Why Larna Versus the Lifepires loves the game Full Metal Furies

 

Full Metal Furies is developed by Cellar Door Games, creator of Rogue Legacy. This is an indie beat'em up with action RPG elements. You play a team of warrior women with weaponry that would make steam punks drool. This is a fun romp that mixes World War 2 aesthetics with Greek mythos. It is difficult to progress, but once you level up your fighter, you will start smashing through levels with great satisfaction.

If Larna Versus the Lifepires could be summed up in a game it would be Full Metal Furies. Larna would absolutely jump at the chance to join the furies and fight evil titans. She is a trained crime fighter who uses tonfa sticks to bruise the shins of evildoers. She also has experience fighting monsters that want to hurt her friends. Full Metal Furies is all about the power of team work and survival to progress against enemy occupied territories. Larna would be honored to fight alongside the near-sighted sniper, the friendly fighter, the boxy tank, and the ovally engineer, using their combos, super abilities, and wits to trounce mechanical bulls.

Larna Temple is married to justice and she is a very faithful partner, making sure the streets of Shawdia are safe. She would find no better activity on a Friday night than to dress up as Thunderfly and take down a gang. When the art thieves are making a move on the famous macaroni sculptures of Greek gods, she is one step ahead of them.

Full Metal Furies is a great adventure that brings imagination and button bashing thumbs together. If you like Castle Crashers or any action rpg that encourages stat building, you will definitely love this.

You can also read about the latest adventure of Larna Temple in Larna Temple Versus the Lifepires. She must fight her newest foe, the Lifepires, before they take over Shawdia with their lethal dieting routine.

Twenty plot ideas for female protagonists (that are not stereotypes)

 

Some readers groan at the thought of a female protagonist in a book (especially if it is written by a man). The female is either "too self-assured and successful" or a "total boy chaser." I am here to spread some new life into female characters. These ideas may be too wild, but they are great starting points for worthy female protagonists.

1. A weight lifting champion who is very sensitive emotionally
2. She vows not to get married until she kills her first dragon
3. A romantiphobic who gets physically ill at the sight of roses
4. A CIA agent with a knack for puzzle solving, but hates guns and bloodshed
5. A homeless woman that convinces everyone she is a Hollywood starlet
6. Single mother to four children, as powerful as Superman
7. An corporate boss lady who loves destroying forests for mini malls
8. An ex-pro wrestler named Hulketta who is trying to settle down with a sensitive man
9. A miraculous brain surgeon that is blind
10. A cat lady who has trapped all her exes into her cats
11. She's a giant that lives in the forest. Men are intimidated by her and women talk behind her back.
12. A trafficked American who was raised in the ways of ninjitsu. She kills for honor.
13. A Navy Seal who loses her son to a gang. Now she is going to find them and kill them.
14. A pastor's wife with an unhealthy love for her D&D character Scarlet the Frost Witch.
15. The world's best Poker player. Uses her skills to get millions away from evil men.
16. An elf princess that was transported from her fantasy world. She cosplays as a geek.
17. The head of a wolfpack, trying to find the deer who killed her husband
18. She conned her way into becoming Vice President of Electronic Arts, but she has never played a video game
19. A World War 2 tank driver leading a team of mercenary women through Germany
20. A crime fighter who fights fitness vampires that capture people they think are too fat

I hope this list gives you inspiration. Never settle for Hollywood's tropes (for anyone). If you like this list please head over to my new book Larna Versus The Lifepires and check out a female protagonist that I think is hilarious and cool: https://www.amazon.com/Larna-Versus-Lifepires-Fitness-Vampire-ebook/dp/B0CM57ZLKV/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=larna+versus&sr=8-1

You can check out more of my ideas on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mini_stories_with_mike/

Kindle Unlimited is introducing unsolicited smut to comic book fans

 

Hello Folks,

Part of being an author and a minister for young adults is you get to recommend media that lifts people up and discourage media that hurts people. It is my passion to set you up for success spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.

Today, I have to speak out against something dangerous and reckless that manga writers are doing on the Kindle Unlimited platform. Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service that allows a reader to have unlimited comics, audio books, novels, and self-help books in a massive library. Any author that uploads their work on the program is added to Kindle Unlimited. You can even read Larna Versus The Lifepires through this service.

But sadly, I cannot recommend Kindle Unlimited if you are a fan of manga or comics. For the uninitiated, manga are comic books that originate from Japan, but the US, South Korea, and China have made them too. They vary in genre from romance, sci-fi, and action. It is wildly popular for adults and teenagers.

Recently Kindle Unlimited has made a very dangerous error. Certain artists are learning that the fastest way to a man's wallet is through his hormones. They upload comic books that are erotic and sexually charged. The covers of these books depict bare chested women with very little censorship over their exposed bodies. Some of these novels depict rape and incest fantasies as well. Other artists, who do not even draw, are using AI image creators to make photo books of lifelike nude Asian women. 

Normally, I would just advise you to avoid it, but Kindle Unlimited has made this impossible. A simple browse in the manga category places these erotic books on page 1 of the search (the photo above depicts page 1 of a manga search). There are no NSFW setting or a proof of age warning, it just sits next to other harmless manga offerings. I experimented with this under different browsers and log-ins and found the same results. Anyone, adult or child, will see these erotic drawings when searching. If a teenager is looking for the Disney Lilo and Stitch manga they need to pass at least three erotic adult graphic novels to get it. If a tween wants to get into the age appropriate Bakugan series, they need to skim past a few adult novels that promise sexual promiscuity. If a man who is battling a porn addiction wants to read a Power Rangers graphic novel, he has to be tempted by these books.

A simple browse in the manga category places these erotic books on page 1 of the search (the photo above depicts page 1 of a manga search)

To make matters worse, the graphic novels come with free samples that can be accessed through the Kindle app or the website. The listing even gives new recommendations of other prurient novels for reading. You don't even need a Kindle Unlimited subscription to experience them. No proof of age or account sign-in is asked for. Imagine if Netflix put hardcore adult videos in their romcom section. That is what Kindle Unlimited is doing.

This is reckless. The Kindle platform already has shady dealings with people who get AI to write nonsensical books and publish it under popular author names, but this adds a whole new level of unhealthy behavior. I will tell any young adult man or parent to treat this service like the plague.

Imagine if Netflix put hardcore adult videos in their romcom section.

There have been instances where digital book subscriptions have put adult reading material in someone's search algorithm. I had to get rid of my Scribd account because of this. But this new aggressive tactic from Kindle Unlimited is for anyone who hits the search button on manga.

We need to open up a conversation about what self-publishers should be allowed to put on Amazon's platform. It gives artists an amazing way to share their ideas but, anyone can post a dangerous idea and their work will show up in the hands of a minor.

Buy books in paperback or digital instead of using this service. If you want a decent comic book subscription service you should use DC Infinite Universe or Marvel Unlimited. Kobo, the competitor to Kindle, has a reading subscription that is slowly getting better. A free subscription to Hoopla is my go to choice for getting digital indie comics and manga.

 I make it my mission to warn everyone on manipulative sexual fantasy publishers that have no accountability and thrive on greed. Kindle Unlimited needs to divorce themselves from this or suffer the consequences from irate parents and wise readers.