#cappers picks

[hellenhighwater]

I've been looking through your archive trying to find the post where you did a tutorial for the cat scratching post, but can't find it! I'm going to make one for my own growing kitty, since he just outgrew his first one, and figured it would be cheaper to make than buy. Any chance you have the post?

No, but I can tell you about it! It's basically a square of heavy board--I used a 2-foot section of one-inch-thick MDF, cut in Home Depot to size. The post itself is just a section of 4x4 board, also cut in the store down to four feet tall. As a note--before it was cut, the MDF was 2x4' and the board was 8', so I actually wound up with precisely twice what I needed to make this project.

I picked up a post capper of my choosing, and 50 feet of sisal rope. You'll also want some 3" screws, a bunch of wood glue, and some kind of flathead nail or a big stapler. I also used fabric to cover the base of the post, attaching with a staple gun, and then attached a sheet of foamcore to the bottom so that it wouldn't scratch the floors.

Cover the base however you see fit--you could use carpet, if you wanted--and then, on the bottom and top, mark the center. Align your 4x4 post and use your long screws (drilled from the bottom of the base) to attach it. If you're thinking ahead, unravel one end of the sisal rope so that it lays flat, cover it in glue, and sandwich it between the base and the post when you do this.

From here, you can choose to paint or stain the post the same color as your rope, if you want to be fancy. Otherwise, just smother the post in wood glue and start wrapping with the rope. Every few rotations, use your nails or staples to anchor the rope to the post, continuing to the top. I used a 1/2 inch drill bit to make a hole at the top that I tucked and glued the end of the rope into, then attached the post capper over that so it would be neat.

[ravenwitch45]

do you side with pinkie during the argument in the 2017 my little pony movie? or do you side with twilight?

Oh lord... I'll admit this scene is painful but I'll do my best to explain my feelings on it before giving my personal verdict.

First let's go over Twilight's point of view, that friendship isn't enough to beat the storm king and that she was in the right to attempt to steal Queen Novo's pearl for their needs.

It's honestly a point that kinda get's built up over the movie, trying to be friendly almost got them sold into whatever Capper was trying to sell them into. And while friendship got the pirates on their side, the urge to put on on a show for them led to Rainbow revealing where they were to Tempest.

Twilight ends up only seeing how much friendliness gets them in trouble during their adventure, and thus when a power she thinks can help her cause is denied to her, she tries to take it cause to her friendship just isn't enough anymore.

The problem with that is that she is putting her princesshood and her homeland before everyone and everything else she stands for, she misses the friendship part of her title. Leaving everyone else to pick up the slack, Rarity gets Capper to see there are more things he wants then money, Rainbow gets the pirates to express themseleves after so long hiding and lastly, Pinkie meets Skystar halfway and almost wins Novo over before Twilight messes it all up.

Brute Force, to be honest has never won the day in Equestria. Even with Tirek where Twilight has all the Princesse's magic she still can't beat him, and only after putting her friends first does she get the power she needs to do so. And it's the same case here.

The friends Twilight's friends went out of their way to make are the only reason they get to her in time to help, are able to get the staff away from the Storm King, and the person who stops his last ditch attempt to win by throwing herself in front of the others is Tempest, someone Twilight endeared to when friendship was literally the only option, and it saves her, her friends and ultimately ends the Storm King and saves the day.

So yeah, Pinkie was right, who da thunk. Just more evidence her and the other Mane Six deserve the title too I think.

Full disclosure, I don't blame Twilight too harshly, she was under A LOT of pressure so it's understandable even if she messed up.

#ask reply #mlp fim #mlp movie #twilight sparkle #pinkie pie

[best-fictional-cat]

Behold!!!

The Round 1 contestants!!!

You will notice that there is no clearly defined bracket yet, but there will be going forth from round 2. I just want to see how popular certain characters actually are before I set all the forthcoming rounds in stone. You will also notice that there are some polls with more that two options. That's because we have so many cats and so little opportunities to make an even bracket. And one more thing that some of you who know their way around the math of bracket-making might pick up on: round 1 consists of 126 polls, while we're going to require 128 contestants for round 2. That would mean that some polls will result in multiple winners (either 2 winners for 2 polls or a whooping 3 for a single one). And now, finally, the pairs and groups:

Group 1

Garfield (Garfield) vs Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots / Shrek)

Khoshekh (Welcome to Night Vale) vs The Admiral (The Magnus Archives) vs Pippa (The Penumbra Podcast)

Tom (Tom and Jerry) vs Sylvester (Looney Tunes)

Judd (Splatoon) vs Lil' Judd (Splatoon)

Garfield the Deals Warlock (The Adventure Zone: Balance) vs Pib (Dimension 20 - Neverafter)

Opalescence (My Little Pony) vs Charmmy Kitty (Sanrio)

Group 2

Slugcat (Rain World) vs Rivulet (Rain World: Downpour)

Cool Cat (Cool Cat Saves the Kids) vs Tabby Von Meow (Webkinz)

Sisters of Plenitude (Doctor Who) vs Thomas Kincade Brannigan ( Doctor Who)

Domino (Amphibia) vs Domino 2 (Amphibia)

Thomas O'Malley + the Aristocats (Aristocats) vs Serafina + Wolfie (Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper)

Hollyleaf (Warrior cats) vs Jayfeather (Warrior cats) vs Yellowfang (Warrior cats) vs Bluestar (Warrior cats)

Group 3

Bob (Animal Crossing) vs Raymond (Animal Crossing)

Cattail (Plants vs Zombies) vs Stray Cat (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach) vs Grimmjow Jaegerjaques (Bleach)

Greebo (Discworld) vs You (Discworld)

Pusheen (Pusheen) vs Nyan Cat (Nyan Cat)

Felix (Drawtectives) vs Capper (My Little Pony)

Group 4

Cat (Stray) vs Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Bungle the glass cat (Oz) vs Eureka the pink kitten (Oz)

