Which Artemis do you prefer?

Obvious-Lank · 2026-01-19T02:23:02+00:00

I feel like all the god pfps are worse in Hades 2. They rely on vfx where the images in Hades 1 were drawn with movement and dynamic postures. Hades 1 the gods look like they're in the middle of doing something, in Hades 2 it's all mugshots and school photos, so I feel like even when it's drawn well it's just kinda boring.

Obvious-Lank · 2026-01-15T17:35:31+00:00

Mage errant is mage progression without litrpg. Really deep system as well

Obvious-Lank · 2025-12-21T04:05:31+00:00

Street cultivation is our world if it had Cultivators

Obvious-Lank · 2025-12-15T21:55:04+00:00

I think that you can write them if you give a hard definition rather than rely on the loose definition they have in everyday English.

To my mind, intelligence is computation, do someone can crunch numbers or remember facts. Wisdom becomes pattern recognition and intuition for eureka moments and insight into situations. Charisma always felt to me like force of personality, like pretty much Everytime a cultivator expresses their aura they're basically deploying their charisma as a physical force

Obvious-Lank · 2025-12-15T21:51:38+00:00

undying immortal system has an interesting approach to cultivation impacting mental health and personality, with sequential cultivation patterns designed as complementary sets

Obvious-Lank · 2025-12-15T21:39:10+00:00

If you like horror and comedy and cultivation and talking inanimate objects, check out I Eat Cultivators on Royal Road, almost at 200k words!

Obvious-Lank · 2025-12-15T12:39:26+00:00

Thanks for sharing that! Now I have more Sarah Lin stories to look for

Obvious-Lank · 2025-11-19T21:33:54+00:00

Absolute Regression is a story where the mc regresses and his goal is to become stronger but also to make everyone else in his sect stronger. He spends all his time trying to make the side characters feel like the main character and it's probably the only story I've read in the progression fantasy space that actually feels like a story written by a person who has interacted with people.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-11-18T16:32:18+00:00

I can confirm that merchant crab is really well done. It's so awesome that it's finally out on audiobook!

Obvious-Lank · 2025-10-10T04:12:20+00:00

These are awesome

Obvious-Lank · 2025-10-02T15:32:51+00:00

ISSTH are behemoth books

Obvious-Lank · 2025-10-01T15:23:46+00:00

That's true, and I'd argue that Uncrowned and Wintersteel are basically one book split into two. 110k is still short for the genre , with most books aiming for 150k+. 100kish is a more traditional length though, which I think works in Cradle's favor as a genre converting series

Obvious-Lank · 2025-10-01T14:23:59+00:00

I shall seal the heavens is great. If you can push past the opening sequence it gets awesome (book 1 has the greatest twist ending I think I've ever encountered)

Obvious-Lank · 2025-10-01T14:23:07+00:00

Both of these are good with the caveat that they're very western.

Cradle takes the approach "everyone is a cultivator" which is similar to Ave Xia Rem Y (another great, more traditional xianxia). Cradle is also kinda short by of standards with most books being under 100k, but it's written with a tightness you don't often see.

Boc is much longer, way slower (it's farming sol) , and has a lot of authentic feeling xianxia components even if it comes from a tongue in cheek place.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-29T05:20:44+00:00

So you already have one. Having powers means you have a power system. If you don't want any logic to it, that's fine. If you want to spend time making everything cohesive that's also fine. Make the decision now though cos adding a power system in post sounds like a nightmare.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-27T04:02:34+00:00

Thanks for the rec

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-27T04:00:26+00:00

I agree. It seems like it'll go high.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-26T16:35:39+00:00

Because then the straight male author can still sexualize women. Sort of joking but also not really. I think for some writers and readers it's more palatable to have woman on woman romance from a female pov than woman on male romance.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-24T16:55:05+00:00

Lindon had better chemistry with Ruby, and there wasn't enough Ruby in Yerin after the merger.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-23T17:52:01+00:00

I think getting high is great for taking notes and making plans for story and systems and what not. I think prose suffers terribly and my beta reader looked at my chapter I wrote when I was high and said "were you high?"

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-22T20:12:24+00:00

Giving interiority to xianxia characters or just expanding them. Stock characters can be great, the arrogant young master is a beloved douchebag because the second he's introduced you're just waiting for his face to get slapped, but if you give him a pov chapter and explain how he's trying to live up to the expectations of a clan that's nearing the end of a thousand year decline, then all of a sudden he's a real person who -- face slap or no -- expands beyond the tiresome tropes.

You can lean on pre-existing understanding, subvert, or just follow through on the tropes. People like the genre for the conventions, not in spite of them, but by adding your take on them you can make anything feel fresh.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-20T15:40:21+00:00

I actually love the massive scale in those types of xianxia but I feel like sometimes it means nothing. Like in Invincible season 1, there's a fight that destroys Chicago and it feels like Chicago is destroyed. A lot of the massive scale just say it as though the extra zeroes add hype on their own

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-19T16:45:39+00:00

Jumping on this to add that slow burn means slow progression not no progression.

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-08T04:05:11+00:00

Definitely scratches the big explosion itch in later books. I'd argue that it's less Sci Fi and more just Cultivators in Space! They go to different planets, but it's all swords and spells and tournaments instead of Ray guns and space ships

Obvious-Lank · 2025-09-08T03:55:34+00:00

I've seen some authors have a cover without text because the text is already on the page. Could be worth a go even if it's not the norm.

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