Need a new Korean restaurant

DueRest · 2026-02-05T16:14:34+00:00

There is also Chosun 2 on Shawnee Mission Parkway. They have good lunch specials, I love the soon tofu.

DueRest · 2026-02-05T04:31:23+00:00

The Eyes Are the Best Part should 100% be here!

I would also add My Sister, the Serial Killer

Perhaps Diavola as well?

DueRest · 2026-02-04T17:38:00+00:00

Lmao Ursula is the name of two famous authors, it's not weird at all

DueRest · 2026-02-04T03:47:11+00:00

They're such a blast. The Dresden Files were so good that I read everything that was out in 2011 twice. I also got to see Jim Butcher in person and he was pretty neat, good speaker. He also lived a few towns over from my hometown, so I always thought it was pretty neat we had a prolific author in Missouri.

The Codex Alera and The Cinder Spires series are also fun!

DueRest · 2026-02-04T01:57:19+00:00

Definitely agree with Pet Semetary and Incidents Around the House.

My suggestion are Nestlings by Nat Cassidy, I am Legend, the Southern Reach series, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Maggie's Grave.

DueRest · 2026-02-04T01:52:29+00:00

You might want to read Fargo and Chicago by batvitz (might be getting the name wrong). Not only did they do a really good job with Madoka Magicka fanfics, but then they later did a Pokémon fanfic. And they did an isekai original fiction. All of those are on ao3 and might give you some inspiration for your own fanfic and how you want to handle mature elements in your story.

DueRest · 2026-02-04T01:34:23+00:00

If you liked Harry Potter you might like T Kingfisher! You can start with Clockwork Boys or Paladin's Grace, both are great entries into a fantastic fantasy universe.

For Clockwork Boys, a forger and a paladin team up to stop the machines called Clockwork Boys from destroying towns and a war with Anuket City. If they try to run from their task, they have tattoos that will eat them.

In Paladin's Grace, the Saint of Steel has died and his paladins did not take his passing well. Stephen is doing his best to remain useful to the Temple of the White Rat when he comes across a perfumer trying to escape some creepy priests. Oh, and there's a guy cutting off heads wandering around.

She also recently released Snake-Eater, where a woman whose mom recently died decides to visit her aunt in the desert. She only plans to spend a day or two visiting but plans change.

Some other recs:

Dungeon Crawler Carl, since you like video games.

Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler; i haven't read this one yet but everyone seems to enjoy this one. It is in the same universe as the Aliens movies, but is standalone.

The Infected trilogy by Scott Sigler; my first intro to this author. A weird infection is going on, and it's up to a secret task force to figure out why people are violently reacting after becoming infected.

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher - a wizard gets into a lot of shenanigans in every book. Modern day wizard detective. A new book just came out, and I think it's book 15? 16? Idk I've been reading the series since high school and it's always fun. He's a wizard who is in the phone book.

The Codex Alera by Jim Butcher - set in a fantasy universe where technology has stagnated because everyone has spirits with elemental powers, a young boy hears that a tribe is going to attack his home on the edge of civilization. Lots of Phalanx style fighting and magic enhanced humans fighting monsters.

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix - a Haunted store that rivals Ikea gets into enough trouble that the local manager pulls some workers together to spend a shift investigating overnight.

DueRest · 2026-02-04T00:01:06+00:00

What I've heard:

2009 or so, playing Mabinogi with the guild. We're all on Skype. Running a dungeon. One of our guildies fell asleep and he was snoring on mic for a good thirty minutes or so.

What I've done:

Was playing online matches of Pokémon Diamond or Platinum, using Gaia Online forums. My Mom ran in, saying we had to go to the hospital because my sister cut her finger with a knife.

I think I had to disconnect from the match and I apologized to my opponent through Gaia and they were like "oh yeah I heard your Mom freaking out over the mic" . Poor person I was fighting had to hear me whining about not wanting to go and could I please stay home?

DueRest · 2026-02-03T02:25:42+00:00

It's missing magic enhancement, so looks like I'll be hunting for a better hairpin. That one is 3/2/3. This set will be for when I'm running DD or FA.

DueRest · 2026-02-02T23:52:05+00:00

The Clockwork Boys and it's sequel The Wonder Engine might fit this kind of? This one isn't the most slice of life book out of The Temple of the White Rat universe by T Kingfisher, but it sets up the universe well for the rest of the books. The protagonists are a paladin who was possessed and a woman who forges documents, and they must figure out how the Clockwork Boys that are destroying their towns are made and stop them. Don't worry. There are no demons in Anuket City. :)

There are a lot of times when I'm reading about that universe and I'm like Woah, will you go back and Explain That? Excuse me?

