The gondians AI is actively suicidal and they need to be saved from themselves. It is incredibly frustrating to put a steel watcher into self-destruct mode, watch the gondian move out of it, do nothing, and then misty step back into the explosion radius.
Wulbren sucks and is a monster but he’s not wrong about the gondians being big idiots, at least.
It took me a lot of reloading and lethal blows + yeeting gnomes to get it done, for sure.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24009418/generative-ai-image-laion-csam-google-stability-stanford
Weird, turns out scraping the entire internet might cause some problems down the line. Who could have foreseen.
It’s extremely difficult to save all of them and there’s no achievement for succeeding - if you can get the leader out then that’s all you need
(and even if you can’t you can just speak with dead with him to get the code)
I had a great Slay the Spire build, poison Silent with 2 catalysts and the relic where when a mob dies its poison build up transfers. And corpse explosion, making just zerging one down and watching everybody else die really fun.
I got 120 poison on the knight boss.
Then I died in act 3.
I cannot stress enough how much I hate the popularity of thinly veiled fae 
becoming such a popular genre in the last 5 years. I’m trying to find new fantasy series with some adventure and maybe a little slowburn enemies-to-lovers trope in the background, but it’s all fae .
i don’t like the formulaic human girl-fae prince romance trope i hate it and i blame ACOTAR for this
yo you heard of this pretty underground series called A Song of Ice and Fire?? not many people have, but I think it’s going to get real popular in the future and you wanna get in there ahead of time.
(I will once again recommend the Bartimaeus trilogy because it’s fun)
(also Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin)
(also the Poppy War trilogy by R F Kuang)
I want another Grishaverse, not another ACOTAR copy. I’m waiting with anticipation for the fae romance copies to crash and burn the genre the way Divergent eviscerated the entire YA Dystopian genre in the mid 2010s into irrelevancy.
If I get one more book recommendation with an interesting premise that turns out to be another isekai about a Super Special Human Girl ending up in a fae realm and gets caught up in the intrigue of the Court of [Noun] and [Noun] which serves as justification write between a brooding alpha male elf prince and the author’s self-insert, I’m going to do unspeakable things. get therapy instead of writing another ACOTAR copy.
I’m also trying to read Wheel of Time but honestly I just don’t think the first book is good at all. It’s really badly written. The show is unironically better (so far) and I’m not afraid to admit it.
I wouldn’t call them equivalent, exactly, but on top of the others I recommended, the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix is solid. Alas, no enemies to lovers, exactly.
I forget how many of these I’ve recommended to no end you’ve read, but at the very least other people who haven’t will read it. RIGHT?
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i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it !!!
sarah j maas must be held accountable for her crimes against literature
I saw someone point out on twitter dot com that fantasy isekai is a deluge while sci fi isekai is far rarer.
I can understand why that is (modern brains trump puny medieval fantasy brains, not so much future brains) but it did, briefly, make me think about writing one just for the hell of it - a short story where dude gets isekai’d into the future because their culture has ended up revering isekai novels as holy texts, only for the protagonist to get immediately killed because that’s how that works.
Alas, subversive isekai isn’t exactly unusual either these days, so the silly little thought will remain in the brain and in this post, rather than any actual prose.
imagining a story that is someone getting hit by a bus, getting isekai’d into a fantasy world, immediately getting hit by a carriage, isekai’d into a future setting, hit by a spaceship, and so on
i’m going to morb out over these faerie isekai stories
also new fantasy authors need to come up with more creative novel names than the [Noun] of [Noun] and [Noun] template.
Sitting on the shelf to my right somewhere.
(Good series)
I have been isekai’d seven times already
and I have become incredibly efficient at it.
They should, but titles are hard. I just ended up calling my book after the two protags (Knight and Roar). Maybe the publishers will come up with a better one for me WHEN I GET ONE.
In the meantime, the sequel’s title? Knight and Roar: Book Two.
I am a genius.
wait when did you write a book + can i have it
Between March 22nd and September 3rd of this year. I then spent two weeks editing it, then two months sitting on it, before mustering my courage to blast it off to literary agents to see if any would take me up.
I have, so far, had a single response - a rejection, of course. The other five haven’t responded but they did say 2-3 months, so it’ll be mid February before I get all the answers.
Truthfully I’m not expecting anything - debut authors are notorious for dealing with a bunch of rejections until they can get a breakout but that’s fiiiiine. It’s fiiiiine.
I’m not planning on sharing it around until I’ve got a response back because I’d like to know if I’m gonna have to self publish or not, and if I do have to self-publish then I have to research how to do that, commission art, maybe get an audiobook done…
…also because I should probably do another editing pass on it. I’ve done two already but, you know, perfection is ever outside of reach.
The sequel is roughly halfway done. Started it September 22nd, likely completed around mid-March time.
have you considered just doing some absolute buckwild incredible transphobia
if you need to commission art, I am once again suggesting Azarya. You’ve seen the art I’ve commissioned from her.
You know, I’ll be honest with you? No.