#wildbow

[lemurlord]

How Undersiders get their powers if there were no Shards around:

Taylor: became too vital of a part of the Locker ecosystem for bugs to leave her

Lisa: a smart person, as envisioned by Stephen Moffat

Brian: interior decor skills so terrible they create sensory deprivation chambers anywhere

Rachel: her dogs got that her in them

Alec: whimsical quips leave you weak in the knees

Aisha: bisexual erasure

[dryococelas01]

Getting your face modified to look like a member of the Slaughterhouse 9 and experiencing the most complicated form of gender euphoria

[greilesy]

I may be stupid because I’ve read twig 3 times and I didn’t realize these things in 5.2 that Sy thinks are weird academy creations are just shrimp.

[j-a-m-564]

twig

[Sees a new kind of living war machine] dude i can't wait to see what kind of crawling things learn to eat its bones

[ribs-and-patches]

Scramble was a Skitter variant that could gain the abilities and properties of nearby bugs, however after a run in with Bonesaw she was robbed of her ability to revert any changes made by her power.

She came to this world with a purpose though, one she’d be willing to relinquish her last slivers of humanity for. Just another Taylor burning herself to nothing in service of a single minded goal.

She is joined and antagonised by Scuttle, a far less sensitive variant who has amassed an army of modified giant insects thanks to her world’s Panacea. She fully embraces her role as a parahuman warlord so concept of holding onto humanity so feverishly seems strange and moronic to her.

[artbyblastweave]

same question abt capeifying media but now it has to be a sitcom

My Standing pick list for sitcoms re-imagined for the Parahumans Universe:

Community: To the extent that I once did an involved write-up of the Greendale 7 as bush-league capes who, for the most part, haven't actually figured out they have powers. I never tightened it up and ported it over here the way I did with the Team Fortress writeup, because it was absolutely the weaker of the two, but I'm still quite fond of it. Highlight powersets include Pierce as spite tinker who can only build effectively if he's trying to get revenge for petty slights, Abed as a documentarian breaker/thinker who can produce ex-nihlo attenbourough voiceovers of whatever he's looking at that are a mix of truths and conjecture, and Troy as a shaker/brute with a shamrock-style causality power that makes him incredibly difficult to seriously harm (and a broader, Jack Slash-styled power that makes it incredibly difficult for shard-based agents to seriously harm his preferred status quo, justifying the constant snap-backs of the first several seasons.)

Malcom In The Middle: Move over Dallon-Pelham Torment Nexus- the Wilkersons have moved in. Free pitch to a good home

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: The pitch writes itself, and unsurprisingly I've seen this done at least three times.

Seinfeld: Difficult to carry beyond the structure of a fakeseinfeldplots pitch, but it's there. Also probably the only one of these where the meat wouldn't be giving powers to the main characters so much as coming up with plausibly awkward ways for them to bounce off a society in which powers are a thing. I think I've seen this floating around.

The Office: I think it would be funny to go episode by episode mining scenarios wherein Michael inadvertently causes his subordinates to trigger. This could be fun for the same reason it's specifically fun to put the Dunder-Mifflin crew in something like a zombie scenario- these specific people forced to work together in any situation with actual life-or-death stakes is an inherently funny premise

[incorrect-wormquotes]

Victoria: Does being a total bitch and picking constant fights with everyone make you feel less lonely?

Lisa: Yes, actually.

[zarohk]

This art is amazing, the story is amazing.

Taylor Hebert, aka Skitter, from Worm 🕷️🦋 I’m dying over how incredible she is

Who else finds her character so inspiring?

[cpericardium]

I will never understand the desires of wormfic readers

[victoriadallonfan]

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[neoduelverse]

Good post OP. Though I’m pretty sure Taylor never had her bugs bite people for not working. Other than that, this is excellent.

Reactions to different ways of “helping” Brockton Bay

I’m currently making my way through arc 15 of Worm, and I got to thinking about the Ward’s and Protectorate’s attitude towards the Warlord of the Boardwalk.

Because on the one hand, I get Taylor’s frustration with how all the heroes are acting distrustful and high-and-mighty when she’s been busy keeping the boardwalks livable. She’s supplying doctors and food rations without asking anything in return! She’s organizing people to set up shelters and tear down dangerous structures! She is demonstrating a concern for the people in her territory that goes above and beyond any possible selfish motivations, so being treated as just another villain is kind of ridiculous. Hell, arguably the only hero who has done as much to aid the disaster victims directly is Amy/Panacea, through the hospital visits (and that didn’t exactly end well). Any other hero lecturing Skitter would, from Taylor’s point of view, be a huge hypocrite.

But then, its not like the heroes are sitting around on their asses. We read how the Wards ran themselves ragged in the aftermath of the endbringer attack, and even with their exhaustion they resented being called in from patrols because it meant they weren’t busy helping. Yes, this was mostly just watching out for and stopping active crime, and yes, its appropriate to ask why this was the only post-disaster service being done by the heroes. But at the same time, the streets were full of neo-nazi gangs stealing food supplies! Crime was actively hampering the recovery effort, so focusing your effort on rooting it out when that’s the main thing you’re good at makes sense.

And you can see why the heroes wouldn’t be inclined to automatically trust Taylor despite all her work on the Boardwalk. If you’re worried about gang violence, then its a natural reaction to get worried when a villain starts recruiting people to her employ en masse, especially when you know that she’s engaged in a turf war with pretty much every faction in the city.

Plus, there’s the fact that for all the good Taylor does for her people, she’s basically turned her territory into a panopticon. Bugs are watching everyone, all the time, and will actively start biting people who aren’t busy working. You might argue that this is justified considering just how dire the city has gotten: things are so dangerous that having Bug Brother looking out for Merchants or Chosen is a comfort. And you can’t have freeloaders when supplies are so scarce, the recovery needs all hands on deck! But you could also argue that Skitter had basically set herself up as a dictatorial force promising security for the price of freedom.

All this to say, while the wards can seem incredibly naive from Taylor’s point of view, their attitude does make sense, however warped it happens to be.

[lemurlord]

Taylor Hebert: I am a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Leeches, Gnats, Beetles, Termites and Queen Butterflies. The "+" is from the cross orbweaver.

[germesthegenie]

Since I’ve kinda used it twice now, full reference / doodles for Pre-Wards / “Week One” Cuff! Because she couldn’t have always been that fashionable.

Part of that one fic I might write one day, “Something Something Meet Your Heroes!”, which is basically “Canon Compliant Timeskip Fic except Cuff is a Skitter fan before meeting Weaver”. Also thought of using the name “Steeled Resolve” which is a bit more serious but feels a bit generic and lacks the fun of the other title (since I do want it to be a bit of a lighter tone at least to start with).

[incorrect-wormquotes]

Tattletale: Unfortunately, I am medically incapable of shutting up and you all encourage me.