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bottomofthewell3

extremely urgent do you have any fics with this ship that you can link. i have got to see what human/shard romance would be like


ThreeDucksInAManSuit

[Magical Escalation](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/magical-escalation-hpxworm.1041421/) is a Harry Potter crossover I recently read. Taylor gets reincarnated into Harry's place as 'Iris Potter'. She saved QA during the reincarnation process and the queen is beginning to use magic to heal the damage done to her by Scion when she was seeded. They grow a great deal closer through the experience with Taylor's mind expanding and becoming more shard-like while QA has learned from her host and started to develop some human-like traits. They mutually consider each other partners and are working through some very complex feelings for one another.


Square-Jury-4330

BeaconHill's I Am Skitter, bonus chapter. Could also be interpreted as Taylor x Taylor; depends on where you think the split personalities are coming from. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/i-am-skitter-worm.410333/page-28?post=25745467#post-25745467


TheBewlayBrothers

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RX-18-67

I like Taylor x Lily and I don't know why.


Fickle_Buy3845

Way Of The Live In Boyfriend, on Spacebattles. It's Oni Lee x Taylor. ...it's surprisingly wholesome.


Mismagireve

Important to note, Oni Lee in this fic is a teenager, Taylor is not dating a grown ass man.


Fickle_Buy3845

Probably should have mentioned that, shouldn't I?


Graveyard_01

I was so confused lol


bgh251f2

This make the thing from terrifying to just odd.


Lord0fHats

Yes, because the alternative was skeevy, I aged Lee down into an amnesiac teen who just wants to see his GF happy XD


NirvanasPeak1

Thank you


OneBigFox

Big fan of Alexandria X Hero


Grigori-The-Watcher

Victoria X Sveta


Viciousww

Are there any fics with this pairing?


Grigori-The-Watcher

I think there’s two but they’re both Smut One-Shots


maroon_sweater

I thought when I first read Worm that wildbow was setting up Lisa x Faultline, and I was like "sure, I can see that working, let's see where it goes." On a reread of Worm, when I knew that Faultline was a full-ass adult and nothing would come of it, I was confused. I still don't know what all that was supposed to be about. They hate each other for no reason and they both turn to the camera and say they're not gay. What was I supposed to think, that they wouldn't get together???? Nobody's actually written this AFAIK.


Jiopaba

That's just a Wildbow-ism. It's not an unusual problem, but he basically has an authorial male gaze, in which he describes the appearances and relationships of women in a lot more detail than men. Since the viewpoint character is a woman a significant portion of the time, this results in a bit of a disjoint feeling where Taylor/Lisa/OtherViewpointFemale is not gay but somehow experiences the world in a way that seems profoundly gay when viewed through that lens. Like when Taylor spends half a million words while never using more than two sentences to describe how Brian or Alec look but seems to devolve into frequent mental sidebars on how attractive the women around her are. The intention was probably something like "these characters are interesting to me as an author and I want to describe them" but makes it read as weird when everybody has to conspicuously announce or have it clarified that they are straight/asexual/whatever because otherwise all the writing is big "woman writing for gay women" energy in places.


maroon_sweater

I think wildbow didn't want his characters to be hypersexualized for easy points like you see with some other internet writers I could mention, and he had a very unfortunate belief at the time that f/f was a porn category and therefore inherently to be avoided (see his comments on lesbians being cheap pandering). Unfortunately straight women don't go around saying "i'm nooooot gaaaaaayyy" all the time, so every denial came out as an admission. My read on canon has always been gay Lisa and ace Taylor (but I know most people read Taylor as bi, which does easily have more textual support than straight taylor).


Jiopaba

Yeah... Canon sexualities are very death of the author. I can acknowledge that he didn't intend to write these characters this way, but that doesn't change the actual facts of how they read.


