What are you reading?

[Dracos]

I read the start of that and immediately dropped it.  It is a terrible fic.  Terrible use of both source material and immediately bypasses any sense of flow into the scenario.  Probably done with looking at that author.

better fics:
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/greg-veder-vs-the-world-worm-the-gamer.601118/ - pretty sure this is the right one.  Has a flowers for algernon type bit with the power forcing terrible self awareness on, gradually as it goes.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/co-op-mode-worm-the-gamer-si.354578/ - wish this ever continued.  It went weird at the tale end, but honestly felt like a cute team-work/friendship type story, and I like that kind of stuff in general.  Like https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10894754/1/Trump-Card managed in its better bits.

[Anastasia]

Same here, the author's not doing it for me at all.

Greg Veder vs the World is solid for what it is. It also feels semi dead, but we'll see if the author's life gets together enough for it to continue.

[Dracos]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/when-life-gives-you-lemons-worm-portal.780946/

This is a mess and a delight.  Taylor is dimensional tinker and teleport/escapes into old Aperture.  There's a lot of valid criticisms, including Major Antagonists going out like a wet noodle, but it's also got a lot of delightful Glados and company.

[Anastasia]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9637720/1/Fractured

Imagine the beginning of Sailor Moon as something...different. Spoilers.

Spoiler: ShowHide

Imagine Sailor Moon as the start of a Tsukihime styled breakdown into unreality and mental instability. Add in a good deal of horror to taste as well. It takes a few chapters to start this, but once the incident at the jewel shop happens, things rapidly spiral downwards.

I'm not sure if I like it, but the story made one heck of an impression on me.

[Dracos]

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/warrior-of-dusk-taylors-attempt-to-dance-firaga-suplex-all-the-things-redux-worm-final-fantasy.66052/

I'd...really like Unwelcome Storm to add to her stories at this point, but I am still glad to see this one getting refreshed and dragged out of the garbage bin.  It was a joyful ride of suplexing and references and doomtrain carrying a cargo of souls.  A cracky story that didn't go with 'and every body was acting different' or 'we're gonna spend weeks power tripping about taylor'  She even loses her encounter with lung in this one on account of raw damage spells aren't deadly toxic poisons and don't match up as well.  It's still, like most crack, all about taylor, but also about Coco the chocobo running around town *nods*

[Dracos]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26534 yeah so this was that book
It is an Isekai with joined worlds and playing out malicious effects of world travelers.  No the titular protagonist is not an Isekai.
But the poorly considered adventurer that tries to steal from his hoard is.
It is a silly tale, but well conceived

I am really enjoying the tale of this red dragon.  This stupid arrogant gold obsessed red dragon.  Calamity of the Age.  Slayer of Knights.  Adventurer.  Noble.  Emperor.

With his chief of staff and sentai squad, he will be Best Dragon Vainquerer.

But no taxes.  Taxes are evil things.

[Anastasia]

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/warrior-of-dusk-taylors-attempt-to-dance-firaga-suplex-all-the-things-redux-worm-final-fantasy.66052/

I'd...really like Unwelcome Storm to add to her stories at this point, but I am still glad to see this one getting refreshed and dragged out of the garbage bin.  It was a joyful ride of suplexing and references and doomtrain carrying a cargo of souls.  A cracky story that didn't go with 'and every body was acting different' or 'we're gonna spend weeks power tripping about taylor'  She even loses her encounter with lung in this one on account of raw damage spells aren't deadly toxic poisons and don't match up as well.  It's still, like most crack, all about taylor, but also about Coco the chocobo running around town *nods*

It's okay for what it is. Feels better than some of her other stories at least - I'm not a fan of the one Okami crossover that has a name that escapes me at the moment.

[Ebiris]

Held off on posting this because of spoilers but if you've seen ep 10 of My Life as a Villainess you're fine. Through the Looking Glass is a fun story of Keith and Gerald from the show getting swapped with Keith and Gerald from the game. There's a bit of weirdness with Gerald/Geordo being used to differentiate the two versions of the prince (Keith gets no such convenience), but there's lots of fun stuff with game-Gerald fucking things up for show-Gerald and Gerald and Keith from the show thinking the game world is some kind of nightmare world, and shit just completely pops off in the most recent chapter with some very good payoffs. Would recommend!

[Jason_Miao]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26534 yeah so this was that book
It is an Isekai with joined worlds and playing out malicious effects of world travelers.  No the titular protagonist is not an Isekai.

Just read through this (up to what's been released, at ch113.)  It is surprisingly good. 

There isn't any particular outstandingly dramatic chapter, but that's probably for the best - the dragons lines are enough in-story over-the-top dramatization as it is, and there really isn't a need for more.

[Jason_Miao]

https://nyx-translation.com/garbage-brave-isekai-ni-shoukan-sare-suterareta-ln/

"Perhaps this particular isekai novel won't be about a weak-willed rice-seeking whiner who hates slavery yet ends up with a furry slave harem."

*reads

"Dammit."

[Anastasia]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24875653

My Life As a Villainess as a creepy story. I'm not sure I like it but I respect the effort.

[Ebiris]

edit: That's a fun story, really nails the tone of a creepypasta.

[Anastasia]

Indeed.

I'm still ambivalent on the story itself, but A+ for effort and tone.

[Dracos]

Starting to catch back up on https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26534 Vainquerer, and well Grandrake who is 'cursed not to hear poor people' is a fantastic old dragon concept.

[Jason_Miao]

https://silenttranslations.com/one-shots/the-story-of-two-brothers-a-hero-and-a-carpenter/

Found from randomly clicking on links.