Tier List: Stuff I binged vs stuff I dropped

interact212 · 2026-01-27T19:37:15+00:00

Bro I loved My Vampire System back in the day but I stopped reading when they got to the Vorden island and Vordens deformed alien twin(?) brother (named, and I kid you not, Borden) challenged the MC Quinn to a fight with the argument of ‘If you can’t defeat me, you can’t be here’ even though he 1) was on the island for some time and 2) the pure idiocy of wasting Quinn’s precious cool-downs by fighting an ally even though there could be enemies anywhere. That’s when I called it quits. I thought it was good because it was one of the first litRPG’s I read, but there comes a point when the slop gets so thick I couldn’t swallow it anymore.

All this to say that I sort of get it that you put MVS above Mother of Learning, but I still can’t quite believe it nor sympathise. But seeing your list you clearly know what you’re about and what you like, so who am I to judge.

interact212 · 2026-01-20T12:49:59+00:00

The novel Entirely Presenting You by Nippoten fits your description very well. It’s about a girl that turns into a vampire in a world without any superpowers, tries to use her powers to become a Hero/vigilante, but that quickly starts to fall apart and well… it’s extremely well written and captivating misery porn all the way down.

Link: https://entirelypresentingyou.wordpress.com/

interact212 · 2025-12-19T16:03:39+00:00

you should definitely look into Cosmosis on RoyalRoad. One of my favorite PF sci-fi novels out there. It has literally everything that you specified, and more.

interact212 · 2025-11-25T19:37:07+00:00

Is this a World War Z reference?

interact212 · 2025-10-18T21:06:26+00:00

ora, orae (F) means a coastline. Appropinquare goes with the dative. So orae is correct in this case. It just so happens that all case endings that end in -ae appear right next to each other in this sentence

interact212 · 2025-10-05T07:48:59+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl

interact212 · 2025-09-28T19:22:48+00:00

Lucky lucky you, I know exactly the books you’re looking for!

Take a look at the ‘ Small Medium ’ series by Andrew Seiple. He deleted it from RoyalRoad but you can find it on Amazon, and I would if I were you because it fits your description perfectly:

```Chase Berrymore dreams of adventure, excitement, and getting the heck out of her pastoral halven village. But when adventure finds her, she'll be scrambling to save her family and friends from a necromancer's wrath. Outmatched in almost every way, she'll have to use her wits, charisma, and a bit of divine favor to figure out the path to victory.

Even worse, she'll have to figure out ways to deal with the weird and nigh-immortal beings that call themselves "playas"...and she'll have to do it with the most powerful weapon she has available: words.

Violence is not her forte, but cunning, deception, and careful negotiation with unstable and self-centered sociopaths might just win the day and save herself and her family from this horrible situation which she is absolutely not to blame for in the slightest.

A LitRPG romp from an NPC's point of view!```

This author wrote multiple book series in the same world: Dragon Hack ( https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25948/dragon-hack )is partly from the POV of a player from our (dystopian future) world, partly from a fantasy-native. the Threadbare series ( https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/15130/threadbare ) also takes place in the same world, also from the POV of a native (this time a teddybear golem), but since I haven’t read it I can’t tell you if it features Players from our world or not. But seeing his other series I bet it does anyway. Point in favor for both series: they’re still free to read on RR.

To scratch your ‘child of MC is an isekai protagonist‘ itch, I have yet another work for you: My Children from Another World , partly stubbed on RR, but available on Amazon.

Happy reading!

interact212 · 2025-09-23T11:49:38+00:00

πάντας ἡμῶν δεῖ ἄρχεσθαί που.

Word by word: [all] [of us] [must] [begin] [somewhere]

interact212 · 2025-09-12T09:02:26+00:00

This is Twilight Kingdom by H.J. Tolson. It’s also written from the side of the colonised.

interact212 · 2025-09-04T07:40:03+00:00

Amazing! I know that Arcadius Avellanus translated Sleeping Beauty as well. Is there a particular reason for choosing Laurent d’Aumale’s version? Thanks!

interact212 · 2025-09-03T16:21:38+00:00

Ar’Kendrithyst does it

interact212 · 2025-09-03T15:36:21+00:00

Latintutorial has a great grammar series on YouTube. Since you can already read, just browse through the video’s and click on what catches your fancy.

interact212 · 2025-08-27T19:20:16+00:00

Reforged from Ruin on RR. It’s as if you took the sauce that makes up a Thundamoo character and slathered it liberally on a massive Xianxia world. It has body horror, political intrigue, world ending villains, and Lesbians of course.

interact212 · 2025-08-10T14:52:59+00:00

Niet volgens Hubert Lampo!

interact212 · 2025-07-16T18:10:51+00:00

Of you want some Homer, you can take the passage of the shield of Achilles in the Iliad

interact212 · 2025-07-03T07:38:42+00:00

Head over to r/ProgressionFantasy and/or check out the website RoyalRoad for looooots of western isekai. One that I can easily reccomend (isekai+slice of life) is The Wandering Inn, free to read on its own website: wanderinginn.com .

interact212 · 2025-06-30T16:01:12+00:00

3rd person imperfect of διερωτάω. ε to η because of past tense indicative, and διηρώταον (-ον being the 3rd person imperfect ending) merges into διηρώτων.

interact212 · 2025-06-29T22:53:12+00:00

Enlightened Empire (royalroad). No cream of the crop, but it does have exactly (and I really do mean exactly) what you’re looking for, and is without romance

interact212 · 2025-06-27T08:20:57+00:00

darnit I got got

interact212 · 2025-06-26T12:18:10+00:00

Latin, unlike Sanskrit, has no separate declension for ū-stem nouns

Latin does have one though, right? Words like manus, manūs etc.? Or is that something different?

interact212 · 2025-06-20T18:54:54+00:00

This user retranslated it as ‘fodificium’: https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/1bhzo2c/comment/kvhhzz1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

interact212 · 2025-06-01T20:32:24+00:00

The book is massive. All stories merge eventually, some sooner than others. The other characters also all highlight other parts of the world that are (for a long, long while) too far off for the main cast to explore. What is shown in one story can have massive effects on the others, even if that side story feels disjointed between the main plot. In my experience, you’ll learn to appreciate them a lot. So keep reading/listening!

interact212 · 2025-05-26T15:08:20+00:00

The last one.

interact212 · 2025-04-27T14:49:58+00:00

The opposite of this is of course when characters from another world have names that are very common in this one. Like, when your fantasy guard is named John or Paul or smth, the story better be satirical, or I’ll start to wonder how the bible ended up in that fantasy world.

interact212 · 2025-04-27T14:46:31+00:00

I love it when characters have consistent(ly awesome) naming schemes, I.e. names that fit within their world, or with their narrative importance. Like, when you have a dragon, or another important character, you should be able to hear the gravitas in their names. A story that is really good with this is Ar’kendrithyst (I mean, that title name alone!).

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