#and I will never forgive them

[crystalelemental]

Unit Teambuilding - Lodge Jasmine

Oh now this is a nice surprise.  I would never have expected Jasmine as the addition to Lodge, but god I will take it.  Finally, one of my high priority favorites makes it in.  And she got Magnemite!  This is really exciting to me, I actually wanted Magnemite to get in.  Now we can get a nice Steel Strike pair with special and...what, Support again?  Ugh, fine. 4* Support candy situation is fucking dire. She's good though, right?

General Overview THEY MASSACRED MY GIRL

Jasmine has the unfortunate experience of existing at the same time as BP Clemont, who does exactly what she does, but better in every way. Jasmine TM is +1 Def/Sp Def/Accuracy. Clemont's TM is +2 to both defenses, and has X Accuracy all. Both have Endurance, First Aid (Clemont got 4, Jasmine got fucking 2), healing on sync (Clemont got Synchro Healing, Jasmine got Recuperation 1), access to Screech, and an attacking move with paralysis (Clemont hits 60%, Jasmine hits 50%). Please understand, when I say "worse in every way," I meant it. Jasmine's only differentiating factors are Team Sharp Entry, All Ramped Up, and Interference Immunity. Interference Immunity is largely useless, while the other two have value. Team Sharp Entry is often enough for Lodge Dawn to make use of, and with All Ramped Up, Jasmine can at least replicate what Lodge Dawn does for pairs that only needed +2 Sp Atk. Because guess what. Guess what guys. Apparently? +1 accuracy is enough to not even give her MPR. Have we like ever seen this outside of the stupid busted crap? MPR is a staple. A guarantee. It's literally the most essential part of every kit. How the fuck did they not give her MPR? If she had that, at least we'd have an approach of potentially buffing a lot of Sp Atk and getting her to an actual defense boosted level. But nope! Only +2 in those stats, nothing more.

I have not been this angry since Valerie's grid. This is a literal assassination. Jasmine fucking sucks, man. The only thing carrying her at this point is that maybe accuracy and +1 crit matters. it's literally all she's got, because every other tool either got hit with half the effectiveness it should have (seriously, why does First Aid 2 even EXIST?), or was just omitted for literally no reason. I hate it. I hate it so much, and just like I did with Valerie, god as my fucking witness I will make her triumph.

EX and Move Level? Without 3/5, Jasmine is just Clemont but worse.  So you best invest.  EX isn't entirely sane, given the 4* status, but she is a support and it's also Jasmine, and by following this blog, you agreed to support my favorites so you gotta.  Sorry.

Team 1: Lodge Jasmine, Ghetsis, Irida I wanted to give her more options but there aren't any, because other Special Ice options need too much.  Jasmine gives the exact stats needed for Ghetsis and Irida to always hit and keep consistent pressure, while giving a nice defensive backbone to the team.  Now I know what you're thinking.  "How is Jasmine any better than Melony, who also does these things while being good?"  And the answer may surprise you.

Team 2: Lodge Jasmine, Drasna, Cyrus/Lucian Drasna has pretty decent self-sufficiency, but misses out slightly on crit and Sp Atk.  Something that Jasmine provides perfectly, while also supplying much needed accuracy to conserve grid energy.  For Dragon-weak content, this is free, just throw in any other Special dragon like Cyrus or or something, since he also managed to have accuracy issues.  If you're daring to off-type, Lucian for gauges and damage boost.

Team 3: Lodge Jasmine, Brendan, Blaine Brendan's Leaf Storm is a source of much consternation, given that it's 90% accuracy is only offset by expensive, out of the way nodes.  Jasmine provides the needed accuracy for him, while also getting Team Sharp Entry to save a turn buffing.  Brendan can then just take Sun support.  Better still, Jasmine has Screech, which can power up Brendan's sync, which is physical, providing for a lot of tools in his kit.

Team 4: Lodge Jasmine, Anni Skyla, Blue/Lysandre Alright, let's talk about Blue.  The only guy who actually needs accuracy boosting for multipliers.  Jasmine's accuracy supply, alongside Sp Atk, really alleviates some of Blue's needs.  With Team Sharp Entry, Blue can forego MPR entirely and still be alright for Hurricane spam.  They're a fairly potent combo.  Anni Skyla is mentioned for the Zone, sure, but also because 50% AoE flinch rate is great but 95 accuracy sucks and Jasmine fixes it.  Notably, Skyla's Mini Potion All is very handy for the team's survival as well.  I'm mentioning Lysandre because...well, gotta.  With a single flinch, his cooldown effect can land a fast-ramp twice in a row.  So it's worth talking about, since he can give up one TM in initial rotation thanks to Team Sharp Entry. Shame about the lack of MPR on Jasmine though.

