“Also, judging by the colors, it seems we’re going for a Siberian husky rather than a Siberian cat.” Or Siberian Tiger, although the white ones are actually Bengal Tigers or Siberian/Bengal Tiger mixes.

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Krix, the Siberian’s name is probably a reference to siberian tigers, since she has stripes

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Wildbow was referring at Siberian tiger when he described Siberian. Just google it.

Ah, yeah, that makes a lot more sense.

The only Siberian I could think of at the time was the Siberian housecat. Siberian huskies I had to be reminded of by Google’s autocomplete suggestions, and Siberian tigers completely slipped my mind.

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Jack’s in the overlap between Shaker and Blaster, like Weld is between Brute and Changer. The PRT used to call people like Jack Nukers before that category was folded into the other two.

Huh, nice. So a Nuker would be like a Blaster but with the ability to attack a large area at once, I suppose?

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SKITTLETALE

Mmm, chocolate. I like it.

(#(This is not an endorsement of Skittles. I don’t think I’ve ever had those.))

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[reblog of my post from here]

s p i c y h a n d s a n d s p i c y e y e s

l o o k

l o o k w i t h y o u r s p i c y e y e s

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[Discord, old messages dated 01/19/2017]

King Krix the Pink:
I keep seeing people recommend Worm to livebloggers
I suppose it’s gotta be good for its fandom to be that inclined to recommend it to people
I might have to check it out myself

The Fish Formerly Known As Spoop:
It’s…
Hm.
It’s really good (IMHO), but it’s still a first draft, and it’s really dark-toned.
But don’t worry, the story shifts from the hellish landscape of high school to the more uplifting bombed-out city fairly quickly.

King Krix the Pink:
Heh

The Fish Formerly Known As Spoop:
I’m not joking.
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/ is the first chapter.

Brief note from the author: This story isn’t intended for young or sensitive readers. Readers who are on the lookout for trigger warnings are advised to give Worm a pass.

But yeah: really good story, probably not suitable for some people, and you may find yourself sleepless as you undergo a ritual that is as long as the complete set of all Game of Thrones books as of yet.

King Krix the Pink:
I’mma try my hand at liveblogging it.

[images cropped to show the date of the messages (Discord) versus the date of the post (computer clock): 01/19/2017 versus 19.01.2018]

Hey, look what day it is! Happy anniversary!

That’s right – I’ve been doing this for a year now. Fifty-two cod damn weeks. I’ve had loads of fun along the way, and I hope you have too!

Thank you all for joining me on this ride so far, thanks to Sharks for introducing me to this story and being a great ask screener, and last but not least, thanks to Wildbow for writing Worm and making this all possible.

Here’s to another year or five!

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[Discord]

LHC:
After one full year of Worming you have read
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21.365% of Worm by word count! 😁

Krixwell:
😀

LHC:
That means that you can expect Worm to take you 4.68 years in total – or 3 years, 8 months, and 4 days from today, on September 23, 2021. 😄

Krixwell:
Nice!

LHC:
Although maybe sooner than that since that’s an average of your entire first year and you do seem to have sped up over the course of it 😛

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Happy Anniversary! Here’s something interesting: you’re getting close to the point in the story in which Worm had its own first year anniversary.

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On Worm’s first anniversary (which fell towards the end of Arc 11), Wildbow posted a chapter every day for a week. You should do the same thing now. Or when you reach the anniversary chapters.

Ooh, nice! So that means I’m not that much slower at reading this than Wildbow was at writing it… granted, writing it was probably a more time-consuming process than reading and commenting on it, so his publishing rates were (and maybe still are) still impressive. 🙂

I like the idea of a week-long Skitterbomb, to borrow a term from a different fandom… No promises I’ll make it through a week – there’s a reason I don’t regularly do this every day – but I might actually try that and see what happens.

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So that means you’ve been using that horrifying Rose-Cal icon for over a year…

Not quite.

Discord updates icons and nicknames retroactively, and those screenshots were taken in late November. I’m glad I did that, because 2.5 weeks later, the server was cleared by a hacked bot (some of you may remember that I postponed a liveblog session because I was busy fixing this), meaning those messages no longer exist and I wouldn’t have been able to search them up now like I did in November.

