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Slurs bad. Website down. Maybe it'll be replaced with a new name. I want WB to take a break though, drat.
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It already has a new name. https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/
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Safety Biscuits posted:Stop being stupid about slurs, please. Quoting for a new page for anyone else who missed this. I'm the Book Barn IK. Feel free to PM me or email bookbarnsecretsanta@gmail.com if I can help you with anything.
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The Shortest Path posted:This is the exact opposite of that, though. Most people living outside of the UK and the few other places where that's a thing don't know that poof is used as a pejorative. WB is canadian and, as has been discussed in here before, a bit sheltered in some ways. I was making fun of the poster I was responding to, not wildbow. Anyway looks like it's handled now so we can move on. Anyone have a good source for a synopsis of Pact? I read it a long time ago and just want a Coles notes version to catch myself up.
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May 7, 2020 08:17
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Lone Goat posted:Anyone have a good source for a synopsis of Pact? I read it a long time ago and just want a Coles notes version to catch myself up. 
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May 7, 2020 10:56
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quote:Louise’s eyes welled with moisture as an animal cry shook her house, and she found herself shivering as it died away. She shivered in a very different way when she wiped at one eye and her fingertips came away crimson with blood. how do people read this
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May 7, 2020 14:03
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Mel Mudkiper posted:how do people read this  Easily, my standards aren't very high when it comes to prose. (Or maybe I just don't understand the issue)
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May 7, 2020 14:07
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Louise’s eyes welled with moisture as an animal cry shook her house, and she found herself shivering as it died away. She shivered in a very different way when she wiped at one eye and her fingertips came away crimson with blood. Blood? Blood. Crimson, copper-smelling blood. Her blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. And bits of sick.
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May 7, 2020 14:13
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Louise’s eyes welled with moisture as an animal cry shook her house, and she found herself shivering as it died away. She shivered in a very different way when she wiped at one eye and her fingertips came away crimson with blood. Blood? Blood. Crimson, copper-smelling blood. Her blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. And bits of sick. She stared in disbelief as her hands fell off. From them rose millions of tiny maggots. Maggots? Maggots. Maggots. Maggots. Maggots... all over the floor of the post office in Leytonstone.
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May 7, 2020 14:15
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Mel Mudkiper posted:She stared in disbelief as her hands fell off. From them rose millions of tiny maggots. Maggots? Maggots. Maggots. Maggots. Maggots... all over the floor of the post office in Leytonstone.
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May 7, 2020 14:20
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gently caress that was gonna be my next one
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May 7, 2020 14:23
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Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary. Plus hero summoned to another world.
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May 7, 2020 14:24
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Nina's eyes popped out of what was left of her back. Why oh why had she opened that tomb? The sand turned red. This was because she was bleeding on it. Blood - ruby-red blood, her blood. Blood… and piss and poo poo. This was the worst day of her life. A blue box appeared in front of her. She'd earned 20xp in the [shitter] class. Please tell me this is a joke. It's hard to tell with web serials nowadays.
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May 7, 2020 16:01
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Kalas posted:Please tell me this is a joke. It's hard to tell with web serials nowadays. If anything the prose of Garth Marenghi is probably still a tick above
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May 7, 2020 16:03
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Omi no Kami posted:Yoink: https://wildbow.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/ward-off-a-retrospective-on-a-sequel/ between this post and the whole title renaming thing I have become convinced that an artist must always write from a purely adversarial position with his or her readers
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May 7, 2020 16:42
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I don't think ---- Pale is supposed to be a full fledged Pact Sequel, WB said in the Ward wrap up post on his blog that he would be doing a bunch of shorter works for a while to try and decompress and get out from under the weight of 5 years of continuity. A lot of the tone from end of Ward was about slowing down and taking a breather instead of charging heedlessly right back into the fight. Maybe WB will still refuse to break the chain on posting twice a week, but going off and doing a bunch of short stories that are way quicker and easier to write could be a decent compromise in terms of time off. And similarly, as a reader, now that I can put the Worm-verse up on the shelf, it frees up a lot of RAM for other stories. That said, I know I would love to see stuff from the Pact verse that doesn't have the sort of breakneck pace and grinding doom that Pact itself had. There were any number of oddball practitioners and creatures in Pact that could have been the focus of their own story. I already want to know what's up with the creature in Pale. And really, hilariously embellished bloodbloodblood quotation aside, Pale leads with a strong dose of mundane horror. The thoroughly painted picture about how Lousie is suffering so badly from a realistic medical problem that could easily happen to anyone hits harder than a few drops of magic eye blood. Pith does the same thing in arc one, and it's powerful for the same reasons. If you look past all the genre tropes, you have someone trying to live with a serious illness. That alone is scary, for good reason.
