#Worm web serial serial#
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#Worm web serial series#

to depict what actual nazi's with powers might do would either require touching too much recent history (the past 100 years) for people to digest without controversy. some think wearing a maga hat and liking guns is neo nazi behavior. Thehobbler- E88 isnt realistic to the common PERCEPTION of of a neo nazi group today, mostly because most people have no real understanding of what a neo nazi actually acts like.

#Worm web serial serial#

The web serial medium has allowed WB to get his creations out there, as controversial as they may be to common sensibilities, in the same way Lovecraft and Howard were able to get away with stories that were woefully offensive and otherwise transgressive in their time. I can't imagine he'd like that and personally I appreciate the fact that while he frequently drops in to give WoG, the average fan has no idea what he looks, sounds like, or much about his personal life except that he's a hearing impaired Canadian and maybe some other things he's mentioned offhand. This would mean he'd be expected (perhaps even contractually compelled) to comment on current events, political and otherwise, and otherwise open himself up to the masses. Wildbow has stated in the past that he opted to make Taylor strictly heterosexual for various artistic reasons and I don't think he'd be amenable to fundamentally changing her character in the name of marketability in terms of sexuality, gender, race, etc.įurther, he'd expected by publishers to abandon anonymity and market himself as McCrae on social media relentlessly to promote his work. they look at fiction through the lens of the maximum amount of controversy that could be milked from it. These, among other things, may seem trivial to normal people but to publishers, journalists, etc. There are multiple interludes from the perspective of E88 members and from the first chapter Taylor, a white bookish introvert entertains the idea of, 'going Carrie' on her bullies, one of whom is dark-skinned. There's also the fact that Worm is unacceptably politically incorrect in more literal ways.

They were unpersoned into obscurity decades later, of course. Howard but there were several other successful authors who wrote stuff equally or moreso depressing/obscene than WB has ever written. Ironically, if WB was born a century earlier this kind of content would be very much at home in the pulp fiction world. Publishers would demand Wildbow tone down the darkness and violence. There are a lot of people who started Worm, enjoyed it, but became alienated not long after Leviathan and dropped it entirely. Generally one can get away with darker themes and more violent content in prose compared to other media (hence why Maus the graphic novel is particularly controversial compared to other literature on the Holocaust) but Worm contains several descriptions that put American Psycho to shame and is overall a very pessimistic deconstruction of its genre.

#Worm web serial series#

All in all, Worm is about as unpublishable a longform superhero fiction series can get while still being well loved. The other ones, while not quite as ridiculous, were essentially trying to turn Worm into a broad appeal YA novel series. To build onto this, the entire origin of the, 'Take that, you worm!' meme was one of several sincere suggestions WB was given by an establishment publisher. Note there is a 10 minute delay before you can comment.īe wary of spaces between the exclamation marks and the text.

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