#but its really good id recommend it if you like fantasy and pirates

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"I remain entranced by its utter inability to provide for itself," Dalila marveled. "Tinbu must hand-feed it so that it does not starve. The only thing it does seek to consume on its own initiative is my black powder. It is such a failure of a cat that I cannot help but be impressed."

[malt-rants-and-stuff]

okay switching to reblog bc its easier than just replying. ignore the time it took to get these i was rereading come of them and got emotional but here are some from me, though most arent very recent lol:

The Children's Rebellion is forever a huge recc of mine, classic dsmp fic and the series is just such an amazing read. Though be warned the sequel hasnt updated in a year but it doesnt really matter when the rest of it is completed. Awesome sci-fi star trek inspired space au mind the tags :)

going the complete opposite direction, All Together Getting Out Of The Hole Together is a newer fic but still amazing, boreal trio supremacy!! just a warm and healing fic about mental illness and healing together :)

The Dread Pirate Ranboo is yet another classic that i hold so close to my heart. techno and ranboo found family my beloveds, with good heaps of beeduo and just general sbi extended family content to heal all wounds and create them at the same time.

there is this fic which is just pure crack. you can check it to see the name yourself it is just all around a funny time and a good throwback to how we were all coping with limbo being a thing.

His Curse of Binding you may of heard of from others, it is THE tommy au fic i can not reccomend it enough. the angst is supreme the dynamics are amazing.

Hush Now is probably one of my favorite fics that came out of the dsmp superhero au boom, classic and a good read. lots of awesome whump. sadly incompleter but it has lots of chapters!

i saw youve read tumoasd and i know most people dont really mention it but eneli wrote many awesome fics while in the fandom not just that, so if you liked their writing they have a series of their other works called the ecu which id say are all amazing to read.

Lost In The Woods Somewhere fae tubbo beeduo horror au, one of my favorites, along with just about anything Hellenite has ever written like the Event Horizon series or my absolute favorite beeduo fic of all time Fading Lights. would reccomend all of them though be prepared to get very scared, very stressed, and then break down crying in order of fics.

the Honeybee series is for sure one of those things you have got to experience if you like c!tubbo. its That Girl when it comes to non-tommy-centric superhero aus and i love it to death. lots of awesome beeduo and clingyduo stuff here to enjoy

baby steps micheal is a part of techno's chat and its sweet :)

I don't want familiarity with your mind sweet mind reader tommy fic very comfy

speak the only language they can understand ohhhhh THE SYNDICATE!!! very good very fun would read again

if you would like some runaway tommy goodness, there is How to Balance a Kid and a Career as an Entertainment Fighter and Vibrations which also have some dadinnit in there too if youre down for that

Fuck You I'll Do It is pure gold, tailor tommy with lots of fantasy bullshit and angst to go with it

The L'Manberg Stories unhinged, messy, everyone is going through it.

30 Days to count the stars is a big hear me out because i know this is supposed to be dsmp but if you enjoy 30 days smp beeduo and all that comes with that, this heap of angst will be a spectacular read for you

The Knight, the Bard, the Soldier and...Ranboo? is incomplete but if you enjoy characters going to alternate universes and having A Time then you will love this, c!tommy and his journey through a messed up fantasy verion of his world

dead relatives and daddy issues is life-changing i swear. not only a beautiful story about love and healing and chronic illness but also the complexities of everyone's relationships is just so damn amazing. uni student government au ranboo pov mostly as well as tommy and tubbo, THE bench trio series i cannot recommend it enough and also while most is complete the most recent one is still being updated so you can follow along if you like to ^^ plus kale is actually hilarious in the authors notes and very detailed and can you tell im obsessed with it yet lol, coming up on 3 years of being a reader so i need everyone who want to hear about it to read it <333

Any good dsmp fanfic recommendation?

Im looking for more dsmp fanfics to read cause im slowly running out lol.

No x readers, just like, fanfics, yk?

Ive already read Tcfsv, Tumfasd, Passerine, Shrike, Accelerate, and im planning on reading Butterfly reigon. Also, idc if ir has Wilbur or george in it, honestly.

Thank you thank you!!!<3<3<3

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

The Fire‘s Stone

The Fire’s Stone by Tanya Huff

Ok, well, first things first: I don’t have the best memory of this book. I read it years ago, and I don’t have the time to reread now, but I do remember I liked it enough to order a paperback copy after reading the ebook.

