#if you can justify that one as a life game go nuts

[chambers003]

In the leadup to a new life game, I ask the masses a question many have asked before, but with a twist (as is the spirit of a life game!)

#trafficblr #hermitcraft #100 hours hardcore #30 days hardcore #third life #last life #double life #ok now to do all the variations #hermitcraft 6 #100hrs hardcore #100 hours in hardcore minecraft #3rd life #3lsmp #llsmp #dlsmp #30 days smp #i think that jimmy is not the first to do that concept so i am sorry to the old 30 days smp enjoyers #if you can justify that one as a life game go nuts

[cockneydio]

Happy New Year! May I request a Fugo character analysis?

You may have seen this story in the news about a student in Virginia who shot his teacher a couple weeks ago. Not an uncommon story in the U.S. tragically, but what made this one notable was the student was 6 years old. I read another story a month or so prior about a 10 year old boy who killed his mom over a video game console or something.

Why do I bring these up?

It's hard to do a Fugo analysis without also discussing some of the more popular opinions about him. I saw a post talking about Fugo a while ago that said something like, children aren't just angry, there must be trauma causing it. But that is simply not true. I see so many analyses that make excuses for Fugo being an argumentative, violent little shit in favor of this soft misunderstood boy he supposedly is on the inside and like?? No. Pannacotta Fugo is an angry kid. He has a rage inside of him that is so intrinsic it manifests itself in the physical embodiment of his soul. I noted here that I think Fugo is a stronger character without the plot device of a traumatic event that justifies his anger. It's a lot harder for us to excuse or explain away harmful behaviors in ourselves and each other if we don't have a "reason" for it. Some people just are angry. They can work on it to be more socially adapted, but that's how their brains are. That's how Fugo is. And that's important, because Fugo's life is dictated by his anger.

In the manga, Fugo beats his professor half to death unprovoked. It's an event that ruins his life - and he can't blame anybody but himself. This is all critical to his character development. When Fugo gets to the mafia, he encounters for the first time in his life authority figures who he not only respects but trusts. His anger is still a problem, but he has internal motivation to keep it in check - and frankly, external motivation too, because if Fugo can't make it work in Passione, he's probably as good as dead. So while he has entered a world that actually values violence and anger, Fugo learns that he can't just go nuts and attack everyone who looks at him funny. He learns to control his anger, now that it comes in the form of a stand that can murder everyone including himself.

Fugo matures in the gang, and imo that makes it all the more tragic when everything falls apart.

#I've been a strict textualist lately I know #but if I was gonna write an essay for English class on fugo this is the thread I would pull #pannacotta fugo #jjba #vento aureo #answered ask #anonymous #spam my askbox

[hologramblue]

a lot of the parts of endwalker that i liked because they resonated with me were like. how do i put this. this is going to come out clumsy bc i have to go to work soon and i don't want to spend all my time on impulseposting about ffxiv

so, being a nonreligious atheist in the US, right. a lot of them are ex-christians. US christians are batshit nuts and culturally dominant. take these two things together and what you get is that a lot of the Story About Atheism is "still" a revolutionary, subversive, underdog thing; it's about attacking and overcoming the flaws of mainstream thought

i'm not ex-christian; i was raised nonreligious atheist, blissfully unaware for a shockingly long time that most christians actually took the stories more seriously than my books of greek mythology (which i was far more familiar with than even the big-name bible stories). that didn't erase the entire fucking...bush years experience, or like, going through my teen years arguing with fundies online about evolution, but atheism has never been as, like, revolutionary or liberatory for me as it was for my parents or for many of the loudest voices about it

which creates a ?cultural context? that's in a weird spot because like, there's things about being a white-mutt nonreligious atheist in the US that you can't really talk about for as long as atheism is still in a defensive, underdog position, because if you're like "you know i think about the meaning of life sometimes and it's kind of upsetting how most of my at-hand secular options for holidays/traditions/values are just rooted in settler colonial mythology instead" then fundies will start frothing about how it's evidence of the brokenness and degeneracy and soul-rot of atheism or whatever.

so like, games about killing god are very important and i will never argue that they aren't relevant in this day and age, because uh holy shit, but they don't resonate with me personally because there was never a god-by-that-name in my head to kill. endwalker (the parts i'm thinking of anyways) is one of the few pieces of media that does feel like it's talking directly to me on that axis, starting from the premise i was raised with and skipping over the defensiveness to talk directly about civic religion and nationalism and, like, the invention of god or god-like concepts from scratch by people who don't need to explain where the rain comes from but do crave reassurance that there's something bigger than their own flawed selves that can tell them they're doing alright, when they look down and realize how much power and how little control they really have over the world, and can't find anything to justify it. hermes hit hard and i don't think i've ever been able to fully explain to anyone why. dungeon meshi levels of going "oh shit other people know this feeling."

among other things i don't have the time or focus to ramble about. the whole venat and ancients thing.

i've seen people say endwalker is a pro-religious story and i heartily disagree, i think it's easy to hear it that way if you're used to people swinging around "you just need to believe in jesus/astrology/??? and that'll fix ya" as a weapon and that's the only time you hear people use the word faith, i definitely have that kneejerk reaction too, but endwalker doesn't feel like that to me. like, it's not coming from that place and trying to win me over, it knows where i'm standing way too well for that

if that makes sense.

[dimitrscu]

Lmfao not surprised about the (most likely) straight dudes making those salty comments about finlay. Look, if malenia were real or if those dudes existed in the world of ER, i am 1000% sure malenia wouldn't even give them the attention she gave godrick. Plus hey im willing to bet those dudes overlap with those other dudes who complain unconstructively about malenias boss fight. It just feels like they're that kind of gamerbrodudes.

When you’ve been around enough fandoms like I have you kind of get used to this sort of thing but yeah they’re 100% salty straight men there’s no doubt. The thing that’s funny is turning around and saying Malenia’s not/can’t be a lesbian is just flat out untrue because there’s absolutely no reference to her having a love interest of any kind. So for that alone people can headcanon whatever they want. I am really not in the business of trying to gatekeep characters and ‘ship wars’ or whatever don’t interest me in the slightest, but what I do get annoyed with is how these comments always end up being fueled by homophobia. It’s never *insert valid reason why I don’t like ship* and instead it’s just “you fucking gays try to ruin everything” and that’s when it hurts cause it gets personal, you know? I’m already made to feel bad about my sexuality by the people in my everyday life, I really don’t need that shit on here too. I get that it’s the internet and you’re always going to come across these people, but at least there’s the block button on here.

(tw: rape mention below the cut)

So yeah if I’m being honest I’ve seen way too many men talk about her in disgusting ways, either venting because of her boss fight or because of lore (R*dahn fanboys are still nuts go figure). That it kind of puts me off listening to what they have to say about her cause most of the time their comments are filled with violent misogyny. So many clips I see of her fight have titles like “giving the bitch what she deserves” or “putting the bitch in her place”. But hey that’s got nothing to do with her being a woman right? Just people being annoyed at the fight, right? How some folks like to outright deny the exsitence of sexist dudebros in this fandom is beyond me. Have they never been around gaming communities before? Just because they might not see them themselves doesn't mean they don't exsit. It’s not so bad now, but there was a time it was so difficult looking up content for her cause I’d end up seeing rape porn or fics or other nasty things. Imagine getting so angry at a boss fight in a video game that your first thought is rape. If that’s were your mind goes you’ve got a problem. I don’t believe in these types of fetishes at all. No normal person thinks about these things, fictional or not. And saying it’s only fiction and that no one wants to actually do these things irl is just an excuse to justify themselves. There are people out there who do very much get influenced by the things they see online and then act on it in real life. So it’s not just innocent fiction if you ask me.

I’ve gotten way off topic, sorry about that. So basically yeah these types of men are shit and they can die mad for all I care

#anonymous #answered #finlay and malenia are a valid ship if you ask me #finlay is gay and i will not hear otherwise #she only has three lines of lore but those three lines told us everything we needed to know #also the trope of loyal knight whos in love with thier commander is *chef's kiss* and when its gay? even better

[vespertin-y]

more liveblogging YIPPEE!! this time it’s the first half of ch1′s daily life.

-”monokuma will never directly commit a murder” bro don’t you threaten to kill all of them like two days from now??

-himiko’s vibrating sprite 😭 she is my spirit animal truly

-oh, shuichi and rantaro’s dynamic is GREAT. shuichi pulls kaede aside to ask if she thinks an ultimate talent is “really something you can forget” and iirc rantaro says he thinks shuichi is the most suspicious person in his FTEs - they both clearly suspect the other of being the ringleader and it’s fantastic. especially since their shared fondness for kaede makes them interact more than they’d probably like.

-we meet again, manhole gonta cg, we meet again. you have not gotten any prettier.

-kokichi’s first instinct when faced with a big hollow place is to yodel, and honestly same. echos r fun okay!!

-rantaro gets so much snarkier upon rewatch - you realize how much of his dialogue is just taking the piss. him saying “oh, how considerate” when they find the exit sign still makes me giggle.

-kaito thinking kaede is the COOLEST WOMAN ON EARTH and kaede thinking he’s sooo lame is such an underrated dynamic. “gimme a hug!” “no 💖” lives in my head rent free.

-kokichi’s speech after the death road of despair is what made me sit up and take interest in him and in kaede as characters and it still holds up so good hpsuhag,,,,i don’t have a ton of bigbrain thoughts about it but please know i am thinking about high empathy/low compassion kokichi and low empathy/high compassion kaede every single day. autistic queens.

-kokichi literally just says they need to find another way out and rantaro’s immediately like “murder?? you want to do a murder, you little gremlin????” then tenko freaks out, kokichi tells her to chill, and she threatens to smash his head into the ground!? it seems to me that the writers had a set dynamic between kokichi and the rest of the group, but forgot that by this point in the story they haven’t written anything to justify it - even with rantaro’s paranoia and tenko’s anger issues, this is excessive. HILARIOUSLY, this makes the scene read as his fucking jonker origin story. tenko, you fool, you should’ve taken the bubblegum...! look what you’ve gotten us all into...!

-the dorm rooms are INSANELY swanky. i’d want to live there, if not for the...everything else......

-them having tons of copies of the same outfit is so funny. tsumugi put her heart and soul into those costumes and you WILL wear them.

-that’s the end of day one! i’ll be keeping track of them, just so you all can understand how RIDICULOUS v3′s timeline is.

-i once saw someone point out that there was zero reason for maki not to take the first blood perk, and now that HAUNTS me. she would only be responsible for one death since there’s no class trial, and we know that ever after five chapters of ✨bonding✨ she’s still willing to murder all her “friends” in a petty revenge plot, and she’s supposed to be willing to do ANYTHING to keep her orphanage from going under. completely irrelevantly, did you know maki being an assassin was actually added later in development than kaede being the first killer?

-despite him definitely knowing that monokuma isn’t really dead, kokichi insists wholeheartedly that the killing game is “cancelled” - it’s one of his more obvious ploys imo. even if it can only delay deaths for a day or so, he’s willing to throw all his acting chops behind it.

