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Mangofic: most of my theories about the dead zone fall apart because of Night. I was thinking it might be a deliberate attempt to keep the dragons off?
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It is weird how angry btdem patrons get at Iona interludes.
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Jul 9, 2021 22:37
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quote:Several days later, Wang Tong who came out of his seclusion put on his new magic robes and made a visit to all the other peaks. When he saw someone, he would mention that his little apprentice had given him these new clothes. The little girl liked these grand but non-practical clothes. He, the master, treasured her filial piety and could only put them on to make her happy. I am having a great deal of fun with this extremely relaxed and pleasant CN.
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Jul 9, 2021 23:34
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Pracguide: i cannot believe I didn't see the Dread Emperor Tenebrous brick joke coming. 
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Jul 9, 2021 23:34
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Mangofic: most of my theories about the dead zone fall apart because of Night. I was thinking it might be a deliberate attempt to keep the dragons off? I have no way of getting the knowledge to Elaine, and therefore no way of getting it to the readers. I'll probably announce it once..... Hang on, RR *has* gotten that chapter.
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Jul 9, 2021 23:56
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Selkie Myth posted:I have no way of getting the knowledge to Elaine, and therefore no way of getting it to the readers. I'll probably announce it once..... Huh. I sure didn't expect it to be that.
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Jul 10, 2021 04:52
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Selkie Myth posted:I have no way of getting the knowledge to Elaine, and therefore no way of getting it to the readers. I'll probably announce it once.....
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Jul 10, 2021 04:53
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:I am having a great deal of fun with this extremely relaxed and pleasant CN.
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Jul 10, 2021 05:06
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Worth the Candle has dropped some new chapters, and will be dropping some more for the next week or so. Definitely some interesting stuff in this one, since we're finally meeting Uther in the flesh.
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Jul 11, 2021 23:44
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So I have been reading though Vigor Mortis over the past week... Is it just me, or does the author seem to have like a creepy vore fetish that comes out in her writing? Because there is a lot of eating people while they are still alive, and a lot of references to it. Like, a lot a lot.
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Jul 13, 2021 19:59
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Peachfart posted:So I have been reading though Vigor Mortis over the past week... Is it just me, or does the author seem to have like a creepy vore fetish that comes out in her writing? Because there is a lot of eating people while they are still alive, and a lot of references to it. Unlikely. Author is asexual. She just likes writing cutely horrifying things. Selkie Myth fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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Jul 13, 2021 21:33
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Selkie Myth posted:Unlikely. Author is asexual I am hardly a specialist, but I think asexuals can still have fetishes.
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Jul 13, 2021 21:41
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People being eaten alive by other people is the most horrible thing ever.
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Jul 13, 2021 22:24
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Yeah it was enough to get me to drop it. The author put a big note at the start of one of the chapters saying “look I know readers don’t like this but it’s the story I wanna write” and, well, good for you but I’m out
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Jul 13, 2021 22:33
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I read a very good book called consuming love and ever since I've been horrified by the idea. (Förtärande kärlek)
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Jul 13, 2021 22:35
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Dropped after a couple of the monster POV chapters.
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Jul 13, 2021 23:25
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I dropped it a bit after the possession started. Sorry, mind-controlling parasites that can mass reproduce and are basically unstoppable don't get to live no matter how nice the one that knows you can kill it at literally any time acts.
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Jul 14, 2021 00:11
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Piell posted:I dropped it a bit after the possession started. Sorry, mind-controlling parasites that can mass reproduce and are basically unstoppable don't get to live no matter how nice the one that knows you can kill it at literally any time acts. That resolved itself as it should have. But yeah, I dropped it as well. The monster POV really turned me off. The MC wasn't enough to save it. My take on this series was.... Oh ho I'm not human, so I think it's okay to just eat human souls. I want to hatch! Gonna hatch soon! Souls are delicious! Hatch hatching, gonna let the awesome out. It there was a slower buildup to the more nuts parts and a more interesting set of characters I'd have been willing to stick it out more. I say this as I'm like 80% through Legend of Randidly McUberskills, so I don't claim to have good taste. Kalas fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 00:37
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I'm glad that it wasn't just me that was getting weirded out. I am fully caught up now, and it seems to be getting more frequent as time goes on. World definitely has potential though I'd honestly be happier without the alternative pov chapters.
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Jul 14, 2021 00:53
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Yeah, when we hit the second chapter of whoever was getting eaten I dropped out too. PracGuide has one of my pet peeves in this little arc, something that seems to pop up in a lot of web serials: too many large predators. What the hell have all those hundreds, if not thousands of horse-sized spiders been eating down in the sewers? Similar thing with running into so many random monsters in the Wasteland. Do you see lots of tiger-sized predators in the desert, on Earth? No, because there's not enough for them to eat, because there's not enough for their potential prey to eat. TWI was similarly bad with the high passes. Waaaayyyyy too many predatory animals for how its described.
