#ranged allies

[blacksurvivalnostalgichanges]

William:I had a short, kind-of dating this one girl, and she was the only experience I’ve ever had with an actually crazy partner.

William:She would try to tell me that my friends would talk shit about me behind my back.

William:She’d say things like... Let’s call him Josiah. She was like “Yeah, Josiah shoved me in a locker and called me a bitch.” Which was a total lie.

Lenox:Josiah would never.

William:I don’t know why I use fake names. His name’s Aiden. I don’t think he’d be upset I mentioned him. Haven’t talked to him in a while.

Lenox:I bet he’s in jail.

William:No, he’s not. I saw a picture of him on Instagram the other day.

Silvia:He’s pushing people into lockers!

Lenox:Truuuue.

#i was tempted to change that aiden but it's way funnier if i don't. funniest coincidence #man. i'm just gonna switch back to black survival incorrect quotes SKDFJSKDFJN #black survival incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #williamblacksurvival #lenoxblacksurvival #silviablacksurvival #ranged allies #i tagged this one but apparently didn't save them so this is giving deja vu rn #anyway i've been watching stranger things so GUESS WHAT KIND OF AU I'M THINKING ABOUT #yuki gives so much will energy. i'm not elaborating but he really does. he's even gay #dailin gives off steve energy. she's like him if he was a chinese martial artist. might be nonsense but i think i'm right on this one #daniel is nothing like eddie but he'd deliver a lot of eddie's lines flawlessly #nicleven except they're dressed as that one mall scene with max and eleven. i know i'm onto something with this one #i think if we just completely wave off everything and go by vibes and separate things then shoichi is very #joyce. i forgot her name im sorry i mentally call her will's mom or winona ryder by habit #i forget mike's name sometimes also. i remember him as the guy who doesn't really deserve two people vying for him tbh #dunno how redeeming that is for me. but shoichi is like vaguely evil joyce #.....shoichi is like joyce if she was willing to pull shit on someone that's innocent #aiden and alex give off the enzo guy and hopper #not sure why i got the urge to talk about this. but by now it's what's expected of this blog i think

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I’ve been rewatching Starstruck in between episodes of Junior Year and it’s been such a wild ride going from Margaret “only competent person on this ship, spent an entire battle banking on her phone and it was the most useful anyone was during that entire episode” Encino to Kristen “you’re the meat on my plate right now, heyyyy girlieeeeeee, that’s what you think and then I pirouette away” Applebees

#ally beardsley has the most insane acting range #ally beardsley #margaret encino #kristen applebees #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #a starstruck odyssey #dimension 20

[singing-cicada]

List of people Zagreus Hadesgame should get to hang out with and reasons:

1. Soldiers and battlefield healers - lots of blood so it's an easy anchor + Ares lets him wander around and Thanatos is usually already there so he can take him home before he starts fainting

2. Fishermen - he stands in puddles of fish blood as he fishes for surface sea life. All the fisherman are initially confused at a half-on-fire-man hanging out at the docks until he casts his line. At some point he starts asking them for the names of what he's caught and they decide to teach him more about fishing in general.

3. In the same vein: butchers - he is honestly just curious and hangs around. He has a lot of fun people watching, and accidently becomes a symbol of good fortune; if he visits your shop then you have a lot of experience under your belt from many years of work and/or have a lot of product. It's a correlation of amount of blood, past and present, that makes it easier for him to anchor to a butchers experience and prosperity. Butchers star putting out stools with bowls of fresh blood underneath to invite his attention.

4. Midwives, new mothers, and newborns - he has seen a lot of lives ending, but seeing one begin??? Breathtaking. He's very polite and after every stops being terrified that he's here to claim/kill/curse/bless the baby he becomes a comfort. He's present at a lot of successful births so at first he's considered good luck. When's the first time he was present for a still birth, he was very gentle, he promised the (should have been) mother to carry the babe himself, to bring her to rest. They midwives no longer considered him an omen; he was a comfort at loss and a companion in joy.

5. Prepubescent/adolescent girls - more specifically before or as their periods start. Women make the connection between bleeding in labor to bleeding monthly and tell their daughters to ask for his help. Some for health, some for strength, some for relief.

