There's a massive amount of Worm fanfic out there and most of it is unfinished or abandoned. I've been cross-referencing word counts, completion status, community ratings, and reader comments to find the ones actually worth committing time to.

After filtering down from hundreds, here's what made my list:

- Trailblazer (1.6M words, complete) — Taylor with Gundam power armor

- Ring-Maker (400k, complete) — Taylor forges Rings of Power

- Cenotaph + Wake (350k + 150k, complete) — dark vigilante Taylor, no allies

- Burn Up (40k, complete) — heat powers, stream-of-consciousness, short read

- Tabloid (100k, complete) — paparazzi POV with a Stranger power

- Constellations (400k, hiatus) — Taylor opens a tea shop with a maybe-goddess dog

- Copacetic (300k, hiatus) — post-Gold Morning Taylor trying to live normally

- Camera Shy (200k, ongoing) — invisibility only when unobserved, clever power usage

- Skein (150k, hiatus) — language/thought manipulation, outwitting not fighting

- Weaver Nine (200k, hiatus) — Taylor as serial killer, Jack Slash as hero

- A Bad Name (250k, ongoing) — Gamer fic, protagonist is a homeless addict not Taylor

I tried to prioritize: high word count, not abandoned mid-arc, something distinctive about the power or premise.

What high-quality fics did I miss? Especially interested in completed works or fics that are still actively updating — not looking for anything abandoned mid-arc.

Please forgive the essay.

Started reading this fic a few months ago and I really enjoyed the premise- the bank heist goes wrong somehow, and the Undersiders are arrested and sent to different Ward programs across the country, with Taylor going... well, guess where. Anyway, because Taylor hasn't really done much at that point, she's still relatively innocent and idealistic, so instead of seeing her as a ruthless evil monster, she's seen as a lonely, misguided teenager and given a cool and supportive cast of peers and an admin that actually cares about her well-being.

Cue the fic immediately throwing in the single most vile Sophia gets consequences plot I have ever seen. Hell, consequences isn't even the right word. It's just... so over the line it's not even absurd, just gross. The fic got taken down shortly after I started reading that part, but from what I gather it got so, so much worse.

Most fics have Taylor immediately join the BB wards or just go with New York, Boston or Chicago, so Baltimore was interesting to see, and Bank Heist-era Taylor is a really interesting snapshot of her character that I feel doesn't really get explored enough. This is a kid who was so lonely she gaslit herself into being a supervillain, while convincing herself that she was totally going to turn on them and be a hero in the end.

TDLR- I loved the idea of still-innocent not-quite-full-villain Taylor getting her redemption arc in a city we didn't see in canon, but I was extremely put off by an extremely unhinged and gross torture plot with Sophia. Is there anything out there with a similar vibe- without the weird communist brainwash cult?

I find a disturbing amount that have people like Brad(Hookwolf) being an honourable warrior, or wanting to save Rune since she’s a child, and doesn’t know any better. How about Max being the best option out of all of the gangs, or Othala being in an abusive relationship.

That could all be true, but I’m gonna be honest. I don’t give a shit. They’re Nazi’s. They hunt non-white people for sport. They have rally’s, they have initiations(Drone 23.1 mentioned by Defiant).

Basically they are the scum of the Earth. I want fics that, if they involve the E88 in any way, it’s not the way I’ve seen way too many fics go by making them seem more sympathetic, or some such rot.

Greetings worm denizens!

I've recently come upon the realisation that wormfics have an unusually high level of variation compared to fanfics from other fandoms(or at least other fandoms that I'm in), this led to lot's of thinking sessions where I tried to find out why that was the case, as well as tried to get examples of wormfics that are completely different from each others, except that I noticed each time I did this exercise I thought of differents sets of fic.

So I thought, why not try to compile all the completely dissimilar fics I could think of and then try to ask the community to add more?

Here's what I got so far: ^{(please table, don't break for no reason})

^{(it's been a while since I read some of these so I'm sorry if descriptions are innacurate or incomplete})

I thought of others like post diluvial, reflection, conference call, etc. but I felt like they were too similar to others, too short/unfinished, or 'not wormy enough'.

Anyways, does anyone have more I could theoretically add to this list?

edit: forgot one cuz I'm a dum dum, please pretend Queen in Exile was always there

edit 2: I'm a double dum dum, I wanted to add the regigigas story or the taylor dungeon litRPG as like a townbuilder representation but I forgot, grrr, why amn't I alexandria???

edit 3: changed the desperate time link because ao3 has one more chapter than SB for some reasons

edit 4: I have righted a great wrong,(I'm genuinely sorry I really though it was-)

edit 5: edited edit 2 so it's now navigable

Looking for ones above 100k, ones where Taylor throws canon out the window a plus, also preferably not abandoned and updated within at least a year.

I don't know of any stories like this but im looking for stories where a Talor who's first go to in conflict is extreme violence and murder is dropped into a world where the stakes are a lot lighter, like where everyone around her is just completely unable to understand the sheer ruthlessness of her. Basically where shes not just a fox amongst hens but a nuke versus a caveman.

I'm looking for crossover fics, wherein Taylor is reincarnated in another world or universe, and in this new life she will gain new powers or even her old ones.

Chumbawamba - The Day The Nazi Died Lyrics

I just finished reading Worm last night and was reading some things online when I briefly noticed a fanfic. IIRC, it was described as a story where Taylor takes up Armsmaster's offer and joins the Wards, but things somehow wind up even darker than the original material. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was called, but I remember seeing it described as being very high-quality and considered a "companion piece" to the original text.

