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vaspider · 2 months

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Measure 110, or the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

So if y'all aren't local to Oregon, you may not have heard that the Oregon state legislature just voted to -- essentially -- gut Measure 110, the ballot measure which decriminalized all drug possession and use in the state. It turned all drug use into a citation instead, and the citation and fine could be waived by completing a health screening. The entire point of Measure 110 was replacing jail with health care and services to help people instead, and while I could probably write a very long side post on the imperfections of that approach, it was at the very least a move in the right direction after decades of the pathetic failure and absolutely racist mess that is the "War on Drugs."

You may hear this pointed to in coming years as a reason why we have to just throw people into jail for using drugs, because Measure 110 failed. And like... it did fail, kinda. Sorta. It failed in that it did not manage to fix everything immediately, and it created some new issues while also exposing older issues more sharply.

It also saved the state $40 million in court costs prosecuting low-level drug offenses, kept thousands of people whose literal only crime was putting a substance into the body of a consenting adult (themselves) out of jail, put at least one addiction services center in every county in the state, invested $300 million in addiction services, and an awful lot more. See the end of this post for more reading.

But where it failed, it failed because it wasn't supported. Police and advocacy groups both asked for specific tickets for this new class of offenses which had the phone number to call to go through the health screening and the information about how going through that health screening would make the ticket go away printed on it prominently - lawmakers declined to fund this. Governor Kotek budgeted $50K to train officers on how to handle these new citations and how to direct people to the treatment and housing supports, but lawmakers thought that training officers on this new law at all was a waste of money. Money moved extremely slowly out to the supports that were supposed to come into play to help people obtain treatment or get access to harm-reduction strategies. People freaked the fuck out about clean-needle outreach, fentanyl testing strip distribution, Narcan training, and other harm-reduction strategies.

And at the end of the day, Measure 110 gets called a failure because it wasn't a silver bullet. Never mind that thousands of people are not sitting in jail right now for basically no fucking reason. Never mind that people have gotten treatment, harm has been reduced, overdoses have been prevented...

So, yeah. You'll probably start hearing this trotted out as proof that, well, we triiiied decriminalizing drugs, but look what happened in Portland! Well, what happened in Oregon is that we got set up to fail, and still didn't fail, just didn't totally succeed.

Measure 110 highlights, quoted directly from Prison Policy Initiative:

The Oregon Health Authority reported a 298% increase in people seeking screening for substance use disorders.

More than 370,000 naloxone doses have been distributed since 2022, and community organizations report more than 7,500 opioid overdose reversals since 2020.

Although overdose rates have increased around the country as more fentanyl has entered the drug supply, Oregon’s increase in overdoses has been similar to other states’ and actually less than neighboring Washington’s. A peer-reviewed study comparing overdose rates in Oregon with the rest of the country after the law went into effect found no link between Measure 110 and increased overdose rates.

There is no evidence that drug use rates in Oregon have increased. A cross-sectional survey of people who use drugs across eight counties in Oregon found that most had been using drugs for years; only 1.5% reported having started after Measure 110 went into effect.

There has been no increase in 911 calls in Oregon cities after Measure 110.

Measure 110 saves Oregonians millions. Oregon is expected to save $37 million between 2023-2025 if Measure 110 continues. This is because it costs up to $35,217 to arrest, adjudicate, incarcerate, and supervise a person taken into custody for a drug misdemeanor — and upwards of $60,000 for a felony. In contrast, treatment costs an average of $9,000 per person. The money saved by Measure 110 goes directly to state funding for addiction and recovery services.

There is no evidence that Measure 110 was associated with a rise in crime. In fact, crime in Oregon was 14% lower in 2023 than it was in 2020.

Further reading/sources:

#us politics #measure 110 #oregon

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chaifootsteps · 4 months

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It's me, to be named anon! I think I'll go by Stargazer anon, if that's available and okay.

Dear lord, I didn't expect that episode 4 leak at all (though I honestly should've considering Viv's track record). Angel... deserves a better writer and creator. There's a line between putting your characters through pain and misery for the narrative vs doing it for the sake of your fetish. BDSM personally ain't my thing, but I'm pretty sure it's all about consent. Yet like every kink Viv has, consent is practically dubious or non-existent.