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May 7, 2020 18:01
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jboslund posted:WB said in the Ward wrap up post on his blog that he would be doing a bunch of shorter works for a while to try and decompress and get out from under the weight of 5 years of continuity. Kalas posted:Please tell me this is a joke. It's hard to tell with web serials nowadays.
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May 7, 2020 19:45
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Nina's eyes popped out of what was left of her back. Why oh why had she opened that tomb? The sand turned red. This was because she was bleeding on it. Blood - ruby-red blood, her blood. Blood… and piss and poo poo. This was the worst day of her life. A blue box appeared in front of her. She'd earned 20xp in the [shitter] class. What the gently caress is happening in this thread
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The Shortest Path posted:What the gently caress is happening in this thread I dunno, that could literally be from some of the more terrible LitRPGs out there.
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May 7, 2020 20:30
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The Shortest Path posted:What the gently caress is happening in this thread Bad prose is a kind of psychic attack.
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May 7, 2020 20:31
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Hungry posted:Bad prose is a kind of psychic attack. Does that mean that we should look forward to Heather creating a RoyalRoad account and attacking other cults by writing secret shipfic about her housemates? (She'll gain some popularity, but never come close to unseating the site's premiere body horror romance, which Praem has been writing in secret. Please look forward to the serial community teaching her all the wrong things about what it means to be human.)
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May 7, 2020 21:34
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Twil will kill anyone who finds her Teen Wolf account.
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May 7, 2020 22:03
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Omi no Kami posted:Does that mean that we should look forward to Heather creating a RoyalRoad account and attacking other cults by writing secret shipfic about her housemates? (She'll gain some popularity, but never come close to unseating the site's premiere body horror romance, which Praem has been writing in secret. Please look forward to the serial community teaching her all the wrong things about what it means to be human.) I can't imagine anything more horrifying than Praem being taught by royal road readers, please stop giving Hungry ideas. 
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May 7, 2020 22:05
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Something about wildbow's prose is like Tetris where if you've been reading it too long you start to constantly imagine the italicized text following random things you're thinking. I don't know exact figures on it, but I heavily associate wildbow things with a pattern of sentences/paragraphs followed by italicized text that runs counter to the preceding paragraph or involves an idea that is supposed to be surprising or startling.
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May 7, 2020 22:56
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Twil will kill anyone who finds her Teen Wolf account. I think you spelled "Evelyn" wrong. The Shortest Path posted:I can't imagine anything more horrifying than Praem being taught by royal road readers, please stop giving Hungry ideas. The real eldritch horror is the communities we joined along the way.
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May 7, 2020 23:12
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TWI Patreon: Geneva's life sounds like a goddamn nightmare now, the idea of slowly being taken over and pushed out of your body creeps me the gently caress out, ugh
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May 10, 2020 10:31
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Peachfart posted:TWI Patreon: Geneva's life sounds like a goddamn nightmare now, the idea of slowly being taken over and pushed out of your body creeps me the gently caress out, ugh You know you are in for a ride when the chapter has trigger warnings. I suspect the other sylphids were watching for that. That feels like it was more then a 'nick of time' rescue. At least Geneva will get her team of helpers that don't have to worry about the virus.
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I know this is probably a long shot, but does anyone have any good romance/slice of life web serials? Ideally where the relationship is the main point, not tacked onto level up/gamelit garbage, but I don't mind if there is a backdrop of that (or Wuxia, or sci fi or whatever).
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Dagg3r posted:I know this is probably a long shot, but does anyone have any good romance/slice of life web serials? I don't write romance as the main point or slice of life, but I used to write romance for a living and I write character based stories in a cyberpunk world. Specifically Shadowrun. The backdrop is a magic high school (I know, I know) and the main character of the first book has an initial lesbian will they or won't they, followed in later books by a maturing of the relationship in a realistic way where they can actually have disagreements and anxiety and such without the relationship becoming "not meant to be" which is a trope within the subgenre. At the same time, the subplot isn't really meant for a male audience to ogle over. In fact, I'm anti-ogling because they're under eighteen lesbian girls and I don't want to be a creep. What I'm more interested in was writing to an audience who don't have a lot of media directed at them about what young love looks like and what a relationship looks like up close. Setting good expectations. Especially, as I mentioned later, when the relationship matures. A lot of media focuses on the initial chase or the breakup or dysfunction, because that drives conflict, and not what a healthy, functioning relationship looks like. Later on in book five I add a hetero relationship with one of the other protagonists (there are three) and it's different in flavor. Both are wounded people with their own trauma, but they don't let that trauma define them while at the same time switching between happy, chaotic and melancholy. I'll be frank and say that my work isn't slice of life nor is it based in romance, but it is character driven and if my readers/co-authors are to be believed, I frequently tug on their heartstrings. So you'll find both romance and slice of life woven into the narrative. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3835049 for the serial on the forums. https://blakeisland.wordpress.com/ for something easier to read and more polished, but a few chapters behind. Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 02:18 on May 11, 2020 |
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Dagg3r posted:I know this is probably a long shot, but does anyone have any good romance/slice of life web serials? The Simulacrum on Royal Road started out by making fun of harem animes. Then it turned into one. Ice Phisherman's stuff is good. You might like Mother of Learning on Royal Road. It was written to help the author flesh out the day to day life of his world. Fair bit of combat and magic focused though. Royal Road has a Romance tag you can filter searches on. Reader beware.
