TOOT BOOT posted:

There were plenty of better powers in Worm. It only seems so good because she's the protagonist and Wildbow is a pretty creative writer. Imagine someone with half the writing skill trying to balance controlling bugs with any of the more broadly applicable superpowers like superspeed or invulnerability.

Milky Moor posted:

Not that it really matters because for all of Taylor supposedly only being effective with prep time, she's remarkably good at improvising her way around all manner of problems anyway.

Neurosis posted:

yeah it's amazing what you can do when you have plot armour [still irritated about her beating dragon, that should not have happened].

berenzen posted:

My guess? Vista. Young, at the end of the world, part of the wards, powerful powers.

blastron posted:

Is there a latest-chapter link on the site? I’m so used to just being able to scroll down on most other sites.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Name doesn't match but that was my first guess too

Pussy Quipped posted:

I'm willing to put money on Mangled Wings being a Damsel of Distress. Her arms and fingers were modified by bonesaw to be extra long, like a bat's wing with no skin. She consider's herself damaged, fallen from where she once was. She has a hard time with computers/technology, etc. Plus Damsels real name was Ashley I think and they refer to her as A.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

I just realized that this time next week we'll be reading Worm 2

It's really happening guys

Worm FAQ posted:

Q4: What’s the Missing Interlude? What happened?

A4: It’s an interlude I tried to write while badly distracted, after long & busy weeks filled with family events. A crew of 6-10 people were tearing up/replacing my kitchen & bedroom floors; there was no place to write where I’d be close enough to answer questions but far enough away to have some peace. On the best of days, it’s hard to be objective enough to judge if a chapter will be loved or loathed. I’ve braced myself for hate while waiting for a response to some chapters, only to find them my best-received. To top it off, on any day I’m tired, there’s inevitably little details I’m forced to gloss over in the process of getting a chapter up. Research I don’t do, or places where I expect readers to fill in the blanks.

This interlude, taking place after the Echidna arc, featured a Tattletale clone who’d slipped through the cracks, crossed paths with a buried Shatterbird and Vista, only to escape and join Weld’s new team. I got past the point of no return as far as writing it, I wound up putting it up despite my doubts and braced myself for the response to one or two of those points where I didn’t quite cover all the bases. Except there were more than a few of those iffy moments. The reader response only helped me realize that I wasn’t happy with it, and I ultimately took it down. The problems:

The origin of the character was poorly done. It made sense in-setting, but to readers, it took place over two offscreen moments.
The introduction of the character was unnecessary. It didn’t serve the story.
The tone of the story suffered for her introduction. Basically a gut punch at a time when things should have been letting up/winding down.
The character wasn’t in line with the setting as laid out. Her behavior as compared to other clones was patient.
The scenario the character was worked into was both forced and unbelievable:her joining the Irregulars, them not questioning the introduction of an amnesiac after anti-Stranger measures were established midway through arc 18, her being immediately given a management position.
It didn’t make sense. It’s no longer canon, but I expect the story will continue to hint that the events besides the introduction of this ill-conceived villain were more or less accurate.

There’s only been one similar incident since I began Worm: one chapter (7.9) was a little too frantic and description heavy. I pulled an all-nighter to rewrite it before the remainder of my readers woke up in the morning and saw it, joking that it was canon. (See 8.8 for why)

wildbow posted:

Worm 2 chapter 1 goes live on Saturday. It’ll go up just as a post with a link to the new site (P.10) that I’ll later delete (and just have this ‘next chapter’ link go to the site in question), so anyone who’s notified when posts go live will know.

violent sex idiot posted:

Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

I'm literally the one pushing the button.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

WE KNOW THE TITLE AND IT IS PERFECT

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

WE KNOW THE TITLE AND IT IS PERFECT

Silver2195 posted:

I assumed it would be Glow.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Wb confirmed it wasn't that but it makes a lot of sense given who the new POV character is! gently caress! Holy poo poo!

Also there's a paragraph slash sentence that kinda just ends mid sentence in there who do I tell to fix it if I'm not going on Reddit

The Shortest Path posted:

For those of you who haven't entirely caught up yet, 0.9 was loving wonderful.

I wish I knew who Point_Me_@_The_Sky is, because that would probably make it so much better.

ConanThe3rd posted:

Not that I’m ready with it (finally got an editor, thank Christ) but what’s the S.O.P. on self promotion in this thread?