Squanchy (Rick and Morty) vs Talking Cat (Rick and Morty)

Barry Ill ( Sparklecare hospital) vs Caroline Coughs (Sparklecare hospital)

Shoe (Ace Attorney) vs Wagahai (Ace Attorney)

Alpine (Marvel comics) vs Mew (Marvel comics)

Group 5

Hong (Trash of the Count's Family) vs On (Trash of the Count's Family)

Catra (She-Ra) vs Khajiit (The Elder Scrolls)

Constable Whiskers (Cookie Run) vs Tabby Slime (Slime Rancher)

Arlene (Garfield) vs Nermal (Garfield)

Stelmaria (His Dark Materials) vs Kirjava (His Dark Materials)

Candy + Cindy (Five Nights at Candy's) vs 808 (Hi-Fi Rush)

Group 6

Carla (Fairy Tail) vs Panther Lily (Fairy Tail)

Jellie (Double Life SMP) vs C!Antfrost (Dream SMP)

Midnight (Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones) vs Thomas (Earwig and the Witch)

Skimbleshanks (Cats the musical) vs Rum Tum Tugger (Cats the musical)

Ortensia the Cat (Disney) vs Felix the cat (Felix the cat (Paramount))

God Cat (Homestuck) vs Vodka Mutini / Dr.Meowgon Spangler (Homestuck)

Group 7

Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket) vs Miyo Sasaki / Muge / Taro (A whisker away)

Blaze the Cat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs Big the Cat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service) vs Luna (Sailor Moon)

Puppycat (Bee and Puppy cat) vs CatDog (CatDog)

Chairman Meow (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Church (The Shadowhunter Chronicles)

Pounce de Leon (Homestuck) vs Jaspers (Homestuck)

Group 8

Sandstorm (Warrior cats) vs Squirrelflight (Warrior cats)

Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods) vs Princess Carolyn (BoJack Horseman)

Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) vs Tigger (Winnie the Pooh)

Ankha (Animal Crossing) vs Kabuki (Animal Crossing)

Valerie Oberlin (Monster Prom) vs Juan The Small Magical Latino Cat (Monster Prom)

Coco Grimalkin (Purrfect Apawcalypse) vs Felix Munch (Purrfect Apawcalypse) vs Mittens Wichien (Purrfect Apawcalypse)

Group 9

Catty (Undertale) vs Catti (Deltarune)

Aslan (The Chronicles of Narnia) vs Simba (The Lion King)

Ghazt (My Singing Monsters) vs Nyanky (Taiko no Tatsujin)

Nameless evil white cat (James Bond) vs Meowthra (Lego Ninjago Movie)

Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) vs Behemoth (Master and Margarita)

Macskacicó (Hungarian folk tales) vs Pangur Bán (Pangur Bán (Irish poem, 9th century))

Group 10

Kuro (Blue Exorcist) vs Grim (Twisted Wonderland)

Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns) vs Nyanta (Log Horizon)

Lumi (Cats are Liquid) vs Mewo (Omori) vs Pet cats (Stardew Valley)

Leone (Akame ga Kill) vs Blake Belladonna (RWBY)

The Black Cat (The Black Cat, E.A.Poe) vs Black Cat (The Price, Neil Gaiman)

Chi Yamada (Chi's sweet home) vs Happy (Fairy Tail)

Group 11

Kitty White / Hello Kitty (Sanrio) vs Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Firestar (Warrior cats) vs Meowth (Pokémon)

Ghost (The Owl House) vs Morgana (Persona 5)

Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Goose (Marvel comics / MCU)

Catbus (My Neighbor Totoro) vs Cake (Adventure Time)

Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) vs Che'nya (Twisted Wonderland)

Group 12

Plagg (Miraculous) vs Chat Noir (Miraculous)

Bagheera (The Jungle Book) vs Nuka (The Lion King 2)

Cure Cosmo / Yuni (Star Twinkle Pretty Cure) vs Ichigo Momomiya (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Luxor (Tutenstein) vs Chester the Cat (Bunnicula)

Cat (Red Dwarf) vs T'Ana (Star Trek: Lower Decks)

The Cat (Coraline) vs Mothwing (Warrior cats)

Group 13

Shampoo ( Ranma 1/2) vs Diana (Sailor Moon)

Frumpkin (Critical Role) vs Archie (Tales of Arcadia)

Periwinkle (Blue's clues) vs Brave Heart Lion (Care Bears)

Catbug (Bravest Warriors) vs Pasty (Neko Atsume)

Atsushi Nakajima (Bungou Stray Dogs) vs Natsume Soseki (Bungou Stray Dogs)

Tigress (Kung Fu Panda) vs Captain Amelia (Treasure Planet)

Group 14

Pixie (Pixie and Brutus) vs Tumblr lore witch

Lucifer (Cinderella) vs Tab (Watership Down)

Gary the Snail (Spongebob Squarepants) vs Magolor (Kirby series)

Mad Mew Mew (Undertale) vs Mr. Mistoffelees (Cats the musical)

Lucrezia and Meek (Frakk, the Cats' Nightmare) vs Findus (Pettson and Findus)

Leona Kingscholar (Twisted Wonderland) vs Cheka Kingscholar (Twisted Wonderland)

Group 15

Maurice (Discworld) vs Heathcliff (Heathcliff)

Cringer / Battlecat (He-man) vs Mr. Kat (Kid vs. Kat)

Angel Grimalkin (Purrfect Apawcalypse) vs Tigger Sugden (Purrfect Apawcalypse)

Rosie (Animal Crossing) vs Rover (Animal Crossing)

Blanca (Animal Crossing) vs Tangy (Animal Crossing)

Nali (Assassin's Creed: Valhalla) vs Miyuki (Avatar the Last Airbender)

Group 16

Chococat (Sanrio) vs Kuroneko-sama (Trigun)