I also named one of my rats after Davish 🤣

So, have the official blurb:

The Stone of Ischia has been stolen. A powerful talisman, The Stone protects the city from the active volcano that looms over its terraces and streets. Without it, Ischia will be destroyed and the kingdom of Cisali will fall. Its only hope is an unlikely band of heroes—a failed thief, a drunken prince, and a runaway wizard—who must face pirates, powerful magic, and their own carefully guarded secrets in order to find and restore the Stone of Ischia.

I came across it on my quest for books with asexual characters (in Fantasy, no less!) and it was one of the first ones I was happy with. I know not everyone will be.

The book's focus is on the characters, their relationship and their struggles. From what I remember, there wasn't too much action. I find it really hard to say much about the story without spoilering it, or the ending.

While not exactly groundbreaking, I loved the vibe of "a warrior, a mage and a thief need to find an object to save the world".

I know reviews are a bit mixed. This thing has been in my drafts since literally May because I have been too worried about "but what if I recommend a book that isn't objectively good".

I liked it. That's my subjective opinion. Do with that what you want.

Content warnings (no guarantee, it's been so long): Torture, general violence, homophobia, alcohol addiction, arranged marriage, death/execution of side characters

[ID: The book cover is a dark red background with a circular dark shape in the middle, surrounded by swirly dark tendrils. The title of the book, The Fire's Stone, is written in the middle in orange-golden letters, and the name of the author, Tanya Huff, at the bottom in white letters. End ID.]

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spring anime 2017 part 3: comfy and easy to wear

So this is where all the shorts went. Guess I finally get to use that headline pun.

See also:

• spring anime 2017 part 1: woke up late

• spring anime 2017 part 2: girlfriendship is magic

• spring anime 2017 bonus round: things you already knew were good

100% Pascal-sensei

This is a half-length show about some kids whose teacher has been replaced with Persona 4′s Teddy. It’s funny because the penguin piloting a bear-robot-thing is not acting like a teacher at all, quite to the contrary in fact! To be honest, for a mascot comedy for preteen audiences it doesn’t seem too bad, but “I can’t believe this outrageous thing actually took place” is still not my kind of punchline. Only Nichijou can get away with that and this is no Nichijou.

Fukumenkei Noise

There’s a girl who can only express herself through PUNC RAWK singing and whose affection wavers between a hunky PUNC RAWK singer and the tiny guitarist from another PUNC RAWK band, who are both her childhood friends. It’s a shoujo as fuck romance with no particularly distinguishing features and the upcoming drama seems very predictable. Apparently it’s based on a bad manga but fans of said manga are also calling this adaptation bad, so I don’t know what to believe. It looks pretty janky on top of everything so I don’t think this is for me. The only thing it has going for it is that the girl actually does a pretty decent angry PUNC RAWK singing performance (I think?), but even if that was my jam I’d rather get the OST instead.

ID-0

I’ve been looking forward to ID-0 somewhat, since I quite liked Sanzigen’s last CG robot show BBK/BRNK. However, the first thing you notice is that ID-0 looks very different, and not in a good way – there’s a lot more robots in this, which means that all the animation effort went to them and the humans actually look significantly worse than average for a CG show. The second thing you notice is that this is a Goro Taniguchi joint, because it’s distinctly reminiscent of Active Raid. Instead of Kamen Rider Police, it’s Real Robot Sentai in Space, but the tone’s the same and so is the (lack of) coherency: A small girl researcher in the space future of space falls in with some hammy color-coded rogues in mechas that go around stealing deposits of the magic plot particle. The gimmick here seems to be that the mechas aren’t really piloted as such, but the pilot transfers their consciousness over to the machine for the duration of the mission, and in the first episode this already opens so many plotholes that it’s hard to even start picking them apart. So it’s real robots that don’t make much sense combined with only moderately engaging character comedy (which I assume will not ever pay off because the same thing happened in Active Raid) combined with subpar looks for everything that isn’t action, and the action itself isn’t glorious either - it’s just garish and hard to follow. The mecha designs are pretty good, which will undoubtedly make the /m/ faction happy, but I look for additional qualities so I think I’ll stay away.