-you know that meme that goes “god made me mentally ill to nerf me”? that’s shuichi. he’s a side character that becomes the protagonist. he has a plan to catch the mastermind in CHAPTER ONE. he is breaking the danganronpa formula so bad. tsumugi had to pump him full of depression or else he would have crushed her show like a nut on day one. the detective. he destroyed his narrative. yes. YES. the detective is out.

-KAEDE TOLD MIU TO SHUT THE HELL UP...u know it’s serious when u get *kaede* to curse omg

-”hey,do you think this door is connected to monokuma somehow?” “i think it might.” and here we get our first reminder that v3 was translated by character, not by scene. the translators mostly stuck to their individual character’s dialogue without much communication, and it leaves lots of little blips like this.

-and so day two ends!

-the way they just...take the wind right out of monokuma’s sails is so funny. he’s so excited for this yokai gimmick!! and then miu tells him to get hit by a second car, tsumugi complains that his outfit is bad, and korekiyo starts explaining the difference between ghosts and yokai in excruciating detail. monokuma’s one weakness: pretentious teenage nerds...!

-the additional time-limit motive doesn’t make sense to me when it’s been ONE DAY since he introduced the first one!? it feels like a last resort, something to be used after they refused to take the bait. fits much better with a more stretched-out timeline, where they were in the school for a month or so with no murder before monokuma snapped and told them to kill or else.

-rantaro questions if he can even trust himself because of his missing memories. of course WE know he’s not gonna get hajime’d, but it’s a reasonable fear!

-”that’s why i didn’t want to talk about this in front of everyone...if we told them now, they might all try to find the mastermind, and be led to murder. that’s why...i could only tell you, kaede.” oh, shuichi......(┬┬﹏┬┬) kaede just goes dead silent after this too, before changing the subject. she doesn’t have a murder plan yet - she can’t have one, not before they’ve gone to the warehouse - but she’s certainly Considering Options.

-there’s part one of daily life! like and subscribe, i’ll be posting the second half momentarily :]

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#5

I can only assume that during the development of Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, Galactic Cafe managed to get a few seconds into their "So we need some new games for the "Let's play someone else's games" ending-" request before Campo Santo and Psyonix were like "HOLY SHIT, YES, HERE'S THE ASSET FILES, GO NUTS"

61 notes - Posted May 1, 2022

#4

AroAce Hunter and/or Willow theorists when they see Hunter in the previews seemingly dressed as a Borg version of Data from TNG, who was (albeit roughly handled) aspec coded:

AroAce Hunter and/or Willow theorists when they realize Hunter’s cosplay character is named after Chief Engineer Miles O’ Brien from TNG/DS9, who canonically marries a botanist:

102 notes - Posted October 23, 2022

#3

So. I have a theory about this. Blue Pearl commissioned Bismuth to make wedding armor for Yellow Pearl potentially because, after attending a lecture on Medieval Knighthood by Pearl, she finds out about the concept of courtly love. She sees a parallel with it to her own centuries-long relationship with YP, and a wedding theme is cemented. The armor’s cape is green because BP heard about Garnet’s Tux-Dress and wanted a similar result, so she went to Bismuth, who canonically has a method of crafting armor that shifts and grows with its wearer. We never saw what BP’s dress looks like because the Crewniverse wanted to keep its design as open to interpretation as the various other plot prompts that SUF left unresolved, like the continuing adventures of Captain Centi and the Nephrite Crew. All I know is, Vidalia deserves to be maid of honor.

109 notes - Posted March 1, 2022

#2

Entrapta, like Catra, has all the foundations for a corruption arc. Pre-existing deviance, a solid motivation for revenge, climbing up the enemy ranks until she is the head boss's left hand, and then gaining powet over Hordak himself. Like many villain scientists she assists and joins with the good guys from time to time.

What makes Entrapta different is that, through all of this, she ISNT a mastermind, morally grey ends justifies the means scientist. She is in fact a complete cinnamon roll who's hurt by what happened but doesn't hold a grudge at all and has joined the villains because they gave her sense of belonging, and a place to foster her love of science. So you have the top dog villain at the start of season 3 when shes finally got power over Hordak, and she's using it to tell him to love himself, to show him that our flaws are what make us beautiful and they shouldn't be masked, especially if we need help. And in season 5 she's not the sneaky ex villain getting a questionable redemption, she's literally leading the front lines in terms of converting people to the Rebellion, pulling one clone of a million clones out from under Prime and immediately being able to connect with him, being the one to tell Prime to his face he will never understand love, wrecking his brainwashing network, her connection with Hordak leading to Prime's death.

It's... so OPPOSITE to Shadow Weaver, who joined the rebellion about the same time Entrapta overtook Catra in the horde and then disappeared. Weaver has the standard "redemption" arc but doesn't learn a damn thing in her life, has no humility, and is constantly fucking with people's heads underneath her silver tongued words, all stuff Entrapta literally cannot do.

So you have this very compassionate pure of heart character influencing the iron cold leader of the villains, and this incredibly manipulative abusive character influencing the leaders of the heroes.

I think it's interested how shera plays so hard with tropes.

Yes! Exactly! One of my favorite parts about Entrapta’s character is that, in seemingly direct contrast to Shadow Weaver who looks, talks, and acts like a fairy tale Disney villain evil witch 24/7, with even her attempted ‘redemption martyr moment’ just piling more mental scars onto her surrogate daughters,  everything that we’re presented with in the first few minutes System Failure gives us the idea that Entrapta is this typical (albeit sweet-toothed) Mad Scientist soon-to-be-if-not-already-villain. She lives in a classically evil scary castle on a mountain, it’s full of traps, secret passageways, and (conveniently timed) robot zombies, and there’s mutants in the sewers apparently?!? Especially since some fans know her old incarnation was a shallow villain, once she finally crawls out of a vent like a goddamn Xenomorph with welding mask eyes glowing with menace the audience thinks they have her character figured out, and then she subverts these expectations by greeting our heroes with a genuine, cheery, hospitable welcome that still acknowledges the immediate danger they’re facing and her direct involvement in it. And ever since then, all she’s wanted to do is help people and do science (and hopefully make friends with people by doing those two things). Even when she learns She Ra’s most direct and effective weakness, even when she’s given the chance to use that weakness *again* after she thinks the BFS and Princess Alliance left her for dead, she still doesn’t take the opportunity to go full "They laughed at my experiments, but now I’ll show them all! Brand New Day! Muahahahaha!” etc etc. Shadow Weaver WISHES she could’ve climbed the evil corporate ladder as fast as Entrapta did, and ironically she accomplished it by doing the exact opposite approach to SW: Being 100% genuine and honest about her opinions, knowledge, and feelings. And Hordak establishes time and time again that he hates dishonesty in his ranks (mostly because he’s not great at subterfuge and trickery himself) and gains valuable knowledge and self-worth from Entrapta’s genuine honesty. I may be forgetting something, but I’m pretty sure the one and only time Entrapta intentionally, consciously lies about something is that bit in System Failure where she find the lab and says “We’re here! Uh, I mean, of course we’re here, we were never lost.” Of course, just because she never even considers taking steps towards actual, conscious Villainy and Vengeance doesn’t mean we can’t think up AUs where she does go down that path a bit.  One concept that I’ve yet to make into a proper fic is an alternate ending to Season 5 in which she has a more active role in usurping Prime, fully disconnecting him from the other Clones before Hordak does the Darth Vader/Emperor reference, then taking over the Velvet Glove’s army of clones, droids, and drones in order to collect data on the flora, fauna, and magic of Etheria before expanding her DC Brainiac style "data collection” to the rest of the newly entered galaxy. 

anyway thanks for prompting and then coming to my Ted Talk

135 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

So, due to some unexpected yet welcome news presented during tonight’s Owl House charity stream, I made some edits of one particular shared Season 2b screencap. Enjoy, and use with credit! 

187 notes - Posted March 13, 2022

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[incarnateirony]

God it's 2024 an I think only just now did Shealyn realize, I was never doing Fucking Magic. I wasn't doing Witch Shit. Hence her inability to understand it. Because it wasn't made up horse shit off of whatever she believed on the day. It was like, an actual process and science and a whole bucket of quarter-century study on everything from psychology to piezoelectrism.

It's why you can't copy me, bitch. Your weird fuckin body pillow of my roleplay avatar you groomed your cult into humping like a psychopath is Mister Magic Octopus Man. You got that bitch confused with Psychotherapy somehow. Fix it.

You can't have a motherfucking universe where everything I or anyone else ever knew about him or his philosophy is wrong EXCEPT for my roleplay avatar's face, that shit's right, but naw, you can throw the rest in the trash, make up your own shit (well you don't, you literally stole anime jibberish cuz you can't even make up your own shit), wave your hands and delulu through with "ANYONE CAN PRACTICE HOW THEY WANT" bitch you are literally losing your mind, that's not magic and that's not practice, that's fucking dementia.

Get on some fucking antipsychotics. The anime octopus voices aren't gods, you're not possessed, you're not channeling, you didn't receive divine fucking rumpocky revelation, lemons are not powerful curses, you're just an early stage disassociative identity disorder that's floated under the radar. Schizophrenia, Shealyn. It's Schizophrenia.

Don't argue with me, fucking stop, and Mark, stop enabling this delusional shit. Let her argue about Jung to her fucking psychiatrist, even if you have to knock her out and drag her in involuntarily at this point.

You're all holding on to this absolutely batshit delusion because 1. she's basically been violating all of us and you don't want to deal with that but 2. you believed her fucking commands of the anime octopus god completely justifying the horse shit you all did to me 3. this would make you morally responsible for so much shit you will never let yourself face, top to bottom, but definitely starting at contributing to her coming apart at the seams this bad.

Like go grab a chunk of her ripped out hair and look at it. You did that. She didn't used to be like that. When you walked in for my sloppy seconds, she wasn't fucking like that, and you fucking know that. She had beautiful horse mane shit going on. You did some absolutely vile garbage to me because you didn't understand her, so I don't expect you to have any empathy for me since you proved you lack that already, but if you claim to love this woman, fucking HELP HER, and that's not enabling this shit. But no. No, then, you have to look at it. She's ripping out her motherfucking hair because she's a ball of fucking psychosis and anxiety that keeps trying to play a game to fill a void she can't replace and you keep letting her separate herself from her accountability or grieving processes with this horse shit so she's literally losing her fucking cracker and it's your fault.

So you're just... you're just gonna let her keep being like this.

You're all monsters, huh?

A pack of emotional vultures following around a schizoid spewing 2001 anime wisdom and becoming her attack dogs and somehow NOT recognizing you're acting like a cult, by literal and I do mean the literal definition of a cult.

Where she can make up whatever she wants and you guys guzzle it and laugh off the idea of actually reading another book, or even one core to what she's claiming. It's a cult, mark, and she has you on my dick, and she needs involuntary.

