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Rob Filter posted:Your post was very necessary and im glad I now won't incidentally stumble on that poo poo. What the fuuuuuuuck. 90s Cringe Rock posted:I think I'm just going to move on from ravensdagger.
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To be fair, you have to have a very high appreciation for underage lesbians to understand Wildbow (-derived fanfiction).
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Mar 19, 2021 09:21
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90s Cringe Rock posted: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. Wait the Stray Cat characters aren't at least 18? If that's the case, definitely dropping the story
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Mar 19, 2021 12:47
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Googled that just now and by explicit statement of the author, the main character of that story is seventeen years old, as is her girlfriend. So yeah.
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Mar 19, 2021 13:09
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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. You were doing a public service, no need to apologize.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:48
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I wouldn't have know that all those characters are supposed to be underage if you hadn't brought it up. They mostly read as young adults to me. Might have to reconsider my recs. On the other hand, I stopped taking seriously any author's statements about their character's ages during the peak of "technically 300 years old".
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Here's a good and so far unproblematic existential horror serial about a girl who finds out she has a natural talent for necromancy https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/40373/vigor-mortis
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If you also want a pulpy vampire adventure story there's also https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26675/a-journey-of-black-and-red So far i haven't seen anything truly problematic like whatever... the gently caress you were all discussing.
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Argue posted:Here's a good and so far unproblematic existential horror serial about a girl who finds out she has a natural talent for necromancy I read this the other day! I quite liked it until all the slime stuff... That just gives me the bad heebie-jeebies.
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Jade Mage posted:I read this the other day! I quite liked it until all the slime stuff... That just gives me the bad heebie-jeebies. It's kinda suppose to I think. Vita is creepy!
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The mind control slime plotline touched on the edge of being something that I'd find too unpleasant to enjoy reading, but it was semi-resolved pretty quickly. I'm very glad the Penelope PoV chapter was after the problem was dealt with and not before, for example. Outside of that it's a surprisingly funny story and a good example of how to do dark humor well.
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VictualSquid posted:I wouldn't have know that all those characters are supposed to be underage if you hadn't brought it up. They mostly read as young adults to me. I was also reading them as young adults. Broccoli is implausibly naive about relationships/innuendo for an adult, but also no one in the story is questioning her/her group traveling by themselves, carrying weapons & dungeoning, running a bookstore/shipyard, and doing politics. She seemed more 'homeschooled ultra-mormon goes off to college' than kid to me.
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Boogle posted:If you also want a pulpy vampire adventure story there's also https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26675/a-journey-of-black-and-red
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Boogle posted:If you also want a pulpy vampire adventure story there's also https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26675/a-journey-of-black-and-red 90s Cringe Rock posted:I hope she gets to do some good shooting and explosions when the civil war hits. She's only about twenty years away. A Journey of Black and Red has been pretty good in the 80 odd chapters I've read so far, with the big disclaimer that the trigger warning tags are very much there for a reason.
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Journey is... if I'm gonna be blunt, I think it's mediocre? Like, so, there's a very me-specific complaint that I have with a lot of these stories that have inhuman protagonists, which is that, while they start off strange, alien and interesting, once the story gets comfortable with itself these characters very rapidly degenerate into "average ordinary modern day people with quirks on". Which I find really loving boring, to be frank with you. I really like being immersed in emotional landscapes that are radically different to my own. It's one of the things I enjoy most about fiction, and these fuckers keep dropping the ball on it. Anyway, without that Journey just feels like Metaworld Chronicles with less going on. And without the adoration for financial capitalism and colonialism, I guess. I also have a seething hatred for any story that trots out the Alpha/Beta/Omega tropes, and, guess what happens when the loving werewolves show up!! Werewolves should just be cut out of pop media man. No one has ever written a good were story. I will die on this hill. 
