Firstly, I just want to express that I feel sympathy for you having to post across both instances. I did that with the weekly discussion threads for the anime community for ~2 months before the admins came in and wiped away all the posts to the ml community (so I stopped posting over there). Having to juggle active conversations across instances like that isn’t fun and takes more time out of your day.
I just wrote over in the manga community about how getting that community up and running has seriously cut into my light novel reading time (as did a new job). So, with this community joining the instance, I went back to check what it was I was reading last. Turns out I was reading volume 3 of Konosuba. I was pretty early on, so I will probably just start at the beginning again, but I will try to finish at least volume 3 before this post next week!
Otherwise, I have been dabbling in a WN or two. The one I am going to mention here is “I Got a Cheat and Moved to Another World, so I Want to Live as I Like”. First of all, this series is NSFW. Like, explicitly so. So, be warned. I had started reading this series on and off a long time ago. I had originally come across the manga adaptation for it. The artwork and visual metaphors were super creative. For example, this page is a depiction of our MC having sex (this page is sfw, but don’t stray too far). When the manga stopped getting updates to mangadex, I started in on the WN. The thing is that I think there is a really good story buried underneath all the smut in this story. It is a really interesting and deep world, but for every one chapter it spends on world events, it spends 2-3 on Tauro’s exploits in the red light district. I have dropped it a couple times over the years, but kept coming back to it (and often found myself skipping the raunchy chapters). I can’t say I recommend it generally, but if you don’t mind smut (almost every fetish has at least one chapter), I think there is an interesting world in this story and maybe an audience out there for it.
For example, this page is a depiction of our MC having sex
Okay, from that page alone I wouldn’t have made the sex connection :). Sounds interesting, but I guess I would start to skip the red light parts after a while as well. I do this with everything where one “thing” takes over too much. Like the constant back-to-back fighting in the latest 2 Isekai Tensei volumes. Or the cooking recipes in Campfire Cooking with my Absurd Skill. Constant sex scenes would probably lose their shine quite quickly if they’re not wrapped into a creative package like the manga page you linked.
Having to juggle active conversations across instances like that isn’t fun and takes more time out of your day.
It’s not that bad right now. I do this first thing at work and use those Monday mornings to get back into work mode. But like I said, I don’t want this to be a more than a temporary solution to see where more engagement is happening and to give ample notice for people to migrate. But at times like my recent move or when I’m on vacation it’s a hassle.
Firstly, I just want to express that I feel sympathy for you having to post across both instances. I did that with the weekly discussion threads for the anime community for ~2 months before the admins came in and wiped away all the posts to the ml community (so I stopped posting over there). Having to juggle active conversations across instances like that isn’t fun and takes more time out of your day.
I just wrote over in the manga community about how getting that community up and running has seriously cut into my light novel reading time (as did a new job). So, with this community joining the instance, I went back to check what it was I was reading last. Turns out I was reading volume 3 of Konosuba. I was pretty early on, so I will probably just start at the beginning again, but I will try to finish at least volume 3 before this post next week!
Otherwise, I have been dabbling in a WN or two. The one I am going to mention here is “I Got a Cheat and Moved to Another World, so I Want to Live as I Like”. First of all, this series is NSFW. Like, explicitly so. So, be warned. I had started reading this series on and off a long time ago. I had originally come across the manga adaptation for it. The artwork and visual metaphors were super creative. For example, this page is a depiction of our MC having sex (this page is sfw, but don’t stray too far). When the manga stopped getting updates to mangadex, I started in on the WN. The thing is that I think there is a really good story buried underneath all the smut in this story. It is a really interesting and deep world, but for every one chapter it spends on world events, it spends 2-3 on Tauro’s exploits in the red light district. I have dropped it a couple times over the years, but kept coming back to it (and often found myself skipping the raunchy chapters). I can’t say I recommend it generally, but if you don’t mind smut (almost every fetish has at least one chapter), I think there is an interesting world in this story and maybe an audience out there for it.
Okay, from that page alone I wouldn’t have made the sex connection :). Sounds interesting, but I guess I would start to skip the red light parts after a while as well. I do this with everything where one “thing” takes over too much. Like the constant back-to-back fighting in the latest 2 Isekai Tensei volumes. Or the cooking recipes in Campfire Cooking with my Absurd Skill. Constant sex scenes would probably lose their shine quite quickly if they’re not wrapped into a creative package like the manga page you linked.
It’s not that bad right now. I do this first thing at work and use those Monday mornings to get back into work mode. But like I said, I don’t want this to be a more than a temporary solution to see where more engagement is happening and to give ample notice for people to migrate. But at times like my recent move or when I’m on vacation it’s a hassle.