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i don't dislike it, but the latest few chapters have made me feel like i've missed enough little things that it's added up into a big thing that's damaging my comprehension of the story and the motivations of the characters
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Yeah, same. Thanks for the thoughts, there's enough good web serials out there that I'll drop it rather than trying to power through it.
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BTDEM public chapter 384 question. Are we the reader supposed to know who Flora is from ancient Remus at this point? I'm blanking on the details if this was a character we saw in that part of the story or not. I mean, if not then we'll find out later I suppose.
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Feb 3, 2023 18:58
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She appeared in the earlier interlude chapter. Google cache has someone with the same name showing up earlier in chapter 148 and 118.1
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Sibling of TB posted:BTDEM public chapter 384 question. Are we the reader supposed to know who Flora is from ancient Remus at this point? I'm blanking on the details if this was a character we saw in that part of the story or not. I mean, if not then we'll find out later I suppose. She’s Kallisto’s daughter. The playboy from the Ranger team Elaine first joined. Not surprising you are blanking since she’s only briefly appears a few times pre-time skip
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Sibling of TB posted:BTDEM public chapter 384 question. Are we the reader supposed to know who Flora is from ancient Remus at this point? I'm blanking on the details if this was a character we saw in that part of the story or not. I mean, if not then we'll find out later I suppose. Was mentioned VERY briefly in the past. Meta - she's named after my kid, so she's got the thickest plot armor you'll ever see. At the same time, we're not going to see tons of her.
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Bhodi posted:I mean, adobe is doing it by default and you have to specifically opt out. People on reddit can agitate and say whatever they want to but corps are rolling right over opinions unless they have the lawyers to contest it. yeah but that's because they appoint legal grads based on who can eat all their competitors for the job which in fairness is the industry standard for lawyers freshly entering the workforce
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Feb 4, 2023 02:50
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Industrial Strength Magic is back! And starting weird!
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Feb 4, 2023 22:04
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Elaine’s dad has entered the chat: https://twitter.com/interneth0f/status/1622705500482568194?s=46&t=KXRNXBlYcc8QEXGbAtziIA
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Feb 7, 2023 03:04
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Those are some really cheap fruits!
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Feb 7, 2023 03:29
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navyjack posted:Elaine’s dad has entered the chat: I can't tell you how many people are pinging me about this - on reddit, discord, here, nowhere is safe
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Feb 7, 2023 18:05
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i mean auri deserves more than one pack of little smokies
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Selkie Myth posted:I can't tell you how many people are pinging me about this - on reddit, discord, here, nowhere is safe You’ve entered the zeitgeist! Literally the first thing I think of when someone mentions Mangoes now.
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huh, Super Minion just updated after a 2 year hiatus
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Feb 9, 2023 03:06
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my eternal vigil is over. god.
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Feb 9, 2023 07:37
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Jackal Among Snakes - I didn't like Argrave playing mind games with Eleanor but the last couple chapters with Orion have been kickass. Excited to see where he goes from here.
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Argrave is way too Mary Sueish. And thats speaking as a patreon. He has suffered zero loss or met real adversity. A lot can always go weong but nothing really ever does.
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I'm enjoying bioshifter a lot still and I hope she gets better at pronouns in her internal narration soon and maybe stops mutating her friends in hosed up ways? well, that's a big ask.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:and maybe stops mutating her friends in hosed up ways? well, that's a big ask.
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KittenJucerSupreme posted:God forbid women do anything
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My friends run a serial hosted through tumblr called {} General CWs: body horror, violence, and depiction/discussion of trauma. Updates Fridays. [/quote] There's a patreon and some side-stories/prequels and things, and the third book just started and there's a recap if the backlog is too scary. There's a traveling circus and a priest with little mutant baby arms and a weird horse cult in no particular order, its great. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Edit: Removing the link from this bad post so no one like post-hoc harasses people I know. KittenJucerSupreme fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Feb 12, 2023 04:36
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perhaps lurk more instead of flogging stuff?
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i'll be honest. i actively avoid stuff that posters say they or their friends work on.
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I think I read bits of Prairie Song back in, like, 2019-2020. Don't really remember anything about it, though.  There's nothing wrong with flogging work here. Especially given that WebFictionGuide appears to be well and truly dead. But is there a better pitch? That hook doesn't really tell me anything beyond a bunch of trendy genericisms (found families, it's about trauma) and the usual thing where web serials use content warnings like marketing copy. What do you think is cool or interesting about the story, beyond that your friend works on it?
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It does feel weird to register an account here solely to advertise in the web serial thread, of all places.
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Feb 12, 2023 18:53
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Eh, let em hock their wares! It's not like their stuff is likely to be noticably worse than the average fare
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Larry Parrish posted:i'll be honest. i actively avoid stuff that posters say they or their friends work on. I'm sure some of it is just fine, but yeah, that's basically saying "I'm a biased source." Still, if it's a really interesting description I'll give it a look.
