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So yesterday, pirateaba wrote 16k words in 4 hours and today wrote 15k in 5 hours. And she posted that her arms feel completely fine and no where near as painful as they used to thanks to pt exercises. Lmao we're totally gonna get 40k word chapters in the near future
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Quality is waaaay down though.
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Mar 7, 2020 23:50
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Affi posted:Quality is waaaay down though. disagree, IMO. vol 7 has been a great uptick in consistency compared to vol 6
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Mar 7, 2020 23:56
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Yeah I like volume 7 a lot compared to volumes 5 and 6, though it's also a lot less depressing which certainly helps.
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Mar 8, 2020 01:34
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The Shortest Path posted:Yeah I like volume 7 a lot compared to volumes 5 and 6, though it's also a lot less depressing which certainly helps. For now...
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Mar 8, 2020 02:36
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A big flaming stink posted:disagree, IMO. It’s mainly these interludes and Flos that I feel lack direction. But the latest patreon one was actually way better.
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Mar 8, 2020 12:28
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TWI: Ant rights right now! But this is a very big bomb going off. In front of plenty of people.
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Mar 8, 2020 13:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0W1v0kOELA
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Mar 8, 2020 14:57
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Tzarnal posted:Katalepsis: 
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Mar 8, 2020 19:48
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It's weird. I love the Wandering Inn, Katalepsis is my favourite story to read, but the story that makes me happiest when I see a new post from it in my RSS app is The Daily Grind.
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Mar 9, 2020 09:52
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Mar 9, 2020 17:28
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Oo Koo posted:It's fanfic, but I've been enjoying But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci recently. This is from a while back but thanks for the recommendation. I don't really know much about DC stuff so it's fun following the links to all the random little references. Without those links I wouldn't know which characters are original and which are replacements.
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Mar 9, 2020 19:49
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I feel like pirateaba has figured out her one true skill is writing awesome denouments so she tries to chain them together as much as possible. This shouldn't work, but it somehow does.
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Mar 9, 2020 19:50
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I am also enjoying Erin slowly realizing how all of her 'harmless' Earth knowledge is actually changing things, and her getting increasingly nervous about it.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:31
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Oh no oh god what if I accidentally tell them about guns! *revolutionises military training across the entire world by introducing weightlifting*
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Mar 9, 2020 21:43
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I think weightlifting is good and guns would be good too actually. Each nation getting guns would mean the balance of power stays roughly the same between countries, but monster attacks would become much less powerful, as monsters generally have little to no society and thus wouldn't benefit. Adult crelers and wyvern attacks would probably be much less of threat with some heavy machine guns and tanks around. Not giving nations guns means you don't have to feel bad as people use them to wage war on each other, sure, but it also means that when a huge wave of monsters comes around, you didn't help them stop it either.
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Mar 9, 2020 23:56
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Magnolia covers it earlier in the story why guns would be bad, her reasoning breaks down to that it would not be equal between all races. Drakes with guns vs Gnolls with guns wouldn't change a lot, but you give guns to the Antium or Goblins? That's a big deal.
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Mar 10, 2020 00:07
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Also the way guns affect war is that the overall balance of power won't be changed much once everyone catches on, sure, but battles become WAY more lethal since larger quantities of troops require much less training to be thrown into the meat grinder.
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Mar 10, 2020 01:19
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The balance of power may not change in the long-term, but it definitely does in the short term. The human lord shows the power of trebuchets and only fails due to a combination of being too clever and the emperor going home.
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Mar 10, 2020 01:33
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I've been enjoying Ward lately. The current conflict is interesting to read, and I like all the character stuff going on. I feel really bad for Byron. Life has really been making GBS threads on that poor guy for a while now. First he suffers some sort of traumatic brain injury (I think?), and then his brother dies. The reappearance of Grue/Brian has also been interesting. One thing I liked is how Cozen was specifically mentioned as having a bigger impact on Brian compared with Taylor. I was expecting his reappearance to be an excuse to talk about Taylor, but it makes perfect sense for Cozen to take up a bigger part of his thoughts. After all, he was with her far longer than he was Taylor - we just never heard about it since we were in Taylor's PoV. Brian also seems to have "suffered" quite a bit from the conversion to a Valkyrie flock member. It seems like it's worse for people who had very distinct cape identities. Kid Win seems to have gotten by better than most due to there not being a big difference between his behavior in and out of costume, but Clockblocker apparently was also pretty distorted due to exaggerating his "wisecracking" attributes since those were more closely tied to his activities/behavior as a cape. I think the idea of having people resurrected as just the "cape" parts of their personality is pretty interesting. It's a good way to bring them back without cheapening their deaths. My enjoyment of the series definitely hinges on the characters at this point. The events/conflicts are fun to read but kind of flow strangely from one to the next, but I feel like the major characters (and even many minor ones) are all very well "realized" and that keeps me invested.
