#Web Fiction

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LINK ROT / TRANSMISSION 001 / APRIL 3rd, 2024

Link Rot is a multimedia webserial following those within a research station. Once dedicated to the study and containment of a newly discovered life form, complications arise following its unexpected merge with the station's AI. TRANSMISSION 001 - In which you survive the unthinkable, and the world is worse for it.

General warnings can be found in the 'About' section. Any videos will have flashing warnings if applicable.

additional rambling under the cut

wow!!! it's been (checks archive) almost exactly a year since i originally conceptualized Link Rot, and since then it's grown into a beast of a story i cannot wait to tackle.

currently i'm aiming for updates once every month/month and a half (with occasional vacations to work on bite-sized projects). i'd like to do more, but i have a job and don't want to burn myself out. for now, i will take things slow B) maybe this will change in the future!

i hope you all enjoy reading my story as much as i enjoy creating it. there's a couple of hidden things on the website, so if you find anything fun let me know

and lastly,

take this

[weaselandfriends]

hi bavitz, I'd be interested to hear what other webfiction you keep an eye on / recommend

I'm probably not as prolific a reader of web fiction as I should be. My reading has much more frequently tilted toward the classics, where there's a lot less of a need to sift large amounts of mediocrity for hidden gems. The way web fiction is monetized also encourages works that are absurdly long compared to conventional fiction. A million words seems to be the baseline for any big-name webfic; this is the equivalent of three 1,000-page novels. This length, it seems, is often accomplished via bloat rather than variety and depth of things to say, and it also makes actually engaging with these works a full-time job.

That said, here is a list of web fiction I've read that I would recommend to others:

The works of Nostalgebraist: He has four novels, all of which are worth reading. One of the most unique and fully realized voices in the webfic scene, especially with his later output (Almost Nowhere and Apocalypse of Herschel Schoen). The Northern Caves is his most notable and page-turning work.

Worth the Candle by Alexander Wales: Though a million+-worder (and currently stubbed for publication on Amazon), this is a pretty remarkable pinnacle of the LitRPG isekai genre that absolutely infests the mass-market male-readership webfic scene, using the genre as a vehicle for complex and at times harrowing personal introspection. The climax is incredible.

The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere by Lurina: Another million+-worder, this time in the vein of Umineko. An intersection between philosophical debate on the goals of medical science and a dissection of the meaning of personal identity. Currently ongoing.

Chili and the Chocolate Factory by Gazemaize: Really funny. Leans into the slasher horror aspect of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which is good because slasher horror is the ultimate form of fiction.

Antilia by Pigoseg: Highly obscure author compared to the others on this list; they're on my radar because they originally wrote fanfiction of Fargo and Chicago. Antilia is their first original work, a short but perfectly-constructed story with an incredible concept. I currently have the first draft of their next novel, a Doki Doki Lit Club fanfic where Monika makes a society of clones of the other characters who then get into a race war, and so far it's shaping up to be even better. Name to watch out for.

CORDYCEPS by Benedict: Another short, tightly-constructed work with a lot of punch. Very strong emotional climax despite the more formalistic puzzlebox construction of the narrative.

Detective Pony by sonnetstuck: Modern Cannibals but more deeply rooted in academic postmodern thought.

How the Questing Beast Chased, and Caught, Her Own Tail by Avunvain: Very interesting prose stylist, which sets this work apart from a lot of the rest. A heady and psychological work that can take some close reading (and rereading) to parse, which is always a rewarding experience. It's Madoka Magica fanfic. Ongoing.

I'm probably forgetting something else (edit: I did, and edited it in) but this is a pretty good list. (I'd love to fill it with some more Fargo/Chicago fanfic like London but that'd probably be too self-indulgent.)

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the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents Kthanid again

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I saw the website Anime Sedai on /a/ the other day. People were using it to share what seasonal anime they watched every year, half bragging, half tracking their own progress.

That gave me an idea. It’s open source, so I’ve made my own, webfic-themed version!

I’m curious how canonical my stats+vibes-based choices actually are, so let me know how your graph looks like—there’s a button at the bottom to export your lists.

Mine looks like this:

[nathanielkreesewriting]

A Kingdom's Blood - Prologue

A Royal Road fantasy series, three new chapters every week!

The Empire has fallen. Now, across shattered lands and broken loyalties, something ancient stirs beneath the clouds.

Prologue

The Fall of the Empire

On the Thistle Plains just north of the Imperial Capital, whistles sounded as the line of Imperial Old Guard pushed forward. The plains, an expanse of thorns and bushes, looked like an anthill from a distance. Millions of soldiers clashed along a seventeen-mile front of death.

