#city of worms

[vvatchword]

I'm happy to say that I'm about 50% done with the BioShock novelization! It's working better than I hoped. I even got it done according to my planner and schedule! Holy shit I really am healing

It's ugly as sin but the fact it exists and I have a framework for it is its own reward.

I'm also glad to report that it is extremely fucked up, as god intended

[rainyfey]

"They're a mess."

Page 3 of this little series from yesterday. <3

Not gonna lie, Xylvy thought up a great ending for it in the notes of the first post, but I was already halfway done with this page at that point X3 I will always default to stupidly fluffy vibes for any ending I draw/write.

[marzipanandminutiae]

you know chatelaines ARE super-cool but I always wonder how common they can possibly have been outside the house

like

this is a culture, in most western countries' urban/suburban areas, where pickpocketing was basically a sport. and you're going to go around with all your personal effects dangling on the outside of your skirt??? people weren't stupid back then, on the whole

I mean sure it's usually just sewing tools, a memorandum book and pencil, and a perfume vial. but some of those could be pretty valuable- and I've seen ones with little mesh purses, as if for change!

chatelaines MUST have been an Indoor Thing, right?

(but then why the change-purses, is the question? you don't exactly need to buy a lot of things around the house. were the purses in fact NOT intended for hanging on a chatelaine, but rather pinning to the inside of a skirt pocket or something, to deter theft? was that a style choice for days when you were going shopping with a carriage? I have Many Questions)

EDIT: some folks have theorized that the change-purses were for things one needed to buy at the door- paying for milk/egg/butter/cream delivery, tipping errand-boys, knife-sharpening, etc. I don't know if the nightsoil man was paid at the door or if that was settled up with the city, when/where that was a thing, but that could be another possibility for Things That Require Small Change In The House. thanks for the good thought, guys!

[easthigh]

DISNEY CHIBIVERSE | 03x05 "Journey to the Center of the Chibiverse"

[bugsoda]

i dig dig dig i lie in the dirt oh so cozy. oh it is like 5 blankets this is beautiful. there are worms here and also little bugs. hello

[arquinx]

I remember when Redspring Studios wanted us to notice something about the locations and I thought it was weird that there was something growing out of the sewers.

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 24 thoughts:

. . . fucking . . . fuck. Just . . . fuck. Fucking fucky fucking FUCK, THAT WAS SO BADASS!!!!!

ALL OF IT HOLY SHIT I DON'T CARE, JUST PICK ANY MOMENT!! EVERYTHING EVERYONE DID WAS BADASS!

LIKE. FUCK. COLIN GOT TO LOOK BADASS.

He even got "yelling in caps" badass. Just for the one scene when he picked up Chevy. He did one fucking thing right, which was help someone up and then let THEM be cool.

And speaking of . . . HOLY FUCKING SHIT CHEVY! YOU DIDN'T GET KILLED BY TIME TRAVEL CHAD!

WHICH MEANS I DON'T HATE YOU ANYMORE!

WHICH MEANS I CAN SHOUT ABOUT HOW BADASS THAT WAS!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck waiting for my interlude section to talk about this. That final scene with Behemoth was one of the most visually badass things I have ever read in my life! Fuck. I get fucking chills just thinking about it.

I can see that entire last fight in my head very clearly, almost like remembering an anime scene. Perfectly written.

And Regent! Look at you go, that's character growth!

I mean sure, you died. But growth!

Besides, you dying legit made Imp cooler. She was already great but "I'm going to fucking kill his dad for him" is even better! And Wanton's apparently got jokes so we still have a funny guy.

Basically if someone had to die I'm happy it was you. Sorry not sorry.

ALSO FOIL WHAT THE FUCK YOUR POWER COULD ALWAYS DO THAT AND YOU'VE JUST BEEN SITTING THERE SHOOTING THINGS?

I . . . I just . . . girl! How?? You could literally have turned a piece of rebar into a sword that Alexandria could have cut Leviathan in half with! And that's just what I thought of in the first few seconds after seeing this! Spend some time actually thinking about what you can do lady!

But luckily my daughter is here to do the thinking, and be FUCKING AMAZING AT IT!!!

