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Recent content by Avernus

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    All Alone [Worm AU]

    Ahhh. So the Animated do count as "unliving" matter to his ghosts. I wonder if they always count as unliving to powers, or if it's like Weld and they basically get a "treated as not alive when it's beneficial, treated as alive instead when that is beneficial" best of both worlds thing.
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    Alea Iacta Est - a Worm AU Fanfic

    It does occur to me that since Leet's generally been relatively restrained in terms of the levels of violence he uses, he's probably got a ton of never-used designs for really nasty devices that he's never built that Butcher!Leet can make.
  3. Avernus

    Concerning Numbers of Guests

    According to the Spacebattles Rant Thread the number of Guests did spike there on Monday.
  4. Avernus

    General chat thread

    Ever heard of the Gordian Knot? Solving a complex problem with a sword is as "brawn over brains" as it gets.
  5. Avernus

    General chat thread

    "Warriors and scholars" would likely be a historical equivalent. Probably because in most historical societies sports wasn't big enough of a deal to have a noticeable amount of "jocks" in the first place.
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    The Slippery Slope [Worm AU]

    Coil's a sadist who makes excuses for his sadism, thus his fondness for torture. He's thinking about torturing her in a disposable timeline as he does regularly, which by definition has nothing to do with keeping her from "getting above" herself since it'll never actually happen. And of course...
  7. Avernus

    The Slippery Slope [Worm AU]

    I was re-reading this story thread, and wanted to respond to this. Consider this quote from the latest update: Here's the thing. Thanks to his injury Kaiser's position in the E88 is weakened. But, he knows Taylor's background and psychological profile, and that ambition or "strength" aren't...
  8. Avernus

    The Slippery Slope [Worm AU]

    And highly deniable. There's no physical evidence that the rifle was made to fire, and Coil being released like that gives the trooper a plausible reason to have fired. Oh, they'll no doubt be pretty sure it was her, but no way would they be able to prove it in court. Also, while Taylor had no...
  9. Avernus

    The Slippery Slope [Worm AU]

    Ha! Now this part made me genuinely laugh out loud.
  10. Avernus

    Balancing Like with Dislike

    Correct. I recall how the old City of Heroes forums (which were in a similar style as this one, if a much different subject matter) allowed downvotes, and yes; what you got was unpopular people getting mass-downvoted by other people with a personal grudge against them. So I have to agree with...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    Yeah. The issue isn't really writing a male character with a "harem" or a Casanova type like Bond. The issue is writing those men in a way where people just don't buy that women would be interested in him in the first place. That requires good character writing, rather than just turning the...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    More to the point for a thread like this, it's harder to write a "lawful good" character, at least well. It means you have to write with concern for the other characters, come up with reasonable solutions to problems and not just smash everything in your way. And since it is harder most writers...
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    What are your most hated fanfic tropes

    "If you give Frodo a lightsaber you should then give Sauron a Death Star" is an old, bad piece of writing advice.
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    Are You Afraid of the Dark? [Worm AU fanfic]

    Coil is one of those hypocrites who gets really, really mad when other people do to him what he constantly does to them. And lacks the self criticism to even realize it.
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    Are You Afraid of the Dark? [Worm AU fanfic]

    As already mentioned in the story, they have Thinkers who can find out whether somebody is a cape or not.
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