#Parahumans tag

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

The Goncharov Index of Wildbow's works

Re: LRB.

Disclaimer: As I don't have an AO3 acount, restricted works aren't included. Also this uses the fandom tags, hence why Worm and Ward are combined while Pact and Pale are seperate.

Date: 23/05/23

Parahumans Series: 6.85

Pact: 0.11

Pale: 0.09

Twig: 0.02

[mothofmay]

Sundancer is such a heartbreaking character. She's a genuinely nice person working to improve her life and escape her controlling mother and then she's plunged into hell with her friends and is forced to watch as her best friend is changed into a crude mockery of her former self. And then she's finally got a way out, the terrifying bug girl and her team secured her a way home, and her realization when given the opportunity to go home fucking wrecks me honestly.

She's just so fundamentally changed by her time on Bet, and she knows this. She'll never be the Marissa she was again because now she has blood on her hands, and before she goes home she needs to kill one last person. So she burns her best friend, her lifeline, maybe even her crush, even as Echidna begs and screams and promises wrath upon the world and calls her by the nickname Noelle always did. She takes a life on purpose this time, because even leaving Earth Bet demands she falls a bit more and compromises her morals one final time.

This is the part of the scene that really fucks with me though. She's fucking tearing into her costume, removing every part of the cape persona she hates so much and throwing it to the ground to melt, because she so desperately wants to detach herself from Earth Bet and cape society and her powers that aren't good for anything except destruction and hurting others. But it's not enough. She can remove every single part of her costume, try to pretend her time on Bet never happened, never use her power again, but she'll never actually be able to escape. This passage brings attention to the subtler part of her power, the self-protection that makes everything in about a 6 foot radius around herself a normal temperature (probably room temperature). The pavement cools and hardens in her wake, because even if she's not using her power she's stuck with it and it'll always have that normal temperature field active. Every single time she tries to take a bath and the water cools to be lukewarm instantly, or she goes out in the winter time and someone asks why it's warm around her, or her ice cream melts, or her meal is the same temperature as everything she'll eat for the rest of her life, she'll be reminded of her powers and what she did. The cold will never bite at her skin, she'll never feel the warmth of someone else's touch, she'll just find so many little things in her life from then on refusing to let her pretend she's normal and fine and that she didn't kill her best friend and that she's over Earth Bet. Her powers will never go away, and they'll never let her forget that even if she vows to never use her sun. I love Mars, she's forced to do horrible things for reasons entirely out of her control, and she'll never escape that. Whether she wants to be or not, she's a cape now and forever.

[bayward]

hai wormblr nation.. i am new (finished a week or so ago after not reading for like 6 months 💀) have an offering.. feel free 2 berate me in the notes if i have any incorrect takes because i will not fight back it has been a while and i am Tired it is Late

happy lesbian day for all girlkissers

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[felonytaxevasion]

Polaroid Study of two shitty teens who never have anything bad happen to them ever

[darks-arts]

Hey Worm and/or Homestuck fans, I have a recommendation for something I think you'd vibe with...

[lakesbian]

What was he doing?  Why was he so focused on getting Bitch to admit it was over? Reputation, yet again.  He needed to salvage this situation, and the surest way to do that, to recoup his losses and come out of this looking okay, would be to get the meanest, toughest, most notorious of us to bend at the knee and concede defeat. He really didn’t know Bitch, though. She pulled her cheap plastic dog mask off and threw it to one side.  It was only a formality, really, since her face and identity were public knowledge.  Her smile, as it spread across her face, wasn’t the most attractive.  Too many teeth showing. “Lung underestimated her, too,” she told him, looking at me.

okay, continued forcing myself to spend time analyzing rachel lindt instead of letting her live in my worm blindspot for no reason. to recap: at this point in the story, she's gone on the ABB raid with rachel & had that gay little moment where rachel gave her her jacket when she was cold walking back home + got so close to taylor to inspect her injuries from lung that taylor thought she was going to kiss her. it had deep connotations of blossoming romance and taylor narrated some shit about still kind of being cold despite the jacket but the warmth in her core keeping her warm all the way back to the loft. now, although taylor is still only consciously ranking rachel at "i don't hate her" in her mind, rachel has now started doing shit like this.

