[ SECRET POST #2791 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2791 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 058 secrets from Secret Submission Post #399.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/hFFKWkS.png

[(Anonymous)]

TV Tropes can be pretty bad about writing about things sometimes, but TBH, those are very similar to the impressions I've got reading about that other places.

People seem to spend a lot of time talking about how great it is that it's cynical and that it's 'realistic' and 'how superheroes would really be like' and none of those things are anywhere close to as intrinsically interesting to me as they apparently are to other people.

[insanenoodlyguy]

First off, I loved worm. Great read. Actually had problems trying not to read it at work.

That said, why in the hell would you read the spoiler laden tv tropes for something that you're not even sure if you want to read? I've read that thing and if you haven't seen it you can figure out most of the story reading that thing!

OP probably made up their mind. Everybody else? I encourage you to read Worm. Spoiler Free Summary: In this world, all non-inherited superpowers (and even them sometimes) are triggered by trauma. Subsequently, gettring empowered in the literal worst moments of your life, there's a lot more villains then heroes out there.

Worm is the story of a young teenage girl who can control insects who wants to become a hero. She fails gloriously and becomes something else.



http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/1-1/

[diet_poison]

cool art is coooooool

(I read the first series of chapters, and stopped because I was getting a bad sense of foreboding about the protag's actions and decisions, but now I kind of want to get back into it - I think I've accepted that she's going to make horrible decisions...)

[insanenoodlyguy]

Yes. Yes she is.

[(Anonymous)]

TV Tropes is trash. Period.

[askerian]

I have a strange relationship with this serial. on one hand it's horribly addictive, on the other hand... ok i'm just gonna repost:

A ton of awesome and very varied female characters. and it’s def. well written, the idea of the main character being someone who starts out wanting to be a superheroine and falls assbackwards into supervillainy instead and gets more and more entangled in that mess is cool, and I love the worldbuilding and the characters concepts are fun, though I would enjoy some more character interaction and interpersonal development. i don’t even like superheroes, but these had so many fun and original powers that were explored to their logical and some very surprising ends that i still enjoyed the powers part a lot.

On the other hand the relentless “nothing good can happen, if something seems to be good it can’t last/it’s a trap” credo that never lets up the whole way through this ridiculously long story and isn’t even alleviated by the ending makes it an emotional drain.

It’s somewhat addictive but I don’t know if the payoff is worth it. I know how it ends — skipped ahead to read the last chapter — and when I had to stop in the middle for a bit that didn’t make me want to pick it up again. I might pick it back up in a bit but I’d have to be feeling somewhat masochistic.

also the first few chapters are viscerally good at describing ongoing bullying, which is something I did not enjoy reading because wow did that take me back.

If you like or don’t mind unresolved angst you will probably love it. I’m hella ambivalent about it. The worldbuilding is awesome, I just wish good things were allowed to happen in it. A world where everything is bleak and evil forever is not any more realistic than one where everything is sunshine and rainbows! Argh.

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If TVTropes writes Taylor as someone who can do no wrong ever, tho, they're definitely biased and you shouldn't listen. Doing wrong things is practically her calling card, apart from all the insects.