I had a friend once ask me if I liked Angel. I didn't answer them because the only thing my brain could come with was "I like his potential." It's a fact that Angel went through a major rewrite from when Viv first conceived him. That's natural, I made big rewrites to several of my OCs as well. However, like many have pointed out, Angel was given too many traits that kinda contradict each other and lose sense of who he is as a character. Michael's Angel was great, it was character who you felt could get redeemed. Actual series Angel? I... don't wanna comment.

Also, why aren't more people irritated with how Alastor uses modern lingo in his song? Look how they massacred my boy. I had a similar issue in the comic where Alastor started swearing because I felt that he should be the exception in the cast. Passive-aggressive at worst since he's a gentleman. At the end, where he starts assuming a more monstrous form like in his comic, it wasn't too impressive - no point in becoming larger if his tiny waist ruins the effect.

Vox, like Adam, was someone I was surprised to like. He was always interesting to me for his design and rivalry with Alastor. I was worried with how they made his relationship with Val in instagram abusive while Velvette is just there. Screw Val, never liked him, thought his design was bad and everyone's reaction here cemented my opinion. That animatic by Raph gave me the shivers for that one Vox scene eugh. Was it necessary to make Val and Vox a thing? I thought it'd be more natural if all three were in a toxic poly relationship (no offense to actual polygamous people, I respect them and think people should be more open-minded about it).

So many massacred boys, so much wasted potential.

#Anonymous #stargazer anon #hazbin hotel critical #viv stuff

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magxit · 11 months

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Just dropped: https://twitter.com/rollingstone/status/1663660316817780745?s=46&t=Jv7EvC8oVb-dKk_gHc29yQ

I haven’t read the full thing. But kinda sad when the media gets it more so than her own fans…

We Wouldn’t Be Having This Conversation If Taylor Swift Was a Man

Publicity stunt or not, Swift can have a sleazeball summer if she damn well pleases.

ON THE FINAL night of Taylor Swift’s MetLife shows this weekend, 80,000 Swifties screamed in the swamps of New Jersey for over three hours. They wore outfits from every era — tinsel fringe dresses, serpent arm cuffs, and heart-shaped sunglasses. I saw countless faces in cowboy hats similar to the emoji — only these cowboys were sobbing uncontrollably while eating foot-long hotdogs. And the bracelets! They were all wearing beaded bracelets coded in Swiftian lyrics, trading them in the parking lot like Deadheads swapping grilled cheeses. (Take my advice: do not try to pay for the bracelets. They will look at you like you’re from outer space.)

It’s hard to believe that while this magical Eras tour is happening — and while Swift is somehow reaching previously-unimaginable heights of popularity, surpassing even the ludicrous highs of 2015 — she is also experiencing a backlash from some corners of the Swiftie community over her supposed new boyfriend, the 1975’s Matt Healy.

Their sentiments were best summed up in an open letter on Twitter using the hashtag #SpeakUpNow (named after Swift’s upcoming re-recording of her 2010 album), which states that Healy’s many controversies “deeply trouble” them. “From engaging in racist remarks, making offensive jokes, and admitting to watching degrading pornography in which people of color are being humiliated and assaulted, his actions contribute to the perpetuation of hate, stereotypes, and objectification, which targets and hurts some people from the Jewish, Black, Chinese, Hawaiian, Inuit, LGBTQ+ communities, as well as women.”

The statement refers to the derogatory comments Healy made about the rapper Ice Spice on The Adam Friedland Show podcast in February and the questionable apology he delivered onstage last month. Fans raised eyebrows when Swift recruited the rapper for her “Karma” remix last week, and on Monday, Healy finally addressed the controversy in a New Yorker profile that only exacerbated the issue. He explained that the whole thing “doesn’t actually matter” and that the backlash he received was merely virtue signaling: “It’s just people going, ‘Oh, there’s a bad thing over there, let me get as close to it as possible so you can see how good I am,’” he said. “And I kind of want them to do that, because they’re demonstrating something so base level.”