6. Anyone who stumbles across his mother's cottage while he's visiting - most people know to clock him as a deity or associated figure so there really respectful. He'll offer them some produce and a flower of their choice if their polite. If he finds someone has already taken they are either 1. Allowed to leave with the items if he can tell they're desperate or acted in good faith that the house was abandoned or 2. Promptly removed with warranted force if they acted out of greed/blatant disrespect for the occupant (his mom). Weird stories start spreading that the garden is so abundant because he waters it with blood or that the house used to belong to a midwife who attracted Zagreus's attention with all the blood soaked into the wood.

It becomes almost like his first shrine: rumours have made it clear not to steal from the garden or enter the house, so people leave offerings on/outside the fences. Bloodied sheets, fish bones, seeds and dried flowers. Young women leave flower crowns when they stop bleeding, and young men leave laurels when before and after battle; his aid in spilling blood and thanks that their heart still beat.

#hades game #hades supergiant #zagreus #there is an even longer more poeticly dense versuon of this in my drafts #I just think he should get to experience life as much as death and get to be know as a protecter and friend to women #and a comfort and ally to the dying #he has the range

[teecupangel]

So I learned a few hours ago that killing the targets with the mysterious shard in AC Mirage via projectiles will still give you the mysterious shard without having to loot the body.

Now, I know the common tool to use in this situation is the throwing knife. Just headshot them and boom, easy kill.

But it's me so... I definitely use the berserk dart on them and watch their own guards kill them... slowly... and painfully... hehehehe

#look at this point it's tradition for me to use berserk darts and watch my target get killed by their allies #you give me an option to use berserk status long range (unlike origin's melee berserk option) #and i will use it #and abuse it #teecup plays ac mirage #thedragonqueen1998 told me darts can be used to make guards go nap time so i got it and upgraded it #and i saw the berserk option and immediately went #fuck no kill sidequests #let them kill each other hehehehe

[cleverchaosunknown]

the duality of ally beardsley characters

First Daddy Margaret Encino and now Mother Timothy Goose??? Ally save some gender for the rest of us gd <3

#dimension 20 #neverafter #a starstruck odyssey #ally beardsley #theyve got RANGE babey!

[drbtinglecannon]

The nb rep in TOH is incredible

Nonbinary is so often treated like "female light" in both media & irl, and to see the two characters that are nb look like This

Is awesome!

Those are vastly different looking chars, and further they're vastly different ages! The queer rep isn't just given to the younger chars and the queer adults have active roles in the story!

I just think it's so cool how Raine is more androgenous/masc, and Masha is pretty feminine, but they're both nonbinary with they/them pronouns and it's presented just as fact, no questions or conflicts, just. Here they are.

#toh #toh spoilers #raine whispers #toh masha #masha toh #i loved masha's nails so much. & i love how vastly different they do gender than raine does. just. toh good queer range #raine is such an important powerful ally. masha was one of vees first friends & the source of telling us the long awaited wittebros lore #they both get a cool impact & development further than just 'hey this char is trans lol we did the rep!' #tc posts

[sweetandglovelyart]

Knightfall in Dream Land - Page 6

Meta Knight begins his long fall to Popstar’s surface and passes by some familiar faces on the way down.

#Kirby #Kirby fanart #my art #comic #Meta Knight #Dark Meta Knight #Sailor Dee #Taranza #sorry it took me so long to finish this page but it’s finally done #I hope that the title of the comic makes sense to everyone now #I called it Knightfall in Dream Land because the knight fell into Dream Land lmao #the parts of the comic set in the present are occurring around the time of Return to Dream Land #so the gang hasn’t met Taranza yet and isn’t aware of Floralia’s existence #but since Meta has a long fall to the surface I’d imagine he’d probably crash through Floralia on the way down and pass by the mirror #I tend not to give specific ages/age numbers to Kirby characters in my fanart/fan AU #the first reason for this is that different characters probably age at different rates since they’re different species #and the second reason for this is that I don’t see years between game releases equating to years passing for the characters #I mean just look at Adeleine she’s still a kid in Star Allies even though that was released almost two decades after Crystal Shards lmao #instead of giving characters specific ages I headcanon them as being in certain age ranges #so in the present Kirby Bandee and Sailor are all kids (and Bandee and Sailor are a bit older than Kirby) #I also see characters like Gooey Adeleine and Ribbon as being kids too #while characters like Taranza Susie Magolor Marx and the Mage Sisters are young adults #and characters like Meta Knight Dedede Daroach Captain Vul and Hyness are older adults #but in the parts of the comic set in the past Meta Knight and Dedede are young adults and Taranza is a kid #and Kirby and the Dees are babies #the older spiders shown here with Taranza and Sectonia are OCs of mine who are their mothers #their names are Lady Theraphoza (Taranza’s mom) and Queen Rachnia (Sectonia’s mom) #I’m giving Taranza some backstory since HAL refuses to tell us anything about him except he’s sad about Sectonia lmao #this post has too many tags but maybe I’ll make a separate post with my Spider Lore

