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Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar

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I keep thinking about this over the years: When I first got really into mcyt in 2020 I thought to myself at some point "in a few years when this mcyt thing is just a phase I once had, I hope I still remember TommyInnit and I hope I still check in on him from time to time because that kid is going places"

because now mcyt really is just a phase I once had (a much longer phase than I once anticipated), I don't watch anything mcyt related anymore, but I still keep tabs on TommyInnit and he just never fucking disappoints

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Worm is about how people who are ostracized are viewed as disgusting (people associate Taylor with her insects) but it’s also about how being ostracized makes you view others as smaller (in the end) and less important (Taylor turns other people into the equivalent of her insects).

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We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

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government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program

hell fucking world

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gotta prep the bugs each morning

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top ten moments in worm

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I swear the magisterium series went so hard with saying you can bring someone back but you can’t fix death and then they ruined it

LITERALLY! For the age group, it was so raw and poignant and quite effective, in my opinion. Absolutely loved Aaron's brought back wrong story; i've never forgotten the descriptors of when he woke up and his hair and nails were longer because they'd kept growing in death, and how that clued Aaron in. and his screams. the way in the end, Aaron wasn't alive, he was under Call's control; Call told him not to talk about things like that, and he didn't. because he couldn't. Aaron didn't have free will, he had Call's will. the dawning horror when Call realized, and Aaron begging to be put to rest...favorite part of the series for me, I think

then they decided in book five actually we can fix death and are going to bring back Aaron perfectly fine this time <3

WHY. WHY did we do all that then. i HATE it. magisterium fandom unites around a hatred of the golden tower. in my heart aarons dead for real <3

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i love u taylor

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i need to stop assuming that when people ask "whats up?" that is not an invitation to traumadump...

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various dumb worm comics ( i promise i'll come back with some actual decent fanart soon )

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i started my reread of worm and i almost forgot shes such a loser its making me kick my feet

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I mostly post on instagram but I wanted to post this here too for wormblr

I FINALLY FINISHED WORM (half way thru epilogues still, but i couldnt help myself) CHAPTER 30 WAS INSANE WTF!!! And i love taylor hebert, and she deserves the world, i see none of her wrongs

#parahumans #wormblr #worm web serial #worm #taylor hebert #skitter #khepri #sketch #sketchbook #rachel lindt #bitch #fanart #worm fanart #parahumans fanart #scion #yellow #wildbow

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One of my friends asked what some of my favorite moment in Worm are and I've narrowed it down to just a few but how am I supposed to choose between "they seem like good people" I lied, or the second lung fight with the caterpillar in the eye to win, or Taylor breaking out of the burning building Coil trapped her in, or her terrorizing people while drinking tea, or when Taylor tries to 1v1 Leviathan to save people and gets her back shattered, or when Rachel saves her afterwards, or when we learn Rachel carved the names of her dogs into the monument, or when Taylor almost kills Triumph with bees, or the Mannequin fight, or running through the streets to warn people about Shatterbird's scream, or the fridge, or cutting Noelle in half, or just how hopeless the Noelle fight seemed before that with Eidolon caught, or Eidolon and Glaistig Uaine's fight with Scion, or Phir Sé's time bomb engulfing Behemoth and just obliterating him only for Behemoth to keep going, or Chevalier's interlude where he goes out to fight Behemoth alone despite being injured, or String Theory, or the wards therapy interlude where Lily can't get over how Taylor's words are stuck in her head, or Labyrinth and Burnscar reuniting, or Legend looking at the lie detector after the meeting, or Taylor hovering over the ocean knowing she doesn't have the battery in her flight pack to get back, or Aster getting shot, or the oil rig fight when Taylor crawls back up as a monster after being cut in half, or the horror of Alec's interlude, or Bonesaw having a crisis because Contessa said like 4 words to her and oh hey that parallels with you needed worthy opponents I never noticed that, or Taylor telling Eidolon and Scion to fuck off and leave, or Scion's entire interlude, or Number Man's interlude when he thinks about what it means of powers if Jack Slash's loves how he does stuff, or Kevin Norton, or Taylor ruining the chili, or the cafeteria scene where she's outed but talks her way out, or maggots in his eyes monday, or her turning herself in, or her talk with Dinah when she realizes that there's a solid chance she becomes Coil and keeps Dinah around because it's useful, or her killing Coil, or her killing Alexandria and Tagg, or the Cauldron raid where she swings a death knife through a crowd to hit one guy, or her requesting Lung cauterize her arm, or when Piggot is kidnapped and she fucks up the Undersiders just by talking, or Taylor's attempt to become besties with the Simurgh, or the Simurgh singing a lullaby to Lisa and Taylor, or the tea party with Nilbog, Taylor, Jack, and Riley, or the moment she reunites with her team post-timeskip, or when Glenn shows her a video of her being horrifying and she only thinks about her passenger moving her in it, or when her passenger makes her choke on a cockroach to save her, or going shopping with Lisa for fun, or when she helps Rachel at the shelter, or when she goes home with Brian and meets Aisha, or when we see Dinah for the first time and it's fucked, or when Taylor has Amy fuck with her brain knowing she won't come back from it, or when Lisa finally opens up and tells Taylor about her trigger, or when Taylor goes blind, or when Clockblocker keeps asking her questions in the car ride to Echdina, or when Scapegoat takes her injuries and freaks out, or when Sundancer tears off her costume and walks through the portal after killing Noelle but the pavement is cooling around her because she'll never escape her power or what she just did, or Fortuna's interlude, or Rachel stepping into Khepri's range because she trusts her, or Lisa tearing into Taylor with words after she sees what happened, or the realization she can't read anymore, or the fight with Dragon where she thinks she killed her, or all of the fight with Scion where she's controlling thousands of people while her brain deteriorates, or "finally, everyone was working together," or the talk with Contessa at the very end? How am I supposed to choose?

