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Taylor would win in a crossover with any series that uses sheer force of will magic bc she is the specialist girl in the world with the sheer force of will of 10000 shonen protags

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anatamy

^ panaceas name if worm was just a little more fun

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oversized hoodie and a sports bra. call that a clockblocker

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hey Amy. that's pretty fucked up

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A Brockton Bay without Coil is an interesting scenario to me, because it would so severely shift the power balance that the city would be utterly unrecognizable when compared to canon.

Because unlike how fanfic commonly depicts Coil, he is a known factor. His powers aren't. But Coil and his mercenaries are one of BB's 3 powerful gangs.

Take him out of the picture (let's say the asshole has a brain aneurysm) and the entire structure of the criminal world in Brockton would be radically different from canon.

For example, there's no Undersiders. Rachel would likely remain a solo villain, extremely distrustful of anyone and everyone, though she could end up in a team, maybe with Trainwreck since Wildbow does say that they'd have gotten along. Alec would've just kept drifting along, piecing together his own personal morality based on not wanting to be his dad. Brian'd still be an enforcer for whoever would hire him, trying in vain to save up enough to get custody of Aisha, though I could see him making a small team of his own. And Lisa probably keeps pickpocketing until somebody realizes her potential, hero or villain.

So many factors of canon would be completely non-existent without Coil (no Dinah kidnapping, no Trainwreck infiltrating the Merchants, no Chariot in the Wards, probably no Leviathan attack, so on) that the creation of an interesting AU just from that is a gold mine for a fic.

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okay I think my current undersiders neurotype takes are:

taylor - autistic. technically masks with bugs but her mask is not a neurotypicalsona, it's a horror movie antagonist

brian - mostly neurotypical but he has just enough adhd traits to do the What? But Everyone Does That undiagnosed parent thing w aisha. there exists a parallel universe where he is autistic and absolutely nothing changes

lisa - masking so fucking hard that it's impossible to discern her original neurotype. even to her.

rachel - dog autism (canon)

alec - uhhh. one million trauma. dissociating to hell and back

aisha - adhd (canon)

parian - it's thematically resonant to make her undiagnosed autistic so she is that. even though it's probably not canon-accurate

foil - idfk man

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Simurgh with 100% evasion.

Yeah, this is for day four of Inktober: Dodge. The feathers took a lot of time. Am proud of this though.

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imagine living in earth bet america after the skitter unmasking and being like yeah you know that bug warlord from brockton bay? turns out shes some girl named taylor. and your coworker is like swift? wait do you mean taylor swift?

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Taylor: I don’t “wish violence” on anyone.

Taylor: wishes lack the willpower and determination to see it done. I promise violence on people.

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One tip we learned recently is that if you're talking with your headmates (whether directly to them or alongside them) and there's something that you think you've said but that makes you uncomfortable to claim for an unknown reason... It's probably because you're not actually the one who said it. Like, if you hear/say something and assume it came from you specifically, but something about that idea just rubs you the wrong way (not because you disagree with what was said or anything, it just bristles your fur and you don't know why), that's a very strong sign you're not the one who said it, but rather, some other headmate. I'd recommend in these cases to assume that a different headmate said whatever it was until proven otherwise. Really cuts down on the amount of unnecessary discomfort.

I know for some systems, this is going to be an obvious tip, but we struggle with differentiating ourselves during conversation a lot, so this is something we needed to learn. You don't have to automatically claim everything that's been said in your head or by your system. And like, yeah, system responsibility and all that (not saying to abandon that or anything), but what I mean is that you don't have to treat yourself as the default speaker at all times, even if you're the host. Your headmates have their own voices (and I say this completely neutrally, because this is not an ego problem, just a communication problem). If something is said and it doesn't feel right to assume you're the one who said it, you don't have to ignore that discomfort and assume + act as though you did. Sometimes it's just someone else in your head.

(This is... probably one of those posts that's only going to make sense if you've experienced what we're talking about. But here it is, anyway. I hope it helps someone out there.)

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“I started carrying a knife after an attempted mugging a few years ago. Since then, my mugging attempts have been a lot more successful.”

- Imp

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Miraculous Ladybug and Worm are basically the exact same story. I mean, come on! A teenage superheroine with bug-themed powers? Get some originality!

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Inktober Day 3: Path

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girl who can control bugs: "getting a lot of bug vibes from this"

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the thing about worm ships is that Compelling, Canon, and Wildbow Thinks It's Canon are three entirely different axes

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Funniest thing about my social life is not that I keep meeting other autistic people, it's that I keep meeting other autistic people and thinking "Wow, they're very normal. I like them, though. I need to act normal too so they will like me." And the moment I voice this anxiety to someone else, they're like vibes what the fuck are you talking about, they're the weirdest person I've ever met. anyways this explains briantaylor

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i love how we dont call any of the undersiders by their cape names even though They call each other by their cape names more than their real names. i will not be calling alec vasil 'regent.' i am on first name basis with him due to understanding how his psyche works several thousand times more competently than he could ever hope to.