Gatomon (Digimon) vs Kyubey (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Shrödinger's cat (you know the one) vs Felix (Felix cat food mascot)

The Cat (Monster Camp) vs Xiaohei (The Legend of Hei)

Artemis (Sailor Moon) vs Samantha / The Cat (Infinity Train)

John Blacksad (Blacksad) vs Mao Mao Mao (Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart)

Group 17

Solembum (Inheritance Cycle) vs Ren (Monstress)

Taokaka (Blazblue) vs Niko (Oneshot)

Ember (Cattails) vs Lyrus (Cattails) vs Mayor (Cattails)

Missy (Cattails) vs Sarge (Cattails) vs Scout (Cattails)

Lion (Steven Universe) vs Cat Steven (Steven Universe)

Glameow (Pokémon) vs Litten (Pokémon) vs Meowstic (Pokémon) vs Skitty (Pokémon) vs Sprigatito (Pokémon)

Group 18

Mog (Mog books, Judith Kerr) vs Tom Kitten (The Tale of Tom Kitten)

Jenny Linsky (Jenny Linsky, Esther Averill) vs Kaspar, Prince of Cats (Kaspar, Prince of Cats, Michael Morporgo)

Pixel (The Cat Who Walks through Walls, Robert Heinlein) vs Invisible cat (The Invisible Man, H.G.Wells)

Jonesy (Alien) vs Grudge (Star Trek Discovery)

Aldwyn (The Familiars) vs Jess (Postman Pat)

Remlit (Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword) vs Mo (Lego Monkie Kid)

Group 19

Assistacat / Sub-manager (Cardfight!! Vanguard) vs Haru (My Roommate is a Cat)

Mao (Darker than Black) vs Amanojaku (Ghost Stories)

Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi) vs Opera (Welcome to demon school Iruma kun!)

Nyako / Meowy (Chainsaw Man) vs Yuigadokusonmaru (Durarara)

Heinkel (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Cheetu (Hunter x Hunter)

Graystripe (Warrior cats) vs Scourge (Warrior cats) vs Sol (Warrior cats) vs Tallstar (Warrior cats)

Group 20

Bristlefrost (Warrior cats) vs Cinderpelt (Warrior cats) vs Ferncloud (Warrior cats) vs Turtle Tail (Warrior cats)

Leopardstar (Warrior cats) vs Spottedleaf (Warrior cats) vs Leafpool (Warrior cats) vs Mapleshade (Warrior cats)

Sox (Lightyear) vs The Kitty (The Bad Guys)

The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat) vs Boo (The Funky Phantom)

The Sphinx (Adventures of Puss in Boots) vs Fluffal Cat (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Hiili (Fox Fires (webcomic)) vs Varjak Paw (Varjak Paw, S.F.Said)

Group 21

Potato (Cat loaf adventures) vs Whiskers (Pixel Cat's End)

Mingus Crown (Dialtown) vs Burgerpants (Undertale)

Arthur (Code Geass) vs Amp / Anp / Anpu (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

Sakamoto (Nichijou) vs Blair (Soul Eater)

Darwin (April and the Extraordinary World) vs Finley / Jelly Donut (Hustle Cat)

Jemima (Cats the musical) vs Victoria (Cats the musical)

If you have any propaganda, now's the time to start sharing it!

I'm currently planning for the polls to go live by these small bundles every eight hours, starting TOMORROW, MARCH 2ND, 12PM GMT (using this time zone as the ground zero it is I guess), so the whole round should take just a week. Unless I fluck up putting posts on timer, but let's just hope for the best.

#best fictional cat #competition #polls #brackets #cats #send your propaganda to my ask box or @ me if you post it elsewhere for me to rb #just stay respectful okay it's just cats we love them all #there will be enough massacre in the polls without the fanbases fighting <3 #and now if you'll excuse me I have 126 pictures to put together *sobs* I know I did it to myself but those are cats I couldn't seed them out

[ponysweet]

Maybe Tempest Shadow for the ask thing?

Sexuality Headcanon: not much has changed for my headcanons for tempest, so she's a butch lesbian to me. Gender Headcanon: demigirl. probably goes by they/he/she pronouns and presents very masculine A ship I have with said character: I really like TempestPie and TempestLight! I also like her with like Luna or Skystar. Someone I follow does TempestSet and it's also pretty cute :] A BROTP I have with said character: I like that friendship group of Tempest, Stygian, Luna, Capper, and Trixie they did in the comics! I think they should add Starlight since I think Tempest and Starlight would be good friends. A NOTP I have with said character: I'm not too fond of Stygian/Tempest, not my cup of tea. A random headcanon: I kind of see her as being an adult pony without a cutiemark as she didn't have much of a childhood to find her true talent and was picked up by The Storm King at a young age. I do think it's pyrotechnics. General Opinion over said character: I do love Tempest, and I think it's a little mean of me to say that she's one of the only memorable things from the movie (other then the songs, and Capper) to me, but I probably need to rewatch. I think it would have made her a better character if she kept her original name while being a hardcore villain cause the reveal at the end is just like, okay? They never use it ever again after that and Tempest abandons it. Other then that, she's pretty same-y for MLP villains. Got betrayed, became evil, gets redeemed. But I still like her!

#.asks #.txt #doodles #anonymous #sorry this took a bit to answer. i was working #she's also a pain to draw. do not like her hair

[jasper-crow]

Alright so the brioche yesterday was a bust. Try that again another time. But I did make dinner and that turned out great!

Most of the ingredients, lamb steaks, Fresno peppers, sweet Italian peppers, lemon, hedgehog mushrooms, sweet orange tomatoes, and not in picture is like 2 cloves of garlic, a massive shallot, and two yellow onion.

Marinading the steaks! Very excited for that bone marrow at the end. It's the best bit

Ash, my wife, is insisting I include this picture. I had sent him out to the store to pick up a handful of things I forgot.

