#WORM WEB SERIAL MY BELOVED

[probably-a-human-being]

Amy Dallon is my eeby deeby. My blorbo. My silly rabbit. My adorable little hamster. My sopping wet kitty. My lovely mass of flesh. My pet amoeba. My husband. My sister from another mister. My beloved homunculus. My manifestation of mental illness. My extremely toxic girlfriend who I crossed the border to escape. My very own amygdala. My incestuous abomination. My cute little eyeball. My blood covered daughter. My amalgamation of all that is wrong with the world. My water bottle. My left shoe if it gained sentience. My adoptive mother. My hand crafted origami crane after its fifth panic attack. My right kidney. My homestuck troll oc. And personally, I think she should have committed even more medical malpractice ♥️

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

@sammy-the-haze worm is a web novel about a girl who wants to be a superhero in a world where superpowers are traumagenic. she then finds out that morality is fake and everybody sucks, accidentally befriends a team of supervillains, and stumbles into becoming one of the most important people in her city and eventually in the world. its 1.7 million words long (so by November standards its actually 34 novels but whos counting) and has the plot structure of a goddamn dnd campaign in that the protagonists go from fighting street gangs to nationally wanted criminals to giant monsters to god. other reasons to read it include:

autism, so much autism, all of the characters are autistic to me

intense homoerotic subtext that the author REFUSES to acknowledge

character so divisive that the author once said he "didnt want to inflict her" on the audience again

watching characters who named themselves things like Clockblocker, Glory Girl, Tattletale, Bitch, and Kid Win grapple with the horrors of war and devastation

one of the best brick jokes about USAmericans ive ever seen

Riley Grace Davis. if youve seen basically any of my posts for the last week you may have heard of her

protagonist who manages to prove once and for all that it IS in fact possible to be a poor little meow meow, my beloved scrunkly babygirl, a girlboss beyond compare, and the weirdest little freak in the world

chekovs pepper spray

SERIOUSLY THE SUPERPOWERS IN THIS UNIVERSE ARE TRAUMAGENIC AND IT MAKES ALL THE CHARACTERS SO PERFECT OUGOUUOOGH

the phrase "shes wanted for serial murder. its very inconvenient" is uttered in earnest within the first quarter of the book.

legitimately good social and learning disability representation

multiple characters who say "damnation" like that is a totally normal thing to do

the characterization of the main group of protagonists in the first half of the story was once famously described as "what if the cast of Its Always Sunny accidentally befriended the protagonist of an ancient greek tragedy" and this is not inaccurate

only major caveat on it is that it sometimes shows that it was written in 2011 by a guy who is... hes not TERRIBLE terrible but i would probably hate trying to spend any real amount of time with him. in particular: im sorry about the nazis

seeing a woe.begone url posting about worm is like ah i see you're a fan of creators with a terrifying output rate

my love of wbg actually did lead directly to my discovering of worm in the most roundabout way possible so like

[ariapmdeol]

introducing @gavinom​ and I’s DSMP Parahuman AU!! This is a superpowers AU based on Worm, a web serial by wildbow!!

This is a superpowers AU,,, with a VERY complicated story. There are 3 or 4 main POV/plotlines:

Tommy and Tubbo’s plotline

Techno and Phil’s plotline

Dream’s plotline

Wilbur’s plotline

also niki’s plotline bc i appreciate her so much

they’re all very heavily interconnected! There’s a connection chart here, but there’s much more detailed explanations under the cut!

basic worldbuilding info: the city that this story focuses on (Dream SMP) is run by the Dream Team! They’re a group of villains who took over the city after it was being badly mismanaged by corrupt officials. Dream has connections to Cauldron (human experimentation group looking to create artificial powers). SBI + everyone else all live in this city! Powers are common and have a classification system shown below, and people with powers are called Capes! Capes are divided into Heroes, Villains, and Rogues (who are neither heroes or villains). People get powers when they experience an emotionally charged or traumatic event or events called a Trigger Event! These events shape what kind of power the cape gains!

SBI Tommy and Wilbur are both Philza’s biological kids! Philza is a researcher with long hours, Wilbur takes care of Tommy, but all of them have something else going on! ages: Tommy: 16 wilbur: 21 philza minecraft: early 40′s?

