In this episode, Matias leads Clarence in this tale of loyal lovable dog girls, campy clock boys, curious costumes, and melancholy memorials. This is the Perspectives episode for Arcs 18-22. In it they pondered through Rachel and Clockblocker's themes and growth, and contemplated the various ways that clothing and costume create identity, and places perform memory.



The Overview episode for Arcs 23 Drone through 26 Sting will be out in two weeks, on August 7th. We're nearing the end of the story folks.



Discuss the episode and leave your Questions for Clarence and Themes and Theories for Arcs 23-26 here!

Overview of Arcs 23-26

In Decomposing Worm, Matias and Clarence take a higher level approach to analysis of Wildbow’s original wonderful web serial. After dividing Worm into six 300,000 word chunks, each week four-time Worm veteran Matias and literary extraordinaire Clarence cover one of Worm’s ‘books’, alternating between Close Reading and Essay episodes. Because a single hundred hour Worm analysis podcast wasn’t enough.