#john c. mccrae

[doyouknowthischaracter]

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[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Talking to my mom about Wildbow’s portrayal of addicts:

Me: you can tell, in-text, that the author really hates addicts- Mom: Wait he hates attics? Why would an attic even show up in the story? Is he part of Anne Frank’s family /s ? 

[cantheywinthehungergames]

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Tribute Name: Jean-Paul "Alec" Vasil (Regent)

Age: ~15

Restrictions: No powers or superhuman abilities of any kind and can only use tools and weapons supplied in the Hunger Games arena

Art by @aslovefromlies

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[simurghed]

draw the travellers right now

[olivojl]

characters of "Worm" Slaughterhouse Nine, on my vision and memoris xD

John C McCrae

[tiffanys-aus-and-headcanons]

Terrible Visions

A scrambled timeline is a timeline that has proceeded much like ours, except that some particular facet has been mixed up all over the place. For example, in the scrambled timeline we will consider today, our world's fictional stories have been told by different people, and in different ways.

Bryan Lee O'Malley, in this alternate timeline, is best known as the cartoonist responsible for Homestuck, a popular comic series about a group of children who become embroiled in a cosmic-scale video game known as Sburb. Although Homestuck is probably most often associated with the cult classic Edgar Wright-directed film adaptation released in 2016, the comics themselves are highly-regarded, and the film brought a new audience to them. Netflix has commissioned an animated continuation, The Homestuck Epilogues, which is due to be released soon.

Andrew Hussie, on the other hand, is a figure you're likelier to know if you're overly online. His "MS Paint Adventures" series - most notably including Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, which is kind of like Homestuck but weirder and hornier - have firmly remained a fixture of obsessive Twitter fandom culture. It doesn't help that the best-known iteration, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, is infamous for stretching thousands of pages of meandering digressions out of a simple and focused narrative starting point. Scott Pilgrim fans have developed something of a toxic reputation, which is not entirely deserved - although of course Knives discourse is interminable, and back in the fandom's heyday there were reportedly incidents of fans assaulting each other "for being evil exes".

Scott Pilgrim fandom was very big back in the day, though, and consequently it was a nexus for other creative figures who would go on to surpass Hussie. Perhaps foremost among these is indie developer Toby Fox. He was literally living in Hussie's basement when he produced ROSEQUARTZ, a universally-beloved retro Goonies-like RPG about a human hybrid boy born to a race of gem-based aliens. He's now developing an episodic spiritual successor, RAZORQUEST, with more overtly dark themes. It revolves around an inheritance dispute among a demon-summoning family.

Other foundational figures in this timeline's internet culture include Alison Bechdel, who helped get the webcomic scene started. Although she's now more seriously acclaimed for her personal memoirs, her gaming webcomic Press Start To Dyke, which premiered in 1998, was once everywhere. It had a broad appeal, and at its height, it was common to see even straight guys sharing pages from it. Time has not been especially kind to it, though, and at this point its main legacy is test.png, a meme spawned by one of the comic's most ill-advised pages.

Then there's John C. McCrae, more often known by his pseudonym Wildbow. A prolific and reclusive author of doorstopping "web serials" - long-form fiction published online - McCrae's best-known serial is still his first, Wind, a noir superhero story set in an alternate history where capes are mostly just a subculture of unpowered vigilantes. Wind landed in a culture already rife with comic book deconstructions, like Alan Moore's 2002 graphic novel Worm Turns, but it nonetheless managed to stand out from the pack with its extensive cast of characters and its themes of coordination problems and the end of the world. Later McCrae web serials include Part (the first "Otherverse" serial; an urban fantasy story about a couple who die in a car accident and find that they have become ghosts), Tear (a "biopunk" story set in a collapsing underwater city), Warn (the controversial Wind sequel), and Play (the second "Otherverse" serial, set in a small Indiana town that helps hide a psychic girl from the CIA).

Last and perhaps least, we should discuss J. K. Rowling. Far and away the most famous of any of these authors, Rowling's name is inseparable from the YA series that she debuted with, the Luz Noceda books, which remain her one successful work. Although it was heavily derivative of older fantasy novels - like Jill Murphy's Academy For Little Witches, or Philip Pullman's Methods Of Rationality trilogy - Luz Noceda was still a monumental and unprecedented success in the publishing industry, and the film adaptations were consistent blockbusters. The final book, Luz Noceda and the Watcher of Rain, contained some allusions to a romantic relationship between Luz and her recently-redeemed associate Amity. Rowling confirmed that this was her intent in subsequent interviews and indicated that she had fought her publishers for it; the film would then go on to escalate matters slightly further.

There have been many lengthy and heated online arguments as to whether the references in the book itself constitute text or mere subtext. Whatever your stance on this discourse, a new complication has been introduced recently: although she has put out no official statement on the matter as of yet, it has become quite apparent from Rowling's shrinking network of contacts and her conspicuous silences that she is certainly TERF-sympathetic, and likely an outright TERF herself. For many, this is leading to a critical reevaluation of the social values inherent in the Luz Noceda series; others, to say the least, are holding off on that kind of reappraisal.

