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seawitchkaraoke · 8 days
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Murph's characters ranked by how immune to Murph rolls they are
Theo: 10/10 won't land a hit but he doesn't need to, his job is to sit there and not take any damage while literal armies are trying to kill him and to jump in front of his friends. Also knock doesn't require a roll.
Riz (junior year): 9/10 reliable talent is a game changer, the nat 1 turns into a 10, becomes a 21, no mystery this guy can't crack. Can still fail in fights which is not great when you're the only one who isn't stunned.
Kugrash 5/10 does a lot of support work, like the cockroach aura and summoning a bunch of alligator friends which doesn't need Murph to roll. Sadly he does roll for the attacks the alligators make so that takes away from it a bit
Gerard: 4/10 what do you do when you can't roll well yourself? Make Zac roll instead. Commanding strike is amazing. Other than though Murph's rolls make Gerard a pretty pathetic frog - which is of course exactly what he is.
Barry 3/10 he's a barbarian so part of his job is to absorb damage which doesn't require dice and he does a fantastic job of it. Sadly both attacking and playing at casinos however does require dice
Riz (before junior year): 1/10 he'll get there but right now? He is at the mercy of the dice and Adaine's portent rolls can't save him every time
Cody -10/10 this guy is designed to be as affected by Murph rolls as possible, Murph really said let's make a character that is just so bad at what he does. Stabs himself with his own sword, he's perfect, no notes.
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dragonteaandfairyhoney · 11 months
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The story of the fall of the Jedi Order is a tragedy and a cautionary tale. There is a sad kind of poetic justice to it because they bring about their own downfall.
What - or rather, who - destroys the Jedi Order? Anakin Skywalker and the clones - the slaves they didn’t free. 
Qui-gon doesn’t liberate Anakin. Even if he does take him away from Tatooine and treats him kindly compared to Watto, the fact of the matter is that he won Anakin in a game of dice.
When the Jedi find out that Sifo-Dyas commissioned a clone army, none of them think ‘This is wrong. We shouldn’t create living beings for the purpose of killing them’. Instead they think ‘Oh, this is convenient’. (Also, none of them think it’s a little too convenient?) Again, they treat the clones well (except Pong Krell - he’s evil) but they never address the fact that they bought these people. 
They allow slavery to continue and in the end it returns to stab them in the back.
“…Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth.” ~ Romans 14:22
Individually, the Jedi aren’t bad people (again, except Pong Krell). But as an organization they have become corrupt. In a lot of ways they remind me of the Pharisees.
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof…” ~ 2 Timothy 3:5
They have just enough goodness to think that they’re okay, too caught up in their traditions to realize they need to change, so focussed on what they want the prophecy to mean that they miss how it is actually fulfilled.
They are an organization which preaches compassion yet they are devoid of real love. The kind of love which is willing to stand against injustice.
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgement, mercy, and faith…” ~ Matthew 23:23
That is why the Jedi Order falls.
Shmi Skywalker had it right. The biggest problem in the galaxy is that people don’t help each other.
The reason Luke Skywalker later succeeds in defeating the Empire and Darth Sidious is that he is willing to help. His love for his father and his belief that no one is beyond redemption - that is what saves the galaxy.
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orisadeservesbetter · 2 years
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Lúcio: You enter the dungeon, and on the far side of the room you see… a door.
Junkrat: Can I… seduce the door?
Lúcio: No, you cannot.
Cassidy: Can I seduce the door?
Lúcio: Also no.
Ashe: Can I punch Cassidy?
Lúcio: *rolls the dice* Uh, Cassidy, you take 4 damage.
Cassidy: Well I transform into a beaver.
Lúcio: You do that.
Cassidy: NOW can I seduce the door?
Lúcio: Still, no.
Ashe: I punch Cassidy again.
Lúcio: *rolls the dice* 3 more damage.
Orisa: Can I fight the door?
Lúcio: No!
Doomfist: I also would like to fight the door.
Lúcio: No one can fight the door.
Orisa: I FIGHT! THE DOOR!
Lúcio: You lose!
Orisa: I fight YOU.
Lúcio: Orisa, take a walk.
Reaper: Is the door dead or alive?
Lúcio: It’s a door-
Reaper: Can I enslave its soul?
Lúcio: How would you-?! No!
Sigma: Can I build a better door?
Lúcio: Do you want to build a better door?
Sigma: I acquire lumber from the surrounding forest!
Lúcio: *rolls the dice* Ok you do that.
Mercy: Is the door locked?
Lúcio: No it isn’t.
Mercy: I open the door.
Lúcio: You do so! Inside is one small treasure chest.
Junkrat: I seduce the treasure chest.
Lúcio: NO-
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motswolo · 11 months
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Heyyyyy do you like recommending songs to people?? I would like to listen more to the rolling stones and the clash (love the clash) and I think you probably have impeccable taste. What you you recommend? My favorites are currently Paint It, Black and Rock the Casbah!
(also do you know japan?? i love their song adolescent sex!!)
omg YES I will absolutely do that. Sorry it took a few days, I was travelling x I'm just going to rec you my fav songs from each of their albums so see under cut for a long post:
the stones debut/self-titled (1964): "tell me" rolling stones no. 2 (1965): "everybody needs somebody to love" out of our heads (1965): "(I can't get no) satisfaction" but also "mercy mercy" aftermath (1966): "mother's little helper" and "paint it, black" between the buttons (1967): "ruby tuesday" their satanic majesties request (1967): "she's a rainbow" beggars banquet (1968): *a classic but my in my top 3 stones albums so it gets three* "prodigal son", "street fighting man" and "sympathy for the devil" ofc let it bleed (1969): "gimme shelter" sticky fingers (1971): "wild horses" and "can't you hear me knocking" exile on main st. (1972): *also top 3* "sweet virginia" and "tumbling dice" goats head soup (1973): none i actually dislike this album a lot sorrz it's only rock 'n roll (1974): same as above, nothing nice to say tbh black and blue (1976): this album is just lucky i remembered to include it some girls (1978): *FINALLY something GOOD, this album rounds out my top 3 stones* "beast of burden" (a basic but my fav stones song of all time), "some girls" and "miss you" (i love this fucking song) emotional rescue (1980): meh, if I had to pick one it'd be "she's so cold" tattoo you (1981): "start me up" and "no use in crying" undercover (1983): "too tough" steel wheels (1989): "mixed emotions" and "sad sad sad" (overall lacklustre album tho) *stopping here for my sanity's sake*
the clash (my one true love - I won't be able to choose just one song so hope you're ready xx) self-titled (1977): "janie jones", "london's burning", "white riot", and "what's my name" give 'em enough rope (1978): "all the young punks" (my FAVOURITE clash song), "tommy gun", and "stay free" london calling (1979): *this entire album but especially* "train in vain (stand by me)", "clampdown", "lost in the supermarket", and "spanish bombs" sandinista! (1980): "the magnificent seven" (their only meh album imo) combat rock (1982): "rock the casbah" (it's the best shower song TRUST ME) and "death is a star" (dw it's supposed to be weird) cut the crap (1985): "this is england"
PS: yes I love japan!!! the crush i had on David Sylvian when i was a teenager was insane. Gentlemen take polaroids is my fav
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smalltowngnoll · 5 months
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Ectoplasm Nachos
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They may be rather creepy nachos, but at least you can eat them in the dark.
