Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.
85 posts and 15 image replies omitted.>>43038because the retards that read "rational fic" found it when it was new and misunderstood it hard.
>>43535Pretty much. From what I remember it was specifically the author of that rational harry potter fic recommending Worm that lead to a lot of people flocking to it.
what do you people think about Pact? I have not finished it yet, but it seems like another work with interesting ideas, some cool moments but also a lot of flaws.
>>43589I like the setting and the magic but I just think Pact as a story wasn't very conducive to actually exploring them with Blake/Rose being limited on what they could learn and what they could do. The latter plot developments don't help this. The pacing is the big thing people have issue with where things escalate insanely fast but also drag out forever. Personally, I also felt the main conflict could've been done better. It's been awhile since I read it so I might be forgetting things, but I feel every practitioner in Jacobs Bell immediately gunning to kill a Thorburn the moment they awaken instead of taking any other route to deal with them was kind of ridiculous.
>>43590Tried getting into Pact but there are so many characters at the beginning that I thought unbearable to read through. Pale is better in this sense but still has too many people imo.
So Claw ended today. It's a solid story, very tense and engaging. Every character that matters is well developed.
Hope it releases in book format.
>>43864Enjoyed how much the story gradually paints an image of a
US in decline (at least at a faster rate than it currently is) as the characters dig themselves deeper and how the characters are all handled in general. Makes me wish wildbow would do a few more shorter stories before moving on to the next big one.
>>43865Horse piss cowboys being the only good faction
>>43864Did he say what he's doing after claw?
>>43872He's going to release a science fiction story by the next weeks
>>43888Wonder if it'll have elements of that sci-fi short story called Sign he wrote. (
https://old.reddit.com/r/DoTheWriteThing/comments/hcvznl/episode_64_suppress_bad_east_goalkeeper/fw1ftsq/ ,for anyone who's interested in reading it) wish he compiled all the snippets he wrote somewhere convenient.
>>43994I was going to post it, kinda funny there's a large enough Wildbow fandom for multiple people talk about his works in /leftypol/.
>>44010Maybe not surprising considering how long the OP has been up. I read worm, hpmor, homestuck, china mountain zhang and eudeamon because of /hobby/ threads.
There's something Mia-esque about Orion's first interactions with the world around him. Except that in Claw this is never shown fully because it's set years after The Fall.
The floor- Orion’s feet were already on the way to the ground when the realization that the floor was metal that would be just as cold hit. Except he was wearing boots. He hadn’t known.
He didn’t know enough. Even with the memories and self awareness he did have, it felt as though there was a roadblock in the way. He had to stop, find a way to what he needed.
The act of standing felt unwieldy. So did turning his head, taking in the fuller scene, eyes moving, putting it all in perspective. As if every movement went a little too far, then had to be pulled back in.
https://seekwebserial.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/0-1-b-hack/And chapter two. Artificial intelligence biologically intertwined with humans since birth. What could go wrong.
Not feeling the new serial, let's see if it gets better.
>>44153Yeah I feel off about the ambient's description and don't know how to situate myself most of the time. Reading the Discord discussion after chapter releases makes it more solid.
https://seekwebserial.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/0-4-0-hack/New chapter and we're back to Orion. I find his scenario the best conceptually. Android furries are just a bit weird.
>far future
>capitalism, corporations
Lol. Call me whatever you want, but it breaks my immersion and makes me hate the work a little.
>>44200You don't think corpocratic state-capitalism could mercilessly crush the workers, fund space exploration and generally transform human life into more of a hell on earth than it already is? Do you even dystopia?
>>44200i'm waiting for the story to shed a light on this, pretty sure it was planned to be ambiguous
claw ended months ago and this uygha still forgot to add the last arc to the table of contents
Is the webnovel dead or is it just my depression talking? Nothing good for almost a decade, topwebfiction died, and even the slop is worse than before.
>>44930I feel like the flood of litrpgs/progression fantasy kinda kneecapped things. Seems like it's all people want to write or read and it's difficult to sift through it all.
>>45438AI babysitter best girl
>>45438I'm
>>44200 and called it. Damn he's hit and miss these days. Hated the protagonists a bit in Pale but it was a cool world, didn't care about Claw, and now I dropped Seek.
>Lesbian character rapes her sister
>Gay character (almost) rapes his brother
>two of most prominent black characters got powers related to shadows
What did WB mean by this?
>>20395If taylor is stalin than Regent is Beria
>>45556tattletale is dzerzhinsky
>>45536>>45540Such dishonest tumblrite opinions. It's a work where the main character shoots a baby in the head. It's supposed to be dark. Did you expect the author to ruin the vibes for a little romance?
>>45577Didn't you hear all fiction is supposed to be blunt moral platitudes or after school specials?
>>45577We're just poking fun uygha.
>>45540
>Every lesbian relationship is toxicmeet some lesbians and youll know the reality of this statement.
>>45578Yes.
"complexity" and "media literacy" are just literati cope for the fact that hollywood censorship won't allow for straightforward depiction of genuine progressive ideals (communism)
>>45536>two of most prominent black characters got powers related to shadows<WB: "I made Bakuda into the most crazy character in all of fiction because I wanted to do the opposite of the 'meek Asian woman trope'"reverse racism but its just weird and possibly more racist???
>>20454>Ward is liberalWildbow predicted the rise of "titans" who cause the foundations of the world order to crack
Worm was a story about the collapse of liberalism into neofeudalism, as seen in Hurricane Katrina. Its sequel Ward is about how these inhuman tech oligarchs like Elon Musk are far above normal bourgeoisie, just as Porky capitalists are above workers. That's why Glory Girl is so triggered by the idea of titans being way stronger than her where regular people are like "lol its just Thursday for us, relax". This accelerationism trend of wealth accumulation towards the ultra powerful makes the "petite" bourgeois class very offended by the idea that Elon Musk has exponentially more hegemony than they ever will. Taking control over the firmament on which we all stand isn't fair!!!
>“I’m on a brink, and I can’t see it, but I can feel it,” the man said.>“Try not to think about it,” Rocketround said. “Okay?”>“I can feel it,” the man said. He wasn’t paying much attention to Rocketround. “All the way down to this vast well, partially filled with potential energy. Like I’m on the lip of a volcano and it’s an impossibly long fall with only magma at the bottom. I don’t know if I’m better off throwing myself down into that or leaving it alone.”>“Leave it alone,” I said, my voice joining more than one other person’s.<“What if my thoughts and brain get made into a part of that? One piece in that thing’s construction. What if it makes me immortal, forever a part of this thing? A recording of me in there, how I think, how I do things.”>“We’ve studied parahumans, powers and power sources a lot,” Roadblock said. “We’re pretty sure that’s not a thing.”>“Yeah,” the guy in the clearing’s center said. “But…”>He trailed off.>“It’s not a thing,” Rocketround’s voice joined Roadblock’s.>“But I’m standing closer to it than you are,” the man said. “And from where I stand, I feel like it might be.”>Nobody had a ready response to that.>“One,” Typhlosis murmured.>“I’m the last one standing on the brink now,” the man said. “I don’t think I can do this much longer. Do I embrace it or turn away?”Are you going to embrace accelerationism or turn away, anon?
Anyone following his latest story? How is it going?
is stalin canon in the world of pikachu or whatever
>>46727Only in the first game when the US existed.
>>46726every niche fiction community has someone that makes most of the daily contributions so you should just ask this question in wildbow's discord server
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