#ELLC

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[ellc-antlers]

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL BOY!!!! I can't believe they turned out so well

[jargyles]

jonathan/eddie makes me so sick (POSITIVE!) because in the magical fantastical self indulgent world i have created in my brain in which they were in each others periphery since childhood and only really got close in the background while things were getting tense in jonathan's life is something that can be SO personal. eddie has to move in with wayne after middle school? jonathan finds his way to his new trailer whenever he can, it's muscle memory by the time he comes back to hawkins. lonnie fucks off from the byers? jonathan and eddie spend the night near castle byers writing a list of all the bands they're gonna see when they gain more independence. eddie loiters around the photography club (never participates or engages, just lurks) when jonathan moves to california. that kinda stuff

[jackalfurbyposting]

@ellc-antlers 's Garfurby finds some lasagna...

[howlingguardian]

warning now: ellc is a pretty solid story, but it gets a little... questionable as the story goes on, (boxxy ends up raping some random gnome for "shapeshifting practice" and ends up mindbreaking her, and thats only in like arc three)

Yeah, I got warned about that particular moment. I appreciate the heads up.

Mind you, that necromancer looking for a monster to trap and have sex with was a pretty good hint as to what kind of story I was getting into.

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[dmaxcustom]

Fizzy War Golem Small Chest are Fine Too Commission

[mallelondon]

We’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with our favourite London distillery, The East London Liquor Co. for several years now. We’ve journeyed from the very Southern tip of Great Britain to the very Northern tip, on the Great Malle Rally and at each Rally Camp the Riders Briefing is toasted with a different dram each night, selected especially by the ELLC team. At each Malle Beach Race and at The Malle Mile - even though we’ve always said it’s ‘the motorcycle race that nobody wins and we all lose gloriously together’ - but some of us are simply born faster than others… and they’ve always left the podium with an applause, bragging rights and bottle of ELLC whiskey tucked under their arm. This year at The Malle Mile festival the East London Liquor Co. are bringing even more fun to the party and will host a special tutored Whiskey tasting on the Saturday night in ‘The Lubrication Station’, discussing their signature distilling process and the unique path they carved as the youngest and most progressive distillery in East London. Cheers to that! @eastlondonliquorcompany x @mallelondon 🏍📸 @shaneobenson #EastLondonLiquorCo #ELLC #DrinkEast #Distillery #OfficialPartner #TheMalleMile #TheMalleMile2022 #Summer #Festival #TheMile #MotorcycleRace #Race #Scrambler #ClassicMotorcycle #CustomBike #CafeRacer #OffRoadRace #Motorcycle #SprintRace #HillClimb #TheDash #TheMalle100 #TheArtofMachine (at Grimsthorpe Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgEKNNMo20D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[necer0s]

Web Serials Rec List

Recently I went on a bit of a rant about the state of web serial fandom and community, and people seemed to be interested in the idea of a rec list of web serials I enjoy when I brought it up, so... here we go!  This’ll be a little long, so I put it under a readmore.  Also, I got into web serials because I was looking to read more litRPG stories that weren’t horribly sexist and bad, so fair warning that you’ll see a lot of those in this list.

Before talking about specific stories, I should mention the few sites I know which do organize and recommend web serials.  First is obviously Top Web Fiction and its sister site, Web Fiction Guide.  These two are a great first stop if you’re looking for something popular, or something in a specific category, or something similar to what you’ve already read.  They’re not hosting sites, though-- you go from these two to whichever page the serial is on.  

Second on my list of sites is Royal Road.  A hosting site for all sorts of stories, but focused on original LitRPG fiction, Royal Road is a great place to find interesting stories.  This is where I usually go these days when I’m looking for something new.  

Finally, I would be remiss if I failed to mention the Spacebattles forums.  This site hosts a lot of original stories, but it’s not really set up to help you find new stories.  Feel free to explore, though-- this is where much of the web serial community lives.  

Now, on to the promised rec list!  Let me start with the first web serial I ever read:  Super Powereds!  Set in a superhero universe, Super Powereds is the story of five Powereds (people with uncontrollable superpowers) who, through a sketchy experiment, are made into Supers (people with controllable superpowers) and go to school to become Heros (government authorized and trained superheros).  If you’ve ever read BNHA or Civil War or X-Men, this is the story that will make you go “ah, so that’s how it should be done.”  Cannot recommend highly enough.  Regrettably, however, it seems that at the time of writing this, the first three volumes of the series have been removed to comply with Amazon regulations.  With luck, they’ll be back soon.  

Next, Mother of Learning.  One of the best-regarded series I know, Mother of Learning started as a worldbuilding project for the author, and grew to become an absolutely magnificent story where a young irritable student of magic stumbles into a time loop and is forced to gain maturity and power in order to escape... before the dangers of the time loop catch up with him.  Recently completed, this story is perhaps my highest recommendation.  

Threadbare is a fantastic LitRPG story starring an intelligent teddy bear golem (the eponymous Threadbare) and his magnificently bizarre family and friends.  With a story that initially appears stereotypical (if well-written) but which grows complicated, mysterious, and even quite dark, this story currently spans three different arcs, each focusing on a different character in the same setting.  Start with Threadbare, then read Small Medium, and then Dragon Hack in order to follow along as the mysteries of the world of Generica are slowly revealed.  Just be ready for a lot of puns along the way...

Everybody Loves Large Chests is the first of these stories which I hesitate to recommend, though not because the quality is in any way bad.  But it is a rather fanservice-filled story, up to and including sexual content (although that’s usually clearly marked), which may be offputting to some readers.  I will say only this-- of all the fanservice-filled stories I’ve ever read, this is the one where I most felt that the characters, not the author, were making the decision.  If that’s tolerable to you, then let me recommend the delightful story of a mimic who’s power-hungry, money-hungry, and just plain hungry.  The very best kind of power fantasy, ELLC is a hilarious delight to read.

