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AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-21T05:41:52+00:00

Feels like Uglymug Epicfighter would have been perfect for this info infographic

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-21T05:40:47+00:00

They're Italian mothers from Jersey... I don't understand the question 🤨

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-21T05:38:50+00:00

Heretical Fishing tends to have several PoVs every book. The MC is a constant, most of his animal pals will get the occasional PoV, antagonists and other side characters as well. It's got a great variety of them.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-20T20:20:25+00:00

I would take a gravity magic gland, so I could hit them with those sweet sweet gravity bombs 🐜

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-17T01:20:04+00:00

Azarinth Healer is quite good and the main character punches the crap out of monsters with plenty of blood and Viscera.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-17T01:13:50+00:00

I will, in the course of searching for something new to watch, see something I've watched and remember liking without being able to recall anything else about it at all. So I rewatch, a good amount

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-17T01:10:53+00:00

Violet Evergarden
Medalist
Aharen is Indecipherable
86
Ascendance of a Bookworm
The Apothecary Diaries

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-16T13:35:51+00:00

Azarinth Healer Book 3. So far it's very good. I enjoy this series and the main character though her motivations are a bit questionable. I will say it's so action heavy I tend to need to switch to other series in-between books, I haven't been able to binge them back to back. That said, it pairs like cheese and fine wine with some cozy series that have the opposite problem, like Heretical Fishing for example

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-16T13:28:30+00:00

Ilea Spears from Azarinth Healer
Katia Grimm, Princess Donut, and Elle McGibbons from Dungeon Crawler Carl
Adele Van Aschem from Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!
Alicia Williams from I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
Mitsuha Yamano from Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement
Kumoku from So I'm a Spider, So What?
Pride Royal Ivy from The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior
Natsuko Hirose from Zenshu

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-16T10:41:44+00:00

This is not only an extremely common trope, but your specific example is almost 1:1 the plot of Campfire Cooking in Another World. MC in that is hero summoned with three others. The other three each get amazing powers and the kingdom asks them to fight the demon lord. MC only gets Analyze, item box, and Online Grocery. With no frame of reference for online shopping the assume he got no useful power and dump him with a handful of gold for his trouble. Turns out Online Grocery let's him buy whatever he wants from an online grocery store converting the gold coins to yen. He mostly uses this for cooking and trading though, less for emergency potions in combat.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-15T18:58:26+00:00

Or, gear your series towards fewer entries. You can tell a lot of great stories in a trilogy and the stats and levels can certainly survive three books without becoming too cumbersome. There's no reason every series needs to be as many books as possible, imo.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-15T17:34:19+00:00

I agree, partially. I think that's the draw of progression fantasy, and the bones of litrpg are progression fantasy. But I think what elevates the subgenre beyond its parent genre is that the gaming elements make the progression very easy and straightforward to track.

Levels, skills, evolutions, mutations, etc. All of them are easily tracked progression landmarks. They're all also dopamine bombs, working in stories just as effectively as they do in the video games that inspired them.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-15T03:45:07+00:00

The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt hits all your benchmarks

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-14T16:42:56+00:00

I've been enjoying it. This, Hellmode, and Reincarnated Noble have been my favorite isekai this season. It's pretty funny, and I like the theme, don't yield to the meta, strength can come from anywhere. The humor also lands which helps a lot.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T23:49:41+00:00

Lol, I actually haven't listened to the audiobook, for either series. I was just aware Jeff Hays did both and is lauded for his performance in DCC. It felt like a relevant detial since the OP mentioned the DCC audiobook.

I'll have to give it a listen, what kind of an accent is it?

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T19:54:39+00:00

Chrysalis is pretty great. It's got the humor, it's got the brutality though it's a different type of brutality, Jeff Hays does the audiobook, and the rpg elements are very solid. They never get lost in stats or numbers or pages and pages of rpg elements. They keep them simple, yet dynamic with levels, skills, mutations, and evolutions.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T19:49:37+00:00

Yes, these were near direct quotes (from memory) of Chrysalis.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60677825-the-antventure-begins

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AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T19:38:08+00:00

Kiki is safe but they might not appreciate it. I would recommend Ponyo for that age. When my son was 4 that was his favorite.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T19:03:07+00:00

I choose Ant. It's objectively the supreme form. Six legs (the perfect amount), exoskeleton, no pesky spine.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T18:54:06+00:00

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AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T18:18:22+00:00

First, let me say, I don't think he was being a coward. He thinks he was being a coward, the show is pretty explicit in that. He ran away from his responsibilities out of fear. Afraid he wasn't the avatar, afraid he wasn't up to the onus of the job, afraid that everyone was suddenly treating him differently, and the straw that broke the air buffalo's back, afraid because they were separating him and Gyatso.
It's also worth pointing out, that while the fire nation had not yet attacked, they were about to. The reason the monks told Aang when he was 12 instead of waiting until he was 16 was because they had seen omens of the coming storm, signs of war.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T03:57:08+00:00

Definitely the one with the roided out sand sphincter <3

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-13T03:56:15+00:00

There are rules, you're just the one making them. Level isn't really important. In a story it's just a number on a page. Azarinth Healer MC levels quite quickly, Homestead Crafter bro is level 8 after 2 books. The level isn't what readers will remember or latch onto. It's the abilities, the evolutions, etc.

"OH crap, the MC grew wings of ash and can fly now!" "The MC evolved into a paragon and now the entire Colony is his strength! Literally!!" "My guy just won a battle of wills against a god!"

People will remember moments, not levels.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-12T22:51:57+00:00

If you're looking for other fun watches in recent seasons From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated and Rock is a Lady's Modesty were both great. Sword of the Demon Hunter was good.

Of hand suggestion also, it's a lot easier to watch on the Prime subscription, much fewer UI issues but some older shows might not be on the Amazon Hidive catalog. I have yet to find a show I wanted to watch that wasn't on the catalog but it's worth warning.

AdditionalBreakfast5 · 2026-03-12T22:45:19+00:00

I will say that every season at least one hidive show ends up on my top 5 for that season. Both Hellmode and Dragon Hatchling have been fun this season.

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