lambda complex? i actually find it quite simple

welcome to my hovel | 21 | he/him

[m0thmans-husband]

job search update: I GOT AN INTERVIEW HOOOOOOOOOLY SHITTTTT

[drowntheminspiders]

weld is such a funny character becuase if he wasnt a case 53 hed be literaly the most normal guy. 'lets do team bonding :D' . goes to 'talk' to dr mother then actually wants to talk. he should be in school worrying about getting a b or something who put him here

[senviva]

some worms

[sillydog33]

Uh oh

[simurghed]

[junebugtwin]

Uncle Sam - Trickster

man who may have made some little itsy bitsy mistakes...

[ewingstan]

Alright, so a lot of characters are pretty good parallels for Taylor, some even to the extent that they’re acknowledged as such by the text. Basically every group leader gets this treatment: Satyr is noted to share Skitter’s creativity in power usage as well as her murky place in the hero-villain dichotomy. The similarity between Taylor and Jack Slash becomes an important plot point when it prompts Golem to realize Jack’s secondary power, letting him turn the tide of the fight. Weld commiserates with Taylor on the oil rig about not being able to turn away from the fight. And Teacher shares a place with Khepri in the highly specific “mind controller whose specific abilities give them the capacity to become exponentially dangerous” category.

But you know who she isn’t deliberately compared to as often? Trickster. Which is kind of weird, as Francis Krouse is startlingly similar to Taylor in a lot of ways, and their points of divergence are really useful for identifying what Wildbow is doing with these characters. 

Keep reading

[rebranden]

“Krouse made his play because he'd lost all hope, and decided the only thing he could do was self-destruct spectacularly alongside the person he loved.” krouse analysis by ewingstan (my favorite one so much)

[ewingstan]

Poster on my right shoulder with a cheap angel wing costume (the one from Oldboy (2003)): "You should write about how Krouse making an unsecured tophat that's constantly in danger of falling off a key part of his costume actually fits his themes really well. You've already written about how his ringmaster getup is part of cultivating a sense of mastery-within-instability; Krouse excels when thrown into a chaotic situation because he can use chaos better than others. Styling himself as a leader of a circus, master and causer of chaos who holds things together just enough to have them culminate in a grand spectacle, shows what type of reputation he cultivates. But that instability is a constant in his life, he seeks it out, it seeks him out, and despite the air he puts on of having everything under control it really is always in danger of falling apart. The tophat can fall off at any moment, the travellers can collapse at any time, the cultivated and uncultivated chaos surrounding their lives can suck them all into the undertow at any time. If you actually write an analysis post fleshing that out it would be an excellent use of your time."

Poster on my left shoulder, taking the form of Judge Holden as he was depicted in Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian: "You should write about how whenever his hat falls off Krouse just puts a rock or large piece of trash on his head and switches them. Fuckin. Eight times during the fight with the Wards Vista had to deal with the fact that she was nearly getting killed by a guy putting a brick on his head. Sometimes he'd throw his hat at you and then put a brick on his head and then swap them and bam you've gotten hit in the face with a brick."

[piscoto]

the tricksterrrrr

[knight--error]

Look. I know I'm saying this on the Amy Dallon website. But to me, the top three tragedies of Worm are, in order:

1. Taylor -> Khepri

2. Noelle + Krouse

3. Riley/Bonesaw

I'm pretty sure Noelle and Krouse are gonna be the most controversial here because folks don't like Krouse much, I think, but like. Dang. Don't know what I would have done in his place. You're a teenaged boy trying to love your girlfriend through trauma and mental health difficulties. You are suddenly thrust into a world that is completely terrifying and alien, and you make a choice. You consider the variables and all the intelligence you have available, and you think it's the best choice. You're doing your best to help everyone. And that choice does something so awful to your girlfriend, who you love, that years of your life are spent trying to help her and mitigate the damage. You will do anything for her. It's never enough. Slowly, she and all your friends place every piece of blame and anger they have on you. They hate you, and you probably deserve it. But you're just doing your best. And, in the end, you can't even help her—so you just have to stand beside her, because it's the only thing left that you can do. I'm going insane I'm going insane I'm going insane aaaaaugh

And Riley is just. You are a very small child. Something unimaginably horrific happens to you. You are reshaped into a monster and the only love you receive is from other monsters. You are given no choice, and by the time you are old enough to meaningfully choose a different path, you have already done things so horrible, everyone you meet flees from you in terror or tries to kill you. You want to be good but your morality is so warped by trauma that you don't even have a clue what that means. You are still that child, desperately scrambling through your home, trying to stitch your parents back together, and failing. Ahhhhh.

And of course, Taylor. Poor Taylor. "Somewhere along the way, it became no." My girl, my poor girl.

[webbvidd]

Please share any Travelers art you have 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I have these jijiji . I'm so interested in them pre-shitshow.

[violant-apologia]

people you'd like to know better tag game

tagged by @anomalouscorvid! (thank you! (please ignore that i already posted and deleted this without any of the actual tag game included lol))

🍬last song: i actually don't know because the last music i listened to was a jam? the last song i liked was from that jam - generator by the holloways (which my dad used to play alllll the time when i was little)

🍬currently watching: game changer i guess? i'm watching the new episodes as they come out. the last thing i watched though was the martian, while on a thirteen hour flight with all the swears shoddily ADR'd out lol

🍬current obsession: i'm having one of my MtG phases rn i think (though the current spoilers aren't giving me too much to work with lol)

🍬currently reading: mort, by terry pratchet! i've been slowly working through the discworld novels, since i've never read them before. pretty great!!