Airships hovered above, exchanging cannon fire or dropping large casks of explosives down on their foes. In front of the Imperial armies, mages stood, rune-etched clothes blowing in the wind as they stretched their hands out and let loose bolts of magic.

Opposite them, Paladins stood, their own runes glowing, powered not by their blood or their kingdom, but by their faith and prayers.

Lysa sat atop her warhorse, a checkered mare of black and white, its armor glowing white as its protection runes flashed in the darkness.

The Alliance of Nations had pushed them to the breaking point. As she looked out across the fields, she saw the middle begin to bend backward. Now. She thought, watching the General next to her.

The man, regal and proud atop his own horse, looked over at her and nodded before waving his sword. Flares suddenly shot into the sky, relaying orders across miles of terrain. The lines shifted slightly as the Old Guard sped up their pace and rushed into the middle gap beginning to form.

Nearly fifty thousand men strong, the guard hit the gap and instantly plugged it, their shields lighting up like a line of blue fire across the expanse of ground.

The sound was a melody that Lysa was familiar with, the clash of swords, the crack of cannon and gunfire, and the rare but occasional explosion of a destructive rune.

She spared a glance behind her toward the Capital city; it was a splendid sight of gold and marble white. In its center, a single beam of blue light shot into the heavens above, illuminating the Steel Fleet which sat back providing protection for it.

When the battle was won, the fleet would deploy and hunt down all survivors of this Alliance.

Suddenly there was a rumble from the direction of the Capital and Lysa’s eyes widened as one of the Steel Fleet's battleships erupted in flames and exploded, its carcass crashing down onto a section of buildings below it before secondary explosions sounded in a wall of fire.

The General wasted no time.

"Lysa, take my personal guards and see what's going on at the Capital!" General Leon said, not looking at her as he tried to keep his eye on the battle unfolding.

Lysa wheeled her horse around and drove her hard. Beside her, fifty other horses thundered as they raced toward the Capital.

Another ship of the Steel Fleet exploded, it too crashing down in a rain of fire.

She spurred her mount onward, the mare panting hard as they cleared several lines of brambles. Several lines of skirmishers looked to her warily as they let them through.

A third ship, then a fourth exploded and they too crashed down into the city. As she got closer and closer to the outskirts of the city, she saw with horror that the fleet was firing into itself. Runes glowed bright as beams of blue and white shot across the short distances between ships, exploding in deafening thunder.

Suddenly she caught sight of horses riding to meet her from the city.

General Renald. She sighed with relief as she drew closer, managing a smile despite her growing panic. Renalds long black hair looked majestic even against the backdrop of ruin behind him.

"General Renald, what's goi—"

She never got the words out as the General drew a rune-pistol and fired a shot straight at her. He chest suddenly glowed as her chosen first rune, one which had been forged by her since her time as a squire exploded outward in a shield of light.

The men with him also fired, instantly killing several of her retinue while other runes flared.

One of hers fired his own rune pistol, its rune lighting up with fire and engulfing an enemy in flames before the rune flickered.

A shot hit her horse, bringing them both crashing to the ground awkwardly. Bones broke and armor buckled from the weight of the horse. Both sides exchanged panicked and confused fire.

Some runes sparked and went dim, leaving their users helpless.

Renald swiftly dismounted, walking over to her with cold eyes.

"Renald," she wheezed, struggling to free herself, feeling nothing in her leg. "What have you done?"

The man didn’t reply, his face a perfect mask of neutrality. He raised his pistol again, this time one of its three runes flaring before suddenly dying. He looked at it confused.

Then it happened. The area suddenly was bathed in darkness as the eclipse happened overhead.

The beam of light from the Capital turned red before winking out. So too did the runes of their armor and the runes of the ships. As ships began to crash one after another, Lysa realized what had happened.

The King and his family are dead. And the magic along with them.

"On the third day of the third month of the twenty-third year of King Jericho’s rule, the Empire fell and the world was plunged into a darkness that shattered the continent."

Read more: [Royal Road link] New chapters every week (Mon/Wed/Friday) Follows and reblogs appreciated—thank you for helping a new fantasy author grow!

[open-sketchbook]

Team Butterfly Forever! (WIP Web Novel)

Okay, now that I'm three chapters into writing it and I've got momentum behind me, I want to properly pitch my WIP writing project to people.

Team Butterfly Forever is a post-magical girl story. In 2004, a young girl named Eve got a magical necklace from a talking cat, transformed into the magnificent Butterfly Ward, met friends like her, fought evil, and defended San Francisco from the sinister Dark Queen. Evil defeated, city saved, happily ever after.

