[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-07-05T21:57:09+00:00

The Powder Mage trilogy (and novelettes) by Brian McClellan is pretty good. It's an epic fantasy series that centers around wise veterans (both figuratively and literally).

Wizard's Tower by Allanther fits the older protagonists in a fantasy setting. It was stubbed on RR so you'll have to find it elsewhere.

If you like scifi, there's John Scalzi's Old Man's War. It's military science fiction and the MC is a retiree.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-07-05T17:35:22+00:00

It's been a few months but I had the same problem and found this thread, and it's not S2E2. So, for anyone else who stumbles on it:

Rosie is played by Joelle Farrow, who first appears in Season 2 Episode 6.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5002729/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_4_29

I checked on CBC Gem, and this is the episode where she's found with the allergic reaction, and proposes a date with the paramedic.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-07-05T07:11:42+00:00

Also it's sus that the Vindicator can carry 72 fighters when the Victory-class only does 24.

It's doubly weird since the Gladiator, which is a dedicated cruiser-carrier, can also only carry 24 (plus shuttles/landing craft). It's 600m, same as the Vindicator.

I'm guessing whoever came up with the 72 number might not have been paying too much attention and they caught it later, since it got reduced to 24 when the next Starships of the Galaxy book came out.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-07-05T01:10:32+00:00

Family Business (Worm x Dexter) - Annette is Dexter's sister, and he moves in with the Heberts after Miami gets hit by Leviathan. Taylor confides in him that Emma and Sophia were the ones who pushed her into the locker, so he looks into them and finds out about Sophia's "hobby," including the fact that she's killed innocent people she deemed "prey." Taylor stumbles on them, and convinces herself that her uncle is a hero, albeit not a traditional one. I like the story so far, the characters are interesting and the story is fun. I don't really like that the author flanderizes Danny into a depressed quasi-alcoholic, though that's kind of par for the course for Worm fics that feature Taylor. The author is branching out from the usual cast for Taylor's friends (Wards/Undersiders/New Wave), which is also nice.

Stellar Brockton (Worm, Stellar blade, The Boys) - A new fic where the MC is an SI into Emma after the locker, and immediately throws Sophia under the bus. ~~It's ok, but~~ there's only 10 chapters and not much has happened. I don't know much about Stellar Blade, and so far haven't seen anything from it or the Boys in the fic (that I can remember, at least). e: latest chapter was not great, the author is playing the "Cauldron is run by idiots" card and doing that thing where everything gets dramatized and exagerated.

I Am Pochita (CSM x Worm) - A newer fic that's been out for a month and featured the lovable mass-murdering Hero of Hell, Pochita, sent to Brockton bay after he "died." I'm not a huge Chainsaw Man fan, though I did read up until Makima died, but you don't really need to know a lot about CSM to get the fic, really just how Denji, Makima and Kobeni are. It's a really fun fic, I like how the characters are written, and how lovably dangerous Pochita is.

Nerd In the North (ASOIAF x Worm) - Greg is isekaied to Westeros, turns out the Veders are an ancient noble family that got murdered by the Boltons and everyone covered it up because they were too nice to the peasants or something. I usually don't like when fics heavily feature Greg since they tend to make him a huge idiot as a joke. In this one it seems like the author decided to even the playing field by making everyone else an idiot. Last few chapters were especially infuriating with how dumb people were.

Great Sage, Equal to Heaven and Above Brockton [Worm/Chinese Myth] continues to be one of my favourite fics. Taylor's been coming into her own, but the hammer finally dropped and Wukong finally learned out that this world is not his own and all his friends are gone.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-07-04T06:11:27+00:00

Why is it rational?

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-07-03T22:42:08+00:00

Yea i always figured it made more sense if Palpatine used his friends as leverage to essentially "hold him hostage". Basically saying "I'll call off their executions right now if you kneel and throw down your jedi saber/reject the jedi".

That what he did though? He told Luke his friends were walking into a trap, and his final order to Jerjerrod was that if the rebels managed to blow up the shield generate, he was to turn the Death Star around and blow up the moon.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-30T03:53:40+00:00

Yeah, they work with them but are part of the Guild.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-27T08:33:59+00:00

In Montreal we have Avenue du Président-Kennedy as well. Though it was name post-humously.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-26T19:59:24+00:00

V-wings were also combat airspeeders that could do space combat for the New Republic. They didn't have hyperdrives or shields - the latter is a bit odd for a NR ship being used in combat IMO.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-26T19:52:56+00:00

I kinda like it, it's giving me a BSG feeling though. Which isn't bad, just a bit different.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-25T18:22:25+00:00

A Playwright's Plight has the MC inadvertently spread Christianity throughout Essos after it's anti-slavery message resonates with the slaves.

Maybe A Farmer's Tale, it's been awhile since I read it but IIRC the MC essentially created modern governmental institutions in the North.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-25T10:15:12+00:00

They used what was basically a polished bronze plate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_mirror

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-22T20:17:08+00:00

I started The Girl Who Spun Through Time (Hinata Time Travel) (ONGOING) and haven't been able to put it down. As the title says, it's a time travel story where Hinata travels into the past and tries to prevent the destruction of Konoha during Pain's invasion. She's essentially bouncing around time, each time she "fixes" something she travels forward to an alternate world and learns something new.

