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And now for something entirely different: the characters from TUTBAD advertising the first book of Worth the Candle - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MIplgncTMMw7mYmbJHScvkPOI2WlPSb2CEy2jDDv3kc/edit
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Infinity Gaia posted:It's barely even worth mentioning anymore. You could tell me pirateaba wrote any number of words in half a week and I'd believe you. What's that, an entire three volume series written in 4 days? Yeah, sure, sounds like pirateaba. Pirate finished writing this Tuesday's TWI chapter in 2 days and it clocks in at 30k words. My hands really hurt thinking about that.
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Virtuous Sons Patreon: I was fully expecting Selene to stowaway, but I'll I admit for a second there I was starting to worry we'd exchanged the entire supporting cast for loving Scythas. Maybe Anastasia will show up next 
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tithin posted:Prac guide: big rip to everyone but especially the witch who was a badass until the end F. I hope all the minor Named I care about live.
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Cicero posted:And now for something entirely different: the characters from TUTBAD advertising the first book of Worth the Candle - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MIplgncTMMw7mYmbJHScvkPOI2WlPSb2CEy2jDDv3kc/edit This was mildly amusing.
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asur posted:Her being traumatized is a cop out. She lives in a brutal society and her entire life's path is based on accidentally killing someone and then vowing that it won't happen again. That's barely a step away from allowing an entire city of innocent people to die. It's not against her oath, but it sure seems out of character. The last driving part you're missing is Elaine's a Sentinel, after having spent years as a Ranger. They're the ones that STOP people doing this sort of thing. She actively fought against Hesoid in the plague arc, who was busy killing off an entire city. And that's exactly what Elaine was doing. Wholesale slaughter of civilians, nevermind that they're evil body snatchers. (I should've added in a few "kid shimagu" to drive the point home... she's not killing the warriors, and the worst of the slavers, she's killing off every single shimgu in a city, and a quarter of the elvenoid population is dying in the chaos/elves/high level shimagu fighting crossfire) I tried to make it clear that she was of two mindsets - There's the "Sentinel Dawn", who insists on going back into the city, and finishing the job, like you say. Then there's "Healer Elaine", who holds life to be sacred. I was slowly building the dissonance between the two mindsets, only for Elaine to get utterly trapped between them. She's damned if she does, and damned if she doesn't. And... she runs away. She finds a way to somewhat, awkwardly, reconcile the two mindsets, by GTFOing, and reporting it all back. But yes - a few people have mentioned that it's a little out of character for her, and I'll grant you it's a bit weird. But I posit that any choice made is out of character, given the options. I try to make my stories "real" in a sense, and finding herself in a situation with no good answers or choices is life IMO.
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Kickstarter up for Mother of Learning Arc 1 physical edition: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/motheroflearningarc1 One of the tiers is for a bust of Quatach-Ichl, going for a mere thousand dollars.
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Cicero posted:Kickstarter up for Mother of Learning Arc 1 physical edition: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/motheroflearningarc1 4 people have already signed up at that tier. I was going to say any art of him is doomed to fall short of the menacing image conjured in my imagination, but, whelp.
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Megazver posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comments/srckya/my_huge_tier_list_web_serials_gamelit_cultivation/ Oh hey, I placed pretty highly here! I'd probably feel better about it if it weren't for HPMOR at number 2 though.
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He put loving Sylver Seeker and Full Murderhobo on the same level as Ar'kendrythist so I'm sorry but the reddit guy must be put in jail.
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Megazver posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comments/srckya/my_huge_tier_list_web_serials_gamelit_cultivation/ Ranking PracGuide below Worm is very strange. I consider PracGuide to basically be the pinnacle of "normal" web serials. Speaking of Cradle (which was also in that list for some reason despite being actual books), I just finished the most recent one. I actually really liked the Eithan plot twist, though it's not clear to me how the veil thing works. Does it just perfectly disguise him as another person or something? Did Tiberian (the previous Arelius Monarch) know who he was? Was he actually reborn a child? In general, I like Eithan a lot and feel like he helped to give the series a different feel from other similar stories. Also, I like the Kelsa and Jai Long pairing; Kelsa is cool. Saddest moment in the entire story is still Akura Grace dying from Wintersteel.
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PoorWeather posted:Oh hey, I placed pretty highly here! I'd probably feel better about it if it weren't for HPMOR at number 2 though. HPMOR is the the best piece of fiction ever written, FYI.
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twi public: big fan of new kevin and the shellys, and also 🐀🐁 anyway, back to reading the chapter. i hope everyone is ok.
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Rage of Dragons is also a real book and not ever a web serial afaik. I guess it's on that list because it's a weak protagonist exploiting a loophole to become super strong.
