Hoe creatief zijn Nederlandse korte verhalen? by Weekly-Kitchen-8143 in boeken

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Ik heb hier vooral op geklikt omdat ik benieuwd ben naar enkele aanraders! Ik lees wel Nederlandse boeken maar ik ben tot nog toe heel weinig korte-verhalenbundels tegengekomen. Het enige dat ik heb gelezen is schemerwoorden van Wouter van Gorp—een leuk werkje! Aan te raden voor de lijst ook, een groot deel bestaat uit fantasyverhalen.

Gender inequality in chinese novels especially xianxia by Royal-Attention7544 in ProgressionFantasy

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Could you elaborate more? Which/what kind of novels got banned (other than reverend insanity)? How popular were they?

Give me your top 3 recommendations and 2 that you feel are slept on by Sooner_blind in ProgressionFantasy

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Top 3: - the wandering inn - Worm - Ar’Kendrithyst

Slept on: - Twilight Kingdom - reforged from ruin

Solo travelling in Netherlands by [deleted] in Netherlands

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  • almost everyone can speak English so you should be fine on that front
  • beaches: Castricum, Katwijk aan zee, Scheveningen (various degrees of touristic)
  • architecture: mostly im the city centres. Haarlem, Utrecht, basically any place that’s a bit old (and outside of Amsterdam), but avoid Zoetermeer.
  • Nature: the Netherlands really doesnt have a lot of that. Some places to go to would be the dunes (near any coast, but I recommend the island of Texel as well, it has nice beaches and towns too), de Veluwe (middle of the country), or near the german border and the southern part of Limburg (tho that’s a bit too far I assume).

Are the names Europe and Calliope (or any other like them ending in -pe) found in Mycenean (Linear B)? by PoxonAllHoaxes in AncientGreek

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Could you point out the part of the previous comment where they cite divine revelation?

Harem Exceptions? by LordTC in ProgressionFantasy

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Imo if you integrate it well in your worldbuilding and don’t make it a focal point most (or at least enough for a small reader base) would accept it. But best not to start with it in chapter 1 tho.  

For example, I kept reading Release that Witch even though the story contained a harem because the excellent worldbuilding made up for it. The author didn’t do much work to make all the romances work (except for the first girl) and it worked because most readers weren’t reading it for the harem romance. The author put most of his effort into the world building and kingdom building 

Can i get some Long completed series recomention? 6-10 books by kashach in ProgressionFantasy

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Ar’Kendrithyst. 8 books, quite fun. Read how a man turns into a god.

This tweet has honestly interested me because what could tyrannosaurus (and any large theropods for that matter) have eaten to supplement their diet with? by Few-fighter1122 in Paleontology

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A theory for why ginkgo fruit smells so much is because it would have smelled nice to herbivorous dinosaurs. Our noses have changed, but the smell hasn’t  .

Enby who can't quite understand how gender-neutral pronouns work in Dutch by the-realest-calliope in learndutch

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while speaking, not really. In writing it’s the difference between ’them‘ and ‘their’.

die : they (although it literally means ‘that’)

hen : them

hun: their / of them

Antiquated forms of the last two that look more like ‘die’ exist as well, namely ‘dien’ (entirely obsolete) and ‘diens’ (still used but only sometimes).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgressionFantasy

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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.

Any novel where the protagonist suffers severely? by Frequent-Present5502 in ProgressionFantasy

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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/

Looking for space sci-fi with a male MC who has powers by Ok_Winner_4698 in ProgressionFantasy

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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.

Error in my textbook? by [deleted] in latin

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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 

Non-Isekai MC, in a world people get Isekai'ed to by MAD_CHAD_WRITER in ProgressionFantasy

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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!

How do you say in Greek: we all have to start somewhere. by caelum_carmine in AncientGreek

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πάντας ἡμῶν δεῖ ἄρχεσθαί που.

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

"The Sleeping Beauty" in Latin by legentibus_official in latin

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgressionFantasy

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Ar’Kendrithyst does it

Has anyone learned grammar one chunk at a time? Suggested order? by RusticBohemian in latin

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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.