[askthesupersisters]

SO LIKE YOU KNOW HOW I RESPONDED TO THAT ONE ASK ABOUT STUDY-LIFE BALANCE AND IT WAS ALL PEACHY RIGHT

WELL UH LATER THAT DAY I WAS BROWSING THE GS ITALIAN SITE AND I FOUND THAT THE SUPERSISTERS 2 PREVIEW CAME OUT AND

Well tl;dr is uh I jinxed it in the span of a single day-- /j

(English doc is made by me, translation was made courtesy of plugging stuff into DeepL)

Anyway THEY LOOK SO DONE LIKE C'MON EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE ARTSTYLE YOU GOTTA ADMIT THIS IS HILARIOUS

And I made my own version of it too because how could I not HAHAHAH

#geronimo stilton #ask the supersisters #thea sisters #thea stilton #the range of the stars academy style strikes once again #this level of nuance in the expressions is what i'm LIVING for #only reason i'm starting to like them like this #stuff still looks weird in some illustrations but it's growing on me grrrrr #supposedly this book has like #the amazon is noping out of existence and the girls have to investigate that #but they end up bumping into the rowdyruff boys to their powerpuff girls and shenanigans happen #we dunno the alignment of the boys compared to tia dolores but *shrugs* #if it's gonna follow superhero tropes religiously tho it's prolly gonna be neutral or unlikely ally #cover slaps hard tho have you seen it #if you haven't the title is “supersisters il nemico invisibile” it's pretty cool looking

[skwtches]

GAY MARRIAGE????? /hj

#anyways Jeb is my second fav from this movie so u can imagine my shock upon seeing these two together #them arguing and then Audrey going 'its so nice to see Jeb have a friend :)' BIGGEST ALLY #rema.png #home on the range

[sea-buns]

Rewatching acoc after realizing I'm ace is such a god damn joy. Liam Wilhelmina was already one of my fav d20 pcs of all time but now that I'm fully immersed I'm like OHHHHH. He already had me with the crippling lack of social skills. But just so many other things now too. "I have no interest in romance, but I would like to be held." He is so genuinely happy when he is included. Instantly assumes everyone hates him the moment he walks into a room. The terribly strained optimism with everything that goes wrong in his life. The seed guy/war guy dichotomy. He is the best of both. Goes from so soft to so soft and sad, and when he chooses violence it's TERRIFYING. Complete stone-cold apathy facing people that aren't in his small circle of buddies. The Asexual Child coined the term "getting slammed down big style" and that's some peak ace behavior. Also the only correct way that could have possibly happened. Began wholesome and precious friendship with Primsy, and then got engaged with her in the sweetest fucking platonic marriage I've ever seen. Wanted the influence of Candia to be spread throughout Calorum and obviously the only way to do that is for the land to quadruple in size cuz y'know it ONLY MAKES SENSE. "I'm just sassy tonight." I fucking love him.

#god i miss him #ally beardsley is a treasure #all of their pcs are so different and good and cover such a range of experiences on this queer-ass spectrum #and i am just so grateful #dimension 20 #d20 #a crown of candy #acoc #acoc spoilers #liam wilhelmina #ally beardsley #asexual #ace #ace pride #acespec #if the dopamine stars align i might make a post of all my fav acoc quotes

[wizardnuke]

whoever told me that abjuration wizards suck were lying to my faceeee see this subclass is so cool. i guess if someone likes playing glass cannon wizards it's a shit class but this girl i've got is. well she is tormenting my dm is what she's doing. good class

