Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.
84 posts and 14 image replies omitted.>>43038I think he submitted to Echidna out of fear more than anything else.
Also, NTA but
>I don't really know why Worm is considered 'rationalfic'Because it gets dark and edgy and "real". Honestly I reiterate that I find fanfiction of Worm written better and more compellingly than the actual Worm series. It's kind of like RWBY in that regard, where the initial idea had merit and pulled people in but then it slowly degraded into a complicated mess. Only in the case of Worm (and Ward and so on) they don't have the excuse of Wildbow dying and having someone else take over the project.
>>43022Perhaps, but my point is that I never truly hated the character.
>>43031>>43025Yeah I still don't truly understand how the fuck his powers work TBH.
>>43023>I can't even think of one instance where serial killers worked as a team in real life. Pic rel or any other US special ops team… or the interrogators of Guant*namo. Besides I found their dynamic interesting and it seemed plausible to me within the story's reality, even if not necessarily in ours, it's just how vile they were as people that made me loathe them. I would approach S9 as more of a criminal/merc group with a serial killer leading them, rather than a group of serial killers. The characters may have various serial killer tropes but most of them aren't like Jack Slash
>>43864Enjoyed how much the story gradually paints an image of a
US in decline (at least at a faster rate than it currently is) as the characters dig themselves deeper and how the characters are all handled in general. Makes me wish wildbow would do a few more shorter stories before moving on to the next big one.
>>43888Wonder if it'll have elements of that sci-fi short story called Sign he wrote. (
https://old.reddit.com/r/DoTheWriteThing/comments/hcvznl/episode_64_suppress_bad_east_goalkeeper/fw1ftsq/ ,for anyone who's interested in reading it) wish he compiled all the snippets he wrote somewhere convenient.
>>45438I'm
>>44200 and called it. Damn he's hit and miss these days. Hated the protagonists a bit in Pale but it was a cool world, didn't care about Claw, and now I dropped Seek.
>>45578Yes.
"complexity" and "media literacy" are just literati cope for the fact that hollywood censorship won't allow for straightforward depiction of genuine progressive ideals (communism)
>>20454>Ward is liberalWildbow predicted the rise of "titans" who cause the foundations of the world order to crack
Worm was a story about the collapse of liberalism into neofeudalism, as seen in Hurricane Katrina. Its sequel Ward is about how these inhuman tech oligarchs like Elon Musk are far above normal bourgeoisie, just as Porky capitalists are above workers. That's why Glory Girl is so triggered by the idea of titans being way stronger than her where regular people are like "lol its just Thursday for us, relax". This accelerationism trend of wealth accumulation towards the ultra powerful makes the "petite" bourgeois class very offended by the idea that Elon Musk has exponentially more hegemony than they ever will. Taking control over the firmament on which we all stand isn't fair!!!
>“I’m on a brink, and I can’t see it, but I can feel it,” the man said.>“Try not to think about it,” Rocketround said. “Okay?”>“I can feel it,” the man said. He wasn’t paying much attention to Rocketround. “All the way down to this vast well, partially filled with potential energy. Like I’m on the lip of a volcano and it’s an impossibly long fall with only magma at the bottom. I don’t know if I’m better off throwing myself down into that or leaving it alone.”>“Leave it alone,” I said, my voice joining more than one other person’s.<“What if my thoughts and brain get made into a part of that? One piece in that thing’s construction. What if it makes me immortal, forever a part of this thing? A recording of me in there, how I think, how I do things.”>“We’ve studied parahumans, powers and power sources a lot,” Roadblock said. “We’re pretty sure that’s not a thing.”>“Yeah,” the guy in the clearing’s center said. “But…”>He trailed off.>“It’s not a thing,” Rocketround’s voice joined Roadblock’s.>“But I’m standing closer to it than you are,” the man said. “And from where I stand, I feel like it might be.”>Nobody had a ready response to that.>“One,” Typhlosis murmured.>“I’m the last one standing on the brink now,” the man said. “I don’t think I can do this much longer. Do I embrace it or turn away?”Are you going to embrace accelerationism or turn away, anon?
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