#dreamwidth crosspost

 1. Bastille - Blame

Fall upon your knees, sing, "This is my body and soul here"

Crawl and beg and plead, sing, "You've got the power and control"

Don't pin it all on me

Don't pin it all on me

 2. Imagine Dragons - Natural

You're a natural

A beating heart of stone

You gotta be so cold

To make it in this world

Yeah, you're a natural

Living your life cutthroat

You gotta be so cold

Yeah, you're a natural

 3. MARINA - Guilty

I was just a kid

That you could not forgive

Because it's harder

I was just a kid

And all I really wanted

Was my father

 4. My Chemical Romance - Mama

She said, "you ain't no son of mine

For what you've done they're

Gonna find a place for you

And just you mind your manners when you go

And when you go don't return to me, my love"

5. REI AMI - Dictator

I am not your queen, I'm your dictator

Bend the fucking knee, yeah bitch that was an order

Whatcha say to me? Huh? Bitch speak louder

You know I reign supreme, nah, you can't imitate her

6. Paramore - Idle Worship

Oh, it's such a long and awful lonely fall

Down from this pedestal that you keep putting me on

What if I fall on my face?

What if I make a mistake?

If it's okay a little grace would be appreciated

 7. Temposhark - Don't Mess With Me

...all your heads are gonna roll

I've made your misery my goal

So if you want survival, kneel on my arrival

This is how I rule the world

 8. Sixx: A.M. - This Is Gonna Hurt

Listen up, listen up

There's a devil in the church

Got a bullet in the chamber

And this is gonna hurt

Let it out, let it out

You can scream and you can shout

Keep your secrets in the shadows and you'll be sorry

 9. Hozier - Arsonist's Lullaby

When I was 16, my senses fooled me

Thought gasoline was on my clothes

I knew that something would always rule me

I knew the scent was mine alone

 10. The Neighbourhood - Wires

It kills to know that you have been defeated

I see the wires pulling while you're breathing

You knew you had a reason

It killed you like diseases

I can hear it in your voice while your speaking you can't be treated

Mr. Know-it-all had his reign and his fall

At least that's what his brain is telling all

 11. Crusher-P - Again [Gumi English]

I am on fire

A crying, burning liar

Seeing nothing, nothing, but myself

And I'm the one with the lighter

Every inch of me is charred

God, what happened to my heart?

I'm about to fall apart

Again, again

And you're never coming back

And I'm not okay with that

And I should've never let myself get attached

 12. Panic! At The Disco - Emperor's New Clothes

Sycophants on velvet sofas

Lavish mansions, vintage wine

I am so much more than royal

Snatch your chain and mace your eyes

If it feels good, tastes good

It must be mine

Heroes always get remembered

But you know legends never die

 13. Kanye West - Power

No one man should have all that power

The clock's ticking, I just count the hours

Stop tripping, I'm tripping off the power

'Til then, fuck that, the world's ours

 14. Avenged Sevenfold - Welcome to the Family

Not long ago you find the answers were so crystal clear

Within a day you find yourself living in constant fear

Can you look at yourself now, can you look at yourself?

You can't win this fight

 15. Candle Queen [Gumi English]

Hurt by the flames that burn higher and higher

Clutching a broken crown of fire

All alone in the final scene

The one and only candle queen

the tl;dr is I am okay and getting better but life has been A Lot lately.

Jester is too small. Too lightweight. Too weird in her jerry-rigged old combat mech — decommissioned, thankfully — that flirts with the regulations for the sacred game. She might be able to score a three pointer, or even a five pointer, but there was absolutely no way she’d ever be able to hit a thirteen, never mind a twentington, making her useless on the wangball field. So why was she out there for every game?

That was a question head coach Billings of the Dubauer Prowlers asked himself every time he fielded her. There was the fact that she’d come in as a package deal with Dancing Queen, their new star draft pick. If they wanted her, they had to take Jester as well. That had been the one thing she wouldn’t budge on. She needed her, she'd said. He still couldn’t quite understand why a superstar in the making wanted… that on her team, but he’d figured he’d be able to find some way around it, given time.

Unfortunately and more importantly at this late point in the season, he’d been assured by more than one of their own loyal supporters and even his players that if he benched Jester or gods forbid kicked her off the team, very bad things would happen to him, personally. So before every game, Billings grit his teeth, closed his eyes, prayed, and aimed the team’s chaos gremlin in the only somewhat safe direction: at the opposing team.

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How wordy has Wildbow gotten over time? Well...

X axis is "chapter number", i.e a number that starts at 1 with the first chapter of Worm and increases by 1 every new chapter without resetting with new serials. The glow-worm chapters are, for not-very-important technical reasons, counted as happening in between the first and second chapters of Ward. Yes that's silly, no it doesn't really matter that much so I didn't bother to fix it. The Pale chapters with wordcounts near the bottom are the image-only bonus material, which I did not try to OCR (much less transcribe by hand, since I haven't read Pale yet and that seems like an inevitable way to get spoiled on important things. also doing things by hand is boring). Wordcounts are slightly imprecise because they include things like the previous and next chapter links; I did not bother to remove those because you cannot see the difference anyway, but if I later publish summary statistics and they're a bit different than those you find elsewhere that's probably why.

Absolutely. That's easy-peasy.

I would like to come to your house and spend an hour with you, and then spend a minute answering these questions. (You may get multiple people to ask the same question to make sure I don't just answer the same way every time.)

During that time, you can subject me to any test, any kind of examination. The only thing I ask is that there be some purpose in it -- that I am not just sitting there doing nothing because you want to see what I can or can't do. (We can agree on the details.)