PHILZA - Mover 4 Philza is a researcher working for an organization called Cauldron. Cauldron is experimenting on people in order to understand and create powers artificially! As he ends up more and more involved with both the research on powers and the affected people (called Case 53′s), including technoblade, he decides that he cannot tolerate this anymore, and plans to break techno and others out! He steals a vial labelled ‘Zephyrus’, drinks it, and ends up with wings! He and techno break out, unlock a ton of other cells (including Ranboo’s!), and end up on the run. However, both his sons are left behind... After months of being on the run, he and Techno finally decide that it’s safe enough to return. But hang on, why is the house so empty? And did someone just open the door?

Technoblade - Tinker, Brute 3 technoblade is one of Cauldron’s Case 53′s! His power is a Tinker power, which means that he can invent things! However, he can only invent what chat decides is necessary. This is seen as an EXTREMELY overpowered and rare ability. Most Tinkers have some kind of specialty that they’re limited to, or some other restriction that limits their Ability-Driven inventiveness. Techno’s only limit is his Chat, which can be convinced into a certain direction. He also has had a lot of physical changes like gaining claws, tusks, hooves, and a tail! Techno also has increased regeneration and resistance! He’s fiercely overprotective of Phil and the two of them are best friends! After months on the run, he and Phil return to Phil’s home, but something is off... Is that a Tinker’s lab?!

Tommy - Trump 6 and Tubbo - Tinker (Drones), Master 3 Tommy’s plotline is technically our main POV! He really admires his older brother a ton! Philza’s spent a lot of time away from home, so Wilbur ended up looking after Tommy a lot, especially after Phil went missing... wonder where he went? About a month after Phil vanished, Wilbur starts spending a lot of time away from home too, so Tommy spends most of his time with Tubbo! When Tubbo got his powers, it was... not a good day. Tubbo hadn’t been having an easy time at school, and it all kind of... got to be too much, so he triggered. However, they both quickly realized that Tubbo had gotten a Tinker power! He creates and can manipulate Drones without a remote being necessary! The two of them immediately decided to become heroes, and started making costumes and hero names and stopping minor crime! Very quickly though, they got into a situation that was too much for them. Tubbo got badly injured, and Tommy triggered his ability for the first time. Tommy has the ability to boost the abilities of people he cares about! He makes them stronger and loosens some of the restrictions on their powers. Tommy and Tubbo continue trying to be heroes when they come across Ranboo, and take him home with them! Hm? it looks like someone else is inside already, who could that be?

Wilbur - Master 4, Thinker 3 Wilbur is a very charismatic and scheming character! He cares a ton about his family, and does his best to look after Tommy. He’s bitter and angry at Phil for essentially leaving him to take care of Tommy so often, and he triggered after Phil’s funeral, over a month after Phil first vanished. His ability is illusion based! He can project illusions into someone’s mind, and can read people very VERY well. He realizes that his power is definitely a powerful one, and ends up becoming a villain! He goes to Dream, and asks for some territory to prove himself as a leader (and bc villainy is profitable shhh). Dream agrees, and Phantasm becomes leader of a territory called L’Manburg. On his villain team are niki, eret, and fundy! He doesn’t want to involve Tommy or Tubbo in this whole thing, and he has no idea that either of them are Capes. He ends up spending more and more time outside the house and running his territory. Fundy ends up looking up to him as a sort of older brother/father figure, and when Fundy ends up without a place to go, Wilbur sets him up in their villain HQ! When he comes home, he immediately notices something is up. His power had suddenly gotten... stronger? He opens the door and sees...Philza? 

Dream - Master 7, Tinker(?), Striker 2 Dream has the power to possess objects that he touches! He uses this +  custom Puppets to act as the unkillable leader of the Dream Team! Dream is heavily involved with Cauldron, and personally oversaw Ranboo’s experimentation. He and Philza knew each other as civilians, and he knows that Philza stole a serum from Cauldron, but Phil doesn’t know that he’s Dream, just that he works for Cauldron! Sapnap and George both don’t know about his involvement in Cauldron, though. Dream is looking for Techno, and wants to convince him to get on his side. He has yet to meet someone who can beat him and his ability, after all! That’s part of why he gives Wilbur territory to look after so easily - he’s confident in his ability to take Wilbur down. However, things might be more difficult than he assumes... As a bit of a side note, both Awesamdude and 5up are rogues, but he hires both of them for jobs and such!