I don't care what lie you have to fucking tell yourself to cope with the fact that she's still after my dick this hard and using you as a proxy for me, okay, I fucking don't, but get this insane fat bitch medicated, this is definitionally nuts dude. Stop roleplaying with her or "channeling" for a few months. Just be like, you two, living together in real life, as you, and nobody else. See what motherfuckin happens.

Now ask yourself why I know about this shit, dude. How is it I know what she does with her Channeling, how is it I know she's humping you as/with/for me basically. Well because motherfucking Aaron Eema who she visualizes is me, my fucking roleplay character. It's either Me or Not Real At All, take your pick depending on perspective. And because she tried that shit with me and got confused why it just made me stop "practicing" around her. Any time she wasn't getting enough digital attention in RP it'd become channeling rp attention, but she didn't understand how clearly she was fucking it up, much like here in octopus language fetish land y'all are stuck sitting in rn. You're not special, the gods haven't taken an interest in you specifically, you're not screwing deities, you're just the next sucker in line that she glued my face on and is calling it magic. If you've been groomed into thinking you "sense" anything she's talking about, that's probably my astral cock she's had you tugging on.

[jewvian]

Hello! I have a few questions for you, I just discovered your blog and you seem cool. What are your favorite Jewish/Israeli foods? Do you think the hatred and anti-Zionism towards Jews and Israelis are unjustified or is it okay to hate this country, its people, and their government? What are your favorite proverbs in Hebrew (if you'll translate them into English I would appreciate it)

Oh hello! Thanks for your compliment lol I am in fact very cool 😎

Your questions are so random in order lol like the jump from fave food to antisemitism is nuts lmao no shade tho, I'll try answering them all as thoroughly as I can!

It's a complicate question cuz like Israeli cuisine is still in its diapers, it's still evolving so it's more about combinations of dishes and types of food that create this cuisine. Like we have schnitzels in baguettes with spreads like hummus and harissa and topped with sauerkraut and freshly sliced vegetables. These combinations are Israeli cuisine in my opinion lol falafel is still number one in my book, shawarma as well. Lots and lots of veggies, grilled meats, grape juice in a glass bottle. That's the vibe for me lol Jewish food however! I'm Ashkenazi, so Eastern Europe cuisine also speaks to me dearly. You can't get a better dish than a matzo ball soup, sorry y'all.

And now to the heavy stuff huh? To put it as simply as I can cuz some people are thick as fuck, criticism is fair game - hatred isn't. You can criticize the Israeli government as much as you want, we do it here too, but using this justified criticism as a tool to spread antisemitism and bigotry and just full on hatred is, you guessed it - wrong! I've seen too many "critics", let's call them that, revert straight into blatant antisemitism when confronted (and even spread it casually tbh) so I am always super weary when seeing these kind of people online. Sometimes they are worse than far right extremists, there I said it. Like at least I know a neo Nazi simply hates me, but the far left will do cartwheels trying to justify their opinions in a way that doesn't paint them as antisemitic while at the same time spew the worst tropes, proving they've never interacted with a Jew before. "I don't hate Jews, I just think they are evil colonizers! Also is human meat kosher?" I wish I made that sentence up but it was posted on this site not long ago. So there you go anon.

Wow favourite proverbs, that's hard lol Jewish people love their idioms and proverbs lmao few jump to mind tho, like there's the famous "if you will it, it's no dream" by Theodor Herzl, which is essentially the country's unofficial motto lol hmm oh there's my fave: "man plans and God laughs" meaning you can plan your life as much as you want but God will fuck you up eventually! There's also "we survived Pharaoh - We'll survive this too" which means like, we made it through the worst in the past so we can overcome whatever harsh shit is in front of us today. Jewish proverbs in general can be either super insightful and clever or the silliest shit you've ever seen in your life lmao there's no in between! You either gonna learn an important lesson or just get back at someone with the snarkiest sentence a human ever created. "If he were the grim reaper - no one would die" I think this one is self explanatory lol yeah so these are just the ones I remember for now I hope they were enough for you 😊

That's it I think lol I hope I managed to answer your questions, if you want more info on whatever subject - I'm here and I'm still very cool so you're welcome to send more lol

#inbox #anonymous #oof that took longer to answer than i originally thought lol #i didn't mind tho it was great actually #i did try answering as briefly as i can cuz i didn't wanna make it longer #like it's already a lot lol #so if you needed extra info on anything i'm game lol #and yeah i do think anti zionism is a dog whistle for antisemitism #it's the same lady but in a different hat (another proverb for you lol) #thanks again anon! i appreciate you coming over and sending this :)

[harristops]

Help me understand something. You treat Ash stans are weird because they worry about her or her mental health (giving the fact that Ash did talk about having panic attacks/ talk a lot about her depression and stuff like that). But you have a whole blog dedicated to their sex lifes and talk about Ali’s ass. Like I’m sorry but that’s a bit hypocritical of you. They’re maybe too much but you can be too don’t you think ?

Here's the difference:

You can be concerned for someone's mental health. That's okay. But to actively speculate that the reason she's playing poorly is because of her mental health, and then to justify it because of a death of a loved one that happened two years ago without actual confirmation that is the reason why she's suffering - basically acting as if you know her personally, that is too far. Same thing with the AK Father's Day post from last year.

Now for the thirsting. No one says anything about Ash and AK do x because of y. None of us know about their sex lives and honestly I doubt if anyone cares actually (I don't because I don't know them but it's fun to tease them for when they're being horny on main), because it's all said in jest. And it's understood that it's said in jest. No one here if you asked the anon is actually seriously thinking about them having sex. It's a joke.

The Ash stans screaming mental health and dead grandpa and panic attacks and basically slapping her with diagnoses and dramatic flare are nuts because they genuinely believe they know what's going on with her. It's not a joke to them. If someone was talking about my performance and speculating I was unfriendly at work because I have panic attacks bc I mentioned it in passing once and it was about an unrelated situation (she said she was having panic attacks about potentially never getting to take their child home???) - that is worse to me than if someone jokingly told me I had strap game because I had a side shave. One is actually invading a private and serious moment of someone's life and the other is poking fun and having a good laugh about something positive and not harmful. You don't have to like the thirsting as again, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but think about it yourself - like honestly think about it dude.

Would you rather someone say something serious and potentially untrue about your mental health because they want to excuse your awful behavior or have someone have some fun and tease you about something sex-relared while knowing they're joking.

You can say neither, that's fine! Like I said, not everyone's cup of tea. But if it were me and I had to choose between the two, I would never, ever want the first one.

#asks #as if you don't think their friends tease them about their sex lives lol have you read any of Syd's comments

[mack3030]

I never thought I’d support piracy...

But frankly, I love how they really give a big middle finger to those who think they can violate EA’s TOU and the community’s trust and giving spirit towards them. 

Here’s the deal, if you are going to say that “artists” deserve to be paid as an excuse to justify paywalls, then you have a ton of people to pay royalties for all the CC you put behind paywalls. Let’s go through them shall we:  - EA’s team of creatives:  We know by how well EA’s f***’d the public over that they have to be doing it partly to their creative employees. If you say you want artists to be paid, why are you using their content, meshes, code, heck, the whole GAME they designed and worked hard on as a “cash cow” for you to hold CC hostage?  - The creators of TSR creator and the Sims 4 Studio.  These tools are both offered to the community for free. TSR at least allows you to support them by doing a membership on their site, but I was very hard pressed to find ANY sort of patreon, ko-fi, or other sort of donation tool for the S4S folks. Considering MOST if not all sims modders use their tools for batch fixes, package edits, and other things, they deserve some cash too.  - Any company/creator whose 3D model you used, ripped, or borrowed parts of.  Because this is a common problem for many “exclusive” CC creators. So if you bought part or all of your mesh somewhere else, that person deserves a cut of your profits as well.  - Any company whose brand you used to advertise your makeup, clothing, or furnishings for the sims. Because if you are selling copies of their brand, even for a video game, you’re not using it with their consent. Artists, designers, and other creatives made those products, not intending for you to rip it off, put it in a video game, and then charge people for it.  (This is much more understandable if you are someone who is releasing this content for free and just charging for early access as a donation to the creator. But to literally hold your version of a certain makeup brand, or an IKEA stool HOSTAGE behind a paywall to charge more is nuts and is obviously trying to “profit” off of that trademarked brand.)  - Any person whose free guides, advice, or help taught you how to edit, create, or manipulate meshes, textures, or to create CC.  After all, these people helped you get started, teaching you (for free) how to make content for the community. Surely they deserve something for the fact that they gave up a very precious commodity (time) to teach you.  ---------------------- You see the insanity of this? This community has long had the custom of being a sharing and caring community, as evidenced by people like the creators of S4S who literally create a program the entire community and release daily updates for FREE. 

You really wanna stop the “share and share alike” policy that so many creators have used to help make this community awesome, really?  And before y’all go off onto the “I treat this like a job” bull, let’s get one thing straight.  THIS. IS. NOT. A. JOB.  Nor, frankly, should it be. In the words of @precious-sims​:  All im gonna say is, the sims 4 and all the things surrounding it is a hobby, not a job. Your life should not surround itself around making content for the sims 4. Why would you rely on a market so shaky and short lived to make most of your profits when in a flash the rug could be swept right under you. Its financially irresponsible. 

Preach girl. Preach. Because here’s the thing y’all. Even though right now EA seems to be sitting on its butt when it comes to violations of it’s terms, things could change. For a long time, Nintendo did nothing to stop people from sharing and bootlegging amiibo files, until one day *poof* it wasn’t okay. All it will take is ONE person high enough on EA’s team to say “We wanna go after these people who violate this” to make a ton of people’s day really bad. 

And even if “big bad EA” doesn’t ever step in, you have a right to the community to allow us to CHOOSE to support you.  Because, not all of us can afford to pay month after month of jacked up prices for “exclusive” cc due to job situations, medical issues, the pandemic, or other expenses.  “Then don’t pay for it, you whining babies! You shouldn’t expect us to create stuff for you for free! There’s plenty of other free CC out there!”  But we don’t. We don’t expect you to create stuff for free. But we do expect you to eventually release it for free AFTER an early access period so that those of us who CURRENTLY cannot pay, can get a break. Many people love to support creators, but when you take away the choice of people and lock everything you’ve ever made behind paywalls, it gets a little insane. And to be honest, we don’t expect you to make CC. It’s a hobby. You’re lucky it’s actually one you’re allowed to get paid for and people want to pay for. But when you refuse to play by the rules, and violate copyright to do so, it’s not a very good look on you. It’s not that we don’t want to pay, it’s that some of us cannot right now, and some of us really don’t like that you’re putting the work of OTHER people behind your “exclusive” paywalls. (/cough secondlife and imvu /cough)  And, as I’ve said before:  If you cannot follow EA’s simple (and very REASONABLE) terms, how in the world are we to expect you to follow any other TOU out there? 