He returned with flowers 💖 and all of the things I asked for. Threw it all on the counter, and decided a picture of me slicing peppers on the mandolin pants-less was the exact thing he needed.

Anyways, hope y'all enjoy my legs and the tiniest hint of cherry print panties 😅 I was too busy to stop him.

Steaks came out amazing after pan grilling and then bringing up to temp in the oven. I've never had lamb like this but it was so fucking good y'all 🤤

Anyways this is how it turned out, both with and without the pan sauce I made from the lamb drippings.

Spicy red cream sauce with hedgehog mushrooms, peppers, and cappers. Topped with thin sliced lamb steak and a shallot, garlic, lemon, rosemary pan sauce.

#lesbian island life #cooking #hedgehog mushrooms #i bought these but they are super easy and fun to forage for #and the lamb was really really goor #plus we have loads and loads of it leftover #lamb steaks #femme #femme lesbian #love my life 💙

[majachee]

any capper lore?

CAPPER LORE?? 👁👁

Still reading the main comics but from what I picked up Capper is from a cat kingdom called... Abyssinia. And it's full of anthro cat people. The kingdom was attacked and left in ruins by the Storm King (main off screen antagonist of the animated movie) when Capper was younger, and Capper's family was... implied to be killed? I believe? The comics are definitely heavier with its explicitness but its still frustratingly vague at times.

The vagueness of death in MLP always frustrated me as a child, I was the kind of child who wanted that kind of information told to me straight, I was always like that. I think that's why I liked transformers so much despite being a little young for some of the shows, the TF shows I watched explicitly told you when a character died. Either through characters talking or, like, on screen. Despite how that scared me sometimes. Issues I've had with shows since age 9, I guess...

Btw this isn't me saying MLP should have like.. violent bloody death scenes because it was never that kind of franchise. It just made little me mad that I couldn't figure out if "defeated" and "disappeared" meant died or... just. Defeated in a fight and injured, or just missing. Esp since kids shows tended to use thise phrases to mean both. End of tangent...

Anyways, after the conquering of Abyssinia, Capper made his way to Klugetown and did some scheming, got some debt, and then the events of the movie happened. Still reading the main comics, but he did eventually join the temporary Nightmare Knights and helped the Mane 6 against the Knights of Harmony.

My dude has a banger song and funny character so I love him dearly, and I am so mad I don't have more lore on hand about him.

One weird thing tho: all these different anthro animal kingdoms neighboring Equestria? Yeah, uh, they all walk on two legs and have hand-like appendages. And the ponies and yaks (and technically gryphons? They walk on all fours but they do have claes and disposable thumbs on their front legs so???) are really the only ones who don't, oddly enough. I guess it's because they're later additions to the show's universe, but eh???? Def interesting to wonder about, evolutionary wise. Take that odd observation as an apology for not having a lot of Capper lore at the moment.

#maja needs to shut up tag #ask #text #mlp g4 #mlp fim #mlp idw #I HAVE. A LOT OF LORE #spoilers #ive read the last few chapters of season 10 and not the rest of them. i am so sorry. #i did read a lot as a kid. most recent were the evil alt goth Celestia and Luna dimension ones iirc.

[honourablejester]

For reasons, I’m doodling a PF2e dwarven pirate druid from the Shackles on pathbuilder.

(These reasons are almost entirely related to the existence of the NPC Pirate Lord the Master of Gales, who won the Free Captain’s Regatta, the annual race-for-lordship among the pirates of the Shackles, for five years running owing to being a druid captain in a ship race, and only stopped winning because they made him the judge instead. I just love this. Being a druid in a ship race has to be basically cheating? Or, rather, natural advantage. But we’re pirates over here, so that fully tracks. I just love that this guy exists. Pirate druids. What an excellent concept. I’m stealing it immediately).

And, I don’t know how many of these are from the recent remaster and how many were original, but if you’re trying to play a piratical storm druid (could have gone wave, but given location and profession, I’m feeling storm more) from the pirate archipelago where they go racing annually in the outer reaches of the perpetual hurricane that is the Eye of Abendago, the primal spell list has some boss stuff on it. If you want a general stormy, nautical sort of theme.

Like, as I’m going through pathbuilder and levelling this dwarf up, picking my spells as I go, there are some fantastic things on there. I’ve no idea how good and/or practical they are in play, but the vibes are incredible.

Starting from cantrips, we’ve got things like Deep Breath (hold your breath for the duration, starting from 10mins at base), Rousing Splash (give someone temporary hit points by dumping a splash of cold water on their head to ‘invigorate’ them) and Slashing Gust (what it sounds like, you cut one to two people with blades of air).

And then as we climb spell levels, we get things like Horizon Thunder Sphere (throw ball lightning at someone), Brine Dragon’s Bile (a vicious little reaction spell where if someone takes slashing/piercing damage within range, you spit a gob of caustic salt water at them to scour their fresh wounds with salt, dealing persistent acid damage), Obscuring Mist (fog cloud, but on a nautical character fog cloud is always welcome), Voice on the Breeze (whisper a message and send it to a specific location you know within 10miles, where it’ll whisper in a 10ft burst regardless of who’s actually there), Scrying Ripples (watch people through bodies of flowing water within 500ft – does this work with the sea?), Coral Eruption (AOE that sends up razor sharp coral growths), Grasp of the Deep (grip someone with the ‘phantasmal pressure of the deep sea’, crushing them for bludgeoning damage), Misty Memory (summon memories in the mist of what a body of water witnessed within the last 24hrs), Mariner’s Curse (you afflict the target with the ‘curse of the roiling, unforgiving sea’, aka you make them seasick, is this a good use of a 5th level spell, IDK, but I’d do it, in a heartbeat), Hungry Depths (you open a miles-deep maelstrom of ‘dark corrupted water’, teeth and eyes that chews people up), and, for a 10th level capper, Summon Kaiju (very much what it says on the tin, I think I’d go either Agyra, the Forever Storm, or possibly Vorgozen, the Shapeless Feeder, for them, but most Agyra, because Eye of Abendego).

