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Worm friend!!!!! : D
i bought some air dry clay and am trying my hand at it while the studio is closed. here's a worm
My new name Chaos Jewel. Time to start smokin,, Bros š¬
(Is it all a joke, don't smoke and don't blame for ya'll bad choices)
My animatic for college šŖ±šŖ±šŖ±
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Some of animation clips for my short clip for college ^^
100,000 sad little worms just want to seek refuge in your body for the winter. could you really say no to a face as adorable as this? šŖ±
Taylor also has insane Cheated energy. "Let's see how many minds we can stack" is certainly her kind of plan. I wonder if this makes Contessa/Cauldron the Narrator...
Slay The Princess
STARRING:
Taylor Hebert as THE CONTRARIAN
Amy Dallon as THE HUNTED
Lisa Wilbourn as THE SKEPTIC
Scion as THE HERO
Eden as THE PRINCESS
Finally, an exuse to fuse some of my favorite pieces of media. I would drop Taylor, Blake and Sylvester in to Slay the princess. It's a visual novel dealing with both body and cosmic horror. Of course, it is also a love story. To save time, the gang will enter the story all at once, taking on differnt roles. Heavy spoilers will follow.
In the story of Stp, a man desperate to save the world from ending imprisons the consept/god of change and splits it in two pieces. One of these pieces is the player character, a bird-man like creature, and one is a princess. The man, known as the Narrator, will attempt to persuade the player into killing the princess, to stop the end of the world.
Taylor will take the role of the Narrator. She is comfortable with "the ends justify the means" rhetoric and will complain constantly about how this all would be so much easier if everyone just worked together. As the Narrator, she can lightly change the environment or at times take control of the player, wich is very fitting for our dear queen administrator.
Blake is the player character. Not only is it his nature to be active and force the world to react, he is once again in conflict with a piece of himself, that is nearly doomed to end in violence. At least he is in a bird themed body from the start. Although Blake is canonically hot, his drive to move forward, slay the bigger monsters and bad Karma will make it easier fir Taylor to push him into a fight with the Princess. They struggle and both die in their first encounter.
The princess herself is an eldritch being, whose form and personality change based on the watcher's perspection of her. Very Stranger. In the base game, when you die, you awake in a new world, with a new voice in your head, and the princess has changed based on your actions. Enter Sylvester!
This time, Blake wakes up with Sylvester's voice in his head. A devastating time for Taylor as well. In this version, as Blake struggles and fights with the Princess, Sylvester tries to shake the box, possibly flirting with the Princess in the process. Sy's dynamic with her resembles either his relationship with Mary or Mauer, depending on Blake and Taylor's reactions.
In the end, when all is revealed, Blake' s empathy and Sy's desire for freedom will win out, and the two will escape Taylor's prison with the Princess, who possibly joins the Lambs in a faraway universe. Thank you for anyone who has read this far, clearly I have fanfiction I need to write. This was a fun prompt and I highly recommend anyone curious to give Slay the Princess a try, it is a wonderful story. Each of Wildbow's protagonists fit the game like a glove filled with glass shards.
Since people liked the last question I asked, here's round 2 for y'all
Each Wildbow Protag is dumped into the last romantic-comedy you've watched/read/played (visual novels are allowed).
How badly do they ruin the romance?
The youngest bishop somehow became the last one I drew for this whole series. All of the flowers he grew were so beautiful and it even took me a bit to realize he wasn't just a plant creature or a mossball. He's a bagworm! (how a bagworm, squid, spider, frog, and cat are all siblings is beyond me but I love them!) It was hard to think of a 'human' version more than any of the flowers but with the promotion of him playing his flute and studying hair/beard textures, I figured he has to have a whole wild fro to really give honor to the name Leshy. I loved that Narinder admired the red flowers that he kept too, something about it is very sweet- like nectar <3 even if it's surrounded by witnessing eyes and agonizing screams. It is kind of interesting that even if he has four eyes on the outer side of his face, they aren't seeing eyes- just the middle one that is now replaced with.. teeth, and maybe a parasite?
Segmento traducido de William Blake y sus āProverbios del infiernoā + imagen del grabado original del proverbio, el cual se encuentra en el libro āEl matrimonio del Cielo y el Infiernoā del cual Blake generĆ³ las matrices con el texto e ilustraciones a mano mediante la tĆ©cnica de aguafuerte en relieve, para luego ser impresas tambiĆ©n a mano con la ayuda de su āesposaā (?+ el Ćŗltimo tatu que me hizo mi amiga de dos lombrices felices.
Digital painting and an older pencil sketch of a Sathar, the bad guys from the Star Frontiers rpg setting.