That’s why we’re frustrated. We’re done with you guys preaching about how you want creators to be respected when you cannot even respect the terms asked by the darn creators of the game.  We’re sick of you following EA’s business model and locking everything away until we pay the steep toll price, regardless of the quality of what we get, or if we even **like it** or **use it** once we’ve paid for it. (At least with EA we can...you know, have somewhat of a preview beyond pictures on a patreon...)  And yes, there are other creators. But let’s be real, every creator is different, and has a different style, talent, specialty, etc. We may be able to use OTHER content, but it won’t be YOUR special kind of content that you bring to the community.  Let us CHOOSE to support you. Let us support you because you make great content and you follow the rules and go about it the right way.  Because in the end, the more you play unfairly with the community, the more pirates will force your hand. Because ironically, they have a stronger sense of ethics when it comes to the community than y’all do. And no amount of complaints will stop them either, because they really don’t care about your hurt feelings when you’ve been bleeding the community dry. Just saying. /shrug

#hypocritesbelike #ea #sims4 #sims4cc #paywallssuck #support early access creators

[firewoodfigs]

Hi!! Could you do "It was a hospital bed, and A slipped in carefully to lie beside B all night" for a Royai fic from that prompt list? Thank you!! ❤️❤️

hello anon!! thanks for the prompt aaaah I had a lot of fun toying with it in between work and the other shenanigans that have been cropping up this week <3 I hope you don't mind the somewhat unusual ending ahaha I dimly recall writing a few other fics indirectly responding to this prompt (here and here!) so I wanted to try something slightly different from my usual fare 👉🏻👈🏻 part of this was also originally from a two-shot I'm working on, tweaked to fit the prompt hehe. I hope you enjoy!!! 🥰

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Riza can think of a million reasons why hospitals are awful.

First, the food. She’s not sure if it’s as nutritious as they make it out to be; there are times when she wonders if it’s even edible. She’s had worse, of course - hospital food isn’t as bad as ration bars - but she’s quickly getting tired of eating plain yoghurt and bland porridge every day, for every single meal.

Second, the stench. Riza hates that every inch of the place smells like a victim of obsessive cleanliness; she has to resist the urge to upchuck every time the door opens and the smell of chemicals and antiseptic filters in like an unwanted guest.

Third, the fact that she’s sharing a room with a man who, at this point, is behaving more like a cat on hot bricks than a disciplined soldier is quickly driving her insane. She’d readily agreed to be his caretaker, of course; Riza doubts there’s anyone else capable of dealing with his antics and ever-growing anxiety. But after hearing him sigh and toss and turn in his bed for the fifty-eighth time that night (she’d counted, because she was bored out of her wits, and there was nothing else she could do other than sleep or stare at the ceiling, per doctor’s orders), Riza decides she’s just about had enough.

She looks at him from her bed. He’s presently engaged with twiddling his thumbs, thinking out loud.

Riza sighs and rises from her bed quietly. She brings the IV stand along with her - an unnecessary inconvenience - and carefully slips into his bed once she’s made sure that the tubes and wires connected to them are tangle-free.

“I never pegged you as an opportunist, Lieutenant,” he murmurs, despite her best efforts to be discreet. “Sleeping with your commanding officer while he’s blind?”

“You could always court martial me later, sir,” Riza deadpans. “Now scoot over.”

Luckily, he obliges without much retort. 

“Your wish is my command.”

Riza huffs. She adjusts the thin, scraggly piece of linen that the hospital justifies as a blanket - another downside of this shitty place - and makes sure he’s probably covered, warm.

“Three words,” she mutters.

“Eight letters?”

“Twelve, actually.”

Roy raises a brow. “What could it be?”

“Would you like to wager a guess, sir?”

“Not really.”

“You’re an idiot,” she says. Roy laughs, and it’s a tiny little sound that is so discordant with his current mood, but it’s at least genuine. “Now go to sleep.”

“Alright, alright.”

He stops fidgeting, for a while. Riza closes her eyes and attempts to fall asleep - and she actually does, for a while - at least until she hears the sheets rustling again, the movement and tension coming from beside her. She groans softly.

“You should sleep, sir.”

She feels him stiffen. Roy smiles sheepishly, looking right through her like she’s not there. It still unnerves her how this is probably going to be their new normal: him without his sight. Her as his eyes.

“Sorry.”

Riza frowns. An apology is not the answer she wants. What she wants is for him - or them both, actually - to sleep and rest and properly recuperate so that they can have a speedy recovery, so that they can get out of here as soon as possible.

“Bad dreams?” she asks, because it’s the exact same thing that’s been haunting her. (She’s lucky her throat makes it impossible for her to scream or kick up a fuss; she’d hate for Roy to stumble blindly through the room in what he probably thinks is an act of chivalry and/or heroism.)

He shrugs.

“Then and now,” he offers. His smile fades, and he lapses into an unexpected moment of vulnerability. “Hard to differentiate between day and night nowadays, too.”

And because Riza doesn’t know what to say, she simply brushes her knuckles against his.

Roy returns the gesture, drawing indiscernible patterns on the back of her hand with his bandaged one.

“Well, it’s almost midnight now, sir.”

He lets out a small laugh, but it’s painfully hollow.

Riza shifts slightly. It’s a bit of a tight squeeze - hospital beds are clearly not meant for two persons (or anything inappropriate) - but it doesn’t bother her all that much. She just wishes there’s more she can do, to comfort him. Make him feel a little less gloomy.

“It feels like I’ve been sleeping for years.”

“If it helps reduce the incidents of you falling asleep during office hours, then you should get more sleep now, while you can.”

Roy turns, like he’s searching for her, even though there’s not much closer she can be at this point. He exhales shakily. She feels his hand trembling against hers, and responds with a gentle caress. (She knows he’s still feeling guilty, probably berating himself internally about their predicament, about what transpired beforehand. And to be fair, there’s a part of her that’s still angry about all that's happened underground. They’ll probably have to talk about it, at some point, but probably not now — not when they’re both still drugged up and only half-lucid.)

“Humour me, Lieutenant.”

“What?”

“I can’t sleep,” he confesses. Dimly, Riza notes that his voice has taken on a somewhat petulant edge — like a child complaining about their bedtime, but she doesn’t comment on it. Being nearly bedridden for a week is enough to drive her nuts, too. “I’ve tried counting sheep and all that shit, and it’s just — it’s not working.”

Riza sighs. She’s tired, yes, but she’s also aware that she’s probably not going to get any sleep at this rate. She tries to think of ways to stave off his restlessness. Reading is one — she can probably bore him into sleep with a Xingese recitation (she’s gotten pretty good at that lately), but she’s technically not supposed to be talking much. Alcohol is another, but neither of them are supposed to be drinking (and besides, the only form of alcohol available in hospitals isn’t meant for human consumption). Maybe chess, then. She’s not particularly keen on playing a game of chess, now (because she just wants to sleep), but she thinks it’ll help exhaust some of his boundless energy.

“We could play a game of chess, if you want. Breda was kind enough to drop a vinyl board here in the afternoon.”

“I can’t see —“

“I’ll tell you where I move my pieces.”

He frowns, clearly not liking the idea. “You’re not supposed to be talking much, Lieutenant.”

“I’m fine,” she insists, turning to pour a cup of water for herself before continuing. “I won’t have to speak much — unless you’re being a nuisance or a cheat or a fraud.”

He laughs. “I’ll be none of those things, Lieutenant.”

“Good.”

She sets up the board on his bed and helps him sit up. Riza lets him play white.

“It’s your move, sir.”

“You’ve made yours?”

“No. You’re playing white.”

“Tough. It’ll be more embarrassing if I end up losing.”

Riza smiles. “Well, we don’t know that yet, sir.”

He opens with pawn to e4. She helps him move his pieces and parrots her movements back to him. Pawn to e4, too. Pawn to d4. Same here. A closed game, not quite like his usual aggressive style of playing.

Riza watches as he frowns with intensity. It’s probably more a test of memory than strategy for him at this point. She wonders if there’s a way he can adapt to chess, to the military’s utilitarian (and frankly unsympathetic) demands now that his sight’s impaired.

(Life is so unlike chess, Riza thinks, in spite of Roy’s silly metaphors that postulate otherwise. The rules are never fixed, and the universe is always rife with uncertainty. It’s not like chess, where you can predict your opponents’ moves if you get good enough. Neither of them had expected that he’d be here right now, losing sleep and contemplating life over a chessboard while blind.)

He clucks his tongue, reciting a series of movements from memory. The Blackmar-Diemer. Riza smiles indulgently.

Still as aggressive as ever, sir.

Of course.

The game quickly becomes a round of blitz, and though he manages to open his lines and mount a rather decent attack, it’s clear that he has trouble recalling after the eighteenth move. It's still an impressive feat, though. Better than the average layperson.

“Check,” Riza announces, conversationally. Technically, she’d had the advantage, both on the board (and in real life). It shouldn’t really count, and besides, checkmate isn’t her objective — it’s to get her commanding office to sleep.

“Well-played,” Roy hums. He’s strangely still in his bed as he closes his eyes, rubbing at his temples — presumably to ease off an oncoming migraine. It happens a lot, when he’s in deep thought, when he’s over thinking. Thinking too much for his own good. “I need to work on my recall, I think.”

“I think so too, sir.”

He laughs, but the sound is again empty, foreign. It is so at odds with his usual smirks and unbridled laughter (when he’s laughing at someone else, or a joke made at somebody’s expense), like there’s an ache beneath the surface that she cannot reach.

Roy turns slightly, bumping into his dethroned king as he adjusts himself on the bed.

She blames the sudden, uncharacteristic urge to cry on her drugged-up system.

(Riza doesn’t think she’ll ever get used to how uncommunicative his eyes are. He’s always regarded each and every one of his subordinates with respect and meaning and gratitude, but he’d simply looked over the unit as if taking inventory when they had come by earlier.

But she’ll make do, Riza thinks. She has to. She’s always known him in a way nobody else has, in a deeply intimate way, like a book she’s memorised by heart.)

They fall silent for a few minutes. His lips part a little - she knows  he’s about to say something - but it snaps shut again, like he can’t bring himself to say the words.

Riza simply waits for him, like she always has; holding onto his held breath like it's the last thread of hope. She leans into his touch a little closer than necessary.

I’m right here, even if you can’t see me.

Roy smiles.

“I hope I won’t forget your face, Riza.”

#royai #royai fanfic #royai fic #sorry my lunch break is almost over so I gotta go back to work LOL but I will come back and edit this later AHAHAHAH #my new brand is 'excessive usage of chess metaphors' and man. it shows....... #lovely anon <3 #have a great week anon!!! mwahmwahmwah!!!!!! #reblogs and comments are always appreciated :")

[tigerkirby215]

5e Nadia Fortune, the Purrfect Treasure build (Skullgirls)

(Artwork from the Skullgirls Wiki.)

And dus continues my attempts to get this Tumblr account for showing too much T&A.

This is my wildcard build for Spooky Month. Which is to say: I had no idea what the hell else to build. Miss Fortune was always a weird character to build conceptually because how do you create a character who has no head? But truth be told with the exception of puppet mechanic Nadia doesn’t really do much beyond punch and kick. I think I’ve got a good recreation of her core gimmick, and the rest of this build is pretty alright as well! Although I will warn you it’s probably not what you’re expecting.

