On 12/8/2023 7:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 11/22/2023 9:25 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <[email protected]>,
Ahasuerus  <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 9:48:35 PM UTC-5, Ted Nolan
<tednolan> wrote:

In article <ujme5i$1irs7$[email protected]>,
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

"Taylor Varga" by mp3.1415player

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/taylor-varga-worm-luna-varga.32119/

[snip-snip]

I looked at the site and it wasn't clear to me how to proceed. I
certainly don't want to read hundreds chapters in a browser.

It it collected into an epub somewhere on the site?

Step 1: Access https://fichub.net

Step 2: Enter the URL listed above, i.e.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/taylor-varga-worm-luna-varga.32119
into the box which appears at the top of the page and click "Export"

Step 3: Wait for a few seconds while the Web site generates
EPUB/MOBI/PDF
files

Step 4: Click "Download as EPUB"

Step 5: Profit

The site can also be used to generate EPUB files for other fics. It's
not as
robust as FanFicFare (available either as a standalone tool or as a
Calibre
plugin), but it's easy to use and it works with FanFiction.net, which
doesn't
play nice with most WebToPub tools.

Cool, that seems to work..

Thanks!

Worm has come up here several times, and it sounded both interesting and
too unrelievedly grim for me, so I may try this though girding up for
length can be daunting sometimes (though I am reading One Piece..)

I am trying to read Worm now, really really dark so far.  I have gotten about 100,000 words in, only 1.58 million words to go.
   https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

[It looks like my 2023-12-08 response didn't make it to Eternal
September and possibly other Usenet servers, so I am re-posting it below
using an ES account.]

100K words in is around Arc 4-5, right? Bakuda? I would recommend
sticking with it until the end of Arc 8, which is roughly 18% in. The
very end of Arc 7 clarifies what's been going on and Arc 8 is a major inflection point. Things change quite a bit after that. Some later arcs
have very dark moments and I almost set *Worm* aside at one point, but
Arc 8 was ... something else. One of the most impressive long fights in
all of science fiction, even though you won't find out what it was
really all about until almost the end of the serial.

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On 12/8/2023 8:08 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 11/22/2023 8:41 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Taylor Varga" by mp3.1415player

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/taylor-varga-worm-luna-varga.32119/

...

I have now read several other Taylor Hebert stories by mp3.1415player
and really enjoyed them all so far.  None of them are finished,
he/she/it always writes themselves into a corner and is not interested
in getting out since there are always other stories to write.

Taylor creates the ability to store items in a massless timeless pocket
using a toolbox from her great uncle...

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/great-grand-uncle-schimmelhorns-toolbox.106361/

Taylor becomes a DARPA scientist by inventing practical antigravity...

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/distance-learning-for-fun-and-profit.84773/

Taylor creates a race of five foot tall bug biped four armed tinkers
using her bug parahuman powers on a group of Praying Mantises...

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/bugs-in-the-system.116868/

You can see all of the mp3.1415player at:

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/search/15773428/?t=post&c[content]=thread&c[nodes][0]=2&c[nodes][1]=15&c[nodes][2]=94&c[nodes][3]=95&c[nodes][4]=157&c[users]=mp3.1415player&o=date

[It looks like my 2023-12-08 response didn't make it to Eternal
September and possibly other Usenet servers, so I am re-posting it below
using an ES account.]

I am trying to think of other Worm fan fics that would be at least
somewhat similar. Scanning https://wormstorysearch.com/?direction=desc&is_nsfw_eq=any&limit=20&page=1&searching=true&sort=stories.rating
I think I can recommend:

* Memories of Iron (Tony Stark merges with Taylor; if you like it, the
author, "becuzitswrong", wrote 3 other Worm fics of comparable quality,
with *Railgun* arguably the weakest of the quarter)
* Refusing the Call (Taylor as an unwilling magnet for multiversal powers)
* Denial (everyone thinks that Taylor has powers, much to her distress)
* How to Train Your Endbringer (Taylor controls the Endbringers)
* Manager (Taylor manages powers)
* Path to Munchies (Taylor with a food-flavored Path to Victory power)
* Special Edition (Taylor sells precognitive information online)
* There's No Way My New Little Sister Can Be The Simurgh!
* Kill Them All (Taylor with Gamer powers; if you like it, the author
has written a number of other Worm fics of similar quality)
* Toaru Majutsu no Taylor-chan: A Certain Mythic Archmage (Taylor as a Pathfinder Level 20 Wizard with 10 Tiers of Mythic Archmage)

