy all at once and I also want to start doing some Long-form analysis slash discussion sort of videos like I don't really know exactly how to explain this But the first one I'm working on is gonna be about the maximum ride books and how I love those when I was younger But even as a kid I thought that the later books were shit And so I'm gonna I'm probably gonna call it something like the rise and fall of maximum ride and I'll just be examining like okay So what about these made them good? Where did things change? Why did they change and why did they get shitty after a while? How do you separate jewels from dirt and navigate through today's new author published craziness? this actually kind of ties into that earlier question about how do I decide if a book is good or not and The simple answer is you don't separate the jewels from the dirt. I mean Sorry, there's like there's too many books out there that we'll never be able to read all of them No single person ever will so Sometimes you got to do extreme research and really look into it really read reviews really look into all the tags They're using and read the sample first chapter or whatever they have and Sometimes you got to take a chance like sometimes you got to go outside your comfort zone Or sometimes gotta be like well this sounds really good But it also sounds like there's gonna be a love triangle in the book and I don't like love triangles Or it's a really long book and I don't normally like reading long books, but Sometimes if you want to find a diamond in the rough you got to take a chance like that And it's not always gonna work. Sometimes you're gonna wind up wasting your time reading something that you hate But that's kind of just how it works. I'm sorry Are there kinds of videos you like to watch on booktube and thought of trying out making yourself example vlogs? Not really know because I mean I kind of just started this channel as a way to get my thoughts out there and If you wanted to put it less charitably you could say as a way to complain So I've kind of just been doing my own thing and not to say other people haven't inspired me a little bit But for the most part no, I haven't really wanted to copy anything I haven't wanted to try blogs or nothing like that Have you ever tried using or considered using a platform like wikia to assemble all your world-building ideas? Not really when I create a world or when I start writing notes down for a project. I want to write I just sort of Write notes down and keep them on a flash drive or on my hard drive or something like that I I don't I don't use wikia What is your biggest pet peeve about characters in novels something that might make you stop reading entirely? I had to think about this one a little bit and after a while I decided that the number one thing that will turn me off from characters or specifically protagonists is selfishness that is not acknowledged Because see if a character is selfish and they're really only caring about themselves or their friends and they don't care about the rest of The world and that's treated as a flaw then that can be interesting because One they can grow out of it and two if the author is actually acknowledging that then they can make a more interesting Look at the character like you can examine that and get inside their head and sort of feel like okay This is this is the sort of person we're dealing with I don't agree with them But I see where they're coming from But if it's not acknowledged by the author like in blood rose rebellion the main character Anna is She's a selfish bitch from basically page one and she causes nothing but trouble for everyone around her and she gives zero fucks about their opinions and their emotions and The books don't really treat that as though it's a bad thing. They still treat Anna as though. She's some sort of heroic character, so That really bothers me more than anything else I could probably talk about this for like hours if I really wanted to but I think that's the biggest one Do you ever change your mind about things you've made videos on have you ever taken criticism in your comments section to heart? the answer to both of those is Yeah, kind of Because I have changed my mind on things I've made videos like people have pointed out in some of my world-building analysis stuff that Hey, you missed this one little detail or hey, you fucked up this part and I'm like, oh shit Okay, I get I got it now like and so that does cause me to change my opinion a little bit But not a lot like for example in the divergent one people mentioned how well the factionless actually do some of the menial labor it's mentioned in like one sentence at the beginning of the book and Okay. Yeah, that that is true. I missed that. I didn't reread all the books in preparation for that video I just skimmed through them and did a bunch of research online but that also doesn't answer all the questions because like Okay, the factionless apparently get paid in food stamps But that means there's like some sort of currency system in this world and that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and just It still doesn't answer all my questions, but I'll admit okay Yeah, I screwed up there and sometimes people just Examine some of my reviews from a different angle and give me a different appreciation for things like during my goblin slayer review Someone commented that from his point of view The series is always about kind of like almost a sanitation worker like the main character who kills all the goblins He's not doing it for glory or for money or anything He's doing it because it's just a job that needs to be done and the other adventurers who are Obsessed with glory and money just sort of leave the goblins alone and let them go kill people and so When I look at it from that angle, I thought you know, that is actually kind of interesting as for criticism in the comments section I haven't really taken any of that to heart because I Think it was an old episode of the game grumps where they said if you if you ever Feel like a comment's gonna hurt your feelings or something just read it out in the voice of Dale from king of the hill Like whatever and there's been a shitload of comments calling me a cuck and stuff, but like I Don't give a shit like some reactionary in