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im always suuuuper chill when i see that service unavailable page

This is actually an incredibly helpful insight into gem culture and phos specifically. Vaguely been planning a fic about phos at some point so i think this will really help with characterization. thanks!!

the gems' entire system of value is structured around work-what a gem can contribute, how their body can be useful, and how those who lack utility are rendered superfluous. those with clear roles in defending the community have a place; those without are left aimless, struggling for purpose. it's a society where an individual's worth is determined entirely by their productive capacity.

now marx defines labor as the physical and mental effort by which humans transform nature to produce goods and services that satisfy human needs. in this essay i will--

I don't even know this lady all that well. It's an online class, that started this week.

Oh gosh, I've been emailing with one of my professors for the past week, just like about books and writing and stuff and she was recommending some Brandon Sanderson to me so I recommended "Worm by John C. McCrae" to her and she said she'd put it on her reading list. What have I done, this is a whole professor, 20 years of teaching experience type of lady.

Oh gosh, I've been emailing with one of my professors for the past week, just like about books and writing and stuff and she was recommending some Brandon Sanderson to me so I recommended "Worm by John C. McCrae" to her and she said she'd put it on her reading list. What have I done, this is a whole professor, 20 years of teaching experience type of lady.

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

No no, she is a *top* researcher. She studies them. Pokes and prods them to see how useful their abilities would be against Scion, naturally.

top researchers in the lab still finding out more on how shitty and miserable eidolon's life is

i know i’m not adding anything new to the convo but god brother nier is such a good character you really don’t often see in media. he’s patient but he’s so quick tempered. he’s caring but violent. there’s so much hate in a character whose whole drive is love. he’s so scary but he’s so safe at the same time??? i don’t??? yoko taro the writer that you are

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I just think these covers are really neat and I'm kinda obsessed with listening to them. The chaos language is super pretty to listen to in the games, but *wow* does Lizz Robinett ascend that feeling~

Oh wow any holiday celebrating a marginalized community is being targeted by Trump and Elon’s White House?

Who could have guessed?

Who fucking could have seen this coming?

Who would have expected the rapist, the sex pest, and racist duo would do something so cruel???

So! The first arc of my Worm/KotOR2 fanfic has been completed. I am going to be taking a brief hiatus to work on more chapters for the fic and organize a healthier upload schedule.

When I release the next chapter, I’ll reblog this post to let anyone interested know.

To those who have already read my fic: thank you so much!

To those who may do after reading this post: your support is greatly appreciated!

It has been a privilege to write this fic so far and I am blown away by the attention it has gotten!

EDIT: i meant first arc oh my gosh its not even close to done, did not mean “final arc”

🎏 gems with little headcanons

Surprise! Tumblr just got turned into an epic fantasy RPG, just like [your favorite appropriate media franchise]. And the Tumblr RPG's plot needs to have all of its characters covered, in roles both large and small.

That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.

Gosh your art is incredible!

Flip side can’t stop me from loving jeckole FUCK FEETSIDE!!!! anime had the cute ending moment so here’s jeckole WITHT he Avril Lavigne FUCK belt

That sounds pretty sweet, I wish I could play survivor, all I got is a steam deck and I've heard bad things about its playability.

Now that Ventress is canonically alive I need her to show up in the third Jedi game. Imagine Ventress and Merrin bonding and doing magic together after years of thinking there were no other nightsisters left. But then imagine Merrin finding out Ventress is the reason the Separatist attacked Dathomir and wiped out their people in the first place.

I need Ventress to see Cal using psychometry and be reminded of Quinlan Vos.

Now that I think about it, didn’t Quinlan Vos survive order 66 in canon but we don’t know what happened to him? Imagine a reunion of Quinlan and Ventress in the next game, their relationship paralleling Cal and Merrin.

If I we get to see these two nightsister x jedi power couples fight together to topple the empire I think my life will be complete.

idk why I drew this

this is the og meme btw

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The word "cock" is shaped kinda like a fish.

It's been in my marked-for-later list a few months now, I'll be sure to give it a read when the Co09 bug invades my subconscious again!

Hey Yall!

Hey all! I haven’t been doing chapter updates but I’ve been thinking about doing them for a while. I just put up Chapter 6 of my Jeckole Fic “Wreckage and Roses”

So far I’ve got 12 chapters written, 6 published. 45k words posted! It would mean a lot if yall would check it out :)) <3

Wow I love the art style in these posts, there's something really comfy about it!

will merrin ever give in to the poncho?

Nope never <3 even when they've been together for well over a decade

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do you guys think that eidolon wasn't able to find a power to heal hero because early on in his career he spent all the time he could in hospitals using the ever dwindling stock of healing powers he had and when the time came he came up empty. do you think he resented all the lives he saved through healing that then proceeded to fucking torture himself with guilt over thinking that single thought for the next decade.

