No Isekai/Reincarnation/Cultivation Cheats!

[bulmabriefs144]

To be specific, can I find a crossdressing book where:

1. The crossdresser falls in love with a girl (not a guy, please)
2. The main character is not reincarnated/transformed into a girl
3. The crossdresser is the main character or the main character's love interest

I agree with you! Terry Brooks books are wonderful, though anyone can find a flaw in anything with determination. Series written by David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Jack L. Chalker, Piers Anthony, Margaret Weis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen R. Donaldson - These are the authors that I most dearly loved growing up. Fantasy novelists all.

I found some that might be candidates:

Can I Crossdress My Way Out Of This Arranged Marriage?

Our poor half-elven protagonist had an arranged marriage sprung on him out of the blue by his mother. Not only did she effectively sell him for the dowry, but she’s handed him over to marry one of the daughters of the orc she used to adventure with. At least...

www.scribblehub.com

Fake Maiden, You Save the World or Build a Harem?

Behind her captivating appearance that bewitches men and women alike, Leto Lyndell hides a great secret.

www.scribblehub.com

My Mercenary Guild is Full of Beauties

'A new legend will be born, she who is hailed as the Dragonian Sword Queen of Glory Mercenary Corps descends!' --- 'My life will end but my name shall be eternal!' --- No one ever guessed that behind the strongest guild master in Legend Online, 'Demonic Sword' Auror...

www.scribblehub.com

The Storms Monarch is maybe an Extra

The world is unfair. In a novel where the Protagonist gets everything handed to her on a diamond platter, a worthless Extra like Astrape Gray can never hope to reach her level. However, Astrape was content with her current life. Why risk getting the attention of dangerous individuals when she...

www.scribblehub.com

 

[Dearest_Violet]

It basically took over the fantasy genre. Please please please can someone find me something where there is actual worldbuilding, where the character is born there, and there isn't yet another cheat character?

Ooh! Something my current work fits very well! I'll leave it here https://www.scribblehub.com/series/641506/chronicles-of-the-soulbound/. I do my absolute best to treat the world with care, but as a consequence the protagonist grows quite slowly. It does not have cross dressing or transgender topics yet but it has gotten quite epic.

Personally I really want to read more of these as well since they are quite hard to come by surprisingly, which is why I wrote my own, so if you find any you really like please let me know as well! In the meantime I'll leave some more good ones here (mostly manga).

More obscure ones:
Saijaku Teima wa Gomi Hiroi no Tabi wo Hajimemashita
Nigoru Hitomi de Nani wo Negau - Highserk Senki

Not born there but is still good:
Demon Prince Goes to the Academy

The classics:
Mushoku Tensei
Youjo Senki

 

[Hanne]

Let's see :

-Boy/girl is a loser. Nope
-Said loser gets hit by truck. Nope
-Author pretends to be a god and offers said loser (who is also the author) cool powers. 0 superpower or magic
-Which get more and more demanding and story-breaking as time goes on. 0 superpower until ending, I promise.
-Also a harem. Because I love polygamy so much and not an engaging love story. No harem.
-Oh yeah, and they have a status bar and freaking levels sometimes. No status bar or leveling mechanism.

You might want to check my story, it's in the sig. but probably it's leaning too much on realism and historical theme.

 

[Getterkuma]

I'm getting really peeved at the rise of isekai/reincarnation stuff.

It basically took over the fantasy genre. Please please please can someone find me something where there is actual worldbuilding, where the character is born there, and there isn't yet another cheat character?

Also, no cultivation stuff either. I'm tired of the cultivation genre hijacking fantasy too.

Can someone find me some good fantasy that is not any of those things? Preferably as epic as possible.
If it has crossdressing or transgender stuff even better.

Preferably not my book as it has those things, but well, I've read it.

Centris

Updates on Saturdays The Kingdom of Via is in the midst of a silent war between factions of noblemen. A young mage from a lowborn family and a knight from a noble clan will end up being unwitting pawns in the conspiracy slowly closing its grip around the whole nation....

www.scribblehub.com

I'm starting to upload my fantasy novel, there is a lot of worldbuilding, there is no Isekai or LitRPG elements. No reincarnations, no regressions. Is just a Fantasy novel.

The main characters are flawed, have weaknesses and struggle. Oh lord they struggle.

I'm just failing you on the crossdressing or transgender stuff.

 

[Notadate]

Dune
-
what is technically isekia. Wouldn’t you know going through portal be not that.
Like a portal to mars
Or
A planet within the milky way

 

[LunaSoltaer]

Okay, so: Normally in this place I would suggest my own book, as it seems to fit all of your criteria as to what is NOT okay (except maaybe loser protagonist), but there are two books I will absolutely recommend that, while only one of them deals in transy topics, the other is a spectacle of worldbuilding and magic system design:

The trans book is called Astraology by @LilliannaWinter (https://www.scribblehub.com/series/471288/astraology/), and it is the book I credit with healing a deep scar placed on me by a lot of hatred from outside the rainbow community, erasure from inside it, and a different book that was outright insulting to my lived experience. This book deserves a full two orders of magnitude more readers than it currently does just for its ability to connect you to yourself in a profound depth that IS intimidating, but you come out of that that much stronger and that much better.

The magic world buildy book is called The Consequences of Meeting A Dragon by @RynnTheTired née Kurorin (https://www.scribblehub.com/series/589902/the-consequences-of-meeting-a-dragon/). It is a very cozy romp through a far more detailed magic system than mine could ever hope to be, with a particularly adorable dragon and a wisened sorcerer mentor who is working quite desperately to make life possible for a young kid who should be Dead To Rights. It's not an adventure in the normal sense of the genre, though I feel the adventure danger is coming, but it's an incredibly solid slice of life that lets me drift gently away into an era of simpler times and happier people. I absolutely owe this book a detailed review and I hate that I haven't done it yet. Also this book has lower dopamine numbers (views and especially hearts) than mine and That Is A Fucking Travesty because I constantly find myself amazed by the words on the page and the smol-dragon-infested pictures it conjures. Hell, the most recent one, Chapter 33, I straight up clicked through to Chapter 34 thinking it somehow existed because I was just that absorbed.

Seriously give these two a try. They are quite possibly the finest reads and experiences I have ever beheld on the entirely of SH.