#wormwood rambles

[ohwormwood]

Flower for you!

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Happy 1 year anniversary to In Stars and Time. I usually don't do sappy shit for stuff like this, but words cannot express how much this game has fundamentally altered my life in the *checks watch* six months since I first discovered it.

ISAT came to me at a time when I was at the lowest I've ever been in my entire life. I won't really wax philosophical about how "this game saved me" or anything. But it helped. Not just because I saw so much of myself in Siffrin (For once, that isn't an overexaggeration- we share an unnerving amount of the same qualities)- My art production has skyrocketed, I feel confident in it, in ways that I never did before. I wrote my first fanfiction in over a year, and listened to people cry about it live on call. I made friends that I'm happy to talk with every day.

Thank you to insertdisc5 for making this game. Thank you to the community of people who have gathered around it. Thanks to those of you who followed me because of it and sit around watching me put these characters through the wringer for my/your entertainment.

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the perpetual AuDHD tug of war between the imperatives of constant stimulation and prolonged calm

[ohwormwood]

adhd,,,,

anybody else in the club feeling this one

[ohwormwood]

”freaksabeau” this, “freaksabeau” that. Mirabelle said that ending the world for love was ‘nice’ and what good stories are made of, meanwhile Odile fucking says that siffrin subconsciously trapping themself in a time loop because he loves them so much is ‘cute’

yall are really sleeping on the platonic freaks here

Bonnie is the only person with a normal reaction SGGRJFJFJKDKA

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galen of pergamon still affecting medical success in 21st century

[ohwormwood]

if you ever feel bad about rambling on about your hyperfixation, remember that mirabelle would love you for it

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i just still can't believe i've been having kidney stones for fifteen years now, and this is the first time anyone is telling me my chronic renal colic has only been due to them 2% of that time frame

i have been staring off screaming internally

i can't stop thinking about the dr. yiff comic

except he really is a dr. it's just the hundred or so other dr's i have seen all these years have not taken a step back and looked at the scope of my symptoms. they've looked for something to blame and dismissed the rest, instead of something to explain what's apparently a comorbidity 101

[ohwormwood]

I love your comic with odile feeling guilty about hurting Siffrin!

waugh thank you!!! i have so many feelings about odile and how she handles crises... especially postcanon...

some other food for thought from my brain while i was writing this scene (spoilers folks):

odile placing herself between the party during the tutorial sadness event

her wholeheartedly believing that there is a solid chance that she could die in the king fight. and that she'd be okay with that if it meant that the rest of the party would be okay

her apologizing to siffrin in act 6. and when siffrin tries to apologize back she says that their guilt will cancel each other out eventually, which. has some implications given just how much guilt siffrin has eating them up inside

odile explicitly saying that she feels like she didn't do enough for siffrin pains me, and i always wonder if, given the chance, she would go back and change things

[ohwormwood]

my best contributions to The Collection's chaotic jackbox night

the hilarious part of this is that we were unable to spoil anything

[ohwormwood]

protag rival in a mystery fic....

either i end up teaming up with them and we end up in a rivals to lovers situationship

or

i die in the first 20 paragraphs and become the "i hated them but they didnt deserve this" motivation to move the story along

AFTER VOTING, click here to see what genre you've landed in.

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the bed itself can't "bed rot." checkmate.

[sisaloofafump]

Calvin?? What are you doing in my Superman comic?

In Superman: Man of Steel #56 (May 1996) the fifth dimensional imp Mxyzptlk makes it so everyone’s wishes come true… leading to a fair amount of chaos. On of the montage scenes shows the elementary school from Calvin and Hobbes (typically untitled but named Watterson Elementary School here in homage to the cartoon’s creator) being destroyed by a dinosaur.

Which makes sense given that there is a fair share of C&H comics where he daydreams about the school being destroyed by dinos. The Superman comic came out a year after C&H ended, and this is just a nice little tribute.

The full Superman panel:

[ohwormwood]

yeah

My friends planning to hurt their ocs

[rune-tisms]

wanted to make a post expanding on my sofia the first au: fia the worst, just for fun's sake ^_^ in the au, cedric is intrigued by this copy of sofia and wants to keep her around, so he lies and says she can only be destroyed with a potion. this way, he can escort her back to his tower, where he can propose the idea of the copy helping him take over the kingdom. she accepts without hesitation, thrilled to have a chance to do something so disruptive. cedric then swiftly decides to call her fia, so that things wouldn't be confusing. fia's amulet allows whoever is wearing it the ability to talk to animals, since when sofia duplicated herself, that power was active, so to speak, so it duplicated (listen i'm working with the plot hole as best i can). cedric begins using the copy of the amulet to speak properly with wormwood. the three of them concoct a plan to steal sofia's amulet; fia will pretend to be sofia after sofia herself has already gone to bed. that way, she can get into her room without being questioned. once inside, she would be careful not to wake sofia or her animal friends as she takes the amulet of avalor. after securing it, she would open the window, where wormwood would be waiting. he can then take the amulet back to cedric. fia will then hide somewhere in sofia's room until morning time, wait for her and her animal friends to leave, then sneak back to cedric's tower. fia wants to enact the plan as soon as possible, but cedric is wary. there are many things that could go wrong, and he wants them to wait a little while for the perfect opportunity, whatever that looks like to him. in the weeks following, fia gets bored a lot so cedric takes her into town to entertain her. fia was the one to suggest that he change her hair to look like his, so that she could be mistaken for his niece. the most fun fia can have, though, is messing with cedric. because in the episode where she makes her appearance she figured out so fast that he wanted the amulet, i choose to headcanon that fia is more perceptive of cedric than sofia, either for magical reasons or not. fia quickly catches on to cedric's soft spot for sofia, and abuses the fact that she is a version of sofia constantly. i'm pretty certain that i want to make fia betray cedric somehow after they manage to take over the kingdom, and he'll somewhat redeem himself by helping sofia to defeat her. i hope i actually make more for this au i actually like it a lot.

[sweet-cherry-flavour]

This ship makes me want to scream and cry (affectionate)

[unpopulargoose]

Lowkey wanna make a wormwood fan club because of my brain worms but idk how many people would be interested in that