PoplarJam
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The Simurgh took care of Jack Slash in the penultimate chapter (the '???' POV).
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The Simurgh took care of Jack Slash in the penultimate chapter (the '???' POV).
Why was so much detail and focus spent on E88 being right about everything they believed? It feels like they had more depth than anyone else in the story.
I'll add Hope Through Overwhelming Firepower and What Rains You Bring to that list.Ooh, I will also post a list of completed worm fics that I thought were ok. I actually think this fic might be favorite completed one though.
A Cape in Konoha (Worm/Naruto AU)
A Wand for Skitter (Worm/HP)
A Word
Charity Begins at Home
East of Eden: A New Twist on an Old Cycle
Dominion (Worm, S9!Taylor)
Yeah, it is interesting how original and memorable this fic is despite following the stations of canon to a certain extent.
Unironically because you keep asking/complaining about it/telling the author to super pinky promise that they aren't a Nazi..
I mean, technically Worm is a completed Worm fic too.Like you tell your mom she's your favorite mom? I honestly don't think I've ever read a completed Worm fic.
Bravo snuts, bravo. This was my favorite wormfic ever, and honestly the obsession with it took over my life for the past month to a probably unhealthy degree. I really really hope you continue to write transgressive art for QQ and don't feel chased off now that you've finished what you came here to do.
Had you decided on the ending's pacing before you posted chapter 1?
Are there any fanworks in the Parahumans fandom, or something else that SB/SV/QQ likes, that you particularly hated around the time you first started writing this?
Yeah, it is interesting how original and memorable this fic is despite following the stations of canon to a certain extent.
Why was so much detail and focus spent on E88 being right about everything they believed? It feels like they had more depth than anyone else in the story.
It was probably meant to be a vastly shorter arc, but people kept on asking for it and so the author felt compelled to give the audience what it clamored for. Notice how quickly the story escalated and ended once the S9 happened.
I really enjoyed the lack of solid connection between some chapters. Where the world just comes back into focus with the previous focus totally ignored. It hits that old school pulp vibe that I've been missing. Usually these days there's a solid connection between chapters through the whole story.
Tell that to children starving in ditches. How much free will do they have?Ziz on best of all possible worlds duty is an existential nightmare, until she powers down nobody on bet has anything resembling freedom of will and she would definitely go into stable orbit a few centuries before running out of juice.
What good steak has filler?Yes, that's clearly a deliberate stylistic choice and not my hate for writing filler.
Does 30k-ish words of explaining nazi ideology with little to no plot happening during not count as filler?What good steak has filler?
Filler is what you put in cheap food to make the 'premium' part look larger. Sometimes you want a filler loaded fic where every detail of life is chewed over until nothing remains. Other times you want a stripped down, important bits only fic.
If that's all you saw for the that section of the story I think your biases colored your reading. She clearly was juggling trying to gain powers against patrolling, trolling heroes, and getting the shit kicked out of her by Hookwolf.Does 30k-ish words of explaining nazi ideology with little to no plot happening during not count as filler?
Even Taylor is a meat puppet to someone, Aisha, specifically to her notes she has been trained to obey unconditionally.I'd argue the hard materialism of this work and Worm as a whole means that no one ever actually had free will. Literally everyone and everything is dancing on the strings of causation and probability. At least with Joy in charge (I read that right, right? That's her English name?) the meat puppets are happy while dancing on strings.
So how does it feel to manage over a hundred fucking chapters on a 5 a week schedule without slipping and disappearing for an unexpected hiatus you absolute fucking madlad.
^I don't think it ended with a whimper personally. I can't see any other way for it to end but her trying to an hero
++Turns out that when art is actually transgressive, it doesn't get a bunch of smarmy cunts praising it for being transgressive. It gets shut the fuck down.
Probably cackling/whisking furiously at OG Taylor suffering, and ofcourse trying to pamper her daughter in the new-post End times.
BITN killed Evil Taylor and turned her in for the Kill Order signed by Tagg. I don't get why people keep asking about 'the surviving Evil Taylor'.
BITN killed Evil Taylor and turned her in for the Kill Order signed by Tagg. I don't get why people keep asking about 'the surviving Evil Taylor'.
^I think you missed the unthreadmarked snippet Snuts wrote. He says it's not canon but really everyone knows it is.
Bump in the night^
B19.5:
https://forum.questionablequesting....shard-worm-exalted.18226/page-84#post-5959860
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Which reminds me - I've still got no idea what BITNstands foris short for.
What made you wan to invest this amount of time and effort into a work of fanfiction? Or this one in particular?1.8 megabytes of raw text, huh? Sounds like a lot. Felt like a lot. I suppose I'll host general discussion and questions of the work as a whole, until the thread gets archived as complete or sinks into the abyss, or whatever happens to stories when they end.
^
Which reminds me - I've still got no idea what BITNstands foris short for.
It's never been officially answered but there are two contenders, depending on your view of what kind of mentality Taylor had at the time of naming the team:
Given that Sophia was repeatedly raped, there is some real ambiguity here.
- Bump in the night
- Break in the n*****
The ten thousand or so loose ends that Taylor forgot or ignored because she no longer cared were probably the only element of the story I genuinely disliked. It was a reasonable characterization but fuck if it wasn't annoying to have interesting parts of the setting vanish from view repeatedly.
What made you wan to invest this amount of time and effort into a work of fanfiction? Or this one in particular?
Why "Esper", was there some Final Fantasy implication that went over my head? Was it a throwaway?
Was there any particular state you imagined the Exalted cosmology being in when devising the fusion?
How could you not turn Brockton Bay into a sundown town (Shadowlands) haunted by Empire ghosts? Worm as a setting doesn't have to be soulless, it just seems that way on account of the unreliable narrators.
There is zero ambiguity, snuts gave out the cookie long before some other guy came in with his guess claiming it was obvious and that everyone else just hadn't "been around racists enough"
Well, nuts. One last nod to Taylor's doomed gamer grrl career and I missed it.Yeah, it's a Final Fantasy reference. Sometimes the summoned monsters are called 'espers', and sometimes 'eidolons'. A subtle signal of who she considers herself a peer of.
I kind of figured the point wasn't the name but the sound, "bitten", i.e. "hey Sophia, every time anyone talks about you they're talking about how you are bitten. You know. Like that one time."It's never been officially answered but there are two contenders, depending on your view of what kind of mentality Taylor had at the time of naming the team:
Given that Sophia was repeatedly raped, there is some real ambiguity here.
- Bump in the night
- Break in the n*****
Well, nuts. One last nod to Taylor's doomed gamer grrl career and I missed it.
It ended too soon
Dunno. She'd have to somehow screw herself out of the excellency because those were explicitly excluded.How different would Taylor's journey had gone if she had just gone with the fake gamer girl route when she was first contemplating infiltration plans?
Edit: or wait, you meant as her first infiltration. I feel like she'd need a power other than Spirit-tied Pet to do episodic stunts like Uber and Leet do.
So if I'm understanding the implications of Uber's power correctly.
Taylor would have gotten essentially Path to Victory, But one step at time?
Perfect actions, but without the foresight to know what comes next?
I dunno, I reckon that has some legs. Maybe not once she accumulates enough powers, but certainly a street level PTV equivalent without the long range planning / data gathering component sounds hella fun, while stilling being vulnerable to standard anti Coil measures where you get trapped with no ways out, even if you did everything correctly up until that point.
Also allows for stupid video game themed shenanigans.