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Taylor Hebert, aka Skitter, from Worm 🕷️🦋 I’m dying over how incredible she is

Who else finds her character so inspiring?

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Art process of one of the most touching characters for me in Worm. At first, she annoyed me terribly, but the more I read and learned about her, the clearer and closer she became to me — like I’d always known her.

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Study based on photo of arachnidRay

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If there was a Hungry Choir ritual for sleep I would, at least, consider it

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Drew Winnifred from the Seek web serial!

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Basilisk "Basil" from Seek

Thoroughly enjoying the latest wildbow web serial and had to do a quick art of my favorite boi, Basil.

Textless version under the cut

Tried doing something vaguely lizardly/dragon-y with the circuitry on A's face, which I modelled from her chapter banner

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Just finished the first arc of seek

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The world’s unluckiest criminal award goes to:

- Interlude 1

I think it’s absolutely hilarious to imagine that, at any point in time, Scion could have dropped by and stopped a supervillain or criminal in the story.

How utterly terrifying to imagine planning a bank heist with your team of supervillains and when you open the vault, Scion is there

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Some highlights from the slop that is the AI Worm audiobook on YouTube Music.

Ai Taylor confronts lung, who has just transformed into a giant evil spiderman with bug wings.

Taylor shows that the bug antennas are a canon part of the costume, she might be changing race every other chapter.

Brian flexes on the dogs and a 10 year old Rachel (This is the only time Brian is portrayed as black)

Wasp skitter fights the ghost rider gang.

White Brian gives Taylor or Lisa a bug inside of a giant amber, while the rest of the Undersiders watch, including their latest recruit, a disembodied leg.

Canary is on space trial being represented by a robot lawyer.

DC fans execute nightwing cosplayer.

Taylor or Faultline single handedly take down the merchants in their sci-fi military base.

Superman checks his emails in a dark room.

Skitter comes back to her modest cabin after a long day working in the mines, her wife is preparing some horrific looking food.

The PRT council discusses a derpy-looking photo of Taylor.

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Theo fights Taylor using his iconic venom suit in front of the spider mastermind.

Wasp Skitter and Mecha Weaver save the city once again

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Class of '09 anime if it was good

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Wormblr Recommended Reading Order

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: This short novel is needed to understand the power fantasies of most fanfictions of Worm. It is also important to understand the writing style of Mark Twain to understand the next work.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Not only is the Isekai genre a vital part of the Worm fanfiction community, this book also provides a surface level understanding of royalty, needed to understand Twig.

The Holy Bible: To understand most of Pact and Pale you will need to thoroughly analyze and draw allusions to this novel. They both draw from many characters and themes, providing direct allusions to the "Christianity" religion.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the understanding of the word "sequel" and its connotations is needed to fully grasp Ward, and its subtle relationship with Worm.

Claw: This is the shortest book by Wildbow, and a good starting point. The reader will start to parse his writing style, and understand how to analyze characters.

In Flanders Fields: Clicking on the Support Wildbow tab will lead the reader to his Patreon, where they may learn that he deals in a currency labelled "$CA". Learning more about the author, they may find he lives in a place called Canada. The short poem In Flanders Fields is a crucial piece of work into understanding this "Canada" place. It also helps to ground the viewer when they read Pact and Pale.

Slaughterhouse Five: This piece of work is necessary to understand one of the main antagonists in Wildbow's best work, Pact. The reader will understand this so called "German" phenomena, and fully understand the character Johannes Lillegard.

Frankenstein: It is crucial to understand the monster in Frankenstein to comprehend many parts of Twig. It also introduces the reader to a "superhero", with the character of the monster.

Twig: One of Wildbow's best works, Twig is indicative of Wildbow's peak as a whole. The interplay of the Lambs and the world as a whole is intricately crafted, and the main character Jessie Ewesmont is a very likeable character. Unfortunately the book is ruined by one of the side characters, Sylvester Lambsbridge. It is possible to skip over the sections of the book where he appears though, and it is highly recommended to do so.

Ward: The second installment in the Parahumans series, Ward is by far much better than its predecessor. Victoria and team Breakthrough are much more compelling characters than the pastiche and tropey team Undersiders.

War and Peace: The third installment in the Parahumans series, War and Peace is innovative and complex. Much smaller than Wildbow's other novels, but still sizeably good. The main character Napoleon is very compelling, and is almost as good as Victoria.

Pale: The fourth installment and final installment in the Parahumans series, Pale serves as a good ending for all the characters in the series. The Kennet Trio serve as very thrilling antagonists for the protagonist, and are arguably more interesting.

Pact: Though completely unrelated to the Parahumans series, Pact is still good in its own ways. By far not as good as War and Peace, but Blake Thorburn still serves as a good and interesting main character.

And that's the recommended reading list! After reading in this order, you should be enlightened, and be able to find the true path to Wildbow's treasure. It is said Wildbow's treasure has the secret of immortal life.

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@mysteryflavour-art

@junebugtwin

@lizardinkart

@bones-napss

@joysuscreation

@senviva

@phthalosblues

@gutturalvampirism

@midnightrager

@beastieclub

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You know shit slaps because he put an Amanda Waller expy but she is in charge of of the teen titans.

I love that worm doesn't go "every character is a parody/expy of another superhero" and most of them are just their own thing based on a vague archetype.

It makes it so when Jack (Who is a clear joker expy) and the triumvirate + Scion (Wich i feel all are expies of superman in different ways) makes them feel more important.

Also Taylor is a Spiderman expy.

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just got my accord funkopop

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When I hear Palpatine ecológical niche i think about the time in clone wars when darth maul and his brother take over mandalor and capture obi wan, so while Palpatine is standing on his office he detects that Maul is winning too much and could prevent the third movie from happening, so he goes to mandalor on his own to beat the fuck out them like he is the hand of fate making sure the movies happen.

Fanfic-wise, Coil fills the exact same ecological niche for Worm that Palpatine does for Prequel and Clone Wars-era Star Wars