one of the primary rachel/taylor theses is that taylor isn't rachel's dog, rachel is taylor's dog. it's established over the course of the worm that she trusts taylor completely implicitly. there's the part in the behemoth fight where the entire world is falling apart around them and rachel is still smug and happy about taylor having a plan. there's the part at the end that makes all of us want to smash our heads into the wall:

she trusts taylor in the same way a dog would trust their owner even on the table for euthanasia. she sees taylor as smarter than she is not in a self-deprecatory way--there are plenty of people who you might call smarter than rachel that she'll happily call morons--but because consistently, time and time again, taylor goes up against smart pieces of shit who are trying to fuck the undersiders over and figures out what to do about it. and this scene here, where she's responding to armsmaster's attempt to put her down by insisting that he's underestimating taylor, seems to be the first instance of rachel's trust in taylor shining through. in fact, this happens even before taylor considers them to be friends, before they've had any significant bonding. one of the very first positive things rachel feels about taylor--maybe even the first positive thing--is that, when people are putting her and her team down, when odds look grim, taylor can be trusted to solve it. it's actually, like, kind of bonkers compelling that rachel's first seed of positive response to taylor isn't "well, actually, i guess she seems nice" but "my teammate taylor could beat up this dickhole armsmaster."

it's worth explicitly noting, by the way, that rachel interprets smiles as like dog growls. the reason her smile is a little too wide with too many teeth is because it's not actually a proper smile. it's rachel being a growling dog, placing all of her trust in taylor. I Love You Rachel Lindt

[bug4932]

bonesaw but shes even smaller

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

Next time you get someone like that, you can also give them this image:

Marquis Fanon Stans: "Oh he's so cool, he doesn't hurt women or children! He kept the peace of Brockton Bay!"

Deep Tomrid sigh

Worm Arc 1: literally states the heroes came in and brought peace to Brockton Bay, because everything prior to that sucked

Dragon Interlude: admits to murdering his own mooks for failure

Amy Interlude: known as a pattern killer for all the people he's killed, including superheroes

Carol Interlude: known to stab women in the feet and refused to reveal he had a child hidden in a fight area

Marquis Interlude: wants to gaslight his daughter by "injuring" himself in a prison riot he would start on purpose to kill his own mooks

Arc 30: Was going to let Lung burn Taylor to death (so much for that code)

Ward: makes incest jokes at his daughter's rape victim, enables said daughter in making weapons of mass destruction, was okay with feeding human flesh to all his villain allies

[worms-in-my-head]

Me when I get my hands on a gel pen

Working on a Worm Zombie Apocalypse AU during school so some doodles from that

(Yes I’ve reached the stage of fanart brainrot where I’m making AUs now, I’ll prob make more of this AU when I have time)

[freakingweirdo]

travellers modern au

[hierarchyproblem]

From a conversation with @fakerosebride a few weeks ago: a sneak preview of the upcoming MtG Universes Beyond tie in with Worm.

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

Dicking with Armsmaster's Random Excuse Generator

Because I'm having far too much fun with this:

I'm a victim of crime. I'm here to complain that my rare masterwork Glory Girl-themed cellphone has been sent to Earth Aleph by an independent villain.

I'm the chosen representative of an angry mob. We're here to request an independent hero's assistance as we hunt down the Slaughterhouse 9 to stop them from setting up a muffin stall on my roof.

I'm a victim of crime. I'm here to complain that my brother has been hypnotised by the Merchants into tango dancing.

I'm a concerned citizen. I'm here to report a well preserved shrine to Leviathan on my roof.

I'm a reporter. I'm here to inquire about the rumours which imply that Glory Girl is the fourth Endbringer.

I'm a concerned citizen. I'm here to report that my son has triggered with the tinker type power of sapient black widow spider cloning.