If you didn’t catch this quote aggregated on the internet about 137 times (you probably had better things to do than scroll Twitter and hustle children for their handmade bracelets), you aren’t missing much. This is all part of Healy’s artistry: an intricate, tangled web of bits intended to rile you up and piss you off. This is the guy who eats raw meat onstage, gives Nazi salutes, and delivers intelligent observations like, “I’m obsessed with my dick for some reason.” Stupid Shit is his brand. Are we really supposed to take anything he says seriously?

I’m not here to answer that, but I am here to tell you that none of it is Taylor’s problem. For the last 17 years, we’ve held this woman responsible for the actions of men she chooses to spend time with, and it’s time to stop. It would be fair to criticize her for walking out of Electric Lady with the ghost of Pol Pot or wondering why her dad and Matt Lauer are grooving out to her performance of “22.” But this is just a hot sleazeball who wants Oasis back together (I don’t know about you, but I’ve dated a lot of guys who fit that description), and it’s up to Taylor to spend her time as she pleases.

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dykedvonte · 24 days

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What do you think the Bootriders were especially good at? Probably exploring considering their name, but it’s fun to think about what Swank and Tommy were good at pre-House :)

Scouting!!! Very similar to exploring but with slight differences.

The Boot-Riders to me weren’t really about getting a lay of the land and more so gathering things they needed for the rather large tribe. We know they are one of the bigger tribes and the idea that they’d be thoroughly searching and picking through ruins leads to a lot of issues with headcount and not having someone watching their backs.

I like to think the Boot-Riders were nomadic in the sense they followed caravans, gecko packs and watched out for scavenging grounds more than actively looked for a fight. They were great at combat but I’d say they were very defensive in their fighting style rather than offensive. I don’t really have a reason for this other than Tommy and Swank having lower endurance compared to Benny. Though I also believe they were very melee based in their fighting style seeing as Benny’s tagged skills are melee and unarmed implying it was a big aspect of their culture. He also mentions that they decided who led next through challenged knife fights so….

Tommy and Swank tagged skills are in guns energy weapons and only melee but that also makes sense if they stayed farther away from fighting in favor of watches. It’s insignificant really but I like to think that Boot-Riders would pair scouts out to go look for viable areas before they chose a direction and a strong Boot-Rider would accompany those patrols for just in case there was a bigger threat.

Tommy and Swank notably are higher in agility thank Benny, only by one really but I think it’s like the perfect example for my idea of the patrols. Benny is the “support” being stronger, more durable but less agile than Swank and Tommy who would have theoretically been searching and scouting a potential picking/hunting ground.

Interestingly Tommy is like really good with energy weapons more so than Swank and I like to think he was really good at clearing out areas for the Boot-Riders to pick over. Kinda like laser quick draw. I think on a more social level he knew a lot of Boot-Rider history and was kinda well, a historian. I don’t think Boot-Riders particularly valued music but he would def embellish their roots through campfire songs like the Singer from All Roads. Of course, once they became the Chairmen that stopped but he still remembers those old songs.

Swank is harder for me cause, well, House wasn’t wrong when he said Swank was “unimaginative”. He’s like the Boot-Rider equivalent to an accountant. I can imagine he’s so good at managing the casino floor because he was used to keeping track of supplies, missing Riders and other such organizational things for the Boot-Riders. It wasn’t just his job but he was probably pretty good at it amongst the members who had the responsibility. It’s being but Swank seems like a mundane dude outside of the rat pack, tribal wasteland stuff. Like he drinks a plain black coffee to me and likes it.

#like I don’t particularly think Tommy Swank or Benny were like notable boot riders before Bennys take over but they still weren’t just like #randos in the tribe just not leaders but very good at what they specialized in for their group #fallout #fallout new vegas #benny gecko #benny fnv #swank fnv #tommy fnv #tommy torini #the chairmen #the Mojave boot riders #ask #anon

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herequeerexitentialfear · 5 months

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Cringe is dead have a jojos oc.

she's not just a jojos oc but that is the world I'm throwing her into at the moment.

Her stand has the ability to change the forces acting on an object, but is limited by amount of force, which is spread across all objects her stand is affecting.