cell wants to talk shit on me and let him do it all day I'll just delete his comments. I'm gonna shit. What other literature related content creators on YouTube Do you follow if any so I mentioned Daniel Green earlier? I have been following him for Really not that long less than two months actually Then I also followed Jenna Marisi who I reviewed one of her books a few weeks or a few months ago the Savior's Champion and she is more of like a Writing person rather than a review person because she gives like writing advice. She's actually a published author She gives marketing advice as well. So she's actually pretty interesting Then I also follow Jordan Harvey who is She doesn't really focus on anything specific. I don't think she's just kind of there to Talk about books. She you know, she reviews them. She talks about hey, I like this. I don't like that She does pretty She goes pretty deep in her analysis though So I think that she's a little bit better than your average reviewer And she also does these things called trope talks where she talks about well, obviously tropes and examines them and Not super super deep detail, but enough to get an idea across and make you think about it Hmm and then I also follow terrible writing advice who if y'all haven't heard of him He's he's fucking hilarious. He as the name implies He just makes videos where he gives terrible writing advice and it's it's beautiful He also has good animation too. So uh Yeah, check out all those people if they sound interesting What gave you this idea or inspired you to do this on YouTube? I was just bored and kind of wanted to complain to an audience and then I also figured like well, you know If I keep doing this at YouTube, I'll eventually make money. But then by the time I think around the beginning of 2018 I was at like 20 subscribers and I realized you know what I I don't think I'm gonna I don't think I'm ever gonna make actual money off of this But I kept doing it because I actually enjoyed it I enjoyed this as a hobby and it's only recently that it's blown up. So who knows I might Be able to do more of this if I can quit my job. Who knows? Will you make videos about world-building and writing for anime manga light novels and video games the short answer? Hell, no partially because I Just want to talk about books here, you know, like I can occasionally venture into Video games and manga and all that but for the most part I just I just want to talk about books because I want to talk about More obscure stuff. That's a that's a big part of my channel as well as like I've been Reviewing and talking about books that aren't that well known and some of them I feel like they do deserve more attention and the authors deserve more attention and Also beyond that I just feel like the video game community is a steaming pile of cancer just filled with a bunch of toxic obnoxious man babies and As much as I love video games like and my friends also play video games like I'm I hate the community so much I'm just not gonna deal with that shit and then the anime community is better Don't know it's a lot better actually, but it still has some pretty cancerous elements to it like both communities There's this pretty big attitude of I like something Therefore you're not allowed to criticize it and there's also a pretty big attitude of I am criticizing this thing I don't like this thing therefore you also have to hate it and if you say anything good about it Then you're a faggot and I hate you and just I don't want to deal with that like people that like books are generally a lot more chill and so Well, no, that's it people who like books are a lot more chill and so I just want to stick to that Will you make videos about writing tips and stuff like that? Nope I feel like there's people who are already doing that and they're already doing it way better than I ever could I mean, I don't think that I have much to add Maybe I have something to add one day, but as it stands like I'm still trying to hone my own writing and trying to figure out What works best for me? So Yeah, probably not. What series are in your plans to roast their world building? Well, I already mentioned blood rose rebellion But beyond that I actually don't have anything planned out I I don't know if that's a good idea or not to have Nothing planned out, but but that's where I am Would you ever consider examining peculiar cases of world building outside of books? So I already sort of answered this and Probably not unless it's somehow connected to books in in some way like if the expanse TV show decides to change up the world From what the books are I might talk about that for example, but beyond that No, probably not. Are you into vexillology or heraldry? If so, could you do a video about these topics in fictional worlds? I'm not really into those. No, I've seen one or two videos about that sort of thing on YouTube And I guess I see the appeal of it, but I'm just it's not something that interests me Can you describe a good realistic fantasy Lord of the Rings style world? Well, it depends on how realistic you're going for but if you really want something with like medieval-level technology and all and you know kings and orcs and elves and all that then The biggest thing I would say is that Religion should play a pretty big role in day-to-day life at that point in time because if you look at Most societies around the world from that time period Religion did play a much bigger role in their lives than it does for us today Not that it consumed everything and obviously some people are gonna take it a lot more seriously than others but as a whole religion was a much bigger deal and You know, I could probably go into a lot more detail about that sort of thing But I think just that one aspect of the world if you Really put that in there and really hammer it in I think that would make it stand out and make it be a lot more realistic than most fantasy worlds that's about everything though, so Thanks a bunch for putting all these comments down and I gotta get to editing this video and uploading it So I can get to it quickly. If I missed your question. I'm I'm sorry I didn't have time to answer all of them and like I said, some of them were you know combined together and Thanks a whole bunch for watching. I'll see you later