Like. If you want to be a vicious, vindictive pirate druid who shrouds themselves in mist to attack people, crushes their enemies with the phantom sensations of the deeps, whispers words in their allies’ (or enemies’) ears across miles of water, curses people with sea sickness when pissed off, wields all the myriad elemental wraths of the storm, and also on occasion likes to literally throw burning salt in their enemy’s wounds …

This is a thing you can do, basically. If you want a thematic spell list for a vicious salty sea dog, the primal list definitely has you covered.

I love Pathfinder spells. They’re so gnarly and descriptive and evocative. Also vicious. Literal salt in the wound. Good gods. Or neutral gods, I suppose, hi Besmara! And/or Gozreh. Heh.

#pf2e #character concepts #the shackles #pirate druids #primal spell list #pathfinder spells are gnarly #i love them #occult and primal spell lists are the best #sorry divine and arcane but you're just not as lively

[thehubby]

I've been enjoying Sniper Elite 4 which I picked up for a song in the Steam sale, before the storefront stopped supporting Windows 7 machines. It is every bit as good as Sniper Elite 3, but... The DLC. Boy, am I glad I waited to try the DLC missions until after I finished the main campaign.

I mean, really, how do you top this? I've been killing Hitlers in video games since 1989 or so and It's never been not satisfying, whether he's just been resurrected so I can kill him again in Bionic Commando or he's wearing a suit of power armor in Wolfenstein 3D. But it's pretty much the capper to things. Did Rebellion think this was going to be the end of the line? For me, it can be.

There's a Sniper Elite 5 out there, and it's some France thing? No, man, you guys already let me snipe Hitler. Unless the next game has me killing Hitler and Stalin with the same bullet while they have dinner, you done goofed.

#For those wondering #In this level he runs like a damn wuss and hides himself in an office #assuming you took out his escape boat in advance because of course I did #But it makes it really hard to get the good sniper shots in those quarters #I wanted a Hitler testicle kill as my finale with the game but #alas I have to settle for a round to the head

[glapplebloom]

You’ve seen the review, now let’s see if I could improve it...

So most of the beginning is the same. The guys arrive at the Capital, Discord promises not to use Chaos Magic. But instead of seeing a big sign saying No Magic or Visitors, they see a crowd of cats. When they try to introduce themselves, they begin to panic and rush into their homes and any buildings they could. This is not because of anything the Ponies or Discord did, it's because they recognize Capper.

Fluttershy wonders how they could show them that they mean no harm but that’s when Trixie gets an idea. A few minutes later, Capper makes an introduction to Trixie’s Magic Show that makes the Cats curious to see what he is talking about. Discord is fussy because he thinks he can make a better show but Trixie’s Show does get them to open up. And that includes the current King.

Seeing they seem to have no harm, the King invites them to meet. He informs them that he does recognise Capper and feared the worse because his old crew just became much worse than before. He doesn’t know how but that’s when they hear panic from the Street. It’s Capper’s Gang, but their eyes are all black. They’re causing mayhem and Fluttershy and the gang arrives to stop them.

Discord is finally allowed to go all out and tries to snap them into kittens, but nothing happens. That’s because during all his boasting, Shadow managed to sneak around and collar him. So Pinkie takes on Molly in a battle of explosions. Trixie and Admiral Fluffington go in a Third Person Off. Discord holds off Max because while he may not have his powers he’s slippery enough to avoid his strength. And Capper tries to talk Chummer out of doing this.

Shadow went to confront Fluttershy, thinking it was going to be easy, when Fluttershy uses the Stare on her. This causes Shadow to suddenly act differently. Far away from here, Morrigan is having difficulty since the Stare is counteracting her controlling magic. So when Shadow is finally free, she commands the others to escape. That’s when Fluttershy and the others find out about the Knights of Order to end the first issue.

Issue 2 will begin with Shadow explaining to the King and others what happened. They were just doing their usual thing when Chummer and another showed up. This creature called Morrigan casted a spell on them making them do everything she wants. And what she wants is to make Abyssinia fearful of everyone. Discord is still stuck since nobody can pick a lock like Admiral Fluffington can. So they think Fluttershy could free the others if given the chance.

Back with the others, Morrigan tells an unknown person (Danu) what happened. Fearing the worst, he tells Morrigan to just possess everyone. Shadow and Capper talk about what happened to each other after the Storm King. Capper wonders how Chummer survived that crash. But that’s when they hear screaming. They look and they see a new creature they never saw before. Shadow confirms that’s the one controlling them.

Morrigan is possessing everyone while those under her spell are rounding up the others. That’s when our heroes come in. Morrigan begins to try to possess them when Fluttershy counters with the Stare. It’s a struggle that seems to stop the Possessed from doing anything. That’s when Capper hugs Chummer. He forgives him for the betrayal and wishes that they can just start over and be friends again. This gets through to Chummer and he hugs back.

This activates the Magic of Friendship between the two and it spreads to all of the Capitol. Everyone Possessed was freed and showed magic. They hoped this meant Morrigan was stopped. But to their surprise, she blocked the Wave of Magic by encasing herself in a shield of Harmony Magic. Seeing she can’t win now, she escapes. Capper stays so he can get reacquainted with his old friends as the rest return to inform Twilight of this new information.

#Twist of Fate #story

[rxin3akamallory]

Self-Insertmas Day 21: Caroling

S-I Featured: Machelle

Media: Sing

I almost forgot to post today I think I might be sick but WHO TF CARES, SELF INSERTMAS!! Machelle’s theme being caroling was also a no brainer since she’s from the Sing films and ya know.. sings lol. I was debating on giving Martha this theme since she also was a street performer who would sing for the townsfolk in Klugetown while Capper pick-pocketed them when they weren’t looking, but it made more sense to give it to Machelle. The outfit was also super fun to make!