Anyway, Scott Pilgrim just beat Luz Noceda in a Twitter poll for Most Gay Media, and people are piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissed

[phoseo]

Oh gosh, I've been emailing with one of my professors for the past week, just like about books and writing and stuff and she was recommending some Brandon Sanderson to me so I recommended "Worm by John C. McCrae" to her and she said she'd put it on her reading list. What have I done, this is a whole professor, 20 years of teaching experience type of lady.

[cpericardium]

if porn depicted realistic sexual scenarios, how would it look like?

I summon the voice of John C. McCrae in my head.

"This doesn't mean anything because you like boys, romantically and sexually. For her part, her breasts are taller than wide, not fat, exactly. Fade to black"

[pestvcontrol]

      🦂             #PESTVCONTROL.      dependent   +   original   character.      SIGMUND 'ZIGGY' WEBER , the villain by the name SWARM.     established   in   february   of   2025.      penned   by   𝒅𝒋𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒐  (  she  /  it ,   24  ) .

um estudo sobre o colapso do significado; resiliência do feio; a santidade de coisas triviais; mariposas voam cegamente para a luz; como um sorriso pode ser um ato de desobediência civil; culto às quinquilharias e o fetiche pelo descartável; cidades são formigueiros humanos de concreto; só as baratas sobrevivem no final.

CONEXÕES DESEJADAS | MUSINGS | TASKS | POVS | INTERS

【   ele/dele, joe quinn   】   ⸻   Boas vindas à Mansão Umbra, SIGMUND “ZIGGY” WEBER! Você chamou a atenção de Larc Crimson com a habilidade de MANIPULAÇÃO DE INSETOS há 7 ANOS. Desde então, foi batizado como SWARM e ocupa o cargo de TÉCNICO. Embora tenha apenas TRINTA E DOIS ANOS, suas responsabilidades como vilão não serão um peso fácil para carregar, afinal, deixar MILWAUKEE e ignorar sua DESCONFIANÇA e RESSENTIMENTO, permanecendo apenas CRIATIVO e PERSISTENTE, é um fardo enorme até para um extraordinário.

🦂      #AESTHETIC&INSPO.  

Coleção de jaquetas de couro; esmalte descascado; posters de banda cobrindo rachaduras na parede; garrafas de whisky quebradas; zumbidos intermináveis; olheiras roxas e profundas; correntes penduradas no cinto cheio de spikes; aneis demais em todos os dedos; um chaveiro em forma de barata no bolso; dados de vinte lados; fones estourando metal pesado no volume máximo. The Fly (dir. David Cronenberg, 1987); Worm (John C. "Wildbow" McCrae, 2011-2013); Jane Prentiss (The Magnus Archives); Aburame Shino (Naruto).

🦂      #RESUMO.  

GATILHOS ⸻ consumo de drogas (não especificadas), insetos, seringas, overdose.

(BACKGROUND COMPLETO) Ziggy cresceu sob a proteção da mãe, Mathilda, uma entomologista forense, que evitava falar sobre seu pai e escondia um segredo sobre seu passado. Desde pequeno, ele conviveu com insetos e um zumbido constante, mas só descobriu sua verdadeira natureza ao manifestar poderes de controle sobre eles durante uma explosão de raiva no colégio. Mathilda, temendo pela segurança do filho, fugiu com ele pelos EUA, vivendo à margem da sociedade até serem capturados pela Stargate. Transformado em "Apex", um super-herói midiático, Ziggy ocultava suas reais habilidades como espião e agente furtivo. No entanto, sua rebeldia e abuso de substâncias tornaram-se um problema para a empresa, levando a uma overdose "fatal". Com a ajuda de sua mãe e de seus insetos, simulou a própria morte e fugiu, unindo-se a Larc Crimson. Garantindo a segurança de Mathilda, Sigmund iniciou uma nova fase de sua vida, abandonando os vícios e preparando-se para enfrentar a Stargate.

🦂      #HABILIDADE: MANIPULAÇÃO DE INSETOS.  

Pode estabelecer uma forma de telepatia que transmite e recebe informações de artrópodes, o que abrange insetos e a maioria dos crustáceos, que possuem uma ancestralidade semelhante. Sua forma basilar controla uma variedade de insetos, assim como um certo número de criaturas marinhas, em sua maioria crustáceos e isópodes, como caranguejos, lagostas e camarões, alguns moluscos como lesmas e caracois, e até mesmo parasitas corporais, como lombrigas. Tudo isso ocorre devido às semelhanças biológicas de tais espécies, especialmente quando se fala de anatomia e filogenia. Existem diversas limitações ao poder, porém: tanto de distância quanto de tamanho do enxame, além da própria instabilidade emocional de Ziggy. Fora isso, ele não pode simplesmente criar insetos, apenas chamar os que estão no ambiente.

🦂      #CURIOSIDADES.  

Sempre tenta pegar insetos nas mãos e colocá-los em locais seguros invés de matá-los ou jogá-los na privada. Nunca se sabe quando pode precisar deles.

