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It's Wild Style or something like that. Like S2E2 or 3, I just watched it the other day

I sear my ground beef/pork mix on medium-hihh, then remove it from the pot. I cook diced onion in the grease, then add diced carrot and celery. After they all soften, I mix in tomato paste and let it sear too, but not super long, like 3 minutes max. I deglaze with a cup of white wine (I like using Riesling, but it works with dry wines too), and let the alcohol cook out a little bit, 5 minutes or so. Then I remove from heat, re-introduce the meat and stir, then cover with beef broth, give it another good stir, and add a cup of milk and some shakes of nutmeg. Bake for 3 hours at 375-390 (depends on how much liquid vs char you like), then add pasta, a cup of heavy cream, a hefty scrape'n'stir, and parmesan flakes on top.

Use an oven-safe pot! Also, spice your meat as preferred, I have my own ratio of garlic powder, onion powder, and S&P that I like for ground meats. I find that adding things like oregano, basil, etc take away from the taste of this sauce, but they're not bad by any means.

Definitely Bubber Ducky because it'll just pop into my head whenever it feels like it

The big corals are destructible, but only by nuke nobelisks. I found that out when I did my main base in blue crater.

Jason Momoa or the guy from Mad Men

I'm not sure on audiobooks, I read Ward as it was being written, starting when it was in like chapter 6 or 7. I don't think the first audiobook was finished for months after the end.

I wouldn't call Ward slice-of-life, necessarily, but there are a few parts I can think of off-hand like a little shopping trip, some therapy, etc that Taylor would never have had time for in Worm. These go away as the story progresses, but they're nice, and a good look into how the protagonists are feeling and dealing with the situation.

Less Dragon is a bit of a bummer, but hopefully the myriad of new capes ends up balancing that for you.

As for Wildbow's other works, I haven't had the time to focus on reading any (thanks life), but I know a lot of people think Pact and Pale are his best works, so I am excited to get into those someday. If I remember right, pact and twig have little cameos in Ward, like TV shows or books or something, and Worm has similar cameos in those works too.

The hopes for a trilogy are probably not gonna happen unfortunately, he's said that he's pretty tired of the genre and how some parts of the fandom reacted to Ward's style and story direction. Tbh I'm not sure what a third entry would even look like, but I said that before I knew about Ward too, so who knows!

Worm is a lot more regularly intense than Ward is; Taylor is the queen of escalation and the narrative reflects that, never really giving her (or the reader) time to breathe. Meanwhile Ward's protagonist actively tries to take time off, de-escalate, be mindful, and it does affect the pacing. There's slightly fewer action scenes, but they're just as good, if not better in some cases.

As far as I remember, Dragon shows up a few times but isn't as important as in Worm. Panacea does appear, with a pretty important, controversial, and spoileriffic role in the story.

The Endbringers don't come back in for a while, but they do show up and they do end up being pretty important. If you enjoyed Leviathan's and Behemoth's fights, you will absolutely adore pretty much the entire back half of Ward's action.

Ward's side characters also shine a lot more than Worm's, in my opinion, and I think it's because the author just had more experience writing by the time he did Ward. Rain is probably my favorite protagonist cape in the series, for example.

Ward isn't necessarily worse; just different. I personally like Ward more, but understand why people wouldn't. I highly recommend giving it a try if you liked Worm, you'll still enjoy it.

Immediately gonna slap her in my scarab god deck...or, well, slap scarab god in the new obeka deck

To me, aHiT always felt like Sunshine 2: No FLUDD. Hat Kid controls just like Mario without the fancy flips