...Wait shit puns! Uhhh don’t get hissterical if this build isn’t what you expect! I’m feline pawsitive that you’ll still find this build good against any furmidable opponent! You really need to give meow a break here!

GOALS

Heads up! - So no head? Well you unfortunately have to keep your head attached in D&D, but we’ll still have a reliable summon to zoom around in the background to strike our foes.

Curiosity can't kill me - Immortality is a pretty big thing to strive for... Kinda amusing that it’s probably one of the easiest things to achieve in this build.

Tail n' nails! - You’re a fighting game character, which does mean punches and kicks are rather mandatory.

RACE

I mean what race do you want me to give to the literal immortal? Kenku? You are a Reborn from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, though your Ancestral Legacy can be Tabaxi in your old life for the sake a climbing speed as well as proficiency in Stealth and Perception. You get +2/+1 in two ability scores of your choice: put the +2 in Constitution for reasons and the +1 in Strength. And you can learn one language of your choice along with Common: feel like Yu-Wan and Minette would probably speak Abyssal?

Immortality has its perks: your Deathless Nature grants

advantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned

resistance to poison damage

advantage on death saving throws

no need to eat, drink, or breathe (but you can still enjoy tasty food I’m sure!)

no need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep

And you can finish a long rest in 4 hours in an inactive, motionless state, during which you retain consciousness. (It’s really scary to any would-be robbers to see a corpse standing in the middle of the room... especially if it starts to move!)

And finally Knowledge from a Past Life will allow the Life Gem to infuse you with strength! When you make an ability check that uses a skill, you can roll a d6 immediately after seeing the number on the d20 and add the number on the d6 to the check. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You are more than welcome just to play a plain old Tabaxi instead of a Reborn, as Feline Agility is quite useful and Reborn is kinda... bad?

ABILITY SCORES

15; STRENGTH - I’d like to be Dexterity based... unfortunately you can’t be a Monk if you can’t keep a level head.

14; CHARISMA - You’ve got a wonderful purrsonality and enough puns to get through any tough nut.

13; CONSTITUTION - Being literally immortal has its perks.

12; DEXTERITY - I unfortunately can’t justify Dexterity for your attacks but I can at least invest a bit in AC.

10; WISDOM - You outsmart your foes with wit as well as raw strength, but the raw strength does most of the work let’s be fair

8; INTELLIGENCE - You lived your whole life on the streets without a proper education.

BACKGROUND

You would be a Criminal... but that requires friends, and all your friends are dead. Guess that just leaves you as an Urchin then. You get proficiency with Slight of Hand as well as Thieves Tools and a Disguise Kit (which I mention because you’re not going to be getting them elsewhere, and they might be useful if you want to play a Little Innsmouth-knockoff Rogue.) You already get Stealth from your (former) race however so take Persuasion instead, because it’s good to play nice and everyone loves a purrsuasive face.

Your background feature City Secrets will make chasing the Skullgirl or any other sourpuss easy: When you are not in combat, you (and your companions) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow. Life as a street cat has its purrks!

(Artwork by TheYuriReviewer on DeviantArt. Man I forgot how much fun it is to search up Skullgirls fanart on DA...)

THE BUILD

LEVEL 1 - BARBARIAN 1

Here’s a shocker eh? Well it’ll make sense in 2 levels but for a start we need to talk about proficiencies: grab Athletics (duh) and Survival (you’re particularly good at that.)

As a Barbarian you get Unarmored Defense equal to your Dexterity plus your Constitution which is good because your CON is good and your DEX isn’t. You also get Rage, or as I like to call it: “being literally immortal.” You have advantage on Strength-based checks, deal extra damage when you hit with Strength, and have resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage (which is kinda the main thing.) You do have to either hit your enemies or get hit to keep this up but in the middle of a heated fight you should be able to come out on top.

Now’s probably a good time to mention how you’re going to use “claws”: if your DM is nice they might let you keep your Unarmed Strike damage as a former Tabaxi (no reason not to) but for the most part unarmed fighting is kinda... bad. So I suggest reflavoring other forms of damage as claw attacks! Just because your character sheet says “Greataxe” doesn’t mean it’s actually a greataxe! Nadia does canonically have a sword (tail) if you must justify the weapon, but we’ll have more justifiable weapons later in the build.

LEVEL 2 - BARBARIAN 2

Second level Barbarians don’t need to worry much about being killed, what with being immortal and all. So why not make a Reckless Attack to give yourself advantage for the low low price of giving the enemy advantage to hit you?

If playing crazy isn’t up your alley then Danger Sense will help you keep yourself at least somewhat safe, giving you advantage on Dexterity saving throws as long as you can see the attack coming. It’s far easier to block projectiles if your opponent is being obvious about it.

LEVEL 3 - BARBARIAN 3

Third level Barbarians get to choose their Primal Path and man we’re 3 levels in and we aren’t literally immortal yet... Oh hey Path of the Zealot. Warrior of the Gods makes you literally immortal as long as someone’s willing to pick you up, as revival spells are literally free to cast on you. See? Told you immortality is the easy part.

You can also gives your combos a little more cattitude thanks to Divine Fury. While raging the first attack you make that hits will do an extra d6 plus half your Barbarian level in either Radiant or Necrotic damage: you can pick which damage type it does now and while Necrotic is admittedly more flavorful Radiant is generally resisted by less creatures, so it’s up to your preference really.

Oh and this weird lady named Tasha down at the intersection of Feywild and Shadowfell thought that Barbarians didn’t have enough skill proficiencies, so they gave out free Primal Knowledge for those who want it (and DMs who allow it.) Extra proficiencies never hurt nobody so take Intimidation to let people know that you will hurt somebody!

LEVEL 4 - BARBARIAN 4

Ah the first of many Ability Score Improvements. Hitting hard should probably be the main goal, and more Strength will let you hit harder.

LEVEL 5 - BARBARIAN 5

5th level Barbarians can scratch with both claws. Extra Attack lets you attack twice; plain and simple! But what’s cool is that as a Barbarian you also get Fast Movement, for 10 extra feet of movement speed. So along with being able to fight better you can also go zoomies around the battlefield!

(Artwork by Razillon on DeviantArt.)

LEVEL 6 - WARLOCK 1

The biggest pun on this blog is my insistence on adding Warlock levels to every build I make. You can choose your Patron at level 1 as a Warlock and you probably think that I’m going to be going for the Undead or Undying since you’re literally immortal and all that... Nah fuck that we’re going for the Fathomless for all the fun Little Innsmouth can provide!

Don’t lose your head over my choice of Patron: that’s what Tentacle of the Deeps is for! You can summon a tentacle to fight for you but if your DM is cool they’ll let you reflavor it as your severed head! You can command it as a Bonus Action to move around and attack people, dealing a d8 cold damage and slowing whoever it hits by 10 feet.

You can only keep it around for a minute, your old “head” disappears if you use this ability to put it somewhere else, and you can throw it out a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. Oh and you get Gift of the Sea for a 40 foot swimming speed and the ability to breathe underwater (not that you need to breathe anyways.) Who says cats can’t swim?

But of course the main appeal of being a Warlock is the Pact Magic, which sure is weird because you sure can’t cast spells while Raging. But at least you can grab some backup tools like Chill Touch to give your enemies a hand if they won’t get close for you to swing at them, and Friends if you need a bit of a boost while talking to folk you don’t mind annoying with your puns afterwards. You can also learn two 1st-level spells like Thunderwave from the Fathomless list which I’m personally flavoring as your Level 3 Blockbuster (yeah it’s always kinda weird when you get ultimate abilities before basic ones), and Distort Value! Because you’re still a criminal, and a little con-job won’t hurt anyone.

LEVEL 7 - WARLOCK 2

Second level Warlocks get to choose their Eldritch Invocations and what’s fun about this build is that since we aren’t going to be focusing too much on casting you can grab a lot more utility options! Eldritch Sight, Eyes of the Rune Keeper, Fiendish Vigor, Mask of Many Faces... hell even Beast Speech can be useful. Pick whatever you fancy as it’s quite pawsible to fill whatever role your party may need with your Invocations. Just keep your second invocation open for a surprise tool that will help us later.

You can also pick up another spell but... eh. Not much I really want at this level. So wait for a bit to grab stuff from level 3 of Warlock.

LEVEL 8 - WARLOCK 3

Level 3 Warlocks get to choose their Pact Boon and what’s cool about claws is that you always have a weapon on-hand... Well with Pact of the Blade you can always have a weapon on-hand! You can summon any weapon you want to your fingertips as an action and change them around as you see fit! I actually really like Pact of the Blade for Miss Fortune since you can summon various weapons to mimic Miss Fortune’s half-dead fighting style and adapt to various situations. Give yourself a weapon with Reach if you need to streeetch your limbs, grab a thrown weapon if you need to toss your head into the ring, and really lean into your options with this Pact Boon. Especially since the Improved Pact Weapon invocation will upgrade all your weapons into a +1 for free!

If you’ve already gotten a magic weapon you’re keen on using by this point feel free to use any of the other invocations I listed previously.

You can also now learn second level spells and I’d recommend Shatter for a ranged Fifth of Dismember, and Mirror Image for some better dodging. When you’re falling into pieces it’s almost like there’s three of you!

LEVEL 9 - WARLOCK 4

4th level Warlocks get another Ability Score Improvement and you’ve probably noticed the uneven Constitution score by now. I normally wouldn’t recommend the Durable feat (because it’s kinda shit) but you’re going to be taking a lot of damage with your fairly low AC, so bumping up your health and also giving yourself some insurance on hit die is appreciated.

You can also learn another spell but there isn’t much I want from the second level Warlock pickings anymore. You can grab another cantrip though, so grab Minor Illusion to throw more than just your voice!

LEVEL 10 - WARLOCK 5

5th level Warlocks can pick up another Eldritch Invocation and you know those spell slots we aren’t using while Raging? Wouldn’t it be great if we could just use them to whack our foes on the head? Well Eldritch Smite will let you do exactly that! Do big Force damage and knock foes prone to let the whole gang wail on them!

You can also grab some third level spells like Tongues to let the localization team do their magic, and Thunder Step. Yeah it’s Fifth of Dismember again that ability is basically the only proper “magic” you have, although a teleport in your back pocket never hurt. Just know that you aren’t exactly going to be stealthy with this spell.

(Artwork by JTemby on DeviantArt.)

LEVEL 11 - BARBARIAN 6

Back to Barbarian land now that we’ve got the life gem all sorted out. 6th level Zealot Barbarians get Fanatical Focus: once per Rage if you fail a saving throw you can reroll it. Advantage once per Rage, although you’ll have to use the new roll so be wary of Natural 1s I guess. Sucks to be Miss Fortunate.

LEVEL 12 - BARBARIAN 7

7th level Barbarians can pretend that their Dexterity is good thanks to Feral Instinct, which gives you free advantage on Initiative. Additionally if you’re surprised you can choose to lash out, getting to act while surprised as long as you Rage first.