🍬currently working on: i have the long term project of my custom blaseball: wild cards decks. i've designed the mints, the fridays, the spies and the flowers, and i'll probably get them printed once i've finished playtesting them

🍬last google search: "printingstudio" – looking up alternative ways to print my cards. i'll probably stick with MPC though

🍬currently wearing: nice green patterned short-sleeves shirt (as is my wont), brown linens (because it's warm) and variably my breath mints cap

🍬favourite flower: i actually don't know? i've never really thought about it too much. maybe snowdrops? they're super cute.

alright, i'll tag @the-paisley, @k-00-ki, @preserves42, @etromin, @giaffa, @waitafrikk and @limulusamebocytelysate! one million tags!! (plus YOU reading this if you want to lol)

[limulusamebocytelysate]

Hello thank you for tagging me!

🐛last song: It has been the Hollow Knight soundtrack on repeat, Hornet in particular because it's a lovely track that really captures her spirit. So bright and skilled and true...

🐛currently watching: the last thing I watched was Witch Hat Atelier which was good but the season's finished now...

🐛current obsession: IT'S BUGWORLD although the heatwave made the ragweed which had been attracting legions of wondrous little things stop flowering and go to seed... the lawn wildflower meadow looks pretty brown and finished... I'm waiting for a rainy day to sow all the seeds I've collected so next year is less ragweed dominated

🐛currently reading: Inheritor by C.J Cherryh which I need to finish! so I can get on to the rest of the 22 book series... it's good it's really good peak 90s sci-fi. I also have Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo on the go which I am 2 or 3 chapters off from finishing. Also a couple of webcomics I'm keeping tabs on, like 3rd Voice

🐛currently working on: ignoring my sewing pile and putting off finishing Hollow Knight... I'm having fun I don't want it to end but I only have 2 grubs behind crusher puzzles the annoying final lifeblood charm and the Hollow Knight left...

🐛last internet search: "roller skating [location redacted]" surely there's more than the once monthly event 45 minutes of motorway driving away...

🐛currently wearing: well pajamas but I have been very into my linen culottes recently as well as my linen shirts... it's hot

🐛favourite flower: oh I don't knowwwww I have thought about it but their charms are unique and variable it's hard to compare... I'm eternally fond of red deadnettle, which is one of the first things to flower after winter around here. My most recent "flower that I have learned the name of and then realised is everywhere"s are rosebay willowherb and hollyhocks, the former of which I have some seeds from and the latter of which I really want to grow

tagging let's see.... @euvangelos @literatureismyentirepersonality @deskvan @panducker @m0thmans-husband @womanchego @voidpunker @bardicc-inspo and of course whoever wants to!

[m0thmans-husband]

tagged by @limulusamebocytelysate!

👽last song: woman in chains by tears for fears + oleta adams. i was listening to their 1989 album the seeds of love last night

👽currently watching: currently on my 3rd rewatch of she-ra and the princesses of power. my girlfriend got me into it years ago. its our show. dont tell anyone itll absolutely ruin my reputation

👽current obsession: worm, unfortunately

👽currently reading: the silmarillion (blame my gf for this one also)

👽currently working on: finding a job, allegedly. also a series of portraits of twin peaks characters ive been working on for a couple months on and off (im currently doing audrey horne)

👽last internet search: cant remember exactly but it was something baseball related. fuck you nyt connections for making me look up baseball things

👽currently wearing: graphic tee and jorts, my summer uniform

👽favourite flower: lavender (smells nice)

tagging @socktopus675, @moonlit-waves, @alice-borealis, @lumarys and ofc anyone else who wants to participate!

[booksandchainmail]

cape name categories:

extremely generic: hero, marquis, trickster, gallant

extremely literal: biter, shielder, lung, clairvoyant

tempting fate: vikare (icarus)

is that your cape name or real name?: grace, victor, jack (slash), dinah alcott, august prince, felix swoop, gregor (the snail)

dorky: glory girl, kid win, mouse protector, strapping lad

seriously?: hatchet face, chubster, wanton, leet

clearly wanted to be a fantasy protagonist: shatterbird, sundancer, crane the harmonius

same but for sci-fi: laserdream, raymancer, lightstar, professor haywire

embarrassing mixup waiting to happen: nix and nyx, othala and othello

the what-now?: grue, parian, rime, sere

puns: clockblocker, damsel of distress, assault (and battery), agnes court

unpronounceable: glastick uwenei glaistaig uaoinye the faerie queen

moose: a terrifying and noble creature

[postponing-the-apocalypse]

Ok but why is Marquis missing from unpronounceable?

[booksandchainmail]

Marquis is totally pronounceable! 

Either the canon way mar-kwis, or the correct way mar-key

[wilted]

help

[estavionpira]

Imp trying to stab Jack Slash and he keeps dodging on instinct. No idea she's there, just decided to do some cardio today. Getting a really good feeling about picking up a steel chair and swinging it right in front of him. Can't for the life of him figure out why.

[liliennacht]

@lakesbian