#wildbow pale

[eddathegreat]

Things That Happen in Pale

There's a quest-giver who is clipping through the floor and ceiling and is pretty much fine with that.

A man pees with such force that he is used as a jetpack by another character.

Heroes are chased by a murderous big-titty corporate executive with a croquet mallet.

There is a dead-serious plot about successfully delivering ice cream cake to a bunch of monsters without spilling any.

There is a very tense scene of the hero being outed to a family she's working with to navigate a giant game board.

A character's bond with a opossum is a deciding factor in a fight.

In an emergency, the main character uses fireflies to pull off a double-jump.

A villain catches the big bad wolf in a magic mirror and sics it on the heroes.

The main character does a magical girl transformation into a mailman.

I misled you, this all happens in one fucking chapter. And that's not even a full list.

#wildbow pale #pale web serial #pale #wildbow #station promenade #authors are weird when they're sick #this chapter was fucking freudian

[soylad]

Printed a copy of Pale, pretty happy with the result except the text being misaligned.

#wildbow #wildbow pale #pale

[dingbingbats]

middle schoolers will literally be bonding themselves to entities

#digimon ghost game #pale web serial #wildbow pale #digiposting #paleposting

[artbyblastweave]

Urban Fantasy concept: Minotaur as an emergent phenomenon. Any sufficiently labyrinthine structure, left unattended for long enough, has a chance of generating a minotaur, if the area is properly “primed” by any kind of mass “sacrificial” death; from there the minotaur self-perpetuates by murdering Urbex practitioners, health inspectors, and dumb teens looking for a hangout. 

Premodern Minotaurs were generated at human sacrifice sites and perpetuated themselves due to, you know, already existing at human sacrifice central. Contemporary Minotaurs are generated at the sites of major industrial accidents resulting from negligence, such as the triangle shirtwaist fire, mine collapses, and the Chernobyl meltdown.

#thoughts #story ideas #urban fantasy #minotaur #this feels like something that might work in the otherverse #so I'll tag this #wildbow #pact #pale

[unbeknownsttomen]

here they are, since we are going to hav some time before the next serial lets do a look back at how far we've come.

one thing i noticed out of all the fanart that grabs the protags and makes them pose as a team because shit just got real is that they never really interact with each other. each one is doing their own thing, so i wanted to explore how would they look like if they actually DID have to interact with each other. who would get along with who, who couldnt be able to stand the other. lots of fun.

#most of this is just a meme #realistically lucy and victoria would gravitate to each other #taylor would be off to the side doing threat assesment on everyone else #sy would be shooting the shit with verona who would try as hard as possible to keep up with the little shit #avery would try to have a nice conversation with blake i think she would sense that he needs it #worm #ward #pact #pale #twig #wildbow #fanart #fan art

[tactilescream]

Blood run cold is such a good piece of writing

#pale web serial #wildbow #wormblr #blood cw #animation #left twin

[fipindustries]

im so good at making memes

#wildbow #pale #pact #world of darkness #vampire the masquerade #werewolf the apocalypse #mage the ascension

[half-man-half-lime]

Virgin Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor: if we explained why this rock could talk it would suck all the joy and poetry out of everything

Chad Wildbow: the complex and intricate worldbuilding on the nature of others means I can explain why this cigarette is near-sentient in a satisfying and interesting way, and then some magical teens can go interview it in a dream where they're all film noir in a smoky speakeasy overhearing local chatter

#Welcome To Night Vale #WTNV #Pale Web Serial #Wildbow #Parahumans #yes I am still salty about that whole story arc

[artificergreebs]

There should be a guy in Pale who invests 100% into portraying himself as a traditional fantasy dnd wizard. He is or makes himself look old, long gray beard, and dresses in robes and he's always throwing fire balls and the pactverse equivalent of magic missile. he's not affiliated with any major families but nobody can do anything about him because he has stupidly high karma from the spirits thinking he's fucking radical and cool as shit

#pale #parahumans #wildbow serials

[ariapmdeol]

kennet trio tests... ill figure out how i want them to look eventually,, these probably will change a lot

#pale web serial #im still reading arc 2 PLEASE no spoilers #wildbow #lucy ellingson #avery kelly #verona hayward #kennet trio #otherverse #paleblr #ill figure out proper clothing designs later #this was mostly a test but ill toss it here #my art #aria draws #is it bad form to put the wormblr tag if its not worm

[multiversal-bridge]

Pale is Worth Your Time

So today Wildbow posted the last epilogue of Pale. It’s finished. Which means there’s never been a better time to get into a megafictional epic about three teenagers solving a murder mystery and learning to be wizards.

