a good start. The innuendo gets a bit awkward a few times, especially for a child MC. but other than that, it's an interesting take on a showbiz story.

calling it. fanboy is tarantino?

sorry if my criticism was harsh. Just felt it could have been written better. The problem with an MC making an original film, if it's a combination of 2 movies like Joker and dark Knight, but their background doesn't mesh well in the plot, it just becomes a mess. His descent into Joker became rushed and confusing. His lost hope besides the miraculous benefactor Spector insert, the improvised dialogue felt out of place or a bit cringe in the scenes of the last 2 chapters, and I don’t understand the motivations of Joker here nor did his whole moral quandary about the hospital, I assume it was meant to be like Batman with choosing who to save? Instead, he has a choice of killing himself, a whole hospital of innocents, and Joker. Or killing nobody. Not a hard choice

Of course he did... It wasn't a choice of killing Joker but an entire hospital with innocent people? why would he

So he goes around ruining peoples lives who believed in his better nature? Why did he become Joker then? was the waste radioactive and changed him like a comic book character?

This is the part I really dislike. The audience in the fic are all hyping up the top tier plot of the joker here, but the changes to Arthur fleck-Joker made their praise incongruous. Because it makes little sense at all, if they were impressed with the plot of a borrowed plot line like the dark Knight then that makes sense. But these changes with Lotus foundation, Arthur fleck becoming Joker and then killing a nurse, his mum surviving but not? His change into Joker makes no sense if he has hope in his life. In a previous chapter where you had angelinas POV of the scene from dark Knight. her awed reaction makes sense. but it didn't in this hospital sequence.

it's not that strange. it is a learned skill anyone can do. It's not like he'd get undue attention from people knowing about it

I don't know, man. This makes no sense.

there's been a lot of expansive romance chapters for a while now. Felt like we'd never get to the start of his next movie. A few paragraphs of highlights for the date, fine. but another long dating chapter and wait for plot progression beyond various background happenings. "This just published, or this IP was acquired." Things were approaching a stand still on the Hollywood movie side of things pace-wise

how much is it and what's your name on there? links don't work

Nice to see the pace is becoming more reasonable with the new projects starting. Few authors keep their muse for several years to a decade of writing, but I hope to see this story continue on past Knives out now that you've laid the groundwork with so many moving parts :) Just hoping it doesn't get too bogged down in the details going forward with Mark taking on so much and with so many with many characters to include in his kingdom building, plus the Harem stuff. I've seen this in many harem stories where there's more than 2-3 girls. The Harem parts become the focus, so they're not just HaremWifey number 5, and the main plot falls by the wayside. Or the other way around.

Good to have you back author. hope life treated you well

Cooking over apple wood... Low and slow. Good foresight haha

30 years later there would be a dozen pinhole cameras there and maybe a see through mirror as well

i think this is an unrealistic way of making money in time travel. This world is different so the timing of events should be too, same with the economy. The author can ofc make it so things happen in a convenient way. But say you went back in time and managed to buy 5+% of a company like Amazon or Google. Maybe another investor who wanted that stake in the company in your timeline doesn't join now, and their resources don't make the Company prosper as they did. They may even find a competitor in the same market that can sell the share they wanted from your invested company

I don't know much about stunts and such, but wasn't there an East Asian director who made a big difference in the fight scenes in hollywood in the late 90s or early 2000s? I think some other HW fics have included him. he brought over the style from Hong Kong, I think.

I don't know, do they hire children?

He'll check amazon 15 minutes later and see "Superiornerd autograph, 1# of a kind! 250$"