On Writing: Civil War + COVER REVEAL [Capt. America l Avatar l Russia ] 

WHEN WILL U MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE WHOLE STORY OF TOM CLANCY'S THE DIVISION 2?!

I love the cover! I noticed under the title it said Volume 1. Are there more than one?

Have you written any novels?

The book looks absolutely amazing and super useful! Will the paperback be available on other sites than amazon at a later date? Would prefer to buy it from a local booksite since the shipping to my country when using amazon tends to be way too expensive + I would have to pay import fees T.T

Yo! That cover is sick! Hits me right in the fantasy loving feels! I feel like such a nerd when I come here and it's thrilling. Edit: This sucks. Just lost my card. When I get a chance, I'm buying that book. Gimme.

fucking based, holy shit

MCU Cap just wanted his Bucky back. 616 Cap had more substantive reasons for opposing registration.

Not inaccurate tho.

I mean, id disagree. In the MCU at least. Sure cap is talking about being held accountable themselves rather than to the government, but he also doesn’t offer any idea what that means It is arguable that, at the start of the movie, his negligence caused the deaths of a whole lot of civilians But he’s not exactly offering any suggestions to take account for that. Let me be clear. The idea the government running the heroes wouldn’t cause problems isn’t silly. But at least it creates accountability. But what happens if cap keeps fucking up? What can be done to actually change things if the heroes keep getting people killed? (Now, not saying they’re responsible for everyone they fail to save, but the inciting incident of the movie makes decently clear things go down bad due to the haste of the heroes leaving gaps for shit to go south that a more measured approach may have stopped) In the comics it’s Cap all the way, partly due to the zero tolerance methods of the iron man side, but in the movies? I always saw cap as kinda just being dismissive of the idea that anyone should tell him what to do.

@@urieldaluz250 I want to start by saying that I'm Team Cap, because the government shouldn't own our good deeds or regulate heroism. With that said... Weakening Cap's stance may be a feature of the movie. If the writers and director made the choice of who to side with more clear, there wouldn't be a "civil war" among the audience. That was the point of the movie, not encouraging American freedom.

Russia has the best OST and fan OST ever, bet it could blow over Touhou by fan creation number any day

Essex Class IKR have you seen the fanart of Russia

Trashcan with trash This just made me realize that, knowing the Internet, there’s probably porn of Stalin somewhere.

iKarith “Reality is stranger than fiction”

In soviet Russia fanfics write you Сука блять, ебучие фанфики.

I wonder can the author just write about me winning billion in a lottery

Ah yes my favorite villain arc 'the soviet union'

Is Zuko the protagonist though?

Touche

@@neckpunch73 In my opinion... YES (Just kidding but he definetly is the 2nd main character

The issue is that zuko is an exception...not the rule

@@stevenirizarry1304 always

Technically the Final Episode was a Fire Nation Civil War (Zuko fighting azula and Iroh Liberating (hah, irony) Ba Sing Se)

Ikr!!! 😂😂😂

I didn’t see civi war, witch side was cap?

@@arrow_awsome The right side...

Cap thought that they should continue to send superhuman weapons into countries without permission and cause millions of collateral damage without sanction. I mean, he’s Captain AMERICA, meaning everything he does represents America, so him leading the charge into random countries, completely surprising them, is going to give the Land of the Free a bad image.

I sides with iron Man just 'cause of Spiderman. No regrets.

Kevin MacCloud, he is amazing. Everything is usable with credit.

Man, I never really get to see the Chaos/Imperial conflict as a civil war, maybe in the Horus Heresy, but onward looks more like an "us vs them" war. I never heard of a Chaos vs Empire story that involves good friends fighting with each other that DOESN'T take place before or during the Seige of Terra.

@@untitleduck9623 First Black Crusade Plague War m42 Kabanda helping the Blood Angels out of wanting to settle the score from Terra fairly. Abaddon's very specific on how the 13th Black Crusade is one where "The Emperor's Angels" return. There's also how "Death to the false Emperor" is still a warcry

@@untitleduck9623 Also, if the Us vs Them mentality disqualifies a conflict from being a civil war then what's the Spanish Civil War? To this day an Us vs Them mentality exists among their old lines.

I thought on the same book, though I didn't yet read it.

@@chaotik7853 AAAAAAH!!1!!1

I think the consensus was "over-rated"... OR maybe we were just practicing on that one as a "dry run" in full costume and with all the pomp and judications of course... Maybe in two or three more WW's, we'll actually get good at it! ;o)

They also called it "The War to End All Wars". That wasn't true either.

It was a great war. Everyone tells me so. *Plays invisible acordian*

"Great" meant "big" as in world wide.

It was a little half-baked. WWII was so feature-rich that it made WWI look like a beta test.

Thank you so much! ~ Tim

Thank youuu! ~ Tim

I'd guess that as he does more on-writing videos, he'll slowly compile those into future volumes. It said here that everything up to his 'hidden worlds' video will be in this book, so I'd guess that everything since then, and probably further, would be included in volume two.

