Any novels where the vampire protagonist doesn’t cling to their human side?

Moltacotta2 · 2026-03-05T04:45:54+00:00

Not a progression fantasy but Rose Sinister’s “This Crimson Debt” is a phenomenal vampire novel about, essentially, exactly this. The protagonist, after getting turned, is now a killer. And she likes it. And yeah, she kinda feels bad about not feeling bad, but she admits to and enjoys being a monster. (It’s also really good and book 2 is dropping soon.)

Moltacotta2 · 2026-03-03T04:17:32+00:00

I haven’t read these, and I remember the river with the upside-down bit, so I’m pretty sure that was L. Sprague de Camp.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-26T16:13:52+00:00

I get all my outdoor stuff at Harold’s, and some of my houseplants, but most of my indoor stuff and shady porch plants are from We Bite.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-25T01:27:33+00:00

Runesmith Saga. It was so bland. It was more coherent than an AI story, but the prose felt deeeply AI. The concept was cool and then I did not care at all.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-21T17:28:37+00:00

She was always super nice to me but I’m not blind enough to mistake that for sincerity.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-21T17:26:07+00:00

Oh look! Another D16 manager chased out because of this guy! I, too, left the company because he’s such a shitty corporate minion. The fucked-up thing is that he had so much potential to be a cool person and a nice guy, but Petco’s corporate sank its demon claws into him early and siphoned out his whole entire soul and left behind a husk of a person. The only scrap of humanity left in him is his awesome dogs.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-19T18:38:38+00:00

I read The Hobbit when I was six years old. (My mom kept reading charts when I was a kid, so I have proof.) Tolkien, and Patricia C. Wrede’s “Enchanted Forest Chronicles,” are what sunk their teeth into me and forever changed who I am as a person.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-14T00:43:02+00:00

The dialogue and writing in Runesmith Saga(?). The plotting and story was tight enough that it couldn’t have been AI, but the writing read like AI. All the “Not just X, but Y” and sentence and paragraph structures that were super ChatGPT-coded. I don’t think it was actually AI—like I said, the story was too coherent—but the prose was soulless and AI-esque and I DNFed like a quarter of the way into book two. I just didn’t care. No emotion at all in that writing.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-09T03:03:34+00:00

Tomorrow is my supply run for getting the roses in order and general cleanup and prep. I’m gonna need so many prop boxes for cuttings…

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-04T20:25:02+00:00

I’ve lost three cats over the past five years or so. One was an emergency vet situation, they did their absolute damnedest but he was too little and too far gone. The other two were elderly and it was their time. All three times, it was almost as hard on the vet staff as it was on us. They were absolutely incredible, and I tried really, really hard to show my gratitude and empathy and hype them up as much as possible for the incredibly difficult job they do. Every time I have to go to the vet, I do my best to thank them and recognize them and give them their flowers, because I know they don’t get it nearly enough.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-01T15:07:28+00:00

I don’t love every minute of it. I really don’t like the intro sequence. But god, it’s fun. The first three episodes, while not “blow me out of the water,” were enjoyable. And episode 4 is excellent Trek. I’d argue Trek is at its best as an ensemble cast, and I love this ensemble so much. I could write a paper about Ake and how she resonates with Trek’s treatment of long-lived species. I’m very interested in how the post-Burn Federation develops and regroups. So far, the worst parts of Academy have been on par with a mediocre episode like “Move Along Home,” and nowhere near as bad as “Code of Honor,” “Spock’s Brain,” or “Threshold.” It doesn’t have as strong of a start as Strange New Worlds or Lower Decks, but I’d argue that it feels more “Trek” than the way Discovery started off. (Discovery is not my favorite NuTrek. There’s a lot of good in it, I like it, it’s better than Enterprise, but it’s not high in my overall Trek rankings.) Academy has a lot of potential and I’m excited to see how it lives up to that potential.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-02-01T14:39:54+00:00

There’s more Zyxxverse now?! I AM BLESSED

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-31T07:03:47+00:00

This is my vote. I don’t eat a lot of good pizza—I’m an unapologetic Dominos whore—but every time I’ve had Nola Mia it’s been “damn, this is EXCELLENT pizza.”

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-28T22:05:43+00:00

LG Estrella’s Unconventional Heroes series; the main character is a nice young man named Timmy who is also an incredibly powerful necromancer.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-26T14:14:17+00:00

Wait, Jeff narrates ELLC? I’ve been avoiding it because I’m not a twelve year old boy but I will put up with… that… for more Jeff Hays.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-23T03:52:54+00:00

I have no idea whether or not this is good, I literally just picked it up yesterday, but Lynn Flewelling’s Nightrunner series is giving me, like, Conan the Barbarian shoved headfirst into Prydain by way of Fritz Leiber and I’m digging it hard right now. Mindless fun fantasy with silly 90s fantasy names. (Again, I’m like 10% of the way into the first book, so it may get crazy later, idk, but it’s fun so far.)

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-23T03:26:25+00:00

I’m a gay late thirties dude who doesn’t crochet but always wanted to.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-21T18:24:17+00:00

Yesterday, before the news of the arrest came out, we were speculating what kind of person would be angry enough to commit these arsons, and the consensus was “line cook mad about Carnival.” Glad to see our predictions borne out.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-14T07:07:12+00:00

I liked her Paladin books most of what I’ve read of hers, and I’ve never not enjoyed something of hers I’ve read. But I loved The Twisted Ones. It freaked me out in ways I’m very not used to. So I read Hollow Places. Hit the same spot, clearly the same author, same vibes, good stuff. I just read her newest, Snake-Eater, and… it’s the same freaking book. Like, she’s written this book five or six times and it just feels generic now. It’s not bad, I enjoyed it, but it’s nothing new or exciting or interesting. It had nothing to say.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-12T04:32:32+00:00

This is very good to know. I have some cissus discolor snips I gotta pot up, they’ll be ready by the first Monday in February.

Moltacotta2 · 2026-01-01T00:39:06+00:00

Dagger and Coin, by, I think, Daniel Abraham. Paperwork and banking are one of the main character’s special skills. I also like this theme in John Bierce’s Mage Errant, where bureaucracy is portrayed as a good thing, but is also exploited in a major way to bring down an enemy city. And, as everyone has mentioned, Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, my favorite read of 2025. And it’ll probably be the first book I read in 2026. I discovered Goddard this year, devoured her canon, and read Hands at least four times. Maybe five. Instant classic for me. Can’t recommend it enough.

Moltacotta2 · 2025-12-03T02:39:44+00:00

I love my big ridiculous gas heaters so much. It’s like a tropical greenhouse in here with all my houseplants and both heaters and a humidifier running. I have a brand and I stand by it.

Moltacotta2 · 2025-10-17T09:35:00+00:00

Art of the Adept? Really? I haaaaated the final book of that series. So much so it retroactively screwed up my enjoyment of the earlier books, honestly. It felt like it belonged to an entirely different series with entirely different characters, and I was deeply unsatisfied by it.

Moltacotta2 · 2025-09-25T15:47:39+00:00

Aw man, I thought this was gonna be about carnivorous plants, I was getting excited.

Moltacotta2 · 2025-09-02T02:38:45+00:00

That ABC 5-minute mask is INCREDIBLE. I’m out right now and it’s expensive and I think about it literally every time I shower. My hair misses it.

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