#web serials

[literary-illuminati]

I forget if there's some in-universe explanation for it (very possible, given the setting), but just suddenly had the thought that the Watch uniforms all being dyed black is just an utterly ruinously expensive flex on the rooks' part, isn't it?

[gwennafran]

Pale Lights Book 3 Chapter 43 – Tolomontera Residents

At some point it had to happen. The non-student sheet (I ran out of rows I could add in Clip Studio Paint on the other file, and wanted to move the Orels. Turns out: You can only have 50000 pixels high files in CSP).

To celebrate, I added a couple of portraits. I planned to do more and edit some things, but then Real Life hit me.

Actual new art not reused from earlier art overviews collected at the top.

Nilan Achari: An argument was made for turning the headwear pickles coloured, but then I didn’t open the file Again, because real life hit me. It was kinda nice doing a portrait of someone old.

Ishanvi’s Friend: Art reuse. I’m not even ashamed. Also, have you all considered just how tiny a thumb-sized little creature is? Just, measure your own thumb, and then consider how much space that would take up on a picture including full sized humans.

Lady Knit: This one was fun. String textures. Amusingly, you can’t really see how elongated I made her, because she’s so far removed from average portraits.

[56853]

Favourite Wildbow Protagonist, Favourite Wildbow Antagonist. Bah! pick you're favourite Wildbow blonde girl who's a major but not POV character.

Lisa Willbourn

Rose Thorburn

Hellen Ibbot

Jessie Ewesmont

Snowdrop

A

THE SLUG (In a blonde wig)

Voting ended onMay 14, 2025

[eightglass]

Made a graph

Pretty self-explanatory. These web serials are long...

[kvothbloodless]

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Decided to try filling out at least 50% of this board, posting this as my starting point

[arachnopus]

taylor hebert is an understandable protagonist to self destructive dissociating eggs

....huh. ok, that's fair really. my main theory, with as far as I got, was that she was sorta subconsciously self-harming.

my dislike of Worm really isn't fair tbh. I just got my hopes up before I tried it, cuz it's really popular and I had just figured out how much I love superhero literature- web serials in particular. I took the disappointment as a personal affront.

(for context to everyone else; this ask was in response to an ask I sent @tpwrtrmnky, discouraging her from reading Worm*, after wre7ch sent an ask encouraging her to read Worm.)

*(...as an excuse to shill for Katalepsis, my holy book.)

[booksandchainmail]

@the-yuri-librarian

Will someone please tell me if any of these series have lesbians

(in regards to this post)

Of the two web serials featured in that meme:

Pale Lights, by erraticerrata one of its 2-4 protagonists is a lesbian. There hasn't been much in the way of romance for her yet, but the series is pretty early on, and also romance-light. One of the other female protagonists is possibly bisexual, and the male protagonist is ace. Pale Lights is about new recruits to an elite god-hunting organization in a gunpowder-and-sail era world that is also entirely within a massive cavern full of strangeness. Ongoing

Twig, by wildbow umm. ok. so how do I put this. It has ambiguously bisexual girls in an situationship? It got a lot of submissions to a yuribait poll tournament. Also in the main cast is a trans girl. I cannot in good consciousness recommend this on the basis of lesbianism, but I do like it. Twig is about a group of child lab experiments/field agents of a biopunk empire. Complete

Other web serials that may be of interest to you!

A Practical Guide to Evil, by erraticerrata Protagonist is a bisexual woman, and almost all of her romantic interests are other women. PGTE has my favorite slowburn romance of all time. Also in the main cast are (at least) two more bi women, and an aroace man (there are more queer characters depending on how you define main cast). In a medieval fantasy world where narrative tropes have metaphysical weight, a new group of villains begin fighting smarter to overcome their narrative disadvantage. Forty years later, a teenage girl from a conquered country, seeing how heroes have failed, chooses to become the Squire of the empire's Black Knight. Tagline: Do Wrong Right Complete

Katalepsis, by HY Lesbian protagonist, largely lesbian supporting cast, including a couple trans women. Lots of romance, including an expanding polycule. A young woman tries to rescue her twin sister, who was erased from reality as a child by an eldritch entity. Tagline: A web serial of cosmic horror, urban fantasy, and making friends with strange people Ongoing, almost finished (with the first "book"/major overarching plotline)

Necroepilogos, by HY I think literally the entire cast of this one is queer women (including at least one trans woman) having homoerotic moments with each other all the time. A bioengineered supersoldier wakes millennia after her death to find the world a wasteland, populated by women resurrected from across history who must now kill each other to live. Tagline: Lost girls in the ashen afterword Ongoing

PGTE/Pale Lights and Katalepsis/Necroepilogos would be my primary recommendations. Some other webserials:

Some of wildbow's other serials have more lesbians than Twig, but it comes with caveats: Worm (and its sequel Ward) are, uh, controversial for how they handle lesbians. Pale is much better, but I'm also only 1/3 of the way through so I can't vouch for it entirely. Pact has a single important lesbian character.

I lost interest and didn't finish Heretical Edge, but it does have a poly lesbian protagonist.

Time to Orbit: Unknown is not particularly lesbian in specific, but it is largely queer and genderqueer.

Another option of thing I read is quests and original/fan fiction on the forum site Sufficient Velocity. The downside here is that they mostly have really irregular update schedules (unlike the above serials, which update 1-2 times a week on a fixed day) and are prone to being abandoned. I'd recommend looking at how often/recently thy update before starting. With that caveat, some titles with lesbian (or bisexual) females leads and queer romance: Petals of Titanium, The Last Daughter, Lieutenant Fusilier in the Farthest Reaches, Castles of Steel, On the Road to Elspar, Mercy (and Other Costly Mistakes), Pound the Table, and A Little Vice