One crisis at a time, please

Typical Disney-style story of a kingdom with an anxious new ruler whose inherited chief advisor has a goatee, dresses in black and red, smirks a lot and keeps a snake as a pet.

Add-on to this idea: the ruler and the advisor have some elaborate code speak based on like gardening or knitting or something (because chess would be too obvious) to secretly keep each other up to date on ongoing plots. When the advisor slips up at one point, and is kidnapped and replaced with an impostor, this is what alarms the ruler to that the rescue ninja need to be sent out.

Both Tumblr and Pinterest are desperately trying to sell me some audiobook app, and the ad just goes on and on and on and on. It's kinda fascinating and not appealing in the least. Some AI-made movie with a Cinderella knockoff with a girl with a comically evil family. It's not even consistent between the ad versions. She has to wear a mask due to her scarred face. And that happened because she got pushed into a river and attacked by the every dangerous river shark. No wait, it's because a herd of bulls were intentionally released and chased her. NO! WAIT! It's because her evil sister cut her face with a ring!

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At the end of the day, Twilight was sloppy, but it was human made slop, and that makes it inherently better than AI, lol.

True, even human stupidity is far superior to AI slop.

Both Tumblr and Pinterest are desperately trying to sell me some audiobook app, and the ad just goes on and on and on and on. It's kinda fascinating and not appealing in the least. Some AI-made movie with a Cinderella knockoff with a girl with a comically evil family. It's not even consistent between the ad versions. She has to wear a mask due to her scarred face. And that happened because she got pushed into a river and attacked by the every dangerous river shark. No wait, it's because a herd of bulls were intentionally released and chased her. NO! WAIT! It's because her evil sister cut her face with a ring!

100% enjoy you describing it

Why thank you my dear <3

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Typical Disney-style story of a kingdom with an anxious new ruler whose inherited chief advisor has a goatee, dresses in black and red, smirks a lot and keeps a snake as a pet.

Add-on to this idea: the ruler and the advisor have some elaborate code speak based on like gardening or knitting or something (because chess would be too obvious) to secretly keep each other up to date on ongoing plots. When the advisor slips up at one point, and is kidnapped and replaced with an impostor, this is what alarms the ruler to that the rescue ninja need to be sent out.

Typical Disney-style story of a kingdom with an anxious new ruler whose inherited chief advisor has a goatee, dresses in black and red, smirks a lot and keeps a snake as a pet.

Add-on to this idea: the ruler and the advisor have some elaborate code speak based on like gardening or knitting or something (because chess would be too obvious) to secretly keep each other up to date on ongoing plots. When the advisor slips up at one point, and is kidnapped and replaced with an impostor, this is what alarms the ruler to that the rescue ninja need to be sent out.

The book series comes in two parallell parts - one following the ruler and their plucky friends having teenage adventures (rated T) and the other one following the advisor working though the shadowy, far more dangerous and scandalous plot (rated R) as he shields the ruler and co from real danger. And also gets to have so much rowdy fun.

Official Lore: The rescue ninja were recruited by the ruler's bestie, who is from the Sakura Empire and will in a later part of the book series attempt to aid the revolution against the emperor. Which makes the advisor crack his knuckles and go "Ooh, deLIGHTful, my dear!"

Is the third series in the saga (the one that reveals that the Ruler’s mother is not in fact dead, but was kidnapped and was leading an army against the Brass Conclave in the far North) any good? I heard that the Queen can be poorly written, considering she’s leading the Snow Pirates, the Gnosens, and the Sybrique against the Brass Legions.

Well, I found it pretty good but it IS very different from the first two parts in the series. It has more callbacks to the first series with the heavier emphasis on action adventure (with all the swashbuckling) than the advisor's series. However, it focuses a lot on the psychological repercussions on the Queen from her kidnapping and separation from her young child, and sadly that's not handled very well in some parts. The author should have done more research or consulted more than one psychologist. The balance between that and the fantastical elements could be quite jarring too.

Typical Disney-style story of a kingdom with an anxious new ruler whose inherited chief advisor has a goatee, dresses in black and red, smirks a lot and keeps a snake as a pet.

Add-on to this idea: the ruler and the advisor have some elaborate code speak based on like gardening or knitting or something (because chess would be too obvious) to secretly keep each other up to date on ongoing plots. When the advisor slips up at one point, and is kidnapped and replaced with an impostor, this is what alarms the ruler to that the rescue ninja need to be sent out.

The book series comes in two parallell parts - one following the ruler and their plucky friends having teenage adventures (rated T) and the other one following the advisor working though the shadowy, far more dangerous and scandalous plot (rated R) as he shields the ruler and co from real danger. And also gets to have so much rowdy fun.

Official Lore: The rescue ninja were recruited by the ruler's bestie, who is from the Sakura Empire and will in a later part of the book series attempt to aid the revolution against the emperor. Which makes the advisor crack his knuckles and go "Ooh, deLIGHTful, my dear!"

Typical Disney-style story of a kingdom with an anxious new ruler whose inherited chief advisor has a goatee, dresses in black and red, smirks a lot and keeps a snake as a pet.

Add-on to this idea: the ruler and the advisor have some elaborate code speak based on like gardening or knitting or something (because chess would be too obvious) to secretly keep each other up to date on ongoing plots. When the advisor slips up at one point, and is kidnapped and replaced with an impostor, this is what alarms the ruler to that the rescue ninja need to be sent out.

…Why does he have rescue ninja? Are they loaned over from the Sakura Empire?

The rescue ninja were recruited by the ruler's bestie, who is from the Sakura Empire and will in a later part of the book series attempt to aid the revolution against the emperor. Which makes the advisor crack his knuckles and go "Ooh, deLIGHTful, my dear!"