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Mr. Mimicry
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Prolific reader, nonexistent author, posting quotes from web serials and books I read.

What did you think we got up to while waiting for clumsy adventurers?
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Sky Pride by Warby Picus 🪐📚💙
V4C27 Spoiler Warning
(This is one of my favourite stories, and the letters are some of my favourite chapters.)
Sister Su just calls them out, and if they won’t duel, she follows them around and loudly reads essays, with footnotes, references, appendices and codicils, about their moral, physical, spiritual and hygienic failures. She got a little printing machine, hand cranked. She’s gotten very fast at setting the type, and has started commissioning new blocks of characters in different handwriting for extra emphasis. Sis’ Su has all her little printing blocks organized, categorized and regimented better than a unit of Imperial Guardsmen. She prints fliers, and distributes them widely, even commissioning missions to other Immortal Grottos (which is what they call their subsidiary temples.) The fliers come with attached bibliographies and a table of citations, as well as lists of women whom the young masters have failed to satisfy. She usually includes the ‘gentlemen’s’ mothers, but notes that the disappointment is merely inferred based on the totality of evidence. I insist that you picture Sis’ Su, sitting at her worktable, carefully and precisely setting the characters into wooden forms. It’s all backward, of course, so it prints properly on the page. With her slim, white fingers, stained with blue-black ink, she arranges the following sentence- “Allegations that he has personally received the unspeakable attentions of a Bull Hippopotamus, repeatedly and enthusiastically, are not without support despite his embarrassing physique and general lack of vigour. See Appendix C for an explanation of what a Hippopotamus is.”
October 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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The Warcrowned by LostInTranscription
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I will take my future payment in horses, bush mage,” Xathar rumbled for the fourth time. Marcus just did his best to hang on, legs already itching. The demon was running fast enough to exhaust any regular horse within miles, something it had been doing for over an hour now. “It was old, sickly and so very stale, but I found it to be a pleasant experience.” Marcus grunted. “I’m happy you’re happy. And no, you won’t get to eat a horse every time I need your services. We’ll save it for special occasions.” Xathar grumbled something about greedy bushes, moving left to dodge a fallen tree
October 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Discount Dan by James Hunter 🪐📚💙
(And our favourite doggo, Croc!)
"Sure, this might be some sort of Trojan Horse, but it also might be a ‘Don’t-look-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth’ type situation.” “This analogy has a lot of horses, Dan,” Croc said softly, before stealing a furtive look toward Nikoli. “Do you think he has some sort of secret bargain with horse people?” I pinched the bridge of my noise. “What? No. Don’t worry about the horses, bud." Croc’s ears flattened. “Too many legs. I always say you should never trust something with more than ten legs. As the saying goes, nine is divine, eight is great, seven is heaven, five is fine, four galore, three is the bee’s knees, two is tried and true, and one is likely a very sad workplace accident. But ten?” Croc shook his head. “Never ten.” “There’s no way that’s a saying,” Harper replied with a frown. “That’s just so incredibly specific and there can’t possibly be enough scenarios to warrant someone coming up with a saying like that.” “Nope, it’s definitely a very common scenario,” Croc assured her.
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Path of the Deathless by OstensibleMammal 🪐📚💙
Shiv. Look at me. Look at me. Speak the truth. Say what is right. Do not be your parents right now.” “Are you felling serious?” Shiv hissed. “You’re using that on me now?” “Well, I’m not going to out-bloody-seduce Uva, am I?” Adam said. “Pitiful,” Uva deadpanned. “To give up without even trying. Do seduce Shiv, Adam. Let me see how you might do it.”
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Sky Pride by Warby Picus
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He found a rock in the courtyard to sit on and pulled out his bowl. He had eaten half of it before he realized he wasn’t alone. “Oh. Didn't see you. Sorry.” Even he didn’t believe he sounded sincere. “You looked straight at me, and didn’t see me. I’m not asking, I am telling you that you looked straight at me and didn’t see me. If I thought I would succeed, I really do think I would try to kill you right now.” Lin said. Her tone was conversational, but Tian believed her.
October 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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- Path of the Deathless by OstensibleMammal
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"I… I am the potato?" Shiv mumbled, mimicking slicing motions in the air. Uva winced slightly. "No, Shiv, you are not a potato. You are misremembering. Your memories have mingled. You have overdrawn and over-focused on the wrong part of your mind. This happens in Psychomancy sometimes. I will mend you in a moment." "I'm not a potato?" "No, Shiv, you are not the potato." "Hey, Uva," Shiv asked. "Yes?" "Would you still like me if I was a potato?" "Enough to eat you, probably," she replied wryly. "I prefer fish, or maybe something green. But I suppose I'll make an exception for a potato if you became one. But if potatoes-you can still cook, well… I suspect I would prefer to keep you alive instead.” "I guess that's all a man can ask," he replied
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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- Murder on Hunter's Eve (Lamplight Mysteries 3)
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“The Ramsdale estate is cursed. The village too. Terrible things happen here.” “Well I'm sure terrible things happen everywhere.” “All too true. But especially bad here. A month before Mrs Ramsdale disappeared, she purchased a new hunting dog for the kennels.”
July 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM