Despite It All Worm Is Good And Understands Trauma Like Basically Nothing Else I've Ever Read

so looking from the perspective of like, a random mid-level prt cape in brockton bay ~2011, right. you know marquis and heartbreaker were both villains active semi-locally in the 90s with powers related to manipulating human biology. heartbreaker is known to have a lot of kids and there's no way marquis wasn't sexually active. marquis has a royalty-themed name and dressing style. heartbreaker's power doesn't apply to himself.

and there are also these two teen capes in town, regent and panacea, both of mysterious origin (regent just showed up out of nowhere and panacea is an adoptee whose powers clearly didn't bud off the dallons'), both with powers related to manipulating human biology. regent has a royalty-themed name and dressing style. panacea's power famously doesn't work on herself.

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i don’t know how to politely put this but i’m not gonna read the ~3 million words and counting web serial

How Other Cosmere Characters Would Convince The Stick to Become Fire

Shallan once famously failed to convince the Stick to become fire. But how might other characters approach this stick-y problem?

Moash: There is nothing for you as a stick. Fade away. Become ash.

Hoid: Do you like stories, Stick? How about the one about Firestick, the Stick Who Became Fire…

Rlain: To understand fire, you must become fire. It’s about bridging minds.

Renarin: I see no future in which you become fire…But the future can be changed!

Steris: I have prepared 957 reasons why being fire would be advantageous for you. Reason 1, Part A…

Lopen: Women LOVE a stick who can become fire, gon!

Dalinar: You WILL become fire.

Dalinar: …Huh. That usually works.

Lift: You know what’s delicious? Toasted marshmallows!

Navani: (Gets out a big magnifying glass)

Jasnah: (Turns a rock into fire instead)

Jasnah: I like to challenge myself.

Mraize: You have to ask yourself, Little Stick: are you hunter, or are you the prey?

Kelsier: I like your style, Stick! You want to join my crew? Your job is being fire!

Odium: First, I must take away everyone this Stick loves!

Nale: I have convinced the ruler to draft a new law. You must become fire.

Sebarial: (Getting a massage) Eh. I hired someone else to do it.

Kaladin: No. This is…wrong.

Kaladin: This Stick wants to be a Stick. And I will protect it!

Kaladin: It will not cease to be a stick on my watch!

Stick: (immediately becomes fire)

Kaladin: NOOOOOOOOOO

Had a dream that absurdist memes about Pale became super popular. The text was always out of context stuff starting with "when the", like "When the candle milf exits the ritual through the coin" "When the goblin loses a fight with a cigarette" "When the horror is a sexyman" And it was always overlaid on this image.

A kid I went to middle school with showed me a video that was just a bunch of these. I went "wait a second, I know that possum." I explained what Pale was and he said "oh cool, I'll check it out." And then I woke up. Apparently that was the most unrealistic part of the dream, successfully convincing someone to read Pale.

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Heartwarming: Mr Beast has surgically altered 1000 people to look just like members of the Slaughterhouse Nine! Any of them that survive 100 days without being lynched get $1,000,000!

To this day, one if my favorite parts of Worm is how when Taylor is first going out in costume, she describes balling up tissues in her coin purse(that she keeps in her utility pack(not a backpack))so that the change wouldn't jingle.

And then, during the Echidna arc, she's held briefly by Miss Militia, who says she needs to look at Taylor's backpack. Taylor goes Actually, It's A Utility Pack. And Miss Militia looks through it and takes an inventory of the backpack, and then finds the coin purse. And she's like Oh, A Coin Purse... With Tissue Inside Of It? Oh! So It Doesn't Jingle! and you can hear Taylor going like

Everyone deserves a someone to help them through the dark