#btw i havent finished ward so who knows hoe my thoughts might change

[rililith]

Ok *rings dinner bell*

Very disorganized and flow-of-consciousness Amy thoughts below the cut >_>

•Reading Ward sometimes feels like walking into my childhood best friend's house and seeing that everybody's head has been cut off, but they don't mind because they were always headless. remember? And my brother's like yeah remember how they love bleeding and dribbling out cerebrospinal fluid? and I'm like ahaha yeah totally oh those weirdos... them.. haha... yeah. but i dont. i dont. And, Amy's a good reason for it feeling this way.

•I think her costume was neat in New Wave

•Everyone's incest jokes probably aint as funny as they think it is

•For the record I'm not an Amy apologist. A lot of worm fans like to make that clear for themselves, so I will too. I am someone who:

(1) finds her interesting,

(2) thinks her experiencing terror is funny

(3) thinks the whole incestual sexual assault plot is homophobically written (and the tip of the iceberg on that imho) and (3.5) I really don't think I want to engage in discussion about any of it 90% of the time, because -to me- the whole thing's roots are rotten. I think it's important to treat Worm/Ward like a work written by a human with opinions and biases sometimes, not a holy script that we shouldn't peak under or scrutinize. Yes, what happened was horrible, but I don't really like playing in that space of the narrative because it is ridiculously uncomfortable to me if we ignore what makes it feel ___ [left blank. fill in with distasteful/poorly-thought-out/offensive/etc as you see fit]

Clarifying(?) because I'm incapable of being concise ever: It's got little to do with the actual events of the story and more about the author's choices, yeah? The premise that follows her existence in Ward feels foul and hollow-heartedly written, so even though I care deeply for Victoria's trauma and recovery on all levels... I can't "get behind" the story because of my personal distaste.

• I dislike that it seems like Wildbow seems to have had the incest/obsession aspect as a part of her character from the Guts & Glory days, so he had a lot of time to think about this plot. It just feels like bullshit that, to him, this is the only interesting and satisfying direction to be found for these two characters.

•Okay for real why does no one talk about how boring* it is that the good sister is like conventionally attractive and blonde and femininely dressed and the evil sister is like, you know, like the adopted spawn of a villain and has curly brown hair to contrast her lovely sister and all these freckles and imperfections and - [talks for four hours]

* :/

•If I had her power I'd sell potions I made with my power ngl (details to be figured out at a later date.) I'd call myself Snakeoil or something.

•Whenever I have a Worm fic idea she's involved like 90% of the time.

thoughts on Amy?

man..........