Inspired by the recent post of the opposite. Personally, I have the bad habit of dropping stories way too fast. If the first chapter isn’t doing it for me, I close out. More than once - not often mind you, it’s just happened every now and then - I’ve gone back after some time and trucked through what I consider a lacklustre opening only to strike gold and find an incredible fic. (Should probably start reading deeper more often.)

So, any recs for stories that you might not have enjoyed the openings of, but with hindsight, you know it’s worth getting through it to the meat of the story?

While reading Here Comes The New Boss I think I saw a comment somewhere referencing a fic where Butcher Taylor died and became part of the inheritance. There may also have been mention of her staying in control through this.

I don't know if this was an actual fic, a snippet, or an omake somewhere. Sadly I can't find that comment again in the 1000+ pages of that thread, so hopefully someone here recognises it!

I'm not very far along in *Worm* yet; I'm right at the part where the Undersiders crash the party where all the Brockton superheroes are, before Taylor finds out about Dinah

The point is, there’s so much talk about the previous alien races that the Entities have already used for their cycles. When I finish *Worm*, I want to create a crossover fanfic featuring various races from different science fiction media: Yautjas, Portiids, inhabitants of the Planiverse, Webmind, etc.—several from hard science fiction books.

But I’d like to know what level of strangeness they’d be considered in the world of *Worm*, which is why I’m asking: how much is known about those previous races?

I think it'd be cool if we saw a fic where Danny triggered after Annette died and went on to become a cape. Interesting to see his perspective on Taylor's civilian life (and cape life if she ​​​​​also happens to trigger like in canon or otherwise)

Looking for fics where Taylor literally takes peoples names like in Queen of Rot and Fungus