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If they were ever make The Locked Tomb TV adaptation, I fully believe that the only way would be to insert as many shitty visual memes as possible. If there ever is a TLT series, I want to be able to take a screenshot which is an exact re-creation of a meme. The guy looking back at the girl in the red dress, but it's Gideon looking at Dulcinea. Harrow should open a page on a book of necromancy theorem and it should be the Loss jpg. At least one communal meal at the Mithraeum should look exactly like that two women yelling at a cat meme.

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Did y'all see the patch notes for Toys

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Groups of transgenders on fringe site tumblr dot com are saying they're getting into "yogurt". Here's why this probably means drugs

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whys he buying groceries at sprouts

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IT'S WORM TIME

(pics by Zlofsky2nd)

Wormfaces are a weird and mysterious creature that there isn't much info about. In spite of their apparent connection to deathblight, they are not weak to holy damage and are actually moderately resistant to it. So we can safely say they are not TWLID.

The cloths they are robed in resemble a death shroud. They are also only found in two places - near a minor Erdtree on Altus Plateau, and in Farum Azula. The similarities here being, both are places used to inter the dead. Catacombs are placed at minor Erdtrees, as it is an honor to be buried at their roots. Farum Azula is itself an enormous mausoleum. These pieces of info, plus the deathblight-breath the wormfaces spew, gives them a solid association with death.

So if they are dead, and they are up and moving around and attacking us, and they spew deathblight, how do they not count alongside TWLID as undead? An answer could be found in looking at what, exactly, deathblight is. Zullie's video on the condition gives us a closer look at the "thorns" resultant from it.

They are not simply thorns, but incubators for insects. The thorns themselves look like they are covered in worms and/or larvae which would eventually become the flies that are found around blighted bodies.

Living up to their names, wormfaces have, well, faces full of worms, linking them once more to the blight they themselves spew out. Additionally, wormfaces drop golden feces or a sacrificial twig. Worms are decomposers of dead organic material, and their feces are beneficial to the soil. I think that the wormfaces are a result of a parasitism between the blight-produced insects and dead bodies which those insects feed upon.

The bodies are dead, but now infested with these bugs, which give the appearance of a reanimated corpse as they seek more vectors for transmission of the blight. There is a vague possibility that even their internal names, "deracine", from the French verb "déraciner", "to uproot", is a reference to the fact that these bodies buried at the roots of a minor Erdtree have been 'uprooted' from their resting place by this infestation. Beyond this, there is even specification that the male and female wormfaces have a size difference which is in line with that of actual insects:

(Admittedly, it can be risky to use these internal pieces of info to speculate such things, as they weren't intended to ever be seen in the finished product. I simply thought it was neat they could possibly line up with this explanation.)

So why don't these blighted corpses just become TWLID? It could be that the Sacrificial Twigs some wormfaces drop point towards an answer. Sacrificial Twigs are a way to die without losing your runes, that is, one's strength or life force. These are the only enemies in the game capable of dropping them, all others being bought, given as gifts, or found around the map. Perhaps they were buried with them as a way of honoring them, or given by mourners as a parting gift. Who knows? While these twigs don't prevent rune loss when the cause of death is deathblight, it's possible these corpses died of other causes and have actually never been blighted themselves. The blight they spew may simply be a byproduct of the infestation. There's also the fact that deathblight and deathroot are two distinct things, and it is contact with the latter which specifically gives rise to TWLID.

This has been a post about worms 🪱🪱🪱

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Black Knife Tiche, my favorite

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Since watering means giving something water but milking means extracting milk from something that must means that water's default is to give but milk's default is to take. So water must be inherently kind while milk is cruel

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That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

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Saw one of those posts where someone was like “Boba Fett was only 37 in Return of the Jedi?? He shoulda been at the clubbb” and like. I cannot stress enough how much he was at the club. He was chilling in the corner but he was AT the club. Max Rebo was there and everything

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merry christmas

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dreamed there was this big moth with the soul of a 3 year old girl in it and when she wanted to be held she’d do this

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I feel like generally coexisting in the same location as The Rotten is very trying. He doesn't actively chase anyone who falls into the Gutter, of course, but it is endless psychological pressure nonetheless. His powerful soul beckons, and the closer someone is to him the stronger it gets.

After all, people (that aren't just corpses) are in the Gutter for a reason... They were unwanted and thrown away by humanity. You have to choose to struggle instead of seeking his "embrace" that can end the pain, all the time. And it feels like something always knows why you're here. It is like telepathy.

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The way vi is holding cait's arm

From: star_ry_eyed (twitter)

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Hey how come the truck automatically locks when it explodes and bursts into flames