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pengwernRemembered about that one space opera webnovel....that had a number of descriptors to made it stand out.
1) The friends to foes to honey trap and honey trappee/simultaneous lord and rebellious general to lovers to satisfy my entire soul. Just incredible. The deadly faceoffs between their wills...I looked up after five chapters to start raving about it. Dubcon all over, but it was scorchingly intense. (ymmv obviously)
2) at which point (chapter 6) it started on its second noteworthy aspect, ON SCREEN LOVE NIKKI LET'S PLAY. For, I think I counted, at least 6/87 chapters? There was later a showdown that involved competing in Love Nikki as though it were an e-sport??
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Fully accurate and memeable pastiche too.
3) which then at the 60% mark vrooshes down the tired trope tracks of the space opera genre and cnovels in general. ...thing is, those tropes include: the Empire and the Federation*; a return to monarchy that makes sense only for historical genres; insect people invasion and mecha to battle them, but also fantasy RPG kitchen sink for whatever reason, and for the generic cnovel elements, your typical race of cannibalized enslaved mermaids. ,,,,,,,,,,,
4) and finally its title, Sweet flavored Alpha, and the cover, a pink confection with molangs and rows of dancing desserts, which is what you'd expect for a pure fluff bakery setting fic. [F R A U D I N A D V E R T I S I N G]
I had a GREAT time.
Summary and quotes later - I am off to pluck their current anthology wip, Thanatos x Judge of Hell, the two wuchang psychopomps falling in love after a shot from Cupid, Love god x Ocean god (this makes more sense with a cn web term naming people with lots of admirers sea kings who keep many fish in their fishery), and Lucifer x Morningstar (as the term for selfcest goes, narcissus romance, bless)
*(I think descended in fandom lineage from the anime legend of galactic heroes?)
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This author 浮白曲 also did a duology of sweet gods/powers-that-be dating, and also an apparently amazing generic historical foe-xxx novel that I haven't devoured still because I am a cowardly pudding, even though this author is nowhere on the level of stabs as some people (将进酒 author I am staring at u)
1) The friends to foes to honey trap and honey trappee/simultaneous lord and rebellious general to lovers to satisfy my entire soul. Just incredible. The deadly faceoffs between their wills...I looked up after five chapters to start raving about it. Dubcon all over, but it was scorchingly intense. (ymmv obviously)
2) at which point (chapter 6) it started on its second noteworthy aspect, ON SCREEN LOVE NIKKI LET'S PLAY. For, I think I counted, at least 6/87 chapters? There was later a showdown that involved competing in Love Nikki as though it were an e-sport??
???????
??????????????????????????????????????????
Fully accurate and memeable pastiche too.
3) which then at the 60% mark vrooshes down the tired trope tracks of the space opera genre and cnovels in general. ...thing is, those tropes include: the Empire and the Federation*; a return to monarchy that makes sense only for historical genres; insect people invasion and mecha to battle them, but also fantasy RPG kitchen sink for whatever reason, and for the generic cnovel elements, your typical race of cannibalized enslaved mermaids. ,,,,,,,,,,,
4) and finally its title, Sweet flavored Alpha, and the cover, a pink confection with molangs and rows of dancing desserts, which is what you'd expect for a pure fluff bakery setting fic. [F R A U D I N A D V E R T I S I N G]
I had a GREAT time.
Summary and quotes later - I am off to pluck their current anthology wip, Thanatos x Judge of Hell, the two wuchang psychopomps falling in love after a shot from Cupid, Love god x Ocean god (this makes more sense with a cn web term naming people with lots of admirers sea kings who keep many fish in their fishery), and Lucifer x Morningstar (as the term for selfcest goes, narcissus romance, bless)
*(I think descended in fandom lineage from the anime legend of galactic heroes?)
link two
This author 浮白曲 also did a duology of sweet gods/powers-that-be dating, and also an apparently amazing generic historical foe-xxx novel that I haven't devoured still because I am a cowardly pudding, even though this author is nowhere on the level of stabs as some people (将进酒 author I am staring at u)
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Date: 2021-08-08 05:44 am (UTC)also this person's historical novel http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=4439761 and another quick transmigration I zoomed through today amply demonstrated how too much happiness and sugar could drain all the tension, along with my interest, from a book......I could just feel my eyes glazing over (admittedly bc it was around 3 in the morning) as they started going on sappy lantern viewing dates after the good first 25% when they were at the enemies as lovers stage :<