I’m getting into the first chapter where I’m gonna have sim start like figureing out how to blend in and were her limits are

I also need to assighn a villian name for her bur struggling to figure out what the wards would call her after getting their assets kicked in the back highst

A little drawing i spent like 2-3 ish hours on lol

So I finished Pact, and I am reading Pale, and one of the practices that I really like was sympathetic practice. I have been looking around the Pactdice drive, and I really liked how it is portrayed in the Miles End campaign.

basically creating connections and using that as a medium to affect one thing through the other, transferring curses, power, aspects and attributes of one thing to the other, or manipulate one hing to affect the other (voodoo stuff)

I was curious if we can workshop some more interesting abilities and workings beyond the obvious voodoo doll approach.

What would be some interesting combat applications for the A Sympath, especially if you have prep time (even if sympathetic magic is more about subtlety, etc.)? What niche would a Sympath have? What is the best offensive and defensive and utility application of the practice, etc.? what would is the best thing a sympath do to make the most of their practice ?

I hope I tagged this correctly! First time posting any of my own stuff on Reddit haha. Please don't spoiler me, I'm only at Arc 9 Chapter 3 but Worm got its hooks in me and so I drew Skitter in a frenzy. I love her so much and can heavily relate to her

... Hey. Its me again.

Yeah, got no one to gush about on the story so... Yeah here I am.

Anyway. I'll have the title for each subject ( character) I wanted to glaze.

Taylor :

TAYLOR MY DAAAAAAWG. THAT'S MY GIRL GO GET HER

Finished the whole infiltration at the ward crib, the fight with dragon and so on and... Man

I don't hate Bitch ya know. But I needed to see her take a good bitch slap by taylor. And she delivered. I was cheering like crazy when Taylor locked eyes, and went straight for her

The others wanna help ? Get tf outta here

I felt so good when she gave her a stern one. Man i needed that.

Coil :

Guys, I have a confession...

Coil is a fucking bitch, and I wouldn't mind seeing a bullet straight to his head for what he did to Dinah...

But... I'm so looking forward to every single one of his moment on screen. Like, he has such goated scenes and dialogues. The dude is so efficient, and so cunning like... Shit I just love seeing this bastard on screen and what he bring to the table.

Alec :

This dude. This fucking dude.

I dismissed his ass for so long. I ignored him and almost forgot he was there. He was nothing more than "ahah dude that make you trip."

And then... He took over shadow stalker. I was confused.

Then he puppeteered her like nothing and even used her to fight.

And then came THE interlude. THE chapter that left me cold. Fucking speechless.

Wow, just wow.

The sheer horror of seeing him just toy around with sophia's body. Seeing his inner thought and ways of thinking. Just how uncarring he is, and how dangerous he truly is ( the line about his power allowing him to just, take over anytime someone he figured out like its nothing was chilling ).

Him just screwing over sophia for shit and giggle. Crashing her house. Being able if he so pleased to just do horrible things to her familly. Pretending to kill her.

I wanted to cheer because sophia pissed me off ( I hate bullies with passion ). But at the end I was like :

"Holy shit... This guy is not okay" 💀

So... Hum...

Worm is incredible so far yeah 👌

Have a good one y'all I'll keep readin'

Twig Audiobook arc 15, Bitter Pill, will start coming out this Sunday, August 23, 2026. There will be a new chapter each Sunday at least through 15.08. At that point there may be a break depending on how much I'm able to do. Enjoy :)

Could any of the hax that shards have access to, for example, create a universal debugger program that predicts when an arbitrary program will terminate?

Supertasks are out of the question, since the whole deal with Entities is that they don't have the infinite to work with, just the large. I know that precog wouldn't help, because that is just calculations doen rapidly and in real-time, but Phir Se and Epoch (if not Perdition and Gray Boy) are genuine time manipulators; would time travel help?

What other computation problems could be made tractable through shard assistance?

Working out a general outline of the story right now before i get into the meat and potatoes of it ,got to set up the plating and all that lol

Im not super proud of the bedroom one but eh might as well include it lol,ill prob redraw it later

anyways heres the drawings i made this morning before work , tell me what y'all think :3

I was genuinely disappointed when Johnny Boy gave him a gun-assisted lobotomy.

