#ward web serial

[victoriadallonfan]

Anyone want to hear about some OC Capes I have rattling around my empty skull?

#parahumans #wildbow #ward #ward web serial #worm #wardblr #wormblr #worm web serial

[jdrkjek]

i named myself victoria shortly before starting worm. it makes me feel giddy seeing my name represented in media, only ever happened once before with my rare deadname. HOWEVER

i used to get estrogen from a woman named taylor who looked a whole lot like taylor. that led to:

my shitty controlling mom finding out, and in the chaos directly after i was browsing the wiki to calm down and it turns out she shares a name with mama mathers

almost a year later now i've uhauled and am living happily with my lovely non-worming girlfriend...ashley. oh my. well, i hope WE get a canon ending together.

and then there was that time ash briefly considered changing her name to amy and it took everything i had not to recoil in panic.

Basically, what I'm saying is, god is canadian and he's picking me apart like a bug

#wb's new serial ft. my worst insecurities and full home address #worm web serial #ward web serial #parahumans #wormblr #wardblr #wildbow #still possibly tagging like a jackass idk

[noctilia]

Canon scenes from Ward

#victoria dallon #ashley stillons #ward web serial #wormblr #fanart #noctiliart #nonplatonic subtext #these sketches have been in my folder for like over a year #i don’t think i’ll polish them further so here they are

[lizardinkart]

More wips - Ward Edition

That one scene with the almost-touch

#cleaning out my worm/ward folder today apparently lol #parahumans #wildbow #my art #ward #ward parahumans #ward spoilers #ward fanart #wardblr #ward web serial #amy dallon #victoria dallon #Antares #fragile one

[n0brainjustvibes]

uhm. uhm. think I jusr had a tinker fugue

so, observation, huh? was veeery tempted to fit the simurgh in somehow but three headshots were enough.

#holding them gently. theyre soooo fucked up <333 #they get it!!! #kenzie martin #lisa wilbourn #tattletale #chris elman #wardblr #parahumans #ward #ward fanart #ward web serial #parahumans fanart #vibes doodles #i might redraw this sometime #didn't put the effort in that i think the concept deserves

[artbyblastweave]

Both Titans and Giants were genuinely cool ideas from a worldbuilding perspective that I believe were badly undercut in practice by virtue of being something that popped up within the setting all at once, only once as part of a massive chronologically-short-term rapidly-degenerating clusterfuck. Or, to put it another way- if Ward was set fifteen years after Worm and Titanization was, like, a known and extremely destructive phenomenon that nonetheless had been dragging on for a long while with capes periodically titanizing, we'd all have favorite Titans. We'd have fan Titans the way there was briefly a push for Fan Endbringers. There might be other problems with this though

#worm #wildbow #parahumans #ward #worm web serial #ward web serial #ward meta

[stillons]

do you think victoria ever really stopped feeling like a stranger in ashley's home?

like obviously it was weird at first, being alone in someone else's home always is, but ashley had specifically gone out of her way to make the apartment her own. every piece of furniture and every piece of art was as deliberate as ashley's outfits and the way she carried herself. it had to feel particularly intrusive, especially for someone as prone to overthinking as victoria. just looking around feels like snooping.

then when ashley comes back she brings along her sisterclone. now she's intruding in this weird impossibly intimate relationship. she was only just starting to understand swansong in the first place and now there's two of them and they're exactly the same except for all they ways they're not and if it fundamentally stands to reason that ashley uses the white towels and other ashley uses the black towels what the fuck towels does victoria use?

i think if there was ever a time when ashley's apartment felt like home it was shortly after other ashley left. when she managed to set up her little office and she and ashley made each other breakfast and argued about towels and imp tried to set them on fire. but maybe not. maybe the routine reminds her too much of home on bet, with amy. maybe that nagging feeling stays in the back of her head, keeping her from ever really settling in.

and then ashley dies. and we're back where we started. alone in someone else's home.

#ward web serial #parahumans #victoria dallon #ashley stillons

[blond-jerk-tourney]

Honey Bracket: Round 2, Poll 4

tattletale illustration is by u/monkeyjay on reddit!

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Tattletale/Lisa Wilbourn

The ultimate high school mean girl. Has the super power of ‘cold reads your biggest secrets then hurts your feelings with them’. Grew up rich. Constantly manipulates all of her friends. Is generally manipulative. Is blond. She deserves to win this, 100%

Literal superpower is bullying people. Pissed off a good chunk of the most powerful people in the setting by being targetedly mean.

She's blonde. She's very mean

She is blonde. She is a supervillain. She uses her power to make superhumanly accurate guesses about how to best f*k with people.

Rachel

Was the protagonists first and most valued friends until she decided she was jealous of him and tried to kill him I've heard that ToG is so popular and Rachel so well know and hated that in South Korea being called Rachel is an insult

#honey bracket #honey bracket round 2 #polls #tournament polls #tattletale #lisa wilbourn #wormblr #worm web serial #ward web serial #worm #ward #parahumans #rachel tower of god #tower of god #tog #blond jerk tournament

[gotrashh]

should I finish ward, start pact, start claw, or start twig??