LIKE HOLY SHIT TAYLOR, YOU CUT OFF BEHEMOTH'S LEG!

AND THAT PLAN HOLY SHIT! YOU MADE A PLAN THAT SET RACHEL UP TO BE THE BADASS HERO WHO CUTS OFF BEHEMOTH'S LEG, AND SETUP REALLY POWERFUL HEROES AS HER SUPPORT!

Fuck half of Eidolon's fucking job was "Catch my girlfriend and fly her back to me."

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOLFSPIDER WOLFSPIDER WOLFSPIDER!!!!!!

And the snuggling at the end, as they were leaving!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my god and the lightning rod! That was insane!

Golem just has really cool powers. Glad Theo is doing ok.

And Alexandria's power preserves the body so Pretender can just puppet her. That's wild. Kinda annoying, my daughter just killed her!

And and and Taylor talked with Contessa!

AND CONTESSA SHARED HER POWER!!!

I was pretty close, didn't have it that specific, but basically was expecting something similar. Fuuuuck it's so cool!

Also the underground cities and the secret capes were wild. Kinda unfortunate that you guys set things up for Behemoth to be able to collapse the entire city, gave him lots of existing tunnels and such to work with.

My daughter could have done a little less bonding with Phir Sē. Ideally. Would have made me feel a little better.

But holy shit a time portal bomb made of looped light?? GOD DAMN. That sure hit like a truck. Just not a big enough truck.

Also Grace and Cuff are dating. I don't make the rules I just enforce them.

And the rules are "make it gay"

God and the whole "thinkers stuck on a roof" bit. Christ that was planned badly. They almost died because nobody had some rope. Embarrassing.

I'm glad Tattletale is doing ok. She got her girlfriend to steal a dudes phone for her, which was pretty funny. And I loved how she still got to do her big reveal to Chevy, she needs that.

HOLY SHIT AND TAYLOR TELLING RACHEL HOW TO TAKE CARE OF IMP?? SHE UNDERSTANDS HER GIRLFRIEND. GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAAAAAAYYY!

And fuckin Tecton just trying so hard to do the same thing with Rachel first and just failing so completely. And then trying again. And again. Bless his big himbo heart he's trying.

Fuck there's so much, I'm sure I'm missing a dozen other things. Every chapter had 20 moments I could mention.

Seriously though, sucks for New Delhi. "There’s nothing left to protect here" is a heck of a line and it is not what anyone wants to hear.

Chevy interlude (the rest of it) thoughts:

Holy shit Chevy's shadows! I wish he had described more of them, I wanted to know everyone's image! Just so much data there.

Fun to see the early Wards. Fun to see that Colin was always like that.

Hero's death was absolutely a targeted hit, he started asking too many questions, pushing back on things.

Chevy's whole power is just really fascinating. Really interesting to think about.

RIP Mouse Protector

Also the fact that her shadow was her laughing makes me think she might have lost the ability to be sad when she triggered, which is unfortunate if true. I mean Bonesaw got you either way so I guess it doesn't matter now.

Loved getting a wonderful list of Endbringer attacks. Sure it still wasn't all of them, but up through Simmy showing up is still pretty great.

Extremely curious about Mr. Keene, keeping an eye out for more info on him.

Tattletale just needed this poor man to read her texts and let her do her fucking THING! It's all she wants.

Anyway ya turns out powers (except Scion of course) can't touch the actual core of the Endbringers and I'm like 95% sure I have a good idea as to why it works like that, but still got a little bit of that uncertainty.

Endbringers are directly related to Eidolon in some way, I am pretty sure of that. Created by him. Previous bodies. Sentient poop for all I know! They're connected though.

HOLY SHIT WHEN HE SEES TAYLOR'S SHADOW DURING THE FINAL FIGHT!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! SHE LOOKED SO BADASS!!!!

Aftermath interlude thoughts:

Pretender and Satyr are so gay. That one's easy I don't even gotta try.

Everyone just starting to freak out about how things are gonna escalate instead of just celebrating the win is really unfortunate.

