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RE: Lost/Dead Fics -- a Wish List
08-21-2025, 10:02 AM
That is the number one reason I have never written any Worm fics. It would mean I'd have to read Worm again to get a lot of the background material right, and that is NOT going to happen. Once was enough...actually, more than enough.
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RE: Lost/Dead Fics -- a Wish List
08-21-2025, 12:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2025, 03:25 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
Heh. That's almost the reason I won't do Worm fic other than the nanoSteps I've posted -- I would have to actually read Worm to do it by my own rules, and everything I've heard and read suggests I would absolutely loathe the experience. I guess it just means no one will ever see the scene I wrote where Panacea is utterly baffled by parts of Doug's biology. <grin>
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RE: Lost/Dead Fics -- a Wish List
08-21-2025, 03:12 PM
I've tried to read it several times. I've made it to Leviathan, never make it much further than that. Usually the bit with Taylor going back to the Undersiders is where my frustration with every single character reaches my limits.
It's fascinating. Great foundational setting for writing fanfics, but the source...
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RE: Lost/Dead Fics -- a Wish List
08-21-2025, 04:58 PM
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Oh, I finished it. I was there from the very beginning when Wildbow started posting it, so I kind of felt compelled to. And Bob, you would absolutely hate it. It is so depressing that it makes you exhausted by the end.
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RE: Lost/Dead Fics -- a Wish List
08-21-2025, 05:34 PM
Judging from Worm and what little I've read of his other alleged stories, Wildbow begins with the assumption that WH40k os insufficiently grimderp.
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RE: Lost/Dead Fics -- a Wish List
08-21-2025, 09:07 PM
Well yes. In 40K the inevitable, multi-directional systemic collapse is immanent, not in progress.
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RE: Lost/Dead Fics -- a Wish List
08-21-2025, 11:46 PM
And 40k has a sense of humor about it. It's meant to be largely satirical.
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