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What is Domain and Subdomain in website development?
Introduction: In the expansive realm of website development, the terms “domain” and “subdomain” are fundamental building blocks that lay the foundation for an online presence. Let’s embark on a journey to demystify these concepts and explore their significance in the digital landscape.
What is a Domain?
A domain is essentially the unique address of your website on the internet. It serves as the…
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BAD LINK
Very quietly… I put a little link near the end of our most recent newsletter to just clue people in to our newest enterprise… Old Scracth Press.
Somewhere along the way, that link picked up an extra HTTP, making it non-functional. What do they say? Measure twice cut once? With proofreading it is literally hundreds of times, because sometimes the platform tries to help out, and inserts itself in…
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i named myself victoria shortly before starting worm. it makes me feel giddy seeing my name represented in media, only ever happened once before with my rare deadname. HOWEVER
i used to get estrogen from a woman named taylor who looked a whole lot like taylor. that led to:
my shitty controlling mom finding out, and in the chaos directly after i was browsing the wiki to calm down and it turns out she shares a name with mama mathers
almost a year later now i've uhauled and am living happily with my lovely non-worming girlfriend...ashley. oh my. well, i hope WE get a canon ending together.
and then there was that time ash briefly considered changing her name to amy and it took everything i had not to recoil in panic.
Basically, what I'm saying is, god is canadian and he's picking me apart like a bug
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Thinkin’ about The Siberian
I was sitting on a draft that said something to the effect of “Worm AU where Manton pulls an NBC Hannibal and moonlights as The Siberian on top of being a globally respected parahuman studies researcher. Is this anything.”
Then I thought about this a little more and realized that this might not be far off from what actually happened. There’s a throughline in Manton’s interests, in his trajectory through life, where he’s trying to figure out what you can use powers to get away with doing to people- about identifying constraints and overcoming them.
He’s the guy who somehow credibly catalogued, and got his name associated with, the fact that powers generally can’t be used to pop people like balloons, and he did so reasonably early in the timeline, in the nineties at the latest. That’s.... an interesting direction to take your research! When people are just coming to terms with the fact that parahumans are real he’s out there taking careful note of whether they can manifest their powers inside people to instantly kill them. How did he test that? What capes did he collaborate with to test that? What did those conversations look like? Did the IRB at a minimum issue any revise-and-resubmits?
And then, of course, he gets picked up by Cauldron (also known as the infinite untraceable victim depot) to work on improving the vials- gaining a sufficiently in-depth understanding of what they are, how they’re made, and what they can do to people that when Cauldron told Legend that Manton had gone rogue and was the one creating C53s, he found this plausible. You’ve got the guy who’d later become the backbone of the Slaughterhouse 9 basically systemically cataloging every conceivable way a power could violate someone’s physiology- first from without, and then, at Cauldron, from within.
Then, when he pulls the trigger and gives himself powers, the resultant ability is essentially a distilled refutation of the Manton Effect- a minion that can obliterate anything, eat anything, delete any material from existence, viscerally dismember people in a unity of conventional and esoteric, power-enabled violence. And he’s insulated from the consequences of his actions on two levels- in terms of Siberian’s invulnerability, but also in the discrepancy between his form and that of his minion. He mixed the vial that gave him that power himself.
Essentially- I don’t think Siberian is something that just happened after a psychological break following a messy divorce. I think Manton basically pre-committed to becoming something like The Siberian, spent most of his career working towards some form of transcendence through superpowers, and the messy divorce was downstream of the cracks starting to show as he got closer and closer to what he’d been chasing.
Now to segue into a complication that’s more directly supported in the text- it’s Worm, it’s always complicated- Master powers spring from loneliness. My theory is that while Manton wanted apotheosis, and while he’d probably been gearing up for a rampage for a while, he genuinely didn’t want to do it alone; he wanted a sidekick. Hence why he bothered pursuing a family in the first place, hence why he fed his daughter a vial, hence why his own projection ended up looking like his daughter after he accidently made her explode or whatever with the bad vial- a monkey’s paw restoration, giving him back a facsimile of the person he wanted to take along for the ride, and making his capacity for violence inseparable from her presence.
This is why he joined up with the Nine rather than remaining a solo act; it’s why he engages in a bad imitation of the Parent/Child relationship with Bonesaw; and it’s why he seeks out Bitch as a candidate. His interest in her candidacy parses to me as genuine- Even moreso than Bonesaw, even moreso than Jack, Bitch has arrived at a no-frills fuck-you-I-do-what-I-want outlook that’s very appealing to Manton. He wants to have a murderer-daughter relationship!
But Rachel got where she is the hard way, by having a life that sucked a lot, by getting near-constantly kicked around! She has a clear reason to be so angry! Even if all my postulations about Manton having a long game are complete bullshit, there are several stages at which Manton had to actively opt in to the same lifestyle and reputation that Bitch was forced to adopt as a basic survival tactic. He didn’t have to start eating people! He’s a tourist! His “freedom” is inseparable from his distance, his disguise. Rachel’s “freedom” is just the freedom of having nothing left to lose.
All of this to say- In an interlude in which Bitch has an extended internal monologue about how people with families have the opportunities to be assholes and monsters to a captive audience, it is absolutely not a coincidence that she’s scouted by a would-be parental figure who proceeds to be an asshole and a monster in front of a captive audience, before trying to buy her affection with a puppy. In rejecting Manton, Rachel dodged an esoterically-packaged but ultimately very familiar bullet.
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who’s numbering all the spiderverse dimensions? does anyone know? i would assume whoever it was would number their dimension earth-1, and miguel’s earth isn’t earth-1 so it’s probably not him.
also on the tram miguel is like “there’s a world out there without a spiderman bc of you” which seems to imply he doesn’t know what earth miles’s spider is from (along with the fact he, jess, and ben went to earth-1610 looking for miles first) but when we get to the spider’s earth, earth-42, it’s already got a number. …42. AND in the first movie the spider had a 42 on it’s abdomen. was it a coincidence and that was just spider test subject #42 from earth-42?
spider dimension numbering wouldn’t be based off whatever spider experiment number was finally successful in making the spiderman, would it? that seems like a bad idea. inevitably you would have duplicates.
who’s in charge of numbering here??
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9, 13, and 18 for the choose violence ask game, please?
just got this today, anon, not sure when you sent it in but sorry about that 🙈 tumblr is a webbed site
9. Worst part of canon?
13. Worst blorbofication?
Adskljfds I should preface this by saying that blorbofication is relative and I'm sure the way I approach characters is equally frustrating to someone else.
THAT BEING SAID in canon, I think I'd probably describe the trajectory of Ahsoka's character as blorbofication? I really like her in tcw, and I enjoy her character arc, and initially I really enjoyed her in rebels. But as much as I liked having her back, I gotta say "main character has a side quest during the finale to time travel to save her from certain death so she can teach him he can't do exactly that for his mentor" is uh. It sure is an indication for me. She didn't do that much in the Mandalorian but I wasn't too impressed with the way they set her up, and I'm not sure I like the signals they're sending for the upcoming show.
(in fanon it's Obi-Wan or Anakin, I think thats pretty self-explanatory lol)
18. It's absolutely criminal the fandom has been sleeping on…
I said visions earlier and I stand by it but you know who else they sleep on?? Tala Durith!!!! There is so much there!!!! She has such an interesting backstory and fits into the rebellion in such a specific and interesting way. I know she's dead but when has that ever stopped us from loving a star wars character??? Qui-Gon has been dead for 24 years and look how fandom feels about him!! Tala Renaissance When
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