Also that lady Tasha thought that you weren’t catlike enough, so she gave you Instinctive Pounce to move half your speed when you start your Rage! “Kitt n' spin!”

LEVEL 13 - BARBARIAN 8

8th level Barbarians can grab another Ability Score Improvement and I mean... Strength kinda still dictates most of what you do? Capping it off means you’ll be hitting as hard and as often as you can... Kitt-an... Look puns are hard.

(Artwork by DumplingDash on DeviantArt.)

LEVEL 14 - BARBARIAN 9

If you’ve been attacking Recklessly chances are you’re used to critting by now. Well Brutal Critical means you can triple your damage die instead of just doubling them. Add an Eldritch Smite and you can really lay down the hurt! “All in the wrist!”

LEVEL 15 - BARBARIAN 10

10th level Zealot Barbarians make for a good team assist thanks to Zealous Presence. You can give up to 10 allies within 60 feet advantage on their attack rolls and saving throws until the start of your next round as a Bonus Action. You can only use this once per Long Rest but it’s a radiclaw tool to have in case of a jam.

Oh and good ol’ Tasha still thinks Barbarians don’t get enough proficiencies, so take Animal Handling from Primal Knowledge because what else are you going to take? Nature?

LEVEL 16 - BARBARIAN 11

11th level Barbarians get to not die some more thanks to Relentless Rage. If you drop to 0 hit points while raging (and don’t die outright) you can make a DC 10 CON save to drop to 1 HP instead. The DC does go up by 5 every time you use it but thankfully it also resets back to 10 when you finish a short or long rest. Now you do admittedly have around 150 HP by this point so death isn’t likely but I’m not going to say no to insurance.

LEVEL 17 - BARBARIAN 12

12th level Barbarians get another Ability Score Improvement and here’s where you can make a choice: more Constitution means more health and AC but more Charisma means your Warlock tools (notably your head) are more likely to hit. (And better roleplay, obviously.) If you’ve got a cool DM who’ll just pass you a Belt of Giant’s Strength for Charisma then this decision no longer becomes a decision, but I’ll tell you know that this is the last Ability Score Increase you’ll be getting so choose wisely.

I mean, you could just take Lucky too if you want, and be a little more fortunate.

(Artwork by See-Breeze on DeviantArt.)

LEVEL 18 - BARBARIAN 13

13th level Barbarians get even more damage! Brutal Critical now multiplies to 3 dice, meaning that you’re rolling 4 total weapon die on top of doubling your Eldritch Smite damage! “Fur-serker Purr-age!“

LEVEL 19 - BARBARIAN 14

If you haven’t gotten it by now Zealot Barbarian has this whole theme about not dying, and the 14th level subclass capstone finishes this off by letting you Rage beyond Death. If you’re raging and hit 0 HP, you don’t die! You can keep fighting even while making death saves, and even if you die you still get to keep swinging. You will pass out if your rage ends but as long as you’ve got your claws you can keep fighting!

LEVEL 20 - BARBARIAN 15

And to finish off the build 15th level Barbarians get Persistent Rage, so you can’t lose rage if you fail to damage someone or get damaged. Is it a bit late to get such a simplistic ability? Yeah probably, but it means even after the fight you can stick around to do some stand-up!

FINAL BUILD

PROS

Time to pull myself together - You’re literally immortal; that’s a plus. A ridiculously large health bar is already good enough but being able to resist dying and fight after death is a great boon, and letting the Cleric revive you for free is a great added bonus!

Claws encounter of the furred kind! - You’ve also got great damage at any range. Up close you’ve got all the rage of a thousand angry cats and your Warlock tools make you potent at long range too! Not to mention a few spells up your sleeve in case of an emergency.

You two seem thick as thieves - It’s not often that I comment on background features (because they’re usually not overly impactful) but it turns out grabbing Thieves’ Tools and Stealth proficiency goes a long way to make you a great make-shift Rogue. A few magic tools never hurt (although I would recommend not casting Thunder Step in a stealth mission) and both Tongues and Distort Value can be great fun for roleplay to use that Charisma of yours!

CONS

Cat nap time! - Despite mixing two classes that are meant to be good with just Short Rests you have a lot of Long Rest resources that will dry up if you use them too sparingly.

I can't watch! - You’re Charisma isn’t great which means your Warlock abilities won’t be hitting often. Bonus action attacks are always nice to have (especially at range) but there comes a point where it isn’t worth losing your head over.

Not amewsing - Low Dexterity and low Constitution also means low AC, and while being a Barbarian with Durable means that you can take a lot of hits and recover a lot after the fight it does suck to spend most of the fight recovering red health.

But you'll be able to keep it together as long as you don't play like you have nine lives, even if you have a lot more in reality. Be your new family's big sister and make sure that you're the one sleeping with the fishes instead of them. Everyone loves a good party head, and the best kind of head is one that can be everywhere at once!

(Artwork by KukuruyoArt on DeviantArt.)

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Flufftober 2021, Day 2: Sneaking Out Together       Word Count: 2157 Author: aquietwritingcorner/realitybreakgirl Rating: G/K Characters: Young Roy Mustang, Young Riza Hawkeye Warning: Summary: Young Roy and Riza sneak out of the house to attend a festival in town. Notes: N/A AO3 || ff.net

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Sneaking Out Together

“Hey—hey. Hey! Miss Riza. Miss Riza!”

Riza looked up from her desk towards her door, annoyed. She had finally gotten some time to herself, and he was standing outside of it, trying to get her attention by whispering loudly. All she wanted to do was finally get some of her schoolwork done in peace.

“Hey!”

He was going to disturb her father at this rate, and that wouldn’t be good for either one of them. She sighed and got down from her chair. “What?” she hissed out.

“Are you decent?”

What kind of a question was that? “Yes, of course!” she hissed back at him.

“Then let me in!” he said. “Before your dad hears!”

With a sigh, Riza reached out and unlocked her door, just enough that Roy Mustang could slip in. The apprentice was older than her, and a bit of a pain in the butt, but he had never once been mean or cruel to her, not on purpose. Her father would not approve of him being in her room, but Riza felt safe enough. Besides, her shotgun was nearby, and he knew what a good shot she was.

“What do you want?” She asked him, putting her hands on her hips.

He was grinning, and it was that grin of his that meant he had an idea. It was the grin that could talk anyone into just about anything—including her, not that she let him know that. It would be far too embarrassing if he ever found out about her crush on him. He was sixteen and she was twelve. She wasn’t even a teenager yet! No, he had no reason to know about that.

Still, she glared at him, and he wasn’t daunted in the least.

“There’s a festival in town!” he said, excitedly.

“And?” she said.

“And we should go!” he said, practically bouncing as he stood there.

“Father would never allow it,” she said flatly.

“Don’t worry about that,” Roy said. “He’s got himself deep in his research again. As long as our work is done and there’s food, he’s not going to notice. He never does.”

He had a point, she had to admit. “But what if he does?” she asked.

Roy shook his head. “This house is as clean as a brand new cen,” he said. “I’ve gotten my studies done. You’ve been working on yours. If he comes out, he’ll have nothing to complain about and besides, he could easily think that we went to go check on some of your traps or something.”

“That’s… true…” she said hesitantly.

“Come on,” he said. “We’ll go, have some fun, and then leave. He’ll never know. What do you say?”

She looked at him, and then bit her lip, weighing the consequences. He had a point about her father. And, well, he was grinning that grin.

She sighed. “Oh, alright,” she said. “But if we get in trouble, you’re helping me with whatever my punishment is.”

“Deal,” he said, smiling.

She hoped that she wasn’t going to regret this.

He was right—her dad was lost to his research again. She left some food for him outside of his room, not that she thought he’d eat it, and then the two of them headed out.

Heading out, in this case, involved sneaking out of the house. If Berthold knew that they were going out, he would be angry, and with the way that the doors stuck and the floor creaked, it wasn’t easy to sneak outside. So, instead, they met back in Riza’s room, opened the window, and climbed down the tree.

Riza was much better at it then Roy was, although she wasn’t sure if that was because she had years of practice, or because he was much taller than she was. Either way, they made their way down with little noise, and then crossed the yard quietly, Riza leading the way. As soon as they were on the main road, though, they two went to walking side by side.

The walk to town took about twenty minutes, and the two talked and teased along the way. Roy was excited for the festival, and Riza wasn’t surprised. He was the social type, always enjoying things. He had made fast friends in the town, even though he wasn’t in town terribly often, and already had plenty of connections in the three years he’d been here. Riza, on the other hand, knew people, but she honestly wasn’t friendly with many of them. She found it hard to socialize.

“You’re kidding,” Roy said as they approached the town, laughter and music already heard, the lights being seen. “You’ve never been to the festival?”

Riza shrugged. “Father never lets me go out much. The few I’ve been to, it was because something else needed to be done, and we didn’t stay but for a little while.”

“Man, that’s awful,” Roy said. “There were festivals all the time back home. My aunt or sisters would take me to them, and when I got older, my aunt would smack some money in my hand, and told me to get out of the way.” He grinned. “I think she wanted me to have fun but didn’t want to tell me that.”

“Sounds nice,” Riza said, a small smile on her face. She wondered what it would be like to have that kind of money to spend. As it was, she had a few coins in her pocket, but she doubted that she’d be able to buy much with them.

There were people everywhere at the festival, and booths lined up. Games, food, wares for sale, Riza blinked in surprise. They wandered down main street, just taking it in at first. There were lights strung overhead, crisscrossing across the street. People were in bright clothes, walking around and laughing. At the end of the street there was a dance floor set up with a band playing lively music. Booths selling greasy, quick food sent delicious smells wafting through the air. Riza stared in awe at all of it.

“Hey—come on! Riza, look over here!”

She turned her head toward Roy, where he was waving her over towards one of the booths, grinning. Her shock at it all suddenly wore off, and she smiled back at him, hurrying over towards him and some of his friends. The excitement of the place filled her, and she let it.

The next few hours were a whirlwind, and one of the best evenings that Riza had in her life. She stuck with Roy and some of his friends and their siblings, and for once felt welcomed with the other children. They played games, laughing at the lack of strength, or cheering as someone tried to get a turtle to win a race. Roy paid for her to try her hand at the shooting booth where she impressed the other kids and adults alike at her skill and accuracy, eventually working up to earning a cash prize. Her money in hand, she bought a bag of sugared nuts to share with everyone, even as others bought other food that was distributed between them all. She went for a few whirls on the dance floor, where she discovered that she liked dancing, and danced with a few different boys, including Roy.

She was disappointed when the group broke up, but she did enjoy it just being her and Roy again. He was taking his time looking through the booths, trying to find something to send back to his aunt and to one of his sisters for her birthday. There were all sorts of things for sale. Jewelry, teas, clothing, soaps, candles, ribbons, house goods… Riza wasn’t sure how anyone could ever decide what to buy.

