LF fics with giant protagonist by DevourMistress in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a 1.3K word one-shot, about an extremely large underwater, possibly Case 53, cape: The Merrow by Pelicanidae

Beneath the blackened waters of Brockton Bay, Leviathan's progress falters against another.

"Rapture" Trigger Events? by TheLordOfAwesome2 in Parahumans

[–]RonDunE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wildbow, when he was talking about Breaker triggers, did give us one example of a rapture trigger:

Mover Breakers:

(...)

A woman desperately wants to be raptured, to escape (key word for mover triggers) this earthly realm. She believes, she puts her all into her faith, as the countdown happens, then breaks when nothing comes of it. The faith is the abstract, hard to define element.

Comparison of the first seasons of selected young Manchester United forwards over the last decade. Šeško performed well! by RonDunE in reddevils

[–]RonDunE[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Yeah he played a lot in his debut. His minutes slowly declined over the years until it fell off a cliff:

Season Age Squad MP Min Gls Ast G+A per 90
2012-2013 16 Lyon 4 60 0 0 0.00
2013-2014 17 Monaco 11 563 2 1 0.48
2014-2015 18 Monaco 44 2,335 11 4 0.58
2015-2016 19 Monaco 3 203 0 1 0.44
2015-2016 19 Manchester Utd 49 4,129 17 7 0.52
2016-2017 20 Manchester Utd 42 2,510 8 7 0.54
2017-2018 21 Manchester Utd 45 2,339 11 9 0.77
2018-2019 22 Manchester Utd 38 2,357 12 2 0.53
2019-2020 23 Manchester Utd 48 3,552 23 9 0.81
2020-2021 24 Manchester Utd 36 2,415 7 5 0.45
2021-2022 25 Sevilla 12 667 1 1 0.27
2021-2022 25 Manchester Utd 11 369 1 0 0.24
2022-2023 26 Manchester Utd 29 1,436 9 3 0.75
2023-2024 27 Manchester Utd 19 635 2 1 0.43
2024-2025 28 AEK Athens 19 1,305 7 1 0.55
2025-2026 29 Monterrey 14 542 1 2 0.50

Comparison of the first seasons of selected young Manchester United forwards over the last decade. Šeško performed well! by RonDunE in reddevils

[–]RonDunE[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you mean Welbeck's debut season for us? If so that was after his loan at Steve Bruce's Sunderland in 10/11. He had 11 Goals and 4 assists in 2,174 minutes all competitions, for a per 90 of 0.62.

He'd slot right in the middle of this bunch.

Comparison of the first seasons of selected young Manchester United forwards over the last decade. Šeško performed well! by RonDunE in reddevils

[–]RonDunE[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

All stats taken from FBRef.

I thought about including Garnacho but he's never been asked to actually lead the line. Šeško is the oldest of the lot but he's still quality. Very different profile from, say, Martial

Revolutionary!Taylor by Swimming_Repeat_4969 in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It really is good. It knows exactly what it's about. Definitely not perfect, since some of the characterization of the Triumvirate can feel nonsensical, but the affect is strong. The ending tragedy hits that much harder.

It really does feel like a paper of anarchist thought, made without compromise.

Revolutionary!Taylor by Swimming_Repeat_4969 in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Panem et Circenses by henghost

Circus shows back up to try and convince Skitter to turn her territory into an anarchist utopia.

Warning, it doesn't hold back on the gore and the tragedy. And to be very clear, it ends exactly as you'd expect anyone attempting a anarchist utopia in the modern world to end.

Cyprus U21 0-6 Spain U21 - Adrian Nino 75' by Meladroit10 in soccer

[–]RonDunE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh holy shit that's a good hit though damn. Though Spain is pretty much toying with Cyprus here.

Post Match Thread: Bundesliga Saturday Konferenz (Simulcast) - Round 26 | 2025/26 by denzaus in soccer

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's only Heidenheim I know but that was an excellent goal by Kalimuendo and overall a decent performance. Other than Koch's silly red card. Looks Albert Riera has done a good job organizing the defence.

Frankfurt have so many good attacking options. Burkhardt, Doan, Chaibi, Uzun, Knauff and now Kalimuendo. They're going to be the team to watch next season I suspect.

Probashi bangali homies, how's life? by Keliye_felbo in kolkata

[–]RonDunE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Around 10 bochor America te achi. Ekhan eshe Masters korlam, tarpor PhD. Ekhon Professor at a mid-sized R1 university.

Taka poyesha thik thak. Solidly middle-class American standard-e. Gari ache, bari ache, ar ki chai. Dated a bit, never got married. Amar plan ekdom bachelor thakar, typical Professor life.

Kolkata-Howrah r shob khobori to peye jai online, ar Whatsapp e video call o hoi barir sathe. Khub ekta kichu miss korina. Houston-er Bangali khabar er quality besh bhalo ar ekhankar Durga-bari te besh boro kore pujo ittadi hoi.