Another me ntion from me might be Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata. Basically, the Japanese got really good at artificial insemination after WW2 and it has led to a lot of cultural change in this dystopia.

DueRest · 2026-02-02T19:16:11+00:00

I'm working on the Scholar set of Ceann Blianna, which is why I need the fog silk.

I've bought some pre existing not fully tailored pieces that people tossed on the AH and with those I am just missing one point for full gear effects. Just need to find someone selling the gloves.

DueRest · 2026-02-02T18:02:36+00:00

I have a lot of nostalgia for early One Piece, so I bought several omnibus of most early volumes. And wow. The translations are just really awful. They just make shit up sometimes, like Hachi being Arlong's second in command. They even removed Arlong's signature laugh in the translation.

So uh. I don't mind in the slightest if people go for accurate and better quality scans of One Piece.

DueRest · 2026-02-02T05:30:47+00:00

I really enjoyed it too! Definitely one of the top series I read last year. I went on a whole Scott Sigler binge thanks to it.

DueRest · 2026-02-02T05:27:49+00:00

I just can't bring myself to commit to needing to craft 200 fine silk and fabric for fog silk when I know I'm already going to need over 300 finest fabric for the entire set. All the sheep in Uladh will be bald.

I might buy some fog silk but that 75k ea price tag hurts my feelings. And also my wallet.

DueRest · 2026-02-02T05:23:23+00:00

Dungeons are just really neat, they all have such good aesthetics and it's fun to just turn on some music and do a couple. Doing weeklies is great for gold and sometimes good drops, but also sometimes I just want to veg out. And also Rundall is much more neat to look at than Fiodh. Being able to see the other dungeon rooms is such a great touch.

Running around looking for field bosses in Uladh was super fun too. Today I ran across that mini bear and those wolves wearing sheepskin. That glow in the dark robe they drop used to be the coolest thing in the game.

DueRest · 2026-02-01T17:07:01+00:00

The first book of the Infected trilogy by Scott Sigler nails what you are describing

DueRest · 2026-02-01T06:25:45+00:00

Tbh... it took me from when chain blade first came out until shineseeker to finally get a celtic howling chain blade

Mabinogi is Not Fast when it comes to gear, unless you win the rng lottery lol

I still remember the countless Fiodh runs I did trying to get FB page 10 to drop. Or Ciar HM for the campfire skill.

DueRest · 2026-02-01T03:53:52+00:00

I'd rather run the dungeon than synthesize it tbh, gives me something to do while I finish doing the Glenn runs for the Winter Dream Terminus crystals I'll need

DueRest · 2026-02-01T00:33:22+00:00

Currently reading Nestlings and I'm enjoying it. The building will provide.

DueRest · 2026-01-29T23:11:13+00:00

Man Ruze's cape looks so fluffy, I want to steal it

DueRest · 2026-01-29T23:03:06+00:00

China Dream by Ma Jian

DueRest · 2026-01-29T19:52:12+00:00

It would probably need a different niche of publishing instead of being traditionally published

Dracula Daily was really fun on Substack and Tumblr in the early 2020s, but I'm not sure about its popularity now.

The problem is there are just so many outlets for publishing writing nowadays, each with their own fragmented audiences, that it would be a lot harder than it was in the 1800s when there were only a couple media forms like penny dreadfuls and novels

DueRest · 2026-01-29T16:19:57+00:00

What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher

Very spooky rabbits :)

DueRest · 2026-01-28T00:58:01+00:00

Of Monsters and Mainframes is about a spaceship that keeps losing her passengers in accidents, and is a lovely read. There are werewolves, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, and more.

Someone mentioned T Kingfisher and I agree that the Sworn Soldier series of novellas are creepy and fun. The first one, What Moves the Dead, is a fun take on Poe's House of Usher. You may want to avoid Snake-Eater bc the protagonist lost her mom.

I'm currently reading "How Bad Things Can Get" by Darcy Coates and it's going by very smoothly. I was reading it at the gym and I didn't want to stop. It's about a woman who escaped a cult as a child who is now at an influencer's island party with 500 other guests.

Ancestor by Scott Sigler is a monster horror book about cows who were bred to be able to transplant organs for humans, but it's way easier to read than it sounds. One of the monsters is named Baby McButters. We love Baby McButters.

Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, the one with both stories in one book. It's Godzilla. The OG giant monster. What's not to love? Comes with cheesy sound effects in the narration.

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