This is the weird place of the internet where I can imbibe on (both!) worm and fanventure fanfic, and also get recommended rare non-scifi, non-fantasy, non-anything absolute recommendations like Man on the Inside. Your musings on Lower Deck are delectable as well.
Hello! I love the substack, as it’s a confluence of a lot of my niche interests and the places I go to for slop fanfic/webfic. As such, I wanted to share something you might find interesting, in the name of the holiday spirit (and also because I consider this author criminally underread - I don’t think they’re perfect but god do I think they’re interesting). The work is original and completed, but it is long, fair warning.
Orbis Tertius Or: An Anthropological Journey Into The Beyond.
I will be transparent: I am recommending this in hopes this will be a gateway drug. In addition to the completed sequel to Orbis Tertius, which I believe is also very interesting (if not more interesting than Orbis Tertius), the author has written an incredibly long Worm fanfiction called Russian Caravan, which is also completed. If you like Orbis Tertius, perhaps check those two out. They also have an Elden Ring/Worm crossover called ‘A Brocktonite Yankee in Queen Marika's Court’, which will languish unfinished forevermore, because as far as I know, the author has formally quit writing, so I can’t really recommend it with the same fervor as the completed works.
Apocalypse of Herschel Schoen (haven't read it yet) sounds weirdly -- on the plot level-- a lot like The Instructions by Adam Levin, which is /also/ about a special needs (sorta) boy who believes he's the messiah. The Instructions is like a zionist ripoff of Infinite Jest and Ender's Game though. Somehow this is less terrible than it sounds, but it's still Not Good. Can't rec you wasting your time on it unless you're really desperate to read long and terrible tradpub literature instead of long and terrible webfic lol.
Thanks for the newsletter as always! And happy new year!
Out of interest, do you accept recommendations? If so, the two free online works I feel compelled to recommend to everyone are the webcomic It Hurts!! (http://gobolatula.com/ithurts/) and the video game Anthology of the Killer (https://thecatamites.itch.io/anthology-of-the-killer).
I already read It Hurts and second the recommendation, with the disclaimer that the "reboot" lost me completely, shit got weird.
Your second recommendation costs money, so I probably won't play it. Looks interesting though.
Anthology of the Killer costs money, but the individual games it compiles are free.
This is the weird place of the internet where I can imbibe on (both!) worm and fanventure fanfic, and also get recommended rare non-scifi, non-fantasy, non-anything absolute recommendations like Man on the Inside. Your musings on Lower Deck are delectable as well.
The Chessiad is great, thank you.
Hello! I love the substack, as it’s a confluence of a lot of my niche interests and the places I go to for slop fanfic/webfic. As such, I wanted to share something you might find interesting, in the name of the holiday spirit (and also because I consider this author criminally underread - I don’t think they’re perfect but god do I think they’re interesting). The work is original and completed, but it is long, fair warning.
Orbis Tertius Or: An Anthropological Journey Into The Beyond.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/74148/orbis-tertius
I will be transparent: I am recommending this in hopes this will be a gateway drug. In addition to the completed sequel to Orbis Tertius, which I believe is also very interesting (if not more interesting than Orbis Tertius), the author has written an incredibly long Worm fanfiction called Russian Caravan, which is also completed. If you like Orbis Tertius, perhaps check those two out. They also have an Elden Ring/Worm crossover called ‘A Brocktonite Yankee in Queen Marika's Court’, which will languish unfinished forevermore, because as far as I know, the author has formally quit writing, so I can’t really recommend it with the same fervor as the completed works.
Apocalypse of Herschel Schoen (haven't read it yet) sounds weirdly -- on the plot level-- a lot like The Instructions by Adam Levin, which is /also/ about a special needs (sorta) boy who believes he's the messiah. The Instructions is like a zionist ripoff of Infinite Jest and Ender's Game though. Somehow this is less terrible than it sounds, but it's still Not Good. Can't rec you wasting your time on it unless you're really desperate to read long and terrible tradpub literature instead of long and terrible webfic lol.
Thanks for the newsletter as always! And happy new year!