What are you reading?

[Dracos]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/37677?

Work emails.

The best work emails.

[thepanda]

Drac, you read Gatecrash, right? Do I need to read Exiled first or can I just jump right into it?

[Dracos]

Eh.  I suspect reading Exiled would go better.  Otherwise you start with Dinah and Taylor and others on an interdimensional space ship and it might be tough to recognize?

I mean you could treat them all as just OCs and then it isn't too bad, but there's certain a lot of referenced history over it.

[Yuthirin]

Yes, please read Exiled or Gatecrash will not make much sense.

[Dracos]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7347955/132/Dreaming-of-Sunshine  - There's been 3 recent chapters this week.  story is moving quickly through the Cultists.

[Dracos]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/with-friends-like-these-altpower-taylor-worm.312205/page-134#post-32524957 - new with friends like these.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/crouching-tiger-goes-to-prison-worm-au-of-an-au.480139/ - kinda shoddy new chapter.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-cloudy-path-worm-supreme-commander.301286/ - a cloudy path

[Yuthirin]

Ryuugi has announced that TGWP2 is not coming soon. Much sadness.

[Anastasia]

Ryuugi has announced that TGWP2 is not coming soon. Much sadness.

I suspect it's going to be vaporware, just a hunch. I hope I'm wrong.

Got a link to where he said that?

[Yuthirin]

Click me for RELEVANT INFORMATION!

[Dracos]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-cloudy-path-worm-supreme-commander.301286/ Precog says she loses here.

[Jason_Miao]

http://hikkinomori.mistbinder.org/falling-in-love-with-the-villainess/

[Yuthirin]

A Dead World updated. Nice juicy 30k word chapter.

[Dracos]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8601250/24/A-Dead-World updated again.  Or at least on forum, prolly there too.

Read it start to finish from Yuth's rec.  24 is a great in the moment chapter.

[Anastasia]

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/of-blackguards-and-mercenaries-worm-alt-power-overwatch-crossover.506906/#post-32914784

Yuth linked me to this. I give it a 3/10 and spoiler box for why.

[spoiler]

So this story runs with the premise that Taylor has a bunch of Overwatch heroes in her head to summon. Naturally shenanigans ensue. The story starts strong as she explores her powers and experiments with what she has. She starts to build herself up to resist the Trio, it's solidly written stuff that doesn't rush anything. Highly enjoyable, and until a certain scene, I was enjoying it a great deal.

The catch is that one scene signals the entire fic going downhill fast.

So the bathroom stall incident happens as canon and Taylor's had enough. She kicks open the door and catches Madison by surprise, then beats up Emma. I'm okay with that and this was telegraphed and build up to. She'd spend a week-ish training and had surprise, so I can see her pulling that off. I think she came off as too together for the amount of training she had, but whatever, no big deal.

Then Sophia comes and they fight. Without getting too spoilery, she holds her own against Sophia before spoilers happen and she runs. That strains my SoD a fair bit, since Sophia's a trained fighter who's seen a good deal of action, plus she's in better shape than Taylor. It's not absolutely impossible, but an out of shape girl beating three opponents (one trained) after a week's training strains my SoD.

Okay fine, whatever. Bludgeon-y but maybe the author couldn't think of a better way to get there. A bit later Taylor's ran away from home (long story) and is patrolling. The Undersiders/Lung thing happens and she goes to help. Cue fanon Armsmaster hard - tries to arrest her after helping (and killing Lung in self defense), tries to confiscate one of the heroes gear after she uses it to restore Lung to life and is altogether a massive tool that's the punchline of a joke for another hero to paralyze him and make sure a video of that goes all over PHO.

It's like it went form a decent fic to fanon bashing in the blink of an eye. I'm not sure what happened. There was also some stuff about a hero clowning Dragon and Saint in hacking and solving that mess on PHO, but I only skimmed since I'd lost interest in the fic.

Odd, since I felt the start until then was strong stuff. It felt like it got a sudden case of wanting to push Overwatch stuff as so cool at the expense of Worm. Go figure.

[Yuthirin]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8601250/24/A-Dead-World updated again.  Or at least on forum, prolly there too.

Read it start to finish from Yuth's rec.  24 is a great in the moment chapter.

I really love the girl who writes this fic. She's got a talent for it.

Delicious prose.