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Since Massachusetts won the poll about which state, I now ask where in the state brockton bay is!

I am not including the option to vote for Brockton not being in massachusetts because the entire premise of this poll is that it is! Get in line! in my angry wormpoll era

make sure to tell me what you think and why you think it. jerk.

I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

good question actually where do you headcanon lisa is like, from? Which part of the world?

Did I do any writing today? No. But I *did* play NieR Automata and paint my nails, so it all evens out I think.

Looking at a medicine bottle that says "do not take more than one in 24 hours" and I can't remember if I took one 5 minutes ago or not, hmmm

Probably shouldn't risk it...

"Revenge bedtime procrastination" is the funniest name for a phenomenon ever but yeah I should probably stop forcing myself to stay awake longer for no reason.

Oh boy, something i have been dying to talk about while brainstorming wormfic ideas in my notes document for the last two months.

I really enjoy the idea presented here of the differentiation between a pure alternate power scenario, where the trigger happens off-screen and the story starts after the fact and a scenario where the divergence from canon directly results in an alt-power occurring to whoever the protagonist of choice is (almost always Taylor, let's be real).

In regard to tagging, I figure it's probably safe to tag "alt-power" if one appears at all despite the circumstances, though that might depend more on the premise of the fic, where the "what if" moment takes place.

Really can't wait to write a more worm-centric fic following my current crossover one, which does feature an alt-power but it's kind of weird and I've yapped about it so much to the people commenting on the fic.

If you're taking the name literally, alt-power fic includes every fic where a main character has a different power from canon, but when people talk (or complain) about alt-power as a genre, the stuff they're talking about is usually stuff that is not implied by that definition. So I'm curious - where do you all draw the line of what is and isn't an alt-power fic?

For me personally, I would call something alt-power if "what if the protagonist's power was this?" is the primary thing the fic is about, with all other changes that canon made either to enable or as a result of the different power. Therefore, I do not consider fics where the primary "what if" is about something other than the protagonist's power, even if a consequence of that change is that a character triggers with a different power. So I would consider fics like Camera Shy or Monster alt-power fics, but not, say, Here Comes The New Boss.

Anyway, mostly I was thinking about this because I was trying to decide if any of the fics that I'm writing/want to write count as alt-power fics, because some of them definitely contain some of the elements that people mention when they're talking about alt-power fics, like, say, taking place in Brockton Bay pre-Leviathan. But to use Broken Crown as an example, the change to Amy's power wasn't the thing that I set out to write about, it just seemed like a natural consequence of that thing (though I imagine some people would disqualify it from their own definition purely for not having Taylor as a protagonist)

I think being a puritan, especially openly, when it comes to fandom is a bad thing, actually. How have people lost the plot when it comes to making and engaging with fanfiction especially??

"Don't yuck someone's yum"

"If you want to see it sometimes you have to make it"

"Don't like, don't read"

"It costs $0 to be kind"

All of these should be commonly understood as How You Interact In A Community, yet still, people don't get it.

Only wrote like, 2000 words over the last 10 hours, but that was all refining and adding to an outline so whatever! If I was writing a chapter at the moment I would probably be a lil disappointed with it, but I'm making an outline and those 2k words translates to 30 different scenes/events in the fic and progressed the plot through another month and a half.

So I'm happy :D