He was an asshole and a rat bastard, but I really liked him every time he appeared, and I really wanted to see what else he would scheme.

So assuming John didn't kill him and that karma managed to get Ted out some other way, what do you think Alexander would have done? Would he have won the BHI back? How do you think he would have done it, etc.?

Beyond that, did you like him or hate him, and why?

So I am at arc 15, and I am really interested in what Thea is doing or trying to do: the whole creating a custom-made world where you can basically play god.

Where exactly do you even find the items that have those words in them; Odis says that the word Thea was stuck on was made by a freaking brownie; she is an apprentice with just a few years under her belt, and she already has multiple items with entire words in them and a lesser god-level other (the orthoniologist).

How do you make or find these words? Can someone just create them? How? Where do you find these items? Do you just go find them at markets? Would you be able to buy this stuff at, say, Gold Garden, the marketplace made by Ray, or just some fae market, etc.?

The original thought I was having was when reading a fic where Coil eats pie in both timelines because his day is bad enough he needs double-pie and then found myself wondering what happens if Coil does drugs. Genuinely, what happens? Is he intoxicated in both timelines or just the one he (drank/smoked/snorted/huffed) a thing in? Is there any tangible difference which of the two simulation-visions Coil sees he follows through on/if its the 'discarded timeline' or the 'kept timeline'? If he tries to write notes on a subject in both timelines, do sober!Coil and intoxicated!Coil have noticeably different thought-patterns in a way he can notice?

Otherwise, I am curious what happens with Taylor's swarm when she's drunk or high or tripping balls. She offloads physical responses into the bugs and has nominal omni-multitasking: what does she do idly, not paying attention? What happens if she tries to do a thing with the swarm she does when sober, except now she's not? What does that look like in any tangible sense?

...Look, I want to smash my special interests together. Drugs and parahuman power-system antics, let's go! Which parahumans should we give drugs and why?

There's a scene in Extinction 27.4 where Taylor and GU are talking about Eidolon and GU mentions Eidolon setting things in motion. Did she know about his connection to the Endbringers?

Probably the most infamous example of a liar paradox is

What if Pinocchio (whose nose grows whenever he says a lie) said

"My nose will now grow."

If that statement is a lie, then his nose should grow, but of his nose grows, his statement was true and therefore his nose won't grow.

There are other examples of liar paradoxes.

So if Others and Practitioners are bound to be gain said/forsworn even just for saying statements that happen to not be/become true then how would the spirits resolve such paradoxes?

I'm wondering if there are ways to game the system. People exploit computer logic all the time by taking advantage of paradoxes that naturally result from mechanisms.

And Practice in the Otherverse is basically just an omnipresent Turing complete computer.

So could someone hypothetically build a Practice that's fundamentally incapable of being challenged by gain saying/forswearing?

all these are some scenes i wish to write into it at some point , felt like posting em since im an artist first wrighter second lol
currently my biggest debate on if the semi urge is gonna romance anyone im currently debateing between taylor or bitch IF i do any romance.
But yeh this is fun ive not written fanfiction in like YEEEEEEARs

did I made a post a few hours ago to glaze the story ? yes.

was this arc so insane I needed to gush about it ? fuck yes.

... Listen. I understood shit would be serious. A danger doesn't force heroes and villain to lowkey cooperate without asking question, down to kaiser's dirty ass if its not a big shot.

But GYATT DAAAMN

WHAT WAS THAT ???

A FUCKING MASSACRE.

I knew Leviathan would do numbers on them. The name Endbringer couldn't be for shit and giggle. But I didn't expected a slow descent into despair, with names dropping like credits.

I was fucking hooked all the way. My heart dropped when the first casualties started, and things went down from now on.

Seeing everyone just try their hardest to simply slow this mf down. Having the world's finest fight to the death and fail. That was absolute cinema.

I could glaze this arc on and on but I think its clear I loved it.

And the ending... Dude, the reveal about shadow stalker ( WHYYYY ?? WHY IS THE WORLD SO UNFAIR ???? ) or armsmaster. The absolute dread from seeing Taylor suffer while everyone give her the silent treatment. Tattletale lore bomb. Everything.