Here are the first two paragraphs of the last listed fic:

"It was a perfectly ordinary mid-January night in Brockton Bay. The moon
was shining, the drunks were singing, evil was flourishing as good
people did nothing, thieves thieved, hussies hustled, druggies drugged,
and one of the boats in the Boat Graveyard was loudly crushed to
destruction as chunks of glowing hot volcanic rock and clumps of ash
pounded down on the rusting metal, the hot slag falling from the air and showering violently on anything in an area 40 feet wide followed by
heavy volcanic ash that reeked of sulfur, like the particularly
cinematic result of a volcanic explosion.

The fact that Brockton Bay did not have a volcano is at best a minor bit
of useless trivia."

You can find each fic's location at https://wormstorysearch.com

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On 12/19/2023 10:38 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

[snip-snip]
Arc 8 [of _Worm_ was something else.  I was going to shut it down at midnight,
ended up reading until 3 am, was really late for 830 am church in the morning.  Yes, the fight was something else.

Glad you liked it! There are some other impressive fights later in the
story, but only the final fight comes close to Arc 8.

I am ashamed of Armsmaster [spoilers snip]

If you re-read the second meeting with Armsmaster, you'll notice that he
is not a particularly stable person and that the PRT treats him accordingly:

I had to put up with two days of losing command of my team, two days

where they confiscated my Halberd and power armor! I was interrogated,
all my equipment taken apart and checked!

There is a reason for it, but it won't become apparent until much later.

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On 12/29/2023 3:46 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 12/19/2023 9:26 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:
...

I am trying to think of other Worm fan fics that would be at least
somewhat similar. Scanning
https://wormstorysearch.com/?direction=desc&is_nsfw_eq=any&limit=20&page=1&searching=true&sort=stories.rating
I think I can recommend:

* Memories of Iron (Tony Stark merges with Taylor; if you like it, the
author, "becuzitswrong", wrote 3 other Worm fics of comparable quality,
with *Railgun* arguably the weakest of the quarter)
* Refusing the Call (Taylor as an unwilling magnet for multiversal
powers)
* Denial (everyone thinks that Taylor has powers, much to her distress)
* How to Train Your Endbringer (Taylor controls the Endbringers)
* Manager (Taylor manages powers)
* Path to Munchies (Taylor with a food-flavored Path to Victory power)
* Special Edition (Taylor sells precognitive information online)
* There's No Way My New Little Sister Can Be The Simurgh!
* Kill Them All (Taylor with Gamer powers; if you like it, the author
has written a number of other Worm fics of similar quality)
* Toaru Majutsu no Taylor-chan: A Certain Mythic Archmage (Taylor as a
Pathfinder Level 20 Wizard with 10 Tiers of Mythic Archmage)

Here are the first two paragraphs of the last listed fic:

"It was a perfectly ordinary mid-January night in Brockton Bay. The moon
was shining, the drunks were singing, evil was flourishing as good
people did nothing, thieves thieved, hussies hustled, druggies
drugged, and one of the boats in the Boat Graveyard was loudly crushed
to destruction as chunks of glowing hot volcanic rock and clumps of
ash pounded down on the rusting metal, the hot slag falling from the
air and showering violently on anything in an area 40 feet wide
followed by heavy volcanic ash that reeked of sulfur, like the
particularly cinematic result of a volcanic explosion.

The fact that Brockton Bay did not have a volcano is at best a minor
bit of useless trivia."

You can find each fic's location at https://wormstorysearch.com

I just finished the excellent "Memories Of Iron [Ironman]"
   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10230499/1/Memories-of-Iron
and "A Propensity For Wrath" by becuzitswrong.
   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11449804/1/A-Propensity-For-Wrath
and

Unfortunately, both stories are unfinished.  And I found out that the
author becuzitswrong passed away in 2016 of a heart attack.  Sad, very sad.

Glad you liked them! True, they are unfinished, but "Memories of Iron"
went on hiatus right after the end of Arc 1, which was a decent stopping
point. It's more than you can realistically expect from most works of fanfiction -- of the 13,996 Worm fics listed by wormstorysearch.com only
1,922 are finished.

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