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New version of NetHack released!

Tue, 05 May 2026 07:50:41 -0500

A mere 11 years after the last major release, NetHack 5.0 was released last weekend.

Fanfic^2

Tue, 05 May 2026 07:21:55 -0500

We have fanfic of our fanfic!

Closing the Circle (an unauthorized KanriKyara story), the first story posted to AO3 by ASWCanuck.

I can't speak for the other writers, but as far as I'm concerned, this is canon for KanriKyara.

As for the joke...

Spoiler

Wild Child

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:56:36 -0500

My not so dark World of Darkness fic, all inspired by an Anon on Tumblr last year.
\https://archiveofourown.org/works/746896.../195066946

Please comment, I need the feedback.

BGC LIGHT NOVELS TRANSLATED THANKS TO ABSOLUTE MAD LAD

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:01:50 -0500

Did said absolute mad lad use machine translation probably close to an LLM? Sure. Is the man more of a Tenchi Muyo fan likely just churning through said novels alongside various other LNs alongside the core Tenchi bits? Yup.

Do I give a damn? Look, I own physical copies of all this stuff, and I never thought we'd ever see the day when BGC 2032 Light Novels 1 and 2, the 2012-tastic garbage fire Hard Metal Guardians, and the actual Crisis-Crash bridging audio drama Soldier Blue understandable. I've spamposted a lot of BGC shit here over the years and often worried most of it means next to nothing 'round here, but this is nuuuuuts.

The novels themselves are pretty nuts too: Hard Metal is uniformly trying to rip off Railgun as aggressively as it can without the author having half of Kamachi's creative chutzpah (and boy is a Kamachi Crisis a really amazing image, especially after his high-tech Cute Kunoichis novels rely on playing around with high-tech bullshit in ways that'd suit the series well), LN1 Silent Fanfare works amazingly well as what feels like a standalone episode of Crisis with more of Toshimichi Suzuki's particular fascinations worming their way into the thing, and LN2 Break-Down 48 is more a retelling of the whole story in one novel, a sort of Greatest Hits which can't blend into any main story but does stand on its own somehow. I'm pretty sure the one manga Go Go Sabers will be translated soon, and wouldn't be surprised if we see some effort to translate the B-Clubs to boot.

So cool....

2016-09-17: Son of the Bride of Everyone's a Critic

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:46:52 -0500

The latest installment of the thrilling Critic series of stories is now available here.

Looking for a free media player for Android

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:26:29 -0500

Normally, I use VLC Media Player on all of my devices... but as of yesterday afternoon it's crashing without an error message on my Android cellphone and tablet.

Any suggestions for a replacement? Something that doesn't transmit my usage patterns back to its supplier is essential -- that's private information as far as I'm concerned. Freeware is good.

2016-09-18: At Night, They Cry

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:46:20 -0500

This themed collection of vignettes is now available on AO3 and on the wiki.

Well, so that happened.

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:25:22 -0500

My employer has been going through a couple rounds of staff reductions, and I was one of about twelve that were let go yesterday.

Unlike in the past, though, I am close enough to retirement age that I doubt my prospects for being hired anywhere else are very good, so after consulting with our investment team, I have decided to retire about a year earlier than I had originally planned.

So that makes two of us, now, Rob...

2017-02-15: Up in the Air

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:16:50 -0500

This story can be read on AO3, or on the wiki

Fic Update Thread 62: the Chapter Missing Crisis

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:46:00 -0500

Previous thread started here and had gotten into overtime.

(04-12-2026, 12:15 AM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken (original Xanxia)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-121051038
and next week is the monthly break.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39408/...earth-fire

Now I feel old, 2026 edition

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:33:40 -0500

Frampton Comes Alive was released 50 years ago today (April 10).

Who is fictional?

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:11:53 -0500

One of the core principles of our setting is that fictional characters are actually coming from alternate realities. Fiction describes another world in the many-worlds theory. Mostly, we've thought about it in one direction, about people coming in. But I now ask a question that somehow I've never really asked in a decade:

Who in our own world is likely to be the subject of a fictional story in another universe? I'd love the forum goers to shout out some names.

I suspect there are three kinds of them. First, the people who are somewhat obviously ta'veren (i.e. protagonists), like George Washington, who led a very unlikely life. He may or may not have fired the first shot in the Seven Years War, but he certainly ordered it. Oh, and he became the first leader of the world's most powerful empire. It's like a heroic myth that just happens to be true; I could see someone "inventing him" as a national myth if he wasn't true.