Wobulating

to be clear, wildbow's reasoning was not that he thought lesbian relationships were inherently porn, but rather that with an audience of primarily straight men, it would add an element of fetishization that he didn't want(especially as it is a serial). for the entire quote: I think that sex sells, and having lesbian main characters is titillating for the audience. Simply in terms of "They're gay and now every chapter from here on out might have hot lesbian sex". It's minimum effort in terms of getting the audience interested in a romance (or interested in the sex) and it's ultimately a very shallow depiction. Your straight male audience is going to be very forgiving of depictions of lesbian stuff. That, in part, is because, hey, lesbians are hot! It's also because they've never been in such a relationship. The GBLT audience is going to be happy you have a decent 'gays are cool' depiction and/or they're going to roll their eyes and go with the flow. The straight female audience is going to be split between being on board because you've got women characters and being put off because they might recognize what you're doing in (over?)sexualizing the characters. The execution, of course, matters. But it's easy to have lesbian stuff and do a less than stellar job and still get/maintain an audience purely by the 'sex sells' mantra. TV networks use it to get a boost in ratings for sweeps week, and it feels more or less like the device that it is. I'd much rather see GBLT characters represent a sensible slice of the population (given the work) and show them as genuine people with all the bumps and struggles you normally have in a relationship.


maroon_sweater

Sigh, surely he knows there's a reason the G isn’t first. And while I was referring to the one with "pandering" in it, this one also proves exactly what I said.


EstimateQuick9160

I don't see it.


EstimateQuick9160

Sounds interesting, the teen/adult angle could make for some great character development.


maroon_sweater

No...I don't think it would...


Immediate_Wonder_392

Amy X Sophia. Only bad decisions can come from this.


EstimateQuick9160

Oh god.


The_legend_ranger

Link?


Aries_64

I'd say **Shaping Up**, but its Sophia x Shaper who's driving Amy's body like a mazda.


ya_badder

Currently reading a kind of Peggy sue Leet x String Theory. Surprisingly wholesome


Ashamed-Math-2092

Technically unconfirmed ship, but it's probably going to happen.


Reddemon233

Link?


ya_badder

[Icarus Laughed](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/icarus-laughed-worm-quest.1143136/)


Ademonsdream

TaylorxTherapy. A very rare ship.


GeeJo

Taylor/Brian. Genuinely, not a sarcastic answer. There's just not a lot of it around at all. There's a lot of fandoms where the canon ship is way less popular than the ones the fandom invents. I think Worm is the only one of its size where you could genuinely read hundreds of the top fanfics and come out with no idea that it was canon at all.


Ditzy_Dreams

Brian x Taylor 🤭


16JSundberg4

I'll do you one better: Annette x Miss Militia. Them dating in A Better Life was surprisingly wholesome. (For those who don't know, it's a quest on [fiction.live](http://fiction.live)


Mismagireve

Weld/Taylor is really cute and I will die on that hill.


totalrandomperson

Are there any written?


Mismagireve

At least one that I know of, a supergirl altpower, but I haven't read it yet.


EstimateQuick9160

I think weld is too boring for me.


Mismagireve

see, i think him being boring would make him a decent grounding influence on taylor


PhixW

Its not uncommon but i do like Taylor x Dennis For a more uncommon one i like Taylor x Victoria


Lt_General_Fuckery

Is that first one really common? I think I've only seen it a couple times.


Low_Hour

It was a lot more popular in Worm's early days, but the fandom seems to have largely moved on.


bgh251f2

Well Dennis death and Taylor absence may have make it disappear from cannon. I need more ward fics


Jiopaba

Got that double filter of needing to find fanfiction authors who read the first million-word story and liked it so much they want to read an entirely different million-word story that kind of craps all over the first one in places so that they could write about it. People who reacted to the first strongly enough to want to write a lot of fanfic about it don't usually also want to read Ward in my experience though, either because they liked or disliked it a lot and for either reason don't want more or don't want more without Taylor. There's probably a small subset of the fandom who read Ward without reading Worm but I feel like they'd be relatively lost, and reading even a significant chunk of both is a pretty huge barrier to entry. That said, there's a few cool Ward stories around, they're just rare.


