You’ve Been Sentenced To 400 Years For Multiple Murders. It’s Been 399 Years And Your Jailers Are

I FEEL LIKE THE INLY REAL LIMITATION IS WHETHER OR NOT IT COUNTD AS AN ARACHNID DUE TI BEING FROM ANOTHER PLANET

COULD TAYLOR CONTROL THE SAND WORMS FROM DUNE?

THEY SEEM TOO LARGE TO HAVE THE INCREDIBLY SIMPLE NERVOUS SYSTEM THAT HER POWER EXPLOITS EVEN IF IT'S SIMPLE RELATIVE TO THEIR SCALE SO I FEEL LIKE NO BUT I WOULD BE OPEN TO ARGUMENTS OTHERWISE

Now i’m not smart but i think there’s definitely also something to be said about Doctor Mother and her relationship with Fortuna

as you said an 8 year old killed god, is completely separate from her family and life has one connection whose first thought is, we need to kill god

Doctor Mother was her one guiding light her one connection and all the sudden she’s just gone, the woman who more or less instructed Fortunas every action just dead

now as i said i’m not smart but i’m sure there’s something here

Fortuna my beloved... she's such a compelling character I wish we had more of her. She was like 8 when she killed a god and learned the world was going to end. 8 years old when she got the power to do anything she wants, except it's never enough to solve the one problem she cares about. 8 years old when she left behind everything she knew for a battle that seemed completely hopeless, and in the end she hardly mattered despite all the parts of herself she threw away for the cause. Some (bad) fics portray her as a complete dumbass, someone who can't even walk without her power, and frankly I want to throw rocks at them because no! That's not her! She's still a person without her power, but I don't think she knows who that person is. It's something we see so often through worm, a character spends so much time with the mask on that they hardly exist when it's off, and using her power is the mask for her. She doesn't know what she would enjoy for recreation, what music she'd like, she doesn't know what it's like to have a friend that she talks to with the mask off because the mask is glued to her face by this point, and it's heartbreaking. After Scion dies, she's left to realize that she doesn't need her mask anymore, but there's barely anything left underneath. She's done so much horrible shit and stopped caring about herself or others in the name of the goal she set to save the world, and now when she tries to figure out who she is there's nothing of Fortuna left, only Contessa.

And all of this lines up with Taylor, they're so so similar in every way, which is what makes the final conversation in 30.7 so heartbreaking. Fortuna wants to know if it was worth it, if there's anything left of Taylor in there, because she's wondering the same questions about herself and desperately wants answers. Because what do you do when all your life was for nothing? When you've thrown away your humanity to be a speck in the grand scheme of things? How do you move on and find yourself without letting the guilt tear you apart once you let yourself feel something again?

Collection

Sometimes I think about the fact that under the Hawaiian Kingdom, Honolulu had electricity before most U.S cities, and Iolani Palace had electricity before the White House did, but today, the state of Hawaii ranks as having among the worst infrastructure of the U.S states. Colonialsm is so full of lies, of the “if it weren’t for the u.s you would be living in grass huts” variety

This was 8-1 btw

if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it. 

Ok the part about tinkers and steampunk got me thinking what would tinkers do in like medieval times or like hunter gatherer times. Like I know in scions interlude it talks about Earth being the ideal time for powers in early 2000s and I guess this is why. Also for 1800s would there just be a tinker with a regular modern day pistol?

Worm but it takes place during a cicada year and/or in the 1800s when there were mile long swarms of locusts or just like have a tinker genetic engineer locusts back into existence

Taylor really deserved the name Pestilence and this is exactly why.

also, I would highly dig an 1800’s au. like, imagine: the undersiders are a merry band of outlaws and they pull off the bank robbery like a classic wild west holdup. Foil would be an Annie Oakley-style sharpshooter. I wonder how the tinkers would operate without advanced tech? steam-powered machinery, obviously. this is now an 1800’s steampunk western worm au

i’ve never seen it but supposedly the show Static Shock has something similar to this with one character having super intelligence and making machines but then one episode has him lose his powers and his equipment stops working despite the fact that in most pieces of media this wouldn’t happen

“Even my most loyal. Bitch of a thing to do. Not the actual procedure of sticking the things inside their heads. After the first twenty, I could do the surgeries with my eyes closed. Literally. I actually did a few that way.”

i'm sure there's at least some of it out there that i'm not aware of, but worm is genuinely the only superpowered media i can think of off the top of my head where technology-based superpowers feel this meaningful. tinkers in worm aren't just people toting around sci-fi weapons that feel ubiquitous in the setting, they're the only people who have those weapons, and they have them because they're breaking the rules for how technology should work on a very fundamental and unnerving level. i would like to hear someone with more complete knowledge of the genre at large talk about this (@artbyblastweave ?) because something about how tinkers are written in worm feels special to me. like, from my not-very-into-cape-media PoV it feels like in most other works people w/ the tech-based powers aren't explicitly doing anything special--it's typically presented as if what they're doing is fully plausible within the normal bounds of the universe in question, and their reliance on it might even make them less interesting or more vulnerable than people with "real" superpowers. batman, iron man, etc. and worm sidesteps this entirely by not only giving tinkers extremely inventive, iconic, and powerful toolkits, but by constantly casually reinforcing that what they're able to do is just as unnatural as someone shapeshifting or shooting lasers. bakuda doing brain surgery with her eyes closed! riley making functioning blood replacement out of shit she scrounged up in her kitchen! it doesn't matter if you take the tech away, because their schtick as a cape isn't having the money to put together a purportedly-regular power suit or bag of gadgets, it's having the ability to build a bomb with a couple of nails and the lint in their pocket in the 5 minutes someones back was turned. i simply cannot go back to media where people with gadget-based cape identities don't textually have inhuman capabilities with technology after reading worm, because worm just Does It Better

Saw these right next to each other and I don’t know how to feel