*fills your lungs with bugs*

he/him | main @haomnamu | profile pic by @brocktonbay | wilbow sideblog, I've read worm, ward, and twig

[melmili]

just wanna say i am a big fan of this trope specifically

[tatsumi-rin]

[henghost]

There's hardly anything like worm when it comes to its relentless insistence on first person narration. A million and a half words in one person's head sounds totally unsustainable, but it works in worm (where it fails elsewhere) because it mirrors Taylor's disassociation, depersonalization, etc.

Many have noted that Taylor's power allows her a "perfect" view of fights. Through her bugs, Taylor gains a kind of weak omniscience. This way, her first person narration becomes, in turn, a kind of weak omniscient third person.

But this, too, is a facet of her trauma response. Her bugs allow her to escape the pain of her human body, but such a tactic has lasting consequences for her mental well-being. She loses the ability to easily move between this bird's-eye view of life and a more personal view, centered around her own body. She can multitask impeccably, she can forgo food and sleep with ease (to the point of being dangerously underweight), but she cannot locate her own ego within her human body.

And this pathology finds its formal counterpart in the kind of numb distance of Taylor's first person narration, where her own thoughts must struggle to burst in at the edges via the intervention of italics.

This wreaks havoc in her interpersonal relationships, as can be seen in her awkwardness with Brian. She cannot process something so deeply centralized within the body as sexuality, and so the banal embarrassment of a crush is rendered in a dull, distant first person--as though she is describing someone else entirely. The sex act itself, therefore, cannot be articulated at all, hence the total absence of it from her thoughts.

Poor girl :(

[its-wormin-time]

for sale: baby shoes, never worm.

[humanzyz]

Mannequin

[dailyparahumans]

day 90

[emperorundying]

echidna in oil paint :)

Palette and sketch yay

[dailyparahumans]

Begging for a Shadow Stalker…Your art is so fun and cool..

day 57

[dailyparahumans]

Hope it's alright for me to make another suggestion so soon;

William Manton and the Siberian

day 53

[dailyparahumans]

if you're still looking for suggestions, i'd love to see Dinah in your art style!

day 52

[sorypsoid]

[insomniac-arrest]

why are ghosts always person-sized in the movies? they don’t have bodies anymore. one of ‘em should have figured out how to work that shit. one of them could be … her 😳

[thedogeveryonehates]

kind of a milf. reblog

[asharomi]

[eggtomatosoup]

wip of noelle from worm gaming in her gamer pad (coils basement) or something

[whereserpentswalk]

Made this horrible little meme

[hungrychoir]

To this day, one if my favorite parts of Worm is how when Taylor is first going out in costume, she describes balling up tissues in her coin purse(that she keeps in her utility pack(not a backpack))so that the change wouldn't jingle.

And then, during the Echidna arc, she's held briefly by Miss Militia, who says she needs to look at Taylor's backpack. Taylor goes Actually, It's A Utility Pack. And Miss Militia looks through it and takes an inventory of the backpack, and then finds the coin purse. And she's like Oh, A Coin Purse... With Tissue Inside Of It? Oh! So It Doesn't Jingle! and you can hear Taylor going like

[sweetnidoran]

[shillelagh]

Happy two years of balled up tissues

[sweetnidoran]

Happy two years of balled up tissues

[hungrychoir]

Happy two years of balled up tissues

[sweetnidoran]

Happy two years of balled up tissues

[tooscrubby]

Case 53 Taylor Hebert

What are the aspects of Taylor's psyche that inform her power? Their are three that I'm keeping in mind for this:

She refuses to be a bystander

She doesn't trust anything she doesn't have direct control over

She believes that she's ugly and repulsive and that others think the same(with her hair being the one notable exception)

With all that in mind let's get to it. Taylor53 continuously grows and molts an exoskeleton that covers her entire body. The exoskeleton is not particularly durable so any defensive capabilities are negligible but if Taylor takes significant damage while the exoskeleton is still on her it will fall off and Taylor will pop out completely unharmed. After it becomes separated from her body it essentially becomes a second body for Taylor to move around. She can sense what the husk senses and has complete control over it. The husk last for a about an hour after and then it crumbles into dust and Taylor starts growing a new one. Significant damage will cause it to crumble faster.

The exoskeleton is mottled dark gray with specks of browns and dark greens throughout with a disconcerting human/insectoid appearance. A bit like her costume but without the courtesy of a million insects to hide how it looks. After molting her real body is a pale and slightly greasy humanoid shape with large eyes and a large mouth filled with sharp teeth. The exoskeleton grows a facsimile of her hair making it the one unifying trait between it and her true body.

As for how she got her hands on a Cauldron vial I'd like to think that Cauldron would look for precog thinker support from time to time and assembled a list of individuals who are likely be present for Gold Morning. The process was slow and not cost effective for the results so it would end up being shelved but before they decided that Taylor would make for a useful asset for how likely she is to be there.

Cauldron makes contact with Skitter and convince her that she make a difference if obtains powers and works with them. Cauldron feel confident that they can give her a risky vial since their mostly certain she'll survive the process. She turns into a disgusting larva girl freaks out and then gets Slugged.

She's still likely to survive any trouble she comes across so it's a waste to keep her at the base so she gets deployed. I think there are good arguments to be had for her being deployed to Chicago and Houston but I think her being sent to L.A. makes the most sense.

After waking up in L.A. she wonders around before being picked up by the local PRT and being taken under the wing of Triumvirate local, Alexandria. Taylor's a great candidate to take to Endbringer battles with her ability to shrug off a lethal hit plus the extra body to help with search and rescue. And her abnormally high chance to survive is a big plus.

And then after all this it's revealed that the person she looked up to and trusted the most was one of the people responsible for the state she's in and her trust in the system is completely broken.

[curious-cephalopod]

Ol’ ziz

(I’ma post the couple other actual worm art i have but this one’s fresh)

[dailyparahumans]

ur style is soo dynamic and lovely :’) would love to see how u draw the travellers (esp noelle)!

day 11

them's next to eachother :)