#worm buzz

[allwormdiet]

Buzz 7.8

Nazi capes fuck off, like fucking for real

Honestly even if Kaiser deigned to tell his people that the Undersiders weren't responsible, somehow I doubt any Empire member would be inclined to treat them with much respect.

Yeah, see, this isn't about the leaks for Hookwolf. This is about the fucking beef over the dog fights.

Not a genius move from the driver, honestly. If you really want to put bullets in the villains that have good defensive capabilities, the last thing you want to do is give up the element of surprise. Stormtiger may not have been able to deflect those shots if he didn't have enough time to react.

Also, does Cricket wield kama? Like, the fucking Japanese farming tool? Are you allowed to join the Empire if you're a blatant weeaboo?

This is a really bad matchup honestly, it's tense to see how close they get to death with these fuckers

Disturbingly evocative and sadistic, but what else is to be expected from fucking Nazis, right

Clever guy

Fuck yeah, environmental takedown

Grue is fucking hardcore. Two shots to Stormtiger's legs and not even bothering to acknowledge Cricket's hostage. Dude does not fuck around when it comes to Empire, the only restraint here is that he's not killing them outright but honestly I wouldn't feel bad if he did. Just dump their bodies into the water, bing bang boom.

Well, okay, I guess Hookwolf would still be a problem, wouldn't he

This Cricket gal is bullshit honestly

So, yeah, now that we've gotten all three of the Empire capes to show their powers, I'll go ahead and say that this fight was stacked against Skitter and Grue from the jump. Hookwolf can't be fought hand-to-hand without being shredded to pieces and insects can't do much about metal flesh. Stormtiger can get bugs off himself no problem and can blast away Grue's darkness. Cricket, meanwhile, has some kinda sonic blast that lets her navigate Grue's darkness and also incapacitate Skitter's bugs.

The fact that they get out of this fight alive is a testament to remarkable intelligence and grit on their part.

This is a brutal slugfest honestly, although the fucking Nazi deserves every second of pain she's getting from it.

It's a little funny that they're having this conversation in front of Cricket. Like "oh yeah it looks bad but she's too busy being a sadist to do any real damage," "oh that sucks ass of her but I'm glad you're not too hurt" and she's laying there with a chunk of thigh missing. She should be embarrassed enough to leave town forever.

Yeah Cricket's busted, but good news is she's taken care of

It's a little funny that they're both stuck stitching each other back up after Brian cut off any romantic options. Like I've seen a lot of works where patching up someone's wounds and putting them back together would have a kind of bloodsoaked intimacy to it, but not here lmao

Also yeah you'd better appreciate Tattletale

These little punks. Love em to bits.

Okay so real quick, noticing Taylor's description of how Regent is talking, and I wonder how grounded Alec is as a baseline. Like I have to imagine that the Heartbreaker Experience doesn't do a whole lot of wonders for learning how to connect to the world around you. Is it an affectation like I've been speculating, or is that just the best he's got for engaging with reality?

I wish going straight for Purity meant killing her, but even without reading the rest of this arc I know the Undersiders don't have that kind of firepower. I can dream, though.

Teehee, parallels

Current Thoughts

I wish Grue managed to kill all three of the Empire capes but I get why he couldn't. I'll just have to hope they all die later.

Awesome that they managed to get the win over those bastards in the first place though, I don't think this is my favorite fight in terms of the beat-by-beat action but in terms of how they have to overcome the disadvantage of enemy powers it feels the best.

[gastlives]

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well i dont think u guys can with good concsience stay with him anymore concsience how do u spell that consciousconscience conscience

oh…

i think taylor might lash out at u

damn well

rip aegis

well its endbringer time..

i think itos kinda interesting how she didnt feel much bc she already experienced too many Horrors to care about letting herself go with america

i do have feeling there might be some Big shit in next arc either trigger event or death or idk… just big status quo shit maybe at first i thought this thing was the leviathan but im not too sure abt that carnage

[berryshipbasket]

Groovy, baby!

Pushed myself to finally draw self ship art again,,, I love you funny worm man...

Proship / Exclusionists DNI

[Sona goes by She/they/he]

[timblrdrake]

anything to propagate bug infestations

congrats on the pregnancy btw

i can’t tell if this is worse than the cocaine accusations … at least the news hasn’t picked this up good fucking lord.

thank you for the insects in this trying time.

