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One thing about this: the early chapters are way darker than the rest of the work.
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Tagichatn posted:Speaking of isekai weebs, Warby Picus of Slumrat Rising fame has a new web serial called Weeaboo's Unfortunate Isekai: The Necromancer's Gacha. It's a fun break from Slumrat and is exactly what it sounds like: a weeaboo gets isekai'd into a game except it's an idler gacha and they don't get to spend any real money. Supposedly it's more lighthearted than Slumrat but that's a low bar to clear. I gave it a read. Yep, that's certainly a story about a colossal weeb and his gacha girls, lol. I followed it, for now.
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fez_machine posted:In The Mire If you don't mind me asking, how'd you get this one onto your kindle? I've never found a good way to do that with the stories on their own website (I think it's wordpress?). Anyways, I hope you report back with your thoughts as you read stuff; there's stuff I loved and stuff I dropped on your list. Though you've got TWI, so it might be years before you finish.
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Bremen posted:If you don't mind me asking, how'd you get this one onto your kindle? I've never found a good way to do that with the stories on their own website (I think it's wordpress?). Same method I used for Hitherby Dragons. I hand customised the web to epub browser extension. For most major webnovels with a wordpress page you don't have to put any effort as they're already in the database (except maybe making sure that they don't pick up fan art images) but IntoThe Mire is obscure. You have to start at the table of contents url, rename all the false and empty fields, and if the table of contents points to any 404ed pages (like Into The Mire does for Chapters 46 and 47) change the url to right address under the Edit Chapter URL button. It's important to note that web to epub will still generate an epub if it hits a 404 but terminates at the error (sometimes it generates an error message sometimes it doesn't) and the Edit URL tool is kind of finicky and janky so always double check. fez_machine fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 16:22
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SupSup 144 Knights truly don't gently caress around. So Zebridee can cast spells but she'd possibly get in trouble if she did? And it would be rude to call her a wizard. I wonder if she's someone further along on the path Joe and Kibby s dad wanted for Kibby. She has the potential to be a wizard but she would have been at the bottom of heap. So instead she's at the top of the non-wizard class. I'm very interested in what fragilities of Earth are worrying the knight. My gut is that it's the political situation. Matadaro, as far as we know, was never in any danger whatsoever. But one terrorist attack threatened to kill most/all of the avowed due to the super apartheid. Then again, maybe it's something else. We still don't know what the gently caress is up with the weird Sway who did the attack. Wonder if he survived the aftermath.
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Apr 1, 2024 17:33
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Wittgen posted:SupSup 144 Knights truly don't gently caress around. (SupSup 144) A popular theory on the Discord is that Zeridee is an aspiring knight candidate who dropped out and/or the child of a knight. Mostly because of how she talked about Alden being important because of his relationships with knights and the knight's comments that "it would be rude to (call her a wizard)" and that she was the relative of a friend. I assumed at the time that the comment about fragilities were because Earth's system panicked about a chaos attack and basically stuck its head in the sand, but your comment about how it might make the Artonans unhappy with the Anesidora situation would be interesting too. We've been getting comments about how people feel about having all the avowed exiled to their tiny island that read a lot like foreshadowing. Bremen fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 18:03
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Bremen posted:(SupSup 144) A popular theory on the Discord is that Zeridee is an aspiring knight candidate who dropped out and/or the child of a knight. Mostly because of how she talked about Alden being important because of his relationships with knights and the knight's comments that "it would be rude to (call her a wizard)" and that she was the relative of a friend. Supsup 144 Yeah, her being a knight or wizard drop out. She could have terrible authority control like Kibby so can't be a real wizard and isn't willing to undergo the "binding" of a knighthood. Either that or it's just that non-wizards aren't supposed to do magic, so her doing any would be... problematic and Esh-erdi was just going to pretend it didn't happen if she had to use something to survive. Non-wizard Artonans are also lower in the social hierarchy than avowed. So Zeridee killing some avowed in self-defense may have been problematic for other reasons too. Though Alden's presence there and defense of her probably solves that issue. Bremen posted:
I agree Esh-erdi was probably talking about the Earth System's underwhelming performance in this crisis. He was saying that in response to a question about whether the Earth System in danger of failing. And at least two Artonans (the ambassador and Zeridee) have expressed exasperation at how poorly the System has been communicating. It does actually sound like it was Zeridee's authority cry for help that drew them to the area, and not Alden's. Which kind of surprises me. I really like Esh-erdi. He's been a devious little prankster every time he's showed up so far. quote:“Let’s send a message to all of the unbound here on Earth and demand that the person sending out random hellos confess,” he suggested. “The mystery will be solved in moments.” quote:“Are you going to <<bully>> a human child with the names of every living art’h, Zeridee-und’h? quote:“That’s boring,” said the knight in a disappointed tone. “When I tell her about your mistake, I will say you thought she’d seen the end of her first century.” quote:“You did enjoy your swim, didn’t you?” Nitrousoxide fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 18:34
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Nitrousoxide posted:(post) Just as a warning you cut the spoiler tagging out of one of my quotes in your post.