I mean, they aren't wrong. Another Endbringer is gonna come. But it would be nice if they could live in happy ignorance for a few days.

I'm guessing it'll either be two Endbringers that always attack at the same time or one Endbringer that uses teleportation to swap to a different city after a certain period of time. In either case basically fucking up the organized response ability.

Already mentioned this, but Rachel and Taylor fell asleep on each other!!!! GGGGAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!

If Dragon comes back wrong I'm putting all of the blame on Colin.

Fucking Danny just fucked that phone call up so bad. This man can not get it fucking right. FUCK.

GLENN YOU FUCKING FUCK I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR REASONS ARE YOU DON'T PUT SOMEONES PRIVATE VIDEO THEY TOOK FOR THERAPY ON THE INTERNET!!

AND YOU NEVER EVEN FUCKING SAID "SORRY"!!!!! YOU EXPLAINED YOUR ACTIONS AND WHY YOU HAD TO DO IT EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD HURT HER AND YOU COULDN'T ASK HER CAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE SAID NO BUT YOU NEVER EVEN SAID SORRY!!!

Like for real. Taylor says "You could have asked" and you respond with "You would have said no." Fuck at least just say sorry!

[coramatus]

In the semifinals for the @ultimate-submas-tournament, the Woodsman finds himself challenged not by PMD Sneasel!Ingo (@teamconductors) or Ghost Worm!Ingo (@blaiddraws) themselves, but more by what they fundamentally are. Re: dead and a Sneasel. It’s a lot for a guy to take in.

Transcript

Woodsman: *jibbering nonsense*

PMD!Ingo: Think he’ll calm down anytime soon?

Worm!Ingo: Doubt it.

Woodsman: WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON ANYMORE?! SNEASELS?! WORMS?! WHY?!

PMD!Ingo: Is he… crying?

Worm!Ingo: …yes.

Woodsman: Oh my dearest brother, we’re really in it now!!!

[aacetrainer]

man. Resdiscovering music you listened to in middle/high school is a fcuking TRIP

[hkthatgffan]

Think you know every reference out there in other media to Gravity Falls? Well, in this video, I go over some lesser-known examples of references to Gravity Falls in TV shows, books, YouTubers and more. Some you may recognize and others you may not…unless you really know your references I guess, lol.

A huge thank you to the Gravity Falls wiki for their hard work in sourcing many of the references you’ll see on here. This video would not be possible without them and the many fans who take the time to catalogue all of these.

[vvatchword]

Uprising: Black Scrapbook Hub

Summary

Bits and pieces from my BioShock epfic of Jack Wynand, Johnny Topside, Eleanor Lamb, Dr. Sofia Lamb, and many other brutal motherfuckers. Lots of first draft nonsense. Some of it won't ever be used. Listed in chronological order.

Rating

R Content warnings: Extreme violence, swearing, -isms and -phobias, sexual violence

Notes

Consider this work as Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA. Feel free to translate, podfic, fanbind, MST, or otherwise reinterpret this work as long as you give me credit, link to the original, and do not profit off of the venture.

I’m fine with criticism—most especially when you catch factual mistakes. It’s very big and very old and I ain��t affordin’ no editors anytime soon, so I see that kind of thing as a huge favor.

And thank you for reading. You don’t have to be here. I appreciate you and all your time.

Uprising Chapters

PART II: UPRISING

The story of Rapture, from founding to failure.

What Things We Have Done Frank Fontaine was really hoping ADAM production could be amped up by milking cows for it. Instead, he gets... this.

PART III: ONLY MAN

The tragedy of Johnny Topside. Prequel to BioShock 2.

Gimmicks Johnny Topside's Rapture debut goes off without a hitch. OR DOES IT

Hobnobbers Johnny Topside ain't scott-free after all. Features Frank Fontaine, Augustus Sinclair, and an original character talking shit.

Protection Dr. Lamb opens a business in Pauper's Drop.

Burning Dr. Lamb beholds the face of god.

Metamorphosis Dr. Lamb writes her first best-selling book.

From on High Dr. Lamb begins to sink her claws into Pauper's Drop.

