Wildbow
| Name: | John C. McCrae |
| Also Known As: | Wildbow |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Medium: | Webserials |
| Works: | Worm, Pact (webserial), Twig (webserial), Ward (webserial), Pale (webserial) |
| Official Website(s): | Parahumans home page (Worm website, with some author content as well) The Pig's Pen (Wordpress author blog) Patreon |
| Fan Website(s): | |
| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
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Wildbow is a webserial writer. He found biggest success with his first webserial, Worm, but has attracted a following for his later webseirals as well, to the point that he makes a living from Patreon subscriptions.
Career
- Worm (2011-2013) -- superheroes, set primarily in the United States
- Pact (2013-2015) -- magic, set primarily in Canada
- Twig (2014-2017) -- mad science/biology superpowers, set in an alternate universe early-20th century North America
- Ward (2017-2020) -- sequel to Worm
- Pale (2020-2023) -- set in the same universe as Pact but following a different set of characters.
- Claw (2024-2024) -- crime-procedural.
Other works
Wildbow has also created some RPGs -- Weaverdice (based on a game created and partly described in Worm canon); Pactdice (similar but for the Pact/Otherverse universe), and PRT Quest (a specific series of play-by-post games run by Wildbow himself, set in the Worm canon before the end of the webserial).
Interactions with Fans
Wildbow has closely interacted with fans since the early days of Worm, in Wordpress comments, later on Reddit, and on Discord. On Reddit and Discord, he has asked people not to ping him, and this has evolved into a fandom-wide joke of referring to him by other combinations of words (or even nonsense) that vaguely resembles his screen name.[1]
Controversy
See Also
- Wikipedia:Worm (web serial)
- Wildbow TVTropes article
References
- ^ [meta] Where did the thing of referring to Wildbow by weird names come from?, Archived version. Posted by u/akaltyn to Reddit on 30 August 2018.