Black Blood Tales is actually a site with two different stories by the same author, and it’s also the only rec on this list which is both unfinished and abandoned.  For that reason, and also because it’s rather dark and occasionally a touch sexual, I hesitate to recommend this one as well, but what the hell, why not.  The two stories are Taint and Trials.  Taint is a xianxia power fantasy story with an antivillain protagonist, and my favorite of the two stories.  It also leaves off at a pretty good point, so it’s definitely worth a go.  Trials, on the other hand, is much lower-powered.  It’s your standard “protagonist dies and goes to another world while getting to choose new powers” story... except the world she enters has no magic, only slightly better technology than ours, and the protagonist can barely choose anything that even qualifies as a power.  If you don’t mind abandoned stories, both of these are well worth a read.

There is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns.  Among the various kinds of LitRPG stories, a fairly popular one is the idea of the “Dungeon Core”-- stories where the main character is effectively a changing, evolving dungeon with a mind.  Of those stories, this is probably my favorite.  It stars a Dungeon Core who’s terribly bad at being a dungeon, but pretty darn good at finding friends and making family.  Adorable, funny, and occasionally heartwrenching, this is definitely a story worth trying.

Vainqueur the Dragon is the most recent of the stories on this list, but I definitely feel it’s worth including.  “Dragon wakes up to discover a thief raiding his hoard” is a cliche start, but everything that happens after that is about as far from a cliche as possible.  Constantly hilarious, frequently fascinating, and on rare occasions deeply touching in a way I did not expect.

The Wandering Inn.  Even among web serials, which are often extremely long, this is The Big One.  The Wandering Inn is the story of Erin Solstice, a girl from our world, who walked into a fantasy world... one that she’s almost completely unprepared to survive.  Stumbling into an inn, she attempts to make her home there and gains her first level as an [Innkeeper].  This magnificent portal fantasy LitRPG stars a huge world, a huge cast of characters, a huge story, and a really, really huge wordcount.  Settle in for a long ride with this one, but I promise it’s worth it.  

Finally, I should say that this list is obviously incomplete.  It doesn’t even include everything I’ve read, let alone all the stories that I haven’t read for one reason or another.  No list of web serials is complete without mentioning Worm, for example, but that story is too dark for me to deal with, and so there’s nothing I can say about it.  If you have recommendations of your own, or even just want to add something about one of the stories I mentioned, then please say something!  After all, I’m always looking for new stories as well.

[ellc-antlers]

Eddie drawing I did today, love that man <3

[dragonbolt03]

God I love this web novel

[whiteassenby]

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

English Language Liturgical Consultation, Apostle’s Creed {1988 ecumenical translation with “his” as God erased}

[aiim3r]

6/100 days of productivity 🌱

23/03/2021

Today was, again, not a very productive day, but I did manage to get some things done or at least make some progress: _ I did a little exercise in Economics (3 questions) for Thursday;

_ I started to do some research for a Geopolitical presentation (on the press in the XIXth century).

I still need to catch up on some overdue homework: _ Religious Culture essays

_ ELLC (English language, literature and culture) questions

_ Geography questions

_ English essay

And then I must do some work ahead as well: _ English revisions (upcoming test)

_ Physics exercises

_ French revisions (upcoming test)

_ Geopolitics revisions (upcoming important test)

_ German exercise and vocabulary+final task (I don't even have a partner yayy)

_ Greek revisions (upcoming test)

Have a nice day/Good night! :D

Oh and I also went for (what should have been) a 40-minute walk to pick up a package but I walk fast apparently so it was a very active 25-minute walk instead.

P.S.: I'm sorry it's not well written, I may edit this post later. I just wanted to note everything down so I wouldn't forget anything. ˆ-ˆ

[hzmmer]

Estava exausto e sentindo a cabeça pesar por causa da tinta seca em seu cabelo. Por ter bebido, não ajudava a sentir-se desperto e estava já meio desistido da busca pelo troféu. Estava tentando decidir se só desistia e ia dormir quando viu @ellces​ se aproximar. “Pode rir, eu sei que eu to um caos. Eu acho que caí em todas as armadinhas de tinta dessa faculdade.”

[sanktuarius]

Haven`t you forgot how to read?

This post is more a reminder for me than advice for somebody else. I used to read light novels once, and none of them are finished. So here`s what should be checked after a year or two for updates: 

ELLC. Epic story about large adventure-based world and a small mimic trying to find its place in it, preferably full of tasty things and shiny things. Thunderous humor, tons of eastern eggs and NSFW chapters are included, as well.

Who said this OL can`t become a perfect slime? A bit like a previous one, but only a bit. Although setting is almost the same, the story is much more focused on inner feelings instead of bloody battles. 

Wrong hero. Very small (I hope just because it is new, not abandoned) isekai-genre novel where main character uses cunning tricks and a power of intelligence, while lacking in terms of brute force. i`m sure it is enough to made it really interesting and exiting.

Dragonheart: neural net in the world of martial arts. This one is relatively standard isekai, with a lot of combat, a lot of training, some starting bonuses and the Greater Purpose to supply hero`s lust for powers. But in THAT world lust for power is literally everyone`s main reason to act, so after 13 books our “chosen one” is still a sand grain comparing to local aces. And there is a lot, a lot of well-described drama, maybe even too much for your liking.

Just to say, none of them are Eastern in genesis. First 3 are written in English initially, and the last one is Russian. I don`t want so say something unpleasant about Chinese, Japanese and/or Korean authors, but it seems right now Western ones are somewhat better in avoiding genre-induced milestones and brackets.

[dmaxcustom]

ELLC Vol7 commission