Why Am I Haunted By Ideas And Plots And Concepts For Fics But Feel No Motivation To Open My Computer

How refreshing it is to talk to people who share my interests and my desire to engage in deep conversation.

Friends and a social life really ought to be up there with other human needs like food, water, and shelter. It only feels like a half-life, cursed and forsaken, when going without.

(suggested by @hpetrr)

THIS POLL IS NOT ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT

note how like half of the options are various things on the ace spectrum. this is gerrymandering

Fun fact about this: i have literally no idea if pansexual and omnisexual are the same thing. (some people said that they were both synonymous with bisexual) I tried looking it up and there didn't appear to be any consensus whatsoever.

AND SEE HOW I LEFT OUT A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF NUANCE WITHIN ASPEC WITH THE COMPLETE OMISSION OF PRETTY MUCH ANY DEMIROMANTIC/AROMANTIC OPTIONS

the slug is not a sexuality. if you're wondering by the way the slug is straight because i don't like him. worm fanon polls is heterophobic you heard it here first folks

Make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it! Just. Don't yell, please?

Just thinking about how pretty the horizon is, especially when the sun is either rising or setting. Something beautiful about the world getting bathed in orange but only briefly. Also just the broader concept of the horizon is alluring, a sight ahead of you that you can never catch up with. By the time you get there the sight has changed and the space around you has changed as well. There's probably a metaphor in there.

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)

choking, gagging, and moaning on it

And by "it" i mean the little bit of chip stuck on my tonsil

we don't have enough discussion of the mccrae letters in this fandom

I don't even know this lady all that well. It's an online class, that started this week.

Oh gosh, I've been emailing with one of my professors for the past week, just like about books and writing and stuff and she was recommending some Brandon Sanderson to me so I recommended "Worm by John C. McCrae" to her and she said she'd put it on her reading list. What have I done, this is a whole professor, 20 years of teaching experience type of lady.

(Poll submitted by @graffic17)

That's a cape with a minor role in the story, not a cape who is a minor. cause then everybody would just pick skitter.

There are actually so many completely random capes who only show up like twice that I actually had serious difficulty making this poll.

Weirdly large amount of heroes on this list but that's because the heroes show up way less on account of the story being mostly from the perspective of a villain

Note: This is the second version of this poll, after tumblr posted the version where my edits (to remove circus and trainwreck) didn't go through

Make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

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?

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