I enjoyed this volume quite a bit. Tia was a welcome addition to the mix

@vilobion said in Proud to Be the Villainess Vol. 1 Discussion!:

This is true of so many novels that think they're doing something cool by starting In Media Res with an immediate banishment/kicked out of the party/ended engagement in the first sentence.

I dunno if it's really about being cool, there's a lot of people who simply won't read your stuff if you don't get to the meat and potatoes of your premise within paragraphs. I can't blame authors for catering to what allows their work to survive.

@dragon3010

Get her healthy again, educate her and then send her on her way would be my guess. Jinshi only "needs" her around to ward off proposals until he gets Maomao to marry him.
Though there's the chance that she catches feelings which would make things awkward.

@Eternal-Wanderer

Does Noor NEED Power Up?!

At this point he's a king assigning land to nobles to manage. And does "improves education" mean we're going to be seeing toddlers doing advanced algebra soon?

@unsynchedcheese

Hands are difficult to draw.

I'm having troubles getting the image I want to display. Do a web search on "monty python messed up hand drawing".

@infiniteriches I don't want harem Nao. I want the Nao who will commit to Haruka, and not let her down. No making her cry, hurting her, running around, saying goodbye, lying, deserting her or giving her up.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Return of the Corpse King Vol. 1 Discussion!:

While he may be trying to live down the cringe, nobody else is.

It's a fun change of pace that he's not really trying to fool them like in Overlord, JNC's Canon Fodder, etc.. He does the Hellheim catchphrases because they want him to and he's grateful for their support.

Volume 1 Part 3:
(note: i'm posting this very late)

i'm sorry, what? lul
this is quite funny considering what it is. maybe the first best rape joke i've ever seen. quite refreshing actually.
second is s-CRY-ed ("Ms. Mimori!~").

(the low-key rape scene continues)
...bruh. Bruh. Bruh~
as a writer of problematic smut, i approve 👍🏿

lul holy shit trans 🤭

lul #ToxicMasculinity
...Trans!~
bro, you could have a hell of an experience if you just rolled with it
🎵 i want you as my switch
🎵 so does everybody else~
there's no way the smut ain't been written yet
don't y'all make me do this shit
i don't care if volume 1 ain't releasin' 'til early February
do you not see da potential?

you lyin' motherfucker

shit, it'd be hard to write Catherine's feelings actually since i'm straightup AMAB 🤔

gurl, you got problems 😂

@LightningLeaf said in Sowing Vengeance: The Eldest Son’s Disgraceful Green Thumb Vol. 2 Discussion!:

I didn't go back to check but I thought the original onagyl tree was growing from an orc not a goblin.

Yeah, the goblin was first, and he killed the Orc General and placed him next to the goblin corpse.

I'm suspicious of the mithril party.

Me too. I hope I'm wrong, but hey... he can grow four new onagyl trees from their corpses. (lol)

@Jon-Mitchell said in Starting on Hard Mode Vol 1 Discussion:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Starting on Hard Mode Vol 1 Discussion:

She's put a lot of trust in him with her initial reasoning being that he didn't seem to share the standard prejudices against demi-humans.
Not sharing the prejudices doesn't mean he's trustworthy, just that he'll have a different reason behind screwing her over.

maybe (just maybe) she knows either the receptionist or Sophia - and got a background check first?

Can't be a very thorough background check when he literally appeared out of nowhere the previous day.
Not being prejudiced against demi-humans means they might just fall into his strike zone, and wandering off into the woods alone with him is totes unwise.

Having said that, yes, this isn't that type of story so it will work out for her.
But she doesn't know that.

On the gripping hand...she's about desperate enough that it doesn't matter, if things don't turn around for her soon she'll be history is something of the sense we're given.
She's pretty sure how things will go if she doesn't take the risk.
My problem is it isn't clear she recognized the risk.
...beastkin may have lower INT, but there are limits to how far that'll get you and have her having survived that long.
But you also have that the cultural dislike for demi-humans is such that you won't find many capable of pretending to be safe. Because why bother, no one will bat an eye at whatever you do.

It's a trope.
We'll see how well the story is developed; do the tropes build it up or sink it?

Author: Episode 4: Play date with my slaves!
Me: "No, I don't think I will."

Oh well, don't let me stop anyone else from enjoying this just because it's not my cup of tea.

@arghc The sale of the sword was brokered through the Merchants' Guild, so yes, it could conceivably have leaked that Yusuf had employed plausible deniability to gift it to Jonas.

I wonder why wss the queen angry. Was it because she believed that the prince is going to hurt a little child or because she was worried the prince himself might get hurt?

Well, at least there was a happy ending.

Beautiful part here. Interesting as well. Will the leaves of the elf tree let him go up a level? Let Walt go up a level?

Powerful young allies gained. The king colt and Luka. These cannot hurt in his quest.

I'm not sure if he's being allowed to pick among the treasure materials or being offered the whole heap. I'd assume to pick among them, but then the comment about their value compared to the potions doesn't make sense. Unless the stallion meant there was at least enough value to match the potions and elixirs?

Luka seems very mature for his age. He's probably high status in his community.

@karasutengu said in Frontier Lord Vol. 13 Discussion!:

All right, a cat girl Meowgen. I wonder if she ends up staying in Iluk instead of returning to the empire after all this is over

Considering the others we know of are liable to end up in Iluk anyways I think that's entirely possible.