Anyway, the image you’re talking about, Rose Caltz, was created in the beginning of March 2017, so we’ve still got a couple months to go for its anniversary.

Incidentally, I decided not to switch my Discord icon back to Rose Caltz for the time being (though it remains my personal Tumblr blog’s icon), which has led to a bit of a crisis of color on the servers where my name before Christmas was “King Krix the Pink”:

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I’m very curious to see your extended impressions of each Slaughterhouse Nine member as they currently stand.

I’m not sure there’s all that much more to say than what I said during the chapter, but let’s think a little more about this nonetheless. If nothing else, at least it’ll be a handy summary.

I wish I knew more about famous murderers. With Jack Slash being blatantly based on Jack the Ripper, it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s a theme running through the entire team, or at least part of it. (I suppose Siberian means the killer doesn’t have to be human to count.)

• Bonesaw: Crazed, unpredictable, violent. Practically a freak magnet as the freaks come to see what she gets up to. Possibly has the power to cut though bodies, like a reverse Faultline. I wonder if she wants to play a game?
• Shatterbird: She usually uses her power publicly to effectively announce the Nine’s presence in the city, and spread fear and terror, so whatever her power is, it’s something that shows.
• Crawler: Not much info given, but from the name and “a misshapen silhouette, not even humanoid”, I think they’re a Changer of some sort.
• Mannequin: Who the fuck is so into body modifications that he lets a teammate cut up his body and use his Tinker tech to hold it together and alive?
• Siberian: Based on Siberian and/or white Bengal tigers. People should really try not to get distracted by her boobs, because if she catches you, she’s probably going to tear you to pieces. Might have the power to actually turn into a tiger… and as I kept telling you when I met the Undersiders almost a year ago, you should always bet on the tiger – as evidenced by her track record against the Triumvirate.
• Burnscar: Fire powers. Pretty much all I know. Possibly triggered by an abusive parent giving her her signature scars.
• Hatchet Face: Best name. Possibly a Brute, not so much protected from attacks as able to take a lot of them. I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t use axes. Also, his civilian name might be Johnny.
• Jack Slash: Jack the Ripper. Presumably into “deep throat slashes, abdominal and genital-area mutilation, removal of internal organs, and progressive facial mutilations” in particular. His power lets him basically extend any bladed weapon to swipe at a large area at once. Also acts as a catalyst for something that’s going to bring about the end of the world unless stopped, whether he knows it or not.

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i think Siberian’s name cmes from Siberian tigers. Which is fun seing as they don’t have more chances than other tigers to get white stripes instead of orange ones. Despite her being nicknamed Siberian, I always thought she was named that as a reference to black and white tigers, which are actually bengals.

I wonder how many asks with bengals you’re getting hit with. I forgot to actually check if you’d gotten one already before I sent mine.

Yeah, I got a few. No worries, though. 🙂

I guess Siberian or whoever else named her in-universe didn’t know tigers all that well, or just thought Siberian sounded better than Bengal or White Tiger (as may have been the case out-of-universe as well). Or maybe the latter two were taken already, like Crawler was for Skitter.

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Concerning Tattletale taking risks without informing others: There is the bank robbery where she underestimated the number of heroes showing up. That could be an oversight instead of an intentional risk, but she still ended up misleading the team about the job she (and/or Coil) wanted them to do. The Protectorate stand-off after Leviathan was also a risk. She could have miscalculated and caused the team’s arrest for interfering and Taylor lost her cover because Armsmaster had nothing to lose.

Ah, yes, these are some other good examples, thank you. And yeah, I do think the former was just an oversight, but I suppose it still counts if you look primarily at the consequences.

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For what it’s worth – I sent in an ask that referred to 9.2 as “Lily’s Interlude” even though it’s a numbered chapter. Technically it isn’t an Interlude, you’re right, but I think of Sentinel as an Interlude Arc. Pact and Twig have each had one of those as well.

I don’t think I thought much of it in that instance, but yeah, when the one mentioning “Weld’s Interlude” came in, I just figured that was a thing people did because the chapters in Sentinel are functionally identical to a bunch of Interludes.

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Skittles are fruit-flavored.

Nice. 🙂