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Omi no Kami posted:It's not quite finished (the author estimates there are 3-5 chapters left to go and posts about 1 chapter/month), but Mother of Learning is really, really rad. The writing's a bit lacking on the technical level, but the plotting is great- the protagonist is a smart-but-lazy loner going to a magical school, and circumstances beyond his control trap him in a time loop. No explicit sex (although there are students in explicit poly/nonconventional relationships), lots of violence: people being brutally burned/exploded/lightning-ed to death in magical fights. Only real problem I could foresee for some teenage readers is that since the protagonist is in a time loop that resets when they die, as the story goes on they get pretty blase about using suicide/stupid plans that will most likely result in their messy death as strategies. So does Phil in Groundhog Day and I'd say that one's fine for teenagers. (If you or she somehow haven't seen Groundhog Day before, watch Groundhog Day, it's dope and my favorite movie.)
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Megazver posted:So does Phil in Groundhog Day and I'd say that one's fine for teenagers. (If you or she somehow haven't seen Groundhog Day before, watch Groundhog Day, it's dope and my favorite movie.) Very true. And yo, Groundhog Day is dark when you read between the lines. Like, I think it's implied that it took bill murray over a thousand years in the loop before he turned into not a jerk?
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Yeah when I first watched it as a kid I was like, wow, hes so wacky driving the car off a cliff. As an adult I was like oh jesus christ he just wants to die already, that's dark as gently caress.
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Silynt posted:lovely chapter of Black lecturing like Cat is still a child and her just going along with it, occasionally tossing in some petulant whining for good measure. I thought she had grown past that paternalistic bullshit. To be fair, most of what he said was correct (I was also sort of scratching my head about how the "removing all Named rulers" thing would work in practice, even if it would be good if it could be done) and I also get the impression that Cat wanted to be "advised."
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TWI Patreon: lol madonna's one of the humans now ok not really but drat is it satisfying to watch erin do all this crazy poo poo and just throw a bunch of people together to see what happens. I really enjoyed Grimalkin's and Maughin's interactions with the adventurers, also you go maughin, do that crazy interspecies romance thing. I'm kinda hopeful that the cast from Baleros--Niers and the United Nations humans--come to izril soon for more of those crazy hijinks. also jesus christ pirateaba has been writing 50000 words a week for like the past month.
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Omi no Kami posted:It's not quite finished (the author estimates there are 3-5 chapters left to go and posts about 1 chapter/month), but Mother of Learning is really, really rad. The writing's a bit lacking on the technical level, but the plotting is great- the protagonist is a smart-but-lazy loner going to a magical school, and circumstances beyond his control trap him in a time loop. No explicit sex (although there are students in explicit poly/nonconventional relationships), lots of violence: people being brutally burned/exploded/lightning-ed to death in magical fights. Only real problem I could foresee for some teenage readers is that since the protagonist is in a time loop that resets when they die, as the story goes on they get pretty blase about using suicide/stupid plans that will most likely result in their messy death as strategies. Idk, I feel like it loses a lot of momentum once it gets to Act 3
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Sampatrick posted:Idk, I feel like it loses a lot of momentum once it gets to Act 3 Oh yeah, for sure... I think I most enjoyed the first half, from the start of the loop through teaming up with Zach. Once he and Zach get together and Zorian starts, like, multi-threading his brain and farting shadow clones everywhere it stopped being quite as fun, and I've been really disappointed in how the post-loop story kinda asspulled angels out of nowhere and set up for a violent fight to solve everything instead of a sneaky intelligence/spy thing, which is what Zorian excels at. But even with the weaker sections I've had fun following it.
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Just noticed God King's Legacy started back up again. Lucia remains the best awful protagonist. Godking's Legacy posted:Is there something wrong with me? All I want to do is curl up into a ball and -
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Forge of Destiny chapter 60: Is the new talisman the silver hairpin? Do we know what it does? I can't find any other mention of it after she picks it up.
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Forge of Destiny chapter 60: Is the new talisman the silver hairpin? Do we know what it does? I can't find any other mention of it after she picks it up. Yes, that's the talisman being referenced. Only if you want to know what's up with the hairpin, it isn't that spoilery or anything though: The snowflake pin talisman enhances water and wind arts, which is pretty much any of her attacking arts at that point in time.
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Ward 15.6 Skipping over the horsehit of knocking out Narwhal, Chevalier, and VALKYRIE (and Triumvirate level Legend being apparently sidelined and stuck) off screen, Hells YES they got Contessa
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Uldor posted:Ward 15.6 Skipping over the horsehit of knocking out Narwhal, Chevalier, and VALKYRIE (and Triumvirate level Legend being apparently sidelined and stuck) off screen, Hells YES they got Contessa This is probably just tin-foil hat nonsense, but that honestly came off to me like WB handwaving away the increasing number of people who have been pointing out that most of the story's problems could've been solved super-easily by others, since those three are the ones most frequently brought up in the context of "...why oh why are Breakthrough the ones getting sent on this mission when <X,Y,Z>".
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The Wandering Inn is when Erin throws a party and the more party she throws the more The Wandering Inn it is. Edit: muscle wizard owns and I have high hopes for muscle pisces and muscle ceria
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90s Cringe Rock posted:The Wandering Inn is when Erin throws a party and the more party she throws the more The Wandering Inn it is. I want Relc to pick up magic
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Magic and a bar with the whole party standing on it.
