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Nettle Soup posted:He didn't spend that much time with Ryoka, but he did spend some time with the butler... Reynold? Maybe that's who he's referring to This was my take on it (Wandering Inn 4.22)
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Silynt posted:It was the cliffhanger from the chapter before this that I posted about last week, saying "Look forward" to it.... I desperately wanted to say something about the end of this chapter on Saturday, but I didn't want to be that guy posting about the Patreon chapters every single upload day. But now that it is live to the world: that ending really pissed me off. I guess ultimately it comes down to me not liking character death (not a fan of "grimdark" fantasy settings), but this death felt particularly arbitrary. To develop a character over several books, just to kill him because of a child's temper tantrum annoyed the poo poo out of me. But the world moves on, and I assume there is a plan. Wandering Inn: What a pointless ending to a cool chapter. Either kill Ryo or don’t, we’re invested in her and the secrets she is carrying. A random gnoll paying for Az being less than great and powerful in the eyes of a toddler is a dull outcome that just sucks the tension out of the threat. We already have toren for dumb undead murderhobo and he’s at least comedic unlike the toddler. The undead are scarier when they are channeling Az to laugh and cuddle mrsha than when they kill Bru. I really wish they just walked away charming everyone into an open ended come again soon style magical invitation. In fact imagine how much scarier it would be if instead of murdering Bru, they convinced Erin to give them a doorknob, and had wrangled an open invitation to go on the visit to the walled city. What a wasted opportunity.
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Yeah I liked the chapter a lot then random ending sucked a lot of the tension out.
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TWI: I don't mind Bru dying - at best I went "meh" about him as a character. I'm more annoyed by how out of place with the tone of the rest of the chapter it is, and how it serves to undercut the tension established throughout. Naming the chapter death, then having your readers wondering if it's Ryo the whole way through, is masterfully done. Then the ending of the chapter manages to feel just 'bleh'. It's not that Bru died, it's the way and reason that felt like letting the air of out a bag slowly. Erin is great - I laugh every time she has the focus because the entire joke from my pov is that usually in these portal fantasy stories the main character is OP as gently caress and goes on to conquer the world etc where here the main character is OP as gently caress and gives zero shits or thoughts to consequences and it comes back to bite her. Her mary sueness is the joke to me. IDK.
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Argue posted:Are there chapter titles I don't know about? All I see are numbers and the occasional letter. I think it's just the way my browser formatted it. I had 4.28 Death. It's definitely inconsistent, usually it's just Number, occasionally it's Number + <secondary viewpoint letter>
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TWI is pretty great atm. I think there is potential for a new faerie instead. Maybe reincarnation instead of resurrection. Also reasonable to offer insight into a new vector of magic as an outcome of the high passes passing. Lots of interesting options.
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WTC: Uther being monstrous In multiple ways was surprisingly upsetting.
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May 1, 2018 23:30
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Even less coherently organized than normal fiction or even: Web Serials
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Solidarity with the "meh wildbow" opinion. If I wanted unrelenting bleakness I could ponder entropic decay.
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:If you want a web serial with concise chapters, I recommend Into the Mire. I like twi when it’s erin and the inn and things like the tension with slave skellibro, and my interest in the rest varies a lot as we get further away. I mostly tuned out of it when it was clear we’d be reading about rags forever because TWI goblins are different  but that trope was done in less words with more style elsewhere (even Rowling) and the segments drag on interminably for no obvious reason.As a story about a girl with plot armor becoming an innkeeper in Adventureland it is interesting.
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I always remember a snow fox leads the kid who punches the tree and Lyndon’s entire path starts from that fruit argument, then blame elder whisper. “You have eaten a wondrous fruit.” Indeed.
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Well wuxia and magical rationalism have different tropes but share a, Hrm, motto? One of the defining tropes of the cultivator genre is that forward progress follows training after some kind of sudden insight, sometimes encapsulated as “study and grow strong”so teachers/artifacts/elixirs etc as sudden insight generators are de rigeur. Magical rationalism is rooted in something like “magic works now apply the scientific method to grow strong”. The motto is the same but the source of inspiration is different.
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Ytlaya posted:Isn't TWI the only major transmigration Western web serial? There is a lot of professionally edited western transmigration fantasy that does a better job with this stuff than twi if we’re allowing published instead of WN
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Every Heart a Doorway (Series) Stephen R. Donaldson (Author - Both Thomas Covenant and Mordan't Need are portal fantasy) Jack L Chalker (Author - Changewinds, others - Not really portal fantasy but Well World is definitely something to read) Narnia (Series) Fairyland (Series) Shades of Magic (Series) Coraline (Standalone) Stormwrack (Series) Magonia (Series) So there's a lot of work that's been done here - even in trad pub. The WN format for isekai/portal fantasy is a bit different, but if you just want "person from earth ends up in a fantasy kingdom" take your pick from the above. Note that not all of that stuff is going to be to one person's taste, but it's all established successful works so some people like it quite a lot.