May the kitchen gods have mercy on my soul. I used Wilton brand teal dye and while the coloring was good, it was horrific beyond all mortal ken. Truly a spooky food.
Ingredients
8 oz Monterey jack cheese
4 oz Oaxaca, Mexican melting cheese
1 small onion, or 1/2 a big one, diced small
1 large jalapeno, diced (I used 5 tiny shishitos from home)
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cumin
12 oz evaporated milk
2 TBS butter
2 tsp cornstarch
Blue food dye (SUPER OPTIONAL)
Recipe
Grate cheeses and mix them with cornstarch.
Melt butter in a sauce pan. Sautée onions until soft. Add peppers and garlic.
Add black pepper, cumin, salt, and evaporated milk. Bring to a simmer. Add cheeses in small amounts to melt, stirring constantly.
Serve warm. Keep warm over indirect heat.
Shitty Picture
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I only dyed the cheese used for the picture. It’s super off-putting which I guess is kinda the point? Also nacho cheese is way easier than I thought.
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sawcondeez · 3 months
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back again :))
which saw trap(s) do you think you'd have the best chance of survival in?
if you could trap a fictional character who would you pick?
hiiiiiiiiiiiiii :3
- first of all, let me just say that I would do absolutely horrible in a Saw trap
the traps where you have to sever a limb in order to live… yeah I don’t think I have it in me to do that… I’d take the decapitation or whatever thanks 😭
I saw a poll a while ago with this question where the most voted option was the bathroom trap from Saw 2004 - yeah, no, I would rot and die in that bathroom just like Adam I’m sorry.
if I had to win one, I might be able to win the mausoleum trap if I was in Art Blank’s place? given that I could use the weapons provided to cut open the stitches over my mouth and once my mouth is free maybe since I have a female voice I’d sound like less of a threat to the guy with his eyes stitched up and I’d attempt to talk him through it and explain things and try to help cut his eye stitches too?? idk 😭😭 if he comes swinging at me like he did with Art, I’m done for tho. for sure.
I think I might be able to win Amanda’s reverse bear trap because it doesn’t involve self mutilation though I struggled to mercy kill even my sick neon tetra (it’s a tiny tiny fish lol) also I feel like unlocking the lock with my jittery ass hands would be my downfall lmaooo
I really hope I do not get put in a Saw trap because I WILL be dying (!!)
- as for which fictional character I would like to put in a Saw trap, I feel like…. maybe SpongeBob LOL I feel like it would be an absolute spectacle and I wanna see how Squiddy would react
that Sponge mf has been diced, cubed, shredded, blown up, skinned- the WORKS. he’ll be fiiiiine. he’s gonna bounce right back after.
while doing my watches of the franchise I also have found myself wondering how John Kramer would do when put in his own traps, especially the ones where you have to horrifically sever yourself. I know he’s been in the bloodboarding trap in Saw X but idk.. that was a lil different and there was a young boy at stake. John’s put so many people in traps for the dumbest reasons, and there are so many reasons why he himself should be put in one so like………….
Im sorry John I know you’re a beloved character but…………..
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metallica-jk · 1 month
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I PREDICTED IT
me and @zuzanna-jadw1ga were hanging out today and that’s when the thing ab Rohan being pov nr.2 and I said “Phone girl HAS to b pov nr.3” bc we already have a Grayson. And I think that Phone girl (aka Lyra Kane) is gonna b in the games. Same as Gray. There is also the fact that there are 3 kinda parts of the cover. Of like the clubs thing. On cards. Yk. So the Lemniscate- infinity sign- the devils mercy. So Rohan. Idk why I JUST thought of that a few hrs ago. The dice, I think that might mean Jameson and Avery trying to find out shit ab Alice. (MY HANDS R SHAKING SO MUCH I SWEAR) we have the necklace that is Gigi’s. And the sword that is Grays. We also have the calla lilies that are next to the sword. ❤️❤️. We have the third part that I still dk. It might b ab the wedding? But I think that might b the glass rose. (I CANT WAIT FOR THE WEDDING CUZ THE LOVE OF MY LIFE IS GETTING MARRIED AHHH) then we have the part at the top. The scrabble letters and the ⚙️. I think that will b ab the actual game.
BUT ONE THING I REALISED LIKE AN HR OR TWO AGO AT @zuzanna-jadw1ga’s HOUSE
there is a tiny L under the necklace. And so I was wondering if it was PG?? AND IT WAS.
I am so happy rn that I was jumping and hit my hand off of my lamp. But we don’t talk ab that.
I JUST CANT WAITTTT
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dadrielle · 6 months
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tag 9 people you want to get to know better
tagged by @overnighttosunflowers!
favorite color: I love purple and teal most these days, though it used to be more about the blues and greens
currently reading: listening to the audiobook for "Unmasking Autism" by Devon Price, PHD, and having many moments where I need to stare into the middle distance and reconsider my concept of self, lmao, I DIDN'T THINK I WAS ON THE SPECTRUM, JUST ADHD, BUT HM-
last song: uhhhhhh might have been Here Is A Heart by Jenny Owen Youngs? I am not fully sure, I had my imodna playlist on shuffle
last series: look, pretty much all I watch now is critical role. And sometimes the repair shop, when I just want background noise. I am bad at tv.
last movie: I honestly don't even remember lmao, god I'm so bad at watching things these days. I been meaning to watch nimona and spider-verse and barbie but I just haven't been in the mood.
sweet/savory/spicy: See the thing for me is the answer is any of the above so long as the flavor is strong. Also just. Salt. Will I simply eat salt by itself? Or put seasoned salt in my hand to eat while I cook? Maybe. what are you, a cop? Anyway, if I MUST choose, savory. Gimme that sharp cheddar, baybee.
currently working on: Call and Response chapter 3, like 3 separate bits of fanart (the imogen from last episode is almost done, I just need to do the stupid pyramid studs on the jacket, may god have mercy on my soul since taliesin jaffe apparently will not), some leather dice trays
I tag: shit I don't know, who hasn't been tagged? @jewishsuperfam @seasinkarnadine @mintywolf @wingofastel @vaxieth @mollywall-e @lorrxrai @batwingsandblackcats @sillyjimjam
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brokebackmonastery · 18 days
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self insert intro finally WOOHOO!!
