I wrote a book.

I kind of feel scummy doing this, but I'm desperate. I'm up to my armpits in debt and only because I have a few lifelines to hold on to to keep from going under.

I took a year off working to invest my time and energy into becoming a writer, and now I look to profit. I have GoFundMe for 12k. Which seems like a lot, I know, but that would support me for a full year, and maybe even more. (links for everything at the bottom.)

But you don't have to support me financially if you can't, or just don't want to. You can support me by just consuming my work. I went as far as to make an audiobook to make reading my book as easy as just pressing play, but YouTube doesn't seem to like it and so here I am asking for help.

In short, you can help by the following:

• direct donation
• watching/listening to my audiobook on YouTube
• liking my audiobook on YouTube
• commenting on my audiobook(even simple stuff like "I like it" helps with the algorithm, but critics and feedback are so welcomed)
• subscribing to my channel(this is a big ask of me, but it is an option)
• review and rating my book on Royal Road
• following and favoriting my book on Royal Road
• sharing my work with others (this is honestly the biggest thing you could do to help, including just rehosting this)
• let me know about places where I could share my work

My book is called World of Demi-Humans: Freshmen Orientation.
It's about a class of beings known as "Demi-Humans"; Individuals who retain the full right of personhood, but are not simple mundane humans nor beings of Otherside; going through their first term at high school. Class J09 has 28 students, each unique. From the large, kindhearted demi-titan Benjamin "Brick" Butler, to the hot-headed, teenage lighting god Quetzalcoatl "Kevin" Zapotec, to even the shy, timid mutant girl Jennifer Knight whose only power is to shift her vision across the infinite spectrum.

I want my work to be a reflection of the real world while also showing ideal possibilities and also also just being a cool and fun world to play around in. I've had it compared to Naruto to My Hero Academia. So if you, or someone know, are a fan of such then I ask you to share it.

I worked super on the writing, the recording, and now the audio editing for the audiobook, all so I could share my passion with others. So I would like to now share:

My Original Work:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/69526/world-of-demi-humans-freshmen-orientation
With Audiobook By Me:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnMvygV92dxvK0teeiCEXeKzc5dExD10j
GoFundMe Campaign:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/37i9mahli0

Anything and everything is appreciated.

One of my writing philosophies is "Small details have the biggest impact." The smaller the detail, the more it affects everything. If by no reason other than it becomes easier to fit in larger details and become a core part of the lore of your world.

One Piece.

In the world of One Piece you can gain power by eating a Devil Fruit, A Big Detail. But you also get power by doing kung fu super good, or having a magic sword, or using cool technology. All big details that viewers can take in and be whatever about. Sure, you can fly by kick REALLY hard.

How does one know their Devil Fruit? Its name and powers? Well, it was generally established that when someone ate a Devil Fruit they instinctively knew. That's why all Df users used the NAME NAME format for their powers, and why nobody ever went with "The Fruit of Ultimate Damnation" as their Devil Fruit name. And We Know that teenagers get their hands on Devil Fruits.

So why did Monkey "Casually drops 'Dragon is my dad' in conversion" Luffy never told anyone he had the "Human Human Fruit Model Nika"? The Human-Human Fruit was the one Tony Tony Chopper ate to become the talking Racoon Dog we know him as. So didn't Luffy say, "Hey, that's my Devil Fruit too." The answer is that the instinctive knowledge seems to have been retconned. Or Luffy "Dragon is my dad" of the Monkey clan managed to care enough about keeping his fruit a secret to do so.

Also, we know the knowledge is instinctive because we were told directly with the Giraffe Giraffe literally being explained to us. Sure, he didn't have full control, but he had an instinctive knowledge of the basics of his fruit powers. Brook didn't know what his fruit was until he ate and knew it was the Revive Revive fruit.

Now everyone know their DF because they read it in a book. Just a random book, with all the Devil Fruits. Except the two that were given to the Giraffe guy and his friend. Everyone just remembers what their fruit looked like and looked it up. You know, in that book that must be super popular for this to be and contain knowledge that the World Government might want to control. Like the Dark Dark fruit that allows you just steal souls, or something, he takes other's DF powers so it kinda up there in the "This should classified" listings.

And yeah, I'm ranting about a super small detail in anime, but small details are a big deal to me, because of how much they can impact a story. And this has a big impact because Devil Fruits are such a big part of the world and knowing how users know their fruit is something that allows viewers to accept the concept and move on to the punchy bits.

Honestly, I feel like One Piece has shifted from its main plot. Remember when Black Beard was built up to be a big villain, maybe The Big Villain? Looking for the One Piece, just like Luffy, to become King of The Pirates. Now we have the Liberation Army and Luffy is the "The Great Liberator", which is just... big sigh whatever, I guess.