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Peachfart posted:I don't know if I would go with 'best' but it is certainly several tiers above anything Wildbow has written. Except for typos; PracGuide is riddled with those also like 80% of web serial authors don't know the difference between discreet and discrete
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VictualSquid posted:This reminds me: Everything that guy writes is self contained, well written, and interesting. I highly recommend.(except his very first story which he gave up on years ago, it was bad)
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Mar 13, 2021 23:02
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Wait he's doing The Perfect Run and then a new serial at the same time? Is that even legal?
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Mar 13, 2021 23:03
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After Vainquier blew up he started writing full time, his Patreon votes on new stories for him to write.
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Mar 13, 2021 23:21
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Cicero posted:Wait he's doing The Perfect Run and then a new serial at the same time? Is that even legal? VoidHerald is, IMO, the best author on RR. Sure, there's The Wandering Inn. There's Azarinth Healer. Authors that have a great story, and are successfully running strong with it. VoidHerald consistently writes high-quality webnovels that he finishes. He's on-track to have multiple webnovels in the top 5 ranking list. Of course, with Vigor Mortis's rise, he now needs to knock himself out of the top 5 to get there, but eh. He's got reach, and the ability to write a bunch of different things that aren't just "I hit this magic formula and I'm running with it" The only other author I know that consistently finishes high-quality novels is Ravensdagger, but by pure numbers VoidHerald is better.
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OscarDiggs posted:Im not argueing about quality. I've only read a few chapters and PGtE is leagues better then Worm by any metric. PGtE is an antihero story. Cat's goals are semi-noble, but what she mostly accomplishes is piling up corpses. It's well written enough that I enjoy it even though it's not my favorite cup of tea. Try Threadbare instead. It has adorable people doing nice things for good reasons. Edit: Also try Cinnamon Bun. It has very cute people doing good and kind things. They also sometimes go on adventures. LLSix fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Mar 14, 2021 |
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Mar 14, 2021 00:19
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Cicero posted:Practical Guide to Evil is best overall web serial imo I would definitely consider it the 'funnest' out of all that's out there; however, Into the Mire would be my pick for the most well written. Some of the imagery in there is gonna stick with me for a long time, though PGtE has been knocking it out of the park lately. The scene where Catherine's court is described by various villains like the crime out of Roshomon was vivid and especially Robber's death will probably stick with me until I croak. I too would like to pass hearing the wind.
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Cicero posted:Wait he's doing The Perfect Run and then a new serial at the same time? Is that even legal? Cinnamon Bun's author is doing four at the same time:  TBH I think their quality suffers from it somewhat.
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Cicero posted:Practical Guide to Evil is best overall web serial imo It has whatever it is that makes fiction "memorable" and easy to visualize. I can very easily remember many different moments throughout the story or summarize the events of the various arcs. I'm usually very bad at mentally picturing things that I read, but I have extremely clear mental images of the various characters in PracGuide and can easily paint a mental picture of them during the scenes they're a part of. They all have very distinct "voices," and the nature of the setting lends itself to having a bunch of "larger than life" characters without it feeling tacky or unbelievable.
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Mar 15, 2021 07:35
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Selkie Myth posted:There's Azarinth Healer. Authors that have a great story, and are successfully running strong with it. or does AH introduce literally any story after the first, gently caress, what'd I read, hundred chapters
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Mar 15, 2021 20:17
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DACK FAYDEN posted:...uh, these are meant to be two distinct things, right If there is one thing this thread has taught me it's that quality stories are very much subjective. I often dislike stories this thread loves, like TWI, and enjoy ones it hates, like Worm or Metaworld Chronicles.
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Mar 15, 2021 20:30
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You can't just post that you have bad taste I actually don't like TWI very much either; I honestly couldn't get past the first chapte for some reason. I think my favorite serial at the moment is probably Katalepsis. For a while it was actually Now You Feel Like Number None but that has more or less concluded at this point.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:...uh, these are meant to be two distinct things, right Oh, there's story arcs and an advancing overall plot. Ilea randomly going on literal sidequests as a form of unwinding is entertaining. It's still a 'stats/levels go up' LitRPG centered around someone who's one step above being a murderhobo.