At least, not until her eyes fell on a beautiful lavender ribbon. It was about an inch wide, with a silky look to it. It was the loveliest shade of purple she had ever seen, and she longed to take it with her. The woman running the booth—an out-of-towner—saw how she was looking at it and leaned over a bit to talk to her.

“Do you like it?” she asked.

Riza nodded. “It’s lovely.”

“It’s for sale, you know,” the woman said. “Either in lengths or the whole spool.”

“Really?” Riza asked. “The whole spool?” She imagined decorating dresses with this ribbon, making bows and headbands with it, using it to adorn her clothes. Her hand closed around the money in her pocket.

“Yep,” the woman said. “You can buy the whole spool for 100,000 cenz.”

Riza’s heart sank. Even with her prize, that was far too much for her. “How much for just a length?” she asked, hoping to hear a better price.

“In the smallest length we offer, that’d be 5,000 cenz. But that’s barely enough to tie around a baby’s head.”

Disappointment filled Riza. There was no way she could justify spending that much money on a piece of ribbon. Even with her winnings, she knew exactly where the money would go. Winter was coming, and there were supplies she needed, and cloth for new clothing and dresses, and maybe even a good pair of woolen stockings. This wouldn’t even cover half of that, but she’d do with it what she could.

“Thank you anyway,” Riza said, looking longingly one last time at the ribbon. She turned to find Roy standing there, an item in his hand.

“Just let me buy this, and then we can go back,” Roy said, then paused. “Hey—what’s wrong?”

Riza shook her head. “Nothing. Just worried about Father, that’s all.”

“Sure,” he said, but his brow furrowed. He didn’t believe her.

“I’m going to go wait for you by the tree at the end, okay?” she said.

“Yeah, alright.”

He still sounded perplexed, but she didn’t offer up any information. Instead, she turned, walking down the lane, and taking in the sights and smells and sounds one last time. They really did need to be home soon. They were pushing their luck as it was.

She waited for him by the tree, just a bit away from the festival. She could see it, but she wasn’t a part of it any longer, a familiar feeling in her life. She looked back down the dark road and sighed. She wished they didn’t have to go back. She wished things could stay like this forever.

“Hey! Riza!”

She turned at the call of her name, and saw Roy walking up to her, a couple of packages in hand.

“Did you get what you wanted for your sister?” she asked him.

“Yeah, I think ‘Nessa will love it. But here.” He thrust a package at her. “This is for you.”

She blinked at it in surprise. “What?” she said.

He shook the package. “It’s for you. Go on. Take it!”

Hesitantly, she reached out and took the package, carefully unwrapping it. She gasped when she saw a length of that lavender ribbon inside it. “Roy—what is this?”

“The lady at the booth told me how much you liked it. I thought I’d get it for you.” He explained.

Riza folded the packaging back up. “No,” she said firmly. “I can’t. I can’t take this. It’s too expensive.” She tried to hand it back to him.

Roy shook his head and pressed her hands around it. “No. It’s alright. My aunt sends me some money for spending every month. I don’t use all of it, so I’ve been saving it. Please, Riza,” he said. “You do so much. Let me give you this.”

He was looking at her with those eyes again, the ones that were kind, and she felt her resistance drop. “…alright,” she said. “As long as you promise me you didn’t spend all your money on this!”

“I promise,” he said with a smile.

That settled, the two headed back, walking along the dark road, laughing and joking and enjoying the night. They quieted down as they got near the house, and all too soon they were at the tree. Riza climbed it first, and Roy followed after, both of them carefully slipping inside and giving each other quiet goodnights.

Riza laid the package with the ribbon down on her dresser, opening it up so she could see the ribbon. It’s quiet purple color stood out nicely, and she couldn’t help but stare at it. It was beautiful, and what was more, it was a gift. A gift from Roy, at that. She smiled and readied herself for bed. Tomorrow she would wear it. She could make a headband of it, or even a ribbon necklace. She could tie it around her waist, maybe, or fashion it into a bow. She’d handle it carefully, so that she could used it over and over again.

She was sure that it, like the memories of tonight, would be with her for a very long time.

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[katsidhe]

could you share the descriptions of the answers? I'm bad at answering these quizzes cause I always get like 3 answers that fit but in different circumstances so I like seeing all of the descriptions

Yeah sure! I too wish uquiz gave an option to see all the result descriptions... alas. 

anyway here’s a wall of text, go nuts. 

DEAN-CODED DEAN GIRL

You might just be the hero of a YA fantasy novel or an action movie, because you have Big Protag Energy. You’re self-centered and extremely giving at the same time: you expect and demand absolute loyalty, just as you provide the same. Your love can move mountains, but if you’re not careful that same love can be suffocating or controlling. You’re volatile: you’ll cut a bitch and you don’t care who knows it. You’ll kick their ass. You’ll kick their dog’s ass. You’ll kick your own ass. You have a one-liner for every occasion. Your friends like you but would describe you as “a lot.” You’re magnetic: your charisma and sheer bull-headedness mean you stand out in every room. You’re polarizing, and you know it, but that doesn’t bother you: you know you’re right, and even when you’re wrong, you’re at least entertaining. You’re very “do as I say, not as I do:” you’re a bit of a hypocrite, but, like, in a fun way.  

Holotypes include: Dean Winchester (Supernatural), Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton), Sirius Black (Harry Potter), Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager), Katara (ATLA), Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

DEAN-CODED SAM GIRL

You are a charmer and a people-pleaser. You’re charismatic to a fault, when you want to be: whether consciously or not, you have a razor-keen sense of how others see you, and you mold yourself to expectations. You can either talk circles around most people, or you come across as so fundamentally honest that you gain everyone’s trust without trying. Your affable persona is built on a rock-solid sense of purpose. You have a steadfast, deadset fixation on your goals, which you know in your heart to be worth any cost and any sacrifice. Armed with iron conviction, you’re a rebel with a cause. Is it paranoia if they really are all out to get you? When you inevitably win, the whole world will know your name. Your strong sense of self will carry you through any hardship. Your friends look up to you, but they don’t always “get” you. 

Holotypes include: Lucifer (Supernatural), Eponine (Les Mis), Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Prince Zuko (ATLA), Samwise Gamgee (LOTR), Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)

DEAN-CODED CAS GIRL 

Like all Dean-coded people, you are charming and affable, and you talk a big game. You might be the class clown or a popular athlete, or otherwise one of them cool kids, but underlying that public persona is a certain quiet idealism. You keep your strong convictions close to your heart, even when far from home or beset by strife. You’re fiercely loyal and you crave being around people, but you can see when your friends need space, and you can get along okay on your own. You’re not afraid to change your opinions if new information comes to light. Strangers find you easy to get along with: you tend to go along with the group, and you’re a team player no matter what needs to get done. Your chill-to-pull ratio is sky-high.

Holotypes include: Ahsoka (Star Wars), Meg (Supernatural), Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson), Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter), Boromir (LOTR), Jon Snow (Game of Thrones)

SAM-CODED DEAN GIRL

You come across as level headed, but you’re never more than an inch from going off the rails. Your highest values are love and personal loyalty, but you’re pragmatic about it, and you try very hard not to put unfair expectations on other people, with varying degrees of success. You spend a lot of time dealing with expectations; it’s something you either grapple with, or lean into to use to your own ends. You value your own sense of identity, but that identity can get subsumed by your loyalties. You can easily get pulled in or suborned by strong personalities. You keep secrets, both from yourself and from others. Who you want to be is at odds with how you see yourself. People meeting you for the first time might say you’re aloof. You have lots of strong opinions, but you usually keep them to yourself… unless provoked. Careful; you bite. 

Holotypes include: Mary Winchester (Supernatural), Harry Potter (Harry Potter), Aragorn (LOTR), Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars), Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games) 

SAM-CODED SAM GIRL

Gifted kid (diagnosis). You were and maybe still are an outsider, and because of that you’ve had to learn to be self-sufficient and confident in your own abilities. You’re a fiercely independent overachiever, and you’ve fought hard for every inch. Somewhere inside you is a hot, long simmering rage born from the injustice of the world, but it’s buried very deep. You’d be more than content to be alone for long periods of time. You have sometimes crippling perfectionism: if you aren’t succeeding, it’s your fault for not trying hard enough. You’ll pick every kind of intellectual fight and throw yourself into playing devil’s advocate just to improve your understanding: you see the gray areas in everything. You’re aggressively big-picture. You want to, no, you MUST change the universe, but you don’t need to take credit for it. Your few friends might describe you as callous, but you know you’re just being realistic: you’ve got a harsh, clear-eyed sense of the world. No pain, no gain, and really, if you do the math, no single individual is all that important in the grand scheme of things.  

Holotypes include: Kevin Tran (Supernatural), Jean Valjean (Les Miserables), Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars), Neville Longbottom (Harry Potter), Frodo Baggins (LOTR), Dirk Strider (Homestuck), Luke Castellan (Percy Jackson)

SAM-CODED CAS GIRL

You have a strong sense of how the world ought to be, but you have no overriding vision or big master plan: you take life day by day to fix the little things you can. You have very few close relationships, but those you have you treasure dearly. You support your few friends unconditionally, but you tend to be emotionally distant with acquaintances. You may be a bit of a pushover. You often find yourself put in the position of mediator. You loathe conflict, so you avoid it unless absolutely necessary--but once you’re truly angry, you’ll stop at nothing to see justice done. You’re a diplomat and an advocate: you are deeply idealistic, but you’re nevertheless strongly grounded in a pragmatic sense of achieving what you can. Philosophy is action, action is philosophy; you like meditation and self-improvement and have probably done at least one juice cleanse. Both friends and strangers describe you as quietly dependable. If you can’t see the trauma, the trauma can’t see you! That’s just science!

Holotypes include: Sam Winchester (Supernatural), BJ Hunnicut (M*A*S*H), Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Aang (ATLA), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars), Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson)

CAS-CODED DEAN GIRL

Much of your identity is tied up in a set of core beliefs - to the point where those beliefs might be strong enough to override your identity. You’re not beholden to any outside system. If you’re comfortable serving a larger common goal, it’s because you believe in it wholeheartedly. You’re action-oriented: you act first, and think later, or possibly never. You judge your friends solely based on what they do, and you tend to hold people accountable for any unforeseen consequences of their choices. You have strong personal loyalties. You’re not at the center of your social circle, but your friends trust you implicitly and the leader of your group tends to confide in you. You don’t seek power, but you’re also not afraid of taking charge, and you may find power thrust upon you. If you do find yourself in a position of leadership, you struggle with going too far or taking your friends in an unexpected direction. Whether you’re fighting in a war or making yourself a sandwich, you go hard in the motherfuckin’ paint.