Team 5: Lodge Jasmine, May, Archie/Lodge May General Water stuff.  Accuracy boosting is a lifesaver for May, and having some Sp Atk in there as well is a huge help.  Team Sharp Entry ensures max crit.  Archie...actually gains fuckall, since he needs his own TM for Crit so accuracy isn’t a consideration, but I guess Jasmine cancels out the defensive loss?  Lodge May is interesting, in that Jasmine's specific buffs get her perfectly to max offenses and SEUN by first sync, while preserving May’s TM for another SEUN later. If you’re completely F2P and for some reason EX’d Lodge May, this is a valuable comp.

Team 6: Lodge Jasmine, BP Valerie, Sylveon/Masked Royal/SC Steven Okay, so Jasmine has Screech.  This allows her to power up physical attackers decently well.  BP Valerie is, of course, my obvious choice of partner, who only needs one TM with Team Sharp Entry in play.  Sylveon is a free source of Fairy Zone, while Masked Royal is rapid speed boosting and extra AoE Atk/Def debuffs as needed. SC Steven is there for when inevitably this isn’t enough to win off-type.

Final Thoughts It is…surprisingly hard to find partners for Jasmine.  I wanted to talk about physical partners, and what she could do with that, but barring the ones listed, I couldn't.  I didn't actually have anything to operate off of.  Sure, Team Sharp Entry salvages Dire Hit+ users, the slight Sp Atk boost lets her mesh with the myriad +4 pairs going on around here, but often she lacks for crit that low tier damage dealers need, and high tier pairs start not needing what she offers because everyone patches their own accuracy issues. Gimping her out of MPR because of accuracy is like the most uselessly cruel thing they’ve ever done.  It's a rough life.  Can't wait to use her.

#unit teambuilding #lodge jasmine #they massacred my girl #and I will NEVER FORGIVE THEM

[carebooks]

overlooking all the other reasons why the show went downhill: katara’s feminine rage missing, aang getting guilt punched every episode, bumi being ooc, almost zero gaang bonding episodes, three episodes compiled into one (done twice), azula being introduced too early + given too much screen time, the cave of two lovers being in s1 when it was a s2 episode— all of that is valid but the show can really be pointed out in two ways where they went downhill:

aang never waterbended once during a season where it is literally called book one: water.

yue’s wig.

#thats it #everything else can be fixed by the next season (hopefully) #there’s still hope #maybe #but these two things can never be undone and i wont forgive them for it #avatar the last airbender #aang #katara #sokka #zuko #prince zuko #azula #princess azula #uncle iroh #princess yue #toph beifong #atla #atla netflix #that’s rough buddy

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

me and my personal demon manifested irl who is also my daughter on a adventure to find my other daughter

#eveline is back AU #ethan winters #eveline re7 #resident evil #resident evil fanart #rebhfun #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #re8 #eveline is like “lets kill chris redfield” #and ethan has to tell her no but it just makes him start considering it instead #ethan telling eveline all his problems and shes just like #“ok just kill all of them” #ethan showing eveline care and affection #eveline showing ethan to normalize having hatred and revenge in his heart and to never forgive or forget #i think shes funny #shes so messed up #eveline being a little demon brat to everyone except ethan is also extremly funny

[writeouswriter]

Broke: Acknowledging that a character who is an objectively terrible person is also a complex and intentionally well thought out individual with different levels of nuance you can empathize with in some ways while not in others is immediately “woobifying” or “poor little meow meowifying” them.

Woke: “This character is a bad person” and “this character is still a person” are two statements that can, should and do coexist and admitting that they exhibit nuance and depth and are more than just their bad actions doesn’t immediately excuse or condone their bad actions or mean that you’re ignoring or trying to soften the canonical version of the character.

Bespoke: That’s the whole point, that’s always been the point, to be made to empathize with horrible people so you can understand that they can be anyone, that bad people can be likeable, can be interesting, can be human, are human, and it’s scary to think about all the ways they’re just like you and all the ways they’re just like everything you hate, forcing the use of critical skills in media analysis, forcing a confrontation of the duality of man.

