Virals

i do think tory would have forgiven ben much quicker if he hadn't gotten expelled bc she softens within a few days of regular proximity to him and i also think she would have forgiven him immediately if he had actually gone to juvie but they would have had much worse problems on their hands and i'm upset just thinking about it

when i was younger and read virals i was so confused as to why they were not flaring at every opportunity. i was so convinced that if i had the opportunity for superior vision literally whenever i wanted i would be doing it all the time regardless of consequences. and now i don’t even wear my glasses most of the time because they’re annoying to keep on

i like how virals is a spring book seizure is a summer book and code is a fall book they all have that mood to them. i respect that exposure took a big jump in the time skip and finally let the characters age although i do sort of wish for a virals winter book. charleston's weather does not really get worse in the winter but i think it could have been cool idk. not important. terminal doesn't really take advantage of its setting. you could say it was unseasoned.

shock is a winter story. shift is a fall story. spike is a summer story. swipe is also a summer story but it takes place in the multiverse where chance and the trinity never became viral. its set in july, but the gang has golden eyes and full control of their hivemind, even without cooper, which is impossible before code and also impossible after terminal. therefore, the events of terminal, and some of the events of exposure, could not have happened in this story's timeline. we also see this in characterization. the characters have no real objections flaring in public anymore, and ben and tory's relationship, though unlabeled, is completely comfortable, indicating group growth and reconciliation. this is why swipe is so good but tragically they are going to die someday from having such awesome powers.

my most ambitious idea for a virals fic was downloading those social media skins on ao3 to do a fic of people reacting to the game master case. like news articles, reddit threads, tweets, youtube videos, news comment sections, the tumble accounts, the true crime media. just the range of reactions to the group and the case. the general public, the analysis of the weak spots of their case that didn’t add up, the connections to other cases, the conspiracy theories, and the odd online investigators who successfully linked them to the claybourne case and then mysteriously were scrubbed from the internet or sent cease and desist letters.

i actually started this! turns out those skins are hard to use so i might just do image editing instead and post it here. we'll see. all i know is that after the hurricane evacuation hi had the craziest ao3 update of all time

i don't actually know if i think hi would write fanfiction or read it but i also get a harry potter and the methods of rationality enjoyer vibe from him so he does for this fic

my most ambitious idea for a virals fic was downloading those social media skins on ao3 to do a fic of people reacting to the game master case. like news articles, reddit threads, tweets, youtube videos, news comment sections, the tumble accounts, the true crime media. just the range of reactions to the group and the case. the general public, the analysis of the weak spots of their case that didn’t add up, the connections to other cases, the conspiracy theories, and the odd online investigators who successfully linked them to the claybourne case and then mysteriously were scrubbed from the internet or sent cease and desist letters.

i actually started this! turns out those skins are hard to use so i might just do image editing instead and post it here. we'll see. all i know is that after the hurricane evacuation hi had the craziest ao3 update of all time