J. Lee Smrz

Author of fantasy and sci-fi, including the upcoming superhero novel, The Amazing Captain Casual. My Website

[weepycat]

peak fantasy environment designs:

floaty islands

glowing mushrooms

bigger versions of normal animals

animalistic dragons

deep, sentient forests

sky/space whales

[noseforahtwo]

[podcasts-collected]

Good topic, I like it! So I made you a short but highly recommendable list of

Podcasts About Superheroes and/or Villains

Audio Diary of A Superhero

While I haven’t listened to that myself, my podcast co-host Jason loves it and talks about it whenever he can. So it must be really good!

The Bright Sessions

While not necessarily about Superheroes, it is about young people with superpowers. And their therapist. And her brother. And a villain. Who maybe is not a villain. And an evil cooperation. And stuff.

How to Succeed in Evil

A parody of the superhero genre, about a freelance advisor for supervillains. The podcast has the “rough” version of the story. And there is a more polished version available as an audiobook available!

And if you want something non-fiction, aka people discussing superheroes, check out:

Fat Man on Batman

By and with Kevin Smith

Hope you find something you like,

Love Love Peace Peace Elisabeth

[politicsprose]

Love Letters From Your Writing (via Electric Lit)

[rrayguntomyhead]

I’m dying omffffffg X’D

[cheshireelims]

After watching @jleesmrz work on this for over 3 years, I finally get to read her book. Congrats on your first published book, and I’m super excited to have a copy to keep. #TheAmazingCaptainCasual 📖❇

It can be purchased here on Amazon for either eBook or print copy!

[jhoomwrites]

@ other writers: how the hell do you write short things????

[ltleflrt]

I think it involves blood magic.

[kristsune]

@ other writers: How in the hell do you write long things????

[ltleflrt]

It definitely involves blood magic.

[bluegrasshole]

@ writers: how in the hell do you write

[hopepunkbutch]

its blood magic all the way down

[thats-what-sidhe-said]

@ writers: How do you learn blood magic?

[dykemaclachlan]

it definitely involves writing

[terrypratchettparadise]

An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

Terry Pratchett - Night Watch (via terrypratchettparadise)

[jleesmrz]

Fanart!

So I have some amazing friends who for my birthday gifted me with awesome tACC fanart and it deserves to be shared with the world

[overlymetaromantic]

it’s my friend Jenn’s birthday!!! so I doodled out one of my favorite scenes from her book The Amazing Captain Casual for her, because I am self-indulgent like that lmao. if anyone is interested in reading more, you can check out a preview of the first chapter here, or you can get the whole thing here if you’d like!

[jleesmrz]

Look at those adorable expressions!!! <3

[jleesmrz]

The Amazing Captain Casual is finally out!!! It’s a YA adventure with superheroes and comedy and all sorts of fun characters, so if this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please feel free to check it out! 

Amazon

Goodreads

DASTARDLY DANGER! MALICIOUS ROBOTS! SUPERHEROES THAT TRIP OVER THEIR OWN TWO FEET! This book has it all, and MORE! Join the Amazing Captain Casual and friends on their thrilling first adventure! IN THIS ISSUE: Will Archer and Cole Stephenson have two things in common: they attend the same high school, and they both have after school jobs. However, where Cole works in construction, cleaning up messes caused by Supers and trying to raise money for college, Will has been fighting crime under the guise of his alter-ego, the amazing Captain Casual! So when their worlds collide in an explosive fashion, the question becomes: can these two put aside their differences to form a new iconic duo, or is betrayal inevitable? Who knows, perhaps neither will happen and they’ll instead simply part ways, neither friends nor enemies, just awkward acquaintances people sometimes have. This is a superhero novel, though, so probably not. Read on to find the answer in, THE AMAZING CAPTAIN CASUAL! FEATURING: - Will Archer, aka Captain Casual: Our hero! A well-meaning southern boy who’s just trying his best to make the world a better place (and honestly not doing too great)! - Cole Stephenson, aka General Buzzkill: Civilian, student, and former employee for the City Reconstruction Corporation who would like nothing more than to be left alone. - Zettabyte, aka ????: Captain Casual’s arch-nemesis. A mysterious figure whose hobbies may or may not include creating various mechanoid animals, eating Pocky, and manipulating the minds of weak men. - Dev and Alex, aka Dev and Alex: Two petty crooks who really should’ve moved to California a long time ago. 

[allichima-draws]

What will you do, hero? Come and fight me and never see your sidekick again or save him and let the city be destroyed?

The Amazing Captain Casual is officially out for the public! You can read it on ebooks and Amazon, or you can buy your very own hard copy in the near future. Check it out today!

[jleesmrz]

So awesome!!!! <3 

[jleesmrz]

The Amazing Captain Casual is finally here!!!

Feel free to check it out! 

[writers-hq]

[starlightervarda]

ANY TIME SOMEONE SHAMES YOU FOR WRITING FANFICTION

REMEMBER THAT THIS

IS FANFICTION OF THIS

THIS 

IS FANFICTION OF THIS

THIS

IS FANFICTION OF THIS and Plato’s Ring of Gyges

AND THIS

A MODERN AU OC-CENTRIC VERSION OF THIS

EVERYTHING IS FANFICTION OF SOMETHING, WE ONLY CARE THAT IT’S GOOD AND MAKES US HAPPY

[petermorwood]

The trick about fic is the individual spin each writer puts on the material. Different writer = different spin. Take five writers, give the all the same legend, ask for a 5000 word short story and you’ll get five different legends.

Sometimes six. Because writers are sneaky.

[folly-of-alexandria]

Dante’s Divine Comedy is fanfiction of the bible.

[nikanono]

***self insert fanfiction of the Bible

[jleesmrz]

The Amazing Captain Casual: Preview

I am happy to present, for your reading pleasure, the first chapter to The Amazing Captain Casual. The full book shall be available for purchase September 9th on Amazon, until then, please enjoy th…

Check out the first chapter in my upcoming book, The Amazing Captain Casual!

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

[rk8con]

[suspendnodisbelief]

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

[classicfern]

Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

[xjayju]

That’s pretty cool

[dajo42]

[becomes supervillain] [spends the entire time giving subtle set-ups to cool lines the hero could say]

[whyequalsemexplusbee]

[Superhero is oblivious to set ups] [make their own one liners] [enrages supervillain]

[dajo42]

me: haha! i’m sure you’ll find this 10000 volt electric blast… hero: volt-y interesting! me: what????? what the f u ck ?????? you’re supposed to say shocking what the fFUCK was that

[dracosplayground]

@editorincreeps