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(some neutral person) What do you call the color between Blue and Red?
Doc (sincere and enthusiastic); Purple!
Tucker, Wash, Carolina (stating the obvious); Purple?
Church (being difficult); Why would you f*ck up a perfectly good color by adding red to it? I'd call that a migrane
Tex (grudgingly amused); Unfortunately, he's right, I associate that color with a headache
Donut (very invested); OK, I know you expect me to call it blueish-red, or reddish-blue, because haha, but honestly? There are so many different names for colors, and unique tones depending on saturation, how bright or dark something is, so you could get violet, or plum, or lavender, or indigo, or mauve, or lilac, or magenta...
Caboose (also sincere and enthusiastic); That's the color of ALL MY FRIENDS TOGETHER!
Grif (deadpan sarcasm); Bled
Simmons (about to say something else, but now needing to one-up Grif); ... Rue...
Sarge (horrified); THAT COLOR IS A SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE
Kai (no emotional investment); Iuhoh (disinterested "I dunno" sound)
Lopez (totally serious); A ese color lo llamo el amor entre mi hermoso tanque y yo
Locus (trying to remain calm but internally terrified about what his answer will mean to the others); Pur... ple???
I love this stupid angy baby so much you have no idea.
This is so cool
Worm Fanfic Recs
No rankings at play here, just my favorite fics that I think other are really good. There are fics I like that aren't listed because I have a bad memory, but everything here is something I really really enjoyed. I have biases obviously, this isn't objective.
The Fics
Our Private Crises - A nailbiting murder mystery with unique and well done POVs from a different character each chapter. The mystery and reveal at the end were stellar, and it got me attached to characters I never thought I'd care for. 29k words. Complete.
It's Cold Out There Every Day - Missy is trapped in a time loop on her birthday. Genuinely stellar characterization, it has the best Missy and Aisha I've ever read and its such a creative and well executed premise. 41k words. Complete.
Tilt - Unpowered homeless girl Taylor fakes a thinker power to get in the Wards and secure housing. She's even more self destructive and self deprecating than in canon. 10/10 characterization for a slew of POV characters including Taylor, every ward but especially Sophia, Rachel, Lisa, and a ton of other characters. Despite not going through all of what canon Taylor went through, this fic nails her character better than pretty much any others. 220k words at time of posting. Updating consistently.
Tear Apart, Stitch Together - Taylor triggers with Shatterbird's power and kills thousands. Short and sweet, everything that's there is great and it wraps up well I think. 13k words. Complete
Memories of a Simurgh Victim - The Simurgh attacks Brockton Bay. Has two storylines, one following Taylor and one following Amy and Vicky. Among the most fucked up things this fandom has to offer, a terrifying showcase of the Simurgh and her power. 62k words. Taylor's story is incomplete but the Amy and Victoria story is done.
Desperate Times Call For Desperate Pleasures - Cherish altpower Taylor tries to consensually fix Amy's incest fetish. A trainwreck I can't look away from, the worlds first psychological horror romcom. It's so fucked up and so amazingly funny, and has good well written characters. I don't like Pillbug and I'm not a big fan of altpowers, but this fic is still one of my favorites because it's so damn compelling so definitely check it out if you actually like either of those things. 211k words at time of posting. Updating consistently.
Roots - The Slaughterhouse Nine attack a small town with a roster of OC capes, but something is very off about the place. POV shifts every chapter, and the OCs are interesting and unique. The S9 are also wonderfully characterized here, I've never had a fic make me sad for Crawler of all people. 67k words at time of posting. Ongoing. Criminally underrated.
Roma Fade - Ciara and Fortuna both try to grow past who they were as capes and find themselves as people in a small town post Gold Morning, having found common ground posing as moms to a recovering Taylor. I'm sure fake dating would never end in real attraction, that would be absurd. Incredibly gay, incredible characterization for everyone, the best post-GM fic around in my opinion. 87k words at time of posting. Ongoing but currently on hiatus.
Case - Lisa and the Simurgh start a detective agency. It's just great humor and a lovely story and wonderful despite being short and deceased. 14k words. Dead.
Silence is not Consent - Taylor intervenes and saves Victoria from Amy and gives her a place to stay, Victoria massively struggles dealing with what happened. Amazing characterization, Victoria's POV is unique and incredibly well done, and her seeing Taylor from an outside perspective is interesting. Be warned that this is a very heavy fic emotionally, but it's really fucking good. 212k words at time of posting. Updating consistently.
A Word - Altpower Taylor is obsessed with writing a story. I don''t know how to describe this fic honestly it's hard to do justice, but it has perhaps the best conclusion to Gold Morning I've seen in a fanfic. 11k words. Complete.
Scarab - A fantasy AU where powers are thought to be magic, and the Faerie Queen takes an interest in Taylor. Filled to the brim with creativity and passion, this fic is teeming with fresh ideas and interesting depictions of canon characters. The worldbuilding is great as well, no other fic on this list has a map, so this is clearly a cut above the rest. 139k words at time of posting. Updating consistently.
Swallowtail - Ok I lied this one has a map too. Taylor with an incredibly interesting stranger power joins Faultline's crew. There is a truly astounding amount of AU elements and alternate powers for canon characters, it feels like a new world while still being recognizable and distinctly Worm. Has a large amount of alternate POVs and the first arc can be rough, but it's creative and amazing. 360k words. Ongoing but currently on haitus.