I'm a concerned citizen. I'm here to report a creepy shrine to Tohu in my closet.

I'm a marketing consultant. I'm here to discuss the design of the new Dauntless-themed vase.

I'm a concerned citizen. I'm here to hand over a tinkertech thermonuclear sippy cup that I found in EndVaultTech's board meeting room.

I'm a marketing consultant. I'm here to discuss the design of the new Miss Militia-themed sippy cup.I'm a victim of crime.

I'm here to complain that my daughter has been hypnotised by the Dragonslayers into playing Dungeons and Dragons with Velocity, Narwhal, and Mouse Protector.

I'm a victim of crime. I'm here to complain that Kaiser stole my one-of-a-kind dwarven Eidolon-themed Narwhal doll while fighting Fog.

I'm the chosen representative of an angry mob. We're here to demand that Armsmaster turn over his halberd for radiation testing.

[ewingstan]

Poster on my right shoulder with a cheap angel wing costume (the one from Oldboy (2003)): "You should write about how Krouse making an unsecured tophat that's constantly in danger of falling off a key part of his costume actually fits his themes really well. You've already written about how his ringmaster getup is part of cultivating a sense of mastery-within-instability; Krouse excels when thrown into a chaotic situation because he can use chaos better than others. Styling himself as a leader of a circus, master and causer of chaos who holds things together just enough to have them culminate in a grand spectacle, shows what type of reputation he cultivates. But that instability is a constant in his life, he seeks it out, it seeks him out, and despite the air he puts on of having everything under control it really is always in danger of falling apart. The tophat can fall off at any moment, the travellers can collapse at any time, the cultivated and uncultivated chaos surrounding their lives can suck them all into the undertow at any time. If you actually write an analysis post fleshing that out it would be an excellent use of your time."

Poster on my left shoulder, taking the form of Judge Holden as he was depicted in Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian: "You should write about how whenever his hat falls off Krouse just puts a rock or large piece of trash on his head and switches them. Fuckin. Eight times during the fight with the Wards Vista had to deal with the fact that she was nearly getting killed by a guy putting a brick on his head. Sometimes he'd throw his hat at you and then put a brick on his head and then swap them and bam you've gotten hit in the face with a brick."

[butchseiya]

Not used to making open conversation on here as compared to twitter, but have you ever had dreams about Wildbow's novels and/or the characters?

Once i dreamt that i lived in an alternate universe where Worm was actually a series of slightly more mature Rick Riordan novels set in the same world as Percy Jackson. It was also set in a sort of camp for kids with powers, focused on the Undersiders figuring out what they wanted to do with their lives and stuff. I was extremely confused about it inside the dream but it was somehow really popular.

Also yesterday I dreamt I read Pact and was really liking it and making fanart until i woke up and realized I was just reading it in a dream.

[felonytaxevasion]

Messy Undersiders fashion headcanons/costume designs

Annotated with design commentary here

[trans-queen-administrator]

The alignment chart of terrible women in Worm. Made this in a haze at 3am and then passed out. Artist credit under the cut.

Oh god this is gonna take so long (about 10 minutes) why didn't I write down the sources as I did this. Is it annoying to tag people? I feel like it's annoying. Idk.

Shatterbird: tisinoodle on tumblr

Simurgh: DeftComet27 on Reddit

Panacea: saniika on deviantart

Cherish: RespicePostTe on deviantart

Trickster: Kingduame on tumblr

Echidna: apfii on deviantart

Contessa: cpericardum on tumblr

Alexandria: YunYunHakusho on reddit

Bonesaw: abyranns on tumblr

Burnscar: LinaLeeZ on deviantart

Skitter: cactusfantastico on deviantart

Doctor Mother: pabelandnine on tumblr

Sundancer: I'm like 90% sure the creator of this deleted their account I can't find shit. Worm wiki says Against My Better Judgment on tumblr

Tattletale: kingduame on tumblr

Bitch: SereneNocturne on twitter

Imp: awkwardee on tumblr

Khepri: tactilescream on tumblr