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did not have any great art of him. oh well. in any case this is luna-myr eisner (transmasc + any pronouns! you'll usually see me using he/they but anything is alright)! and while he is to a degree a self insert he's also very much like. an OC. because i like to write and that's just how i do self shipping i suppose. anyways further details below :3
(proship/comship DNI)
self insert but also what you would call a bylethsona i suppose. definitely not exactly like canon byleth as you will see. comes paired with custom route i have deemed seafoam star
was sort of half-conscious growing up until sothis awoke. capable of feeling emotion, but cannot truly express them and experiences everything through somewhat of a haze
only people he really had growing up were jeralt (who is his dad ofc) and whatever animals hung out wherever they were staying. was generally not around people his age and even when they were nobody wanted to engage with him because of his "odd" behavior. even adults were put off by him
autistic. who would i be if i did not make my SI autistic
quite merciful for a mercenary. capable of being brutal, but it is reserved for the truly deplorable; for example, often lets thieves trying to steal from well-off folk to keep themselves or their loved ones alive go in secret. does not see these acts of survival as worthy of punishment. wishes he could help them more. however, people are generally not aware of this and are more likely to have heard about the aforementioned brutality.
though they didn't have much choice in taking the monastery job, he was generally okay with it, if not confused. It was their first time in a setting surrounded by so many people his age consistently. understood why seteth did not trust him.
time powers work more in-depth than with canon byleth. can of course use divine pulse, but this also comes with an unusually acute perception of time and the occasional ability to have visions of the past and possible futures. since his body is still technically mortal, these visions often make him feel faint if not entirely pass out. These visions can be shared via touch.
genuinely does not understand what the hell is going on, particularly early game. people seem to think he does or that he's hiding something — he is not. they are just learning to express the confusion they feel.
drawn to claude right away. erm...?
more visibly nabatean than canon byleth after fusing with sothis. pointed ears and reptilian pupils come alongside the green hair. possibly has a few scales here and there on his body as well. claws (and i'm talking CLAWS not just long nails) and fangs. dragon form that he is entirely unaware of until much later. the sort of "transformation" into being more visibly nabatean was like. Painful and lasted roughly a week
teaches all three classes and has a significant connection with them all, but is the homeroom teacher of/is the closest with the golden deer (think like... the teachers rotate who they teach basically. but each have a homeroom they are tied to/spend more time with)
did not even have a chance to choose a side between edelgard and rhea. would not have killed edelgard at rhea's request regardless and approaches her about it before the imperial attack on the monastery to ask if there is any other way. rhea was upset by the idea that he did not side with her unconditionally. they did not want to kill either of them
loves rhea, but does not trust her. Very confused by her actions and only wants the truth from her. Sees her as somewhat of a motherly figure, ironically.
likes drawing, creating jewelry (usually out of bone), sewing, and carving (usually sets of dice). like sitri, loves flowers and will be delighted to see unusual ones. his favorites are any kind of lily. has an affinity for stuffed animals as well
big fan of moths especially luna moths if that was not apparent. goes to see them out in the wild yearly in the short span of time that they are active
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also bonus dragon form where he's a weird horsemothlizard as well as a better demonstrarion of the fact that they have straight up Claws. that's all i've got for now. cheers
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blazenfire223 · 10 months
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[ID in undercut]
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English project close ups!
[ID 1/10: A picture of various Book! Omens cardboard cut outs. From left to right there is Aziraphale holding a sword and holding his hand out to Crowley, Brian, Wendsleydale, Adam, Dog (A black and white Corgi with red eyes, Pepper, and Crowley holding a peice of the Bently and holding his hand out to Aziraphale.
[ID 2/10: Picture of various Amphibia cardboard cutouts. From left to right is Marcy Wu holding a book and floating green dice, Hop Pop, Anne Boonchuy holding a blue sword, Polly, Sprig holding his slingshot, and Sasha Waybright crouching, hairdown, and holding a red and pink sword in each hand.
[ID 3/10: A picture of various different characters from Undertale. Going from left to right there is Asgore Dreemur, Alphys, Undyne, Papyrus, Frisk, Sans, Asriel Dreemur, Flowey, and Toriel. They were all hand drawn, colored, and cut.
[ID 4/10: A cardboard cutout of Storm and Billie, their partner and best friend, Hugging each other on their knees.
[ID 5/10: Picture of various Turning Red cardboard cut outs. From left to right is Ming Lee, Jim Lee, Mei, Mei's red panda form, Miriam, Priya, and Abby.
[ID 6/10: An acrylic painting on cardboard for Amphibia. It's a screenshot redraw of the Plantar house and farm in the morning.[ID: An acrylic painting on cardboard for Undertale. A red heard on a black background with Fight and Act buttons in the top left and right corners and Item and Mercy in the bottom left and right corner.
[ID 7/10: An acrylic painting on cardboard for Undertale. A red heard on a black background with Fight and Act buttons in the top left and right corners and Item and Mercy in the bottom left and right corner.
[ID 8/10: An acrylic painting on cardboard for Turning Red. It's a far away shot of Mei's temple from the front entrance and ither side of the street.
[ID 9/10: An acrylic painting on cardboard for a friendship poem called "Care and Happiness" by Shishir. It's two hands holding pinkies on a light blue background. Hearts float above the hands.
[ID 10/10: An acrylic painting on cardboard for Good Omens. It's a wine glass with a halo and demon tail. It is surrounded by a black and white circle. The top of the circle is black and the bottom is white and then the rest of the background is also black and white but the top is white and the bottom is black. /End ID]
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thegeminisage · 4 months
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tng update time, brief because i am BUSY. two nights ago we caught "contagion" together, yesterday i watched "the royale" on my own, and just now i finished "time squared."
contagion: don't know why this one was recced by so amny people because it was VERY boring. because it had romulans in it? it's not even unwatchably bad or anything, i just...didn't care
did like that the romulan commander was a woman though. just like the enterprise incident. where's spock when you need him
the archaeology angle was stupid. "oooh i have to go i've been studying them since i was a lad" you literally do not have to go "well china was thought to be only a myth until marco polo traveled there" bitch, not to the fucking chinese. get a grip.
the fakeout data death...girl we know he's going to be fine! i did like him throwing geordi around though he made the little faces <3 and i was very proud of him for continuing to work when he had a little computer virus. aw. maybe less glad that picard didn't give him any extra priase for doing so but whatever we can't have high expectations for this ep
anyway it was all just very overly contrived. and i was bored.
the royale: this had a great setup because i love when star trek talks about nasa. that made me really excited for what turned out to ultimately be a holodeck episode
played this one on 2x speed genuinely (my deepest dishonor - bad ones get 1.25x, really bad ones get 1.5x, and horrible ones alone get 2x speed)
like, if you changed it a little, you could say the holodeck is broken and won't let you out until you pretend to be investors and win big in the casino! it's the same thing. i guess they didn't want people thinking the holodeck was dangerous and unreliable, which it is
anyway, i liked data blowing on the dice. that was all though
time squared: this one blew my tits clean off. amazing. 10/10. it's like the immunity syndrome, enemy within, and doomsday machine had a time traveling baby
there is like a little bit of time travel technobabble that makes no sense whatsoever. and i did get the final twist spoiled for me. but it doesn't MATTER. neither of those things mattered because i was still sitting there with my jaw on the ground after the end
like, one website called this one confusing. sure yeah a little bit. they were playing very fast and loose with both their own rules established in the episode and the greater rules of the franchise as a whole. but the point is the character arc
like. picard sees himself make a decision that will destroy his ship. he sees himself fail utterly to do everything he holds sacred - he did not even GO DOWN with his ship. he is facing a matt decker doomsday machine of a situation. remember when kirk pitied matt decker because he saw his whole crew die and was helpless to stop it but was also a little put off by him because he couldn't possibly imagine himself in that situation? but with picard IT IS himself. it's green shirt john crichton and black shirt john crichton. they're BOTH the real picard but one of them has been through something unimaginably horrible
AND WHEN THAT PICARD. ENDANGERS THE SHIP. like. IN COLD BLOOD our picard chooses to kill him. and in my personal interpretation he thinks of it as mercy. but like he still shot him while looking directly at him and NO ONE knows what he did because he DIDNT TELL THEM except he called the fucking doctor for some reason
like at the end he's just staring out of a window. and riker is like hi im here to let you talk about it! and picard doesn't talk about it and riker goes away and in the end he is just staring out of the fucking window and they just ROLL CREDITS a real "anyway! these are the voyages of the starship enterprise" of a situation aka what i always loved about tos episodes (honorific)
i THINK this is a cross-section of drag me to hell and there was no laugh track but further contemplation required. straight banger i fucking loved it
i still have to do "the icaurs factor" and "pen pals" alone, but then we get to do "q who" together WHICH IS THE BORG EPISODE i cannot wait. nobody tell me ANYTHING.
