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The Calamitous Bob by Mecanimus

The world of Nyil, with its monsters, its knights and its mildly sociopathic gods. Come and see! A... Read more
The world of Nyil, with its monsters, its knights and its mildly sociopathic gods. Come and see! A soul flees and a soul arrives, blessed by luck. Will she survive? Will she thrive? Will she become a calamity?

After all, luck is such a fickle thing. Collapse
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    2/5 Here's a quote that perfectly illustrates the essence of what's happening in this story.
    "Greetings to you, Witch Bob. I apologize for calling on you at this late—"
    "What the f#ck are you looking at?"


    What to expect:

    1) The passive (and unreasonably aggressive) MC, without agency or purpose in life, quickly forgets even that she needs to find a cure for the disease that will kill her in a year or two.

    2) The MC is a disgusting and immature individual. Many of the MC's decisions are driven by a storm of emotions, so prepare for idiocy and PMS every chapter (sometimes literally). She often acts like an angry teenager, rebelling against any authority, but not knowing why she's doing it.

    3) Women consistently humiliate men in this story, and the author is only interested in female characters, for whom men serve as background or footstools.

    4) Mary Sue – her biography and the circumstances of her arrival in the new world are chosen to create the ideal heroine (a strong, independent woman who is better than everyone, especially men!), and luck provides her with solutions to all her problems. And even if MC is objectively wrong or does something stupid, everything ultimately turns out for the best.

    5) Although the author tries to convince the reader that MC was a soldier and a medic, these are simply excuses for her superpowers or anger at other supposedly incompetent people. Neither the author nor MC understand what it means to be a soldier and how it affects a person, what skills and adaptations it develops, or what military service is really like. It's so bad that even if you're not a soldier, it might offend you on a purely intellectual level.

    But even if you forget all these issues, the most important thing remains:
    instead of a real plot, we're presented with slice-of-life garbage,
    as if the writer simply dumped whatever came to mind onto the page without even trying to create a central theme, antagonist forces, character and world development arcs, and so on.

    Random events happen, and the MC's life seems like the ordinary existence of a boring teenager in a fantasy world she couldn't care less about.
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    Too many fancy words
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      distastefully used and forced into every sentence, even if it takes a sentence more to revision the dialog just to fit it in. Evidently the words were used incorrectly and i even doubt they know the meaning.
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        Too many fancy words
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    Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?
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    Male protagonist or Female protagonist??
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      Dorbrim
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      Woman
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    so her name is bob?
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      Dorbrim
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