#what you're gonna do is hit level six okay and you're gonna #cast mage armor on yourself and in addition to that since it's an abjuration spell you're gonna add arcane ward (temp hp) #and at lvl6 you can use a reaction to direct any damage an ally takes within 30 feet of you onto your arcane ward and you're gonna #cast shield when you need to (Careful tho. only one reaction per round. redirect damage Or shield) and since shield is also an abjuration #spell you're gonna take the level you cast it at and double it. and put that into your arcane ward's hp. any abjuration spell puts hp #back into the ward. MEANWHILE you're concentrating on witch bolt. and you're not even risking con saves because you Aren't Getting Hit #so you are essentially nullifying damage that others take (if your ward hp depletes you take the remaining damage and can't cast it again) #while frying people alive every turn forever and ever until they die or go out of range. bless this bizarre combat medic wizard build #i don't have the numbers but i know a'velle took a good half of the fight's damage on her own and only lost 2hp in the fight #one day i decided that i wanted to play a combat medic wizard. and then i was like. wow this is not useful. and then level 6 hit #miss girl was standing there crit-frying a crocodile alive while waiving damage over to her ward and boosting its hp with bonus actions #gotta say. the fight was two crocs and a couple of little guys. miss girl dropped both of the crocs #NOO WAIT THE WARD DOESN'T DROP AT 0HP I JUST HAVE TO CAST ANOTHER ABJURATION SPELL. WOAG

[blacksurvivalnostalgichanges]

William:Phone’s ringing again... Let’s just ignore it.

Lenox:All right.

William:Huh. I thought you’d be too curious to know who’s calling.

Lenox:I am, but what if they threatened me for money...?

William:You’re a former mafiosa, have some backbone!

#immortal soul incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #eternal return incorrect quotes #williamblacksurvival #lenoxblacksurvival #ranged allies

[spiltsoup]

Jane Krakowski:

Jane Krakowski without the funny:

#jane krakowski #there is no in between #well except for Ally McBeal I guess but #the RANGE of this woman #actorposting #ally mcbeal #schmigadoon #30 rock #she loves me #alex haley’s queen #law and order svu #mom at 16 #this is not a jab at her career btw i love it when she does dramatic stuff but it genuinely throws me

[magentagalaxies]

fucking love it when one of my professors brings up kids in the hall in giving me feedback, not in a pandering way but in a "this is an observation i've made about their work and how you could channel this aspect in your own comedy to get yourself out of your comfort zone and play with new things"

#shoutout to my improv teacher fr #we were talking about how i don't use dynamic physicality and movement as much in my characters #and she brought up how so much of their characters are very physical and encouraged me to play with that #and also specifically character temperament and emotions and stuff bc i have a specific range i play in #and it's funny even tho i personally think my comedy style is most like bruce #and scott in a lot of ways has these uninhibited moments i wish i could throw myself into #in terms of character range/voice/temperament/emotion? i'm playing heavily in the scott zone rn #and my professor was like ''that's great but also i wanna see you play a bruce girl'' #we also had a whole conversation about gender and kith and how gender plays into my improv or is absent from it a lot of the time #and holy shit erin my improv teacher wins cis ally of the day award she was so respectful while also having good feedback #(her feedback was low key ''be more overtly trans even if it makes cis people uncomfortable'') #bc like. i'm very overtly trans in my standup rn like you know how aubrey is #but in improv? sure i play many characters regardless of gender but that's the thing. it's ''regardless'' of gender #so i sort of default to being neutral so that others can project onto me. it's sort of ''idgaf i'm chill'' which in itself still is radical #but it gives ''cis allys'' who don't want to deal with gender an outlet to just project onto me in a way that i could own much more #anyway the way i process feedback is often by repeating it to someone else so like. this didn't need to be a post this is for me #but idk if you're following along with my comedy journey (or even if you just want to hear my professor reference kids in the hall!) #maybe this is of interest to you. in any case i'm very excited to play with all this stuff much more #and i definitely feel confident in my comedic identity and trans identity and most of all my trans-comedian identity #and i'm excited to see how i grow from here

[thefirstknife]

Following up on the ask about the Titan supers, going for the fantasy expectation question specifically- Titans are, thematically, front-line tacticians. People throw around Spartan, Paladin, Soldier, titles like that. What bungie seems to see them as is a big gorilla, or the Hulk, and I feel that does a disservice to the actual characterization of the class. Even if it does different things in gameplay, debuffing for example, running around punching is creatively boring. I'd like a utility supe

The problem is, how do you translate "front-line tactician" into a playable ability? A tactician is someone who makes plans to execute a strategy. Titans are well known to be able to make plans, both ahead of time and on the go, as well as improvise in the heat of battle, but that is simply incredibly metaphysical to make first person shooter gameplay out of.

