[ SECRET POST #2706 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2706 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure about a mailing list, it was more livejournal based. It had metal dragons.

[(Anonymous)]

(totally late... damn timezones)

different anon, but i think i know which fandom you speak of. the LJ group was great! were there more than three sequels, though? or maybei have it wrong afterall. (i only read the first three books... the last one sounded... not to my taste)

[(Anonymous)]

If we're talking about the same fandom (metal dragons, gay magicians, delicate flowers and almost incest + balcony scene, written by an author team of two, both with roots in a pretty well known fandom project), there were three sequels, four books in all. I thought the second book was ... alright but the third one really fucked up the characterisation of one of the original main characters and I wasn't a big fan of the last one either, although it had some cute little fanservice moments.

[(Anonymous)]

yes, yes we are.
i remember that i liked only one "couple" in the second book (and the one, i didn't expect to like, because it sounded even more cliché than the other one to boot) and barely remember the third, except for the scene in the... desert storm? i don't even remember if i liked it. (i remember loving all the covers lol)
i do remember that they all weren't that well written, but they had likeable characters for the most part. still, never bothered with book 4...
(i think i'm the only one who found the actual gay couple from book 1 boring together)

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I thought they were boring, too. I was a big fan of the airmen but that was pretty short-lived, considering the end of book one. I was a big fan of the fandom's popular crackship of two of the guys.

The "couple" in the second book had a lot more dynamic than the first book's couple - those two really read a lot like the very classic student/teacher shonen-ai manga couple and that was pretty boring. Incest!ship had a lot more tension than the actual main couple, that was kind of ...sad. Third book was my least favourite and all I remember about it was the terrible characterisation I mentioned and the trans character.

Book 4 was a bit better than book 3 but not in a "you should think about reading it to complete the series after all" kind of way.

I thought that especially book 1 had a great basic concept and characters but it suffered from "let's spend all the time on character development and exposition, whoops we need some plot, let's push it all into the last ~50 pages". Book 2 got better in the plot department, but half of the POVs were pretty boring. Book 3 was pretty bad over all. The whole series was tricky, considering the main conflict had been resolved in book 1 and it seemed like they didn't really know what to do after that.

I still loved book 1 and especially what the fandom did with it, stories, artworks, kink-meme and all. It was an enjoyable place.