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... whiiine
POSTED:nothin'.
IN PROGRESS:
-svsss - cosplaying in another dimension with my tamagotchi! chapter 2 (554 words)
-grimmichi - bloodsport (314 words)
-suburban ot4 chapter 20 (1 407 words)
-a POV switching scene for a meme for cherry wine that does not count as anything complete because it's gonna stay on tumblr (564 words)
Also posted, though written like four years ago:
-In This Economy chapters 1 to 3, AKA the ichigo/orihime/grimmjow/nelliel suburban ot4.
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teasers:
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svsss
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#1 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
Anybody here who can rec me solidly written, well-thought-out isekai that avoids the common idiot protag pitfalls?
#2 Cang Qiong Mountain Stair-Cleaning Manager
Ohh, I know a few titles. Do you have examples of pitfalls though?
#3 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
The basics. "Are you guys actors? Is this a TV set?", spending a gold piece on a sandwich, showing up with lore-broken powers and immediately disrespecting their elders because they're now too cool for school, buying a slave with big bazongas when they can't even reliably feed themselves...
But errors related to qi and cultivation as well, like early hiccups and wrong choices of direction in their cultivation that have bad consequences down the road, stuff like that.
#4 Cang Qiong Mountain Stair-Cleaning Manager
I'm looking at my bookmarks for you! But do you want random new world or fallen into an existing world that they heard about? Those aren't the same mistakes. Like just between Seven Words Saint's Seven Swords Dance and PIDW the differences in how cultivation works are pretty massive.
So I guess the first and biggest mistake is a protagonist not figuring out how exactly it goes and going with assumptions and vague memories of the genre instead!
#5 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
Ah! Like whether the earliest stages are similar for all cultivation paths and you differentiate later on, or whether you need to lock on pretty early, whether you *can* learn several paths' secrets as long as they're sufficiently compatible... Thank you, that's very useful.
#6 Falling head first into Yan-yan's rack<3
Buying the slave with big bazongas and no combat prowess.
#7 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
I'll... keep that in mind. Anything about cultivation mistakes?
#8 Falling head first into Yan-yan's rack<3
Not stealing any cultivation manual that's not nailed down.
#5 grass your mother and fuck your horse
attempting to predict the current story bcz they know the original story without thinking of the fact that since they have been *changing* things, it *isn't* going to go the same way except where it's convenient!
#6 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
Oh well, naturally. That sounds pretty idiotic.
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bloodsport
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Ichigo drifted a bit closer to observe the field. Baseball? Basketball? There were markings on the ground but no pattern he could recognize. And the second layer of fencing was doubled with some kind of transparent but scratched to hell and back layer of plastic, like there was a risk that the ... balls? shuttlecocks? rocks? would escape the field through the gaps.
"Was that where you were bringing me?" he asked Charlotte quietly as she leaned a shoulder against the fence to keep an eye on the street and on the teenagers.
"One of the places." She hummed thoughtfully, arms crossed loosely; something in her aura shifted hypnotically under the skin, a sort of vague, nostalgia-tinged anticipation. "The worst neighborhood is Desesperación and it's another half-hour away at best, and we'd have to bring in the rest of the team to keep idiots from bothering us. So if you want to go it'll have to wait for another day."
Okay, that was a lot of implications at once. "Deses--what?"
"Desesperación, like the caste? They were pretty segregated. We're not in the historical Destrucción district here, that's another hour and a half out into the wilderness, but there's a pretty big contingent--"
"Wait, wait. I, uh. Ah."
Askin as always was zero help, only smiling encouragingly while exuding an aura of 'not my business.'
"I know jack shit about castes. I thought it wasn't... really a thing anymore?"
"They like to say that," Charlotte commiserated, a laugh at the back of her voice. "Don't you guys have them too?"
"We mostly have Echt and Gemischt and... Lower than that."
"What's that translate as?"
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suburban ot4
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"It wasn't because I didn't want you to know. It was -- I wanted to go to you straight away, and -- and probably cry all over you, aheh--" Orihime laughs awkwardly; looks away. Forces her shoulders down and her chin back up as she sobers up. "I was -- it was so much, and I couldn't..."
She stalls again. Nelliel throws her a verbal buoy. "What happened, anyway? Last I knew the only problem was the constant leaks, and I figure, without the added stress of two more people on your pipes..."
She does know some. Grimmjow let her glance through his messages. But it's not the same as hearing it from her.
"No, no -- I mean." Orihime sneaks her an apologetic look. "It probably did speed things up. But the plumbing was old and it rusted, so it would have happened anyway. It's not your fault."
Nelliel isn't convinced, but she hums an acknowledgement anyway.
Orihime sighs, pensive. "No, what happened was Ichigo got into a fight with the landlord. Not even really a fight, just -- but then he had said it, so we had to go along with it--"
"Hime, that's not what happened, that's a disclaimer about what happened."
"--Agh. Sorry. ... Sorry." A sigh. "He has a temper, you know. He knows he has it, so he works on it hard, but sometimes he gets all heated up and it makes him impulsive. When we were in high school some months he'd get detention once a week."
All of which isn't the explanation Nel asked for, and she's about to say it, impatient--
"The landlord passed by just to make sure you guys were really leaving and was smug when he saw you were packing, and then he asked when we would see him for the lease renewal where he made very sure we didn't get to have guests again, so Ichigo said we wouldn't. See him, that is."
"Hm."
"And he'd been brooding ever since we were told to kick you out about -- about me not having friends in the neighborhood and feeling lonely after you left, and he got angry for me, and I -- I never asked him to!"
... Oh. Nel softens, watching her lip tremble, her brows furrow.
... whiiine
POSTED:nothin'.