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Journey is... if I'm gonna be blunt, I think it's mediocre? werewolves not swearwolves
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Katalepsis has a lovely werewolf and the story would be lesser without her 
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berenzen posted:Katalepsis has a lovely werewolf and the story would be lesser without her That's true. I will attribute this to her not having to interact with any other werewolves.
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Cardiovorax posted:Googled that just now and by explicit statement of the author, the main character of that story is seventeen years old, as is her girlfriend. So yeah. Okay, yeah, story dropped.
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Yeah going to agree with Journey of Black Red being thoroughly mediocre past the first (or second) arc.
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Hot take: alpha/beta/omega tropes should really be confined to erotica only, and even then it's kinda iffy.
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Hungry posted:Hot take: alpha/beta/omega tropes should really be confined to erotica only, and even then it's kinda iffy. I don't know what those are, so I probably agree with you.
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Peachfart posted:I don't know what those are, so I probably agree with you. The debunked alpha
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Peachfart posted:I don't know what those are, so I probably agree with you. It sounds dumb, and it is even dumber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhWWcWtAUoY The advantage of more porn-friendly sites is that the authors add more tags to their story, so you can avoid them. And I only know Journey of Black Red from their crossover chapter with Azarinth. Which leads to a hard cap on my interest level.
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.Z. posted:The debunked alpha I'm not sure I want to know more about this at all, but how can something around werewolves be debunked lol
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Carrier posted:I'm not sure I want to know more about this at all, but how can something around werewolves be debunked lol The alpha beta omega thing was theorized for wolf “packs”. Later, research showed that they were just wolf families, not some weird army platoon of wolves with a chain of command.
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Carrier posted:I'm not sure I want to know more about this at all, but how can something around werewolves be debunked lol
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Carrier posted:I'm not sure I want to know more about this at all, but how can something around werewolves be debunked lol Anything you have ever heard about "alpha male" nonsense is directly descended from nonsense debunked research on wolves.
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They were making a joke that werewolves don't exist.
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Werewolves should just be cut out of pop media man. No one has ever written a good were story. I will die on this hill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qae25976UgA
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WtC had a new thing. Everyone is talking about the rape planet of rape bullshit (which, yeah, that's pretty loving awful), but I feel like more light needs to be shined on the fact that the protagonist hosed a deer. Seriously, wtf is the deal with that story? On one hand it doesn't read like a fetish thing to me, but on the other hand the guy keeps adding weird, vile bullshit.
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Omi no Kami posted:I feel like more light needs to be shined on the fact that the protagonist hosed a deer.  That really does not sound like anything remotely worth reading. Why would you even write that.
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To be fair to the author, the protagonist was capable of turning into a deer, and at one point the deer turned into a 9-foot tall humanoid woman with six eyes. When asked to clarify what the hell went down to whom in what form, dude went "It's complicated." I'm honestly not sure if that makes it better, or worse. Also, token reminder that this is the same deer that impregnated a (human) woman way back when I switched from actually reading the story to skimming new releases for weird, insane bullshit.
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I have regrets clicking those spoilers.
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Eh. I don't read that serial, but stories where people do stuff with were-whatevers and shapeshifters and animals that shapeshift into people (like fox spirits and other Asian tropes like that) are common enough that I find it hard to clutch any pearls here. Don't let that stop you, though!
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Well, when I read "a deer" I was assuming it meant an actual deer. If your first thought when reading about something like this is "surely it has to be a shapeshifter of some sort, no one would write that about a regular deer" then you haven't been on the internet long enough to know better yet.
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Well, that spoiler said the deer turned into a person. That reads pretty solidly as "(probably sapient) magical beast that can shapeshift into people" to me. Again, not an uncommon trope.
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I haven't read that bit but it's the grove isn't it? It's fine to gently caress the sapient and wise and consenting deer being, it's just a bit weird. I mean, it's not like it has a cloaca.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I haven't read that bit but it's the grove isn't it? This seems appropriate for a new thread title.
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