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Jul 14, 2021 02:03
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New TWI chapter was good Gives us some context on how the Gnolls would do against vanilla humans of earth Answer: not well
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Jul 14, 2021 02:19
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Cicero posted:Yeah, when we hit the second chapter of whoever was getting eaten I dropped out too. Maybe there are a bunch of very large rats also down there PracGuide: I'm amused at all the comments for this chapter from people who apparently hallucinated an Amadeus redemption arc and are confused and upset at him causing the death of countless civilians. All these people like "this isn't in character!" because most of our scenes of Amadeus involve him interacting with circle of people he cares about in some capacity. Also not sure where they got the idea that he cares about the Dead King; I'm pretty sure he doesn't give a gently caress what happens to Western Calernia. I'm sure that, in a vacuum, he'd rather the Dead King be defeated, but it's not his top priority. Curious where Arthur's character is going. He's basically just been acting as a soldier, but the things Amadeus said are likely going to prompt him to do some thinking for himself. Was also vaguely nostalgic to see the return of the hilarious "Grey Knight" comments.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:06
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Cicero posted:Yeah, when we hit the second chapter of whoever was getting eaten I dropped out too. maybe they consume ambient mana in the air or the things they eat consume ambient mana or idk who the gently caress knows its not real. i've always found it kinda weird how people care about these sorts of little bits of seemingly contradictory with our world bits of world building. the concern has just fundamentally never made any sense to me. like of all the pet peeves to have for a piece of fiction, improperly constructed foodchains just seem very whatever. idk maybe its just me.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:37
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Cicero posted:Yeah, when we hit the second chapter of whoever was getting eaten I dropped out too. They're alive because of magic and way too much reckless spell casting keeps them alive. Hell, it's Praes, Malicia has probably been feeding the spiders as a cheap way to keep people out of her sewers.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:46
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Selkie Myth posted:Unlikely. Author is asexual. She just likes writing cutely horrifying things. Somebody can claim they are asexual but they could still have a sex drive.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:49
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Sampatrick posted:like of all the pet peeves to have for a piece of fiction, improperly constructed foodchains just seem very whatever. Seriously, a major plot element is that Praes is literally incapable of supporting its own population (and that magic cannot solve) and cycles between overgrowth into internal culling and external violence because of that. Black's plan to change this is good governance internally and setting up the conditions for a non-hostile Callow/rest of world so that Praes can survive on an import/export economy, but that failed due to Akua and Malicia plotting (Liesse), and so now he concludes that the entire culture is broken on top of that and so he must burn out the foundations. On the other hand, magic tigers and magic spiders sustained by magic, w/e 
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Jul 14, 2021 03:54
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lurksion posted:Well, PracGuide has spent its entire length of being rationalizing the logistics behind the magic of the world, so it is actually is a departure from status quo. Funny thing about dictatorships. No matter how many other people in the country starve, the dictator still has more than enough food to waste.
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Jul 14, 2021 04:00
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lurksion posted:Seriously, a major plot element is that Praes is literally incapable of supporting its own population (and that magic cannot solve) and cycles between overgrowth into internal culling and external violence because of that. Well obviously all the resources are going into supporting the magic spiders and tigers, seems like a great decision really.
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Jul 14, 2021 04:05
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I've been skipping all the Lark chapters in Vigor Mortis. They yo-yo between being unpleasant to read and just plain boring, and the ones I did read never were actually enjoyable.Piell posted:I dropped it a bit after the possession started. Sorry, mind-controlling parasites that can mass reproduce and are basically unstoppable don't get to live no matter how nice the one that knows you can kill it at literally any time acts. The friendly ones got killed pretty promptly too.
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Sampatrick posted:maybe they consume ambient mana in the air or the things they eat consume ambient mana or idk who the gently caress knows its not real. i've always found it kinda weird how people care about these sorts of little bits of seemingly contradictory with our world bits of world building. the concern has just fundamentally never made any sense to me. like of all the pet peeves to have for a piece of fiction, improperly constructed foodchains just seem very whatever. idk maybe its just me. It's not as bad for TWI, which is just more handwavey in general, but PracGuide does try to take logistics at least somewhat seriously, and this is basically environmental logistics. Edit: my other pet peeve is the many authors who don't know the difference between 'discreet' and 'discrete'.
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Jul 14, 2021 08:08
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Cicero posted:Edit: my other pet peeve is the many authors who don't know the difference between 'discreet' and 'discrete'. Hey, at least that can be attributed to poor spelling, unlike the use of "implicit".
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Jul 14, 2021 11:39
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Cicero posted:Edit: my other pet peeve is the many authors who don't know the difference between 'discreet' and 'discrete'. They might know, but their fingers just go rouge sometimes when typing.
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Jul 14, 2021 11:50
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The one that really gets me is loose versus lose. It's not that hard... when in doubt just remember, lose = keys, loose = your mom. All jokes aside though, you know what chiffs my tiffany? loving apostrophes. Bad apostrophe use will nope me out of a story faster than nearly any other word crime.
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Jul 15, 2021 04:39
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i've said it before, i'll say it again, there's a special place in hell for people that phonetically spell accents
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Jul 15, 2021 05:10
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"If we're bitching about grammar my pet peeve is writers that don't use punctuation at the end of their quotes" he said.
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Jul 15, 2021 05:12
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These are web serials not literature! I'm surprised you even partake in things like full stops and commas, since such are not needed by my keen mind when deciphering the lesser texts.
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Jul 15, 2021 05:18
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Omi no Kami posted:All jokes aside though, you know what chiffs my tiffany? loving apostrophes. Bad apostrophe use will nope me out of a story faster than nearly any other word crime. So much this. People putting apostrophe's in plural's makes me cringe and kills my enjoyment of what I'm reading.
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Jul 15, 2021 05:46
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The Shortest Path posted:So much this. People putting apostrophe's in plural's makes me cringe and kills my enjoyment of what I'm reading. reported for grammar crimes you monster. Stuff like that pulls me out of a story so fast and I have no idea how I can tolerate PGTE's once-per-paragraph typos.
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Jul 15, 2021 15:37
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i cannae, believe, whae ye soft lad's'll whinge aboo't
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Rosalie_A posted:reported for grammar crimes you monster. That story used to be soooo much worse. It is still riddled with typos but at least it is now one per paragraph instead of three per sentence.
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