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[pedanther]

Apart from the older translator's determination not to pick up what Dumas is laying down when it comes to Eugénie, here are a few more interesting differences between the English translations.

Here, the older translator is definitely picking up what Dumas is laying down:

Nul n'est friand de loges qui ne coûtent rien comme un millionnaire.

To no class of persons is the presentation of a gratuitous opera–box more acceptable than to the wealthy millionaire, who still hugs economy while boasting of carrying a king’s ransom in his waistcoat pocket.

No one likes a free box as much as a millionaire.

Here, the older translator omits the capper to the earlier running joke:

Le second acte se passa au milieu de cette rumeur sourde qui indique dans les masses assemblées un grand événement. Personne ne songea à crier silence.

The second act passed away during one continued buzz of voices—one deep whisper—intimating that some great and universally interesting event had occurred

The second act was played against that dull murmuring which is the response of a large crowd to some great event. No one thought of shouting: “Silence!”

A few smaller moments of the older translation trying to buff the edges off Eugénie:

—Et cette femme, M. de Morcerf sait-il qui elle est? —Mademoiselle, dit Albert, répondant à cette interpellation presque directe...

“Who is this young person, M. de Morcerf?” inquired Eugenie; “does anybody know?” “Mademoiselle,” said Albert, replying to this direct appeal...

“Does Monsieur Morcerf know who she is?” “Mademoiselle,” Albert said, in reply to this almost direct question...

and

—Elle est donc de retour, la comtesse G...? demanda la baronne. —Dans cette loge de côté, dit Eugénie, presque en face de nous, ma mère; cette femme, avec ces admirables cheveux blonds, c'est elle. —Oh! oui, dit Mme Danglars...

“Then the Countess G——has returned to Paris, has she?” inquired the baroness. “Is that she, mamma?” asked Eugenie; “almost opposite to us, with that profusion of beautiful light hair?” “Yes,” said Madame Danglars, “that is she.

“Countess G——? Is she back, then?” said the baroness. “In that side box,” Eugénie said. “Look, mother, almost opposite us; she's that woman with the magnificant blonde hair.” “Oh, yes,” said Mme Danglars.

and

«Vous êtes là avec une admirable personne, monsieur le comte, dit Eugénie; est-ce votre fille? —Non, mademoiselle, dit Monte-Cristo étonné de cette extrême ingénuité ou de cet étonnant aplomb, c'est une pauvre Grecque dont je suis le tuteur.

“You have a charming young person with you to–night, count,” said Eugenie. “Is she your daughter?” “No, mademoiselle,” said Monte Cristo, astonished at the coolness and freedom of the question. “She is a poor unfortunate Greek left under my care.”

“You are accompanied by a splendid young woman, Monsieur le Comte,” said Eugénie. “Is she your daughter?” “No, Mademoiselle,” Monte Cristo replied, astonished at what was either great naïvety or amazing insolence. “She is a poor Greek; I am her guardian.”

Finally, Albert's recital of the Count's recent deeds:

Vous donnez des attelages de mille louis; vous sauvez la vie à des femmes de procureur du roi; vous faites courir, sous le nom de major Brack, des chevaux pur sang et des jockeys gros comme des ouistitis; enfin, vous gagnez des coupes d'or, et vous les envoyez aux jolies femmes.

You give away horses worth a thousand louis; you save the lives of ladies of high rank and beauty; under the name of Major Brack you run thoroughbreds ridden by tiny urchins not larger than marmots; then, when you have carried off the golden trophy of victory, instead of setting any value on it, you give it to the first handsome woman you think of!

You give away horseflesh to the value of a thousand louis, you save the life of the king's prosecutor, you dub yourself Major Brack to race thoroughbreds ridden by jockeys no bigger than marmosets and, finally, you win gold cups and send them to beautiful women.

(My copy of the Buss translation very definitely says “you save the life of the king's prosecutor”, but I assume that's meant to be “the wife of the king's prosecutor”, or possibly “the life of the wife of the king's prosecutor” – and after typing that out I don't blame whoever got muddled in the composition.)

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[erigold13261]

Love the plot for the mermaid arachikids AU! I can help with some knowledge from the comics. -Ganke would be into helping mermaid tech as he’s tech savvy in the comics -Peni does not have a good home life with kits family, aunt and uncle forced kits to ride SP//DR -Gwen Stacy the original one is a daddy’s girl who has only her dad so we can assume the same with Gayatri -I think personality wise Gayatri would fit Renho better, and Aoi with Margo (love your ideas as always)

I'm so glad you like my plot lol! I spent hours writing it, staying up to like 3am because I was having a lot of fun! :D

And thanks for the info!

So by the end of my post I did kinda have Ganke in a more tech field. Not specifically the robotics part of the mermaids, since Peni's powers really make it better for her job, but now that I know this, I can see Ganke helping Peni out when kit starts getting overwhelmed during performances.

Like the stages that have live performances also have screens, so Ganke is the one who does transitions from holo to virtual. Keeping up powers for a whole performance would be hard, so Pav and Peni take small breaks during live performances where the mo-cappers will take over as the mermaids now perform on screen for a bit (letting Sofa and Margo and Ganke to take over the scenery now while Pav focuses soley on mo-cap and Peni is giving a mental break from being a connector).

Once they get the money to properly have hologram tech that Peni doesn't need to be a connector to, then I can see kit and Ganke being the main mermaid techs.

As for Peni's home life, it would be cool to know what her life was BEFORE her dad died and had to be forced into the SP//DR suit (pretty sure she was only forced to fight because her dad died and her DNA was the only compatible one there was). Mainly because the NSpidR AU doesn't have spider tech/powers so her home life would be more like what it is in the comics before her father died and she took over his role.

