Introductions

[geraineon]

Welcome! You can use this post to share a little bit of yourself! Feel free to also just post an introduction to the community instead of replying to this post! You don't have to follow any format, but here are some prompts:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What is your favourite cnovel?
3. Do you have a favourite author?
4. What are your other hobbies and interests?
5. What do you hope to see from this community?

Comments

[llonkrebboj]

Yes! At least nearly all the intersteller SF that I've encountered on jj have been
a) some variant of Omegaverse
b) Zerg
c) a blend of Sentinel and His Dark Materials
or any of the above with a dash of mecha for flavour. They're all so fun xD I especially enjoy the eldritch horror Zerg types - that may or may not have some influences from Alien - where the bottom is basically Queen Mother of the Zergs 🤣 LOL. One unique one had beings from western fantasy (mermaids, dragons, vampires etc.) as races occupying different regions in space, which was simply galaxy brained. Another kind of sweet one had anthromorphic planets.

Ok, stopping before I turn this reply into a ramble about jj danmei SF hahaahah.

I have NOT in fact read 送神 bc I had no idea it was a sickly protag one. But I'm also a big fan of their 末日快乐 / Happy Doomsday (one of my 19 favs on jj), so OMG yay \o/ \o/ \o/.

SUPER glad to find a fellow sickly mc bro in the wild! *shakes your hand* Let me update my list of novels for this trope for 2023 and 2024. Maybe I can share it in this comm?

...Probably sometime next month as real life work and irl commitments are absolutely consuming me all of Sep LOL

[geraineon]

I love all these variants of interstellar SF, and hey, you can continue rambling, it's okay!

hazevi is gonna do a spotlight on school romance. idk if you'd be interested in doing on for interstellar SF? You can talk about what you like best about these stories and recommend stuff! (just a suggestion though, absolutely no pressure. I might do it myself once I read a few more).

Yay, enjoy 送神!

AND YES, PLEASE! Me, as a fellow sickly protag lover would love your list! Whenever you have a moment to breath, no rush~

[llonkrebboj]

Ohhhhh I would love to do a spotlight for intersteller SF!!! Except with the caveat that these are all the intersection of intersteller SF AND sickly protagonists 😆 I have nothing to say for myself except... sorry, not sorry xD

To be honest, at this point I could probably do a spotlight for every genre intersected with sickly protagonists. A recent spiral has been novel protagonist breaks 4th wall in a modern dogsblood novel, realizes he's a canon fodder villian in someone else's story and decides to give up and be a salted fish. This sounds oddly specific, but there are so so so many iterations of this in creative ways! Oh! And platforms are mainly jj, but I do have a couple of recs for lofter and changpei as well.

(The list without half of 2023 and all of 2024 stands at 200 novels 🙈)

[geraineon]

Hahaha, and I'm here to encourage this! Interstellar + sickly protag? Delicious!

Hyperspecific trope spotlight? Go for it too!

I kinda wanna do one for the whole crematorium trope (I love it! what's there not to when it comes to melodrama and abuse, and then REGRET and then grovelling? Even better when not all is forgiven!)

[llonkrebboj]

YES crematorium!!!!! I love all the grovelling after the abuse and misunderstandings at the beginning. Delicious :P

The earlier novels in this trope were truly marvels of dogsblood melodrama. (yj Reminder to self to come back with the titles.) And then there were a few where one half of the couple literally dies and lingers around the other watching all their reactions 😍🥰.

If you do do that crematorium trope, I will be FIRST on the couch for it 👀

[geraineon]

haha, I will start planning for the crematorium trope spotlight then! prob for dec, idk. it's gonna be a busy few months for me. but toss me your fav crematorium novels! if there's an audio drama or fan tl, I can access them and uh, "research."