Bailout Augustus Sinclair and Andrew Ryan address the elephant in the room... albeit obliquely. (Topclair.)

A Game Augustus Sinclair wants Johnny Topside to put out, and he won't take no for an answer.

Someone Else's Dream Subject Delta hates the theater. Too bad he's the star attraction.

The King Is Dead (Long Live the King) Sinclair bets on the wrong horse.

Sleeper Subject Delta can't protect his Little Sister forever.

PART IV: CITY OF WORMS

Jack Wynand and the story of BioShock 1.

Take the Head Jack Wynand lives an ordinary life. I'm sure it will be boring forever and nothing will ever go wrong at any point

PART VI: THOSE WITHOUT FACES

Subject Delta and the story of BioShock 2.

What Is Mine, What Is Left Subject Delta comes back from the dead and doesn't much like it. Warning: extreme violence.

A New Thing Mark Meltzer finally gets to meet Augustus Sinclair. Eleanor Lamb has a few things to say. Delta probably wishes she'd choose a different way to say them.

PART VIIII: LONG BROWN EVENING

BioShock 2 sequel. Everybody lives, nobody dies... but problems are eternal.

Who We Were We're all monsters here.

Brother Jack The return of Jack.

Slow Drive Delta walks to Sinclair's house and freaks out some dogs. (Topclair.)

Main Menu

Uprising Menu

Black Scrapbook You are here

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

Part VII

Part VIII

Part VIIII

Uprising Non-Tumblr Hubs

AO3

Fanfiction.net

deviantArt

Pillowfort

Wattpad

NeoCities

Gopherhole

Non-Uprising Hubs on Tumblr

A Summer for Saya

Mud-on-Her-Face

[snuize]

I’m so obsessed with the #mecore edits or whatever it is that I always see on tiktok so I made my own :D

content warning: lots and lots of fake blood, lots of exploding heads and some mean mean words :,(

[thes-hitoverlord]

Disney shows I never expected to see referenced ever again

[b4kuch1n]

hahaha wheee haha

[artbyblastweave]

Got a Worm meta question for you. I'm starting on the early parts of Taylor's warlord era - I'm about to leap into Arc 13 - and the general concept of a ravaged American city being divided up by various supervillain groups is reminding me a lot of that Batman story arc No Man's Land from the late 1990s. Unfortunately my comics knowledge is rudimentary at best, and I haven't been able to any discussion comparing the two stories, so I was wondering if I could pick your brain on the subject. Was it just convergent evolution, or was Wildbow engaging with the Batman story in some way?

I myself have only read about half of No Man's Land- and several years ago to boot- so I've got limited ability to do a direct compare and contrast. No Man's Land is absolutely the sort of status-quo-shattering, history-book-making upset that, within Marvel and DC, nonetheless always inexplicably heals and loses salience until you can barely tell that it's still in continuity. Worm is heavily informed by Wildbow's irritation with that sort of thing, so I think it's totally reasonable to view the warlord era through the lens of "What if No Mans Land had no editorial escape hatch." Alternatively, I think it kind of makes sense to view it through the lens that it's working backwards from the premise of No Man's Land- In what kind of setting would it be plausible for the Federal Government to write off a sufficiently-damaged American City? In what context would the legal infrastructure have been established for that, in what context would that even fall within the Overton Window? What muddies my opinion on this is that the general concept of a ravaged, atmospherically-apocalyptic American city torn up by superpowered gang warfare is something that's kind of just been in the water in superhero comics since the mid-eighties at least, and it was a relatively common thing to see during the Dark Age- they were choice prey for all those overpouched musclemen with their poorly rendered firearms. I'd be surprised if Wildbow wasn't at least aware of No Man's Land, but it's definitely not the only cape book from the late 90s or early oughts where you could pick up that idea from. Ultimately this leaves me unsure if No Man's Land is the specific referent or if it's just part-and-parcel with trying to do an involved, thoughtful take on what cape comics were like at the time.

[necromycologist]

its DISMAL out here as a “city that is Alive ” enjoyer and a London hater. like Oh your city is alive? its a presence and a character in and of itself?? yeah right. its fucking londinium again. >:/