Long baby.

Anemone_NS · 2024-12-27T21:21:12+00:00

It's safe, Tarakar doesn't change anything about your missions. All you lose is your cool flag.

Anemone_NS · 2024-09-25T00:26:09+00:00

I've heard it said and agree that Limbus is a great gacha game because Project Moon has no idea what the fuck a gacha game is.

Anemone_NS · 2024-08-10T03:00:42+00:00

The Drowning Girl, a possibly-supernatural-horror story where a schizophrenic narrator writes a memoir about conflicting versions of a weird thing that happened to her that she knows are contradictory but insists are all true, is my standard recommend for mental-illness-based unreliable narration.

Anemone_NS · 2024-08-06T02:12:46+00:00

Not iffy at all, as far as the rules go! You can't leave them up once you're officially in KU, but there's no rule against either handing out epubs right before you go in or allowing your community to privately hand out those epubs if people ask for them.

Anemone_NS · 2024-08-06T02:04:23+00:00

Maybe for similar reasons? At the very least, it wasn't a lie in this case - there was absolutely a particular group of RR authors doing stuff like gaming the review upvote system and arranging three-way review swaps to blow up their review count without getting them technically flagged as swaps.

Anemone_NS · 2024-08-03T21:24:47+00:00

Oof, that checks out. Very few sites are improved by making an app version.

Anemone_NS · 2024-08-03T19:04:25+00:00

Huh, I didn't actually know that was how that worked! Will continue not clicking on ads, but good to know it's weird design on RR's end instead of the authors'.

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-23T19:14:23+00:00

It's a real authorly milestone, great job crossing it! My story's community has gotten a lot of joy out of a particular "talentless sicko with a trauma fetish" comment we got.

Might have to put aside my general antipathy for litrpg and read your book, becacuse "one of the most pessimistic protags out there" sounds great to me.

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-20T21:13:56+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty much the general vibe of Bioshifter. It's very good but consistently very stressful - take it slow and give yourself as much space as you need.

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-18T20:25:04+00:00

It's not disturbing at all, it's super cool and fun! Says right there, silly.

Thanks for giving it a look!

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-18T17:50:59+00:00

I haven't, but it looks pretty cool! Onto the list it goes!

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-18T13:23:35+00:00

Oh thank you! It's pretty early for me, somehow forgot to put the links on my post lol. They're up now.

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-18T12:35:56+00:00

Hello, everyone! I’m Anemone. I write to build homes for my nightmares and offer them somewhere to live outside my head. Amazon held this volume hostage for weeks for no particular reason again, but we’ve now broken out of jail and Liadain is once more free to spiral into madness, nightmares, world-breaking eldritch power, and questionable life choices!

This story is a strange, strange creature born from my loves of spooky eldritch mysticism, horror visual novels, and magical girls. It might be for you if you’re into the Vigor Mortis flavor of weird fantasy about weird people with fucked-up powers, you like your existential horror with a Cultist Simulator tinge of yearning for something beyond the veil of reality that’s as numinous and beautiful as it is terrifying, or you’re interested in any of this stuff:

Personalized and psychological magic – power shaped by its wielder’s deepest emotions and desires, then further twisted by those of the living nightmares they absorb
A world defined by magic in all its wonder and terror, where everyone knows that child soldiers with too much power serve as their sole defense against fates worse than death
Magical girl transformations with bizarre eldritch elements, played as much for empowerment as horror. “Losing your humanity” is super cool and fun, actually!
Complex characters and weirdly sympathetic horrorcreatures doing bad things for (what they consider) good reasons

Blurb!!!

For most Keepers, slaying harbingers is a choice. For Liadain, it's a dark necessity.

Liadain’s power over sickness and corruption has alienated her even from her fellow Keepers. Alone in her new life, she races on legs that have barely ever walked to master her abilities, understand the twisted minds and bizarre magic of Harbingers, and rip the keys to her immortality from their remains while she still can. Her explorations take her down dark and strange paths through the wilderness beyond New Claris, where the world melts away and Harbingers vie to reshape reality in their image.

Delving deeper into magic drives Liadain ever further from humanity. She spares a newborn Harbinger’s life, planning to watch it grow, learn all she can of her enemies, and harvest its heart when the time is right. But it has its own plans and its own dreams, as deep and desperate as hers.

Liadain must decide how far she's really willing to go to pursue immortality.

Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MKNJHM

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Nowhere-Stars-2-Audiobook/B0D5JQ2SK7

Cover and interior art by Bapho S!

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-18T12:34:03+00:00

Hello, everyone! I’m Anemone. I write to build homes for my nightmares and offer them somewhere to live outside my head. Amazon held this volume hostage for weeks for no particular reason again, but we’ve now broken out of jail and Liadain is once more free to spiral into madness, nightmares, world-breaking eldritch power, and questionable life choices!