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vacantgodling · 8 months
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VIOLENCE ASK GAME 🔥 let's go, i'm going to shoot your ask right back at you and say: answer any and all questions you want/haven't already been asked about Overwatch. >:)
so i started answering this and my phone deleted my answers bc it’s opposed to violence but TOO BAD y’all will receive these steaming hot takes i mean cakes!
1. the character everyone gets wrong
already answered but HEAVILY AGREE with ur answer of genji. like it’s exhausting to see people look at him and go yes, he must be the playboy to hanzo’s stick in the mud that’s it :) nothing else :) like. if we’re talking about the it never happened or pre-slice and dice sure i can see that but ??? after the fact??? makes no sense. he’s a very humble and changed man. he is very aware of not only himself and his faults but he’s understanding to others. he also gets angry tho and i feel like a lot of people mistake his newfound patience for lack of anger and it’s like no i think he does get angry but i think he’s in better control of how he expresses it now. long story short even tho genji is not my Main Boy i will fight toe to toe over people’s shit interpretations of him because can y’all get ur heads out of ur asses for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES—
2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom
i can’t even answer this bc hanzo is my fave and that man gives as good as he gets— *shot*
3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr + 4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?
tldr around the time brig came out a very popular yeehan writer, in their annoyance about people disliking the fact that she was another white character, stated that it was blanket misogyny to dislike any overwatch female character for any reason at this point. i do agree that there can be a problem in fandom spaces where women and femme characters are hated for essentially the sin of being women but the way they were putting it and talking about literally any reason that you dislike a female character in overwatch or in general probably meant you were a misogynist. and just. it’s so stupid that people think that the Act Itself of disliking a female character means that person hates All Women. like that’s a wild take to me and i dislike this take in general. call out misogynistic behavior, yes, but people are allowed to dislike female characters lmao???? stop putting them on pedestals just bc they are women lmao. anyway i wanted to block this person anyway bc they acted like (to me) that they were the god of all yeehan takes and discourse etc etc and their condescending attitude and way people would suck their dick basically annoyed me so this was kind of the last straw.
5. worst discord server and why
yeehan main server bc it’s got too many people and so it falls into the usual fandom habit of if you don’t suck up to mods or aren’t friends with the Big Names (like the person i was talking about prev asks) you will fall by the wayside and no one will care about you and personally i hate that most of all :)
6. which ship fans are the most annoying?
phar////mercy & gen////cy are tied for me and the common denominator is i hate mercy and these fans are so up her fucking ass about how she can do no wrong that i just want to die. the weird white savior thing going on with gen////cy and the annoying knight in shining armor for delicate flower white woman going on in phar////mercy is exhausting.
i may be a mercy main bc i like her playstyle but every day i MOURN the black man mercy design we could’ve had but didn’t.
we could’ve had this fucking HUNK but NOOOOOO
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and UGH another bad take i saw was when the ovw art book came out (which i have sigh) and everyone was like BRO THE CONCEPT MERCY THO— i saw so many people saying that ugh well we already have baptiste we don’t need ANOTHER black healer and i’m like…. but inchresting how y’all don’t say that about having 3 white healers 🤨 I DIGRESS THO.
7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?
this is difficult bc most characters i dislike i already had a reason for disliking them, fandom just increased my rage 💀
8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about
gremlin dva my beloathed. stick in the mud hanzo my BELOATHED.
9. worst part of canon
already answered but the fact that we had to fight for so fucking long to get a black woman in overwatch. like bro y’all ain’t Shit. y’all added a fucking HAMSTER before a black woman and it SHOWS how little y’all care about black women im TIREDTTTT
10. worst part of fanon
already answered however u reminded me of how much dainty male wife hanzo that used to exist and i legitimately blocked that shit from my memory and now i’m retraumatized. so thanks. lmao. :)
11. number of fandom-related words you've filtered
i think just phar///mercy i can’t take it LMAO. but honestly not many only bc i do not engage with ovw fandom anymore
12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
dva’s boyfriend (to me) daehyun and jack’s ex vincent. idk how much they count bc they aren’t really involved as much as, say emily is, side character wise but i think daehyun and dva’s relationship is extremely sweet and i’m so normal about them (i’m not they’re literally my otp for dva and i swear i’m the only one who ships it LMAO) and idk i’m a sucker for bittersweet exes so vincent holds a special place in my heart and lowkey ship him with jack more than the only other 76 ship worth mentioning. i don’t really have a reason for why anyone should like these characters like they deadass have like no content but EYE care them.
13. worst blorboficiation
worst character to blorbo: it’s a tie between moira and junkrat i hate both of them. but huge unpopular opinion i dislike all the junkers (yes including the fucking hamster). just lore wise i feel like we glossed over the entire part where they hate omnics for just existing etc etc (same thing with zarya but i don’t see as many people simp over her which is unsurprising) and like sure i can be looking too into it but the entire omnic side of overwatch’s shit feels too close to racism to me and i’m lowkey protective over just the concept of omnics in general. that being said i just can’t in good faith like any of the junkers+zarya for their open hostility about them and tbh the game just glossed over the outright hostility junkrat used to have towards zen he had some gnarly fucking lines that made me real uncomfortable tbh. and like the casual omnic-ism in the game does bother me too. reaper had some shit lines as well, zarya obvs etc. and like idk i’m black and sensitive and it rubbed me in a type of way. but this could also just be poor handling of a topic they aren’t equipped to handle the ramifications thereof so yknow. not expecting much but it bothers me how we just decided not to address it at all. i mean hell, torb’s isms were addressed with the bastion comic and their friendship so… idk why we can’t do the same with the rest of them or why they’re acting like that part of their character didn’t exist? and like i don’t mind when characters like jack or mercy for instance have lines towards zenyatta that are more about him being a monk or whatnot but the lines towards him being an omnic and not addressing it is just… eugh. BUT i’ve rambled enough about this moving on.
worst case of character that has been massacred by being blorboified: dva. dear god. please be normal about asian women for ONE minute challenge (impossible)
14. that one thing you see in fics all the time
hanzo and cole bonding over being on random parts of base and drinking as a form of bonding and tbh y’all are so correct for this.
15. that one thing you see in fanart all the time
my favorite is the cole and hanzo clothes swap Or putting any of the characters in everyday wear it’s really nice.
16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
kinda similar to what you said but cole being a bumbling himbo southern hick. like i’m sorry where the Fuck in his backstory did y’all get ANY of that are y’all okay.
17. there should be more of this type of fic/art
visual kei hanzo. i’m SO BITTER that they gave kiriko a visual kei skin i’m SO BITTER.