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Cradle talk Eithan blocked the reasonable outs for jai d to force him to put his clan at risk, but didn’t expect the exact risk jai d would take. This is typical of eithan, he blocks the reasonable things and forces escalation that he sometimes handles, and other times has to resort to contingencies to survive.
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Cradle still: Yeah I like Eithan, and I think the reaction to the Akuma name and some of the stuff in ghostwater gets back to that same reverence of the early makuth guy. I'm hype for Underlord tonight
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A fair request. I’ve been blowing through metaworld chronicles recently, feel sad now that I’ve caught up to the author. Anyone else enjoy them?
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Jade Mage posted:Occasionally I consider reading Wandering Inn but this thread always makes me hold back and find something else. Every few weeks something seems to be very bad in TWI, and it's not too often the same thing over and over. I peaced out after goblins became a recurring and boring part of the story and I don't feel the need to go back. Solidarity, stay strong. It's also better than WIldbow, because wildbow is actively seeking to be bleaker than Nietzsche without being that interesting. Anias fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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If you like the isekai survivor therapy circle enough to want a novella, check out Every heart a doorway by Seanan McGuire.
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Why do goons keep reading wildbow? There's a lot of better stuff out there. Like, you can just stop reading thinly veiled torture porn.
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Flesnolk posted:I don't, I just make attempts to convince people Wildbow Bad Carry on fighting the good fight.
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Omi no Kami posted:I don't think it's asking too much for a story to be rigorously-structured and effectively told, regardless of the format it's composed and delivered in. This is too much to ask in any format. There are counterexamples all over the place.
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Peanut Butler posted:what are the current good web serials that aren't about superheroes or knights and wizards? So cultivators and rogues and "Other" is your jam?
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Lone Goat posted:like imagine being someone that writes 30000 boring words (or however many chapters i read before i gave up on their book) and then getting mad that someone does that twice a week and they're actually good But enough about Terry Goodkind...
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The Shortest Path posted:I've taken a pretty long hiatus from both Prac Guide and TWI and I'm gonna go back in by starting from the beginning again, but I can't decide which to read first. Into The Mire
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M. Night Skymall posted:This was a while ago but I assume you were talking about what is now the latest non-patreon chapter and man, that was pretty hosed up. I feel like the story's veering a little hard into protag as a sociopath lately. Eh I’m assuming he’s performing for the audience. I wouldn’t feel comfortable describing the “real” Jason at this point.
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Megazver posted:Going out of your way to build up an elaborate image of yourself as a sociopathic rear end in a top hat, as he has been for the past twenty or so chapters, is hardly a sign of mental health either. Except he also spent days at a time being kind and demonstrating empathy to the non-Essence population? I think he’s deceptive, but I don’t know that his mental health prior to vast trauma was sociopathy, and I think he’s acted more in line with post trauma than active malevolence so far.
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Because if you really liked worm and the magic of wildbow has worn off but you are still reading hoping for redemption then Taylor must be in here somewhere. It takes a long time for people to get over wildbow and move on, and one stage of that process seems to be “Taylor will save this” I honestly skim most posts talking about WB these days because all of my friends have finally moved on, but for a while they too looked for Taylor and that’s my best explanation for it.
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I’ve said before but it bears repeating, wildbow is a misery writer. He writes what he knows and that is apparently soul crushing depression and power fantasy that ends in even darker soul eating depression.
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Obviously a goose beats both.
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madwhitesnake posted:Hi all. This is good. I would like to order another 500,000 pages and a few HEA. You could probably get this looked at by tradpub.
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Ytlaya posted:- At various points a body chassis is referred to as being made of silk and gemstones, but they also obviously function as flesh and blood. Was the former just to emphasize how good they looked, or is there some special mechanic to the way people merge their pith into the bodies? There's a scene where a body turns from manufactured to essentially biological + whatever the mystical stuff is, so the people making the custom bodies have figured out some sort of formal possibly industrial standard and process for laying in the magic that triggers a transformation/transmutation effect when a pith transfers.
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Nurglings posted:ty Check out will's discord if you haven't.
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Megazver posted:I mean, that was pretty juicy! Thanks. So you'll have it done by Wednesday, is what I'm hearing.
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Apr 5, 2020 21:36
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Be brief. Readers grok longer sentences. They like shorter.
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violent sex idiot posted:the most recent arc of ward is maybe the best stuff wildbow has ever written so if you like the things he writes it's probably worth catching up If true, this is the best reason to not read wildbow the thread can offer. Wildbow’s best isn’t great.
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Sampatrick posted:i havent read a chapter of wtc since the rape chapter and i see absolutely no reason why i should Same
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textbookOrigins posted:The latest Worth the Candle chapters were a delight. I'm glad I trusted the author to handle certain subjects well enough for me and that I continue to experience joy with each update. I'm happy for you too. I just don't trust them to handle stuff well. It's ok to like different things.
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Web Serial Megathread: Wildbow is a depressing slog and I do not recommend bothering.
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tithin posted:Well that's a positive. Eh. Disagree. It starts interesting then becomes sprawling and verbose and frankly worrisome as it goes along. I jumped ship when I was tired of it and have no time or interest in a second pass.
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