Long nerdy explanation of her stand powers under the cut.

I swear im not a physics nerd, but I do use cad software and suffered through forces in a level maths so I do find this interesting as fuck. Mainly cause its a stand, this shit can be dry as fuck. I'm also not giving a numerical value for her pool of force she draws from bc fuck maths. I just thought a stand that is basically the fusion 360 move tool or that can manipulate those arrows on force diagrams would be cool

Summary:

Objects she is affecting are either actively controlled, which she can constantly affect the forces on and move, which is inside her range, or have been controlled, where she has changed the forces acting on it, but it is outside her active control range, where she no longer can directly control, but still is affected by the forces she changed.

E.g. she can make an object rotate around her arm because it's in her active control range, or she can make it go away from her at a certain velocity and once it exits her range she can not change it, but it will continue until it hits something or air resistance stops it.

Use:

Its main uses are stopping projectiles aimed at her and allys, as well as launching them.

But isn't it? Yep. One issue- stands can only be defeated by other stands [i need to reread part 5 and look closer at how mistas stand works cause they r kinda similar. cant remember if his bullets when used by sex pistols can affect stands] and her stand affects objects. So while she has great defensive and offensive capabilities, she can't defeat a stand, only it's user. At best she can knock back a stand, but her controlled objects do a fraction of the damage when attacking other stands.

Her strategy is to get a close range combat stand to fight the stand while going after its user. She is also extensively combat trained and skilled with weapons even without her stand, so she is much more likely to engage in combat herself with a stand user.

She normally uses her stand to throw projectiles, her throwing knives at first, but ball bearings or bullets work even better. She also uses it to stop incoming projectiles, either by controlling them, or using something she controls to collide with them.

her stand spends almost all of the time summoned but in the weird exactly where the user is double image type thing. bc her stand is skinny af and doesn't have 'skin' [the stand is made up of arrows and spheres mostly, spheres instead of joints and arrows instead of muscle/bone. haven't drawn it get but i have an idea] it isn't that visibly noticeable even to other stand users. it can go outside of her, but doesn't most of the time unless shes feeling really safe, or needs to have active control over something to far for her to reach [e.g. putting her stand in front of a bullet so she can stop it hitting a teammate] as it has few close range combat ability's, and she doesn't want to die herself.

Range:

Her active control range is about a foot from her stand, which she keeps summoned but inside her at most times. This means she needs to be very near the objects to control them, but the effects last outside of that range, meaning while the area in which she can actively control objects is small, the distance she can move an object is based on how much force she uses on it, making her overall a long range stand.

Potential:

Her stand has great potential, with at least two evolution's, one where she gains the ability to 'preprogram' the object with her stand, telling it what forces to apply when, as oppose to just applying them at once, and one where her stand gains sub stands [like killer queens sheer heart attack], so instead of having to be withing a distance of her stand, she can send out these smaller air-born stands to affect objects while still controlling them, massively increasing the range at which she can actively control objects.

When her stand evolves into having satellite stands, she can sacrifice her active control range to send one off so she can actively control an object from further away. These satellite stands are parts if her stands body, the parts that create her range [visually they are the sphere that make up the joints], so she can spread it thinner or leave part of her defenseless.

her stand evolves sub/satellite stands after she is forced to chose who to protect between multiple people, when her 'shoot all the people holding the hostages at once' idea doesn't pan out. [her weakness is machine guns and multiple hostages. she cant deflect all the bullets and she needs to protect herself or one of the hostages but all of them are to far away for her to cover more than one and if she dies then there's no point deflecting them bc they would die after she dies]

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neechees · 1 year

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Hey! I have some questions that i would like to get an indigenous persons perspective on though I'm not sure how much I can fit in an ask. But basically it pertains to me wanting to write twilight fanfic but being vastly uncomfortable with how the Quileute are depicted, their culture & history misused, appropriated etc etc. Personally i would prefer to just like...make up a fake tribe? And do my research on what to avoid. But I want to know if that's like a big no-no, or if there's a different way you think I could go about it. Or if you know anyone who mayhaps could if you don't? I don't want to just use & rehash that Bullshit S.M. did. So yeah, thoughts/advice/etc? TIA, if you don't feel like answering no worries!