18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...
bapweaver like they are literally perfect????? hello??????? did you miss the “us healing gentleman should stick together” line or?????? the mspec x mspec relationship??????? the fact that both of them are so goddamn handsome i’m frothing i Need to see them fuck or maybe be sandwiched between that ????? just me???? ok.
19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...
mei. hear me out: she has a lot of mannerisms that remind me of my ex so i hated her out of principle also people who main her along with rein mains make me want to eat glass. however she’s grown on me a little so idk if this is healing or if overwatch has infected my brain.
20. part of canon you found tedious or boring
the reaper / moira storyline sorry it bores me 😬 like i’d rather focus on rebuilding overwatch and the underground vigilantes part. moira turning reaps into a bunch of cells doesn’t really intrigue me sorry. and tbh all of talon in general bores me like i feel like aside from reaps they all are just the “evil bc we wanna be” shit. like evil scientist? been there done that. the world must evolve through conflict is a new angle but it’s just a repacked i want power trip. like idk. i feel like talon’s goals are vague at best and stupid at worst.
21. part of canon you think is overhyped
kiriko and whatever is going on with her shit like she is a boring fucking character and like ashe added unnecessary excess information that does not solve any of the problems into one of my fave characters backstories and i’m annoyed by it.
22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores
the propensity for hanzo to be the main character but i’m extremely biased 🤷🏽‍♂️
23. ship you've unwillingly come around to
symmpharah actually. i started claiming to ship it bc i disliked phar///mercy and wanted to be like LOOK THERE ARE OTHER GOOD SHIPS!!!! but then when i thought about it i was like no wait actually that’s such a good idea. pharah and symm strike me as both autizzy (i think pharah is lower support needs/audhd while symm is autistic) and i think they compliment each other really well. their desire for rules and order and their own ideas of justice which i think pharah can help symm shape like zen has as well. they can talk about their special interests to each other (pharah: basketball, symm: architecture) and actually appreciate it. they’re also, and most importantly to me, EQUALS. their relationship feels like both of them contributing to it instead of just a hopeless crush/white knight/i would do everything for you nonsense. and i’m partial to the melanin x melanin they’re both so fucking pretty like power couple vibes STRONG.
24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse
diversity 💀💀 y’all mfs are so ANNOYING about it lmao. but this is not unusual for games 🙄
25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing
anytime people ask for better from the devs you get hundreds of people jumping down your throat about how you’re a piece of shit for asking and it’s like ??? lmao??
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cloudberry-sims · 2 years
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A Decade Through Time: The Alderberg Legacy: Year 1592
The plague event is happening this year , let’s see if I’m as lucky as I was during the 1563 plague event… 
From the Beginning I Currently 
News spread like wildfire, that the llama plague had finally arrived and was spreading across Outland... 
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Nobody knew how or when - some blamed the miasma , other the rats that came from boats that anchored by the harbor, some believing it was the wrath of the watcher. 
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To William Alderberg, it didn’t matter why it happened just that it was affecting his family. 
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Two of his children , Noah and Olive , had caught the deadly sickness and he feared the worse. When they started to show signs he quickly removed them from the main house to the loft of the old barn. He stayed by them..
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Little Olive showed the worst signs and was the first to go. It broke his heart hearing her plead for him to make the pain go away in her fevery state. She was only 7 years old.
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Next came 9 year old Noah , whom died in whiles asleep on his cot. William hoped that Noah's death was at least merciful. 
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Then , it was William left alone in the barn, but he would quickly follow his two children as the plague ate him away... He was 34 years old , leaving his remaining children orphaned...
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But it was not only the Alderbergs who was the victims of the plague. 
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At the Kellogg farm the almost adolescent Esther was stored away in the pig house as she slowly past away. 
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Her father was devastated over the loss of his oldest child, Anne was too as she had helped raise the girl since she was 2 years old. 
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Her sisters all mourned her death , even Mary cried genuine tears of sorrow. 
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The plague had many more victims , but the last one on the grim reapers list was the town baker, Thomas Mildmay. 
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His death was quick , yet so , so painful , both for him and for his family. 
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Audrey wept and wept , her  mother-in-law Christina whom was also weeping tried to comfort her. They both lamented at the loss of Thomas and for little Geoffrey , who will never get to know the wonderful sweet man that was his father... 
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Every family who had lost a close one in the llama plague mourned in their own way...  
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3 months after her beloved husband’s death in the hands of the llama plague along side her brother , nieces and nephew , Audrey thanked the watcher for the mercy of sparing her only living son - Geoffrey.
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To hold him in her arms was her greatest comfort in the darkest of times. Her little Geoff looked so much like his father that it brought Audrey to tears , not out of sadness but joy to have a piece of him still with her. Her darling son whom she vowed to always put first , forever and always.
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With the Alderbergs , young Philip was absolutely devastated over losing his twin sister ,  more then losing his father or brother. Something had clearly snapped in him. 
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He was no longer the good little boy he once was , and nothing his grandmother told him would bring him back. 
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The family was so busy with Philip that they didn’t notice another one who was grieving badly, perhaps because they were hiding it.
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Ursula would sneak inside the wardrobe in the girls room when the need to cry was to high or her head filled with possible what ifs and maybes. 
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About her , about her friend Esther. Her mixed feelings. The news of the almost 13 year old girl that Ursula had so desperately tried to befriend's death made her 10 year old heart break , yet she didn’t know why. She mourned her uncle and cousins death, she truly did, but why did Esther’s death so hurt more? Why did the watcher's dices decided so cruelly to take her only friend outside of her family away from her? It wasn't fair , not fair at all!  
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But life had to continue and move forward , even if all of them rather went back in time.
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Joan was now the head of household as the primary caretaker of her grandchildren  until Griffyn’s 21 birthday. 
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 Even though Joan was a loving grandmother , she was a opportunist and a perfectionist- now that she was fully in control  of her grandchildren lives she wanted them to have the best life according to herself, which didn’t sit well with the older children, especially not Griffyn.  
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The 15 year old didn’t like that his gran got angry if he stayed up working on his fathers unfinished commissions or went out hunting without asking her first , as his father had been okay with it. 
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He didn't like it either that she started to talk about arranging a suitable betrothed for him with Uncle Nicolas through letters.
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But he sadly couldn't do much but to ask for them to wait a few more years , hoping by delaying it far enough until his 21st birthday. He used Little Phil as an excuse , that they should focus on him and his well being instead. 
Seems like my theory is correct: The more sims you have the more sims will die. 
Honestly I’m devastated that Noah and Olive died , I love William but if it had just been him I would have been okay with it! Olive was my baby girl and Noah was the only kid in the whole brood with brown eyes and I adored him 😭
Joan was scheduled to die this year , but now with William gone I decided to reroll a d20 to see how many more extra years she will haven and she rolled 10 , so she will be around for Griffyn’s 25 birthday. let’s say Joan is around 60ish. 
I can see Joan being very loving yet opportunistic , she might play matchmaker and arrange all her grand-kids marriages. She might even poll strings with Arthur or Nicholas to find suitable partners for her grandchildren , even if its probably not something William nor Rebecca would have wanted for their kids. 
Thomas’s death made me sad for Audrey and baby Geoffrey , the poor baby won’t get to know his father.  I rolled to see if Audrey would get remarried and she will not. So Geoffrey is staying her only child forever. 
