Just Because I Was Trying To Illustrate To A Friend How Deranged The Dev Message For The Flopside Was

I know they're like, necessary for the economy to function, but who let the trains run at "fanfic reading hour" (3am) don't they know people are busy?

And so goes Godrick, weak foe indeed.

I *did* die 2-3 times to the Crucible Knight on the cliffs behind the west wall, really doesnt let up on the assault, but I also think I'm ready for the Stormhill Evergaol now!

\o/

Welp, I suppose I've overleveled and gotten too much experience fighting more relentless enemies.

Margit is down without a single death, praise the sun!

I wish this had an explicitly "atheist" option. She never gave off any big religious vibes, and I think the setting in general is pretty a-religious due to the whole Scion+superpowers thing that *some* religions have tried to weaponize, but broadly religion is in decline on Earth Bet. Like, her mom was a hardcore feminist and her dad is a union bigwig, I dunno if church was a big thing in the Hebert household.

Tell me what you think and why you think it!

So I've finally entered the Altus Plateau, by way of the Ruin-Strewn Precipice. The BGM for this area is quite nice, I must say.

I also cleared the Divine Towers of Liurnia and Caelid, the Godskin bosses there were pretty fun (ty St. Trina Sword). I did some other miscellaneous dungeons im Altus as well, mostly on the southern portion.

It was really, really fun going through the dual Tree Sentinel fight to get into the Capital Outskirts, felt like I've made real progress since fighting the one in Limgrave. Also went and got the smithing stone bell 2, so that's terribly convenient.

Oh! I also finished up the rest of Nokron, including the Valiant Gargoyle duo boss, only grabbed the first grace in the Deeproot Depths though.

I've entered Nokstella, journeying with mini-Ranni (best girl), so I suspect when next I play I'll head through there, can't say I'm thrilled to go into the Lake of Rot though.

Take 2, please reblog for spread

It’s by pages guys

Waking up to alerts about Elon Musk doing a fucking Nazi salute was not what I was expecting, yet I am not surprised in the slightest

Okay no wonder I feel tired af, I wrote 60,000~ words in two weeks. What is wrong with me

This is the competition for the most interesting toxic yuri ship! This means that you want to vote for the one you'd like to read about the most out of a sick sense of disgust and fascination. like a car crash, you just can't look away.

chastity/vicky is just for the real ones. you wouldn't get it.

by the way june is her canon name not a personal headcanon they say it in ward

Make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it!

i really like how worm commits to making superpowered characters weird. i think in most superhero media, superpowered characters are largely distinct, normal individuals with powers tacked on like tools they can use. but in worm, having a power kind of inherently puts you to the left of being entirely human. in worm, the lines between the power and the person are blurred, both literally in terms of how shards work & in terms of how powers present themselves. you can’t have a power without it altering your relationship to your mind and body.

and the “relationship to your body” bit applies to almost all capes, not just the ones who have been physically altered by their powers! whenever the experience of having a (not physically altering) power is described, it‘s phrased as being some sort of additional sense or sensation in a way that is still inextricably connected to the cape’s physical self. imp’s power isn’t just “okay, i’m invisible now,” it’s “i can physically feel my power rolling over my skin and jabbing out into the air to push memories of me away.” 

the other examples i specifically have in mind here are skitter and regent. skitter’s power isn’t just “move the bugs and make them bite people,” they’re effectively a part of her. like additional limbs. she keeps functioning in fights when her human body is knocked the fuck out on the ground because the rest of her body–a million other little bodies–is still there to work with. the fact that she has millions of extra eyeballs at any given moment means it’s not actually so bad when the two of them that happen to be physically connected to her human body are blinded, which results in my favorite Worm Out Of Context ever:

and regent has one of my favorite subtle, uncanny examples of a power that seems like it shouldn’t alter the power-haver’s connection to their own body, but does anyway. in alec’s interlude, while he’s puppeting sophia, there’s a point where the undersiders get far away enough from her that it makes it more difficult for him to control her. he starts struggling to coordinate her movements.

the uncanny part is that he starts struggling to control his own body’s movements, as well. he puts his alec-self’s earbuds in so that he doesn’t have to talk to anyone, because he knows that if he did speak, he’d start stuttering and slurring his words from loss of physical control. sure, his alec-self is the body he’ll end up in when he’s done using his power, and his sophia-self was taken by force, so there’s obviously a distinction between the two, but that doesn’t make his alec-self easier to control. his power implicitly calls the separation between himself and the people he’s puppeting into question. he doesn’t get to have a “main” body he can control without effort, he has to divide his attention between each body and put concentration into moving each of them. in that way, his own body is placed in the same category as the bodies he’s hijacked. it’s Weird!

Just a little fandom rant-

For some reason a lot of wormfic seems to feature a trope or piece of fanon centered around a "Dragontech cell phone/computer/whatever" and it bugs me. Doesn't Dragon's power explicitly prevent mass production? And wouldn't her breaking into the tech sphere with Tinker-made cell phones have issues with NEPEA-5 or whatever? And being Tinker-tech, wouldn't it be impossible to be commercially viable due to maintenance? I know it's a convenient way to handwave the lack of visible tech companies or recognizable products, but it feels like a lazy workaround. Earth Bet can have a little Steve Wozniak, as a treat. Or a Bill Gates, or whomever. And like it's *always* Dragon, there's never another Tinker who specializes in telecommunications and commercial touchscreen devices.

Just a little irksome thing.