Whatever Level is Above Bespoke: But sometimes, yeah, sure, maybe they are a poor little meow meow, what are you gonna do, get a lawyer

#oh you would absolutely hate who sparked this post would absolutely hate it #and i am absolutely never going to tag who it is #writing #writeblr #books #media #movies #tv shows #poor little meow meow #media analysis #character analysis #literature #oh my god oh my god i shan't say it but i looked at the urban dictionary for something and oh my god #listen I’m not forgiving them I’m just observing the writers purposefully wrote more to them like they are the worst but hey #lying in wait like a spider to see if anyone tags this as the character that initially sparked this no one has yet #Upon last check 12400 notes someone has mentioned will not say when or who 👍

[sbeana]

the pool scene

#the locked tomb #tlt #griddlehark #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #tlt art #tlt fanart #comic #apologies for how wonky it looks in some parts #um i spent like five days working on this nonstop #well not nonstop i ate a shit ton of pomegranetes or however its spelled during it #but uhm yeah #im not good at drawing backgrounds or anatomy (YET) so hhuhshsu #anyways yah yeepers when will i get to have a homoerotic moment with my former rival/enemy where i get to show them forgiveness and care #gideon wants to kiss harrow on the lips so bad its so fucking funny #harrow is a whole pathetic looking sopping wet kitten and gideon is like ooh yah thats the stuff #anwyas yah #ill post the version without their skull makeup because i like that one more #the skull makeup looks ugly sometimes (BY MY OWN DESIGN!!!! HARROW QUEEN I WILL NEVER DISS YOUR FASHION <4) #ALSO SORRY ABOUT THE PACING BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT DRAWING TWELVE PAGES OF A COMIC CAN MAKE YOU REALLY MESSED UP IN THE HEAD #hatman is in the corner of ym room rn

[novemberocean]

"If writers strike, we can't guarantee the continuation of your favorite shows!"

You can't do that ANYWAY get fucked and treat your writers with respect

#i knew it was coming #i hate netflix so much #will never forgive them for what they did to rottmnt #aerin babbles #aerin bitches more like #qwhat #lockwood and co #lockwood & co

[thewiglesswonder]

One thing I think we’re all glossing over about Thanks to Them is the fact that Belos got hit by a car. You’re a half-millennia old 1600s New England Puritan witch hunter who addresses Hunter as a grimwalker and then calls him Caleb in the same sentence and you just charged out into a modern road and got hit with that woman’s sedan. How do you cope with that. You used to be the Emperor. You’ve been living in the woods for months. Does he think that he got hit by an extremely fast wagon. The threat that’s been menacing the protagonists since episode fucking one just got hit by a car.

#I can’t cope with this #I’m never going to forgive that his reaction to the modern human realm was foreshadowed but never completed #I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds #the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #emperor belos #belos #philip wittebane #wig's words #thanks to them

[seagreenstardust]

“When toxic behavior is portrayed as romantic, it’s problematic. When problematic behavior is portrayed as a character flaw for a character to work through, it’s good storytelling.”

Katsuki Bakugou, my friends.

His behavior was problematic but never once portrayed as romantic at the same time. Katsuki said and did awful abusive things, and he also chose to be better when he was given the chance. If you’re still hung up on chapter 1 Katsuki now then I don’t think you’ve been reading the same story I have.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m not shipping Izuku with an irredeemable abuser. I’m shipping him with his most important person. His narrative foil. His childhood friend who made awful mistakes and then made it right when he saw he was wrong. The person Izuku looks up to and strives to emulate, despite their past struggles.

Bakudeku is so good because of how flawed these boys are, and how hard they’ve worked to get over it, and how much they matter to each other after it all

#perfect stories about perfect people who never do anything wrong are usually boring #stories about growth and mistakes and redemption and forgiveness and progress are lit #bkdk #bakudeku #the quote is from cinema therapy on YouTube btw #love them so much #they look at media and talk about what is and isn’t good from a real life human perspective #and boy did this quote slap me in the face #anyway this is my thought literally any time anyone says something about shipping Izuku with his abuser #if he was still being abused then I get it #but he’s not #and saying he needs protection from Katsuki is honestly doing his character dirty #and this is not to say that every situation with an abuser and a victim should turn out romantic #obviously not #the world is not black and white and neither are people #sometimes you have to get yourself out and never look back and that is valid and healthy #but sometimes you’re talking about two boys in a manga who literally cannot stop thinking about how good and incredible the other is #bro I get it #surface level chapter/episode 1 Katsuki is literally the worst #but his glow up has been literally meteoric

[sunskaiis]

recently (2+ weeks ago) read the tf2 comics and i haven’t been normal about it since so i redrew some of my favorite panels for funsies <3