Much like how old slasher flicks made it clear you could enjoy watching teens getting slashed by having them slut it up premaritally, Worm makes it clear you can enjoy watching the Travellers suffer by showing them play League of Legends
As many have said he's a nerdy awkward loser with a bit of a crush on Taylor and more enthusiasm than sense, or empathy, or intelligence.
Which describes most spacebattlers.
Like he has little in the way of chararization beyond being like that so he's easy to project on, and easy to write for (write what you know and all that).
In a cast of people who atleast have refernece to haveing deeper problems and personalities, his greatest struggle is that he's bad at social shit. So he makes for a good everyman protag to throw in the deep end.
Like, I am a spacebattler, I got my start in the worm fandom on spacebattles and its offshoots, but there's so much on those sites that just baffle me to no end.
we need to take greg veder away from spacebattles and anyone who writes fanfic
Supervicky
and Lisa Lane
I commissioned this piece a while back from sethkiel on Twitter. Rarely do more than lurk on tumblr, but I figured I may as well post it here for the smugpunch believers
I'm 26 arcs into Worm: The Stick Up Brian's Butt
So Iām listening to the Weāve Got Worm podcast and they keep talking about KingBob, the guy on reddit who really related to Alec and ended up understanding him (and by extension Aisha) far better than most of the other readers.
I havenāt really gone into this on this blog, Iāve been reading Worm for like six months now and I donāt update that often, but throughout this read Iāve been the KingBob to Brian. Itās gotten to the point where I actually took a few mental health breaks from reading Worm. I know a lot of people thought Brian was boring and dumb. Iām almost done with Worm now and I feel like the inclusion of Brian this story elevated it, for me, from a fun superhero story to something intensely personal, something that was almost a struggle to read. I know from spoilers that Brianās part in this story is almost over. He isnāt my favorite character (Dragon) or even my favorite Undersider (Aisha) but I felt like I should write something before this is over. It wouldnāt be an honest blog otherwise, as infrequently as I post.
But Kuno, you say. Youāre a 22-year-old white female engineering student. Why the hell is this the character you relate to?
For a collection of dumb reasons that add up to a large part of who I am. From the time I was eleven to the time I was about twenty-one, I had night terrors. Seven times a night sometimes, I dreamt vividly of the people I loved getting hurt, hurting me, getting killed, killing me. My students and pets melting in my hands. My mom and I clutching each other on the freeway as weāre stopped in traffic, a terrorist approaching our vehicle with a shotgun. We donāt make it. The dreams made life almost impossible. Seeing people during the day and being absolutely certain they would die before I saw them again. It didnāt matter how many times I saw them come back okay. They never would.
Iām afraid of everything. Every missed phone call is a sudden death. Every text message brings terrible news. Every possible situation brings danger, but if my friends go, I canāt let them go without me. Something could happen. Theyād be safe as long as I could see them. If I was looking at them, everything would be okay. Some child psychologist I spoke to at a young age noted I was a ānatural leaderā. To this day, I lead because I am a control freak. I am afraid of what would happen if I let someone else be in control.
Interlude 15 fucked me up.
My fatal flaw extends from this. Iām terrified that people will see me as weak. I dated a boy on my robotics team when I was in high school. I treated him like shit in public because I didnāt want anyone to think I cared about him, even though he was my boyfriend. What would they think of me if they saw there was a person I treated as an equal? Horrible things. I became a better girlfriend to another boy, years later, because someone mentioned to me they thought I could be a good girlfriend, and that it was rough, calloused girls who were the weak ones. It was the perfect two sentences to convince me that for people to see me as strong, I had to be a good girlfriend.
In the Weāve Got Worm podcast, Scott and Matt always mention that each of the Undersiders brings the team down somehow, their inputs to every situation silly or stupid. I was confused. I always thought Grueās avoidance of conflict, always taking the slow, deliberate path, was the right way to go. Then I realized that, to many, this behavior indicates brokenness. Maybe theyāre right.
Yeah so I said Iād talk about the stick up Brianās butt in arcs 25 and 26. I donāt think he has much to say for the rest of Worm so here we go. Iām building off a lot of what the WGW guys say, but I think I can take it a little farther.
So in arc 10 the WGW guys point out that Brian resists letting Taylor back on the team until the precise moment when it becomes apparent that everyone else wants her back, when he suddenly changes tactics to talking about how they āneed her for offenseā. They make the imo correct deduction that this is because heās afraid of looking weak. Everyone knows Taylor likes him, so, logically, to be Stoic Leader Man he should want her to go away. He needs permission to want her back on the team. Once he has that permission, he is all for it.
I know that sounds convoluted but trust me as a person with exactly these issues this makes perfect sense.