Esther dying was the less heartbreaking one since she was a story plot character for Anne’s remarriage and would potentially be used for another story line. I was sad for Ursula’s sake since they were friends and could potentially had ended up as something more.  
Little Geoffrey almost died too , since he rolled a 18 (I’m following the old death stats for the 1500s and 18 was a bad number , but not anymore in the new states) and I was like: NOPE , NOPE NOPE ! And when I’m against a death I toss a coin , if it lands on heads the sims dies and if it lands on tails the sims is fine, and it landed on tails.
So far I have only done it with Catherine Wardeby since she aged up without me , since when William almost died as a baby I didn’t have that system. 
Why I have the old states is simple: I enjoy them more. They keep me on my toes and its exciting. Childhood was not a bed of roses , it was hard hence why I prefer the older death rolls. I might change it if it becomes too much once we are in simerica , but its still 28 years away. 
The old states: VS : The new states , 
Pregnancy: 1,10 
Babies 1, 5,10,15,20 
Toddlers: 4, 8, 12, 16, 18/ 7, 14, 19
Child: 3,9,15,17,19/ 2, 4, 6
Teen: 7,13
Young Adult: 3,18
Adult pt 1: <7
Adult pt 2: <8
Elder: Either  <11 or end of life roll. 
I will do the end of life roll instead of a elder roll since it’s a lot easier to keep track on. I just hope that Eleanor and Anne lives long enough to meet their grandchildren , something nobody in this family has been able to except for the in-laws. Mary just got to know August before she died and I hope Anne and Eleanor will be luckier then that.I wanna see them as cute grandmas , especially now that William will never meet his grandchildren or be a grandpa 😢 
Eleanor might meet her first grandchild before having her adult pt 2 death roll, since Abel is both aging up , marrying and have his baby try on the second day of 1593 and Eleanor is roll is on the last day of 1593 so it’s a hit or miss. 
Anne and Catherine share a birthday so it’s unknown if she will get to meet her first grandchild. 
Surprisingly if Griffyn lives to young adulthood Joan will possible meet her great-grandchildren by Griffyn and perhaps even Margery and Ursula too , which is insane to me. And I have decided to roll marriage for Ursula , but when it comes to baby roll she will not roll a d10 like the rest but a d4 since she is not a Alderberg technically. 
What I mean by that is that she’s no ties to Mary , her children with her two husbands and we are following her descendants. If Ursula was adopted then she would be linked to Mary , but she is not. She is linked to Rebecca’s family. 
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kobblefort · 10 months
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Blackfaint: Origins 2
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I feel that this entire song is emblematic of rat world, but the "conversation" part at 2:49 is most important for our purposes of understanding it. This is how I imagine all of the rats speak to each other and the kind of things that they speak to each other about. "Well not really because I fucking had to buy beer" "That's fucked up man" is the kind of thing they are all saying to each other with that exact cadence. I think the lyric "Raise your hand if the system has missed you, man" also applies to rat world because the system has quite literally missed us - we can't create military squads or appoint administrators because the warlord needs to at least appoint a caravan leader for us to get the Nobles & Administrators screen back and I don't think she gives a fuck - it's still Vakeek Malignreasons last I checked and yeah she's a little busy seeking that artifact and doing other dubious necromancer activities. But it's okay, we're just treating this like a challenge run. Rat world is kind of like how I live because there is no structure to my life and I have never held a single job for more than three months in a row. And I try not to drink alcohol anymore but sometimes I still do and I just immediately start scrolling through my contacts looking for people to flirt with, harangue about Media we both like, or ramble at about some story I'll never actually write (usually all 3 at once) I only have an apartment by literally an act of god extending divine mercy directly to me and it's a fucking mess where I eat the $1 for an 8-pack hot dogs from Aldi cut in half to make them lie flat on sandwich bread with just diced onions and seasoned salt. "You take what you get in rat world" is one of the things we say in rat world, besides "Fuck it!!" lol, thats the main thing we say in rat world but yeah there are other things we say in rat world basically.
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There's only two and a half more Z-levels we have to grate up before the aquifer drain is complete and we never have to think about it again. Considering there's 11 levels from the aquifer to the drain that means out of the 176 grates we needed to make there are only 40 left.
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This farmers' guildhall I'm making just to have it out of the way when it inevitably becomes necessary kind of looks like a buttplug. Oops almost out of food and drinks again :\ rat worlddddd
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A problem is quickly becoming apparent: rats get upset over not wearing shoes, but rats can't actually make shoes. I'm not sure we will ever actually get a caravan from The Nightmare of Tunneling, much less any other merchants, and without being able to actually assign any squadrons, sending them out on missions to retrieve them from any poor settlement that catches my eye won't be possible either. Keeping seed stocks up is another problem, and since I'm running the mod that fully forbids the eating of plump helmets, we can't rely on the plentiful stock of those from the caverns. It's sort of just a race away from the bottom right now, constantly scurrying out to grab handfuls of boar tails and cave wheat and cook them up just to watch them scarfed down. I am, however, deeply enjoying the fucked up layout of this fortress so far. Maybe when we get 50 rats they will be able to elect a mayor and thus start having administrators? It's entirely possible we see the end of this fort without ever being able to use some absolutely critical features of the greatest simulation game of all time Dwarf Fortress. But nobody said rat world would be easy.
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As a matter of fact it has just been confirmed that rat world is easy. The dwarves have come to wreak vengeance upon us!! And it's like what did we even do!? Sure we're part of a civilization known for havoc and pillaging and violence but none of us did anything! I literally went and checked! The only one who did anything is Ikeek Hatredeel.
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And she never even killed a dwarf, just a kobble! Come on! Whatever you're mad about it probably wasn't us!!
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The best we can do right now is breaking down the stairway and setting up hatch covers to bar shut just above the bedroom level, which is above the main floor. The dwarves don't seen to even notice the entrance to our little hamlet, at least, which is good. It's just as well, what business do we have up on the surface? All the plants are dead and what little we left in the wagon was just a few sheets and crutches. (I am notoriously bad at remembering to break down my wagon because I hate "all-purpose" stockpiles and only designate piles as they're needed, but I don't want my kobbles/dorfs/rats to leave stuff on the ground, so I usually just leave it there for like... a year at least.)
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They just keep dancing around a dead tree. There's really no reason we can't wait them out, but then again, if a forgotten beast comes wandering in through the caverns, we'll be kind of fucked. But that's rat world dude. The thing about rat world is sometimes you're just helplessly scurrying around looking for plants to cook into the saddest little biscuits ever while some dwarfs come trying to maim you for no fucking reason. They've got a lot of silver weaponry, which makes sense because we are monsters, and the one with the steel crossbow could cause some real problems.
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Giant monkeys appear, which is almost always cause for celebration, but ESPECIALLY now. They're not doing so great against the dwarves though.
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We got some tablesss
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Me too
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The only way any food gets put on the table in rat world is by everyone scampering out to the caves every few minutes to grab more of whatever they can find growing wild on the floor, which has to be arranged manually. Then I manually have to go over to the kitchen and put "prepare easy meal" on repeat until it runs out, which is usually 30 seconds and 5~15 food units after I press it. If you'll permit me to be honest right now rat world is just really not feeling that sustainable. I'm not going to say like oh I give up and just let the dorfs come kill us all or whatever but you know sometimes rat world just actually sucks.