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Yeah some works by posters or friends of posters are really good, like Katalepsis
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I deserve poo poo for it, but I honestly just didn't know where else to start posting or what to say. I swear I'm here to be continually made fun of for bad posts and not just the one where I fail to actually pitch a web serial, and I'll probably go back to lurking since this wasn't well received. But yeah, the first post said linking was fine so I assumed this was a flogging-friendly thread.Milkfred E. Moore posted:But is there a better pitch? That hook doesn't really tell me anything beyond a bunch of trendy genericisms (found families, it's about trauma) and the usual thing where web serials use content warnings like marketing copy. What do you think is cool or interesting about the story, beyond that your friend works on it? I said I think Prairie Song compares to One Piece where the appeal is (in theory at least) that there's constantly a new place with something and someone interesting in it and then it moves to another interesting place when its explored that while keeping a running thread through it all, and I think Prairie Song treads a really fine line of doing that without ever losing grounding or depth. It can be silly but it never loses the inherent humanity of its characters to cartoon shenanigans or anything. The world is just connected enough to seem alive but still vast. It goes through a variety of tones without ever losing track of what its about, and while it's About Things and can get dark like in the blurb it's also never taking itself too seriously or being too full of itself. There's a lot of upheavals to its status quo a lot, to the point I don't know how to really summarize it without spoilers, but I think there's also something a little different going on in a way that adds variety and room. The western post-apocalyptic flavor adds a lot to this kind of traveling-episodic structure in interesting ways, and I think if you like these kind of "see a new place and new face every week" episodic stories this is a very good one. In the name of open-ness it also has pacing issues- sometimes something doesn't get enough attention before moving on or it dangles development over your head for much too long or spends too much time with nothing really happening. I think this isn't new to web-serials at all and its never a consistent problem in any direction, but there are times you want to take the reins and control the speed a little more. Like I said I am friends with the authors, but I wouldn't hock it on here- the forum that loves mockery- if I wasn't confident that someone wouldn't be into it.
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Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:It does feel weird to register an account here solely to advertise in the web serial thread, of all places. A lot of people outside SA pay attention to this thread as it's one of the few places to discuss web serials that aren't a fandom for one particular story or Royal Road.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:A lot of people outside SA pay attention to this thread as it's one of the few places to discuss web serials that aren't a fandom for one particular story or Royal Road. Huh, that isn't something i expected. I should probably update the op at some point then, it's been like 5 years 
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:A lot of people outside SA pay attention to this thread as it's one of the few places to discuss web serials that aren't a fandom for one particular story or Royal Road. I've always been kind of surprised there isn't a subreddit for webserials or something. I know there's one for progression fics but that's really just a subgenre, even if it's a big one. (edit: Looks like there is but it's a small one that I don't remember finding before) And honestly it's a genre where you really need recommendations, because there's like a billion out there but most are really bad. Bremen fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Feb 12, 2023 |
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:A lot of people outside SA pay attention to this thread as it's one of the few places to discuss web serials that aren't a fandom for one particular story or Royal Road.  oh god, they're all reading my posts 
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Bremen posted:I've always been kind of surprised there isn't a subreddit for webserials or something. I know there's one for progression fics but that's really just a subgenre, even if it's a big one. (edit: Looks like there is but it's a small one that I don't remember finding before) /r/rational is mostly this. it's barely ever been about Yudkowsky-style ratfic and is mostly about "is this slightly less dumb as your average web serial?"
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Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:Huh, that isn't something i expected. Do it in about a month... 
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:A lot of people outside SA pay attention to this thread as it's one of the few places to discuss web serials that aren't a fandom for one particular story or Royal Road. Y'all have a very good track record of predicting stuff that is maybe a little under the radar but will chart outside of RR. I legit check the thread as a test group for stories that have legs beyond their follow count.
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Megazver posted:/r/rational is mostly this. it's barely ever been about Yudkowsky-style ratfic and is mostly about "is this slightly less dumb as your average web serial?" Their standards are weird, and pretty arbitrary. "MC isn't acting like an emotionless robot! 0/10"
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Selkie Myth posted:Their standards are weird, and pretty arbitrary. The funniest part of that has always been people posting that and then talking about how good Worm is five minutes later, which notably is a story driven by the main character making a bad decision due to emotions in every single chapter.
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Bremen posted:I've always been kind of surprised there isn't a subreddit for webserials or something. I know there's one for progression fics but that's really just a subgenre, even if it's a big one. (edit: Looks like there is but it's a small one that I don't remember finding before)
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Cicero posted:There is, but I remember when I went there I was surprised it didn't seem to have discussion of actual popular web serials (r/webnovels) Webnovela used to be strictly focused on translated Asian stuff when I used to hang there years ago. Edit: Nope, I was thinking of Noveltranslations. Cynic Jester fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Feb 13, 2023 |
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