That is correct, *Admiral* Nekokuza ;) 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Nah, that character should simply eat cake. Problem solved, no story. ;)

Just trying to offer a view "from the outside in"(?) to help you maybe see a few directions worth exploring... (side note) As a GM, I rarely get to "hand-wave" very much as my Players tend to ask questions before they "dive headlong" into a campaign... so there's that. Consider the segment (vid' reference) about socio-economics... With your story about an Imperial setting, I'm thinking in reference to Rome. Expanding an empire "done skillfully" can render nearly immediate returns (looting, for instance)... BUT wars are expensive investments... SO it's obviously very easy to over-invest. (for books, consider "The Art of War" or "The Prince"... and you might want study partners, or someone to help discuss the points as you go) Rather than necessarily target "Racial Tensions" for second-hand citizens from a "middle of the plot"... I'd suggest you begin with the simpler question, "After a conquest, what do you do with surviving 'enemy citizens'?" Rome often encouraged "Slaves" but (in the earlier eras) this was tempered with a "prescribed path to Roman Citizenship"... or rather, several of them, depending on the details. AND what went "bad" or turned from "bad to worse" over those matters was more about the growing numbers of "not so Roman" citizens of Rome... This led to ever growing legislation and prescriptions about those paths to citizenship, making things steadily harder and more exploitative to the "slave classes" without totally cutting them off. You can see a similar set of factions arguing in the U.S. today. Some are convinced that foreigners are coming to saturate the employment market, working cheap, and there are accusations of tax evasions all around for hiring immigrants... While some are equally convinced that the U.S. has always made it a strength for letting just about anyone into the country and giving a path to citizenship with just the effort to learn the law, some history, and enough English to get around... It's probably not a very new argument. SO you've already got the possibility that either incompetence, miscalculations, or miscommunications have pushed the Empire's funding to its limits... trying to expand in poor choices and over-spending on this "conquest machine". Obviously political factions will start harboring accusations of lunacy and corruption for an Emperor who protects Generals who can't lead their way through battle without hopeless losses that can't be recovered in short terms... WHILE others are equally "correct" to point out that as an Empire expands, it's conquests get larger, and larger campaigns are simply more expensive. You've got a burgeoning expansion of citizenry, whether of the ruling class/race or not... AND whether you call them "slaves" for their induction to society, or you propose an "indentured servitude" to learn the local language and culture, apprentice for a trade, and build their citizenship foundations... um... exploitation feels like exploitation to most. SO there's going to be some bruised egoes and feelings. Obviously, social factions are going to creep into trends. Some believing that the land is rightfully earned under "trials by combat" and blessed by the gods, so it's righteous to indenture their looted slaves... for a time... Some might even go so far as to point out that if these "enslaved peoples" were so worthy, they'd have won against the Empire and kept their lands. (victors and spoils... etc.) Others will view the whole ideal as more and more about greed and egregious violations, depending on how often and horrible you wish to color your enslaving types... and don't sweat too much which side you WANT to be "right". Just be careful about how you distinguish it in the details... and if you color some faction as "bad" even generally, you shouldn't hesitate to give even a rare glimpse into just how truly awful it can be, with nobody "so much as batting an eye" about it. ;o)

You have a laptop? A smartphone? You've got kindle.

gnarth d'arkanen all that is well and good, but none of it is relevant to the kingdom of my setting. It isn’t a conquering empire, hasn’t enslaved the halflings and dwarves in any capacity, they have rights of citizens, and it’s dominant ruling class IS a particular race. I suppose it doesn’t HAVE to be this way. But it doesn’t have to be any particular way, and I don’t feel like completely rewriting what I’ve got to match a different arbitrary model. I’d like to focus on reasons the dwarves and halflings of my setting rebelled against this kingdom as I wrote the kingdom to be.

@@twi3031, here's your problem then. This empire of yours seemingly uninterestingly expanded its way out, adopted the halflings and dwarves and GAVE them instant rights as citizens. The ruling race apparently doesn't care that they've raised this empire and "earned their stripes" as it were to rule, so giving away full citizenship including all amenities and capacities to whoever is now suddenly part of their domain, regardless of what might or might not be added to the empire from them. 1. Economically speaking, it simply doesn't work that way. This is why we study historical empires to be able to write compelling stories about fantastical ones. 2. It's going flat because you've simply written out anything "negative" about empire building, and that's not going to float either... EVERYTHING has a benefits-versus-deficits list. Okay, so I don't "KNOW" whatever it is that functionally constructs or propels your personal empire... That's probably because I haven't bothered to steal the idea myself, or maybe you didn't share it... to begin with, leaving me kind of blindly shooting in the dark. Empires are built as monumentally huge economic tools. Emperors use taxes they levy across larger and larger swaths of land to invest in things to stabilize the Empire's internal structures... those pesky things like roads and bridges, or passes full of bandits that need occasionally exterminated so businesses can consistently grow. In turn, the businesses find a wealth of stable environment to GROW, and build more wealth, from which more taxes can be garnished for the Emperor and his/her epic planning and engineering... That's the ideal trade-off. AND historically (on Earth anyway) it's generally a direct function of military CONQUEST, but if you want some other fashionable method, by all means ENGINEER THE THING! Just don't bitch at me for going historical because without YOUR input, I got nothing else to insert for supposition. In ANY case, there's got to be some underlying difference between the ruling Race and the "adopted"(?) races inherent to their rights, class, or something. Otherwise, you've just flatly constructed a Utopian dream and nothing's going to happen... It either doesn't make sense, or there's no point. ;o)

@@DrawbackDrawback A PC also does the trick. There's a free Kindle app, Twi. Downloadable on Amazon.

He had a whole series about worldbuilding a while ago

Lol

The e-book should be available worldwide. I regularly buy US e-books via German Amazon.

Johanna Geisel thanks

This would be so helpful. Please Tim!!!

I’m ASOIAF the Starks are in no way exceptionally rich... they are an ancient house, but there’s no particular resource that causes the Stark lands to produce a super large income. Maybe the Manderlys have money... far more than the starks.

Cool!

The audiobook is just watching a playlist of these videos ;)

So happy to hear that! ~ Tim