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Mar 15, 2021 20:52
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Sampatrick posted:You can't just post that you have bad taste
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over in the sf/f books thread someone posted that qntm's published his scp antimemetics stuff. https://qntm.org/scp has the links. it's good. i still have bad taste, but this isn't part of it.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Then probate me. Preach. My taste in book quality varies drastically, and the floor is really really low That said, I bounced off of Cinnamon Bun once before because idiots first Wonderland was not really interesting at all, but after skipping to where there are other actual characters holy poo poo does the quality spike. It was one of the most relaxing reads I've ever had.
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Mar 15, 2021 22:59
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Waiting way too long to introduce a second character is an oddly common problem in isekai stories. I don't hate the "wake up alone in the woods and figure out the world" intro but writing a story with no dialogue or just the MC talking to themself is hard.
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Sampatrick posted:You can't just post that you have bad taste TWI's first chapter is definitely the roughest, except the chapter where the goblins all loving die. It is actually a shock to go back to the first chapter from the current stuff because not only is it way shorter, the writing has improved immensely.
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Plorkyeran posted:Waiting way too long to introduce a second character is an oddly common problem in isekai stories. I don't hate the "wake up alone in the woods and figure out the world" intro but writing a story with no dialogue or just the MC talking to themself is hard. I often experience the reverse, where the literal second another character is introduced it all turns to poo poo Arifureta style.
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Jade Mage posted:That said, I bounced off of Cinnamon Bun once before because idiots first Wonderland was not really interesting at all, but after skipping to where there are other actual characters holy poo poo does the quality spike. It was one of the most relaxing reads I've ever had.
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Cardiovorax posted:The later chapters become somewhat creepily fixated on discussing the sexual predilections and/or misadventures of the (very much underage) cast of characters. There's a dog person side character who sticks around for a few chapters and who keeps referring to one of the teenage girls as "the moist one" who "smells like she wants to mate." I refused to read any more of it after the newly introduced (and very much adult) owner of the airship "Beaver Cleaver" started relentlessly hitting on said group of ~16-ish year old girls, because the creep factor just seems to keep ramping up further and further. Ouch, that's absolutely not where I was expecting the story to go after the description.
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Cardiovorax posted:The later chapters become somewhat creepily fixated on discussing the sexual predilections and/or misadventures of the (very much underage) cast of characters. There's a dog person side character who sticks around for a few chapters and who keeps referring to one of the teenage girls as "the moist one" who "smells like she wants to mate." I refused to read any more of it after the newly introduced (and very much adult) owner of the airship "Beaver Cleaver" started relentlessly hitting on said group of ~16-ish year old girls, because the creep factor just seems to keep ramping up further and further. I wouldn't say it's fixated, really. The dog person (a Droll) bit is bad, even though it's played up for laughs, but it's also over three months and 60+ chapters between that and what I'm assuming you're talking about regarding the Beaver Cleaver's owner. There's a lot of references to Awen being a lesbian and interested in Broccoli in between (and a little bit before, that's what the Droll is talking about), but aside from the Droll bit it's basically hero worship since Broccoli was the one that helped Awen escape. Broccoli doesn't return the feelings because she's straight and is appropriately awkward about what to do about it, considering how naive she is. (They eventually talk about it, with no bad feelings.) I'm guessing you mean Rosaline as the Beaver Cleaver's owner, because it was owned by a company until given over to Broccoli. Rosaline is Amaryllis's sister, and I don't think we know her age. She's often referred to as a girl or young woman, though she is very openly flirty and "scandalous." She also becomes Awen's girlfriend. Nothing about Rosaline bothered me, though I will say the fact that the Wand of Cure Hysteria (it's a vibrator, and neither Broccoli nor Awen know that or what that means) hasn't been conveniently forgotten about does. It thankfully doesn't come up that much.
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Well, I suppose that would be the most charitable way to describe it, but personally, I thought it kept coming up far, far too regularly to be remotely comfortable by the time I decided I really didn't want to have anything to with that story anymore. The entire thing came across as nothing short of creepy, fetishistic, and frankly disturbingly underaged to me. A grown-rear end man in his late twenties shouldn't be writing horny fiction about teenage lesbians and their magical dildos for other grown adults. There's really no excuse for ever having a character who constantly keeps bringing up one of said teen girls' state of physical arousal and how it smells to him.
