New Story Poll: Underland or Sword & Shield?
Added 2021-07-26 06:39:16 +0000 UTCHi guys, here is the promised poll. Time to choose my next web serial after the Perfect Run. Dark Fantasy, or Cultivation?
1) Underland (Dark, Lovecraftian Fantasy)
An underground tale of necromancers, machinists, and exploration: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54061810
2) Sword & Shield (Eastern Xianxia Cultivation)
A story of two cultivator siblings, trying to find a new home in a hostile world: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54061660
Comments
Only one.
Void Herald
2021-08-03 06:36:57 +0000 UTCI know I am a bit late for the poll but are you going to be writing only one of these novels or will both be written eventually
Douglas Hoeflin
2021-08-03 06:35:21 +0000 UTCBeen looking for a good town building novel for forever, and would love to see your take on cultivation!
Niloc
2021-07-27 16:09:19 +0000 UTCYou could likely write a 2-300 page document by just listing all of the obnoxious tropes and unrelenting plotholes that keep appearing in any and every xianxia novel. My favorite of all the tropes is how they always describe the world as being so large with trillions of quadrillions of people, where cultivators randomly kill billions of people in a single "move", but normally the "towns" and "cities" are pretty much described as small villages of perhaps 500-2000 inhabitants, and people always seem to team up on 1 person rather than 1 person destroying billions.
Bury nice Basiun
2021-07-27 06:00:10 +0000 UTCSorry I'm gonna have to go with underland as I absolutely cannot stand eastern cultivation novels. There's too much spiritual bs and everybody is constantly demanding respect and never giving any in return and then the vast majority of everyone in said stories are hypocrites. I've read so many cultivation novels that were the same as the last one and constantly using big words like unfathomable or profound to try and make it seem more interesting but end up using them for every other thing like if it's a slightly good technique its profound and if its slightly worse than that one its total garbage. And let's not forget to mention the fact that the Mc is usually some poor bullied kid down on their luck who gets lucky somehow and is apparently the only good guy in the whole starter town and the whole world is against them. And then there's that bs about having to harden your heart on the road of cultivation and the path go the top being a lonely one when they're the ones pushing away their own friends and family or just killing them themselves. So yeah no cultivation novels for me
Reviv3pls
2021-07-26 21:02:43 +0000 UTCI've been wanting a good town building novel for forever, so I gotta go sword and shield!
Niloc
2021-07-26 14:46:25 +0000 UTCI simp for bloodborne so this was an easy choice
Spartanstoryteller
2021-07-26 13:51:43 +0000 UTCI second this
Oiva Metsola
2021-07-26 12:26:36 +0000 UTCAlready plenty of Eastern cultivation stories out there gimme Underground Bloodborne the webnovel.
Robert
2021-07-26 12:23:48 +0000 UTCI am not as enthusiastic about a female protagonist, which seems to be the major theme in these comments. I trust Void, but I’ve been burned before on good female representation in fantasy. A female protagonist is not necessary to me enjoying the story, but a badly done one can do a lot of harm to that enjoyment - and in my experience there are few men that can write good women protagonists (Though it has been done!). I am primarily looking forward to magic exploration and the chemistry between Och and Valdemar. In the end, it shall be as Void decides, but I like the proposal as it stands.
Armo
2021-07-26 10:42:49 +0000 UTCI really like the idea of a female mc, and the art is lovely but underland sounds more attractive
Jdosnoen
2021-07-26 10:12:42 +0000 UTCboth sound nice. and the kingdom building is more slice of life. so, why not do both instead but just focus on one story rather than the other?
thkiw
2021-07-26 08:13:38 +0000 UTCI voted for sword and shield but I would love to read Underland too. Both seem like very good ideas.
Nicolas Marty
2021-07-26 07:47:46 +0000 UTCSame, I picked Underland since I wanted Void to explore the death in civs more, but the female perspective would be amazing as well!
BananaInMyPants
2021-07-26 07:18:59 +0000 UTCSword and shield, take my energy!
crownfall
2021-07-26 07:16:20 +0000 UTCResults as expected so far - I'm rooting for you, Sword and Shield!
Nate
2021-07-26 07:11:08 +0000 UTCHonestly don’t care too much which one gets picked; I’ll be here reading it anyway
Daniel Aguirre
2021-07-26 07:09:50 +0000 UTCVoted for Underland - but I would love to see the build out flipped to a woman protagonist. Just a thought!
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2021-07-26 07:08:53 +0000 UTC
