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Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026

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I recently binged on This Magical Girl Is Mine on Royal Road and it has awakened a monster in me. I figured I can't be the only degenerate in this wretched hive of scum and villainy of ours, so...

Y'all got any more of them Yuri romances?

No, I don't mean lame hentai. I'm looking for the really filthy stuff, with hand holding and kisses and pining for her true love and other such sugary lewdness that's definitely not fit for polite society (although I gotta admit I probably wouldn't say no to good hentai either). Cute stories where the boy girl gets the girl and they hopefully live happily ever after. None of that eternal "will they or won't they"-bullshit and the less said about "disabled autistic BIPOC social outcast" awards bait the better. Cute girls doing things such that just reading about them probably risks giving you diabetes. Doesn't matter if it's slice of life or if they have to save the world from evil as a side quest (but horror, litrpg and traditional super hero stories aren't my cup of tea).

On a more serious note, that story is actually quite good if you're fine with the twist on magical girls (it's rather more complicated than it first appears) and the main character being willing to sacrifice everything for her unrequited love (not-so-plot-twist: things evolve). Generally well written except the author can't seem to decide exactly how to write the love interest's name (is it Sophia or Sophie?)

I'm reading Fallen World Dungeon Engineer. It's on Amazon, was on royal road at some point, might still be but is likely stubbed.

The author seems to only write one kind of sexual orientation: lesbian. Everyone elses sexual preferences/proclivities seen ignored. Maybe it changes in later books but I'm 90% through the first one and that's all I've seen.

It's not heavy on the romance though. It's mostly a lot of world building exposition. Which is the kind of trashy literature I enjoy.

The same thing from the first comment here, Silent Partner, Unfinished Business, an excellent thriller fanfic of Death Note featuring burgeoning romance between Naomi Misora and Misa Amane. Ironically enough, just like that first comment, this one is preceded by a mention of Naomi Misora a short bit ago somewhere else on The Motte.

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