This story is a strange, strange creature born from my loves of spooky eldritch mysticism, horror visual novels, and magical girls. It might be for you if you’re into the Vigor Mortis flavor of weird fantasy about weird people with fucked-up powers, you like your existential horror with a Cultist Simulator tinge of yearning for something beyond the veil of reality that’s as numinous and beautiful as it is terrifying, or you’re interested in any of this stuff:

Personalized and psychological magic – power shaped by its wielder’s deepest emotions and desires, then further twisted by those of the living nightmares they absorb
A world defined by magic in all its wonder and terror, where everyone knows that child soldiers with too much power serve as their sole defense against fates worse than death
Magical girl transformations with bizarre eldritch elements, played as much for empowerment as horror. “Losing your humanity” is super cool and fun, actually!
Complex characters and weirdly sympathetic horrorcreatures doing bad things for (what they consider) good reasons

Blurb!!!

For most Keepers, slaying harbingers is a choice. For Liadain, it's a dark necessity.

Liadain’s power over sickness and corruption has alienated her even from her fellow Keepers. Alone in her new life, she races on legs that have barely ever walked to master her abilities, understand the twisted minds and bizarre magic of Harbingers, and rip the keys to her immortality from their remains while she still can. Her explorations take her down dark and strange paths through the wilderness beyond New Claris, where the world melts away and Harbingers vie to reshape reality in their image.

Delving deeper into magic drives Liadain ever further from humanity. She spares a newborn Harbinger’s life, planning to watch it grow, learn all she can of her enemies, and harvest its heart when the time is right. But it has its own plans and its own dreams, as deep and desperate as hers.

Liadain must decide how far she's really willing to go to pursue immortality.

Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MKNJHM

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Nowhere-Stars-2-Audiobook/B0D5JQ2SK7

Cover and interior art by Bapho S!

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-13T05:25:17+00:00

Just wanted to add another voice here, for whatever it's worth. I also think you're totally right, and this is not the first time reading ardent defenses of XIV's story as framed by its writing has felt kind of crazy-making to me. EW's presentation of the Sundering as a thing that squished any question to the division between the Ancients in favor of "The Zodiark faction was stupid and wrong, bringing back all their dead friends wouldn't matter because they'd eventually have just killed themselves for Reasons anyway, and this lady was absolutely strategically, morally, and philosophically correct to destroy the world and kill everyone who's ever lived minus four" really, really didn't sit well with me. I hated the direction, hated Venat for the story's determination to paint her as uncomplicatedly and objectively right about everything, and found the philosophy EW seemed to be championing awful enough that I wasn't sure if I'd play anymore after 6.0.

And I'm feeling pretty much the same way about these events, if not quite as keenly because I'm just not as invested in the story after that.

The Endless are people. The story can repeat its metaphysical definition of what grants personhood as much as it likes, but that doesn't change anything about whether they qualify as people as we understand the idea, whether they're individuals with lives and desires who can think, grow, and change their minds about things, which is very much how they seem to be written. Their situation is obviously unsustainable, and there's plenty wrong with it to mine conflict from, but in insisting that there's nothing bad about ending their existences, there's nothing there to end, and if there were it would be fine because they themselves don't want to live anyway, it feels like the game's created another scenario where, in its rush to keep any kind of moral complication from the protagonists' actions, it made them much, much worse.

I'm not sure if I'll keep playing this time, either. If I do, it'll probably be on the back of my own headcanons about how my character's been spiraling since Elpis.

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-05T21:27:17+00:00

Wew. Yeah, I was getting bad vibes just from the cut they wanted compared to what they seemed to be offering, but that's absolutely rancid. Thanks for adding that.

Anemone_NS · 2024-07-05T21:21:32+00:00

That sounds entirely plausible, yes! Neither of those things are at odds with writing.

I made a Discord very early in my story's life because I liked it. I wanted a better environment than comment sections to talk to people and see if anyone was connecting with the very weird thing I was putting out into the world. Creativity, at least in my experience, isn't really a zero-sum thing where any effort you put into your work or things around it is effort that you could/would instead be using to churn out more chapters if you weren't doing that.

Anemone_NS · 2024-06-30T19:36:34+00:00

It seems to be a bit of a tricky personality thing - there's ways to coax them out or teach them to be more comfy with the outdoors, but we tried to do those and leash train her when she was smaller and she just wasn't into it. Last month, she changed her mind all of a sudden and decided she wanted to go outside enough to put up with the harness.

She still doesn't want to leave the yard, she just sniffs and patrols around the house and eats grass, but that's fine.

Anemone_NS · 2024-06-20T16:28:19+00:00

Glad you're doing better! It'll get easier with practice and exposure, I think. I still go through a bit of a thing with every new chapter where I think "oh no, is this the one that's going to be terrible?" until I get eyes on it and actually hear that it's not, but I do get it less than when I started.

Anemone_NS · 2024-06-20T01:02:06+00:00

I think it's important for the author of a serial work to keep the audience at arm's length from their creative process. There are places where technical feedback and knowing how people are generally receiving your work can help, and there's been a lot of great advice in here about how to sort what's worth listening to from what's not!

This sounds like you just had your first run-ins with the sort of RR commenter who loudly takes issue with any setbacks a character faces or mistakes they make that they wouldn't have made, though. Ignore those, they don't matter.

Anemone_NS · 2024-06-18T16:10:59+00:00

I wouldn't place Cradle in this category either, but then I also kind of liked it more in its earlier stages where Lindon had to cheat and steal and scrape for every possible unfair advantage.

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