Personally, I think that's a big no-no & a lot of other Natives would also probably say the same. I think it's a rather lazy solution & cop out for writing, because people often assume "what I write & worldbuild for this group can't be racist because they don't exist and I don't have to worry about appropriating beliefs, research, or writing inaccurate information about a specific tribe because I made them up". Inventing fictional tribes & inserting them into the real world (or stories that are close to irl & our world) is super duper iffy for me, & the only time it doesn't make me feel weird is for like fantasy worlds. It kinda reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Lisa decides to write an essay on the plight of Native Americans, but instead of writing about any actual tribe & their issues, she just makes one up. & obviously people can use this in gross ways, like brushing off any criticism of possible racism as "its fictional so it doesn't matter" while also still potentially acceptinf praise for writing a fictional tribe sympathetically or even at all.

I find that people just inventing tribes doesn't even dodge being offensive anyway, because they either STILL end up writing something racist (because of lack of effort and research or failing to recognize how their worldbuilding may be offensive despite being fictional, staring at YOU GRRM writing Dothraki), or it's just weird how they COULD have represented an actual tribe & clearly spent a lot of time in research, & the effort (& resources available) might even have been easier just focusing on an actual tribe & writing THAT accurately, but they just. Didn't.

A similar thing happened irl in different medias as well, where the character Night Wolf in Mortal Kombat was originally a stereotyped character with (afaik) no specified tribe, but over the years the games decided to build upon him more & make him less offensive, such as making him specifically Lakota & having his character designs, spiritual beliefs, dialogue, motivations, and backstory reflect this. Except later they retconned this & changed his heritage to a fictional tribe called the "Matoka", even though they literally didn't need to, & they were headed in the right direction. Mortal Kombat has also established there's people and characters from OUR world or the "normal" world and not just AU Earth (like Rambo), so they literally didn't need to do this under the reasoning that Mortal Kombat already has its own fictional world and universe. I think they did this, again, so they wouldn't have to put in effort in making sure their writing of his backstory and character in the future was accurate & inoffensive to Lakota people.

The exact same thing happened with the Native characters in Red Dead Redemption 2; the Native characters in the first game are largely either enemies you have to kill, or the Noble savage that you help out, with no specified tribe(s) & a stereotyped "Indian" look. But in the sequel, they made up the fictional tribe "Wapiti" (the word itself actually being a Shawnee word), who speak the Lakota language & largely seem to be heavily Lakota coded. Some people might disagree with me on this one because the Wapiti aren't the only ones who get this treatment in rdr: for the most part the rest of the world is also like an alternate universe for the United States, with places like Saint Denis being analogous for New Orleans, Sisika penitentiary being based on Louisiana state penitentiary, and so on. But there's also mentions & incorporations of real life places & ethnicities that are the exact same too, like the island of Tahiti, Cuba, and Ireland. So if we acknowledge there's the Native Tahiti population, and Irish characters from Ireland like Sean MacGuire, then why not also just say the Wapiti are Lakota? If they wanted to make the Native characters more sympathetic & accurate to rectify the wrongs of the first game (which I think they largely did!), and they even went so far as to have their Wapiti characters speak Lakota in-game, based most of their culture and looks on the Lakota, then why not just make them Lakota?

But even if you mean well, I feel like the lore and location of Twilight is too tied up with the Quileute to just try and change it to a completely different tribe, and would be erasing them in order to just dodge potential offensiveness. The Quileute are Native to Forks, Washington & that's THEIR land, not a fictional tribe. Stephanie straight up stole the Quileute mythology as a main plot point for her characters and worldbuilding, so you'd still be using Quileute beliefs but applying it to a fictional tribe (just like with the Night Wolf & Wapiti situation) anyway. If you intend on doing a lot of research in order to try make this not offensive, I'd say it'd be even more worth the effort to just research Quileute history etc because you'd essentially be putting in the same amount of effort in anyway. Like, there's already an established tribe, why not just use it? I'd say do what Stephanie Meyer SHOULD have done and just portrayed the Quileute respectfully with research & Native sensitivity readers instead of taking what is seen as the "easy" way out.

