#duke please repent

[butterfirefly]

The Privacy Case for SweetDream, Feature by Feature

Let me approach this analytically. Every standout feature SweetDream offers becomes more valuable the moment you trust that it's private. The lifelike voice messages and human-sounding phone calls? Worth more when you know they're discreet. The video calls and live cam sessions available with select characters? Far more comfortable to enjoy when the platform's whole posture is privacy-first.

That's the throughline I kept landing on while testing sweetdream.ai. It isn't that the AI girlfriend experience is good and also private; it's that the privacy is what lets the experience be as immersive as it is. You design a companion's personality and appearance in detail, you get strikingly realistic generated photos, and you do it all knowing the content stays yours.

If I were scoring AI companion platforms on a rubric, SweetDream would top the column that too many competitors leave half-empty. Discretion isn't a bonus line item here. It's the reason the rest of the product works as well as it does.

[butterfirefly]

Event Announcement! FREE

For the whole of Saturday KST, "This Novel Is Not My Novel" will be free to read from beginning to the latest chapter. 🥳 Then on Sunday, it's "Duke, Please Repent" that will be available for free in its entirety.

Happy reading!

[laosinsin]

Reading Duke, Please Repent.

And one of the things I've been vaguely giggling about in DPR is that there is no way Humanus/Serpense (btw, those names kill me. Especially the latter given Hazbin Hotel now) didn't have a MASSIVE slash following in the og novel fandom. They hit just so many slashy ship tropes - cold beauty vs sunshine protag, hero/villain, possibility of childhood friends (well, from Humanus pov) -> enemies -> lovers.

But it's funny to compare the character types of this novel with "This Novel is Not My Novel".

In some ways the MC and 'ML' of TNINMK are those tropes. Reysir is definitely pretty Humanus more than Shion, and Karvaldr is the isekai guy jumping into the cold white haired Duke with a terrible/traumatic family history instead of his minor-character aide. But of course the character dynamic also has hints of Shion/Serpense but flipped - the isekai guy - the one whose head we are in, is the stiff cold one being teased by the cheerful guy.

[mediareccs]

Title: Duke, Please Repent (공작님, 획개해주세요)

Type: webnovel with a webcomic adaptation (both ongoing)

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Childcare

Content Warnings: child abuse, torture, trauma, tragedy, psychopathy, possession, violence, depression, demon worship, survivor's guilt, kidnapping, manipulation, Stockholm syndrome, secondhand embarrassment

Description: He became an aide to the final boss in the novel. In the ending of the novel, the final boss is dead, and the world is already in tatters. So why don’t we get the final boss off the hook in the first place? We can’t fix people, but there’s no other option, so let’s try fixing the boss.

Why I recommend it: It's a hilarious, lighthearted read about healing one's childhood wounds. The power of MC's goofy personality is so strong you'd forget the things mentioned in the content warning even exist so long as they're not smacking you in the face with a sledgehammer. The story focuses mainly on childcare, but once MC gets enough sugar in poor little meow meow's system and transforms him into a filial simp, they then go on an adventure to battle demons and save the continent along with an elf fanfiction writer, a traumatized knight, a pottymouth mage and her yandere dongsaeng, that one anime girl that prays in the background /pos, a himbo crown prince with a heart of gold who takes denseness to new heights, and a shapeshifting mercenary Beyonce, but mostly they just drink World Tree tea and eat delicious foods.

Why I recommend it evil version: The horrors. Oh, the horrors.

So what are you waiting for? Join the MC as he raises his son (who's only a year younger than him) and travels the demon-infested land of Canaan while pretending to be a corrupt bishop or an unhinged masochist, depending on the situation.

[perisimmon]

Just started reading Duke, Please Repent and dang.

Serpen is really fucked up.

He’s been raised to fulfill his one duty—to use the Holy Sword and protect the continent. He’s been through so many trials to do just that, he’s been forced to commit “necessary evil” (eg. killing a baby monster).

And when the time comes, he wasn’t even chosen. He could not fulfill his duty, which was the center of his entire life. It was his only motivation.

Now that he can’t fulfill it, what was it all for? Without his duty, what was he? Who is he? What is his meaning in life?

No wonder he snapped.

[butterfirefly]

Duke, Please Repent may be "Infantilization: The Novel" and I can't claim it's particularly well-written and maybe sometimes there are like 5 consecutive chapters of just the characters sitting at a table having snacks because the mc's adhd game is too strong it keeps derailing the conversations thus hampering the plot progression and yeah the supporting cast might not be as fleshed out as they could've been and the protagonist goes on and ooon about fostering some independence in the deuteragonist yet a literal thousand chapters later he's following him to the bathroom because he has separation anxiety and depressing moments may sometimes sprout up in between fever dreams and break your neck without warning and there's a whole arc where the genre switches to psychological horror

But it's also full of love and compassion and a loud plea for the world to be kinder and it takes you by the hand and tells you no matter the abuse and the hurt you've been through you still have a life ahead of you and if you let it love can transform your broken pieces into something beautiful

[butterfirefly]

[butterfirefly]

Your Honor, they are negative twelve years old.

[butterfirefly]

Well at least Raysir offered to accompany him while he slept. Serpens just broke into Zion's bedroom one night and curled up where he could and scared him half to death.