#lost stories

[terrypratchettestate]

Arnold, the Bominable Snowman | Terry Pratchett

Read the final lost story of Sir Terry Pratchett, Arnold, the Bominable Snowman. Also available in A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories.

READ: The final of Terry Pratchett's lost stories - Arnold, the Bominable Snowman - was discovered after the hardback publication of A Stroke of the Pen, and included in the paperback edition.

It is also now available for all to read, for free, here.

[suenestrellas]

holy fuck

[enchantedpersephone]

I just found out yesterday that Bato.to was shut down, and I’m honestly heartbroken. I didn’t know it had happened—or that it was even going to happen—and now all my manhwas, my lists, everything is gone. It was genuinely the best site to read the best manhwas and mangas, all in one place.

People often talk about this kind of loss in fanfiction spaces, and I guess I had a false sense of security when it came to other niches like Bato.to. But losing everything overnight—the site itself and even my lists, without any warning to back things up—hurts way more than I expected.

I’m devastated that we lost such a good manhwa/manga site. I don’t even know where I’m supposed to find my stories anymore. Bato.to always had the most complete library and the most consistent updates compared to any other site. It was safe, too—no obscene ads flashing in your face, no malware trying to steal your data or mess with your device. We could comment, talk between chapters, and it was all free.

All for free!

I honestly don’t know if any site will ever have everything I lost the way Bato.to did. It feels like a modern Library of Alexandria made of manhwas/mangas—something I visited for years and built my lists week by week—just vanished in the blink of an eye. I’m just devastated. It feels like the end of a modern Golden Era.

[fidgetspinzaku]

Very funny to me that all it took was Suzaku and Lelouch dying to get a Kallen/C.C. kiss in a piece of Code Geass media. The removal of the toxicest yaoi allows the native yuri to flourish.

[suzalulusource]

★4 ルルーシュ [世界の理を変えし魔王] ★4 スザク [ランスロット　究極の極みへ！]

[starryvbs2500]

so should i make a count as to how many times ive gotten someone into Code Geass with the power of KallenCC yuri-

[rolotouto]

Lost Stories: Magia-stick Academia

The newest Lost Stories event features Rolo as part of Lelouch's family! Alternative Universe, but that's okay. They could have easily excluded him and didn't. (Note: マギアスティック is "Magia-stick" within the game's English text, but I thought they were going for Mageasstic... Right? Isn't that the obvious pun?)

Lelouch: Well then, time to display my abilities by making your favorite dishes.

The setting is that, in this world, people have magic that allows them to summon Knightmare Golems, but not everyone belongs to the same rank: people like Kallen and Suzaku are S ranks and they summon the strongest Knightmares and such, but Lelouch and his friends, Shirley, Rivalz and Milly, and also Nunnally, are Ds. For some reason, Rolo is instead a B, though! Summoning magic from this AU kind of parallels piloting skills, but also Geass, I think? And Rolo is both a skilled pilot and a Geass user in the original, so I'm assuming that's why he gets to belong to a higher rank.

Lelouch: I'm home, Nunnally, Rolo. You were both doing homework, huh?

Rolo: Yeah, Nunnally was teaching me the theory. I'm behind everyone else, so...

Nunnally: That's because of your chronic heart condition. It can't be helped.

Rolo: No. As a class B, if I could enter the Owner of Rounds through achieving excellent grades, that would make your lives easier. So I'll do my best.

Nunnally: I'm sorry, Rolo. Not only are my legs incapacitated, but I'm also a class D, therefore... Lelouch finds this society unfair, where one's rank/class determines the treatment they get, their opportunities in life, etc. He himself ends up becoming a rank S through training his magic for years, but he knows that his little siblings have physical handicaps that make it difficult for them to improve their ranks, no matter how hard they try. The rest of the event is quite long and I skimmed through it a little, not gonna lie, but mainly it focuses on a Knightmare Golem tournament at the school which Lelouch is actually using for his goals. The participants' strong attacks (Kallen and Suzaku, powered up by everyone's magic) will help him unseal "the witch without a name": this AU's C.C., who was sealed in the past because people feared her. Lelouch had already come into contact with her when he was a child, and he had been training his magic ever since in order for her to grant him the wish of "a world that isn't bound by power," for his siblings' sake. The story is almost over. A week after he unseals C.C. and makes his wish, we see that everyone is happier now. Kallen's mom is healed because her illness was magic-related, and the same goes for Nunnally and Rolo:

Rolo: Me and Nunnally too. It seems that a magical power dysfunction was one of the reasons for the strain on my heart and Nunnally's legs being incapacitated. Nunnally herself adds that she'll be able to walk again one day. However, when the student council friends ask them if they too haven't seen Lelouch since last week...

Rolo: You are right. We haven't been able to meet Brother after that.

Nunnally: We don't know where Brother is either... So Milly decides that they should go search for Lelouch together, and they all agree.

Milly: Of course! It'd be too cruel for him to leave behind his dear little sister and brother, no?

The ending then shows Fukkatsu!C.C. telling this story to some NPCs, so I guess she was the narrator all along. Which means C.C. was the one who decided to change Lelouch's motivation in life to be Nunnally and Rolo instead of just Nunnally? Thanks... ---

On another note, there's a survey going on right now for users to choose characters/costumes they want added into the game, and Pilot Suit Rolo is one of the options. There'll more than one winner, because the characters are divided into different groups, and Rolo's group is made up of merely 3 options: Pilot Suit Rolo, Pilot Suit Benio and R2 Kaguya. If Rolo won, Pilot Suit Rolo would be added not as an alternate skin, but as an actual unit with his own lines and everything. Now, considering the type of fanservice that the game focuses on, the poll could be just Rolo vs Unnamed Background Female Character and I'd expect the latter to get more votes. And Benio and Kaguya are actually characters with fans, so the chances of Rolo beating them are... I'm not going to say 0, but... Well, I personally won't mind it that much if he loses, because I'd rather he got a different alt and, so far, he's been the kind of character who only gets an alt a year at most. But if he won, I'd be happy that there's demand for him, of course!