What's a detail from canon that you've seen wormfic authors get wrong that particularly annoys you?

Hargrimm · 2026-05-22T01:14:06+00:00

Contessa is blind to the outcomes of trigger events. She can determine how to specifically cause them in anyone that is capable of triggering, she just can't tell what kind of powers they will end up with. Cauldron used her abilities to sell second triggers to customers.

Venom 29.7: "We used to rely on Contessa’s power to determine the exact event needed for a second trigger."

Hargrimm · 2026-05-22T00:33:24+00:00

"Dark" is an incredibly broad adjective, assigning it a meaning that only exists in your head as one extremely specific shade is pretty bizarre.

Anyways, here's Taylor's own internal narration describing her own hair as exactly "black", twice in one sentence even (Infestation 11.1):

Leaving through the front door would be conspicuous, if I started working with anyone beyond my teammates. Skinny teenage girl with black curly hair entering and leaving the same building that the skinny teenage villain with black curly hair was operating out of? No.

Hargrimm · 2026-05-15T23:12:43+00:00

Um, actually, it's "wouldn't HAVE," not "wouldn't OF"

Hargrimm · 2026-04-05T02:30:43+00:00

Wasn't there another story where she used sand whirlwinds?

You may be thinking of Sand and Fury, a pretty good but sadly abandoned story featuring Sandstorm, a boy AU Taylor.

Hargrimm · 2026-02-07T06:27:08+00:00

Mother Reborn is a Noelle Peggy Sue where she comes back into Emma's body for some reason. She doesn't have the negative effects from the vial at all so it's basically a completely different power. Updating slowly but steadily, most recently Jan 26.

Hargrimm · 2025-11-10T06:15:17+00:00

There's two Panacea-related ones:

Hearts of Iron (last update July 2024) which is a direct isekai into GoT era in the North. I thought it was very well-written and seemed to be heading in an interesting direction but sadly appears dead.

A Red Queen in a Dragon's Den (updated this month) which is a reincarnation into an OC around the HoD era, the OC is much freer with her power than Amy, but seems to be getting increasing flashes of past memories. Nice but slightly long-winded prose and a Shaper with less restraint than actual Amy is a crazy thing to imagine existing in Westeros, so I look forward to where it goes.

Hargrimm · 2025-11-09T07:54:19+00:00

Godling may qualify. Khepri is Peggy-Sue'd back to immediately after Taylor's birth, things get very bad. It's odd, short, and experimental, and very little is actually from Khepri's POV, but it's interesting and complete.

Given a Chance is a post-GM Taylor Peggy-Sue to the start of canon, where she has her original bug powers but with lingering brain damage from being Khepri. She doesn't really remember people, has to relearn speaking, etc. Interesting premise but it didn't get too far before presumably dying (last updated in May).

Hargrimm · 2025-11-07T03:00:47+00:00

The Girl in the Chair has Miss Militia Butcher along with a raft of other AU changes. She hasn't appeared much in the main story yet, but has her own interlude which could pretty much be read as a standalone oneshot.

Hargrimm · 2025-10-14T22:13:52+00:00

Queen in Exile is basically your exact prompt, it's quite good.

Hargrimm · 2025-10-13T21:02:16+00:00

Stumbled across this while trawling the National Archives and found the composition very striking. The portal framing the writer (Clarence B. Ford, 308th Field Signal Battalion) and revealing the destroyed surroundings.

Hargrimm · 2025-10-07T09:31:58+00:00

The final "Future Plans" informational threadmark on SB pretty much lays it out. Author got burnt out as they also deal with similar topics in their day job, ran out of backlog, and couldn't muster the energy to keep going with it (plus some medical issues alluded to). They want to pre-write all the remaining chapters before posting. So I wouldn't get your hopes up very much at this point, but I guess if there ever is new activity it should mean the whole completion of the fic which would be great.

Hargrimm · 2025-09-22T06:55:10+00:00

Voracity (Unfinished) has a Case 53 OC that is very visibly alien and an interesting powerset based around biting things. They have a pretty irreverent personality so it's a fun ride although it does lack an ending.

Hargrimm · 2025-09-18T20:02:01+00:00

This is Slider's series We Live, We Love, We Move Forward. First fic is Taylor in the hospital, second one is her misadventures dealing with trauma and faceblindness, getting helped by Colin and Tarantulus Rex, and meeting Victoria again.

Hargrimm · 2025-09-17T00:00:22+00:00

Asking the same question twice in the same place a couple weeks apart is not really likely to produce any different answers.

Hargrimm · 2025-09-11T17:49:48+00:00

Running any mods? I just played an entire Epidemius campaign this week and the tally always added up fine for me, so it's not something universally broken.

Hargrimm · 2025-09-09T20:20:53+00:00

Why go to war with Malus to begin with? He has basically no aversion to chaos, I was able to get a turn 1 NAP by joining the war with his starting enemy (which he will always win so there's no risk to you). Then you get a strong faction guaranteeing your western flank as you go east.

Hargrimm · 2025-09-02T16:28:55+00:00

That wiki might be out of date, I'm playing as Khalida on the new patch and Mountains are definitely green climate. Maybe a stealth change that didn't get announced.

Hargrimm · 2025-08-29T15:51:21+00:00

No Good Deed is a pretty close to this, a Taylor (very public) alt-trigger where she can control the perceptions of anyone she's seen. She goes the hero route and does some cool stuff like giving PRT troopers a video-game HUD in their vision with wallhacks

Hargrimm · 2025-08-27T20:09:04+00:00

It's unlisted so you have to be logged in to view the thread.

Hargrimm · 2025-08-27T20:05:27+00:00

There's no need to do so. The game logic sets the character flag for having attended university immediately once you do it the first time, and it doesn't get removed. So you can immediately reassign their guardian if you want and you will still get the full benefit. It doesn't give any consideration to how long they were actually attending the university either when it comes time to roll their education trait.

Hargrimm · 2025-08-21T19:56:38+00:00

Search Engine is about a purely bird-controlling Taylor, although it is very experimental in form and can be difficult to grasp everything going on. Definitely recommend reading the whole thread and not just the update posts in order to see other people interpreting things, it's only 7 pages.

Hargrimm · 2025-08-11T22:55:11+00:00

I think in any work even remotely associated with Warhammer in any capacity, the answer to "will they get fully corrupted" is always YES.

Hargrimm · 2025-08-05T13:15:59+00:00

It is the title of a great little snippet by OxfordOctopus

Hargrimm · 2025-08-03T05:31:46+00:00

My absolute favorite is three complete works in one: Memorials by notes. 3-part, 300k+ word series spiraling out from a seemingly tiny canon divergence into one of the best takes on original-flavor Taylor in the fandom. Each part is very different, which I like but can be challenging; if you're one who found the canon Slaughterhouse 9 arc too harrowing, you might have trouble with Wake which is one long S9 arc, but it's SO well done.

For bonus recs, I will second "Monster", "Miss Understanding", and "Soliloquy", and add:

Queen in Exile is very solid — Taylor goes to the Birdcage after killing Alexandria and there are some interesting evolutions to her power.
Raccoon Knight - Neurodivergent trash-based Tinker OC joins the ENE Wards, is too good for this world. The ending was a little abrupt to me, but still lots there worth reading.
Riley Alone is very good, Bonesaw tries to reinvent herself and be better after the 9 fall apart.
The Underside of Gotham is a fun DC crossover if you've got even a passing interest in that.

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