She Is Not Sorry

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?

Reblog and tell me what class of power you'd most want to get and what you'd most likely get I'm in an oversharing mood. I'll go first I'd love a thinker power but there's no world where I don't wind up a master/breaker and you can read into that as much as you want.

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!

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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!

nine slaughter houses? in this economy? preposterous.

damn some people really hate Ranni… they could never understand her like I do

oh wow my niche worm fandom annoyance has been represented.

Mike sucks, half the time it seems like he's either spoiling an entire fic after reading with a comment on the first chapter or he's just being a passive aggressive ass.

If I could block/mute his ass I would but he's too chicken to wait in the queue and strap an account to his takes.

what

rise. live. fight. think about women. do not waver

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!

I like replying to every comment I get to encourage readers to engage more in the future. I *want* to talk about my fic with people, especially people who like it or have questions about it. So if I have to do a little social manipulation to make a space that seems open and friendly enough for people to share their thoughts and questions with the knowledge that I'll respond, then I will.