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Speaking of shit that just sucks, I feel like the rodent men should be chill with us, but well...
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They're not. Luckily, we're fucking fast in rat world, and as long as we keep the numbers right, stronger than them too. We can't just bar off the cavern since then we'd starve, so the only real option is just... every rat for themself.
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But the truth is that rats together are strong. Do you not understand this, rodent people??
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oh wait, this might be bad... Yeah we got nothing on steel weapons actually.
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It'ikik ghoulscar, who was described as someone who was "made deeply uncomfortable by differences in culture or appearance," does not survive a stab to the brain. What should I not say he was racist?? Ohh his body's still warm you can't say he's racist!!! Well he was a racist is the thing. I don't think he'd even object to be called that. I don't know though because most people who'll admit they're racist are a lot less racist than people who vehemently refuse the idea that they could ever be racist. A guy who says "yeah i'm racist" is probably going to catch himself letting media/institutional/just stupid shit he thought when he was a kid bias cloud his judgment, but a guy who says "You're Calling Me RACIST??? That's Like Calling Me The N Word!!" has completely internalized whatever "FBI Crime Stats" are on HTTP colon slash slash BootSuckerNews.Cuck without even knowing what the words "materialist political theory" mean when you string them all together like that. Like I'm just going to say it I trust a guy who listens to Cum Town to actually not be evil when it counts a lot more than a guy who thought Million Dollar Extreme World Peace was a good show. Oh and for the fucking record I actually was a huge fucking MDE fan when they were new, I'm talking about the 00s when I was a teenager and they beat Tim & Eric to market with the "insane editing" game and did it way better. Shit like Malbone Trucking and Extreme BassFX were and are genuinely still funny, I don't care man, but the TED talk was basically the end of an era, all the shit that came afterward where Sam Hyde just records himself yelling into a mirror is absolutely fucking insufferable, and the fact that when they finally got their shot at TV after that they just made a fucking crappy sketch comedy show where all the jokes are edgy teenager trying to get in trouble bullshit instead of utilizing any of their previously many strengths is the biggest fucking let-down in the world, Sam Hyde let his ego blow up like a fucking car bomb and was helped along to do so by post-Stormfront invasion 4channers, 90% of whom just thought he was crazy and that it was funny to see a crazy guy yell into a mirror and record it with a cell phone, I will never not be so disappointed that it gives me a fucking ulcer about what could have been, sometimes I go back and watch College Cunts and it's almost hard to enjoy because it's like wow this is where it ended - this glimmer right here is the last diamond before they started just shitting. Oh god, what we lost. What did we lose again? Oh shit, yeah, the game. We're down to 18 rats.
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Kikeek Menacebreeds takes one down. Nice, good shit.
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The last remaining rodent person earned the name Nightsea from the fracas, and just starts camping one last area. He seems to stop being hostile and just lets everyone pass him as they run around the caverns freely. Maybe he'll make a good bulwark against the first forgotten beast we have to deal with, I don't know. For now he's just an annoyance. Youve got to take the Ws you can get in rat world that's one thing for sure. As an anarchist it annoys me that the game requires a strict military hierarchy in order for citizens to start arming themselves and training but I guess we can start putting down some traps. But first, you know, five rats need to get buried real quick before they start haunting this bitch. Also, a while ago a "Glassmaker" went into a strange mood and has just been standing in the door of their bedroom - Been there dude!! I have no idea what to do about that, I'm not bothering with glass here, they refuse to claim any kind of workshop so I guess I'll have to just let them do their thing and eventually weather whatever kind of tantrum they're going to have.
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In the worst moods now are Eeteek Terrorslip, K'keek Attackdemons, and Vatekeek Learnedmaligns. Eeteek in particular has just really been upset over not owning any shoes. Embarrassed about it, angry about it, sad about it. Like I'm sorry. I would love to do something about it. But, well, I can't!! Maybe - and this is a big fucking maybe - we'll be able to make leather out of the rodent people and then maybe we'll be able to make shoes or at least boots out of their leather, but I'm not optimistic about it!!!
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Oh that was fast. See Eeteek there's a guy you could learn from, she doesn't mind having no shoes. She doesn't mind having no clothes at all!! She's just fully embraced the mania in this bitch!!
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Burial time, lol. Oh and despite the advent of some giant ibexes, a giant tick, and other random terrifying creatures, all 10 dwarves up on the surface are completely unbothered. Siege is going great for them. Ass holes
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The "natural mist generator" is really not good enough to offset all the miserable violence, ratfolk don't particularly care for natural beauty anyway.
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Kikiteek Jackalgranite suddenly has 11 fucking children, all of whom are good to go and get straight to work the second they're born. Dude what the fuck is even going on in rat world.
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After setting up some cage traps around the cavern entrance (sorry, I know they're OP, but I need them for this fort lol) everyone cleans up the blood on the main floor and starts partying. Uhh except R'eekeek. R'eekeek dies.
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It's still not really feasible to actually open the doors back up yet, but the tavern has been officially "opened to the public." I'd also like to start building a library but I don't know if this is the fort for it. Ratfolk library seems like a great way to get some necromancers on deck and well, necromancers are always a rare treat.
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I'd really like the dorfs to fucking leave already too. There's actually some live prickle berries and red spinach on the east part of the map, but of course these Ass Hole's are just camping out here keeping us from prosperity. I cannot imagine that any rat still enjoys cave tubers but that's all we got.
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After ages they finally fucking leave and we can go scoop up the goodies. Spinach and prickleberries baby!!! Sounds awful actually but when all you've eaten for like 9 months is the same thing it must taste awesome.
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If it's not one thing it's always just another.
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Our carpenter is caught out during the attack, but she's fucking fast. Every time she sees one of the rodent people she just dips the fuck out of there across the entire map, then goes back to just wandering around. We barred her in there, but we'll eventually have to do something... There's twelve rodent people running free, three in cages, and Srekitdret running around randomly like he's our fucking mascot or something.
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She actually manages to do some serious damage, but she has other things on her mind, and would just really prefer not to fight I guess. The fact that there's a thing called "Holy Ape of The Faith of Tribes" sounds really interesting to me, I'll have to learn more about that. If we survive. Or actually if we die it'll be a good excuse to hop back into legends mode. So either one is fine by me!!!!! Fuck it!!!! Lol I hit the 30 image limit I'll probably update again tomorrow
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nana2capriccio · 10 months
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[Kiryu - Goku Mon - English Translation]
己龍 - 獄門 [Hell's Gates]
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JP lyrics: Mahiro Kurosaki | EN translation: me:3
pic unrelated lol. i have all of shuka ensen translated that i did for fun a while ago...so you will see those rolling out soon!
Notes: this song is a lot of nonsense which i think is the point...buuut it's japanese nonsense that makes NO sense in english. sorry in advance but there will be a lot of notes at the end, some of the history came from my head so it may be incorrect but for other things i researched to hell for this😭
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Flowers blooming, falling into delusion, under the Yayoi sky... 1
Red and radiant, a kaleidoscope of flowing blood
Crying, once, no consent, twice 2
Roll the dice, round of applause, next!
雁首 once 影踏 twice [this line is untranslatable, see note 3]
We could go on hundreds more...
Flowers blooming, falling into delusion, a cloudy haze...