#tf2 is one of those things where i would see it everywhere but never got into it #i was like 2 when it came out lol #anyway i finally fell into the hole and MY GOD??? #i love it here #i could go on and on about it but i don’t have enough space here #still learning how to draw them forgive me #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 spy #tf2 sniper #tf2 yana #tf2 bronislava #tf2 scout #tf2 pyro #tf2 medic #tf2 miss pauling #tf2 soldier #tf2 heavy #tf2 demoman #tf2 maggie #my art

[arakkiisuperstar]

#god how i miss them #i will never forget this show but ill never forgive it either #the magicians #queliot #quentin coldwater #eliot waugh #peaches and plums #darius decrees

[podcastenthusiast]

The way BG3 approaches revenge is so interesting. It never says anyone is wrong to kill someone who's done them harm, but it does say that doing so alone won't fix the trauma.

Aylin just feels empty after killing Lorroakan. Astarion admits killing Cazador didn't feel how he expected it would either; he feels numb for a while and it changes his perspective on things. Karlach kills Gortash and it isn't satisfying, because he never felt sorry for the life he took from her and now she has to grapple with how little she has left.

Again, they weren't wrong to crave that catharsis and the safety it brings them. But revenge is never the end of healing. It's only the beginning. Choosing to live again is maybe the best revenge there is.

#bg3 #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #counselor plays video game #killing is pretty normalized in their world but like as far as i know you can't tell your companions to just forgive their abusers #you can tell them to avoid direct confrontation and run but they remind you they'll never be safe if they do that #in fact taking that choice that catharsis by for example killing cazador without astarion is framed as a bad option #a betrayal of his trust and autonomy. which it is even with good intentions

[spocks-kaathyra]

thoughts about the Cardassian writing system

I've thinking about the Cardassian script as shown on screen and in beta canon and such and like. Is it just me or would it be very difficult to write by hand?? Like.

I traced some of this image for a recent drawing I did and like. The varying line thicknesses?? The little rectangular holes?? It's not at all intuitive to write by hand. Even if you imagine, like, a different writing implement—I suppose a chisel-tip pen would work better—it still seems like it wasn't meant to be handwritten. Which has a few possible explanations.

Like, maybe it's just a fancy font for computers, and handwritten text looks a little different. Times New Roman isn't very easily written by hand either, right? Maybe the line thickness differences are just decorative, and it's totally possible to convey the same orthographic information with the two line thicknesses of a chisel-tip pen, or with no variation in line thickness at all.

A more interesting explanation, though, and the one I thought of first, is that this writing system was never designed to be handwritten. This is a writing system developed in Cardassia's digital age. Maybe the original Cardassian script didn’t digitize well, so they invented a new one specifically for digital use? Like, when they invented coding, they realized that their writing system didn’t work very well for that purpose. I know next to nothing about coding, but I cannot imagine doing it using Chinese characters. So maybe they came up with a new writing system that worked well for that purpose, and when computer use became widespread, they stuck with it. 

Or maybe the script was invented for political reasons! Maybe Cardassia was already fairly technologically advanced when the Cardassian Union was formed, and, to reinforce a cohesive national identity, they developed a new standardized national writing system. Like, y'know, the First Emperor of Qin standardizing hanzi when he unified China, or that Korean king inventing hangul. Except that at this point in Cardassian history, all official records were digital and typing was a lot more common than handwriting, so the new script was designed to be typed and not written. Of course, this reform would be slower to reach the more rural parts of Cardassia, and even in a technologically advanced society, there are people who don't have access to that technology. But I imagine the government would be big on infrastructure and education, and would make sure all good Cardassian citizens become literate. And old regional scripts would stop being taught in schools and be phased out of digital use and all the kids would grow up learning the digital script.

Which is good for the totalitarian government! Imagine you can only write digitally. On computers. That the government can monitor. If you, like, write a physical letter and send it to someone, then it's possible for the contents to stay totally private. But if you send an email, it can be very easily intercepted. Especially if the government is controlling which computers can be manufactured and sold, and what software is in widespread use, etc. 

AND. Historical documents are now only readable for scholars. Remember that Korean king that invented hangul? Before him, Korea used to use Chinese characters too. And don't get me wrong, hangul is a genius writing system! It fits the Korean language so much better than Chinese characters did! It increased literacy at incredible rates! But by switching writing systems, they broke that historical link. The average literate Chinese person can read texts that are thousands of years old. The average literate Korean person can't. They'd have to specifically study that field, learn a whole new writing system. So with the new generation of Cardassian youths unable to read historical texts, it's much easier for the government to revise history. The primary source documents are in a script that most people can't read. You just trust the translation they teach you in school. In ASIT it's literally a crucial plot point that the Cardassian government revised history! Wouldn't it make it soooo much easier for them if only very few people can actually read the historical accounts of what happened.