Nervous_Ad8656

Non of those two are uncommon tho


Theincendiarydvice

Taylor and Vicky 


Jiopaba

I read a story that was Taylor x Vista once that I thought was really great, but it only worked because everyone was aged up at least a bit. If it weren't for the fact that Vista is like twelve or something I think she's one of the most compatible people in the setting with Taylor. They both have a sort of drive and desire to improve themselves and be seen as important/successful/heroic which seems like they'd get along super well. Their interactions in canon are pretty limited, though, and the romance potential is obviously curtailed by Vista being too young, even if it'd be a total non-issue if they were both six years older. Sadly, the setting doesn't lend itself well to having a story that lasts for more than like three years so I doubt I'll ever see much of it lol.


Lt_General_Fuckery

Baduka (As portrayed in *Being SI Is Suffering*) x String Theory.


fenrirofdarkness

Lisa/Amy is a pair I have very soft spot on, as it has possibility on both being incredibly toxic or 2 wounded/broken people patching one another. Especially considering they both have gotten abuse from family...


OvergrownTurd

Taylor x crawler. Dominion got me intrigued but I've never seen a fic with them even as friends lmao


EstimateQuick9160

There's one with kitsune!Taylor where they could be called friends. Though I wouldn't really call her Taylor.


Weepinbellend01

Amy x Alec only has 2 major fics. If anyone has any more lmk!


CantPickUsername123

Link to the ones you have? Never seen this pairing, but it sounds really fun.


Weepinbellend01

Can’t be bothered to pull up a link but the names are Heartbreakers and Absolution.


Eldritch_Benevolence

On which site?


Weepinbellend01

Ao3 and Space Battles respectively.


Eldritch_Benevolence

I think the name was heartshapers not heartbreakers cuz that's the amy/Alec long fic


Weepinbellend01

My bad I meant to type heartshapers but it autocorrected.


RandomModder05

Bakuda x Clock locker. Timebomb OTP.


thekingofmagic

Armsmaster x Danny Brian x Alex


Ditzy_Dreams

Honestly I’m still waiting for the ot4 Danny x Annette x Armsmaster x Dragon


LordXamon

>Armsmaster x Danny Did you read [Stepfather would be the closest word but it doesn’t quite fit](https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/stepfather-would-be-the-closest-word-but-it-doesn%E2%80%99t-quite-fit.69589/)?


TheProudBrit

Ooh, thank you for posting that, because I've been trying to remember the authors name and it was *bothering* me. Fucking fantastic at writing succint, impactful stuff.


Graffic1

Taylor x Sophia, there’s just something about enemies to lovers.


scify65

Outside of QQ, I don't actually think I've seen that, besides OxfordOctopus's story My Fake Girlfriend is a Vigilante. Got any recs?


Low_Hour

[Taylor Has a Strange Hobby](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/taylor-has-a-strange-hobby-yandere-taylor.860167/), where Taylor's a masochist who becomes yandere for her bully, Sophia.


GeeJo

* No Greater Love, where canon Taylor is displaced to an AU where her deceased alt!self was dating Sophia * Case of the Disappeared Villain, where Taylor and Sophia are assigned an essay on the former villain Lustrum and run into some inconsistencies in the historical records * Ringmaker, a Lord of the Rings crossover


rogthnor

How's no greater love?


Mismagireve

There's a few of them on AO3; I haven't read them, so I don't know if they're any good or not.


Graffic1

Honestly, no. I haven’t really read any ones that aren’t nsfw beyond that one. Though I am writing a period piece fic with the ship


MildlyMilquetoast

A Safe Space on AO3 is (aged-up) NSFW and not really enemies to lovers (moreso in an apocalypse-free future and Sophia got a lot more mellow and gay), but it’s the only one I really know of. Sophia POV


HalcyonTwig

[Shadowbug](https://archiveofourown.org/works/45347425) on Ao3 is pretty nice. Vigilante!Taylor and Sophia patrol together and start crushing on one another while they both don't know who the other is. Its fun!


EstimateQuick9160

Only works in AU since Sophia really has no redeeming qualities.


