Tsk, tsk… some people have no respect for others’ sensitive body parts… Also all three of these things were fucking awesome. ;D
Ahh, “the spirit of the game”, what a wonderful phrase to avoid having to specify exactly what you mean while writing the rules. 😉
Ohhh, right. That’s also how she was able to sneak up on Taylor to whack her. …it’s been a while. It’s been over six months since Panacea knocked Taylor out at the bank robbery.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. The question makes a lot more sense now. Re: already knowing the real reason, I don’t remember that either, but I suppose it has to do with the proximity to the brain and her hangups around manipulating someone’s brain or putting them at risk of brain damage?
And on top of all that, she’s probably been running back and forth healing for a couple hours. That’s probably been quite exhausting, though judging by Interlude 3, that part’s not that different from business as usual. Also, I’m fairly sure her dad’s dead too, for that matter. So yeah, you’re right, it’s not exactly the […]
Hehe. Sorry to have disappointed the two of you, but I’m glad you’re enjoying the liveblog in general! Also, to be fair, figuring it out moments before the confirmation isn’t that impressive in this case, I think. It’s not like Taylor knows all that many girls that are relevant enough to her to make her break down […]
Chances I’m going to stop calling it a “worm thingy” when I do find out what its deal is, provided I remember the spoilage: Low.
So someone just forgot they were talking to a Worm liveblogger and briefly brought up a potential Homestuck-Worm parallel in Minda’s main chat.
(I’d normally have a screenshot for this kind of thing, but I had to immediately delete it because it was spoilers for Minda too.)
What I learned amounts to that there’s some kind of giant “worm thingy” that may or may not have space/time powers and be indestructible.
As usual, I’ll try to avoid speculating on too much on spoilers, but my immediate thoughts are a) that this might be Behemoth, though the space/time powers are probably not relevant to him, and/or b) that this could be relevant enough to be the real reason the story is called Worm.
I’m sorry to say that the crack was widened a bit: A well-meaning fan began to complain at me over Discord about people who are careless with spoilers, but wound up indicating things about how important this spoiler and the one about shards were and when in the story they become relevant.
Apparently the worm thingy doesn’t become relevant until late in the story, but some people had started correctly theorizing about it not that long after the point I’m at. Similarly, the shards are a late thing.
On a more humorous note: After sharing screenshots of this person’s rant with Sharks, he told me that someone had just sent him an ask reminding him to not pass on any asks about, well, that. Irony at its finest and most frustrating. 😛
So someone just forgot they were talking to a Worm liveblogger and briefly brought up a potential Homestuck-Worm parallel in Minda’s main chat.
(I’d normally have a screenshot for this kind of thing, but I had to immediately delete it because it was spoilers for Minda too.)
What I learned amounts to that there’s some kind of giant “worm thingy” that may or may not have space/time powers and be indestructible.
As usual, I’ll try to avoid speculating on too much on spoilers, but my immediate thoughts are a) that this might be Behemoth, though the space/time powers are probably not relevant to him, and/or b) that this could be relevant enough to be the real reason the story is called Worm.
That’s right, we can go back to regular “End”s now. At least unless it turns out Leviathan isn’t as chased off as it seems.
So, that was an interesting chapter. Between Taylor talking to the nurse-in-training, getting healed and antagonized by Panacea (♠), learning that some of the Protectorate higher-ups want to talk to her and some unknown others, performing a daring escape and discovering that Shadow Stalker is Sophia Hess, there was plenty of action here for a chapter that mostly had the protagonist lying in a hospital bed. I quite enjoyed it.
That one of her tormentors is also a cape is a pretty big realization for Taylor. It marks the collapse of another guard post on the border between her civilian life and her cape life. One of the most important guard posts, in fact.
Also, this recontextualizes a few past events. At the mall, who stepped in-between Taylor and Emma? Sophia. And who is obsessed with being a rival to Grue, but romantically jealous over Brian? Sophia. (That last thing is almost approaching Miraculous levels of dramatic irony.)
So, next chapter, Taylor will have to deal with this discovery, which seems to have shook her so much that it’s only a matter of time before the people looking for her find her. As such, I suspect we might learn what Legend & co. have to say to Taylor as well.
See you then!
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