IN PROGRESS:
-svsss - cosplaying in another dimension with my tamagotchi! chapter 2 (554 words)
-grimmichi - bloodsport (314 words)
-suburban ot4 chapter 20 (1 407 words)
-a POV switching scene for a meme for cherry wine that does not count as anything complete because it's gonna stay on tumblr (564 words)
Also posted, though written like four years ago:
-In This Economy chapters 1 to 3, AKA the ichigo/orihime/grimmjow/nelliel suburban ot4.
--
teasers:
--
svsss
--
#1 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
Anybody here who can rec me solidly written, well-thought-out isekai that avoids the common idiot protag pitfalls?
#2 Cang Qiong Mountain Stair-Cleaning Manager
Ohh, I know a few titles. Do you have examples of pitfalls though?
#3 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
The basics. "Are you guys actors? Is this a TV set?", spending a gold piece on a sandwich, showing up with lore-broken powers and immediately disrespecting their elders because they're now too cool for school, buying a slave with big bazongas when they can't even reliably feed themselves...
But errors related to qi and cultivation as well, like early hiccups and wrong choices of direction in their cultivation that have bad consequences down the road, stuff like that.
#4 Cang Qiong Mountain Stair-Cleaning Manager
I'm looking at my bookmarks for you! But do you want random new world or fallen into an existing world that they heard about? Those aren't the same mistakes. Like just between Seven Words Saint's Seven Swords Dance and PIDW the differences in how cultivation works are pretty massive.
So I guess the first and biggest mistake is a protagonist not figuring out how exactly it goes and going with assumptions and vague memories of the genre instead!
#5 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
Ah! Like whether the earliest stages are similar for all cultivation paths and you differentiate later on, or whether you need to lock on pretty early, whether you *can* learn several paths' secrets as long as they're sufficiently compatible... Thank you, that's very useful.
#6 Falling head first into Yan-yan's rack<3
Buying the slave with big bazongas and no combat prowess.
#7 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
I'll... keep that in mind. Anything about cultivation mistakes?
#8 Falling head first into Yan-yan's rack<3
Not stealing any cultivation manual that's not nailed down.
#5 grass your mother and fuck your horse
attempting to predict the current story bcz they know the original story without thinking of the fact that since they have been *changing* things, it *isn't* going to go the same way except where it's convenient!
#6 Peerless Cucumber (Expert)
Oh well, naturally. That sounds pretty idiotic.
--
bloodsport
--
Ichigo drifted a bit closer to observe the field. Baseball? Basketball? There were markings on the ground but no pattern he could recognize. And the second layer of fencing was doubled with some kind of transparent but scratched to hell and back layer of plastic, like there was a risk that the ... balls? shuttlecocks? rocks? would escape the field through the gaps.
"Was that where you were bringing me?" he asked Charlotte quietly as she leaned a shoulder against the fence to keep an eye on the street and on the teenagers.
"One of the places." She hummed thoughtfully, arms crossed loosely; something in her aura shifted hypnotically under the skin, a sort of vague, nostalgia-tinged anticipation. "The worst neighborhood is Desesperación and it's another half-hour away at best, and we'd have to bring in the rest of the team to keep idiots from bothering us. So if you want to go it'll have to wait for another day."
Okay, that was a lot of implications at once. "Deses--what?"
"Desesperación, like the caste? They were pretty segregated. We're not in the historical Destrucción district here, that's another hour and a half out into the wilderness, but there's a pretty big contingent--"
"Wait, wait. I, uh. Ah."
Askin as always was zero help, only smiling encouragingly while exuding an aura of 'not my business.'
"I know jack shit about castes. I thought it wasn't... really a thing anymore?"
"They like to say that," Charlotte commiserated, a laugh at the back of her voice. "Don't you guys have them too?"
"We mostly have Echt and Gemischt and... Lower than that."
"What's that translate as?"
--
suburban ot4
--
"It wasn't because I didn't want you to know. It was -- I wanted to go to you straight away, and -- and probably cry all over you, aheh--" Orihime laughs awkwardly; looks away. Forces her shoulders down and her chin back up as she sobers up. "I was -- it was so much, and I couldn't..."
She stalls again. Nelliel throws her a verbal buoy. "What happened, anyway? Last I knew the only problem was the constant leaks, and I figure, without the added stress of two more people on your pipes..."
She does know some. Grimmjow let her glance through his messages. But it's not the same as hearing it from her.
"No, no -- I mean." Orihime sneaks her an apologetic look. "It probably did speed things up. But the plumbing was old and it rusted, so it would have happened anyway. It's not your fault."
Nelliel isn't convinced, but she hums an acknowledgement anyway.
Orihime sighs, pensive. "No, what happened was Ichigo got into a fight with the landlord. Not even really a fight, just -- but then he had said it, so we had to go along with it--"
"Hime, that's not what happened, that's a disclaimer about what happened."
"--Agh. Sorry. ... Sorry." A sigh. "He has a temper, you know. He knows he has it, so he works on it hard, but sometimes he gets all heated up and it makes him impulsive. When we were in high school some months he'd get detention once a week."
All of which isn't the explanation Nel asked for, and she's about to say it, impatient--
"The landlord passed by just to make sure you guys were really leaving and was smug when he saw you were packing, and then he asked when we would see him for the lease renewal where he made very sure we didn't get to have guests again, so Ichigo said we wouldn't. See him, that is."
"Hm."
"And he'd been brooding ever since we were told to kick you out about -- about me not having friends in the neighborhood and feeling lonely after you left, and he got angry for me, and I -- I never asked him to!"
... Oh. Nel softens, watching her lip tremble, her brows furrow.