If it was a good life, just that kits father was a superhero, then I can still see kits home life being really good. If not, then I guess kits family would be kinda like Sofa where they kinda support the kid but are more wanting to use their kid for money so would push kit to join NSR once they found out about it.

The family would think they are helping Peni, using Yinu as an example of a young start in this case. Otherwise I could potentially see them like Tila's family where they want to control Peni and force kit to do what they want, which in this case would be forcing kit to keep up with the mermaid project once the family caught wind of the project potentially being picked up by NSR.

Though I only see this happening if Peni doesn't have her dad, since (unless the comics make him out to be bad) her dad would truly want her best interest at heart. Kinda like Yinu's family honestly. Except in the reverse, I think? Like if Papa was alive he wouldn't have wanted Yinu to be working at NSR, but since he is dead Mama allows it. If Peni's dad is alive then he would allow her to go and be supportive while if he wasn't then she doesn't have a choice (either they force her to quit or force her to go, either way she would have to fight to do what she WANTS). [Also, is Peni adopted? I think I read that somewhere but idk. In this AU I keep thinking her dad would be biologically related to her]

Gwen and Gayatri being daddy's girls is so cute in my mind. And their dads being super supportive of them (even if they don't realize fully) is a nice touch. It would be nice if Gayatri is able to connect to Gwen through this, making them close friends. Both were so close to their dads, had some fears about their dads possibly not accepting them (or their relationships, or stuff like that).

Gayatri was able to get the courage to talk with her dad and things worked out, while Gwen ran away from her dad out of fear. Gaya would definitely be a rock for Gwen to hold on to and also be a hope for Gwen that things would turn out like the relationship that Gayatri has with her dad.

As for why I had Gaya as Aoi and not Renho, you are probably right that their personalities would fit better, however I see the mermaids as being visually made first before ever even making personalities for them and even way before getting voice actors for them.

So like, when you make an OC and have the visuals, then you make their personality, and THEN make lore for them or something like that (kinda working backwards but I do this with some of my OCs). That is how the first two mermaids would have been made.

Remi would have already had a beta version of Sayu made as well as a beta version of Aoi. Those two are always the first mermaids made in my head. So when Pav and Gayatri joined, at first it was just to work on Sayu with two voice actors, but would later split into Sayu and Aoi.

The team didn't want to keep switching voices, so Gayatri would stay on Aoi for voice, but the team tried to take voice actors into mind more later on whenever they brought in a new mermaid.

Which is why Gwen got Yua. The team had a good talk about it and Remi probably brought up the idea that Yua could be trans so that there was a reason Yua's voice sounded more masculine at the beginning which Gwen ended up loving the idea of since she had really wanted to voice one of these merms but didn't want to be a merman. So trans Yua was made!

I still don't have an idea of which one would come next even in the OG version of the mermaid club. Usually I've been thinking it would go Haru then Renho last, but it could have been the other way as well. Out of those two, I do kinda see Margo as having more fun with being Haru's voice actor instead of Renho, but I can also see Peni being a good fit.

Peni would probably fit nicely with Renho, at least better than Margo would, even if kits voice would still fit Haru a bit more, so because of this Margo most likely gets Haru and Peni gets Renho.

It could honestly go either way because I find it funny if the only reason they even added 2 more mermaids was because they wanted to be more like 1010 (I am sure a lot of these teens were fans of 1010 and so looked up to them as a group). So 3 mermaids became 5 and they worked with what they had because, I don't know, they thought adding too many more people might be a bad idea? Or they couldn't find anyone else to really fill in the spots that fit with the whole team itself even if they would have been a good mermaid.

These are teens who are probably not entirely sociable. At least on the Crew's side of things. The Arachnikids seem pretty sociable, so they probably wouldn't have had any problems working in a huge group. But since some of the main people who started this (Tila and Remi, but also Sofa and Dodo) weren't very interested in a super huge group unless it was a friend group as well, they just had Margo and Peni be the new voice actors instead of finding someone new.

So yeah! Thanks for the info! I'll try to remember this stuff in case I need it for later! Glad you like my ideas! :D

#nsrtalk #spidertalk #nspidr #eritalks #eriverse #noart #asks

[scumgristle]

"the most vocal critic (in the class) is always the least talented" - observation about the "critique sessions" of art school workshops.

UGH that just dragged up some bullshit from the poetry workshop memory hole.

there was this one tit-with-ears, who somehow AL.WAYS. ended up in the same workshops as me. he had more absences than anymore, when he did show up he was always late, wearing the clothes his fat ass slept in, he almost NEVER finished his assignments, and on the rare occasion when he did turn something in, it was always like maybe 5 lines of dashed off twaddle about TEH PAIN.

of course he thought all the assigned texts were shit on his bunny slippers (Richard Siken and Dana Levin didn't meet lofty standards), and when it came time to critique the work of the students (those who actually... y'know... DID THE CUNTING WORK), that's where he was a Viking; cutting down others with needlessly snarky viciousness. one time i sincerely thought i would pop a blood vessel after he smugly stated the class that piece submitted for the class "had nothing there" ("well you are the expert in having nothing there" i screamed in a fit of road rage on the way to band practice later that night)

when the professor(s) would pull him aside and call him on his lack of energy, dearth of enthusiasm, and all-around shitbrick of a personality in general, he would get on his high horse about his "pRocEsS". personally witnessed one of these petulant meltdowns, when this pick-faced meatball got in the professor's face and shouted "THAT'S NOT WHY I WRITE!!!!"

i don't really have a capper to this other than i can still work up some raw anger over this dead-souled cartoon chud from my glorified community college workshops.

#memory hole #dan clowes #art school confidential #eight ball #cartoonist kayfabe #poetry workshop #Youtube

[magical-bigbang-noona]

So, I didn't know this, because as I said I've been on a long "No S* and his toxic stans idiocy" hiatus, but his official Instagram was removed (last year?) because he is a convicted sex offender.