Kenka Banchou Otome - Girl Beats Boys

In concept, Kenka Banchou Otome seems like it has potential: A girl enters (under obvious false premises) a school full of ridiculous delinquent thugs that only want to fight all day. This would have potential for a pretty cool comedy, but KBO is based on one of them PSP PS Vita otome dating sims, and it totally plays out like one too. Obviously I prefer it if something absurd like this is played straight instead for laffos 100% of the time, but this is played straight to a degree where it just isn’t much different from all the other otome dating sim adaptations any more, and that makes the premise fade into the background and the whole show not very compelling. It’s 1/3-length too, which seems to not leave much room to develop it legitimately. Oh well.

Makeruna!! Aku no Gundan!

In even shorter short news, this is 5 minutes of an ogre alien buying a franchise to conquer earth for business purposes. This is about as funny as it sounds (for those paying attention, this means “more funny than not at all” for me, which is more than I expect), and it looks pretty alright too. So yeah, I kinda like this. Problem is just that these shorts have to be outstandingly good for me to bother, and Aku no Gundan is still just decent overall. People who habitually watch comedy shorts may want to check it out, the rest of us will just laugh at the mad dyslexic Gundam fans who watch it on accident.

PriPri Chii-chan!!

Since this comes out on the same day, is also half-length, is by the same studio and for the same age bracket as Pascal-sensei, I’ll just assume the two make up a programming block. My impression of it is roughly the same as well. PriPri seems more girly, since it’s about a girl who finds a cutesy offbrand Kirby creature with a terrible speech quirk that likes human food, but apart from that it’s also a mascot comedy that’s decidedly Not For Me. One thing that’s notable is that it’s noticeably well animated for a thing like this, but I’m just adding that because there’s not much else to say.

Room Mate

Room Mate is technically a sequel to last season’s (involuntary) comedy short One Room, only instead of cute girl neighbours talking at a dork, it’s a cute boy harem talking at a dorkette. This iteration of it doesn’t stick to the first-person POV nearly as strictly as the original and seems generally more formulaic, but since the audiences kinda don’t overlap by definition I doubt anyone will notice (note: please don’t get mad at me if you’re a bisexual with a fetish for bad anime shorts, your existence is hereby acknowledged). For the connoisseur of weirdness I’d recommend One Room over this, since Room Mate is significantly watered down in the presentation department. And nobody else should watch either of them.

Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasuka Isogashii Desuka Sukutte Moratte Ii Desuka

Yay, finally some light novel ass light novel titles. Apparently people call this SukaSuka but since I’m a dick I’ll call it DesuDesu instead. So, DesuDesu is about a fairly nondescript guy in a fantasy universe that runs on racism who gets roped into taking care of a gaggle of cute fantasy children, an ogre maid and some other cute girl. Said fantasy children are also superweapons... somehow. So this may be the most contemporary anime concept of the season, since it is a harem and is full of dadfeels. Apart from being some hot tropes of the day jammed together, it’s pretty okay though - it thankfully doesn’t have isekai or RPG stat bullshit, the cute children are actually cute, and it looks alright (especially on the design side). It might be worth keeping an eye on DesuDesu if it keeps delivering on its strengths.

Sin - Nanatsu no Taizai

For those disappointed in Tsugumomo not living up to its manga’s reputations, here’s some real softcore porn. The story seems kind of incidental to the nipples but here it is anyway: Hot chick angel Lucifer somehow screws up in heaven and is cast into hell for it, where she meets the equally hot chick rulers of the place (the seven mortal sins) who specialize in being evil and not wearing much clothes. Some fighting ensues and results in clothing damage, then Lucifer takes off towards the mortal plane to erotically bother some schoolgirls. It’s basically a Christian-themed Valkyrie Drive, i.e. lesbian porn for dudes with some fights tacked on. The Crunchyroll version is predictably censored to hell and back (pun intended), but this is an AT-X show so the uncensored version is readily available for people immoral enough to watch and pirate it. Personally, I think I learned my lesson with Valkyrie Drive.

Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho

So after DesuDesu was just a straight up fantasy LN without any of the standard bullshit concepts, Zero does the same thing. You have to put up with it starring someone’s fursona instead of a reincarnated otaku douchebag, but I’d take that deal. Zero is even more unusual in that it even seems to be neither a harem nor otaku midlife crisis compensation, at least for now: It’s just about a burly cat dude teaming up with a snarky loli witch and them going on adventures. So it’s reminiscent of a genderswapped Spice&Wolf, only about fantasy racism instead of economics. Like DesuDesu, it’s pretty decent but I don’t know if it not being shit is enough of a selling point for me; On its own merits it seems to mainly be a competent but somewhat bland fantasy story. I might give it a try but I don’t expect much.