Sharks: There’s a few “get better soon” notes! ❤

Thank you to everyone who sent these!

I’m currently feeling great, except for the cough that still hasn’t gone away. The medicine did wonders.

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Actually, we were told who Jack’s nominee was: Oni Lee. Whether or not there’s a second nomination from Jack– well, RAFO (Read And Find Out). Speaking of Oni Lee, yeah, it was one of the Coilders who shot out his knee in Hive (specifically, the injured memetic badass sniper, with Skitter spotting).

“neither Jack’s nor Mimi’s chapters ended up actually telling us.” Well, they told us who the nominees were *supposed* to be: Oni Lee and Labyrinth. It’s just neither of them worked out. It remains to be seen if they’re going to find new candidates on the fly or if they’re simply out of the running.

Yeah, when I wrote that, I was specifically discounting Oni Lee because Jack didn’t end up actually presenting him to the others as his nominee, meaning Jack still has the opportunity to find an official one.

And Burnscar didn’t even get around to asking before it became clear to her that Labyrinth didn’t see her the way she saw Labyrinth.

Any speculations about the power of the new member? You know she can track people from Burnscar’s description, but what form do you think that takes?

Hm. If not for the Slaughterhouse affiliation, the idea of teleporting to someone no matter where they are would be a neat way to have this, but most likely it’s something more violent. What I just described but with automatic telefrag (i.e. teleporting into people wherever they are) sounds a bit less like “finding people”…

I don’t know. Whatever it is, it sounds like distance is hardly an issue, so I doubt it’s something like smelling blood, but I’m running out of ideas.

burnscar is a good exemple of “power that ruins your life no matter what you do once you get it”. You use it one time and everything starts to go wrong

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

And I think there’s evidence to suggest that the powers generally compel you on some level to use them, especially during the trigger event, so not playing is hard.

You said when you started that Worm is frequently recommended to livebloggers as future liveblog material. What other things are frequent recommendations? I want to try liveblogging something but I have no idea how to start or what to start with.

Well, for some examples, here’s Minda’s list of things he’s been suggested to liveblog. I can’t personally vouch for the quality or liveblog-friendliness of most of these things, though.

A couple notes:

• Paradox Space is a Homestuck spin-off consisting of short stories that may or may not have happened in Homestuck’s setting. It’s not suitable for liveblogging without having read most of Homestuck already.
• The Meek is good, but unfortunately quite short for now.
• Out of the works here I’m actually familiar with myself, Gunnerkrigg Court is probably the one that is best suited for liveblogging. I should probably reread and catch up with that, actually.
• I’m not super familiar with Girl Genius, but from what I do know, it seems like it might be liveblog-friendly too.
• Cucumber Quest is very cute and funny if that’s what you’re in for.
• It’s not on the list, but I also seem to see Ava’s Demon requested a lot.
• El Goonish Shive is not on the list because Minda’s read it, but I’d like to recommend it myself.

This list is mainly for webcomics, since that’s what Minda liveblogs for the most part, but you can liveblog any medium. If you’re willing to pause and rewind a lot for the screenshots you want, you could go for something animated, for example:

• Steven Universe is good for liveblogs if you haven’t seen that, though it’s not as frequently suggested because there’s already a whole bunch of liveblogs of it. 
• If you’re up for anime, Puella Magi Madoka Magica is also fantastic, but short.
• Gravity Falls is very good and quite liveblog-friendly. If you’re unsure how long you’ll keep going, it’s also a quite manageable length, at 40 22-minute episodes.
• RWBY ain’t bad either.
• I haven’t seen all that much Avatar: The Last Airbender, but what I’ve seen seems highly liveblog-friendly, and it seems to have nearly universal acclaim.

In general, you can liveblog just about anything (though you’ll need to adjust your blog format to the medium), but it’s generally more interesting if it has some degree of continuity over time, rather than being episodic.

Whatever you end up choosing, I wish you the best of luck! Feel free to ask if you need more tips. 🙂

Given your theory about powers being naive attempts at helping by the dandelions, have you come up with any theories about what some characters trigger events might have been? Lisa, Imp, one of the heroes maybe?

I think there’s a good chance Lisa’s trigger event would involve a moment of intense uncertainty, and maybe someone – perhaps a parent – who would regularly belittle her intelligence. I think there’s a reason Lisa is so averse to being called stupid.

Aisha’s power is… actually a lot like Grue’s. It’s good for hiding. And considering she showed up as a cape shortly after Extermination, it’s not hard to think of something she might’ve felt an intense need to hide from, to the point that the Dandelions decided to help out.

As for the heroes… Maybe Vista’s trigger event involved getting stuck in a really small space, much like Taylor? Something like that?

This theory doesn’t quite seem to fit everything, so I’m not sure how accurate it is – it seems especially hard to explain tinkers. But maybe that’s just me lacking imagination or understanding of the dandelions’ worldview? For instance, I don’t know what sort of situation would cause them to give Armmaster the ability to make technology smaller, or Leet the ability to make anything once, but that doesn’t necessarily mean such situations didn’t happen.