As an example, would I like if, as a Titan, I could use destructible environment to quickly create a throwing melee or super? Sure. A game where a piece of concrete can be destroyed and then you can pick it up and use it to throw it at enemies or create a temporary barricade or do whatever else you might come up with to simulate a front-line tactician would be unfathomably cool. And also impossible to do in Destiny as it exists right now.

We can extend that to other classes as well. Warlocks are scholars and students of the arcane space magics and should be able to specialise in specific fields and then weave them as they see fit in millions of different ways, but instead their supers are; throw void orb, throw void orb but it tracks, you are void orb, solar sword on fire, solar sword on fire in the ground, electric fingers, electric beam and stick.

Hunters are supposed to be agile scouts and explorers who trek the wilderness and map the unknown, but I'm forced into known missions with fireteams instead of having an open world to map out alone for others. My supers are gun with three bullets, gun with six bullets, knives, bow with one shot, bow with three shots, knives, spin stick, throw stick and tornado.

There's very obviously a limit to what the class is in lore and setting and what it can be in gameplay. I totally understand the disappointment about the new super being seemingly "the same" as the last one ("element on fists, punch"), but I feel like a lot of the complaints and demands are quite literally impossible and unreasonable. And some of the complaints can be applied to other two classes as well.

I think it's good to tell Bungie that we would like more variety in supers, especially as it pertains to their viability in various content. I would 100% love for an additional super for stasis and strand and for Titans to have more ranged options because in a lot of cases you can't really get close range to enemies. Stomps, pushback, environmental hazards and other issues limit what we can use melee abilities for.

Obviously I've not played the strand stuff so I'm working with what we've been told and shown, but I think it's fairly obvious that strand IS a utility super. It's the most utility since void and overshield; strand not only gives you and your teammates damage reduction, but also controls the battlefield by suspending enemies. Like, by all accounts strand is a utility subclass with a lot of debuffing and buffing options and movement utilities.

I also think it's reductive to say that the new strand super is just "gorilla." It really isn't. I am not aware of gorillas being able to control the battlefield by suspending enemies in the air and locking down a whole section while empowering allies with damage reduction utilities. And being able to control the battlefield and empower your allies while you plan out your attack and dish out damage is, quite literally, a tactician move.

I think both Behemoth and Berserker are much closer to the front-line tactician fantasy since void. If anything is "gorilla" it's Fists of Havoc. A lot of people shit on Behemoth but if you really want utility and being able to perform multiple tasks at once with your super, Behemoth is one of the things to pick. Need to kill enemies? Got it. Need to freeze them while you deal with something else? Got it. Need to block off an area? Got it. Need to create barricades for your team? Got it. Your team needs overshield which you can give them by making stasis shards with your super? Got it. The problems with Behemoth not being used much are with a completely different section of issues, which is activity, encounter and enemy designs.

If Berserker is truly similar in any way, then it's in this this way imo, as it gives you options to use your super in different ways for different purposes depending on what you need. Like a tactician. I think people are way too focused on the idea that you use your fists and not at all focusing on the actual utility and options of the super. Though obviously if someone just isn't vibing with it, it's not something that people can change.

#destiny 2 #lightfall #strand #ask #long post #again i'm fully sympathetic to people who wanted something different. i would not be opposed to something different #but i think a lot of the complaints are just not something that is feasible as a gameplay mechanic #in destiny at least. destiny won't turn into a turn-based combat game or fully fledged RPG over night. or... ever #also if any titan super needs changing it's fists of havoc. they simply have no utility or any special use #they're vastly overshadowed by thundercrash and both other melee based supers have more utility #behemoth can also be used at range because you cast stasis crystals forward in a cone so it can be used while you're in cover #and it also provides more cover for you and teammates if you need it as well as freezes enemies if they're not immediately killed #strand also does cc and empowers allies. fists is just close range damage and nothing else. you can just use thundercrash #berserker seems very interesting to me and i can't wait to try it out. it may turn out bad or it may turn out op. or just average #i would ALSO love for a second super for stasis and strand. i will be banging my pots and pans about it until it happens

[lovevalley45]

omar was truly great this episode, hitting us with that fucking letter to airy pearry then vibing in the background for a good chunk of the ep before that raw ass scene between andhera and their mom and immediately back to comedy gold in that exchange with the lords of the wing after they’ve been kicked out

#alli says shit #a court of fey and flowers #d20 spoilers #the Range of it all