#wormblr #worm parahumans #parahumans #wildbow #worm #worm web serial #my polls #pact web serial #pact wildbow #twig web serial #twig wildbow #claw web serial #claw wildbow #book recommendations #ward web serial #ward wildbow

[f1rewalk3r]

“ward is an indescribably bad sequel” just say you don’t want to read about a buff woman doing police brutality. lame as hell. i bet you get no bitches

#parahumans #wardblr #ward web serial #victoria dallon

[victoriadallonfan]

I'm never going to starbucks again I go there and ask for my decafmochocaraspicelatte and when they ask my name I tell them to just draw a little picture of victoria dallon so I can post on my tumblr and the barista is like "what" and I say again to draw a picture of victoria dallon and she keeps saying "i don't know who that is" and I'm like are from under a rock its victoria dallon, and then the manager finally arrives and asks me what the issue is, i say again victoria dallon I need a victoria dallon drawn on the cup, he smiles and nods, "sorry she doesn't keep up with the trends" and whips my order up super quick. I get my order and it's fucking Starlight from the Boys drawn on the cup smh i cant how

#parahumans #wildbow #ward #ward web serial #worm #wardblr #victoria dallon #antares #glory girl #wormblr

[sweaterregrets]

All together now! Gleaming 9.11, Siege of the Parahumans Prison

#parahumans #victoria dallon #antares breakthrough #antares #antares ward #wardblr #ward web serial #i love her sm wish her pov sucked less lmaooooo #wildbow #ward #also if ur from reddit 👋

[noctilia]

now draw them arguing over towels

Her hair was damp, and she wore a black silk bathrobe.

“…What?” I asked her.

“Towels.”

“What about the towels?”

“Are you using the black towels?”

“Yes,” I said. “You had the white, your sister had the black, and she’s gone now, so I started using the black.”

“It fundamentally stands to reason I’d default to black.”

“Does it?” I asked. I debated if I wanted to argue the point. “I’ll use white from now on, then.”

“Good,” she said.

#victoria dallon #ashley stillons #starsong #parahumans #fanart #noctiliart #ward web serial #wormblr #they’re so married tbh

[lizardinkart]

New story, new Tattletale🖤🤍💜

OBSESSED with how Ward dives into Tats and how she’s changed since GM. Get this woman some industrial strength excedrin and a therapist please

Also just got to her interlude in my read through and lord, love me some good Ace rep. We do not get enough and I love her story’s subsequent focus on other types of bonds (familial/platonic). Anyway: she!

#ace tattletale means ace flag color palette #i don’t make the rules #this is a celebration now #so proud of her! #ward spoilers #lisa wilbourn #tattletale #undersiders #parahumans #wildbow #worm spoilers #ward web serial #ward parahumans #ward fanart #worm fanart #parahumans fanart #rachel lindt #aisha laborn #brian laborn #taylor hebert #alec vasil #aiden tate

[eddathegreat]

Worm and Ward and Familiarity

I saw a really great analysis of Worm working with tropes while Ward works against them by @greatwyrmgold, and it reminded me of a more general contrast that I noted:

Worm is coming from a very familiar place and being pulled out of that. The Undersiders have fairly relatable experiences (on average). Poverty, bullying, neglect and abuse by guardians. I'd argue that, as extreme as Alec's experience is, it would resonate with many who have dealt with indoctrination in their youth (like me). Brockton Bay is a city on economic decline, struggling to stay afloat, and afflicted with violent crime. There's superpowers thrown in, sure, but it's fundamentally very familiar human shittiness and problems that drive a lot of the story.

The powers are definitely weird and creative, but it's still unmistakably a superhero story. Bugs, darkness, flight and strength and durability, contact biokinesis. Superheroes and supervillains in costumes fighting each other, hijinks and blood loss.

Except that there's Endbringers, and Echidna, and Cauldron, and Scion. The culmination of the story is peeling back the mask of a familiar superhero setting to reveal a cosmic horror story.

Ward is set in the aftermath of that.

There's a massive megacity that still doesn't have a name. It's basically a country, but it's led by a mayor. Infrastructure is just barely there, lots of people are still living in tents, the internet is just barely running and not everywhere. People with superpowers are no longer just superheroes and supervillains, they're... what, exactly? So many threats that were once contained are now running free, the ratio of normal territory to gonzo hellscapes has been turned on its head. The skyline is torn apart by portals to other worlds, and it's fucking with the weather. There's a political movement against people with superpowers, and there are people affected by superpowers with their own identity, and both of those groups are very conspicuous in how hard it is to treat them as an analogy for any other groups. People are estranged from their own environment, and it's a brave, terrible new world in the shadow of a slain god.

The superpowers are less straightforward. Being unable to be pointed at, impregnation tentacles that fuck with the effectiveness of other powers, lots of cluster triggers and grab-bags, etc. The powers are more obviously reflective of the cosmic horror story people have had to wake up to, unfamiliar, weird, and deeply upsetting.

The characters are also pretty dang weird. Rain is a lot like Alec, and I think he might actually be the most normal of the bunch. Body dysphoria+, sharing a body with a sibling, attachment issues, living as a clone or as a sort-of clone. Not totally unrelatable, to be sure, there are parallels with real life experiences, but these are more their own thing, not so recognizable.

This makes Victoria kind of the perfect protagonist, matching the themes: she's estranged from who she was and her old connections; her home city is gone; she's gone through something absolutely mind-bendingly terrible that is among the worst that people can experience IRL and then some; her power has changed; she was raised into the weirdness of superheroics and is pioneering how it looks in this new world; she's knowledgeable about the weirdness surrounding powers, giving her a good eye for understanding the new world.

I think a decent fraction of Ward's relative unpopularity sadly comes from this: estrangement from the once familiar. The characters can't be related to as easily, the powers aren't so iconic, and the setting feels undefined. I don't think Ward is inherently worse for it, it's just a bit of a tougher sell.

#wildbow #worm #worm web serial #wormblr #ward #ward web serial #wardblr #victoria dallon #victoria #glory girl #antares #web serial #media analysis

[byronvera]

breakthrough breakin' through

#ward #ward web serial #parahumans #my art #wardblr #victoria dallon #tristan vera #sveta karelia #chris elman #rain o'fire frazier #kenzie martin