A fun little bit of Stealth World building many people miss: The full name of Uganda in our world is Republic of Uganda not People’s Republic of Uganda. Also for Parian/foil Shipping I prefer Needle and Thread.
Huh, that’s interesting. I guess things went a little redder for Uganda in the Wormverse, presumably for parahuman-related reasons.
I don’t know what the name for Parian/Flechette is, but I do know it’s a popular ship, so somewhere someone’s got to have a name for it.
There ARE loads of Lily/Sabah shippers but I don’t recall ever seeing a ship name, which is weird. I guess the Wildbow fandom just doesn’t really do ship names.
I think that Needlepoint is the ship name for Lily/Sabah
I don’t know of any ship names for Parian and Flechette, but how about Pins & Needles?
You caught on to the hints far quicker than the last live blogger that got to that part! As for ship names, Needle and Thread certainly fits.
Needlepoint! Is the ship name i prefer. There are probably others. These others are blatantly inferior. (Pun ship names are the best. Like the ship name for Taylor/Lisa: Smugbug.)
Nice! I like Needlepoint. Certainly a lot more elegant than “needle gal pals”.
YAY you finally reached Lily’s interlude! Her and Sabah are second only to Rosemary as my favorite ship from anything ever!!!
I really liked their interactions. I hope it works out for them! 😀
I’m really glad you discussed the issue of “scale” in your last predictions post. Early on in your liveblog, I was dying a little bit because “Oh Krix, you have /no idea/ the size of the story and the elements that are coming!” (Remember when you thought it might just be a high school drama?!) But now you have a better idea and I’m just really glad to see your sense of scale expand appropriately. 🙂
Hah, yeah… this story and world have just been constantly expanding. It makes it hard to tell what’s important sometimes.
Wildbow has struck an odd balance between the benefits and drawbacks of not following the law of conservation of detail. On the plus side, plenty of dud information makes it harder to correctly deduce the plot despite the evidence being there, the world feels a lot more real, and there are lots of hooks for fanfiction authors to work off of. On the minus side, you get this effect, where it’s hard to tell not only which details matter, but which subplots matter in the grand scale.
And honestly? I’m inclined to say all of them matter, even though some are definitely on a higher scale.
The rating system isn’t so much a description of their powers but of their capabilities. It’s what the PRT uses to get a read on what to look for when fighting parahumans.
Fair point. Technicalities don’t matter that much unless they impact combat significantly.
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There’s plenty of chapter left, it’s 3 AM, and this seems like a fantastic breaking point, so I’m going to stop here for the year. See you in 2018 (or whenever you’re reading it, for you fancy future people) as we find out what sort of “trouble” is afoot!
Ooh, maybe it even involves Taylor’s plan? I’ll have to wait and see.
When they returned, the Wards and Glory Girl were out in the hallway. The PRT officers were rushing out of the room, pulling their helmets on.
Um. Trouble? Or is it just patrol time?
“You’re back,” Weld informed them, “Just in time. Class is cancelled. We’ve got trouble.”
Trouble it is.
Also, I like the word choice “informed them”, following a statement that should be especially obvious to them.
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Alright, looks like we’re heading out to see the trouble for ourselves rather than have Weld explain it to us.
He hedged his answer, “I’ll work on it. Sorry if that’s been bothering you.”
“It’s okay. I’m tougher than I look.” She bumped one fist against the armor that covered her chest.
Hehe, yeah. It kind of seems like you might be the toughest one here, sometimes, in some ways.
“And I’m sorry, again, for saying what I did. You’re good people, Missy.”
“Want to go back to class?” she asked.
“If you’re okay?”
She nodded.
🙂
I’m glad they got to work these things out a bit.
“I miss the old Dennis. The guy who picked a sorta rude codename and announced himself in front of the news so Piggy and the other people in charge couldn’t really make him change it. Because it was funny.
Ahahaha!
Because he liked pushing the limits and because he saw this all as something fun. The new Dennis is so angry. Now I guess I get why.”
“Aren’t you? Angry? At everything that’s going on? At the unfairness of what happened?”
It doesn’t seem like her primary emotional reaction, but there might be some anger tucked away there too.
She shook her head, which amounted to rubbing her head against his shoulder. “Yeah. But you can’t let it consume you. If you really don’t like Weld, you don’t have to force yourself to get along with him. But don’t stay like this. Don’t stay angry.”
tfw the 13-year-old with a crush on one of the dead guys has it all more together than you
Seriously, though, I’m really liking Vista. Good kid.
He nodded. It wasn’t so easy, though. Letting things go, relaxing, he couldn’t help but feel like he’d fall apart if he did.
LET IT GOOO, LET IT GOOO, CAN’T HOLD ME BACK ANYMOOO’
He couldn’t get his hopes up about Panacea’s willingness to help his dad – and facing any of that head on, without a buffer of smouldering fury? It might leave him unable to serve and protect the people who really needed it. He felt his pulse quicken a step at the thought of it.
People deal with bad stuff and pressure in many different ways. This isn’t the healthiest, but it is one of them.
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