#jinxedshot #yeah i think your best best is just keeping them Quileute but also discarding the racist shit Smeyer wrote #but twilight is inherently racist & if you're gunna write fanfic about it then well. thats kinda on you if ur gunna try fix it

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yourdeepestfathoms · 2 years

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Autistic Penny hcs+ (maybe )autistic Ocean

combining all these asks, but of course!!

(i have ADHD, but A Bunch of my friends who have autism have said that i give off the same vibes, so i’m gonna talk to my pediatrician about That when i see in October)

(i decided to color code the names of the kids for this one because, coincidentally, it may be a little hard to follow cause the headcanons are All Over The Place)

Ricky and Penny have autism, and Ocean has both autism and ADHD because, come on, her having ADHD is SO OBVIOUS

Ricky was the first one to point out that maybe, just maybe, Penny and Ocean aren’t neurotypical

Penny eventually gets diagnosed once her parents go to jail, and she gets her social worker

Ocean is undiagnosed

Penny has God Awful auditory processing issues

Noel: Hey, do you know what time it is?

Penny: Huh?

Noel: I said do you kn—

Penny: OH IT’S TWELVE-THIRTY

Ocean will make food and then won’t eat it because she isn’t hungry anymore

Penny will sometimes look at people’s mouths when they speak because it’s easier for her to follow along

Penny and Ocean both NEED subtitles when watching shows

Misophonia? Misophonia

Forks scraping against a plate will make Penny full-body cringe

If someone smacks while eating, Ocean will have a viscerally angry reaction

Also misokinesia with Ocean!!

If someone is bouncing their leg in her peripheral, she gets So Mad for Literally No Reason

If she bounces her leg, though, it’s fine, but it’s a personal offense when anyone else does it

Also pen clicking!! Only SHE can click her pen. Nobody else. It’s illegal.

Textures? Textures

Ricky’s favorite textures: Fur; aloe vera; pebbles! like the small, smooth ones!; butter; leather; rags when they’re wet

Ricky’s least favorite textures: Grits; fish (it’s too chewy); school paper towels (they’re so scratchy for NO REASON); when you’re drawing with chalk and your nails scrape the sidewalk or asphalt; dry sponges

Ocean’s favorite textures: BEAUTY BLENDERS!!!! (she’s CONSTANTLY stealing Constance’s just to squeeze them like a stress ball); fur; pebbles (same as Ricky); cotton balls; silk; soft ice

Ocean’s least favorite textures: NAIL FILES (she can’t STAND nail files, they make her SQUIRM); wet paper (it makes her want to GAG); bouncing off of that, paper straws (she wants to like them SO BAD because they’re better for the environment, but she just CAN’T); wet bread; mascara (makes her face feel sticky and itchy); bananas (bad feeling in her mouth); that gross slimy sensation of oil on your hands after you try (and fail) to wash it off with water; lotion (similar to the oil, it just makes her feel uncomfortably slimy)

Penny’s favorite textures: Velvet; anything soft and fluffy; makeup brushes (even without makeup; she likes to just brush them against her face); styrofoam; that green plant foam stuff; silk; mini M&Ms

Penny’s least favorite textures: Wet paper (she seconds Ocean’s hatred, that stuff is straight from HELL); jeans (scratchy, tight, and uncomfortable); anything denim, really; rubber gloves; clothes tags

When Penny feels a nice texture, she’s gotta touch it as many times as possible

If she can, she likes to rub stuff on her face because, GOD, there’s nothing quite like feeling a good texture on your face

Ocean and Penny are SO PICKY with their food, mainly due to texture, but also taste

Ocean doesn’t eat meat, but Penny does, and if the meat makes that gross crunch-squish when she bites into it, she’s spitting it out without hesitation. She doesn’t care who sees her, she Needs It Out Of Her Mouth

Kinda similar to textures, these three will discuss wanting to eat things that are most definitely NOT edible, and the other three in the choir are just like “WHAT”

Ricky, signing: consider: fiber glass

Ocean, nodding: that’s a good one, that’s a good one. like, why would they make it look like that, and then have it be filled with millions of tiny glass shards??