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This fucking section. A character isn't even on screen, and we still get a sense of how deep her sorrow and betrayal runs in the most dramatic way possible. A hundred dogs crying out, because one human throat couldn't express the sheer size of the hurt. And it interrupts Taylor mid-speech on live television! Millions of homes watching one of the most important news broadcasts of their lives are witnesses as the speech has to be paused, as so many televisions around the world play the sound of howling dogs, because nothing else can express what's being felt! Fuck!

Every part of this book expressly about Rachel and Taylor's relationship to each other is a high point. This is how you write melodrama.

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I think it's really interesting how early in worm, Lisa tells Taylor how Rachel's mind was altered to understand dogs and she lost her ability to do the same for humans, and that if they told Rachel then she'd probably break down. Wish that was explored sometime in the text, with Rachel realizing that the the dogs she loves are the reason she feels so alien and alone, and breaking down crying and howling and punching and not knowing how to deal with this until Taylor sits by her without speaking and pulls her into a hug and Rachel doesn't know how to interpret the hug but knows enough to figure out that Taylor is trying to make her feel better and she tries to hug back and it's awkward but she's sobbing on Taylor's shoulder while Taylor runs her fingers through her hair, and even if she lost her ability to understand people, Taylor understands her and she means so much to her and they're gay if this wasn't clear

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Ok I realized there were some flaws with the last alignment chart, so I decided to fix that by making an objectively correct 100% accurate chart that we can all agree on!

Art credits under the cut

Long one with lots of bugs (top right): n0brainjustvibes

Uncharacteristically MILF-like Khepri (top left): mikezedart

Black and yellow crouch (middle right): tactilescream

Khepri w/ blue shine (top left quadrant): lizardinkart

On one knee touching ground (above 'justified'): earthghimel

Pencil drawing unmasked (bottom left quadrant): lizardinkart

Fucked up bloody Taylor (bottom right): junebugtwin

Khepri holding notes (bottom left): tactilescream

Chibi skitter (lower middle): tipsytuntun

Short hair bloody black and white (middle lower right): joysuscreation

Crying with stars in her eyes (bottom middle): ghastaboo

Skitter in front of a gray cityscape looking menacing (top middle left): cannot find source, villainswiki gave me the image and they don't list it. If you know, please tell me!

Khepri with a hexagon around her head and a very haunted look(bottom left): tactilescream

Skitter with mandibles (above 'justified'): lizardinkart

Yellow lights around head (right of 'pathetic'): chroma-imp

Skitter looking straight forward (next to 'cool'): neoworm