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On ratings: Glory Girl’s aura is by WoG a Shaker effect, not Stranger, and the Photon family’s shields are also Shaker.

Huh, interesting. I can see how the shields, especially Shielder’s variety, would be Shaker according to my working definition of it – putting up barriers changes the battlefield.

The intimidation aura is a little stranger – no pun intended. I’m not sure what’s different between Glory Girl and Imp other than the effect… but maybe that’s it. Besides, we don’t know for sure that Imp is a Stranger – we were told that by someone who was experiencing her power in a battle, not someone who actually knew how it functioned. I’ve suggested before that Stranger may be a sort of miscellaneous category, and Imp’s power doesn’t really fit into anything else as far as I can tell… except maybe Shaker??

I’m not quite sure how the intimidation aura fits into Shaker either, though. I guess you could argue that placing a source of fear on the battlefield changes it up because people will want to avoid that? It seems a bit tenuous, though, so I might have to review my definition of a Shaker instead. We’ll have to see.

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SkitterPan = Skitter + Panacea

Ahh, I see. I’m not inclined to ship that in the traditional sense (though I’m sure there’s plenty of Enemies (to Friends) to Lovers of them out there), but add a touch of Homestuck to it and there’s a pretty solid potential for a kismesissitude there.

For the non-Homestucks among you, that essentially means romantic rivalry, hate romance, though a healthy kismesissitude also requires an element of appreciation – even when a relationship is founded on mutual disgust, there’s gotta be something to make them enjoy it enough to pursue it. Also, if this weren’t the case, many kismeses would just end up killing each other.

Skitterpan is Skitter/Panacea, a common ship in various fics where Taylor becomes a hero. Skitter/Weld has been done, but I don’t know if it has a name.

Ah, yeah, I suppose flushed Skitterpan works a lot better in hero!Taylor AUs.

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Taylortale is clearly the superior shipname, notice how well it fits. Also I agree that your line of guesswork regarding Imp the body-snatcher was reasonable given the format of live-reading, the multistep process and how shortly you held it before realizing the possibility of Regent. The mention of only one of the undersiders masters being worth mentioning was from Weld’s interlude (you guessed the refereed to Bitch). 

Hah, yeah, Taylortale works well with the T…tale, though it also blends civilian and cape names, which is a minus in my book.

That bias probably has something to do with me being in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom, where there’s considered to be four ships between the two main characters – Marinette is Ladybug and Adrien is Chat Noir, but Adri(e)nette, Ladrien, Marichat and Ladynoir are all treated separately. Though to be fair, that’s partly because the two of them don’t know each other’s identities in canon and thus each of them treat each iteration of the other as a separate person (much like Sophia and Taylor before Extermination).

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SkitterPan = Skitter + Panacea

Ahh, I see. I’m not inclined to ship that in the traditional sense (though I’m sure there’s plenty of Enemies (to Friends) to Lovers of them out there), but add a touch of Homestuck to it and there’s a pretty solid potential for a kismesissitude there.

For the non-Homestucks among you, that essentially means romantic rivalry, hate romance, though a healthy kismesissitude also requires an element of appreciation – even when a relationship is founded on mutual disgust, there’s gotta be something to make them enjoy it enough to pursue it. Also, if this weren’t the case, many kismeses would just end up killing each other.

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re: not realizing it was regent controlling SS at first, I hope you’re not taking it too hard. It was one of the more amusing parts of reading your take on the chapter. Missing things is just as much fun as getting them (for us, anyway), and in a story as long and dense as worm, you’re bound to miss a few.

Hehe, yeah. I know how it is, as a fellow liveblog fan – sometimes it’s more fun to see the livebloggers be wildly off the mark. 😀

Doesn’t mean it doesn’t sometimes make me feel like an idiot, but I’m fine with that. 😉

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krixwell-liveblogs:

I’m honestly annoyed that Dragon WAS affected by Tattletale. You’d think people would learn not to talk to the thinker whose file says not to talk to her.

Hehe, yeah. Though we saw how well that turned out in Extermination! 😛

Also: I suppose it ties in with how certain Dragon was that she wouldn’t be needled by Tattletale. Dragon underestimated Tattletale and overestimated herself, like so many others.

That said, Tattletale’s needling of Dragon was kinda limited. She didn’t even really need her power to do it, except maybe to say “she’s sore about this”.

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Can you send krix some of the Skitter Facts? At least the ones that wont spoil stuff?

Skitter Facts:

Skitter doesn’t run from danger. Danger runs from her, gets tripped up, and has its crotch melted off by spiderbites. (1.5)

Skitter has never gotten a cold. She once had a concussion, but the city never recovered. (5.1) 

A supervillain once looked at Skitter funny. She cut out his eyes. (5.9)

Unlike Clockblocker, time doesn’t stop for Skitter. Instead, it waits for her permission before moving.

Skitter once decided to distract a tidal wave. She succeeded. (8.4) 

 Normal rodeo is for wusses. Skitter rodeo-rides Endbringers. While stabbing them with a halberd. (8.5) 

Skitter once tore a living storm a new asshole. Literally. (8.5) 

Skitter started her villain career as an undercover hero. She was so skilled that when the villains she’d set out to betray found out, they offered her her job back. (8.8) 

If you can’t see Skitter, she can still see you. If you can see Skitter, you’re about to get dogpiled by a swarm of bugs that weigh more than you do. 

Actually, Skitter does have eyes on the back of her head. And on the wall. And around the corner. And on your head. 

In Brockton Bay, arachnophobia is no longer a recognized medical condition. Instead there are several new conditions for people who are not yet deathly afraid of bugs.

Ahaha, I love this. 😛

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Since Krix has mentioned interest in wormfic, maybe you could give him just a little taste of it whilst also letting him know what to expect. Yet Another Worm Fanfic is what I have in mind, and he’s far enough into canon that it contains no spoilers or hints he hasn’t gotten already. It should be easy to find if you just google the name, and its barely a few paragraphs long.

It seems Sharks disagrees on this specific fic being spoiler free (“It’s kinda massive fucking spoilers.”), but in general, I’m open to the idea of reading some shorter fics if Sharks is okay with screening them. Ideally ones posted / last updated around the same time as the chapters I’m at, to minimize spoiler potential even before screening.