If you’re looking at its word count – longer than any of his other web serials by far – and wondering if something that long is really worth getting into…

I’m here to tell you that the answer is yes.

Pale is worth it. It gets my fullest, most ringing endorsement.

There are a few fight scenes that drag a bit, but overall, Pale is the best-paced and just plain best-written of any of Wildbow’s works. Unlike some other web fiction I’ve read, and even some of his previous works, Pale knows exactly what it wants to be and is firing on all cylinders to get there.

Pale is Wildbow at the top of his game, creating brilliant, emotional character moments and a rich, expansive magical universe. And I think it’s a better introduction to that universe than Pact, which is a much bleaker story. Pale makes the Otherverse fun and accessible, in a way that enhances reading Pact, too.

And also it’ll rewire your brain? In the best way? There’s no other story about how to fight for justice, about parents and children, about how to live in the world as a person, that comes anywhere close to discussing them with as much depth as Pale does.

But the neat part is, you don’t have to take my word for it.

Pale isn’t one of those works where you have to slog through a certain amount before it “gets good.” Everything I’ve been talking about here is present in Pale from the very beginning.

So if you’re on the fence about Pale, I recommend reading an arc or two and seeing if you like it. If it’s not for you, then you can figure that out without that much time investment.  

But if it gets its hooks into you? Then you’re in for a treat. You’ve got one hell of a ride ahead of you, a story you can sink into with just as much obsession as a multi-season TV show.

Come join us in the world of Pale. Come hang out with Lucy, Avery, and Verona.

It’s pretty great over here.

#pale #pale web serial #wildbow #wormblr #parahumans #and whatever else we want to call the overall wildbow fan community

[eddathegreat]

One of the tropes I most hate is when a story ends and all the fantastical stuff goes away. It sort of validates the idea that the story was just meaningless escapism from Real Life and now that the characters have grown up it's time to live the prescribed normative experiences. It's this idea that the fun stuff was just childhood fancy, that the story you just got invested in was only a respite.

Pale did not do this, nor should it have, even though it really could have. The world of Practice is horrifying and grim and slimy, and the main characters would have had ever right to throw up their hands and wish they could return to a normal life.

But they don't. Because Verona found her niche, outside of the norms and constraints of Innocent culture and society, and she was right to do so. Because Avery found friends, a whole *realm* of potential new friends, and endless opportunities to meet them, and a great experience she can share with a life partner. Lucy had the most reason to want a normal life again (and I think it was on purpose that she got back into more Innocent stuff), the world of Practice held even more battles for her, but she also found allies, she found tools that she could use, she found a whole new context to think about, and she found new ways to grow. Their coming of age was not just solving the problem in front of them so that they wouldn't have to deal with it anymore, it was growing up in the larger context they were made aware of and, despite the trials, being stronger and better off for it.

And as I started writing this, I realized that this was a fucking metaphor for getting into fandom as a kid.

#wildbow pale #wildbow #lucy ellingson #verona hayward #avery kelly #fandom #pale web serial #media analysis

[soylad]

PSA for Pale ch. 20.4

#Wildbow Pale

[importantangeldefendor]

Yall aren't ready for the wildbow gender bender idol web serial

#parahumans #twig #pale #wildbow #pact #love that lil boar fella

[v-wind]

Maricica

#wildbow #pale #pale web serial #maricica #faerie

[unbeknownsttomen]

the 12 types of wildbow characters

#wildbow #worm #pact #twig #ward #pale #fanart