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Mar 10, 2020 06:09
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Cinara posted:Magnolia covers it earlier in the story why guns would be bad, her reasoning breaks down to that it would not be equal between all races. Drakes with guns vs Gnolls with guns wouldn't change a lot, but you give guns to the Antium or Goblins? That's a big deal.
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Mar 10, 2020 07:56
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I have no idea what's going on in Practical Guide right now, but it looks like it's going to be extremely fun.
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Mar 10, 2020 14:55
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Jade Mage posted:I have no idea what's going on in Practical Guide right now, but it looks like it's going to be extremely fun. It's fun meeting these other Named folks. One reveal that confused me a bit is the existence of Autumn/Spring fae people. Was this ever mentioned before? I was under the impression the only fae were Winter/Summer.
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Mar 10, 2020 17:48
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Ytlaya posted:One reveal that confused me a bit is the existence of Autumn/Spring fae people. Was this ever mentioned before? I was under the impression the only fae were Winter/Summer. As far as I can tell, this is one of those things that came up in the time skip that we haven't gotten full details on. Presumably it's related to the "Quartered Seasons" project. Some speculation: Masego mentioned something about proving the existence of Spring in his interlude, which implies they already know of the existence of Autumn. It's possible this knowledge is related to the Twilight Ways somehow. I'm guessing the Autumn and Spring courts have always existed and were just extremely secretive, or they came into existence as a result of Summer and Winter disappearing, or the creating of the Twilight Ways.
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Mar 10, 2020 18:58
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From what I remember the fae lore was that there were always two courts in existence each cycle but they weren't always the same, the worst combination is always summer/winter because they're so opposed. I definitely remember prior mention of the other courts
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Mar 10, 2020 19:36
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Ytlaya posted:It's fun meeting these other Named folks. This was forshadowed in the earlier chapters I think mostly in the bits around the marriage of the summer queen, but I'm not sure. Cat speculates about the creation of autumn/spring courts a few times.
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Mar 10, 2020 19:50
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Ytlaya posted:I've been enjoying Ward lately. The current conflict is interesting to read, and I like all the character stuff going on. I feel really bad for Byron. Life has really been making GBS threads on that poor guy for a while now. First he suffers some sort of traumatic brain injury (I think?), and then his brother dies. I was also weirdly satisfied with Tristan's death. Not that I wanted him to die, but we knew 2 members of Breakthrough would die and if we're lucky it's just those 2 now that things with Contessa have gone properly off the rails. The description of how the cracks followed him was a fascinating visual, and him dying to protect Byron is a nice conclusion to his character arc. Basically I'm enjoying the point we're at now where pieces have slotted into place, we can see how all the little tangents the plot took earlier are relevant, and things are getting satisfying emotional conclusions, even if they're not necessarily happy emotional conclusions. I still don't like the big action scenes a lot but they've at least been interesting action scenes, since the issues this time around are so much more... cerebral. I really appreciate the fact that the Simurgh is only really an issue because of stuff Cauldron did, since Eidelon unintentionally created the Endbringers by pulling them from pre-made templates Eden had worked on. The final struggle being two apocalyptic options presented by Contessa and Simurgh seems to be a deliberate theme of, hey, Cauldron might argue what they did was necessary to save the world, but they also damaged the world severely and might ultimately end up destroying all the Earths. It seems like the conclusion will be some third option that hopefully lets people actually move forward. It also feels a lot less hopeless if you realize that most iterations of Earth are probably fine-ish right now, which kind of makes me laugh. I mean slightly less fine if Kronos is moving around, but there's a sense of the damage being localized in a way that could spiral out of control soon but means things aren't completely hopeless now.
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I've been rereading some PracGuide (I've never gone back and reread any until now) and one thing that stood out to me is that Masego was a lot different earlier, and in some kinda weird ways. If anything, he seems less socially awkward near the beginning and frequently says kinda sarcastic stuff that implies more knowledge about socializing than he shows later. The part where he took the third aspect out of Cat also seems like the moment where he sorta "attached" himself to her (and her group) on a deeper level. Before that he just acts kinda like a smart-rear end who is along for the ride. Also, I've kinda gotten the impression that the whole gnomes thing might have just been some idea the author had and then decided to just ignore later. It seems like the Arsenal should be a concern as far as that is concerned.