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Apr 1, 2024 18:43
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Nitrousoxide, you missed a spoiler tag in one of your quoted sections.
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SS patreon yeah the earth contract is going to cause incredible turmoil in anesidora with how many avowed it basically told "go find a hole to die in" like with emilija
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Apr 1, 2024 18:48
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Bremen posted:Just as a warning you cut the spoiler tagging out of one of my quotes in your post. Wittgen posted:Nitrousoxide, you missed a spoiler tag in one of your quoted sections. ah, thanks for the heads up.
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fez_machine posted:Lord of Mysteries (I thought I should read at least one mega long Chinese web novel)
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If you're interested in the history of English-language web serials, you really do have to read at least one super-long Chinese one, yeah. A lot of the later generation of English works is very much influenced by and in conversation with those Chinese xianxia and xuanhuan series.
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Reverend Insanity is surely quite a large influence if you want Chinese xianxia and all of its trappings and foibles. Note: this is not me saying I think Reverend Insanity is good.
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Apr 1, 2024 22:27
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TheMaskedReader posted:If you would like another mega long chinese web novel(with a clunky translation), try My House of Horrors. I enjoyed it, maybe you would, too. I did enjoy that one. The translation was very questionable, though. I thought China came down hard on anything with supernatural elements in it halfway through writing. Is it still around somewhere?
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Katelepsis 22.3quote:We wanted to hiss, to screech, to unfold and unfurl until we were large enough to pull reality down upon the human mind, until we might see my parents as nothing but ugly lumps of living meat twisted into glugging chemical factories, and force them to look upon the shameless and incandescent truth. Holy moley Healther! You really need to take a few steps back from the edge there!
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A big flaming stink posted:SS patreon yeah the earth contract is going to cause incredible turmoil in anesidora with how many avowed it basically told "go find a hole to die in" like with emilija More soup Patreon: We don't know how many people actually died, so it's possible that besides the messaging the evacuation was actually pretty good... except of the known innocent victims in town (murder-happy looters getting throatpunched don't count) 1 out of 2 was a regular person visiting; that's going to raise some ugly questions about priorities. And, as you all said, people like Emilija, if she is fine, are going to wonder why they are even there, making it harder to get people to move... while the home countries become even more interested in keeping the magic mess as far away from them as possible.... though also if you're, say, the President of the US, you also have to wonder what would happen if the attack was on, say, the Statue of Liberty and not Matadero.
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SS patreon 'frailties' thoughts: Obviously there's going to be some kind of political shakeup, if only from the fallout of the device being let loose/lost track of by the Velras. I just wonder how bad it's going to get. This many people dying and getting injured in and around their only set of wizard schools, and not due to an unpreventable accident (e.g. unexpected chaos outbreak)? I feel like this might be about the time when the entire colonial government structure gets booted out, and their replacements heavily supervised by disapproving Artonans. Also feel like I need to reread the chapters where the sinker sender got triggered because I feel vague on exactly what happened. I can't remember if it was all 'horrible accident' or 'horrible accident started off by sabotage'.
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Holy poo poo https://www.reddit.com/r/bookbinding/comments/1btrk58/super_supportive_quarter_bind_with_recessed_cloth/
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Wittgen posted:SupSup 144 This was also my read on things. Most comments were guessing something related to Matadero or Earth's System, but that doesn't seem to make any sense. The specific cause of this whole event was political. And I trust the Earth System and Artonans to have a decent grasp of the magical stuff, while I obviously do not expect them to have a good understanding of Earth politics (and we've already been told that human Avowed-related social dynamics are unique and generally considered strange by the Artonans, so it makes sense that they would have underestimated the potential harm from inter-Avowed conflict on Earth).
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Related to SupSup 144 discussion but not direct spoilers. I think part of it is that humans are unusual in already being a global industrialised society before the Artonians uplifted them. We know that Earth is seen as a "paradise" posting but St`uart and that the Grevecks were still in their hunter-gatherer stage when the Artonians uplifted them. Given we know the climate of Mother III is more tropical and humid than you get on earth and Anesidora is cold, wet, and miserable, it's not the climate that makes it a cushy posting. I'd argue that its because it's got alot of the trappings of civilisation Artonians expect instead. This familiarity leads to Artonian blindness in other ways, especially early on when Earth's system was first constructed.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Related to SupSup 144 discussion but not direct spoilers. I don't think that's right. We have had Artonans comment on how it's odd humans don't even have automated vehicles, so I don't think it's a matter of amenities. I think it's a matter of chaos vs stability. There's a lot pointing to Earth being low chaos. Gorgon refers to it as a vacation world and also says what happened on Thegund was a light chaos breeze. Artona 1 has demonic incursions on the regular, while Earth has one controlled incursion a year. The knight observing the demon fight said the thing was drawn by the richness of Earth's reality. My read from all this is Earth is appealing because it's been barely any time at all since the Artonans showed up and started making GBS threads it up with the negative externalities of magic use.
