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My WORM trailer storyboards for my class!!!

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Hey all!! Been a while lol, I still exist, and I'm still insane about worm! Enjoy my 16-shot storyboard I made for class! I plan to maybe animate this someday, let me know what you think!

worm cape names really do rock though because the book captures the sheer randomness and at times ridiculousness that cape names would realistically have in a world where there are thousands of capes and everyone has to have their own name. the early capes took all the really good and straightforward superman-esque names like "hero" or "legend," so the later generations have to pick out shit that's actually relevant to their powers for a shot at being unique. one of the most relevant villains in the united states of america is called "skitter," which isn't bad, but also, like, she didn't even pick it, the cops did because she was indecisive. also, while the cops were picking it, they unsuccessfully checked to see if like 5 other different bug-related names were free first. sorry, that username cape name is already taken. and then you have capes with really cool names that would, in any other cape media, be an indicator that they're a super important character. but in worm they're just getting murked left and right, or are at the very least extremely irrelevant. perdition is without question the funniest example of this--sounds like he should be a work's ultimate villain in the same vein as darkseid, actually is a loser teenager who gets sold to one direction. "eleventh hour" is a background cape that gets mentioned one (1) time and has an extremely lame power, but "gray boy" is a Big Fucking Deal. sometimes capes have names that are, unfortunately for them, extremely mockable, and characters in the story do in fact capitalize realistically on this. condolences to renowned superhero Glory Hole! as for the media/pr angle, calling a villain "bitch" isn't very pg-13, so you've got a cape running around calling herself something entirely different than the censored name the cops & media gave her. it's good. It's a good book.

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I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

What if Annette Hebert was Eden and as she slowly died as Cauldron carved her up but she had enough left in her to try and be human for a bit, so she replaced the real Annette to try and understand humanity.

And also she viewed the Endbringers as her children and hated Eidolon for enslaving them, and when Taylor was born she connected her to QA so they fused.

And what if her slowly dying manifested as Annette getting sicker and sicker until she told Taylor everything on her deathbed which connected her fully to QA and she turned into an endbringer as her mother died.

Also Eden made it so that when she died the system that controlled the endbringers would be deactivated, so Leviathan comes to Brockton Bay to help his little sister grieve.

And Taylor turns into a 9 ft tall crystal woman that reflects and refracts every color that can copy and adjust powers near her because that's kind of what QA was built to do.

And the world just has to deal with the fact that the endbringers are grieving for this seemingly random woman and Cauldron is just losing their shit in the background.

Welcome to the inside of my brain everyone, I don't think you'll like it here.

One of the things I think about a lot in the Worm fanfic part of the community, is that someone once made up the idea that Purity triggered because some minority person mugged her or attacked her.

And a lot of people bought into that, despite:

A.) We know her trigger event. She was trapped after a car crash and nearly starved/dehydrated to death

B.) It’s a classic baby step of white supremacist narrative. “I’m not racist, I just have a traumatic past with X minority group and they made me this way!”

Reminds me of this - at the time - enjoyable series about an male MC who was dealing with the fact that both of his friends (boy and girl) had a crush on him.

Things turned sour for me when the boy was outed as gay to the school and his best friend on the baseball team insults and berates him for trying to act like a “normal kid”.

Later, they friend explains that he’s not homophobic, he’s just dealing with the fact that a family friend assaulted him as a child, so thinks being gay is not normal.

And the narrative supports this!

There’s so many damn things wrong with both scenarios that I don’t even know where to start!

In the context of Worm fandom though, I worry that it’s a sign of how ingrained white supremacist users are in the community, and speaking as someone who’s dealt with kicking them out of forums because they tried to recruit people (or couldn’t hide how much they hated anyone who wasn’t the right shade of light skin), it’s not the only sign.

Not as dramatic as the user who refused to believe Coil was black (because he “talks white”) and threw a tantrum when he was proven wrong, but more insidious for sure because few people in this fandom fact check.