#worm thoughts

[wormzandgutz]

having feelings atm

[monachofworms]

A non exhaustive list of things that will still exist under Trump.

Sunrises

Good coffee

Donuts

Movie nights with friends

Chocolate

Batman/ ur favorite media

The ability to be kind to strangers

The ability for strangers to be kind to you

Brennan Lee mulligan

Dungeons and dragons

Alex Hirsch

Good cows

Funny cats and dogs

The future

Love.

I’m studying history and if there is one thing humans are really good at it’s surviving shitty situations.

Take the small wins and happinesses.

I encourage people to add to the list.

[whereserpentswalk]

So, the undersiders are actually set up way differently from most supervillian teams we see. And that's part of why they're so effective, they're built by Coil to be effective, and are thus kind of designed top down to be the perfect team. They're recruited from a selection of unrelated teenage parahumans who don't know eachother or have much in common, but who all have something for the team to give them, either needing a way to make money off of their powers, being new capes trying to get into the business, or being capes that could benefit from being on a team. Coil even realizes he can bring on Lisa (whose basically in trouble with him) and Bitch (whose a wandering threat nobody would approach in most circumstances, much less realize they could recruit). He then takes this group of teenagers and gives them a unified headquarters where they all have rooms, along with common areas, to make sure they end up seeing eachother as freinds, as a way of making sure they have loyalties beyond money. He's their boss, but he's not the person leading them into combat, instead appointing one of their own to be the leader. And he gives them missions, which are a diverse set of jobs they can do, that they can choose to not go on. He even makes sure that they can work well with allied teams like the travlers. And while they are all teenagers, the way the team is set up grooms them to be effective adult villains.

This is a really effective way of creating creating a villain team. And it's way different then the merchants, E88, or the ABB who are basically just normal criminal enterprises who have capes as high ranking members. But you know who that is exactly like: the Wards/Protectorate. Coil is a PRT agent, he understands how they run teams, and why their way is so ruthlessly effective. So when he created a supervillian team he basically created a crime version of the Wards, mirroring the structure, just doing villain work instead of hero work. And with himself as the PRT stand in. After leviathan they basically graduate from being the crime Wards to the crime Protectorate. Every single one of them is a Wards style recruitment, even Lisa is basically a probationary member. And I'm pretty sure Coil knew this, because the name undersiders makes much more sense if he actively understands that they're a villain version of the Wards.

Mostly unrelated but it makes me think of what things would have been like if Chariot was recruited onto the undersiders and Imp was sent to spy on the Wards for Coil.

[trash-but-trying]

I think one of my favorite worm details is when Taylor, kehpri, brain broken into an inhuman thing, is still like "well I gotta keep my bug aesthetic, gotta make a flowing hexagon portal cape like a bee"

Alec was right, fuckin dork.

[urlocalwormtoday]

plot twist; troy's actually a warforged and his name stands for some shit like Technological Rebirth Of Youth or Technological Robotics for Observation and Yielding

[gilgameshmash]

I’ve read a lot of worm fanfic and In a lot of them an alt power Taylor does the most min maxing things with her powers. Squeezing it for every drop of different use her power could have. Now I enjoy reading this but then I think and I wonder if it’s only like this cause cannon Taylor had to get creative cause she just had a baton and bugs. Do y’all think if she got a stronger power that you don’t have to squeeze dry for any use she’d be more boring. Like give her an Alexandria package like she wants, with some creative little twist or something cause it’s worm and some trauma. Does she min max this strong power or does she be a bit more normal, or as normal as a Parahuman can get

[wormheamer]

What if there was something like an "asexual hooters," where they just bring you food...

[muchmossymess]

"'ohh, its raining outside! i better go out and wriggle on the pavement back and forth over and over and over again, until im mush!' yknow what that is? thats a WORM THOUGHT. because apparently all i can have are WORM THOUGHTS and my brain is a WORM"

[graffic17]

We as a community, and I know I do especially, often joke, and also yes seriously talk, about Taylor being a lesbian because of how she pays such attention to the appearances of other female characters and the way she describes them, and obviously the take that Taylor being a closeted gay or bi or generally queer woman is 100% valid, but it also really does carry across the intended effect of it being her body envy towards these women.

Taylor looks at these women around her, and she’s so jealous of what they have that she lacks. She’s jealous of their bodies, of their curves and of their breasts. She doesn’t like her body, an issue only compounded by the severe bullying she faced. She wants to have what they have.

It’s not exactly a revolutionary statement, I know, it’s the clear intent of this character trait of hers. But it’s something I never really fully realized until I understood my own gender identity as I do now and realized that I have that exact same body envy. That I look at people the exact same way.

I just find it interesting, how your own understanding of yourself changing can change your understanding of a character.

[drawmebabyblue]

🪱💖

[kestrelsandcentipedes]

Sometimes I get overcome with the desire to be a worm eating the succulent flesh of decaying plans and leaves. Just imagine eating an autumn leaf and feeling autumn inside you. You are full of leaf and dirt. You are friend with farmers; you participate in the cycle of death rebirth. You are a true steward of the earth. Worm.

[wormzandgutz]

thinking of Tikki and Plagg as the creators of earth that chose to confine themselves like this because they love humanity the other Kwami are technically their off spring

[monachofworms]

Tonight has been a shit show.

But also

https://www.thecut.com/article/6-reasons-to-feel-hopeful-election-night.html

[whereserpentswalk]

Some important notes:

Characters have the level of plot armor, and limitations that they would have if they existed in the worm universe. Ie; Batman isn't able to survive a fall from space.

There is no way for any of them to get home.

We're assuming nobody has heard of these people before. If anyone is familiar with the comic books they're from, we're assuming that a random parahuman claiming they're a known comic book character makes them seem insane.

Ironman and Batman are considered parahumans (both midlevel tinkers) by the standards of Worm.

Without getting into a discussion of who could beat who in a fight remember that Worm is way higher power level as a setting than many assume. At the very least every character here is closer to Alexandria then they are to Zion.

[littlewormspatthegoblin]

I HAVE STARRED TOO LONG INTO THE SHINY ROCK ILL NEBER SLEEP NOW

[urlocalwormtoday]

do you guys think twisted glisten grieves his old face? grieves the toon he once was

do you think he can stand to look at himself anymore? do you think he tries to rip up any poster of himself he can? yet, his hands are bound. a willing prisoner to protect the others. he cannot reach each and every visage of his old self

he is forever cursed to look up at the face of someone who was once beautiful and know he can never go back