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Years of Apocalypse: was zorian ever this bad? Huge chunks of granite rubble blocked off the tunnel, though someone had set up a shrine to Altrukyst, the guiding God, the God of travel. The statue was a smaller one, the kind generally found in a household shrine. Someone had brought it here, then carved the rubble behind it so it vaguely resembled a door. The lantern the statue was supposed to hold had fallen to the ground and shattered, though she could still see the stylized eye carved into the front of it. Strange place for a shrine, she thought. it's neat and I plan to finish reading it and then add it to my rss reader
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Yeah that's maybe my biggest criticism at least once things get going, is that she's pretty powerfully uninquisitive at times and seeing something early and then doing nothing about it isn't the same as foreshadowing that thing.
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May 8, 2024 05:14
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Made this for a RR comment since I have a bad time visualising places. I think it's correct? (Alden might be on the other side, though) Anesidora:  I hadn't really been able to put together how it looks before. Man, the Span is a bottleneck keeping the rich from the poors.
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May 8, 2024 10:36
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Yes, there was a Sleyca patreon comment confirming that layout.
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May 8, 2024 10:50
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Really? I thought that Apex was close to a 90 degree rotation from that. So the span would connect from F City to somewhere closer to one of the tips of the Apex crescent. Huh. I usually am not a big fan of maps in books, but SupSup manages to make me want a map.
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May 8, 2024 11:47
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Wittgen posted:Really? I thought that Apex was close to a 90 degree rotation from that. So the span would connect from F City to somewhere closer to one of the tips of the Apex crescent. Huh. Yeah I originally thought it was a big cescent with the Span connecting the two tips and f-city in the middle, but it's been pretty consistant. I think I imagined it the way way as you, because it's described as a moon, and we think of moons as sideways, but Apex is always north north north.
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May 8, 2024 12:29
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Oh, I didn't think F was in the middle of the crescent at all. I thought it was: ) | O But yeah, that Sleyca comment is definitive. Time to reconceptualize. Anesidora is weird.
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May 8, 2024 12:34
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Nettle Soup posted:Made this for a RR comment since I have a bad time visualising places. I think it's correct? (Alden might be on the other side, though) It's one crescent short. 
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May 8, 2024 12:43
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I have to admire your discipline in not posting this exact same thing but with the layout edited to 8===D
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May 8, 2024 13:50
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Kyoujin posted:It is frustrating. I still occasionally check to see if Super Minion, Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4, or Castle Kingside ever update... I just have all my serials in rss feeds so if one ever updates, it pops up on its own. Speaking of, there was a single Only Villains Do That chapter in the past week or so.
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May 8, 2024 19:45
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Years of Apocalypse: Good start re the first 30 chapters. But it's not as tense as I recall MoL was at the start. No real opposition. I can't believe I miss the other time traveller but it did add danger that is sort of lacking. The moon chapter was baller though. Really upped the ante for what's to come. The entire continent is going to poo poo. My only complaint so far is that the author uses the word "stuff" too much.
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May 8, 2024 21:25
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Affi posted:Years of Apocalypse: When she (Years of Apocalypse RR chapters) tried to board the airship again something made the soldier clue in and shoot her. She dismissed it as something she did but it made me wonder if there's another time traveler, maybe that marshal.
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May 8, 2024 21:48
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Time To Orbit 165 I'm betting that the Hylarians have fixed the Friend's brain damage and it is having a major freakout because of that, given how little concern they've shown for the patient's desires.
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May 8, 2024 23:29
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Bremen posted:When she (Years of Apocalypse RR chapters) tried to board the airship again something made the soldier clue in and shoot her. She dismissed it as something she did but it made me wonder if there's another time traveler, maybe that marshal. I kind of assume there are several time travelers. The whole source of time travel seems to be well suited for multiple people. And Mirian would probably not be anything's choice of champion if they had other options. So I've been assuming, on entirely 0 evidence, that she's a relatively late joiner to the time traveler wars - which is why everything is so crazy.
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May 9, 2024 01:33
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Nitrousoxide posted:Time To Orbit 165 TTo:U 165 Oh, almost certainly. Dr. Kim is going to be in Time Out for a very, very long time.
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May 9, 2024 03:51
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If anyone else fondly remembers Orbis Tertius the sort of sequel is out and being updated. So far it has the combination of funny prose, neurotic protagonist and creeping horror that made the last one so good.
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May 10, 2024 00:24
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i bet that guy likes Borges
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Bremen posted:When she (Years of Apocalypse RR chapters) tried to board the airship again something made the soldier clue in and shoot her. She dismissed it as something she did but it made me wonder if there's another time traveler, maybe that marshal. I'm looking at the young officer that accompanied her. The one gaping like a fish. Surprised that a normal loop resulted in the sudden appearance of a student in the middle of the command bridge. I believe the professors are causing the event somehow and the invasion is about stopping them
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May 10, 2024 12:00
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what the gently caress is up with the hole is that where the uh future soul comes slamming back down from space
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May 10, 2024 12:08
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90s Cringe Rock posted:what the gently caress is up with the hole Excellent question!