[thegreatandpowerfulversy]

Now that I've known him for a few chapters, you know what someone with the power to "control destinies" really sounds like? An author.

A man who knows capes from all over the place, yet focuses specifically on Brockton Bay and nowhere else as the place to exert his influence. A man who enables the Undersiders to operate and to win, but does so from afar without showing his face or even letting the people who work for him know his identity.

A man who can flip coins and have them land however he wants, every time. A man who can arrange the worst possible coincidences of timing between Taylor and Rachel embarrassing E88 recruits and a massive attack on the E88 leadership launched out of nowhere. A man whose costume is pure black emptiness except for a snake winding all around, as if he's not even there himself, even as the winding path of destiny is overlaid on him and could not exist on its own.

A man who admits that he is not a good man, but does care about the city, in his own self-serving, egotistic way -- perhaps because without exerting his power to write the destinies of Brockton Bay, no one would ever know who he is at all, or even know a thing about the world his city is in. Worm is, after all, the first parahumans web serial.

I am proposing that Coil is in fact a self-insert.

And therefore, my recommendation is: Taylor, get his ass. Kill Wildbow, and then be as gay as you know you were always meant to be.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“How was she?  Any fights?” “Nothing serious.  No, it was actually kind of nice.  I might even do it again, if she let me.” “Really,” he replied, skepticism clear in his tone. “Really.” “What changed?” “I’m figuring her out, I think.  How she operates, how she thinks.”

[darknoverse]

MMMMMM been a while since I drew the hoot hoot .

Have an blazing Arsène post yippeeee

I love him sm he's pathetic and terrible but I love himb (not him yelling at his half-sister in the middle of a burning building lol)

Also another fire scene one cuz mmmhmmmm that's the peak of his character development

And have a few sketchies

[dykeferatu]

i can be a little vain as a treat. look at my biceps

[fallow-grove]

would you love me if i was a webp

[grahamcore]

good morning thinking abt remus lupin again

[allwormdiet]

Buzz 7.11

I was so caught up in the euphoria of not having to read about the Empire that for a minute I lived in this world where Coil didn't exist

And so we arrive at The Coil Bunker. Heard this sucker come up once or twice in my time on the periphery.

Somehow I got the impression that it was more established than this. Sounds like a recent development rather than a long-standing stronghold, with the construction going on inside as well as out.

They are already so done with Coil's shit, there's nothing to be impressed by with this guy

It really is a rapid acceleration of their workload, yeah. Even setting aside that the Wards did basically nothing during the gallery job, they've gone against every hitter in the city except most of New Wave and the ones under Coil's employ, and frankly I'm willing to guess that changes down the line.

Coil's value to them as a boss has nothing to do with himself and everything to do with his resources. If he keeps putting them in more trouble than he's worth, then a coup would almost certainly be in order.

"Do you need reassurances that I'm not going to fuck up like some kind of moron and condemn you all to a pointless death in order to work for me?"

"Uh, yeah? It'd be nice?"

I'd talked about this elsewhere, but Coil's fuckup here breaks in two possible ways:

Either he genuinely could not think beyond pulling back the curtain on the Empire's identities and forgot his subordinate villain team who both have a member famous for knowing things she shouldn't and also publicly beefed with the Empire maybe a week ago, or

he actually did realize that the Undersiders would be caught in the blast radius of this plot, figured he'd roll the dice on their survival, and is now lying in a way that makes him sound shortsighted and careless

Like yeah no shit they don't have much faith in him, either he's a moron or a liar willing to look like a moron. Worst-case scenario he's both.

I hate this part. Fuck Coil, truly.

Hate.

Let me tell you how much I've come to hate Coil since I began to read Worm.

There are one million, six hundred and eighty million words in the web serial Worm. If the word "hate" replaced every character within those words it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for Coil in this micro-instant.

Hate.

Hate.

So this is actually a genius bit of writing, but it's also ironclad proof that Coil has loose gravel in place of a brain. The chances of success are lowering because "the Undersiders" are increasingly unlikely to include Skitter as a member, because she's sickened, horrified, and outraged by what her boss is doing and absolutely will not do what he asks of her at this rate. I'm willing to bet Tattletale knows what's going on, provided that she managed to tear her eyes away from the horror show in order to check on her teammates, but Coil, resident criminal mastermind, apparently doesn't realize that the odds for his pet villain team are getting worse because he's making one of the strongest members of the team hate him more with every second of this exchange.

