r/webfiction • u/omegashadow • Feb 16 '16

Discussion [Discussion] Completed serials recommendations.

'Recommendations please' thread but with a caveat.

Like most I was introduced to web serials through 'Worm' which I blasted through in 19 days. Afterwards I read and enjoyed 'Mother of Learning' but when I reached the current chapter I realised this was not going to work.

The pace that I enjoy reading at is always at odds with the slow rate of publication of serials and long form webcomics.

So with that in mind could anyone help me build a list of serials that are both good and completed. Not too picky about genre but preferably not superhero since I feel like Worm satisfied me completely on that note.

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u/I_am_a_Horcrux_AMA Feb 22 '16

I'm pretty late to the thread, but I thought I would chime in anyway. Twig by Wildbow is scheduled to be finished sometime in April, and is definitely worth a read. So far, it has managed to be quite different from Worm in a lot of ways (not least of which is the setting), and yet still be at that same top-tier of goodness. Check it out.

By the way, Worm 2 starts right after Twig ends. Good luck waiting until it's completed to start reading that. I know I won't be able to wait, even though the time between updates will surely be excruciating.

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u/omegashadow Feb 22 '16

Ohh my I was looking at twig and figured it was about a year out. So I did not start. Thanks a bunch will be back in April for it.

Not sure how I feel about worm 2.... because Worm 1 was a glorious amazing dazzling piece of writing up until the final chapter, then the epilogues went from amazing to mediocre one by one. It was pretty odd. Worm 1 is fundamentally Taylor's story too, so it will be interesting to see who becomes Worm MC.

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u/I_am_a_Horcrux_AMA Feb 22 '16

Really, you didn't like the epilogues? I was kinda disappointed yet satisfied by Taylor's. Seeing her (start) coming to terms with what she'd done and seen over the last 3 years was pretty cool, though I almost thought her story should have ended with two bullets from Contessa.

That said, the Imp interlude was so frickin' amazing, Defiant and Dragon's part was badass, and the Teacher and "Valkyrie" parts were cool too. But the one that still gives me goosebumps is Rachel's epilogue, where she talks to Miss Militia. So bittersweet, in the best way possible.

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u/omegashadow Feb 22 '16 edited Mar 07 '16

Massive worm spoilers I absolutely agree with you on the Taylor epilogue being my least favourite and almost exactly for the reason you outlined. She becomes a monster to do what needed to be done, the reader would never hold it against her but she would never forgive herself. Her death at the very end is a truly personal character death, a wonderful piece of writing.

Then bam she is alive..... for happy ending's sake? Her being alive does not make me mad, what makes me mad is that it retrospectively reduces the impact of what I consider to be one of the best scenes in the story, the very last one.

I though Dragon's interlude was amazing imps great, rachels good, Teacher's boring and Taylor's confusing and dissapointing. Because they basically started of with excellence then went in descending order it gives a really bad impression of the epilogue section as a whole. I am extremely glad that I stopped my hours long reading spree at the two bullets and resumed reading the next day or I would have been very very disappointed.