Post

Was looking through an old Conan comic yesterday, and can confirm the fantasy one.

Or a giant octopus

Beetlejuice did it with quasi-musical comedy too! ;)

Love it! I want to watch the giant worm investigate. Detective Pikachu was a decent concept, but I would have absolutely loved him if he was a giant worm.

"Giant worm investigates" really tracks, as it is worm tradition to be interested in things.

Oh snap, my wife said something like this to her writing group last year! She would love this!

I'm kind of intrigued by the Wormlock Holmes idea.

"Literary"/Philosophical: Giant worm sits down with author-insert character to discuss nature of Life

I can't breathe. I can't breathe.

AMAZING

I have no hands and I must type.

12 series order on the way!

And absolutely nobody asks why there are so many murders in the one small town in Maine with a giant worm.

yes. perfect! Scarlett Johansson to play worm in big budget movie version. When shall we open our Hollywoodland consulting agency? Our ideas so original (deranged, some might say) and our fees so OUTRAGEOUS.

Also works in pornography.

Criminally underrated.

Might be hard to pound a giant worm

Have you seen (or read) “Wrong Mountain” by David Herson? Also a giant worm.

my algorithm just now 😭😭😭

Litfic: Middle-aged male white writer on sabbatical from his job in academia experiences writer's block about how to describe Giant Worm to inappropriately young woman he's pursuing extramaritally.

Romance: “I knew you wouldn’t love me if I was a worm!” 🪱😭

It's true! The worm is the only good thing in Stoker's Lair of the White Worm. It's still a terrible book, mind you.

Whenever giant worm isn’t in a scene, other characters should be asking “where’s giant worm?”

Children's book: Lowly Worm (Giant worm in a Bavarian hat)

I love this advice

Romance: "Would you still love me if I was a giant worm?"

Now I imagine a DnD game. "You guys walk into the lair and there is a giant worm on a pile of gold." "Oh, a wyrm!" "Nono, a worm. Like a ring worm, pink and squishy."

Autobiography: It Was Going Fine Until The Giant Worm

Comedy, though? Hard for worms to do Stand Up, they don't have legs

Hmmm... very illuminating & enticing advice with more than valid examples—perhaps we should keep it, precious... Yeeeesss.... befittingly crafted. (Thank you :3)

This is why Tremors is so good.

Written by: Richard ….

You must be a huge fan of the Lair of the White Worm

Who up writing about they giant worm

Satire: Giant worm in main character's gut, and it's growing sentience.

Excuse me where is “giant worm finds true love and happiness”

At a push, the worm can sit on a mushroom smoking a load of drugs.

Giant Worm goes on a reality show

Crime drama: Giant worm must solve murder while dealing with divorce and a bad attitude at the precinct. Chief: "You're a loose cannon, GlorbGlorb! I'm taking you off the case." Worm: *disgruntled worm noises as it smashes out the side of the building* Chief: "That's coming out of your pay!"

Disney/Sony collaboration: Giant worm gets bitten by a radioactive spider.

It certainly didn't save 'The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies'. Made it worse if anything

No worm meetcute??

Dune: Giant worm marries beautiful woman.

It was cloudy in R’lyeh, you could tell the sun got up a long time before I did. I was holding some ice with scotch to the bruises ln my [forehead-ish], and in walks a dame. I can’t describe her. Really, if I tried it would probably kill you. But I couldn’t take 83 of my 132 eyes off her.

Okay, but I would definitely read that romance

He's giant in the sense that he's human sized and that's giant for the average worm.

Found a giant worm!

Question: Does Detective Worm have a magnifying glass or does he use a more practical monocle?

Fucking invasive species bullshit…

Wait, no, hang on, there’s the Wormrise scene in Castle Hangnail. But they aren’t BAD worms?

Please can we find out what worm Halla's bird is talking about?

"technically"

DO NOT RUIN WORMS

But worm was in the title!

That, is an understatement. Your advice has wormed its way into my thoughts on craft. Well done!

Maybe I should also be drawing more giant worms... 🤔 Do giant caterpillars count?

that's probably somewhere in the wider Dune canon!

I think you've written at least one book in each of these genres!

Eek! Like Wolf Worm wasn’t horrifying enough — maybe make the flesh eating worms bigger next time

I loved Giant worm investigates, but I think they ran out of ideas by season 9

Reading a series now where giant wyrms were guarding a magical cauldron.

I'm sorry, Giant Worm Investigates has been optioned by ITV for autumn. David Harewood set to start alongside Cara Theobald and Neil Morrissey.

Politics: yes ,that work too

Resulted in one of the best Hugh Grant films out there: Lair of the White Wyrm (1988).

morphinlegacy.com/wp-content/u... power rangers got there eventually

Political: Giant worm gets elected president...

Hard-boiled: Giant worm rats out the detective/dame Erotica: writes itself

Politics: Make a giant worm president...

Jake Sandworm, Gritty Detective Annelida Lumbricina and the Ten Hearts Murders The Wriggler Twins #34: The Secret of Nematode Hill

Recipe book?

Mezcal

If I do this in one of my earthquake physics papers, I’m just going to get accused of copying Tremors! :(

There is a plot that incorporates all of the above, I think...

Poetry: put a giant worm, on a giant berm, all the people shall attend, to watch the worm squirm Thriller: The Soviets have a secret giant worm program. Only Jack "wormbane" Ryan can save the free world. History: ...Well, stay tuned, we can all see the way things are going

Kaiju: Obviously

This advice also works really well with Godzilla. Case in point, Romeo and Juliet? Boring. Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla? Amazing concept!

youtu.be/_Y_6H617Fcs?...

What if. . . Giant worm that is secretly millions of normal sized worms in a union?

Locked-room reveal where the worm has to explain the killer’s elaborate plan before it finishes digesting everyone?

It really knows how to dig into the evidence.

LOTS of soil samples. Whole chapters about soil conditions.

For the Romance one, that could only be a tapeworm, right? I'm not the only one?

Secretary of health and human services:

Radio play: Rapidly growing mass of giant worms collapse the scientists estate

racing story:

Fantasy/romance: Giant worm *is* third-act breakup

or Romance: Giant worm is the love interest

The logic checks out. Just look at Tremors.

@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social

Early Ligotti vibes

big worm is in.. ok

Solid advice. Can never go wrong with a giant worm. Or worms in general for that matter.

I would probably confess immediately if a worm started asking questions under a bare bulb while his/her/its partner stood quietly to the side

corporate thriller?

Bluesky beef: no way are dragons just worms. That's reductive and insulting to me personally in a way you could not have predicted

Surrealist Erotica: The giant lesbian worm who represents the failure of extractionist imperlism to engage meaningfully with ecological factors gets me off.

God Columbo Of Dune

Does it count if it's a wyrm? I have a World Wyrm!

Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold do... do you mean wyrm??? *hopeful look*

Romance: "Would you still love me if I was a GIANT worm?"

Giant Spiders are also pretty great.

"The Giant Worm Investigates" classic title

Existential dread: “Would you love me if I was a (giant) worm?”

Superhero: check out Worm, the hit web novel by Wildbow

And, if all else fails & you’re not sure what to do next, have a giant worm burst through the door with a machine gun.

An interesting way to end karaoke night's "tequila" wind down song with a little bit of improv.

Department of Health and Human Services? Put a giant Brainworm into it.

www.briankeene.com/earthwormgods

Romance 2: Would you still love me if I was a giant worm?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_...