- Location
- United States
How many Worm stories are there with a gender bended Taylor?
Other than "R.O.B.ed... Your trials are my amusement..." on QQ.
Other than "R.O.B.ed... Your trials are my amusement..." on QQ.
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Wormverse ideas, recs, and fic discussion thread 1
- Thread starter Yog
- Start date
thefluffyone
Big Ego for Something so Small, eh?
- Location
- Earth
......What was that about again?
- Location
- Telmar
Taylor has an unfortunate bungie jumping accident with a selfie-stick. She triggers as a surveillance cape. After becoming a ward she is best known for insisting that all the other heroes look through her holiday snaps. Eventually she is tranferred to Boston where her powers lend themselves to a dark and gritty plot about countering Accord's evil plans. Also they do lunch every other Thursday.
- Location
- It's a whole new world we live in
That's....not really gender bended. Or Taylor. And I regret looking it up.
I'm sure there's other CYOA drek has a similar "grab the extra points for being Taylor, and then proceed to not actually be Taylor" plans, since of course, cheating on the points clearly is a thing that needs to be done, despite the points being about as much as 'whose line' points, and every single CYOA choice being at least an order of magnitude more powerful than any other power in the setting.
I will give it props for not having a wiki hooked up to his head though, that's problem that's endemic to SIs of all fandoms.
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FourthWall
Love & Destroy
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- Chiraq
Yo, quick question: were those kid villains Lung wanted to kill in part 1 ever named or expounded upon?
Ganurath
Literal Enthusiast
- Location
- A Valid Location
- Pronouns
- He/Him
An Author Avatar type Self Insert, my Earth Bet counterpart, a corpse tinker who had been a Ward under Mouse Protector, which took place a few years before canon. It kind of fell flat due to a mishandling of the Nine and IRL difficulties.
- Location
- The Great Beyond
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
.... It was the Undersiders, unless you are reffering to a fanfic.
- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Are you going to try to write a fan fic without ever reading Canon?
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- United States
Sounds interesting... maybe we could use that as an OC for a quest?
- Location
- Maine
- Pronouns
- They/Them/Theirs
Iowa is the perfect place for a quest! The human experimentation laws are so lax, you only have to get them to give you money(or give them money) and not be actively trying to kill them.
That's only mildly hyperbolic. The human experimentation laws in total(something like seven pages? I forget) are shorter than the Preamble to the Human Experimentation Laws in Maine. I do know that a lot of schools in Iowa have it in their... contract? It's not the right word but it's what I have. In their contract that sending your kid to the school is consent to behavior studies and experimentation.
Besides, Iowa is historically home to a lot of weird tinkers and BS. The guy who decided to build a rock-formation for the glory of God probably counts.
- Location
- United States
It's better than Wisconsin. Never mind then.
Hotdog Vendor
Author of 'Sisters of Rail'
- Location
- (5 + 3 * sqrt(5)) / 8
- Pronouns
- She/Her
It's happening to enough people that putting a bodyguard by a person who can save each one thousands of dollars in minutes seems sensible.
Actually, now I wonder whether the pharmaceutical companies try to assassinate her, since she'd undercut their business a lot. Eh, she probably doesn't heal nearly enough for it to be worth it.
OTOH, a thousand cured cancer patients means a few million dollars less profits. Or maybe it just means marginally lower demand, slightly lower price, and more business since it's slightly more affordable, so it comes out about the same. Or maybe not since government subsidies distort the market so much. Meh, economics is complicated, and trying to assassinate healers is bad for PR.
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- United States
Being a minor, she cannot legally work. And even if she wanted to (and there is no indication that she does), she would be pressured to stay a part of New Wave.
FourthWall
Love & Destroy
- Location
- Chiraq
Gotcha.
There was another, non Undersiders group of kids in a fic I was going to blatantly steal from. It is apparently obscure enough that I can now claim it as my own invention
The perfect crime is one you tell everyone about beforehand.
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Hotdog Vendor
Author of 'Sisters of Rail'
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- (5 + 3 * sqrt(5)) / 8
- Pronouns
- She/Her
How does that relate in any way to my post?
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- United States
You were talking about Panacea, right?
Hotdog Vendor
Author of 'Sisters of Rail'
- Location
- (5 + 3 * sqrt(5)) / 8
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yes, and?
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- Location
- United States
Panacea. Can't. Work. Therefore, she can't make money going from hospital to hospital. She's a minor.
Hotdog Vendor
Author of 'Sisters of Rail'
- Location
- (5 + 3 * sqrt(5)) / 8
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Did you not read my post?
Read all the words. No, all of them. In order.
Okay, now do you see how your point is totally irrelevant? Great.
(Also it's wrong, not that it matters since it's irrelevant.)
- Location
- United States
I read your post, and all it shows is how ignorant you are. About Panacea's condition, her powers, the plot of Worm, United States laws, everything.
BrokenAscendent
Unum prae omnibus aliis
- Location
- Auld Lang Syne
Panacea was what, 17 or 16 at start of canon.