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Given that I prefer to only read finished works -- what's the deal with Into the Mire? It looks like it just kind of stops halfway through book 2; is it worth reading book 1 on its own, with the understanding that it'll never get a completed sequel?
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when Book 1 ended I honestly thought that was the end of the story, for a while. It's got one weighty conclusion, as far as web serials go it wasn't until Book 2 started that I realized it wasn't meant to be so finite. I'm still confused by the decision, but you can treat it as an epilogue I guess. it's just table-setting for the next arc, some worldbuilding
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Yeah Book one is a perfectly reasonable end to the story. Book 2 certainly doesn't end in a satisfying place, but the first book is a complete story in itself.
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LLSix posted:I did enjoy that one. The translation was very questionable, though. I thought China came down hard on anything with supernatural elements in it halfway through writing.
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does rr have an ads page? I use the awful app these days, but I assume sa still has that page showing you all the currently-running banner ads. ads get a lot more interesting the moment I swipe to close the tab and it'd be nice to be able to track down the one I saw that caught my eye and immediately left my conscious memory
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SupSup RR: So the flashlight not working on machine-made mass produced parts is a statement that mass produced things are literally soulless, isn't it.
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Well I've caught up with Katalepsis's RR chapters. Some overall thoughts about the last quarter of the story or so. Edward getting dragged off to be digested for all eternity as he was at the precipice of his immortality is a fitting end for him. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. I really enjoy Jan and her whole awareness that she's the protagonist of her own story that she's refusing to engage in. Her metatextual awareness of Heather falling into fiction tropes gets a chuckle out of me each time. Plus Seven's sister going googoogaga over her as soon as she sees the doomed hero was a great gag. I do hope we continue to see her once Heather's sister is saved or confirmed to be unsalvageable. She's probably my second favorite supporting character after Praem. Though I don't really see any hooks for further story beyond Heather's sister's resolution, so maybe it'll end then. I had hoped that I'd timed my read to finish up with the conclusion of the eye, but looks like not! I've enjoyed the different personalities of the main cast in Cygnet to spice things up. I was pretty stoked for Night Praem to become something more than a running gag.
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soupsupp pat ch 145 is a great example of Sleyca's signature style. Funny and quietly churning with anxiety. Just the mc wandering through an entire pre-rendered backgrounds era adventure game's worth of empty hallways.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Well I've caught up with Katalepsis's RR chapters. Hey, thanks, really glad you've been enjoying the story. Jan is very likely one of the several POV characters I have lined up a for full story of her own in Book Two.
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Awesome! I forget if i got around to it but i meant to post that i want a story where we're riding along with Jan.
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Hungry posted:Hey, thanks, really glad you've been enjoying the story. Ah! Glad to hear it!. I really enjoy your work, so I'm looking forward to whatever you have planned when book 1 is finished.
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I've been rereading the web serial (comic) Order of the Stick. Anyone got suggestions for similarly lighthearted fun stories? Can you believe the first page was posted way back in 2003?
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LLSix posted:I've been rereading the web serial (comic) Order of the Stick. Anyone got suggestions for similarly lighthearted fun stories? (instantly crumbles into dust)
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LLSix posted:I've been rereading the web serial (comic) Order of the Stick. Anyone got suggestions for similarly lighthearted fun stories? This Quest is Broken! has similar vibes. Lady gets a quest to get bread from the bakery, universe conspires to stop her.
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Sibling of TB posted:Awesome! I forget if i got around to it but i meant to post that i want a story where we're riding along with Jan. Jan as a protagonist is gonna be real weird because she really does not want to be involved in any of this. Nitrousoxide posted:Ah! Glad to hear it!. I really enjoy your work, so I'm looking forward to whatever you have planned when book 1 is finished. Thank you! I also write Necroepilogos as well, though that's quite different in tone.
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Haystack posted:This Quest is Broken! has similar vibes. Lady gets a quest to get bread from the bakery, universe conspires to stop her. Oh, they changed the title?  (The previous title was "This Quest is Bullshit", which I admit caught my attention more than the current title would)
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atrus50 posted:soupsupp pat ch 145 is a great example of Sleyca's signature style. Funny and quietly churning with anxiety. Just the mc wandering through an entire pre-rendered backgrounds era adventure game's worth of empty hallways. (SupSup 145) Usually I enjoy the story's pace, but honestly, this chapter could have and should have been a couple of paragraphs at the top of an actual chapter. What's the takeaway, that Matadero is almost empty and Alden is in a bad mental place? This chapter was just... hollow. Not much there.
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Argue posted:Oh, they changed the title? It's still Bullshit on RR, they just changed the name for the Amazon release.
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