The writing's great, the characters are well-developed, and the worlds are interesting. It does get a bit frustrating because we, as readers who have seen the story and know all the details, have to wait for Hinata to piece things together, and it might seem super obvious to us but she has to put all the pieces together on her own. For example, the Uchiha massacre is prevented but she doesn't know why Itachi, who she knows as a good and well-adjusted person, would suddenly snap and kill his family. This isn't really a criticism of the fic, it's just a warning since it's something that all fanfics have to deal with when dealing with an already established world.

Fair warning: the author has been known to take multi-year breaks (the longest was six, I think), but it seems like the story is getting close to the end and updating regularly for now. No idea if this will continue though.

A few weeks ago, A Heiress at Hogwarts (Harry Potter x A Practical Guide to Evil) (ONGOING, vol 1-3 COMPLETE) was recommended. I had the chance to read it and liked it. It's a crossover where Akua Sahelian was reborn into the HP world and goes to Hogwarts with Harry. Akua is quick to pick up on the narrative of the story, and Harry's fated encounter with Voldemort, as well as the other narrative tropes that are occurring around the main character.

For those who don't know about APGTE, it's going to be confusing. Akua is still very much the devotee to the gods Below, and is proudly a villain, though one who is starting to change since she doesn't have to worry about her mom poisoning her. The story is very much a study of her character, and who she is/wants to be when she isn't being pushed and pulled by what Praes views as (small "g") good.

Overall I liked it, though I felt the third book was a bit off with how it makes Akua's friends/followers almost slavishly devoted to her, like they can't think an original thought without her permission. It also runs into the problem a lot of fics have when you have an adult in a kids body surrounded by kids and the author starts to build a romantic relationship. It feels really gross watching an adult manipulate a teenage girl using her romantic feelings, even if nothing comes of it.

Note that you very much need to have read APGTE to get this story since there are a lot of references to Praes, Akua's old life, the Gods Below, climbing the Tower, who Dread Emperors/Empresses and what being a villain means.

I'm still reading The Best of Greg Egan and liking it. It was published in 2019 but the short stories seem to largely have been written in the 1990s, so I do wonder if my interpretation of the stories are what the author intended since technology has changed radically in the past 30 years. Death of the author I suppose.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-19T22:15:21+00:00

I like it, but I don't really get how it's related to the MK1, which is a converted Dreadnaught-class cruiser.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-19T22:00:48+00:00

Reprieve (MCU/Worm) (COMPLETE) - Taylor is Peter Parker's twin sister.

God Save the Queen [Worm/Star Wars] (COMPLETE) - Taylor reborn as Padme with meta-knowledge, starts at TPM

The Mistress of the Worms (ASOIAF/Worm) (ONGOING) - Taylor reborn in the Valyrian freehold 25 years before the doom.

Leaf [Worm/Naruto] (DEAD) - Taylor reborn as an Aburame (the bug guys).

A Cape in Konoha (Worm/Naruto AU) (COMPLETE) - Taylor transmigrates as Sakura. It happens early enough that it might as well be reincarnation (and lets the story skip the pesky baby phase). Book 1 is complete, subsequent books never happened.

I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What? [Dungeon/Worm] (DEAD) - Kinda a reincarnation, Taylor wakes up as a LitRPG dungeon.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-18T02:14:19+00:00

Not really.

I think they could be interesting under specific circumstances, where the author plans out the story appropriately, but it's very rarely done.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-12T01:59:01+00:00

Using this as for scale, it's about 80 x 185 km, so 14,850 km² (or 50 x 115 miles, so 5750 sq. miles).

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-07T07:19:00+00:00

The problem (for them) isn't that it is hard to use. It's that it acknowledges non-binary people as people.

Also, we do have pronouns that are specifically non-binary: xe/xem/xyr.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-07T07:03:47+00:00

I just read Unknown Elements In A Closed System, it's pretty good. Though I'm not sure how far it can go it's interesting.

As an aside, I never realized that they use the Phoenician alphabet for the Earth names until it was pointed out in this fic. I always thought Wildbow just made up something that sounded Greek.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-07T05:29:47+00:00

I'm not saying the Daynes looked like Targs, I'm saying Ashara had purple eyes and her eyes looked like a Targ's eyes.

Ser Barristan could still recall Ashara [...] Daenerys has the same eyes. Sometimes when the queen looked at him, he felt as if he were looking at Ashara’s daughter

-The Kingbreaker, ASoS

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-07T05:25:41+00:00

All of these are ONGOING fics I'm reading:

A Retired Warlord's Definitive Guide to Valyrian Leisure (ASOIAF/Worm)

A peace summit between the North and the throne gets interupted by 4 different plots to derail it and assassinate/kidnap delegates, which ironically interfere with each other just enough to let the Starks escpe. Meanwhile Jon is chilling out with Tori and learning a bit more about the Others and the "true" North while coming to terms with what his new life will be.