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Larry Parrish posted:I want Relc to pick up magic by this I assume you mean "I want Relc to learn magic that makes him better at lifting things"
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Grimalkin spending the entire party freaking out at how sick the cast's gains could be if they tried was definitely the highlight of the chapter. although i kept imagining him as a grimalkyne from monster hunter
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I like the high fantasy parts more than other readers seem to but Erin throwing parties and smashing her toys together like the Infinity War of parties really is TWI at its very best. I can't believe I spent nearly 2 hours just reading about characters doing nothing but running around and having food and drinks together, let alone that pirateaba was able to type all that without her hands dissolving into a fine mist.
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We talk about Erin being a Mary Sue but this plan was actually smart. I didn’t figure it out till the Antium showed up. One of my favorite chapters in a bit, if only because as a bartender, I recognize the manic energy that comes from trying to get a group of strangers on the same page and on their way to becoming friends.
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one of the central themes of TWI is that information-age humans transported to another world will survive and thrive through their unique perspective on how to use instantaneous communication to allow for open exchange of ideas , and i've never felt more certain saying that than after this party chapter
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The climax of the serial is going to be Erin yelling BRING IT IN, GUYS!!
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Arc 2 of Not All Heroes concluded today. The third and final arc begins in two weeks.
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I knew Taint hadn't updated since like, January, but I didn't realize the author hadn't posted anything at all since March. Oof.
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LibrarianCroaker posted:I knew Taint hadn't updated since like, January, but I didn't realize the author hadn't posted anything at all since March. Oof. Yeah. Some chance that one'll come back but a slim one. Pity, the sense of weight and momentum in those fight scenes was unreal Though as impromptu endings go, that last arc's not half bad. 
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:Arc 2 of Not All Heroes concluded today. The third and final arc begins in two weeks. the last like 3 updates of this one had me on the edge of my seat
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TWI: oh boy a laken arc 
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A big flaming stink posted:TWI: oh boy a laken arc TWI Patreon oh boy a laken arc and he's not even there
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LibrarianCroaker posted:I knew Taint hadn't updated since like, January, but I didn't realize the author hadn't posted anything at all since March. Oof. I was always worried Taint was gonna stall the moment the two big main characters came into contact with one another. The whole premise of the story up to that point is basically "Character A tries to meet Character B" so now that they actually did meet it's like... is the story over? I mean, obviously not but the transition from Major Plot Arc A to Major Plot Arc B was always gonnna be rough no matter how you sliced it. ...did not expect months of radio silence though 
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I just figured the author was working on Trials instead, but nothing there either, so now I'm just hoping they're still alive.
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Ward 15.7 is actually a neat way of handling you-know-who. Introduce tension by making Breakthrough And Friends make the decisions of which Contessa scenario to roll with.
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Today on practical guide, Catherine takes a page from a rival villain unleashes a terrible fate upon the drow: Democracy.
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Lone Goat posted:TWI Patreon oh boy a laken arc and he's not even there This was probably the most boring TWI chapter I have read in months.
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i think that distinction goes to the recent magnolia chapter, but yeah, it really doesn't help that it comes right after some really interesting poo poo going down with erin and also having all those plot threads in Baleros currently hanging in the air. I've found that alot of these buildup chapters are pretty good upon reread, but the sheer amount of setup to actually get to the interesting parts (the goblins) is kind of tortuous. Personally I think pirateaba is doing this because she's trying to recover from writing close to sixty loving thousand words last week
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New MoL. One more normal chapter in 4-ish weeks, then he's planning on releasing all the remaining chapters in one big chunk.
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A big flaming stink posted:Personally I think pirateaba is doing this because she's trying to recover from writing close to sixty loving thousand words last week I am honestly not even sure how that is possible, I cap out at around five or six thousand words a day if I am writing business processes, guides for stuff or powerpoint presentations for my day job, let alone creative writing.
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A big flaming stink posted:TWI: I've found that alot of these buildup chapters are pretty good upon reread, but the sheer amount of setup to actually get to the interesting parts (the goblins) is kind of tortuous. Yeah she is really big on the foreshadowing, or how to call it. Even the Rakshgar rescue had entire chapter of Erin coming with a plan. I am pretty torn about this tendency, for one it can draw out the story in a very boring way, on the other some people do have lower reading comprehension and sometimes everyone has a bad day.
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The Skeep posted:Today on practical guide, Catherine takes a page from a rival villain unleashes a terrible fate upon the drow: Democracy. I mean, having your campaign promises be divinely enforced on pain of death is gonna do wonders for voter confidence.
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TWI Patreon: Ok, besides the (at least for now) out of left field underworld plot, while Octavia has been kind of a poo poo for most of the story, finally feels like she's either gonna get a redemption scenario of sorts or she's gonna get killed off. Also, Yellow Splatters and Numbtongue is  as hell
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After some delays due to health, The Lightning Brigade's second act has finished up. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25027/the-lightning-brigade-volume-1-four-beams-of-light And we're already at 100K. Which is concerning for any future plans to publish this. Mm. Problems for later. Though I will say, I'm proud of myself for one reason. Any time you can say that your story climaxes with a fist fight with a skeleton atop a mountain in Iran, you're probably doing something right.
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