#interlude 20.x

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

Anger boiled within her.  Outrage.  That cringing, whiny, pathetic little scarecrow was the ruler of Brockton Bay’s underworld?  It didn’t fit.  It demanded an answer of some sort.

*cackle*

Oh, this is the real thing. Sophia is faced with concrete proof that she was wrong about Taylor and immediately she latches onto her delusions about her again.

Taylor was never going to be able to 'prove' herself to Sophia, because Sophia always needs a victim to target, because she's a delusional psycho bitch.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

Like, so the whole idea behind going after Skitter hard was to win a PR victory for the Protectorate... but instead, all it does is hurt them. And again, if you want a PR victory, there are better options.

Ugh, this feels so contrived. Wildbow had to stitch together a bunch of shit for this to happen just so he could get Taylor arrested and like... no, no. Come up with a better way, Buddy.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

Stan raised his eyebrows, looking at the girl with the phone, “Pay you twenty bucks to let us copy it.” “A hundred,” she said. “Twenty.  If you got it on camera, others did too, and someone‘s going to take the twenty.”

twenty bucks is lowballing. Hell, a hundred is lowballing for that.