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!

This sounds amazing! I wasn't sure if you had me for a while there, but as it kept ramping up I was absolutely drawn in by the imagery. Unfortunately my current fic is consuming my soul but I'd absolutely read this if it was realized. Super cool concept.

Apparently cluster focused fic ideas just what my brain is on right now, so fuck it, here's a half formed premise. Let's start with two changes to canon. First, New Wave doesn't get Marquis. Second, when Anette dies, Danny triggers with some kind of power that interferes with his emotional regulation - let's say a Breaker state where he becomes a swarm of insects but his conscious decisionmaking basically turns off while he's in it - he acts on whatever his conscience or unconscious intentions were at the time he went Breaker. And let's say there's a lingering impairment after he changes back proportionate to the time spent transformed.

With a power like that, it's very easy for him to get on the bad side of the heroes, and with that plus his anger, easy for him to start taking it out on them. So let's say he throws in with Marquis. Taylor doesn't know what Danny's been up to, but he's getting more and more angry and id driven, both for mundane grief reasons and because he's not taking enough time to rest relative to how often he's using his power.

After maybe a year of this, it comes to a head. One day, while Danny and Taylor are out for a fun day together on the Boardwalk, they bump into New Wave doing some PR demo, introducing Shielder or something, with a still-unpowered Victoria cheering the loudest to cover up how much the shame of getting passed by her little cousin is eating her alive. And the sight of this happy family that he's come to blame for the destruction of his own happy family life makes Danny snap. Second trigger, seeing red. He wants to annihilate them. He goes Breaker, and now his swarm is massive, composed of giant, monstrous, and lethal bugs, but his control is even worse. Massive collateral damage. He has just presence of mind to have some of his bugs shove Taylor somewhere she'll be safe from the crossfire - which just so happens to be into a dumpster.

And he goes scorched earth on the boardwalk, especially on the New Wave capes who have been knocked flat by the trigger vision and cannot defend themselves.

By extreme misfortune, Marquis is also in the crowd, in civvies. He wanted to do some quiet recon on his longtime enemies' newest addition, and thought he'd take Amy with him both as a teaching moment and for a fun outing. He goes out like a light when Danny's second trigger goes off, and he gets trampled by the crowd trying to flee and gets caught in the bug apocalypse crossfire.

So we have:

Taylor, alone and trapped in filth, who has spent a year watching her dad pull away and become angrier and angrier, who's still had Emma turn on her as in canon, and has just seen her dad turn into a biblical plague and, as far as she can tell, literally thrown her away.

Victoria, seeing her family at the mercy of a murderous supervillain, utterly powerless to defend them and with years of feeling impotent and like a disappointment to her family having just been brought to an indignant fever pitch by being the literal only person in her family not to have powers.

Amy, whose father has almost certainly kept her fairly isolated for her own (and his) protection, watching the only person she feels she has in the world, who always seemed invincible, bleeding out in front of her.

Boom, cluster trigger.

The trigger event knocks Danny out of his Breaker state, and they're able to contain him before he does much more damage. Most of New Wave survives (maybe he gets Carol? Maybe Eric?) and he goes to the Birdcage. Amy saves Marquis. Through cluster bleed through, she finds Taylor in the aftermath - and thank God for that, because who knows how long it would've taken for someone to find her otherwise. Once Marquis understands who her father is and what's happened to her, her connection to Amy, he takes her in.

And that sets the stage for the story. Amy and Victoria, villain and hero, the embodiments of an old and deep rivalry, and Taylor, the daughter of the man who nearly killed them all, caught between her desire to do good and her family connections to villainy. Tie them all together with cluster bleed through, kiss/kill dynamics, some power mediation, add in social dynamics and pressures, interactions in their civilian lives - it's a stew of rich possibilities.

And that's not even touching their powers!

Fight scenes are such a joy to write, especially when working from a single perspective. The complex series of actions and reactions is hard to get *just* right, but when it's all said and done I feel like there's a movie in my mind. Feels fantastic.

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

I am now halfway through writing the first arc! This is so. Much. FUN. I am having a wonderful time and I can't wait to upload more, but alas I will hold myself back until I know I have a full arc ready and waiting to upload

So this is my new fanfic. It’s a post-Gold Morning crossover between Worm and Knights of the Old Republic II which features a Taylor Hebert with serious amnesia following the incident and her joining the Ebon Hawk’s crew at the start of the KotOR II story. Currently, only the prologue has been published, but I’m working on finishing the first arc in the next few days. 

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diaphos fans come out of hiding PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

So this is my new fanfic. It’s a post-Gold Morning crossover between Worm and Knights of the Old Republic II which features a Taylor Hebert with serious amnesia following the incident and her joining the Ebon Hawk’s crew at the start of the KotOR II story. Currently, only the prologue has been published, but I’m working on finishing the first arc in the next few days.