Soliloquy - Ex-Slaughterhouse 9 Taylor is in prison, bitter at the world and herself and especially her clone who saved the multiverse. A heavy fic about someone slowly recovering and becoming a better person when they're convinced it can't be done. Made me cry. 71k words. Complete.
TWNY - Post-GM Taylor finds herself in the world of RWBY with a pair of moth antennae. Multiple POVs, all very interesting despite me knowing nothing of RWBY. Probably the best characterization of Taylor in any post-GM crossover fic, she's heartbreaking in the recent arc, and it feels like the fic has barely scratched the surface of what it'll eventually cover. Also it's very gay. 136k words. Ongoing.
The Great Escape - Eidolon is struggling after his reputation is destroyed and Cauldron is revealed, and then the Birdcage opens. Amazing use of seldom seen characters, great POV with Eidolon, well done and interesting fights, has String Theory. 107k words. Ongoing but currently on haitus.
Happiness Is Inevitable - NSFW. The only damn erotic mind control Simurgh smut in the fandom somehow. Besides the porn (which is a lot of the fic, who woulda thunk it) the story itself is actually pretty interesting and has a lot of creative parts, and it has better characterization than most fics. 29k words. Ongoing?
Oneshots
Break me so that I can be whole - This accursed fandom is tragically bereft of QA / Taylor fics, but this one shot is great, love an eldritch take on shards. Probably fucked up but I'm not actually a good judge of that so be warned. 1.8k words.
Book Worm - Dragon helps teach Taylor how to read and speak and understand language post-GM. Bittersweet and lovely. 2.5k words.
Defiant Didn't Dox Saint For Nothing! - Taylor goes back in time and the first thing she does is kill Saint because he sucks. Cracky but I like it, fun little oneshot. 1.6k words.
Ruling Ash - Glory Girl flees Brockton Bay during the Slaughterhouse Nine and ends up living with Damsel of Distress. Cute, and Starsong before Ward is very interesting. 2.8k words.
My Sunshine - Leviathan goes worse and Brockton Bay is destroyed. Taylor and Victoria survive. Very somber, but well executed. 3.4k words.
Cherry on Top - A character study of Cherie Vasil, showing how she went from running away from Heartbreaker to joining the Nine. Extremely well written, absolutely incredible depiction of her character. It depicts abuse and actions typical of Heartbreaker and Cherie, so be careful reading. It's a lot emotionally. 12.7k words.
Devil in a New Dress - NSFW. Shatterbird / Reader, I'm not explaining myself on this one. Neat Shatterbird characterization, hot, pretty fucked up so be warned. 1.7k words.
hardest part of the liveblog is always this post announcing a new session is starting
the creator of Webbed (a super cute, 2D pixel puzzle platformer where you are a happy little jumping spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big mean bowerbird) is working on a game where the main character is an isopod!!! it is yet unnamed, and the creator doesn't appear to have a Tumblr, so I'm spreading the good news here!
game progress and sneak peeks on Riley Neville's twitter!
Bug game hype
what
One hell of a description to start an interlude with
excited to see all the atrocities taylor will commit in the name of helping this child :)
Remember kids you can commit all the war crimes you want if it’s for a good cause
no way. taylor, doing something risky and borderline stupid? impossible. this must be an impostor
As we all know Taylor only does incredibly smart and safe things
that's right we're doing this two days in a row, let's go
OH SHIT
we're back baby
Yeah baby return of the king
I did not like the hobby-hobby powers when they were first introduced. It felt too contrived I felt that the memory aspect and toy powers should have been split between two different people or something else. But then this happened.
Devil fruits represent people dreams. This is an amazing revelation for many thematic and practical reasons and explains so much.
But it got me thinking what dream, whose dream, could create Sugar’s fruit? And the answer quickly became more and more obvious the World Government.
The hobby hobby fruit allows people to truly be forgotten and controled. There is no possibly for rebellion no way to pass your will on. Inconvenient people are now obedient toys dancing on the world government’s strings.
And what better place for this fruit to be than in the hands of a follower of a former celestial dragon Doflamingo.
This power is perfect now.
I hope Tsuru is super smug
Round 1: Reddington from The Blacklist vs. Locus & Felix from Red vs. Blue
Cast your vote!
Reddington
Locus & Felix
Locus and Felix’s war crimes:
Compelling a prisoner to serve in the forces of a hostile power: they once hijacked a ship full of prisoners and forced them to fight for them (if they refused they shot them into space)
Scientific experimentation and torture: there was a torture hell portal that they didn’t know what it did, so Felix kicked one of their men into it to see what happened.
Misuse of the flag of peace: they set up a peace talk to assassinate the leader of the enemy army.
Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life to civilians: Not sure if this one counts because it was an attempt that didn’t succeed, but they attempted to use biological weapons to wipe out the entire population of a whole planet.
Killing civilians: aside from the attempted planetary genocide, when they hijacked the prison ship they not only killed the prisoners who wouldn’t fight for them but also killed every single guard on the ship. I don’t know if they count as civilians though but I’ll put it here anyway. Locus killed a gas station attendant and the killed a pilot who knew too much while posing as the gas station attendant whom he killed.
The destruction/looting of archeological/historical sites: exactly what it sounds like. They found some ancient shit and stole it.
I didn’t see desecrating bodies on the list but it seems like something that should be a war crime so I’ll mention it anyway. Felix used the bodies of enemy soldiers as target practice and the body of the captain of the prison ship as a meat shield.
They’ve committed so many war crimes and also regular crimes. The most war criminals. Whatever red did is probably not close to attempted planetary genocide and everything else.
For every round they make it I will go more in depth on one of their war crimes