Tem uma letra de música ou uma piada ruim para qualquer situação.

Costuma ser distraído e se machucar com frequência, por isso anda sempre com band-aids nos bolsos.

Tem uma pilha de revistas em quadrinhos inacabadas que vão ficar assim para sempre; Ziggy adquiriu um profundo trauma desde a Stargate.

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[henghost]

Twig Liveblog for Arc 1

i have finished the first arc of john c mccrae's "twig" 😮

so far i am enjoying it far more than i anticipated!! wildbow's prose, while still clunky, is far from the worst it's ever been, and i'm willing to tentatively admit that he seems to have an uncharacteristic respect for pacing and structure here (...which he would forget by his next project, but that's beside the point).

more importantly: sy is my fucking guy! i've decided that even if he commits wholly unjustifiable acts in the coming arcs i will defend him at all costs. i would lay my life down for this bratty horny munchkin. (very exciting to have a wildbow character who feels romantic and physical attraction to other people, by the way: i really loved that scene where the schoolgirls sort of neg him a little bit and he can't help but stare at their legs and press his face into their chests). i find myself loving him for the same reasons i first loved taylor: the burning hatred for authority, the anti-social tendencies (very funny interaction where lillian says to him that she dislikes being called "lil" and sy proceeds to refer to her as lil internally like five times in the next paragraph lmao).

i love all the other creatures and characters! the psycho vat-grown girls are entertaining. excellent first interlude. i love the setting, all wet and hot, smelling of excrement and rotting bodies.

PREDICTIONS (or, embarrassing myself for your entertainment)

i think there are too many pointed references to gordon having a "hidden dark side" for it not to come to a head at some point, but maybe that's too easy

mary and sy will kiss 🥺

helen will experience a crisis of loyalty that she is unequipped to handle

[our-arospec-experience]

Aromanticism in Media

Literature:

Willbourn Lisa - Parahumans by John C. McCrae

Nevian and Cal - The White Renegade by Claudie Arseneualt

Rivka - A Harvest of Ripe Figs by Shira Glassman

Georgia, Jess, and Ellis - Loveless by Alice Oseman

Gwen Vere (allosexual and aromantic) - An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

Arèn - A Broken Promise by Lynn E. O'connacht

Wasp - Archivist Wasp / Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace

Claire/Claude, Denise Jalbert, Emmanuelle, Livia, and Yuri - Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault

Television:

Alastor - Hazbin Hotel

Peridot - Steven Universe[23]

Caduceus Clay - Critical Role

Lilith Clawthorne- The Owl House

Monkey D.Luffy - One Piece

Senku Ishigami - Dr.Stone

Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist/Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

Saiki K - The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

(https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Aromantic#History)

[cantheywinthehungergames]

Sophia Hess, a.k.a Shadow Stalker, age 17

Restrictions: no Parahuman powers, can only use tools and equipment in the arena.

Tribute Name: Sophia Hess (Shadow Stalker)

Age: 15-17 (throughout series)

Restrictions: No superhuman powers of any kind and can only use tools and weapons supplied in the Hunger Games arena

Link to illustration on Deviantart

If you would like to see a character aged 12-18 enter the Hunger Games, please submit them through my asks. 19+ aged character submissions are currently closed.

Please also look at my pinned post for submission rules as well as a list of previously submitted characters prior to submitting your character.

[simurghed]

John C. McCrae “Wildbow” i will get you. And you will be got

[sarandipitywrites]

Nine People You Want To Get To Know Better

i was tagged by @lordfenric-writes and @winterandwords - thank you!

Current Book I'm Reading: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbard and Disfigured by Amanda Leduc. Just finished No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull and Siren Queen by Nghi Vo. all highly recommended!

Last Song I Listened To: Cyberhex by Motionless in White

Currently Watching: making sporadic attempts to watch? Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War; Rise of the TMNT; Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated. probably others that i've neglected so long i've forgotten.

Current Fic I'm Reading: okay, so i'm just going to define fic as "not traditionally published" and not necessarily just fanfic, although i will indicate which is fanfic (FF) and which is original fic (OF) sooo...

The Archivist's Journal (OF) by @autumnalwalker

Worm (OF) by John C. "Wildbow" McCrae

The Red Prison (FF) by @adhdavinci

A Stain that Won't Dissolve (FF) by @not-poignant

Obedience (OF? FF? it's dungeons and dragons) by @space-writes

The Infinite Sadness (OF) by @blind-the-winds

Next On My Watch List: i don't dare add things to my watch list. i am not skilled at watching things.

Current Obsession: working on The Art of Empty Space. resisting the urge to edit Dead Roots, Dark Water. There are two wolves inside me and they both want to scream about my writing.

i'll tag (no pressure!) @starlit-hopes-and-dreams @kaiafosterwrites, and @aalinaaaaaa, plus an open tag for anyone who wants to share :)

find the blank template under the cut:

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[skitter-queen]

parahumans character: John C. McCrae

triggered when he ran out of Wildbow Snax™ 😔