netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
20m ago
…have you read Worm? I’d call it the definitive web fiction for superpowers.
For anyone who hasn’t—the setting has trauma-derived powers. Some small fraction of people are, upon having the worst day of their lives, handed a figurative gun. Depending on how poorly the next interaction goes, getting pressganged into the police is perhaps their best outcome.
Most Marvel-style laws would be unenforceable. A state monopoly on violence is right out. Plurality is possible, but slipping. Regions which can’t manage that devolve into warlordism and chaos.
Worm is the absolute best at working out what it would take to see lots of the standard superpower tropes. Why is there a central hero organization? How’d it end up looking like the Justice League instead of a military junta? How is there still a balance of power between criminals and the state? What’s Superman been doing all this time, and why is he in tights?
All these and more are addressed somewhere in this monstrosity of a story. It’s great.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
52m ago
I’ve never heard anybody say anything but “theythem”. Sample size is pretty damn small, though.
So…Worm? You’ve probably already seen it, but if not, you’re in luck.
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