Twisting, climbing, falling like a wilting flower 4
Crying, once, no consent, twice 2
Roll the dice, round of applause, shogi piece
Wailing, once, sadistic, twice
A smile of both pity and scorn
Crying, once, no consent, twice 2
Roll the dice, round of applause, deviance
Noh mask, once, pull it off, twice 5
Heart of raging fire 6 (notes EXTRA IMPORTANT!!!)
Bow in prayer
Crying, once, no consent, twice
Roll the dice, round of applause, impurity
To the neck, once, to the wrists, twice
Fresh flowers and death makeup 7
Crying, once, no consent, twice
Roll the dice, round of applause, sin
No mercy, no forgiveness, the feast is in full swing
The demons have been freed 8
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Notes:
1: this sentence is way too japanese i just. can't. ok so the words 咲く乱 (flowers blooming riotously) and 錯乱 (mental illness/derangement) sound the same and that's the pun, then the Yayoi thing...i think is also a pun?? the kanji 弥生 can refer to either the month of May on the lunar calendar or the Yayoi period which was from 300 B.C to 300 A.D., i doubt its the latter bc there wouldnt be people playing shogi back then but idfk
2: "no consent" is...the best i could do bc the term used isnt a word?? kiryu likes to make shit up but. i interpreted it based on context to mean this is a sxxual scenario w/o consent UMMM can i say that on tumblr.
3: 雁首 literally means goose's neck but it generally refers to anything shaped like that, which could be... the neck of a pipe (like that stereotypical chinese opium pipe), or....umm....penis! IT MEANS penis. 影踏 is a childrens' game where you walk in a circle trying to stand in eachother's shadows
4: another JAPANESE ASS LINE!!! this uses an idiom meaning to fall into pieces like petals falling off the centre of a flower...but thats too long to put in my lyric!!
5: i did some research aaand i think this is referring to a literary phrase similar to "taking off the monster's mask", like pulling off someone's figurative "mask" to reveal their true character. a Noh mask is just a type of mask used in Japanese Noh theatre which is like...ả premodern comedy musical type thing
6: AAAHH A PUN!!! this has me so confused but i think its mixing the phrases for "heartache" and a term used for the body of a woman who died in a suicide pact where her lover betrayed her by not following through. which is an oddly specific term but thats what my research said guys im trying
7: in Japan the dead have historically always been given a fresh face of makeup to make them look alive for the open casket funeral ceremony, the word used is just "death makeup"
8: the "feast" along w this line are talking about hyakki yakkou, a mythical concept similar to pandemonium where all of the youkai and demons escape jigoku (buddhist hell) and wreak havoc through the streets of Japan. this song is about that bc its called...its called hells gates
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Exalted Essence Homebrew: Mutations as Equipment
Whether the product of an ancient curse, divergent evolution or the touch of the Wyld, there are myriad means by which a person might deviate from Creation's norm. While these can be unremarkable, easily obviated or purely aesthetic, some are mutations with a substantial impact on one's relation to the world.
Mutations act as equipment that is part of your character's body. To create a mutation, choose it's Extent, Utility, and Hindrance.
Extent: This is both the proportion of the body the mutation occupies and how apparent it is to observers. This is rated from 1 to 3. 1: The mutation manifests on part of a limb or a small section of the body. It's fairly remarkable but easily dressed up. 2: The mutation occupies an entire limb or large section of the body. It's easily noticed and highly remarkable. 3: The mutation covers most of the body and/or extends from it substantially. It's obvious even at a distance, eclipsing all other impressions.
Utility: This is how the mutation can be applied. Describe it's shape and useful functions and define a few relevant actions it is advantageous to or would normally be impossible. This needn't be an exhaustive list and is limited only to what is logically useful about the mutation. This can be left to define as situations come up, but if the mutation facilitates an action one otherwise couldn't take it's best to define this ahead of time. Relevant actions gain the mutation's Extent as a dice bonus.
Hindrance: Just as Utility is the logical advantage of a mutation, Hindrance is it's situational disadvantage. Sketch out which actions you see the mutation complicating or are even made outright impossible. As before, this needn't be exhaustive and the ST is free to invoke it where relevant, but you have final say as to whether you are barred from acting at all. Hindrances use the usual rules for penalties, rated as the ST sees fit for the situation. The ST is encouraged to only invoke it where strictly relevant and to be aware of the player's intentions for the mutation.
Beyond this framework mutations can also have Anomaly tags, detailed below. There is no minimum or maximum number of tags, simply choose any that apply.
Mutations relevant to combat act as weapons or armour with the Natural tag, typically have a weight category in line with their Extent, and gain access to Conflict tags which can be taken alongside the usual Equipment tags.
Anomaly Tags:
Subtle: The mutation is difficult to detect while not actively in use. Add two dice to oppose attempts to detect them, even magical ones. Weapons and Armour must be deployed with the Ready action.
Contagious: The mutation can be shared with others, requiring either a dramatic scene's access to a person at your mercy or the infliction of a dramatic injury.
Morphing: The mutation warps and reshapes at your whim. Use a dramatic edit to swap any other tags, add a tag or redefine it's Utility. This resets at the end of the scene.
Fluctuating: The mutation fades and intensifies like an immune reaction. Use a dramatic edit to change it's Extent.
Acclimatised: Though the mutation has replaced or complicated other functions, your character has learned to compensate. It's Hindrance doesn't apply unless you say so.
Debilitating: The mutation hampers or pains your character more generally than others. Whenever it's Hindrance is applied, gain a set of banked stunt dice.
Residue: The mutation leaves evidence of it's use or presence. Apply it's Hindrance as a success bonus to attempts to track and investigate the mutation.
Transcendant: The mutation goes beyond mere mundane capabilities. This is modelled as the Artifact merit (purchased as usual), providing an innate benefit and access to 'Evocations'. Add one success to any roll relevant to it's Utility and add the Artifact tag to it's use in combat.
Narrow: The mutation is only useful in highly specific situations, but greatly so. Change the Utility's dice bonus to a success bonus.
Conflict Tags:
Toxic: The mutation secretes or injects a hazardous substance. Spend Power up to Extent on Step 7 of a decisive attack to inflict a poison of equal damage, which lasts for two rounds at difficulty 3.
Dazzling: The mutation can perform a mesmerising display. On your turn, reflexively decrease your Defence up to Extent to inflict the same on an opponent within short range. This lasts until the start of your next turn.
Reactive: The mutation flares or bristles when struck. Increase the Extent and weight category of the mutation by one (with the usual maximums) on Step 8 after taking damage. This resets at the end of the scene.
Splintering: The mutation breaks off pieces or recedes when striking. Decrease it's Extent and weight category by one on Step 8 after dealing damage. This resets at the end of the scene.
Examples:
Vampirism (Extent 2, Subtle, Contagious)
Tentacle Arm (Extent 2, Acclimatised) (Medium Melee, Pulling, Flexible)
Crystalline Skin (Extent 3) (Heavy Armour, Silent)
Lycanthropy (Extent 1, Fluctuating, Debilitating)
Pharyngeal Jaw (Extent 1, Narrow) (Heavy Melee, Piercing, Reaching)
Feathery Mane (Extent 2) (Armour, Dazzling)
Sludge Form (Extent 3, Morphing, Residue)
Born Beneath A Cursed Star (Extent 1, Transcendant, Debilitating, Residue)
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