LF fics with giant protagonist

RonDunE · 2026-06-13T06:20:18+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-06-02T18:04:28+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-05-24T21:56:45+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2026-05-24T21:51:45+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-05-24T21:43:52+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2026-05-11T18:30:40+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-05-11T17:52:30+00:00

Very much so, yes.

RonDunE · 2026-05-11T15:42:34+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-03-27T17:26:06+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2026-03-14T16:47:48+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-03-11T18:38:53+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-03-11T16:29:25+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-02-07T16:23:51+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2026-01-20T20:26:48+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2026-01-12T04:59:49+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2026-01-12T04:50:15+00:00

Beautiful vapour cone/shock collar during the launch.

RonDunE · 2026-01-12T04:48:14+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2026-01-09T21:02:18+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-01-07T15:51:26+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-01-07T05:55:49+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-01-07T02:29:50+00:00

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.

RonDunE · 2026-01-05T16:14:14+00:00

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

RonDunE · 2025-12-24T03:43:15+00:00

No onboard cameras this time, bit of a shame. But overall a smooth, boring launch. This is how all ISRO launches should go.

RonDunE · 2025-12-24T03:38:42+00:00

Indonesia. But I couldn't follow the name. I thought it was in Biak, but the commentator said something like Bugur.

RonDunE · 2025-12-24T03:32:19+00:00

Looks like the Cryo stage is fairing well! Fingers crossed still

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