Now it's 2014, and Eve needs to get the Butterfly Knights back together. The only problem is, they're in absolutely no state; it turns out that having to fight evil when you're 14 makes for messed up 24 year olds. Eve will need every scrap of the power of love and (adult) friendship the save the world, and more importantly, save her friends. So cards on the table? This isn't actually Sailor Moon fanfiction, but it's not not Sailor Moon fanfiction. It is very much wearing its inspiration on its sleeve, and the serial numbers have been filed off primarily because I'm looking to do crimes with it.

I'll be up front; it starts in a pretty dark place. This is very much a story about growing up with trauma and what that does to you. But it's also a comedy, a story about healing, and in the finest tradition of magical girls, a story about pressing on anyway because your friends need you.

Also... every single character is queer. So there's that.

I'm currently writing it as fast as I can; there's no set update schedule, but I posted the first segment a month ago and I'm about 1/4th of the way through my projected length. The story has been fully planned ahead of time, so it won't get hung up on where to go next; I'm hoping to have it done around April, but if you start following now you'll be able to see it take shape and speculate along with other readers.

It is being posted on the Sufficient Velocity, an old-school, moderated forum for lovers of sci-fi, fanfic, and interactive fiction. It's a very queer friendly space, and I highly encourage you to check it out. It'll be exclusive there until I have a final print version; I want to add to this community I love instead of spreading this story out across many isolated spaces, and see discussion about it as it happens. You can also follow the story there to be alerted to updates, and there's tons of other fiction being written on the forum all the time!

If you want to see my other work, my forum signature has interactive and traditional fiction I've posted on the site going back to 2017, including first drafts of my previous novels Whispers from the Deep and Lieutenant Fusilier in the Farthest Reaches.

I hope you enjoy!

[aswtescy-adventure]

A Strange World Through the Eyes of Someone Called "You" is an interactive web story by @meadow-dot-7z. The world is already built, but the story you forge within it is entirely up to you. If we are the game master, then the "player" is the collective consciousness of all readers who offer their input, no matter how small. So don't be shy now. One well-timed command could alter the course of the story forever, but only if you make it so. Take your story wherever you wish.

>Begin.

Your character sheet is below. It will expand as you discover the world and yourself.

Profile:

Name: Page

Pronouns: they/them

Your inventory:

1 Book (Tutorial)

1 Cool Rock (Guilty of attempted homicide)

1 Pair of Leather Gloves (Equipped; They smell new)

Your quests:

Welcome to the World! — Part 1 (0/5 Heartfruits collected)

Your notes:

NAMES AND PRONOUNS BINGLESNATCH FUMBLERBUMPER — SHE/THEY Nuri — any

I OPENED THIS BOOK. I PICKED A NAME. I LEARNED ABOUT SKILLS. I TRIPPED ON A COOL ROCK. I FOUND GLOVES. I FOUND A STONE ROD. THE PLATFORM FELL. I FELL VERY SLOWLY. I CLIMBED BACK UP.

Your skills:

Tutorial - Lv. 1 (9/10)

Radicality - Lv. (8/10)

Handwriting - Lv. 1 (7/10)

Caution - Lv. 1 (4/10)

Morale - Lv. 1 (4/10)

Disbelief - Lv. 1 (3/10)

Poetry (3/10)

Self-Actualization - Lv. 1 (3/10)

Attention Span - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Climbing - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Drawing - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Investigation - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Jumping - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Logic - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Optimism - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Perception (Touch) - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Voice (Volume) - Lv. 1 (2/10)

Balance - Lv. 1 (1/10)

Breath - Lv. 1 (1/10)

Geometry - Lv. 1 (1/10)

Perception (Vision) - Lv. 1 (1/10)

Strength (Jaw) - Lv. 1 (1/10)

Grip Strength - Lv. 1 (0/10)

Reflexes - Lv. 1 (0/10)

Whimsy (0/10)

[spnlegacyfiles]

Chapter 2 Teaser

“She said that she was Dean's daughter.” Sam didn’t say it lightly — and Eileen didn’t take it lightly. But there it was: a manila folder, a name, and a bloodline. Now the question was: What if it’s true?

Chapter 2 will be posted on Tuesday

[readingtoinfinity]

SCP-8980

Every so often you just need to read something that makes you angry. Like, something so completely, totally unfair that it burns an impression into your soul.

I really like the SCP Foundation as a concept. I don't usually delve too deeply into the lore (I tried reading them by numerical value once, but that turned out to be quite tedious) but things like Warehouse 13 and The Lost Room scratch an itch of the unexplainable and the inexplicable. Even a regular SCP entry is fun to read because of the creative exercise of government bureaucracy.

It's very rare that you're reminded that said bureaucracy can be used as a maze for predators, and worse.