OTHER STUFF THAT I HAVEN’T QUITE PLANNED OUT AS MUCH IN DETAIL:

fundy and 5up are in a ML style love square! 5up has a crush on Fundy’s villain identity, while Fundy has a crush on 5up’s civilian identity!

niki and ranboo are siblings! she became a villain with Wilbur to look for him. Ranboo has been missing for a very VERY long time, and doesn’t remember anything before Cauldron!

5up also tends to help out Tommy and Tubbo a lot? He saved them from a situation that was UH.. VERY OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE pretty early on, and decided “welp time to become a big brother”! he’s been teaching them how to fight, and Tubbo is really having fun with it

all the plotlines collide on the same night. Phil and Techno come home at the same night that Tommy and Tubbo are bringing Ranboo home, Wilbur’s been out for the past week and is only now JUST coming home after getting Fundy settled, and none of them know about the other person’s powers at all

it’s CHAOS because Phil’s been assumed dead and has just come back with WINGS and a tall and intimidating Technoblade, who immediately pulls a sword on them, Tommy and Tubbo still are in costume, Ranboo recognizes Techno and Phil as the guys who broke him out, and WILBUR is realizing that he’s missed a hell of a lot

and NO ONE KNOWS that ranboo is the one niki is looking for! not even ranboo

theres like. a whole timeline to this that i still need to draw/write out but TRUST US WE HAVE A PLAN

George is a Precog who gets prophetic dreams! They’re primarily impressions though, and he’s ended up in someone else’s dreams a couple times... If he uses his ability too much, he gets insomnia!

karl and quackity are both there too i just havent planned their part yet!!

sapnap is a high Breaker/Brute/Striker cape, I just haven’t narrowed down the specifics yet!

[fantompainblog]

Queen of the Shadowkhan

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/queen-of-the-shadowkhan-worm-jackie-chan-adventures.353317/reader

Author: Coshiua

Official Summary: N/A

Fandoms: Worm, Jackie Chan Adventures

Publication Date: August 24, 2015

Status: Last Updated February 1, 2016

Length: 33 Chapters, 32k Words

Rating: N/A

Introduction:

Hey it’s our first Worm fic! We’ll get into more detail in the next section, but suffice to say Worm started a big fan fiction trend similar to Familiar of Zero, and it’s still going strong to this day. And like Familiar of Zero, it leads to a lot of interesting things, and some not so interesting things.

The Source Material:   

Okay, before we go into Worm, let’s talk about Jackie Chan, it was a cartoon from the early 2000s like the shows we talked about in the last review, about a fictionalized version of beloved actor Jackie Chan going on Indiana Jones-type adventures with his niece and “Uncle.” But none of that matters in the context of this fic, what does matter is that in one of the later seasons of the show the bad guy commands these dudes called the Shadowkhan, several tribes of shadowy beings, each with distinct abilities. And, through some mystical means, a human can command the Shadowkhan, but it turns you blue and evil. I watched this show as a kid, but I don’t remember a lot about it or anything about the stuff mentioned in this fic.

Worm is a web serial that ran from 2011 to 2013; it stars Taylor Hebert, a girl who gets the power to control bugs and accidentally becomes a notorious supervillain. Worm is fantastic, one of the best examinations of the superhero genre ever written, if you haven’t read it, open a new tab and start reading it. In terms of fan fiction, Worm exploded, especially on SpaceBattles.com. Much like Familiar of Zero, Worm fics tend to follow a formula, namely giving the main character of Worm a different superpower, especially powers from another story. This leads to some of the same problems as FoZ; there’s a ton of Worm fics that cover the same series of story beats and don’t end up going anywhere. As well as giving the protagonist overpowered/outside-context abilities that allow her to steamroll the story’s moral compromises. Which isn’t to say that can’t be interesting to read, but it’s all down to the execution.

The Fic:

I don’t think Queen of the Shadowkhan is an objectively bad story; it’s well written and, to its credit, it does make an effort to play around with the canon events more than the typical Worm crossover. I just didn’t enjoy this story very much, like on a core level. In my opinion, things are a bit too easy for the protagonist; she steamrolls a bunch of dangerous villains and then is able to get off the hook and join the heroes without much difficulty. Unlike in canon, where Taylor directly commands her bugs and sees through their eyes, the Shadowkhan are entities she commands, but not with her mind, so she comes off as too passive. And there’s a lot of Taylor angsting in this, which is fair given her situation, but it’s a drag to read. Overall, I wasn’t having any of this story, but for someone with different tastes, it might be a solid read.

Next Time: You seen the movie Gladiator? Now add dragons.