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People being extremely horny for Angharad's uncle will never get old.
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Affi posted:Years of Apocalypse: Yeah, I’m glad I gave this a shot. I figured that the identical plot (in broad strokes) to MoL meant it was otherwise going to be a cheap knockoff but it seems to be going in a different direction, and our MC is way messier than Zorian in a way I enjoy.
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May 10, 2024 15:30
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Patrick Spens posted:If anyone else fondly remembers Orbis Tertius the sort of sequel is out and being updated. So far it has the combination of funny prose, neurotic protagonist and creeping horror that made the last one so good. Orbis Tertius is one of the best stories on RR, I'll have to check this out.
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So I was reading the latest Pale Lights, and it occurred to me who Tupoc reminds me of, and it's Captain America. Without Heart, Captain America is a dick. Also, given the brain is part of the body, I assume that either the god's or Tupoc's idea of perfection is being a loving monster.
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NinjaDebugger posted:So I was reading the latest Pale Lights, and it occurred to me who Tupoc reminds me of, and it's Captain America. Without Heart, Captain America is a dick. Also, given the brain is part of the body, I assume that either the god's or Tupoc's idea of perfection is being a loving monster. Do you mean Captain Planet?
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Nitrousoxide posted:Do you mean Captain Planet? No.
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NinjaDebugger posted:So I was reading the latest Pale Lights, and it occurred to me who Tupoc reminds me of, and it's Captain America. Without Heart, Captain America is a dick. Also, given the brain is part of the body, I assume that either the god's or Tupoc's idea of perfection is being a loving monster. Do you mean the Red Skull? The Red Skull is an evil person who got the same treatment as Captain America. Oops. Added spoiler tags in. LLSix fucked around with this message at 23:27 on May 10, 2024 |
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May 10, 2024 23:09
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LLSix posted:Do you mean the Red Skull? The Red Skull is an evil person who got the same treatment as Captain America. ...yeah, fair. I wasn't aware of that particular bit of trivia, I'm not a comics guy.
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NinjaDebugger posted:So I was reading the latest Pale Lights, and it occurred to me who Tupoc reminds me of, and it's Captain America. Without Heart, Captain America is a dick. Also, given the brain is part of the body, I assume that either the god's or Tupoc's idea of perfection is being a loving monster. lol ???
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if you want to make a simile, maybe you should use a character you are actually familiar with?
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But, Orodan was an idiot, and he was stubborn. He persisted and refused to stop. e: “Who the hells is he?!”
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NinjaDebugger posted:So I was reading the latest Pale Lights, and it occurred to me who Tupoc reminds me of, and it's Captain America. Without Heart, Captain America is a dick. Also, given the brain is part of the body, I assume that either the god's or Tupoc's idea of perfection is being a loving monster. I love Tupoc is such an rear end in a top hat but you still kind of like him anyway.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:But, Orodan was an idiot, and he was stubborn. He persisted and refused to stop. That was genuinely a great chapter. Having practically everyone go "what the gently caress is this guys deal" was great.
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I really do have to wonder about the folks who publish fanfiction to Royal Road. Like, nothing against fanfics, but is that really a good place to put them? I'd think literally everyone who sits down and wants to read about Naruto kissing Sasuke is going to go straight to AO3.
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nrook posted:I really do have to wonder about the folks who publish fanfiction to Royal Road. Like, nothing against fanfics, but is that really a good place to put them? I'd think literally everyone who sits down and wants to read about Naruto kissing Sasuke is going to go straight to AO3. I think they put them everywhere at the same time
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Yeah, lots of people crosspost stuff between multiple different sites. And some fanfic is on the rising stars and best lists, so there's clearly an audience for it on royal road.
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nrook posted:I really do have to wonder about the folks who publish fanfiction to Royal Road. Like, nothing against fanfics, but is that really a good place to put them? I'd think literally everyone who sits down and wants to read about Naruto kissing Sasuke is going to go straight to AO3. Worked for the Cultist of Cerebon guy; he started off posting WOW fanfic on RR, now he's making mid-four figures on Patreon posting his own poo poo for the audience he built up.
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Yeah, I guess they must get readers, otherwise nobody would do it. But it's still surprising to me.
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nrook posted:Yeah, I guess they must get readers, otherwise nobody would do it. But it's still surprising to me. I imagine being on Royal Road gives a sense of idk 'legitimacy' to people who read tons of webnovels but turn their noses up at Ff.net or AO3? And while it has a much smaller audience overall I think you probably have more luck with crossover readers on Royal Road than on dedicated fanfic sites where everything is more heavily silo'd. There's a pretty large amount of dead/near dead fandoms that will almost certainly get more eyes on a fic if its on Royal Road. looking at demographics, they're basically the inverse of each other too. Royal Road skews 70/30 male/female and fanfic sites tend to be about 35/65 so it could be about appealing to that as well. Zore fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 11, 2024 |
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