We know what's going on in Taylor's head before she can even say anything because of this exchange. That's really well done.

I hope Coil dies screaming.

I was going to post a line from Arc 5 or 6 that I'd noticed, about the offhand news of a girl missing presumed dead, but I couldn't find it when I was going back through. I knew about it well before starting my liveread, though. Dinah Alcott. The twelve-year-old girl Coil keeps in his basement, gives drugs, and calls "pet."

Maybe I could've liked Coil more if he was just a kind of ineffectual mastermind and lousy boss, or maybe I wouldn't have felt such an active revulsion towards him, I dunno. But this puts him on a different layer of evil than just some kinda shadowy puppet master or gang boss or whatever. This isn't cops and robbers, this is the same kind of foul play that Heartbreaker operates on, and everyone hates Heartbreaker.

Also not sure exactly what emotions Tattletale is dealing with here but I don't know if people can make the blood drain from their face on demand so she's probably not fronting? She's had me nervous ever since she started more openly cooperating with Coil, but here's reassurance she's got a standard that he doesn't.

Current Thoughts

I will clap and cheer when Coil gets what's coming to him.

[gastlives]

(copy and pasting past texts now) wyhat the hell shes still a girl...

i do think itd be more realistic for him to not rly want to date.......... now especially

me when i got dumped and now have to stay at the guy's apartment and also deal w the fact i just got dumped and also get over it while staying there

... did coil kidnap someone

you do?

i still cant believe she straight up almost ripped ur ear off

argh

oh my god

thank goid

its too bad she cant defend herself as much, at least taylor has bugs though it doesnt work always..

but it helps

tho her smugness ALSO helps if the bitch is willing to listen

oh that gotta be a chaotic fight up ahead

damn...

a flare of WHITE with other WHITE (idk what i was trying to say)

i almost forgot new wave was a hero group only seen like 2 new wave ppl so far phonton mom, amazing photon hi glory hole… again oh wow even amy is here

oh my god sabrina the teenage nazi

also they fucked bitch's dogs nooo!!

jee grue is dying

is she straight up an eldritch monster

ah shit

thank u lisa

oh god

yeah its kind of a Lot

yeah she still doesnt know abt ur Secret

or she does but didnt say it for some reason

who is this

is she a calculator

probability calculator child i see

PET?

this is probably normal

what the hel

maybe its cuz ure not actually helping when these guys know what ur ass just pulled?

now theyll probably want to work with u even less

damn taylor

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Im back to my roots, back to being normal, I'm healthy now and perfectly sane*

*I am drawing Gun Powdered Tim in a Dress

[wormbloggign]

taylor is pulling all of her teammates (except alec but thats okay bc hes a child) with her neurodivergent rizz

[thegreatandpowerfulversy]

So Aster has been kidnapped (or taken by CPS and heroes) and now Purity is leveling the city until her baby is returned...

You know what would solve this issue really quick? To make sure that nobody could hold onto Aster when they shouldn't?

Maybe... something that was sitting on a table in the loft several arcs ago and has never been mentioned again since those couple sentences way back then?

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

The old man ignored me.  He looked at Brian, “I thought you’d be on the other girl’s side, not sure I would’ve let you past if I knew it was any different.” Why had he come to that conclusion?  Because Brian and Sophia were both black?  I didn’t like that assumption, that I was automatically the bad guy, here. “No,” was Brian’s curt reply.  “My friend is right.  That girl attacked her.” Sophia backed away another few small steps, behind the old man.  When Brian moved forward, the old man got in his way, angry.  “Hey now, I’m not going to have any more fighting in my bookstore.” Sophia saw her chance and ran.  I raised my hand, as if I could somehow reach out and stop her, then dropped it. It took us another two minutes to wrap things up with the old man.  He accused me twice more of being a thief and gave us a dressing down for causing violence in his store. 

Okay this just feels all kinds of 'wtf wildbow'. Like, plausible the elderly black guy might be more inclined to assume the white girl is the problem in a city like Brockton Bay with it's E88 problem, especially right now, but like -

Sophia still was the aggressor chasing after a 'stolen' thing, and you've got Brian stepping in and Taylor's clearly more visibly beat up and the whole passage just feels...

Definitely feels icky, especially the part where the store owner just assumes Brian would be on Sophia's side and then keeps doubling down on the accusations. Like, is he trying to make some sort of "reverse racism" commentary or -

Icky.