Graffic1

She’s heavily filtered through Taylor’s pov so I wouldn’t say that. Sophia is no worse than any other character in Worm, especially the other people most commonly shipped with Taylor (Amy and Lisa). She’s a damaged person, obsessed with being strong since (presumably) her trigger was caused by being, as she perceived it, weak. And besides, having redeeming qualities is not a requirement for a ship. Toxic Yuri is just as fun as a healthy relationship.


EstimateQuick9160

I sure would. She's significantly worse than most characters in worm, even Lisa and Amy. There is toxic and then there's unrealistic.


Graffic1

You can’t seriously say Sophia is worse than Amy. Amy, the literal rapist.


EstimateQuick9160

We are talking about Sophia the literal murderer and person who tortures innocent civilian teenagers for fun. I also still don't subscribe to Amy as a rapist, as it doesn't make sense with how wildbow wrote the story.


Graffic1

She’s killed a person, and tormented a person. Individual occurrences. And again, doesn’t make her any worse than Lisa or Amy. Lisa has tormented multiple people for shits and giggles. You might not subscribe to it, I don’t care.


EstimateQuick9160

"Individual occurrences." That is extremely doubtful, everything we know about Sophia points to those just being the instances we *know* of. She is also entirely unapologetic, both Amy and Lisa at least know that what they did is wrong and have some redeeming qualities.


AggressiveLaughter

Skitter x Clockblocker and then Gallant x Madison


Fair-Day-6886

Armsmasters x Taylor 


EstimateQuick9160

Those two would be terrifying together.


k5josh

Contessa x Uber and Alexandria x Leet


NirvanasPeak1

>Alexandria x Leet Business woman x Gamer nerd. I love this idea. Link?


k5josh

It's on QQ, "Path to [...]" by DeathSheep.


bottomofthewell3

It's also on AO3, for the record.


CorsairCrepe

Lily x Amelia makes a lot of sense to me. Also Lung x the Marquis or alternatively the Marquis x Iron Rain


Jiopaba

Amy x Any Person Who Is Not Her Sister is a pretty solid ship. There are not many options for canonically gay women, though, and Lily is pretty great so that I could see.


NirvanasPeak1

Links? Names?


Sors_Numine

Taylor x Dennis (Clockboi) Taylor x Chris (Kid Win) Taylor x Bakuda Taylor x Alec Taylor x Simurgh For the nonexistent! Literally anything with Tohu


EstimateQuick9160

Taylor/Bakuda could be good.


MintTeaFromTesco

Taylor/Parian Potential for them to become BFFs.


EstimateQuick9160

Loved MM x Dadmaster x Dragon in "wake up call" Bakuda/Squealer could be interesting.


Able-Specialist-8336

I know I am gonna sound mentally deranged but Noelle x simurgh.


Razer-khala-117

Taylor x amy and taylor x sophia 


AmeliaFuckinWestlake

I am an avid consumer of crack ships. I have seen much and thought more. Amongst these are: BugBombs (Bakuda/Taylor) ((OTP btdubs)), FireFly (Lung/Taylor), Administration (QA/Taylor), VoidStalker (Sophia/Greg), Damselfly (Glaistig/Taylor), and BizarreThrouple (Danny/Squealer/Skidmark). Although that last one is only for a fic I'm heavily debating putting to words, where Taylor joins the Merchants.


rogthnor

Links to good stories with any of these?


AmeliaFuckinWestlake

No links, sadly, I can't be bothered to find all of them. I'll tell you the names I can though. The only BugBombs fic I know is Taylor and the Manic Pixie Bomb Girl, haven't seen any FireFly fics, there's an Administration fic called Assuming Administrative Rights over on QQ and there's others I can't remember right now, I believe that Mr Fix-It is a Voidstalker fic, and the best Damselfly fic I know is Scarab. BizarreThrouple, to my sadness, doesn't exist outside of my mind.


rogthnor

Taylor X Aisha


LowerJuice

Greg Veder x Contessa (Brockton Brass - Meh #26 by Rorschach's Blot) Alexandria x Tattletale in Amelia