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do you think jack slash and jeff the killer would kiss?

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Thinking again about how, in a very real way, the job of superheroes in the worm universe is just to die. They’re valued and, indeed, tolerated because of this unspoken assumption that they’re going to throw themselves into the meatgrinder and buy the normies a few more years unmurdered, be that by Endbringers, The Slaughterhouse 9 or other superpowered spree-shooters, or by supervillains who decide to go full feudal warlord or Nilbog-style God-king. It’s a situation where some of the most vulnerable people in earth bet society are being taken from a place of extreme trauma and then simultaneously venerated and marched to their deaths, with the brutality of what the government is pitting children against played down so that the public can sleep easy. 

The whole situation with the Wards always hit like the Hunger Games to me, where you’re sinking this huge budget into making larger-than-life idols of the kids, making sure everyone knows their names, and then memory-holing the ones who predictably die in short order so that the machine can keep running smoothly without public discontent. And, again, I gotta stress that it’s not nearly as inherently evil in my view- you’re sending those kids to deal with all-hands-on-deck situations that they specifically are genuinely needed for- but even if you accept that it’s necessary, the utilitarian calculus is made behind closed doors, and nobody ever reckons with it, nobody ever publicly faces down the tradeoff being made, nobody ever looks it in the eye and says, “yeah, we’re comfortable sacrificing the few for the many.” They dress it up in a costume and parade it around like a sports team and sweep the ugliness under the rug.

Thinking about Vista thinks about the subdued, greyed out memorial posters of Aegis and Gallant, wondering how long until it’s her. Thinking about Victoria, inculcated into heroism as a lifestyle, privately ideating on at least getting to die heroically instead of anticlimactically like her aunt. Thinking about that Short story Wildbow wrote about the child of a hero who’s less angry about the gangsters who killed his mother than he is about how quickly the local protectorate redid all the branding to de-emphasize her, because a brutal execution is bad publicity. Thinking about Bastion, whose bright idea to rehab his image in the face of racism allegations is to sacrifice himself. Thinking about how Yamada fights uphill to accomplish something useful with the half-assed, fig-leaf therapy process provided to the Wards, fundamentally unable to get around the core issue that her patients are child superheroes, having no real answer to Vista’s ultimately-correct core assertion that everyone she loves is probably going to die, and only being able to offer a mindset that’ll make that everyone-dying process suck less. It’s not the kind of superhero setting where death is cheap, but Jesus, human life sure is.

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thinking meanderingly about early worm undersider sitchuations to procrastinate actually collecting the lisa meangirl moments i told myself i would collect before continuing to reread worm. it's so sad how taylor (for obvious insecure reasons) is like Ah....Confident collected teenagers who hang out and are cool...upon witnessing the undersiders but they're all very much experiencing their own forms of slowly building lonely misery. rachel having been homeless & victimized by the legal system for years on end, brian trying 2 prop up his Special Professional Masculine Boy Man Who Can Handle Everything lifestyle by regularly putting himself in life-threatening danger, lisa going on a year and a half of forced service and lying to her teammates face that everything is normal every day, and alec having just escaped from a ridiculously abusive cult, still unable to start processing, healing, or forming any close social connections. lisa particularly is so . Augh. here. because she knows all of this, she can't not know it, and she is still so desperate 2 save taylor that she tries to sell her the complete lie of the undersiders lives just being happy fun times where they make easy money and then go out for burgers together. so so shortsighted in a way that reads to me as an immature & desperate reminder that she is Very Fifteen. she is fifteen and having a bad time :(. & the shift in group dynamics post-leviathan isn't just a result of leviathan forcibly stripping away the city's/narrative's ostensible pretenses wrt capedom--the pretenses lisa wants taylor to believe--it's a result of taylor really starting to probe into what's actually going on w/ the undersiders + connect w/ them in a way that will ultimately b life-altering for them. (except for alec, who remains a Silly Background Guy for so much longer because taylor is not paying attention to him, and is juuust as lonely as always right up until he finds aisha to latch onto)

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A few redditors mentioned that Little B could use some ‘color,’ so I made some modifications.

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Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

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yeah

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still really mad that the guy who hit me with his car had such a funny name because i can’t share it over the internet and like doxx him

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chat what do you think about the name nellie kelly

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(This poll has a second part)

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you. american adult with a drivers license. can you tell me who has the right of way at a 4 way stop

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No, that's a basket. a Blanket is a cylindrical container that can be filled with liquids, usually water, and carried from place to place

wghat the fuck is a blanket

i think it's when a lot of people sit at the same table and there is like food ! hope ythis helps

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very sad that the song brianvision is an instrumental and has absolutely nothing to do with brian laborn worm

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daily affirmations

I am a vortex of Bullshit

I attract Toxicity

I attract Negative energy

Wealth and Success flee from me

Angelic guides Abandon me due to my Personality Disorder

My Higher Self is trapped inside of a Prism and being tortured by Demons

Powerful Forces are conspiring for my Downfall

My Crystal's are Busted

My Chakras are Spinning Backeards

My Pineal Gland is replaced.with a Deer Pellet

I suck Positive Vibes out of the Room and Replace them with Rancidity and Hatred

I attract Drama

My Children Hate me

Bugs Grow in my Whiote Girl Dreds

My Twin Flame left me for a Pleadiean Bitch with 6 Penise's

My OF is Failing

My SoundCloud is Shadowbanned

My Volkswagon Golf has a Catastrophic Oil Leak

I have Ozempic Face

I have Nothing

My life is Fucked

My life is Fucked

My life is Fucked

MY LIFE IS fucked.

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what do you think brian watched on bonesaw’s fridge ipad?

if they made a worm tv show there would have been a video of the brian fridge captioned "he ate without youtube"

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if they made a worm tv show there would have been a video of the brian fridge captioned "he ate without youtube"