Let's say that again for all the stans in the back with their blinders on and fingers firmly planted in their ears.

Convicted. Sex. Offender.

He is a convicted sex trafficker. Let's review the part in the court document reveals where it's stated that, among the 29 counts of sex trafficking they could prove, was him personally picking up guests/clients from Japan, being present in the car where sex services took place with sex workers he provided and paid for , all while transporting the entire group to a hotel where the sexual services continued.

Yeah. Let that one sink in.

Then, again, there is the ultimate capper where the court proved he persuaded three young women to pose nude together in bed which he filmed personally and then subsequently uploaded it to a molka chat on Kakao. While they were on a fan promotion tour.

If you're still in deep denial and/or beating the drums in praise of this man then you have a problem and if documented court proceedings showing exactly what he was convicted of won't move your stubborn brain on this matter then nothing can.

And good luck thinking a convicted sex offender with a long record who served time is going to be back on top of the heap, welcomed back to the industry he fled like a coward, resume his career, and perform for you like nothing ever happened.

In Korea? As high profile as this whole thing has been? I don't think so.

On a side note I also thank God that at least three of the four members finally left the YG dumpster fire. I hope GD will follow suit, especially now that YG himself is back like a cockroach, but that's my opinion and his own business.

#i know i've been rather wordy lately #but I was on a self imposed break #i miss them #but I dont miss the epic fan divide #glad to know some facts finally #in a grim way #seungri #kpop #toxic fandom

[the12thnightproject]

A Mitsunari Night's Dream Chapter 9: A Tangled Web

In which Nobunaga trolls, Hideyoshi fumes, Mitsuhide teases and Okatsu's nightmare returns. Luckily Mitsunari knows what to do about the latter...

Chapter Excerpt:

One…two…three…

Once I had completed a ten count, I directed my voice to the stall where Kyubei was hiding. “Did you get all that?”

His head popped up and he peered over the stable wall. “I would have had to have significant hearing loss to have missed it. Impressive accomplishment, Okatsu, to have received two marriage proposals in a month.”

The dark wig looked natural enough, but there was no disguising those amber eyes and the teasing in his voice. “Changed your mind about the situation, or were you and Kyubei always planning to switch places?” I would bet all of my money (not that I have much of it) that Hideyoshi didn’t know Mitsuhide was here.

“I needed Kyubei to be elsewhere.” He hopped out of the stall and leaned against a post. Heck, put a piece of straw between his teeth and he could easily pass as an extra in a western musical. Hm. An elegant extra.

Many questions were in my head, but those could wait. “Am I completely wrong in thinking that any overture from Mozumi advancing Shohime as a wife would receive a categorical no?” It was clear how much Nobunaga loved Mai, but that wouldn’t rule out a second wife. “I don’t see any advantage to it. Although I suppose he could offer exclusive rights to the silver mine.”

“He could. It wouldn’t be the wisest strategy.” Mitsuhide picked up a fallen piece of fruit and fed it to my horse. “I’ll investigate that further, as from what I’ve gathered from the servants, Mozumi’s not particularly intelligent, so any talk of aligning Shohime with Nobunaga is wishful thinking on his part.”

“His archives, is, as advertised, rather expansive, but I got the sense most of what is in there was collected by his father, and he only adds to it out of habit, not out of inclination or love of reading… except for a certain type of literature.” For the second time, I had to tell the story about Mozumi’s pillow books and his clumsy pass at me.

Unlike Mai, Mitsuhide kept his face expressionless as I described the incident, though once I finished the story, he reverted to teasing. “Not interested in those books yourself?” He raised his eyebrow at me (which annoyed me, as the single eyebrow raise was a skill I had attempted and failed to master).

“Princess Okatsu is above such things.” Whereas Katsuko… well, love took a back seat to not-dying. “And I ensured that Mozumi thought I was too stupid or naïve to understand.”

“I didn’t anticipate that you would have to put up with that sort of behavior – the Oda name ought to have been enough to protect you. I’ll give you a standard, Hideyoshi-style be careful warning, but will step back from any insinuation that you can’t handle him.” Then he spoiled that perfectly acceptable speech by adding, “hopefully better than you can handle intruders of the eight-legged variety.”

“Do I have permission to be insubordinate and tell you to shut up?” I swear by the time I left this gig, I would be remembered as The Girl with the Spider Tit-too.

He slanted a cool glance that told me not to push him too far. “I believe you just did.”

Turning the topic to more pressing issues, I asked, “Any new instructions? Or should I just continue to stay alert?”

“The latter for now. If you see anyone spinning lies, you may feel free to catch them in your web.” He then effectively ended the conversation by disappearing into that empty stall.

I stood there for a moment trying to come up with a capper pun to that, then gave up and headed back to the room, only to be stopped in my tracks by Hideyoshi. “Okatsu.” Aware that he preferred the formalities, I bowed to him. What did he want? “You shouldn’t be wandering around a strange castle at night. It’s not safe.”

“Oh. I was just checking on my horse.” As for the rest of his statement, I could take care of myself, but knew Hideyoshi would not appreciate that being pointed out. “I’m going back to our room now.”

“See that you do.” I’d half turned to continue on my way, when he called after me. “Mitsunari told me what happened with Mozumi. I’m sorry.”

“Why? It had nothing to do with you.” Unless he was apologizing on behalf of the entire male sex.

“You should never be subjected to unwanted attention.” He paused a moment, then clarified. “No one should.”

“You’re right, Lord Hideyoshi. Thank you.” I bowed again and hurried on my way. Hideyoshi and I might be behaviorially incompatible, but I’d never questioned that underneath that bossy exterior, he was a good person.

Link to full chapter: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37708576/chapters/96833061

@ocfairygodmother @ocappreciation

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