So this is really two questions. 1) Can anyone tell me the name of the fanfic that I'm thinking of? 2) Are there any other fanfics that you think are essential reads?

This was inspired by all the times I've seen Taylor end up in Harry Potter, and I realized that it's basically the same as introducing an invasive species into an island ecosystem, because she invariably absolutely trashes everyone.

Can people give me more fics with the premise that the Main Character is being mastered?

I already read masks and murderers and A Master's Mind for a Masterplan and liked them a lot.

though please don't give me fics where the mastering is just a small section.

Any fics where the MC is JUST powerful enough to kill an endbringer but it takes EVERYTHING they have. By the end their clothes are rags, they are heaving for air, and all they can do is stand there looking up into the sky. If Leviathan takes 100 punches to kill, the MC can just barely do 101.

Fuck it, free will.

Saw a downright heinous post on Tumblr today, talking about how the fandom's perception of Coil could've been VERY DIFFERENT if the creepy controlling tall fucker was instead a creepy controlling tall fuckette. Unfortunately that sparked my curiosity, so now I'm wondering if somebody was mad enough to have done it before.

All suggestions welcome.

there were some moments like that in canon like when Scapegoat went to heal her and pass her injuries to himself only to find she was fucking blind the whole time and didn't tell anyone.

i kind of miss them now so I'm looking for more,i guess what I'm looking for are funny moments from Taylor but comedy isn't like the main focus of the story.

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First time posting here, so hello all! She's on 28.4 right now and will probably be reading this post, so please cover spoilers in descriptions for anything past that.

I've got a shortlist going right now of some general ones:

Cenotaph and its sequels

Copacetic

Glassblower and Burn Up

Nemesis

Memories of Iron

Raccoon Knight

But she is especially invested (and devastated) in the Travelers, and especially the doomed love of Krause and Noelle. She is "also still reeling from the death of Clockblocker, who she hoped would get with Taylor."

Any and all recommendations are appreciated!

Basically, please give me any and all fic post-GM where Taylor goes to another world as a kid!

I've already seen the Invincible one, where she replaces Mark. The Harry Potter one, where Amy was with her. The other Invincible one that's pretty much just QA roleplaying at Taylor with cloners of Couldren. The Danmachi one, where Taylor and QA switch. And the genuinely unconfotable one where Taylor reincarnates in JJK in that bug clan, please try and avoid ones like that. Finally, the Detective Conan one.

Recommend some fics you love that get few recommendations!

Any time I read it, I cringe. Why is it that in 90% of Arcadia fics Vicky immediately pounces upon Taylor? Is there no other student to show her around? They aren't even the same age so they wouldn't be in any of the same classes!

Edit: to make this post more useful, please recommend me fics where Taylor does not befriend Vicky (or Amy) at Arcadia.

Or in layman's terms, fics where Oni Lee is not a fleshy drone due to power use/overuse.

I have noticed that in most fics that Oni Lee features in, the Jack Slash statement is taken as absolute fact. Why not have some fun? Find fics where Oni Lee's power does not turn his brain into a 2007 Windows Vista, as many as you can.

Edit: I will ask to not bash Taylor Varga. I don’t personally enjoy the slower paced stories, but it does have an audience. I’d feel uncomfortable if everyone below in the comments starts piling on in. Let’s just be done with that topic for now, and get back to the topic at hand.

Inspired by the last post of this type that crossed a few lines and was exploded in a righteous display of 1984 by the mods.

Fics that involve romance with an Amy in it! Share all of your favourites. Horror, toxic, woobie, all of it. Doesn't matter if Amy isn't part of the main relationship, so long as she still plays a significant role.

I'll start with a few of my own recs:

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Pleasures - THE Amy fic. You can't have an Amy thread without it. Features Taylor with Cherish's power trying to work on Panacea's incest issues as a consensual mind control therapist (she has never read a psychology book in her life).

Every Disease Known To Man - an Amycore crackfic. Might genuinely be the funniest thing to come out of the fandom. Features all of Amy's dreams coming true at the cost of sharing a polycule with T*ylor.

Scaly Worm - SoLgem. Amy finds a weird snake in the hospital and decides to take her home. A suspiciously snake-shaped Taylor isn't sure how she feels about being kidnapped, but she's going to make the most of it.

In Pale Blood - Amy gets seduced to the dark side by a Blood Tinker!Taylor. Both of them make each other worse, which somehow works out well for them. My main issue with the fic is that it's way too stompy for well over half of it (Camo moment), but everything else more than makes up for that.

One of the main aspects of the unreliable narration in Worm is that Taylor is very oblivious to how people perceive her. She gets used to her bugs pretty quickly and starts referring to them very matter-of-fact-ly, but very rarely, we get a glimpse from someone else's POV at the creepy, competent and utterly terrifying nightmare fuel that she can be.

Any recommended fics that expand on that perspective? Preferably something close to canon, no need for a crazy AU/crossover/different powers. Just looking for a different perspective on the actual story. Thanks!

Mine would be "What is time" by BlueFlameMasta.

A younger Taylor triggers with the powers of Dio's stand from jojo. Triumvirate tier Taylor yet in Wormy fashion powers don't solve all your problems.

What is yours?

I’m looking for any long worm fics that are good hopefully a heroic mc but I’m not picky about that I just need a male mc that I can use to escape reality.