The next kind is the sort of person who finds themselves in a situation where one might make a movie about them, someone who found themselves at a crossroads of fate and seized the day. People like Stanislav Petrov, without whom you and I would not be alive today, nor anyone we know. Being the man who made the decision not to launch sounds like a great social commentary on the risk of nuclear war, very dramatic, and he also exists. Or perhaps someone made a survival film about going to the Antarctic, and how to get out alive, and named his blorbo Ernest Shackleton.

The third type is going to be people mostly unknown to history. Someone had a brilliant love affair, someone else pulled off the perfect murder. The kind of stuff that shows up in lit fic, just ordinary life that's a little bit extraordinary. I don't expect to find any of those, but Andy Weir in our setting is kind of close.

Any other ideas of who's real life might as well be a story?

Crossovers That Should Not Be 28 - Unless They're Leap Fics

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:32:33 -0500

Two great horror franchises meet for the first time...

Five Nights at Freddy Krueger's

Does anyone know what Juraian writing looks like?

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:09:17 -0500

''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki" version, on the off-chance it makes a difference.

Asking for a possible story image.

Song of the Day, 4/2/2026

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:28:43 -0500

I am incredibly surprised that no one has suggested this previously. In fact, I just spent the last 20 minutes searching the boards to make sure I hadn't overlooked or forgotten a recommendation, but other than two fic links, this is basically the first time Kpop Demon Hunters has been mentioned here. I will admit that I haven't actually seen the film yet -- getting Peggy to stop watching her European crime dramas long enough to watch something else with me is a superhuman task that I have to date failed at -- but I've fallen in love with this song. So much so that I find myself re-choreographing the Ministry Battle to use it. If I'm forced to choose between it and Sergey Lazarev's "You Are The Only One", I honestly don't know which I'll pick.

Ugh, you came at a bad time
But you just crossed the line
You wanna get wild?
Okay, I'll show you wild

Better come right, better luck tryin'
Gettin' to our level
'Cause you might die, never the time,
Tryna start a battle
Bleeding isn't in my blood
뼛속부터 달라서 (Because we are different to the very core)

Beating you is what I do, do, do, yeah

Body on body, I'm naughty,
Not even sorry
And when you pull up, I'll pull up
A little late to the party (la-la-la-la)

Locked and loaded, I was born for this
There ain't no point in avoiding it
Annoyed? A bit
불을 비춰, 다 비켜, 네 앞길을 뺏겨 (Shine the light—get out of the way, or lose the path ahead.)

Knocking you out like a lullaby
Hear that sound ringing in your mind
Better sit down for the show
'Cause I'm gonna show you
How it's done, done, done

HUNTR/X don't miss
How it's done, done, done
(Hey) HUNTR/X don't quit
How it's done, done, done

Run, run, we run the town
Whole world playin' our sound
Turnin' up, it's goin' down
HUNTR/X show this,
How it's done, done, done

Yeah, something about when you come for the crown
That's so humbling, huh?
갑자기 왜 그래? 먼저 건드려, 왜? (Why are you acting like this all of a sudden? Why did you provoke me first?)
이제야 포기해 what? (You're only giving up now? What?)

Nothing to us, run up,
You're done up, we come up
From sunup to sundown,
So come out to play
Won either way,
We're one in a million
We kill 'em, like, really? You want it? Okay.

Heels, nails, blade, mascara
Fit check for my napalm era
Need to beat my face, make it cute and savage
Mirror, mirror on my phone, who's the baddest?
(Us, hello?)

Knocking you out like a lullaby
Hear that sound ringing in your mind
Better sit down for the show
'Cause I'm gonna show you
(I'm gonna show you)
(I'm gonna show you)
How it's done, done, done

I don't talk, but I bite, full of venom (uh)
Spittin' facts, you know that's
How it's done, done, done

Okay, like, I know I ramble
But when shootin' my words, I go Rambo
Took blood, sweat, and tears to look natural (uh)
That's how it's done, done, done

Hear our voice unwavering
'Til our song defeats the night
Makin' fear afraid to breathe
'Til the dark meets the light

(How it's done, done, done)
Run, run, we run the town (Done, done, done)
Whole world playin' our sound (Done, done, done)
Turnin' up, it's going down (Done, done, done)
HUNTR/X, show this,
How it's done, done, done

We hunt you down, down, down, down (down)
We got you now, now, now, now (got you now)
We show you how, how, how (show you how)
HUNTR/X don't miss,
How it's done, done, done

-- Huntrix, "How It's Done"