I guess I am thinking of this like Chinese characters. Like, all the different Chinese "dialects" being written with hanzi, even though otherwise they could barely be considered the same language. And even non-Sinitic languages that historically adopted hanzi, like Japanese and Korean and Vietnamese. Which worked because hanzi is a logography—it encodes meaning, not sound, so the same word in different languages can be written the same. It didn’t work well! Nowadays, Japanese has made significant modifications and Korean has invented a new writing system entirely and Vietnamese has adapted a different foreign writing system, because while hanzi could write their languages, it didn’t do a very good job at it. But the Cardassian government probably cares more about assimilation and national unity than making things easier for speakers of minority languages. So, Cardassia used to have different cultures with different languages, like the Hebitians, and maybe instead of the Union forcing everyone to start speaking the same language, they just made everyone use the same writing system. Though that does seem less likely than them enforcing a standard language like the Federation does. Maybe they enforce a standard language, and invent the new writing system to increase literacy for people who are newly learning it.

And I can imagine it being a kind of purely digital language for some people? Like if you’re living on a colonized planet lightyears away from Cardassia Prime and you never have to speak Cardassian, but your computer’s interface is in Cardassian and if you go online then everyone there uses Cardassian. Like people irl who participate in the anglophone internet but don’t really use English in person because they don’t live in an anglophone country. Except if English were a logographic writing system that you could use to write your own language. And you can’t handwrite it, if for whatever reason you wanted to. Almost a similar idea to a liturgical language? Like, it’s only used in specific contexts and not really in daily life. In daily life you’d still speak your own language, and maybe even handwrite it when needed. I think old writing systems would survive even closer to the imperial core (does it make sense to call it that?), though the government would discourage it. I imagine there’d be a revival movement after the Fire, not only because of the cultural shift away from the old totalitarian Cardassia, but because people realize the importance of having a written communication system that doesn’t rely on everyone having a padd and electricity and wifi.

#if I read over this again I will inevitably want to change and add things so I'm refraining from doing that. enjoy whatever this is #forgive my very crude recounting of chinese and korean history! I am neither a historian nor a linguist #but I will NOT apologize for talking abt china so much. that's my culture and I'm weird abt it bc of my family history #and it's my GOD GIVEN RIGHT to project what little I know abt it onto all my worldbuilding #also I've never actually read abt any of the various cardassian conlangs but I'm curious if this contradicts or coincides with any of them #I still want to make my own someday. starting college as a linguistics major (in 2 weeks!!) so presumably I will learn how to do that #narcissus's echoes #ds9 #asit #star trek #cardassians #cardassian meta #a stitch in time #hebitians

[gwenpendragns]

#whAt WAs tHe REaSoN???

#sabedit #shadowandbonecentral #shadowandboneedit #shadowandbonesource #genyasafinedit #genyadavid #genya x david #genya safin #shadow and bone #sab #userbecca #userjoelle #userava #userneve #ughmerlin #arthurpendragonns #**gifs #i will never forgive them for this #i thought i'd have at LEAST another three seasons of them

[hey-im-okay]

I’m sorry but Arthur “I’ll have you for breakfast!” Pendragon and Merlin “I could take you apart with a lot less than that.” Emrys did not stare at each other with hearts in their eyes just for Arthur to DIE IN MERLINS AMRS AND ONE OF HIS LAST WORDS BE ASKING MERLIN TO JUST HOLD HIM.

#i will never forgive them #boyfriends #merthur #merlin #bbc merthur #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys

[ssahotchnerr]

“come on haley, let’s go show them how it’s done.” 😭

#i love them so so so so so so bad #THEY WERE SO HAPPY #i could write an essay on them and how much they loved each other 😭 #never forgiving the cm writers #aaron hotchner #criminal minds

[buckysbarnes]

JOE KEERY as STEVE HARRINGTON “the piggyback” 4.09 • stranger things

#steve harrington #steveharringtondaily #tvstrangerthings #dailystrangerthings #dailystobin #tuserlyn #userallisyn #userspree #usereri #usertiny #usersugar #noalook #usermaguire #userchelsea #usergosling #** #*sh #*st #© #i will never forgive them for making all the upside scenes so damn darkkkk #HE IS BLOODY AND HAS AN AX #WHY WOULD THEY MAKE IT SO I CAN'T SEE IT #anyway #my messy bestie ready to kill :)