The article is about SCP-8980, a neutralized SCP whose treatment is being investigated by the Ehics Committee. She It shows signs of causing technology around her it to malfunction in ways that ruin her its life. But this turns cruel when Christopher Byrnes, the researcher and one who called for the containment in the first place, goes far beyond what is necessary to contain SCP-8980, with the bulk of the article taking place years after he has retired and had his memory wiped.

It's a gut-wrenching, unfortunately-verisimilitudinous story about those with power using it to abuse those they are responsible for. The fact the last section is just an email is one of the more chilling aspects of this report, and I feel like I need to go stare at a wall for a few hours.

It does turn out to be a prequel of sorts, which I will include below as well.

SCP-7777

I think these two stories are a pair having a conversation. Although SCP-8980 is more thorough, the possibilities explored in SCP-7777 provide us some light on how the Ethics Committee could work. At the very least, it's an entertaining read about how abuses of power come to light, and if nothing else there's a little satisfaction in that.

[snugglesquiggle]

here's something that i read today and liked: Atzi. lesbian lizard girl scraping by with little pick-pocketing and buglary. oh, and she's about to wind up in a time loop

something i found really refreshing about this story is how chipper the main character is. is that the word? she's not the brightest, or the luckiest, but she's not only willing to try anyway, but believe she deserves to succeed. it's weird reading about a protagonist who's simultaneously so opinionated yet manages to be so endearing

she's just downright cute! the story goes out of its way to say "lizard" and not "kobold", but like. you can't listen to this girl's internal narration and not immediately pick up on the vibe.

(she's also pretty horny, too - i swear every other woman she encounters has her swooning, but i mean. same.)

the main character is a thief, and i think it's a pretty big point to its credit that first proper "job" she undertakes had me on the edge of my seat as she sneaks around

really interested in seeing where the story goes from here, i've got my eye on it

Atzi is the last person who should be stuck in a timeloop. But a timeloop means pretty women to seduce! Wealth to spend! Magic power to steal! This lizard may be easily distracted, talentless, and lonely, but she's still a looper. A shame she must contend with selfish gods warring, mad mages casting apocalyptic spells, skeletons, demons, and a hole in the sky. The world destroyed, again and again, when all she wants to know… is why her crush killed her.

[fyeahwebnovels]

i have created a webfiction fandom community!

hello all, i have thrown my hat in the tumblr communities open beta ring and created a community for fans (and authors) of web serials, webnovels, and generally any serially published web prose/prose-centric mixed media.

as i said, authors are welcome to join as well, but with caveats: please do not advertise any pay-to-read webfiction in the community, and please do not fight with fans over your work or insert yourself into fan conversations as an authority. basically just keep appropriate artist-fandom boundaries if you're an author, thank you.

the communities beta is still in its earliest stages and not super functional, so you'll need to send me an ask or a DM, or ask in the replies of this post, to join. i have to send out invites manually, but i will approve everyone unless your blog is outright, like, a nazi or terf blog or something. you can also DM my main @valentinedagger if contacting this blog doesn't work (i've had problems with DMs on sideblogs in the past).

[valentinedagger]

book 1 cover art by @staarcaake

Stardust is a queer, semi-experimental web serial that blends space opera, gothic horror, and dystopia into a color-coded mess of neuroses, hallucinations, teen angst, fucked up family relationships, Judaism, gun kinks, political assassinations, extradimensional tentacles, and bad sex. as of May 2024, we're exactly halfway through book 1, and it's a great time to get caught up!

it updates the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month, and you can read it for free here. readers have suggested you might like it if you're a fan of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Homestuck, Battlestar Galactica (2003), The Locked Tomb, Fortiche's Arcane, Starship Troopers, and/or the music of Ada Rook. readers have also referred to it as "tired middle-aged man yaoi," "yuri shonen," and said they "want to chew on July like a squeaky toy."

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Next

[sparrow-flight]

Story 8: Let's Talk, Father-to-Father

Amaia, Melydice, Tatsu, and Yona belong to and were played by @daruqin, @katastrofish, @mintrhine, and @inkysatell respectively. They also designed their respective characters except for Tatsu, who I designed with Mint's guidance. Fisher belongs to and was aplayed by our game master @theroyalzealot.

Tatsu was written by Mint. This is my adaptation of what was originally written.

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[open-sketchbook]

I've decided fuck it, I'm writing a magical girl story.

[elvensemi]

Hey guys hello guess who has a website now.

On ElvenSemi.com you can read all of my webnovels, most of my short stories, and soon, a large portion of my fanfiction!

A lot of things, including all fanfiction, forever are free to the public. This includes, for the first time, the first handful of chapters (about 10k words) of each of my webnovels. There's also summaries and beautiful art! Poke around!

Subscriptions to paid material are still being done through Patreon, just click the orange "log on through patreon" button when you go to log in.