also if you're worried about "cringe" then dude you need to hear about how Jim Butcher came up with the Codex Alera series. (TL;DR: no such thing as cringe when writing fiction.)
@LexYeen @artemis@vulpine.club @tillianisafox how did he? we've read that series and found it enjoyable (though that was over a decade ago so if it has some Problems that would have been before we knew enough to notice them) -F
@LexYeen@Felthry@artemis i mean hunger games was born because suzanna collins was watching tv and some kind of game show was on, and then she switched the channel and there was a war documentary or smth. and she tied the two concepts together
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@Felthry @artemis @tillianisafox TL;DR: Someone challenged Jim to mash up the concepts of "Pokemon" and "lost roman legion."