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Mar 18, 2021 20:56
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Horny definitely doesn't apply, at least to the whole story. The Droll and vibrator bits are bad, no disagreement, but they're the only things that are remotely "horny." Everything else (even the vibrator bit as things never pass euphemism, but it's still bad) falls into YA romance territory. Edit: I should clarify my intent. I'm not saying you shouldn't be bothered by what's there. If it bothers you, you've got your reasons and you don't have to defend them to me. To me, though, you're taking things out of proportion and I just wanted to provide a little context so others could see for themselves. Maybe I'm not sensitive enough and am being more forgiving than I should be. Onean fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 18, 2021 |
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It would only be Young Adult fiction if it was actually written for young adults, which I frankly do not agree or believe it was. Speaking from my own first-hand experience, there's really nothing remotely realistic about the story's portrayal of teenaged LGBT relationships in any part of how is written - and even if it were, there is no such thing as an acceptable amount of talking about a young girls state of "moistness" in a Young Adult novel in any case. It has been a long time since I was a teenager myself. I don't want to read about this kind of thing in my light entertainment and I think the author really shouldn't be wanting to write about it, either. Honestly, I think this story is exactly the kind of thing that gives self-published writers a bad reputation and I don't plan to ever touch anything else the guy writes. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Mar 18, 2021 |
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Cardiovorax posted:The later chapters become somewhat creepily fixated on discussing the sexual predilections and/or misadventures of the (very much underage) cast of characters. There's a dog person side character who sticks around for a few chapters and who keeps referring to one of the teenage girls as "the moist one" who "smells like she wants to mate." I refused to read any more of it after the newly introduced (and very much adult) owner of the airship "Beaver Cleaver" started relentlessly hitting on said group of ~16-ish year old girls, because the creep factor just seems to keep ramping up further and further. what the gently caress Onean posted:I wouldn't say it's fixated, really. what the gently caress
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Onean posted:I wouldn't say it's fixated, really. what the gently caress
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I clearly skimmed a bit too much in the dog person bit.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I clearly skimmed a bit too much in the dog person bit. Or you may have skimmed exactly the right amount. What the gently caress.
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Mar 19, 2021 02:10
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Well, I guess I'm not sensitive enough, and am more forgiving than I should be.
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It's ok, when I was a kid I read a bunch of Xanth novels and all that poo poo went right over my head.
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Omi no Kami posted:Or you may have skimmed exactly the right amount.
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Oh hey a bunch of new replies in the web serial thread, maybe beware of chicken upda...
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Yyyyyeah, kinda sorry for even bringing it up, I just didn't want anyone to have a very unpleasant surprise. I was really surprised to see people recommend that serial here, because that's exactly the kind of poo poo that normally makes goons go "what the gently caress is even wrong with this guy" in a hurry. Hope that's okay with everyone.
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Onean posted:I wouldn't say it's fixated, really. I want you to know that I read this at 5am this morning after far too little sleep and thought I was having a fever dream
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Cardiovorax posted:Yyyyyeah, kinda sorry for even bringing it up, I just didn't want anyone to have a very unpleasant surprise. I was really surprised to see people recommend that serial here, because that's exactly the kind of poo poo that normally makes goons go "what the gently caress is even wrong with this guy" in a hurry. Hope that's okay with everyone. Your post was very necessary and im glad I now won't incidentally stumble on that poo poo. What the fuuuuuuuck.
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I read several chapters and it felt so innocent. I thought the point of this series was to be cute and not sexualized.
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The wand of cure hysteria was just a cute joke that went over her head, that was good. And then it came back up and each time got a little worse. Stray Cat Strut's the story where characters gently caress, and now I'm afraid to check their ages because I was thinking the protagonist and her girlfriend were definitely eighteen and now I'm thinking seventeen tops which isn't old enough to have some worm fanfic guy writing jokes about your sixteen-dicked tentacle sex robot. I think I'm just going to move on from ravensdagger.
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