myrdschaem

I have ported the earlier posts from pillowfort and backdated them for archival here. Hopefully that worked and none of you are seeing ten posts from me in a row.
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I was busy with real life as my family celebrates easter and I was compelled to attend this year. This time, there are some funky science stories and a lot of dead doves or non-con.

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Somehow, I didn’t see or find much new fic and was rereading some I recced before. But there were a two I haven’t shared before.

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Or rather two weeks at once since last weekend was filled with other activity. This time it’s podfic time as I caught up with the immense output of the first two months of the year - or as much as I could in fandoms I found interesting.

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For the small 3-sentence thing I have been rereading a bit of Dungeon meshi aka Delicious in Dungeon which keeps on being a gift. It's a serialised monthly seinen manga that is part D&D campaign and part slice of life cooking.

The plot in general: an adventuring team loses their team member Falin, a healing focused sorceress, to a Red Dragon. Adventurers can be revived with magic, but they have to hurry back into the dungeon before Falin, who was eaten by the dragon, can be digested. To make the trip right away, they decide to not carry food and instead eat what they can find and kill in the dungeon.

One of the strengths of the story is the world building. Ever chapter is a small puzzle on how to eat a monster. Some of these are obvious, like a basilisk, but ramps up fast. Just some examples from the first to volumes include gardening on top of golems, using traps to fry things in oil or chapters on ghosts and living armour.

These fun stories function as a trojan horse to advocate for sustainable food production, less industrialised farming, nutrition and biodiversity. The stories dig into the mystery of how a dungeon works overall, portraying it as a complex ecosystem where adventurers breaking in are wreaking havoc because they act thoughtless and ignore the consequences.

There are other strong points in the writing, but these are what I wanted to focus on. Check out the series, if you can, or talk to me about it. I haven't even gotten into the characters, haha. Mostly because the food porn is distraction enough.

Back on track this week. I will try to keep it short because we have SNOW here and I want to go out for a walk!

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A shorter week this time, so a bit less on it. The theme this time turned out to be eldritch and horror transformer fic! I didn’t set out with it in mind, but here we are.

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This week, besides Transformers, I crawled out of mech hell to get caught up a bit with the R76 tag. The tag has run away from me in the few months I wasn’t there and had at least one exchange, so I am not nearly through all of it. Also: I have at least gotten time to listen to my ITPE treats - and yes, they are all getting recced.

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