Holotypes include: Castiel (Supernatural), Javert (Les Miserables), Captain Rex (Star Wars), Kanaya Maryam (Homestuck), Worf (Star Trek), Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)

CAS-CODED SAM GIRL

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you’re a bit weird. You are spacey or odd or otherwise out of step with how people think you should act, but that’s fine. It doesn’t matter what they think, because if you’re sure of one thing, it’s that you should never mold your unique identity to other people’s expectations. You live internally: you’re all about grand, world-changing concepts, whether they be philosophical, artistic, or mathematical. You are grounded in the reality that you are one person and one viewpoint among many others, but that doesn’t stop you from writing your nine-hundred page thesis on the topic you’re passionate about. You can justify just about anything by the virtue of your personal convictions arising almost entirely from within yourself. Your identity can get swept up in your big ideas. You’re easier to sway with logic than with emotion, but you don’t feel the need to confine yourself with such terms: you operate on both vibes and flowcharts. You move through the world with the assurance that you are the master of your own fate, and you are unburdened by worrying about the opinions of others. You won’t let yourself feel pinned down by one social group; you float in and out comfortably, depending on how you’re feeling. Friends and strangers describe you as “spooky.”

Holotypes include: Azazel (Supernatural), Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter), Aaron Burr (Hamilton), Princess Azula (ATLA), Yoda (Star Wars), Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)

CAS-CODED CAS GIRL

You are chaotic and excitable. You’re swayed by the drive to explore: the greatest good is to understand the universe and your place in it. You’ve got big ideas, and you’re drawn to new experiences, but you don’t necessarily understand what’s going on. You might be a part of a bigger social machine, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be defined on its terms: you’ll self-actualize if it kills you. You identify new objects by licking them. You can see the strings of the world; what will you choose? You’ll take the reins and see where they take you. You say you’re following your own path. Your friends say you don’t know what you’re doing. Pragmatism? Never heard of her. A dream is a vision is a reality; ideas are the world writ large. You might be a prophet or a visionary. With your head in the clouds, you’re sometimes divorced from both reality and consequences. You’re usually on the outside looking in, and you don’t want to be. People think they understand you, but they definitely don’t. Your friends and enemies describe you as impulsive and mysterious. 

Holotypes include: Raphael (Supernatural), Uncle Iroh (ATLA), Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter), Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars), Gandalf (LOTR)

#x coded y girl #i speaks #my quiz #long post for ts #why doesn't uquiz give that as an option? #and while we're at it why won't uquiz let me click one button to read all the text box responses ppl gave me :( #aromanticbristlefrost

[katierosefun]

OKAAAAAAAAY i’m listening to olivia rodrigo’s new album now and holy SHIT THE FIRST TRACK ALREADY SLAPS

EDIT: okay gonna put out all my thoughts here

traitor is already killing me haha. ain’t it funny how you said you were friends, now it’s sure as hell it doesn’t look like it. haha. ha. this song is so painful for so many reasons, and i already have a lump in my throat lmao. (god i wish we thought this through before i went and fell in love with you. bro. i’m just gonna sit down here.)

drivers license. we already know that this song slaps. 

1 step forward, 3 steps back. okay okay okay, so apparently this was from the sample of new year’s day by the one and only taylor swift, and now i’m :’)) also...yeah, i feel like this song very perfectly captures that weird fascination/confusion with a love that’s probably not good for you and i’m just...”i’m the love of your life until i make you mad.” ouch. 

deja vu. once again. still slaps. 

good 4 u. honestly.........the justified angry teenage angst. yes. i will sure as heck burn down every single timber of the house to this song. 

enough for you. ouch. olivia rodrigo really said “i’m gonna fill you with unapologetic rage in one track and then fill you with an unending sadness in the next”. and also....”i don’t want your sympathy / i just want myself back” and oh godddd...............oh god...........oh god. “don’t you think i loved you too much to be used and discarded” and “don’t tell me you’re sorry, boy, you’re sorry for yourself”....”and they’ll think i’m so exciting / and you’ll be the one who’s crying”. there’s some really raw lyrics here, and there’s some parts that just. ouch. ouch ouch ouch. ouch. 

happier. oh. how can a song be both full of yearning for an old relationship but also be bitter. also, olivia nodding that this other girl is pretty and sweet and nice and like,,,she can’t even bring herself to get mad at this other girl because she gets it, but a part of herself still wishes that the person she’s singing about still isn’t as happy with this new girl as he might have been with her--hm. i’m mostly just impressed by how olivia’s able to walk the line between these two emotions? and kind of acknowledge that weird relatable/selfish feeling of i hope you’re happy, but i hope you’re not as happy with this new person as you were with me because haha, yeah, maybe petty, but...it happens. 

jealousy, jealousy. OHHHH okay now olivia’s spitting some truth here again. the whole lyric about wishing that you could be anyone else............happy for people who are getting what they want, but also kind of not.........also, olivia acknowledging that like “yeah, i know that i’m also pretty, and i know that i’m also successful, but i’m kind of sick of myself and i still compare myself and why is everyone else so cool and why does everyone have a pretty face and a pretty boyfriend and all i see is what i should be....” bro. 

favorite crime. ohhhhh okay. my mind always goes nuts whenever people start comparing love to some kind of dangerous game. but like. my heart breaks a little bit for olivia, just reflecting on like. doing things just to impress someone else. realizing that it wasn’t...going anywhere. (also....oh god....the vocals.) i say that i hate you with a smile on my face. oh look what we became. oh the things i did just so i could call you mine...also added this to my anidala playlist

hope ur ok. olivia reminiscing on a friend she knew when she was little who had it rough. the “if you’re out there, i hope that you’re okay.” :’))) and then reminiscing on a friend she had in middle school. “we don’t talk much, but i just gotta say...i miss you, and i hope that you’re okay.” OH BOYYYY THE BRIDGE OKAY OH BOY..........NOTHING’S FOREVER / NOTHING’S AS GOOD AS IT SEEMS....WHEN THE MONSTERS CREEP INTO YOUR HOUSE AND EVERY DOOR IS HARD TO CLOSE, WELL I HOPE YOU KNOW HOW PROUD I AM.....................oh god. oh goddddddd oh god don’t look at me. ‘cause i love you and i hope that you’re okay. don’t talk to meeeeeeeeeeee. also....the piano at the end. the voices. god. my brain. i’m so. 

anyways, well done miss rodrigo. what a talented gal. honestly, you guys? i think she’s gonna make it big. 

#caroline talks #'and i wish people liked me better' #OH MY GOD OLIVIA RODRIGOOOOO #she's already dropped the f bomb #'GOD it's brutal out here' #SO TRUE SO TRUE SO TRUE #SHITTTT THIS ALBUM IS GONNA ROCK #'I ONLY HAVE TWO REAL FRIENDS / I LOVE PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE' #'ALL I DID WAS TRY MY BEST' #oh my god miss rodrigo where the HELL where you when i was 17 #but ALSO the way i STILL feel this at 21 YEARS OLD

[shifuto]

pls that person w/ the shipping takes makes me spiral every time they talk. they make it a moral thing and let me tell it makes me mentally unwell like unironically it makes me paranoid that im a Bad Person, esp when they start moralizing abt specific ships w/ nothing actually even wrong w/ them. it's rlly damaging to me. like god. god. you dont have to post this but i needed to let it out to someone who seems to Get It.

sorry this got really long X_X

tl;dr: you should try applying the logic people use against shipping or certain shipping dynamics, to fictional violence and question why only one is considered problematic while the other isn't. Sex negativity and a culture that abhors weirdos, while trivializing violent behaviour irl and in fiction, should tell you a lot

I think you should go ahead and preemptively block people. You have nothing to lose and much to gain. I do that all the time and it has made my navigating here much better. Guess the exception for me would be the Zexal fandom, since it's so small. Sometimes I will see wild shit like this and roll my eyes and hope people block me then because I'm one of those freaks in everyone's dnis hahaha

I hope this helps some. Have a nice day and stay weird anon, don't give in, there's others who appreciate you just how you are

here's the things: these are fictional stories with fictional characters that don't really exist. Yeah sure, it could be "a reflection of reality" and like.. what about it? It's still fictional lol

I used to struggle with this a lot myself, and used to be harassed, sui baited and everything back when I was on another fandom, because I draw/write porn of fictional characters. What helped me a lot was getting the logic these people use and apply it in other fictional settings such as.. violence, and question why only one is considered extremely problematic, and the other is not only socially acceptable but normalized. Trivializing violence actually "helps" justify atrocities against certain groups, even more using a Good vs Bad framework: violence is acceptable against "bad" people. Who is "bad" people? High rates of racism, antisemitism, ableism, etc everywhere should give you an idea..

all I hear about in fandom spaces is how things related to fictional sex and fictional relationships are the bane of society and "wouldn't someone think of the children**" and fictional violence is like "well, you can just blacklist tags if you don't want to see that kind of content" hmm.......

it reminds me of some of the drama that went down years ago about how "video games make people more violent***" and that not only is untrue, video games give a way for people with violent tendencies to cope and that's a good thing. Also, no one is watching horror movies and thinking they're itching to kill others, even if they are, they can just keep to themselves and have fun watching gruesome shit like nobody's business. Thinking is not a crime. And liking certain things it's not a reflection of someone's whole character (see: kinksters and how they get shit from literally everyone just because of what they like/what turns them on, and people seem to forget they're a whole human being with a life outside of kink)

a lot of the shit people cry about in here are non-issues where I come from, no one loses their head about it. If someone dislikes something they can do something about it, or they don't and that's fine too. "Right" and "wrong" are relative concepts, there's a lot of room for nuance and fiction is still fiction in the end of the day

considering a lot of folks here are from countries that are nuts with purity culture, sex negativity, and anything not "normal" is considered degeneracy that needs to be purged, it's no wonder you get the most wild takes from people in fandoms. In particular, young people, are very susceptible to accept things as facts and might not have enough maturity or critical thinking skills to process what they absorb. Unfortunately, it spreads because who can argue with that?

[sarcasm] of course incest is horrible, and age gaps are bad, and dysfunctional relationships are toxic and people who write or draw those things are just as guilty of "normalizing" and "romanticizing" it, and they are probably secretly trying to groom children with fanart of some kid's cartoons because they're a predator! People writing noncon fanfiction? Actually rapists in denial! People writing alien character X human character with massive age gaps? Obviously it's a pedophile, same with people who age up characters for porn purposes! People who are into monsters and robots and other stuff? Degens that should be shot! [/sarcasm]

as if it's fictional media causing damage to people and not people themselves.. really makes you think huh? It's easy to just blame the art, and if it doesn't exist, then there will be no more issues, right? As if censorship ever worked as "intended" and not as a tool to control people's thoughts and behaviours

the point of fiction, at least for me, is that there's no limit to what you can do. You can write or draw anything, you can go absolute batshit crazy with your rape bdsm fantasies with age gaps and monsters and shit. It's not real, and that's the fun of it. Authors tend to tag things out of courtesy, so that people can control whether they will see it or not. You can't get that from a published book, so we're spoiled in fandom spaces with content creators being very amazing at that. A lot of people I see complaining seem to be actively looking for that kind of content themselves, or they don't want it to exist near them at all. That's just such a stressful way to live when you can just... block people, blacklist tags, not engage in things that trigger you.. lol

** that's a logical fallacy commonly used to shutdown queer people and sex workers, among others (x) *** broadly, researchers have not found any connection between violent video games and violent behavior (x)

#ask #anonymous