Pancakes and crepes are extremely easy to make from scratch - My batter is made of flour, eggs, whole milk. That's it. No fluffeners, no sugar, no add fat in the batter. Fried on a little neutral fat in a moderately heavy pan at high temp. Everything else is years of practice.

The milk and egg add delicate undertaste, everything else comes from the toppings.

I think it would be hilarious if monster Pigeons were to end up in the role of an antagonist for a tricky development process back and forth 😁

@LightningLeaf it really was refreshing that the only thing that flustered him was her bringing up his cringey Corpse King name :)

(Well, that and the two Demon Lords.)

So you let the cat out of the bag, hmmm?

@LightningLeaf said in Repeated Vice: I Refuse to Be Important Enough to Die Vol. 4 Discussion!:

I respect the author's decision to leave Lofus crippled. So often magic makes this type of sacrifice easily curable. Yet they leave the option for Lofus to cure himself by finding the originator of the curse. It really makes a richer story.

Personally, I find this plot point - the MC staying disabled for the time being despite advanced healing magic being available - acceptable because there is a justifiable narrative reason - a powerful enemy is using curse magic to keep Lofus crippled and diminished, and try to kill him or turn him into a puppet. Another reason would have been the MC making an explicit supernatural trade, with the disability being the necessary metaphysical price for some other boon.

On the other hand, I have very little patience or sympathy when authors use the same trope for BS reasons that are a thinly-veiled attempt to make the character 'relatable' or deploy 'respectful' pandering to RL sufferers of serious diseases or disabilities that obviously cannot avail themselves of the sci-fi or fantasy treatments available in the setting. This despite the fact that in all evidence those same people would make a beeline to benefit from those healing means themselves if they were available in RL.

Fictional people using advanced tech or magical means to heal themselves quickly and easily is no more 'disrespectful' to RL sufferers than modern humans using modern medicine to treat diseases or injuries that would have left ancient humans dead or crippled. This because people using any available means and tools to make their lives better is one of the most human things ever.

In this regard, I find it extremely satisfying that, even if healing magic is blocked for the time being, Lofus is planning to rely on the next best thing - magitech prosthetics.

Eh, it's cute and effortless. I was hoping Gori would help him grow.

@satoko-k yeah, and Baron has the school nurse. I'm still looking forward to the moment Yoshin learns the two are married.

And we finally get the mike drop. Boom.

My first question is how long has Ignis known? Obviously not from the beginning, because it was just Sora and Hikari. I think he has been keeping an eye on Sora though, so at some point he probably put it all together. Judging from Demon Queen Eris' (Sorry. Can't be helped. Too much time reading Zero Damage Sword Saint.) behavior, he briefed her.

Now things are going to get really interesting, because the Hero's party is on the way, and Sora's party will be standing between them and the Demon Queen, much to all of those summoned with Sora's dismay. The Hero's party isn't a big factor in the story any more. I'm not sure they can defeat Sora and his party, which means they won't be defeating the Demon Queen. The bigger issue is how to kill the goddess when she manifests.

Expecting a tear-filled reunion, a massive data dump, and the Hero's party to show up at the very end of the volume.

As with any book, movie, song, or other work of art, I strongly encourage everyone check it out and draw their own conclusion.

That's all the nice things I have to say.

Flio and family are still up to doing god level deeds woth little to no effort, and the comedy relief is still playing their part as well. And so tbe story moves along

@ilno-0 said in Nia Liston Vol. 10 Discussion:

Just had a thought that maybe instead of riding mechs, they're now able to mount bugs instead, and the country becomes even more powerful than before. #showerthoughts

Nia returns to Marvelia riding a giant dragonfly ahead of Lynokis, as the poor thing chokes out, "We (royal we) beg of you, return this child's finished homework!"

Shyl reiterates to her brother that she's absolved herself of this whole mess while finally getting to enjoy a nitte in peace. "This is fine."

@kuali
My feeling is that the author isn't really a plant person. They don't have a good feel for how different plants can be. For instance I'm pretty confident that I can recognize dandelions from other similar yellow daisy type plants but if you didn't have any experience with plants you might be confused. It's also always struck me as weird that there are only three or four plants worth gathering for apothecaries and that they have such on the nose names.

@Lex I don't see her as the suicidal type, though perhaps in the original timeline she became that disillusioned with the ruling class. We don't know the full story of parts one and two of the game, but perhaps the viscount was finally successful in dispatching her father, leaving her with little will to fight on.

@decater
Kei: "Hey! I gave you a ring!"
Miyoshi: "A toe ring."

Great scene.

v12 was announced to be coming out in Japan in August, by the way.

@arghc there was one interview of a JNC contest winner two years back or so. I was expecting more of it. I get that probably not every author is comfortable doing interviews and stuff but at least a summary of how things are and where the contest winners are at now or something like that would make a good newsletter article.
But I am done defending JNC after the whole bait and switch membership fiasco, when I still haven't seen any communication beyond the stock responses. Some of my favourite series are available here and I like the forum community where I get to discuss with other readers. That's what keeps me coming.