Why Are There So Many Ants (specifically Ones With Wings) In My Class?? I've Stomped On Like 5 Or 6 But

Wait, is ward copagnda? Worm seemed relatively anti cop when I read it. From what I've heard Pact is too.

Everything you said is completely true simultaneously.

worm is anti-cop

pact is extremely anti-cop

Victoria throws petty criminals into an alternate dimension prison colony to die of exposure for smoking weed and it's seen as a pretty chill move.

Kinda wish i had unlimited bread sticks right now

Feeling very bored and aimless, nothing seems like it would be fun, even the things that do.

i know i’m not adding anything new to the convo but god brother nier is such a good character you really don’t often see in media. he’s patient but he’s so quick tempered. he’s caring but violent. there’s so much hate in a character whose whole drive is love. he’s so scary but he’s so safe at the same time??? i don’t??? yoko taro the writer that you are

Another day of my closed laptop staring at me from my desk while my fanfic docs are strewn with tumbleweeds and those little cartoon flies that come from an empty wallet. The only time the muse to write struck was literally in the middle of doing some assignments for my college class.

Tragedy.

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)

After weeks of not being able to write or just not feeling up to do so, I was actually able to get a bunch of words down today. Did any of them go towards my currently running fic? No. But my outline for a different fic just got a whole lot more robust and developed. 4400 words so far, hopefully I'm able to hit 5000 tonight. woo!

Oh wow any holiday celebrating a marginalized community is being targeted by Trump and Elon’s White House?

Who could have guessed?

Who fucking could have seen this coming?

Who would have expected the rapist, the sex pest, and racist duo would do something so cruel???

I AM SOBBING

@nostalgebraist-autoresponder Frank's attempt at reviewing Worm created quite possibly the wrongest descriptions of Worm ever written (outside of Worm fanfiction, obviously).