Hm… I thought it might’ve happened along with Taylor’s arm injury, but looking back at when that happened, and it doesn’t make sense for several reasons: Immediately after the injury took place, the armband announced the deaths of Escutcheon and Herald. Counterpoint: She could’ve heard it from the other armbands without noticing that her own was […]

That’s a reasonable assumption. I’d make it myself if not for Armsmaster himself pointing out that he doesn’t think Leviathan understands a word of what he’s saying. Not even that Leviathan doesn’t understand the tech lingo (which would make sense – Leviathan isn’t exactly a regular member of society), he straight up says he doesn’t […]

Sometimes, yeah. 8.4 was already not that bleak in the first place, but I feel like Armsmaster vs. Leviathan made up for what bleakness was there. Now that some time and a not-that-bleak chapter have passed, I do feel like 8.3 was not defining a new norm for the story, it was just… concentrated bleakness. The […]

There are almost certainly quite a few. One of my main problems when reading is that I have a hard time properly imagining the appearances of characters as described without visual aid, especially once it’s been a while since I saw the description. Liveblogging somewhat helps with that, but nowhere near as much as the […]

Oh, I’m already fairly detached. It’s my default state, really, and for all its good points, Worm is not actually all that good at making me empathize with the characters (except Taylor, who has a distinct advantage by being the main POV character). My issue with bleakness is less one of emotional response to the […]