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:
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:
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.
So, have you heard of the Music Meister from an episode of Batman: the Brave and the Bold? His origin sounds like something that could happen in Worm. “Bullies used to pick on me because I sang in Choir. But something very strange occurred when I kept singing higher. The ruffians around me quickly fell into a trance. And it was then with wicked glee I made those puppets dance.” He sang it. He controls people with his singing and makes them sing and dance while doing stuff for him.
Oh, nice. That really does sound like a good trigger event for a siren power similar to Canary’s (but stronger, by the sound of it).
Oh man I loved your reaction to the everybody-was-actually-a-pony reveal
Oh yeah, the pony thing came so out of left field. Wildbow sure knows how to keep the audience on the tip of their hooves. 😉
Their is an artwork of the Slaughterhouse 9 in which they are ponified, I’ll send it and other art to you once you get good descriptions of all the S9.
That sounds like fun! I’ll be looking forward to that 🙂
You jest, but I would rather suffer Dash’s fate than let the Nine get their hands on me.
I suppose at least Dash had the fact that Pinkie wasn’t actively trying to hurt her.
I mean, she wasn’t trying to not hurt her while literally tearing her apart, but to Pinkie, it was all just doing her job of making cupcakes while hanging out with her friend. There wasn’t malice, as stupid as that sounds while talking about these actions.
I was expecting you to stop reading ‘Cupcakes’ after every post… then I realized what day it was. RIP me, hah.
Mwahaha >;)
Krixwell, you madman. I’m pretty sure you just chose to use ponies to make that Weymouth joke. Oh, and random fact- the term “grimdark” actually originates with Warhammer. “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
Pfft! Nah, that one just came to me on the spot. 😛
(Hm, maybe it would’ve been called Weymuzzle Mall?)
The actual reason I chose to use ponies was that I realized how well Cupcakes fits in with these Interludes. We meet a brutally violent, somewhat deranged person who has fun doing what she does, and we get to know this person through a separate POV character.
I had already decided on this by the time I read the last part of Interlude 11c, so I was quite pleased to learn about the female newbie in the Slaughterhouse Nine – it couldn’t have been more perfect for my plans.
(By the way, “you shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth” is actually an expression in Equestria, being used as the moral of an episode. Considering the meaning of “gift horse”, that has some dark implications that I’m not sure the writers considered.)
you know, recently on the subreddit there was a thread about suggesting characters from other works for the Slaughterhouse Nine, and I didn’t ultimately post her, but I think Pinkie might have actually crossed my mind. I did post Star Butterfly, though, among others 😀 (obviously no link cuz spoilers)
Hah, nice!
Star’s an interesting choice. I haven’t seen all that much Star (something like six episodes at the beginning of season 1, I think), but I could see her recklessness and cheerful attitude being twisted into the sort of “violence for fun” approach the Slaughterhouse Nine seem to tend towards.
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