Author: Krixwell Jace

A doofus.
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To clarify the section numbering thing a bit, Interlude 3 ½ actually was NOT a donation bonus. Wildbow didn’t even set up a donation button until after he’d left college and committed to writing full time (around Arc 6 or 7). Back during Arc 4, he had buffer of unpublished chapters, and he accidentally posted the wrong one at some point, and spoiled some people. Interlude 3 ½ was an apology for that. At the time, he didn’t know that wasn’t going to be the only mid-arc interlude in the story.

Ah, interesting!

I’m not sure this does clarify the numbering, except maybe by indicating that Wildbow didn’t know he’d eventually have to figure out a system that allowed for the potential of multiple mid-Arc Interludes in the same Arc, just in case that issue came up. (That much I’d already figured.) It’s nice to know nonetheless, though.

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How much of my hero academia have you watched?

I’ve watched up to episode 3 of season 2. I should probably get back to that someday.

Honestly, though… my favorite part of season 1 was before the Great Deku Tree actually got into the academy. MHA has a fantastic beginning and some neat characters, but I’m not quite as hyped about the later bits. They’re still good, it’s just… they don’t quite follow up on what got me liking the series to begin with.

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Art by @lonsheep, submitted by deadwalker06-blog! This is giving me The Office / reality show cutaway interview vibes, and I really like that. I also quite like lonsheep’s artstyle in general, as well as the posing and choices of backgrounds. 🙂 Oh, and don’t think I didn’t notice that heart with “GV+TH” in it! I’m not […]

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Extermination is the arc where Worm changes as a whole. It goes from being about a conflict between superheroes and villians to a hopeless battle with a kaiju. Were you surprised by the tonal shift? How would you rate it compared to previous arcs?

It’s a bit of a shift, but it’s not really unprecedented or out of left field. Arc 8 has a lot in common with Arc 5 when it comes to this, and both of them tie back into a concept that was introduced all the way back in 3.6. Through this and other things, the story has been setting this Arc up for a while, which is one of the reasons why this feels like a larger subclimax, an “end of part 1” point.

As to whether I was surprised by the shift in tone… I’m not sure how much there really was one. I did know this story was pretty dark already. The bleakness did reach an all-time high in 8.3, but fortunately, it mostly went back to levels I was used to after that, although still with significantly more death than usual. That said, the aforementioned bleakness high in 8.3 did get to me, being quite a bit more than I had expected even from this story.

In retrospect, Arc 8 was a masterpiece. Though I still think Arc 4 is my favorite so far, it’s definitely one of the better ones.

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You missed something, Krixy. Coil wasn’t talking about his own kids, they were his neighbours.

Ohhh…

Let’s look at that again (emphasis mine):

He prepared and ate his breakfast, then stepped outside in his bathrobe to pick up the paper and the mail, pausing to wave to the neighbors as they led their two girls out of the house.  The flooding hadn’t affected their neighborhood as much as others, but the schools weren’t yet up and running, so the mother and father would be taking their girls to work with them for a short while.

Yeah, I guess I totally misunderstood who “their” was referring to.

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Alright, time for some asks!

Apparently Sharks decided to make a condensed version of the asks this time, so there aren’t as many as I had expected (I know for a fact that he had gotten like 20 asks right after the end of the last blogging session), but the important non-spoilery stuff should still be covered. So if you don’t see your specific formulation here despite it being non-spoilery, that’s presumably why.

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Next liveblog: Tuesday.

It sounds like the asks are pouring in, so I’ll probably spend Christmas Day answering those (we celebrate on Christmas Eve over here). 🙂

Until then, Merry Christmas!

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Quarter-baked theory I thought of while writing up the Arc Thoughts:

What if Noelle’s situation has something to do with Taylor’s occasionally heightened abilities? I mean, if Leviathan could detect it from afar, that implies there’s something to detect, such as an energy of some kind. Maybe that energy, when it peaks, interacts with Taylor’s power somehow?

I don’t know, I guess I’m just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what sticks.