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Mar 11, 2020 04:00
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Ytlaya posted:It seems like the Arsenal should be a concern as far as that is concerned. So it's perfectly fine. Stuff like the goblin siege machines are closer to what is a no go, and iirc it was mentioned that they did get an envelope about further development of those.
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Mar 11, 2020 05:53
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The gnomes thing is basically just an in-story justification for it being swords&sorcery fantasy. I never really expected them to be an actual plot element.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:04
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Xemloth posted:From what I remember the fae lore was that there were always two courts in existence each cycle but they weren't always the same, the worst combination is always summer/winter because they're so opposed. I definitely remember prior mention of the other courts yeah when one side wins this [timeframe's] Winter-Summer fight it shifts to Spring and Autumn, which is less of a catastrofuck it came up a bunch, just wasn't that relevant to the story until winter and summer stopped existing as fae courts it's also mentioned when Sve Noc is pondering going after the United Court of Arcadia and Cat goes "yo even if you eat Twilight and have Winter, you're still tied with the king and queen because they're probably spring and autumn powered now"
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Mar 12, 2020 01:47
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I'm running out of main reading material and am starting to have to go out into the weeds. I've read most of the big stuff like Wildbows works except Ward past a certain point, TWI, The Daily Grind, HWFWM, Practical Guide, Katalepsis, Worth the Candle, Threadbare (and the rest of that series), To Play With Magic, and no doubt others I'm forgetting off the cuff. Does anyone have any obscure things I can burn through in my desperate desire to have something to do? I recently read Devourer of Worlds which is a weird premise done really well, but I don't wanna have to sift through that website to hope to find something I can read without being invested in the whole 'quest' experience
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Mar 12, 2020 13:43
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Mother of learning and zombie knight are good and okay respectively
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Mar 12, 2020 13:55
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Jade Mage posted:I'm running out of main reading material and am starting to have to go out into the weeds. I've read most of the big stuff like Wildbows works except Ward past a certain point, TWI, The Daily Grind, HWFWM, Practical Guide, Katalepsis, Worth the Candle, Threadbare (and the rest of that series), To Play With Magic, and no doubt others I'm forgetting off the cuff. Does anyone have any obscure things I can burn through in my desperate desire to have something to do? I recently read Devourer of Worlds which is a weird premise done really well, but I don't wanna have to sift through that website to hope to find something I can read without being invested in the whole 'quest' experience Cultivation Chat Group is probably the best out of Chinese webnovels. Give it a go.
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Mar 12, 2020 14:30
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The Last Angel, Re: Trailer Trash, Into the Mire, Unsong if you like puns and don't mind the author being a rationalist idiot with a nazi fan base (maybe not Unsong), The Gods are Bastards, All the Little Lost Boys & Girls, qntm's scp antimemetics stuff.
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Mar 12, 2020 14:37
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Delve is alright, though it's heavy on the number crunching/min-maxing. Forge of Destiny is legit very good.
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Mar 12, 2020 14:50
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Delve is a bit like if Jason's power was aoe crystal wash.
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Mar 12, 2020 15:00
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Oh yeah Last Angel is probably my fave and it’s got two complete books out already and gearing up for the endgame. Join us
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Mar 12, 2020 15:28
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90s Cringe Rock posted:The Last Angel, Re: Trailer Trash, Into the Mire, Unsong if you like puns and don't mind the author being a rationalist idiot with a nazi fan base (maybe not Unsong), The Gods are Bastards, All the Little Lost Boys & Girls, qntm's scp antimemetics stuff. I quit Trailer Trash because it seemed like there was no real story there. Does anything ever really happen other than the “goes back in time and totally have friends and own the people who were mean to me in high school” fantasy?
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Mar 12, 2020 19:32
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No, but honestly if you're reading it, that is to one extent or another probably what you're there for; either they own people who hosed them over or they just unfuck something they hosed up. The only thing I've ever read that did something wholly other than that was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (a book, not a serial, and probably the only legit well written book of its kind). And having consumed a lot of this genre... well, you could seriously be doing a lot worse, I've read much more unbearable ones that I had to give up on. Edit: as long as we're on the topic, does anyone have more in that genre that I may not have seen?
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