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Mother of Learning is great, though I was mildly bummed that Zorian and Taiven never got together. It felt like the story couldn't make up its mind- both of them clearly said that they weren't all that into each other, but it also wrote them like they were totally into each other.
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Omi no Kami posted:Mother of Learning is great, though I was mildly bummed that Zorian and Taiven never got together. It felt like the story couldn't make up its mind- both of them clearly said that they weren't all that into each other, but it also wrote them like they were totally into each other. I felt like it made perfect sense, given that Zorian is mentally in his late 20s or older and would be too different from Taiven due to that (even if you ignore that the mental age gap is ethically dubious). The thing that bugged me is that Zach ended up not having much of a role in the "end game" of the series. I liked Zach a lot, and while his actions/mindset more or less make sense (IIRC at that point Zach was worn down mentally and had basically given up on surviving, so he wasn't really invested in solving things like Zorian was) it was still a bummer for him to have so little focus at the end given he was the character who unquestionably spent the most time with Zorian. Ice Phisherman posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3835049 for the serial on the forums. Ah, thanks for reminding me of this. I had started reading it a while back and found it interesting, but forgot to continue reading. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 05:54 on May 11, 2020 |
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May 11, 2020 05:52
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LLSix posted:The Simulacrum on Royal Road started out by making fun of harem animes. Then it turned into one. I bounced off of The Simulacrum some time in the second main part, might have to give it another shot. Ice Phisherman’s stuff is quite good, agreed.
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May 11, 2020 06:12
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Ytlaya posted:I felt like it made perfect sense, given that Zorian is mentally in his late 20s or older and would be too different from Taiven due to that (even if you ignore that the mental age gap is ethically dubious). Yeah, that's definitely true. I think part of it was that I found the whole "Weirdass autistic brain wizard learns to human" thing genuinely interesting early on, when he was like 'I've used my telepathy to deduce that people's outward behavior does not match their real feelings on a 1:1 basis' and the audience was like 'No poo poo'. But after a while a lot of that got backseated, and I think it would've been really interesting to see the aftermath. Because yeah, he killed the cultists and stopped the bad thing, but holy poo poo he's a maladjusted teenager in his late 20s coming down from 10+ years of nonstop fight-or-flight, also he can explode things with his brain. So yeah- I think seeing more of the slice of life crap would've been welcome especially in the back half. And yeah, Zach got robbed. Like, the poor guy didn't even show up in the epilogue, what the hell?
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I thought he showed up? I hope the author keeps the world going and goes into a slice of life with the cast as is. There is a lot of potential there and with the stakes higher and exploring ptsd maybe it could be great
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Dagg3r posted:I know this is probably a long shot, but does anyone have any good romance/slice of life web serials? Well.... Romance seems to be huge as a genre on Webnovel.com and while most non-romance novels on that site are dogshit there are a few really good ones being published there, so surely there has to be some good stuff among the popular romance novels as well?
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Ytlaya posted:I felt like it made perfect sense, given that Zorian is mentally in his late 20s or older and would be too different from Taiven due to that (even if you ignore that the mental age gap is ethically dubious). Just from a social angle, going more than a few years older than themselves probably isn't feasible.
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I thought it made sense that Zorian and Taiven didn't end up together because Zorian already got burned super hard by Taiven and had put quite a bit of energy into moving past that. That kind of thing is tough enough to backtrack without a big clusterfuck like the time loop. Then post time loop, she thinks she's older than him and way better at combat magic. But surprise he's older and so far beyond her that the revelation of his skills is crushing to her. They seemed like a great example of two people who could have been a good couple with better timing. More slice of life stuff with Zorian building his life and repaying his accumulated debts would be great. I think the author said that if he wrote more in the world, it would be exactly that, so I'm definitely looking forward to that in the murky future.
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