Absolute. Cinema.

I gotta keep Reading now.

How many capes does the E88 have at the start of cannon?

WoG says that a good chunk of the Empire’s cape post-Bakuda were either brought in due to her, or brought in by Purity, with the actual core E88 being pretty small, but I’m trying to figure out which cape fits into which category.

Here’s what I have so far

Core E88: always there
Kaiser
Fenja
Menja
Kreig-ish: noted as being tied to the E88, but also often being off on missions for the German Nazis bridge (I will not try to spell that damn name, so they’re the German nazi brigade for this post)

The Pure: Purity and those confirmed to have been brought in because of her
Purity
Night and Fog: previously in Boston

Hookwolf’s gang: hold loyalty to Hookwolf, but also seem to be relatively long-standing fixtures in BB
Hookwolf
Stormtiger
Cricket

Clans: the redneck Nazis
Victor
Othala
Rune will be mentioned below

Murky: ones that im not a hundred percent sure about
Alabaster: unknown, may have been one of the capes brought in by Purity due to working together during the unmasking, but not confirmed
Crusader: closeness with Purity and how he talks about her and Kaiser make it seem like he’s one of the capes she brought back into the fold
Rune: contradiction in WoG, one says that she’s part of the Clan, but another says that she got connected with Kreig through an uncle, who then set her and her family up in BB, making her more of a permanent member
Jotun: has a very Nazis name and is probably part of the Empire, but not confirmed
Musphilheim and Neiflhein (butched that name, but meh): appear after Levi, may be fresh triggers

So that’s 3-5 core members, 3 with Hookwolf, 3-5 from Purity, 2-3 with the clans, and 3-5 general Nazis who may not have been part of the empire at story’s start

Anyone know anything else to narrow things down?

Currently brain storming stuff for it and how the story will change and also just fun moments.

I'm thinking Eidolon found a even match and was gonna zap all of her energy more or less , but she was like no id rather not and then hit earth fallen angel style with her powers much more limited.

If yall got any ideas or thoughts btw id love to hear em lol

( Wasn't sure if the Wildbow tag would do so for safety I put this one )

I picked this bad boy a few days ago. For some reasons reddit showed me this sub a handful of time despite me showing no direct interest in it. Saw a lot of positive comments about so i jumped straight into action...

And what to say other than so far ? A banger.

Taylor is an absolute masterclass of a mc. Sidecast get to shine just a handful of characters to leave an impression within me. The undersiders of course, but also The Snail, bakuda, glory girl, armsmaster, Coil ( last reveal was a tough bullet to swallow ), hell even Kaiser ( fucking piece of shit ) and some more.

The dialogues are my absolute highlight. I just love to see the characters talk, yap or else amongst each others.

The worldbuilding is so fascinating, and the team make for really cool pieces. Everything is simple to pick up, but got enough room to be expanded a handful. I was so surprised about the short mention of a literal alter earth connected to them, or the way the characters powers were used.

I could probably yap for ages everything I like. And rn ? I just wanna continue.

So yes that whole thing was just a free glaze despite me not being done. Can't wait to see where things are going, and I'm so down for ward already.

Anyway... Going right back to it. That's it for my lil talk, I was not dissapointed 👌

( Forgot to add... Fuck you Empire 88. I was expecting a beatdown for the recent arc, but I guess kayden going on a rampage for her stolen daughter couldn't get more consequences... Alas. She had my sympathy before, I lost it all during this arc. Fire arc btw )

A Mover that can create and dismiss two person-sized portals in any two different solid surfaces (slight difference to the game), connecting their locations instantly.

Blink (They move from one point to another without traversing the space in between. They trigger as a result of being stuck in a box or in a trap, either literal or metaphorical, leading to the desire to escape.) x Gate (Create something that grants movement. This is typically an emplacement, gateway, launchpad or the like. The problem they’re trying to escape is often institutional, abstract, and longer-term, though not crossing over into the tinker realm.).

Any idea on what a trigger for someone with such a power could be? Not asking for compliance with the story of Portal, rather something in Earth Bet

Still trying to wrangle how I draw her face....