all of Ward was a shardspace dream that Amy sent Vicky into because she's a horrible evil person. Fuck I need more buzzwords. Warrior Monk Fragile One drugs hair dye Wildbow Moment
The biggest missed opportunity of the PHO format becoming the de-facto media board for wormfic is that it totally misses the mark for what a forum in the late 2000s early 2010s would look like due to canon Worm being a solely text medium.
You just know PHO would be a fucking eyesore of stacks of gaudy forum banners proclaiming that user's support for their local protectorate team, choppy 5 frame 80x80 pixel gifs from whatever anime survived Kyushu, ribbons declaring "This user ships villains," all stacked on top of forum signatures that are a mishmash of movie quotes, badass quotes superheroes have said*, and Scion-themed bible verses.
*mostly Alexandria or Legend. No Eidolon at all.
Those weird little dragons egg things people used to put in their forum signs that would like... hatch if enough people clicked on them? Those still happened, but it was a tinkertech virus event and ended up with sixty people being killed by computer dragons.
worm thesis 2: banding together with other sixteen year olds who are experiencing the immutable volatile suck can make it possible to survive, but watch out
I had an interesting series of emotions reading this passage.
First was awe at the extent of Vista's capabilities. An entire city crumpled up and transformed. The type of effect that's impressive enough to sell countless blockbuster movie tickets on the basis of visual effects. The type of effect that we've only seen before in this setting from fucking Bohu. The little girl that Brian decked in arc three is pulling Endbringer moves.
That awe was followed by a light sense of feeling cheated, of Vista's power suddenly seeming too powerful based on what wildbow had previously established. But that quickly got tempered by remembering that Vista was always a powerhouse, but that her abilities were limited when people were in the area she was affecting. She could only do so much because she was working with an abandoned city.
And that got me to really pay attention to how Brockton Bay was an abandoned city. Its empty now. Completely depopulated. The city that we spent so much time in during Worm, that went through so much. The city that Coil spent so long conquering, that Skitter spent so long protecting, that survived Bakuda and Leviathan and the Slaughterhouse Nine and Echidna. The city whose mayor Taylor had to threaten to keep it from being abandoned earlier. The Boardwalk and the Docks. Arcadia and Winslow. The Loft. Its all empty now. All that fighting for it and its all empty now.
Hello, people of Levidolon Central. I know we like to have fun here on our little subforum, but today I'd like to call your attention to a discovery that has me shaken to my core.
I'm sure most of you know AmLanGamer for their heartfelt messages and unwavering optimism, but I have reason to believe that this has been a facade for something far more sinister.
Here are a few screenshots from messages they sent in infamous PHO subforum "Hop Hop Headquarters":
There is, I am afraid, only one way to interpret these messages: AmLanGamer has been consuming content of and interacting with fans of known irredeemable media producer Bad Canary.
I know this is a heavy blow to the reputation of our community, but please do not interact with them any further before any of us come to harm.
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