Matter of fact that 14 year olds can work.
And nothing stops unofficial agreements either.
Matter of fact that 14 year olds can work.
And nothing stops unofficial agreements either.
Hestia&theCourt
Turns out we're plural too.
- Location
- In transition
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Look, I know nothing about the situation and don't really care to know, but this comes off as seriously rude. If you're going to claim that someone's wrong, provide citations. Quote canon. Do literally anything except unilaterally insult the guy and refuse to explain why you're taking the position you're taking.
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- United States
Marginal Warning for Bad Faith Debating
I don't want to though.
Hotdog Vendor
Author of 'Sisters of Rail'
- Location
- (5 + 3 * sqrt(5)) / 8
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Wow. I'm really sorry for you. But don't worry, I'm here to help. Let's see if I can make this easy.
Okay, so I think the problem is that I'm not being clear enough. So I'll make this really clear for you.
This post will have two parts, besids this introduction. The first part will be the part in which I show how your point is not relevant to my post. The second part will be the part in which I show how your point is incorrect.
The first part starts here.
I'm about to quote my post again for you. No, don't panic, it's going to be different this time. This time I'm going to make it really obvious. Just for you, I'm going to use bold bright red text to highlight all the parts in which I suggest that Panacea do paid work. This is because the point you have made repeatedly is that Panacea cannot legally perform paid work. If this is not your point, please clarify this.
Okay, here we go. My post again, with the parts where I suggest Panacea perform paid work highlighted with bold red text:
There you go. Still with me? Good. I hope you didn't spend too long reading that.
You might have noticed that this quote was no different to before, even though I said it would be different to before. Sorry about that. I lied. It isn't actually different, because I didn't highlight anything. In case you though I'd hidden it well and you gave up trying to find it, trust me. Nothing is highlighted in bold and red text.
You may wonder why I didn't highlight any of my post, when I said I would highlight the parts of my post which suggest that Panacea perform paid work. Why did I not do that? Well, the answer is actually pretty simple, though you seem to have had trouble grasping it in the past several posts. You see, there actually aren't any parts of my post which suggest that Panacea perform paid work.
I'll say that again just to help it sink in. There are no parts of my post which suggest that Panacea perform paid work.
Now you might argue that the part which I mention Panacea saving patients thousands of dollars might allude to her being paid, or perhaps the part where she undercuts the business of pharmaceutical companies. However, neither of those scenarios require that Panacea be paid any money. In face, Panacea being paid no money makes the largest price difference between what they pay her (nothing) and what they pay for standard treatment. (Or if insurance covers it, the amount of money recieved by the medical providers.) (Note: actually the price difference would be greater if Panacea paid people to heal them, but I hope you'll agree that's silly.)
Anyhow, I hope it's been established that at no point in my post did I suggest that Panacea be paid money.
So would you please stop telling me that it's not legal for Panacea to be paid money? Because it's getting really tiresome now. You're wasting your time. Because whether or not it's legal for Panacea to be paid money has no bearing on my post whatsoever. Unless you think people need to be paid money to have bodyguards or something, which I don't think is correct. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Okay, now we're up to the second part of the post, in which I show that your point is incorrect.
If I understand correctly, your point is that it's illegal for Panacea to be paid to work, because she is underage.
In my previous post, which you quoted, I included a hyperlink. You may have not noticed it, or else you might not have bothered to click it. Or you might have chosen not to read any of the linked material. That's okay. I'll quote it. Feel free to go and read it yourself if you don't trust me to quote it correctly. Okay, here's the quote:
To make it easy if you want to find this yourself, it's the first paragraph of the linked page. Here's the link again: Age Requirements
The page appears to have been written by the United States Department of Labor. Now I'm not an American, but I would assume that the United States Department of Labor is some kind of authority on labor laws in the United States of America. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyhow, the page purports to set out various rules regarding the employment of minors. For instance, the minimum age is 14 years, and there is a limit of hours worked for minors under 16. From the outset, this implies that in some circumstances it is legal for minors to be employed. It also explicitly uses the word 'work', and also mentions minimum wages. This leads me to conclude that it is in fact legal for minors to be paid to work, so long as all the requirements and conditions are met (this includes any tighter restrictions mandated by individual states). (The rules may differ on Bet. Perhaps it's actually outright illegal for minors to do paid work on Bet. Please provide a quote from Worm canon if this is the case.)
In conclusion, it appears to me that you are incorrect that minors cannot legally work in the United States.
P.S. please clarify precisely how ignorant my post shows I am about 1. Panacea's condition, 2. her powers, 3. the plot of Worm, 4. United States laws, and 5. everything. Currently I assume "not very ignorant" for items 1 through 4. As for point 5, I would suppose that everyone is very ignorant about everything, in relative terms, since there's a lot more to everything that any or all of us could possibly imagine.
[edit] Imp'd.
Oh come on, put a bit of work into this!
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