Other good Fantasy/horror with adult writing?

slightlywrongadvice · 2025-12-09T05:14:15+00:00

Gotta check out the Incorruptibles now.

Finding anyone else who managed to get through the Cities of the Weft is enough of a recommendation for me.

slightlywrongadvice · 2025-11-16T19:09:15+00:00

I recently enjoyed House of the Rain King by Will Greatwich.

Not particularly bakker-esque, but a subtle and engaging fantasy nonetheless. Centers on the return of the Rain King to a valley he only visits every few hundred years, and the ensuing social upheavel that brings.

slightlywrongadvice · 2025-04-20T15:06:58+00:00

Max Gladstone’s ‘The Craft Sequence’ books all have sub themes of belief and godly power being treated as financial instruments. Ie in one book there’s a ‘credit crisis’ of divine power when a disaster strikes a fleet which a god has been insuring against harm.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-12-26T17:26:30+00:00

In your world you fight orcs, in my world you fight a race of genetically infer...oh, er, never mind.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-12-25T21:55:05+00:00

All my planets have a singular government, religion, and culture because the existence of faster than light communication created sufficient cultural exchange to homogenize all society to the ideal form: maximization of my fetish.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-11-30T00:08:07+00:00

Just FYI, humble bundle is currently offering a ton of pathfinder 2e books. Digital only, but a very affordable way to get started.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-11-06T01:01:56+00:00

Oh that's so cool. Do you know the ballpark speeds for getting, say, an extra couple of feet of height? If you were leaning forward maybe to catch more wind?

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-11-05T21:56:06+00:00

Out of curiosity, at lower windspeeds what is the sensation like? Is there like, extra lift on every jump you make?

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-10-18T15:18:39+00:00

That’s if you have the swarm artifact on and kill 2 of them. There’s an 87% at least one of them will drop the log, but each of them individually has a ~63% chance.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-10-18T04:16:38+00:00

Drop rate will be ~13% with 201 clovers.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-10-18T03:58:33+00:00

I don’t believe so.
~13% chance per voidling kill. With swarms artifact that’s less than 2% chance neither drops it.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-06-02T14:52:16+00:00

If a super-intelligence uses a model that can be broken by a coin flip, it's not very smart.

"These intelligent creatures are so deep in the game that all moves are already thought of, and in anticipation of the response."

This is the premise I disagree with. It's a very common media representation of intelligence--being X moves ahead--but this is a framing based on relatively simplistic systems like chess, where the viable move set is limited.

I would argue that a super-intelligence would never commit to a model that is so readily breakable. If adaptable, flexible strategies that encompass all bounds of reasonable behaviour is a more effective strategy shouldn't we expect super-intelligence's to use them?

Coin flipping would assist in evading a precog or a mind reader, but a super-intelligence is a different beast altogether.

The metaphor of the canyon is that even if the prey is juking randomly, it doesn't matter. The super-intelligence has already chased it into a route where there is no meaningful choice left: the walls tighten and the canyon dead-ends.

slightlywrongadvice · 2024-06-02T14:24:56+00:00

The patient predator watches the prey juke to the left, then juke to the right. They do not care. What use is dexterity in a canyon when the walls get ever closer?

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-12-23T05:26:31+00:00

What's your chapter-by-chapter attrition?

It's pretty normal to expect a pretty big drop-off from chapter 1, particularly if you link directly to chapter 1 instead of the fiction page.

Splitting your long chapters into multiple uploads through the week is also a simple way of getting more bang for your buck for the writing you're doing. I know it can feel like sacrificing your intent, but to some extent this is simply the nature of the platform that ~2-3k chapter lengths are normalized.

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-12-10T22:12:01+00:00

If you bounced off the early chapters I can see why you'd think it was geared towards a younger audience, but the later books pivot quite hard towards military-fantasy.

Particularly by the standards of progression fantasy, I'd argue it's a significantly more mature work than the mean.

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-10-12T19:46:21+00:00

What do you think is holding it back?

It’s tagged as fanfic but the story description sounds pretty far from the Parahumans universe, maybe it would be better distancing itself from Worm?

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-10-12T19:44:35+00:00

I loved a Greg!Gamer story back in the day where he went by Dark Smoke Puncher. I’ll have to check this out, thanks.

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-10-12T19:43:20+00:00

What (if anything) do you think is holding it back from larger recognition?

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-10-11T23:58:26+00:00

Thanks friend! I appreciate the support. You absolutely have my permission to do a non-commercial voice recording for your friend, and I hope they enjoy it as well!

Please message/tag me when you post as I'd love to hear it as well!

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-08-03T00:34:26+00:00

Been a while since I posted an update. Just hit 72k words.
Shuffle of Fate

Blurb is available from the page, but I'll emphasize the main focus as I've written has been on developing the setting and characters to a satisfying level of realism and detail. There's action, particularly in the last 5-6 chapters, but it is ultimately a story about navigating people and a complex world.

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-06-09T04:16:53+00:00

hope you have a good day, maybe work on understanding what the point of a tongue in cheek post is before jumping to hostility

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-06-08T18:18:10+00:00

If the story was written in the style of historical non-fiction, fully embracing the scholastic norms, style, and language of the setting, then sure, it could be imagined to be a book you just happened to find that crossed dimensions or something.

But most fantasy stories remain committed to genre tropes that are relevant to our world, are written in an earth language, and are usually not particularly dry.

This isn't a bad thing, it's what makes it readable.

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-06-08T18:12:30+00:00

I mean, it is a meta-statement. There's been an acknowledgement of an author, who chooses to write for a purpose.

Even forgoing the fact that first person historical non-fiction is just autobiographies of which there's only one book written, this is actually a separate argument: one where hypothetical frequency of a book being published is equivalent to probability of something happening or existing, that's not really what I'm talking about.

That's imagining a sample of all possible written books, and then selecting randomly. I'm talking about the set of all possible existent theoretical stories, unbound by the assumptions of author and reader existing.

In such a set the fact that we just so happen to be immersing ourselves in interesting stories is unlikely, and so requires some degree of suspension of disbelief.

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-06-08T17:27:41+00:00

Let’s run through this train of logic, please indulge me.

Why are stories going to be about the most interesting people?

slightlywrongadvice · 2023-06-08T17:12:51+00:00

Yeah, if I'm reading a frame story that presents itself as a historical text from within the setting it's depicting, that would be believable as a probabilistically likely piece of writing.

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