it's a bit fucked up that i can scroll through page after page of netflix offerings utterly disinterested and finally give up unsatisfied, but almost every single piece of self-published fiction i've taken a chance on (for free) has been an absolute banger

i subscribe to my favorites among them via patreon but that's a pittance. there should be a lot more people out there being the change i want to see in the world goddammit

@pho4cexa please share recommendations!

@acdw this will require a whole webpage to do properly but right off the cuff:

Bioshifter | Royal Road

Hannah has a routine. Wake up, take a shower, go to school, go to work, come home, and pass out. It's a perfectly normal routine for a perfectly normal girl who does not have to remember how her limbs work every morning because of haunting nightmares of being a very different creature in a very different world. But that's all she thinks they are—nightmares—until (...)

Royal Road
@acdw i should mention if you haven't heard me already that i was a hard scifi greg egan and charles stross enjoyer before i happened across web serials. i really didn't think i would get so into, say, magical girl mechanical heart except i knew i loved that authors' other work. and i'm glad i didn't pass it over
Magical Girl Mechanical Heart | Royal Road

Luna has always wanted to be an Earth Guardian, but she knows it's far too late to have been chosen. It's a fool's dream anyway. The reality of battling monsters every few days to protect the human race is somewhat less 'Saturday morning cartoon' and somewhat more 'child soldier war story.' But that allure of magic always called to her... and one day, (...)

Royal Road
@acdw if katalepsis rocks you back like it did me you should know that the author said she's "really taking the limiters off" (cue evangelion fight scene music) writing her latest, maidens of the fall and i don't doubt it for a second with how hard it goes
Maidens of the Fall

Click here for the chapters! Octavia Carter hates magical girls. Too bad for her. Now she’s one of them. Octavia blames magical girls for the collateral damage that killed her parents and left her disabled. She resents their power as figureheads of the state, beyond reproach, beyond

Hungry's Hedgerow