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Infinity Gaia posted:Starting to get a bit concerned with the direction the Antinium plot is going in TWI, feels like bad times ahead. I think it's likely that this actually solves the current dead god problem. The Antinium have huge numbers and belief which should mean whatever god they dream up is drastically more powerful than the other gods.
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reading an already finished story The Fifth Defiance which is about a post-apocalyptic earth in which the world was torn apart by the discovery of superheros, specifically because the strongest superhero alive, Prevailer, happens to be an insane psychopath who only values violence. the premise for Haunter's powerset is super interesting, give it a try!
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asur posted:I think it's likely that this actually solves the current dead god problem. The Antinium have huge numbers and belief which should mean whatever god they dream up is drastically more powerful than the other gods. Erin Solstice.
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A big flaming stink posted:reading an already finished story The Fifth Defiance which is about a post-apocalyptic earth in which the world was torn apart by the discovery of superheros, specifically because the strongest superhero alive, Prevailer, happens to be an insane psychopath who only values violence. I ended up not finishing this one but it's loving nuts. Even the concept behind why super powers exist is wacky, I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.
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TUTBAD: lmao at the last authors note.
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Dikkfor posted:TUTBAD: lmao at the last authors note. Lmfao
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There was no way to avoid it any longer--he'd have to discuss the (Except this author has the self-awareness to not put the rant in the main story) mossyfisk posted:Alf getting catty is kind of adorable
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Larry Parrish posted:I ended up not finishing this one but it's loving nuts. Even the concept behind why super powers exist is wacky, I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. holy gently caress i didnt know the half of it. Did you get far enough to find out (Condemner 6:1) Ultra gifts become awakened entities unto themselves? how many layers of wilding is this story under???
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A big flaming stink posted:holy gently caress i didnt know the half of it. Did you get far enough to find out (Condemner 6:1) Ultra gifts become awakened entities unto themselves? I read a couple thousand pages. The whole idea that consciousness can't exist at all in our universe, and arises because of extra dimensional entities 'living' in the energy pattern created by the structure of a brain. this is conclusively proven by the android who is totally mechanical and just emulates a human shape but still has a consciousness because it looks the same to the entities. And people said Worm was kind of cosmic horror-y. They don't know poo poo lol. The Fifth Defiance is legitimately so depressing I couldn't finish it. The whole reason the apocalypse happened is nuts, too- I don't remember how far that side story is, but Jesus.
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tithin posted:Binged mother of learning over the last few days, a+ It really is. Do you have a favorite part? Zach trying to show off how awesome he is were pretty entertaining I thought. mossyfisk posted:Alf getting catty is kind of adorable Alfric probably doesn't even think of it as being catty. He's just giving an accurate assessment based on past behavior. Lol.
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LLSix posted:Alfric probably doesn't even think of it as being catty. He's just giving an accurate assessment based on past behavior. Lol. That's 100% what it is and part of why it's so funny.
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Prac Guide That was expectedly unexpected. Get hosed Yara.
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Well, I sort of foresaw what happened in the latest prac guide, I just didn't foresee the declaration that happened. In hindsight, I should have.LLSix posted:It really is. Do you have a favorite part? Zach trying to show off how awesome he is were pretty entertaining I thought. There was a lot about the setting I found fascinating, the eventual identity of red robe was ... interesting? disappointing? both? and makes sense in retrospect considering the activities during the timeloop itself. I feel that the angels and demons were extremely underdeveloped and unfortunately felt like a deus ex machina in some respects, why would demons - presumably a faction opposing the angels - align themselves with a primordial - presumably a titan analogue as opposed to a very big demon? On a related note, I feel that Zorian's relationship with his middle brother was woefully underdeveloped, and it feels like something's missing there. My favourite part was at the end, with the Grey Hunter, but even laying that aside...? Just seeing Zorian grow through the loops, to the point where he mostly mends his family's relations, probably why the middle brother connection feels underdeveloped to me personally
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LLSix posted:It really is. Do you have a favorite part? Zach trying to show off how awesome he is were pretty entertaining I thought. IMO Zach is a big part of why I was able to enjoy Mother of Learning, since the existence of a character like him was pretty unusual for that sort of story. Also my name is Zach, so I appreciated the existence of a character not only named Zach, but Zach spelled correctly with an h. My main gripes with the series are related to the latter parts of it, where I feel like Zorian became a bit too "powerful/aloof." I remember liking many of the earlier parts where he learns more about his various acquaintances and stops being an rear end in a top hat, but it felt like this kind of fell by the wayside later as he became more powerful. But overall I still think it was quite good.
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