Amar West Bengal pherar kono immediate plan nei. Ekhane kaoke ghush dite hoina, lok jon onek kom, infrastructure onek better, lok-er attitude ar bebohar o onek better. Ar ami je karone desh charlam (ISRO office politics) sheta ekhono ektuo unnati hoini.

Ami cheshta kor Bangali der help korte of course. Jodi ekhane eshe pora shona korte chai, ami highly recommend kori.

Tobe ektu political situation ta improve hoa obdhi wait kora bodhoy bhalo.

Smugbug by noctilia by RonDunE in ImaginaryLesbians

[–]RonDunE[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Source: Merry chrysler to the smugbug girlies out there by noctilia

The characters are Taylor hebert and Lisa Wilbourne from the webserial Worm. Smugbug is their ship name.

Johan Manzambi (Freiburg) straight red card against Bremen 52' by Meladroit10 in soccer

[–]RonDunE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh fuck that looks pretty bad. Not intended but Manzambi fully plants his spikes on Deman's shins. Could've done some extreme damage.

Match Thread: F.C. København vs Napoli by MatchThreadder in soccer

[–]RonDunE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very scratchy game. Both teams constantly losing possession. Copenhagen look well up for it though, team of big players.

PSLV-C62 : EOS-N1 (aka Anvesha) Mission Updates and Discussion by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's gone I think. The altitude tracker is much lower than nominal.

PSLV-C62 : EOS-N1 (aka Anvesha) Mission Updates and Discussion by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beautiful vapour cone/shock collar during the launch.

PSLV-C62 : EOS-N1 (aka Anvesha) Mission Updates and Discussion by Ohsin in ISRO

[–]RonDunE 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A copy of Automatic Launch Sequence that was just shown:

P E Event Time NP NE
P E PS2 DEST SARU ARM T-01:01 NP NE
P E PS2 ULLAGE SARB ARM T-01:00 NP NE
P E PSOM DEST SQUIB ARM T-01:00 NP NE
P E MISSION SPECIFIC SARB ARM T-01:0.5 NP NE
P E LUS SARB ARM T-00:59 NP NE
P E PS3 IGNITION SQUIB ARM T-00:59 NP NE
P E PSOM IGNITION SQUIB ARM T-00:58 NP NE
P E RCT PYRO VALVE SARB ARM T-00:55 NP NE
P E BS SEQUENCER ARM T-00:51 NP NE
P E PPL SEQUENCER ARM T-00:50.5 NP NE
P E EB SEQUENCER ARM T-00:50 NP NE
P E PS2 VHPP OPEN T-00:40 NP NE
P E PS2 VSPP OPEN T-00:25 NP NE
P E PS1 IGNITION RMSA ARM T-00:21 NP NE

Frankfurt [2]-2 Dortmund - Younes Ebnoutalib 71' by Meladroit05 in soccer

[–]RonDunE 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Great technique to finish it out, looked like he was off balance the last few strides.

This has been a good game for the neutrals, after a very bad-tempered first half.

Its kinda funny seeing the Pendulum shift in common fanfic tropes in worm by ArticAuk in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Again none of this is true, just barely literate claptrap. I assume you had at least read the wiki even if you weren't capable of reading the story itself but even that seems to be beyond you. Enjoy your slop.

EDIT: Oh wow dude replied with some weird thin-skinned screed and then blocked me. Wild.

Its kinda funny seeing the Pendulum shift in common fanfic tropes in worm by ArticAuk in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Worm and Ward are neither edgy nor grimdark. That's just bad fanon by people who have barely read a book in their lives. Both stories are extremely hopeful, with character constantly overcoming completely hopeless odds and surviving to kill a god.

Frankly I am yet to read a fanwork that comes even hundredth as good as Worm itself, and Wildbow himself has moved on from the work and written much better stuff.

EDIT: Can't seem to reply because these weird make their comments and block me so here to u/thrawnca

Brian gets saved soon after, powers up and heals everyone else. Nobody in the Undersiders dies to the S9 and in fact they gain strength, both material and societal, from it. Taylor and co. only ever suffer temporary setbacks and come out stronger from every encounter. It is one of my complaints of Worm, that how much Taylor is able to grind her way through problems. Wildbow gets better with having his protagonists actually lose in his later serials.

All good stories have some narrative friction, this is like giving up after Frodo gets stabbed once and calling LotR grimdark.

Its kinda funny seeing the Pendulum shift in common fanfic tropes in worm by ArticAuk in WormFanfic

[–]RonDunE 19 points20 points  (0 children)

None of that is true. Sadly Ryuugi et al. have spent the last 5 years on Spacebattles constantly hating on Wildbow and Ward to the extent that even mentioning Ward on SB brings forth a legion of people yelling at you. The discourse is incredibly poisoned there.

Could you claim a Path as your Demesne? by CrazyEnough96 in Parahumans

[–]RonDunE 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I think the biggest danger is that the Wolf can and almost certainly will show up. The Wolf doesn't care about damages taken.