It's Been In My Marked-for-later List A Few Months Now, I'll Be Sure To Give It A Read When The Co09

I love her

my doctor thought i was taking spironolactone for hair loss “because [I] have gray hairs”

you know something weird? all these years, and we don't have a themed name for antares/tattletale. like. a thing the worm fandom does is make themed names for every ship, rather than the merged names that basically every other fandom uses. smugbug / wolfspider rather than skittletale (i know that one exists) or bitter (skitch?) or something. in the worm fandom those kinds of names are extremely unpopular, with a single exception: tattletares. nobody ever made a thematic name for tattletares we just use the merged name. (there is a merged name for the ship of them in worm which is smugpunch, but smugpunch is super rare, and naming that ship is even rarer).

Why is this? is tattletares just that good? are the alternatives just that bad?

fuck my wormpolls are queued out to april

Oh boy, something i have been dying to talk about while brainstorming wormfic ideas in my notes document for the last two months.

I really enjoy the idea presented here of the differentiation between a pure alternate power scenario, where the trigger happens off-screen and the story starts after the fact and a scenario where the divergence from canon directly results in an alt-power occurring to whoever the protagonist of choice is (almost always Taylor, let's be real).

In regard to tagging, I figure it's probably safe to tag "alt-power" if one appears at all despite the circumstances, though that might depend more on the premise of the fic, where the "what if" moment takes place.

Really can't wait to write a more worm-centric fic following my current crossover one, which does feature an alt-power but it's kind of weird and I've yapped about it so much to the people commenting on the fic.

If you're taking the name literally, alt-power fic includes every fic where a main character has a different power from canon, but when people talk (or complain) about alt-power as a genre, the stuff they're talking about is usually stuff that is not implied by that definition. So I'm curious - where do you all draw the line of what is and isn't an alt-power fic?

For me personally, I would call something alt-power if "what if the protagonist's power was this?" is the primary thing the fic is about, with all other changes that canon made either to enable or as a result of the different power. Therefore, I do not consider fics where the primary "what if" is about something other than the protagonist's power, even if a consequence of that change is that a character triggers with a different power. So I would consider fics like Camera Shy or Monster alt-power fics, but not, say, Here Comes The New Boss.

Anyway, mostly I was thinking about this because I was trying to decide if any of the fics that I'm writing/want to write count as alt-power fics, because some of them definitely contain some of the elements that people mention when they're talking about alt-power fics, like, say, taking place in Brockton Bay pre-Leviathan. But to use Broken Crown as an example, the change to Amy's power wasn't the thing that I set out to write about, it just seemed like a natural consequence of that thing (though I imagine some people would disqualify it from their own definition purely for not having Taylor as a protagonist)

we call this Wormpolls After Dark™

That's you, dear viewer. Yes, you. Without any powers either. Which one would you be best able to take?

Make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it! Just, not in too explicit detail, please?

rise. live. fight. think about women. do not waver

Trasncript: "Such devastation… this was not my intention…"

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I was talking about the sum of money given for a loan which is paid back with interest, tsk tsk

Bouba/Kiki context

Note that this is Taylor as Skitter, not as Weaver or Khepri, since those are different cape identities. I will post polls about her as Weaver and Khepri later

I like replying to every comment I get to encourage readers to engage more in the future. I *want* to talk about my fic with people, especially people who like it or have questions about it. So if I have to do a little social manipulation to make a space that seems open and friendly enough for people to share their thoughts and questions with the knowledge that I'll respond, then I will.