Arc 11, Brian has still not decided to be Taylorās friend again. This is because sheās on the team to be offense. Their friendship doesnāt help nobodyās offense. When Lisa calls him and tells him he needs to lay up on her, that to be her friend would be good, he goes directly to Taylorās house and declares themā¦ best friends. Because Lisa has given him permission to do so.
I hope youāre following because Iām aware this is stupid.
In arc 12, Iām gonna veer a little to the side. Letās talk about Brianās second trigger, just so that I can educate the public on exactly how this came around. Keep in mind that trigger events happen from a long period of a specific type of stress coming to a head. And that Brianās previous trigger happened from feeling like he maybe couldnāt help Aisha for a long time, and then suddenly being hit with the fact that he definitely couldnāt help her.
Arc 1: The Undersiders save Taylor who was saving them from Lung Arc 2: Brian punches Rachel for attacking Taylor Arc 4: Taylor gets blown up by Bakuda, Brian sits in her hospital room and stares at this for presumably a while Arc 5: Taylor looks like sheās been hanged, having fought Lung again Arc 7: Taylor and Rachel are attacked by the ABB, Brian shows up late. Taylor is attacked later the same day by Sophia, Brian shows up pretty late. Taylor propositions the boy, he tells her he thinks of her like he thinks of his sister. I am 100% certain at this point, looking back, that this was an early indication that the second trigger process was starting towards a lack of ability to keep up with Taylor. He wasnāt just saying he thought of her like he would think of her if they were related, he thinks of her like Aisha specifically, the one his power is attached to. His little brain is drawing the equivalences already. Arc 8: Broken spine, betrayal, yadda yadda Arc 9: Sophia attempts murder because itās Tuesday Arc 10: Brian pretends to not want Taylor to come back Arc 11: Brian does his now-classic āwalks into room/why is Taylor injured/maybe she should not be doing thisā routine Arc 12: Repeat of arc 11, except now he starts stumbling over her name. He tells her she should have let her people die. If thereās a point onscreen when he realizes there might be something going on, this is it.
Point is, this has been stewing in the background since as early as arc 1 and as late as arc 7 but probably actually started in arc 4. It wasnāt out of the blue, it was the logical culmination of the entire storyās events thus far from Brianās perspective.
Arc 13: Yeah, you know what happens here. In the final chapter, he tells her he thinks about her too much, but even though he received a new set of superpowers and a vision from aliens telling him that he probably loves her, the vision is definitely wrong and he just feels like he canāt keep up with her.
Sheās been attacked by everyone. Lung, Rachel, Bakuda, Sophia, Armsmaster, Leviathan, the Merchants, Mannequin. He doesnāt want her to keep fighting, he feels he needs to be the one to do it. At the same time, he knows heās not powerful enough. No one power is enough to deal with all of these threats.
No single power.
But he doesnāt love her. That would mean he was weak.
He doesnāt even agree to have dinner with her in 15. He allows it to happen because Aisha set it up. She knows whatās going on, and she has given him permission to have this.
Aisha had to be the one to give him permission because his previous powerset was for her, and now it doesnāt work with her, either. At the same time as his second trigger was stewing under the surface for Taylor, he was losing his powerās connection to Aisha because their powers didnāt work together and he kept being forced to forget she exists. He had lived for her before, and being Super Big Brother was exactly what Brian wanted to be. Now, Aisha doesnāt want to be lived for. She wants to be her own person.
Brian spends the next several arcs simply living for Taylor.
I strongly suspect that the side effect of Brianās power is that it makes him pathologically need to be 100% responsible for others. No matter how dumb everyoneās plans are, he always has to be there. No matter how stupid it is, Coil told him being a villain will allow him to get his sister back. No matter how dumb it is, he tells Taylor she has to sit out running from the Nine in arc 13 because she might be tired. He pays for it.
Brianās powers will probably never actually allow him to get over Taylor Hebert. Itās like Taylor and bullies. No amount of therapy or time will get Brianās shard to let the fuck go.
So when the girl whom you are physically incapable of not thinking about leaves and goes to prison and tells every single person on the planet exactly how weak you are, who goes to an even more dangerous situation where you cannot follow her, what can you do?
The only possible thing. Try your absolute damnedest to pretend you never knew her.
You walk out of that meeting with the most powerful people in the world because she is there. You go find yourself somebody else. Another girl. Taylor hated her little boobs? This girl has big boobs. Taylor canāt stay away from violence? Cozen seriously appears to have never even seen a corpse.
When Taylor comes back, Brian greets her with the new girl on his arm. He tries to shake her hand. Time has passed. Thereās nothing between them any more.
The next day, Grue is presented with the choice of pushing back against Taylor and standing with the new girl, whoever she is, or supporting Taylor. He chooses Taylor.
Of course he does. The situation calls for it. The situation has given him permission.