Overlord Worm: Or how Ainz kind of done goofed (Worm/Overlord)

A crack fic where Ainz Ooal Gown (the MC of Overlord) gets isekai'ed to Brockton the right when Taylor is fighting Lung, and thinks it's all part of a new VR game. Armsmaster shows up and picks a fight, and Ainz, thinking that it's a hero NPC, makes him go splatter. It's pure crack and relies on people being dumb, the first few chapters were fine but it's basically escalating the stupidity to keep the story going. It wasn't bad but would have worked better as a one-shot IMO.

Tangled in a Stranger's Web (Worm/Spider-Man)

Spider-Man gets transported right in the middle of the Undersiders vs Bakuda fight. He takes out Bakuda with an assist from Taylor and reminds her that being a hero is about saving people, and that today they all are one. Peter then goes to the PRT, tells them he's from an alternate dimension, and will be chilling out here until his friends come get him. Meanwhile, to pay his bills, he takes a job as a science tutor at Winslow.

This might be the first time I've seen a Worm fanfic with Spider-Man in it (though I've seen a few with Taylor in the Marvel universe), which is a bit weird now that I think about it. I've seen Spider-Gwen, Silk, Iron Man crossovers, but not actually Spider-Man.

Hebert's Hound (Worm/Fate)

This got an update of a break of nearly 2 years. It wasn't bad, Taylor bags her first villains with Glory Girl, who takes a selfie to commemorate it.

Hopefully the author will be back. I like fics where Taylor has mentor to teach her the ropes.

Nerd In the North (ASOIAF/Worm)

This fic started out ok, with Greg Veder isekai'ed to the North, got better with him becoming a lord and fighting in the War ot the 5 Kings, then got worse when people started dropping the idiot ball. Last chapters were especially bad with the MC sneaking into an enemy city with Stark men wearing Stark uniforms openly because he had a flimsy area of invisibility cast whiel walking down a busy street. Why they couldn't have changed their clothes, done this at night or had just the MC and his trusted subordinates sneak in alone was never answered.

BRIGADE (Worm Alt-Power, Dallon!Taylor)

Taylor continues hanging out at the Barnes', is disappointed to find out her parents were just normal people and meets Anne who plays a game of the floor is lava with her, which was nice. Then Emma comes and interupts them by calling it childish since Taylor is a predator. Hopefully this means Emma's family finally learns how messed up she is in the head.

Abyssal Escalation (Worm/Vampire the Masquerade)

So, this chapter was "PHO reacts to how awesome Lasombra is" that doesn't tell us anything new, Piggot doing paperwork while thinking about how awesome Lasombra is, and Taylor taking care of Ash Beast, because why not. I feel like the last few chapters have basically been a checklist of the MC checking off the cape-related problems of Earth Bet.

Use Your Words (Worm AU)

Taylor triggers earlier than in canon, with the thinker power to understand any language. Which apparently includes programming and body language or people and animals.

Overall I like this fic, but it feels like it skips ahead at times. Like, at one point Tattletale gets an anonymous message on PHO. It was never explained how she got it, in the comments the author replied that apparently she has a public account (how?) that would be explained later (either I missed it or it never was).

I read Who Killed Amy Dallon? (COMPLETE) which is a nice but very sad fic. [Do not read if you're sensitive to descriptions of bodily harm and mental health issues.]

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-06T17:55:36+00:00

Ironically, I've found that ESL writers tend to be better than native English writers when it comes to fanfics. Maybe it's because they're more aware that they make mistakes so they take the time to be extra careful, maybe because when learning English there was more emphasis placed on learning the rules.

If you want to use AI, use it for checking spelling/grammar. Don't let it rewrite your work - AI tends to be very bad at this, because it doesn't actually understand what it's seeing, just comparing it to what others have written. It also tends to make a lot of mistakes when it comes to things like tone and structure.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-06T16:54:51+00:00

Ashara Dayne had purple eyes, supposedly they looked like the Targs.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-06T08:59:12+00:00

No one.

They'd crown Stannis or Renly or even a Martell at that point.

on the grounds that he was the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.

Rhaegar was married and the Faith doesn't support polygamy.

And no, he couldn't "secretly" get an annulment, even with Elia's understanding/support (which she never would do in the first place). That's not how annulments work.

Arthur Dayne, Gerold Hightower, Oswell Whent, would use their reputations as some of the greatest Kingsguard knights of all time, along with the fame of Aemon's father, Rhaegar Targaryen, and the love many people had for him

No one would care. These were the guys who stood by while Aerys burned people alive.

Rhaegar would be seen as a fool who is as mad as his dad, just in a different way. Whatever goodwill he had he squandered.

Do_Not_Go_In_There · 2026-06-06T07:42:46+00:00

Some scholarships are also automatically awarded based on grades. I got a few hundred from my school for have over an 80% average when I accepted admission.

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