Ricky, signing: RIGHT??

Ocean: what about drywall? i feel like drywall would be so good.

Ricky, signing: yes!!

Penny: i wanna eat polly pocket clothes so bad

Constance: what the FUCK are you guys TALKING ABOUT

They all mutually agree that they would eat lava if they were physically able to

Ocean’s special interest has been The Crucible/Salem Witch Trials for about four years (she’s me fr)

Echolalia with Penny!

She’ll hear someone say something, and she’ll repeat it for the rest of the day

She once would Not stop saying “beet roots” underneath her breath because Mischa said it one (1) time

In similar vein, she and Ocean will both mirror the people around them, but especially the other kids in the choir

Like, Mischa will have his hands on his hips, Ocean will see him standing like that, and she’ll unconsciously do it, too. And then Penny will see them both doing that, and she’ll copy them. So then three out of six of the choir kids are all standing like a mom who just found out their toddler colored on the walls with a marker

Unfortunately, some people sometimes take this as them mocking them

Which isn’t the case!! They aren’t trying to mock anyone by mimicking them!! It’s just this sort of instinct they have!!

Ocean is the understimulated to Penny’s overstimulated

One of the reasons why Ocean is always doing stuff is because she’s so desperate to FEEL, to be ENGAGED because she starts to feel horribly worthless when she isn’t doing anything. She gets restless and NEEDS to be doing something. Nothingness overwhelms her.

And then Penny just needs everything to STOP. Everything is going too fast, and there’s so much happening, and she can’t keep up, and her brain isn’t processing ANYTHING. She needs just one second to breathe.

Meanwhile, Ricky, a worried, properly medicated neurodivergent, is like “are you two OKAY”

Ricky has the BEST stim toys, fight me

You know those stim toy boxes? His parents get him those!

He once let Penny play with one of his fidget cubes before

He never got that fidget cube back

Speaking of stim toys!

Stimming!!!

Ricky:

Shaking his head out to do a “reset”

Biting his lips

Big blinks

Clicking his tongue

Running his tongue over his teeth

Tangling and untangling his headphones

Penny:

HAND FLUTTERS!!!

CHEWING!!

She looks like she would chew on CapriSun straws (which are the BEST to chew on, fight me)

Rocking from side-to-side

Clicking her fingernails together like she’s a baby pangolin

Lightly tugging on her earlobes

Trilling/chirping/squeaking!! I can just TELL this girl would have vocal stims like that!

Bumping someone with her head

Rubbing her thighs

OR: rubbing the surface of smooth things like desks or tables

STRETCHINGGGGGGG

Kneading things with her hands and feet

Ocean:

Idk if this is a common stim, but I do this All The Time, so: she LOVES to fold small pieces of paper. Sticky note? Folded. Receipt? Folded. A hall slip for school? Folded. She’ll fold them until the paper starts to, like, disintegrate into little flakes, and she has to get something new because it isn’t satisfying or fun when it’s deteriorating all over her hands.

Also if a bottle—or anything for that matter—has a label, it’s probably gonna get peeled off and then folded by her

Touching her neck/chest, especially when she’s focused or reading something (another thing i’ve started doing recently; idk why)

Just like Penny, she’ll click her fingernails together like she’s a baby pangolin

Pacing

Twitching her nose like a rabbit

Drumming her finger midair to the beat of a song

Walking in time with music

Ocean talks a lot, we all know this, but one of the reasons she talks so much is because she’s constantly branching off into different topics in the middle of a story. She can’t stay focused on one singular topic. It’s like she’s going on a side quest. And then another side quest. And then another side quest. And then another side quest.

She also talks Super Fast sometimes and is constantly being asked to slow down

Similarly, Ricky tends to sign Very Fast, especially when he’s engaged with what the topic of conversation is

Unfortunately, however, sometimes it’s a little hard to understand him. I took ASL for four years, so I can tell y’all that keeping up with signs is WAY HARDER than keeping up with speech.

And it’s just so frustrating for Ricky because he needs to slow down, but he has all this ENERGY and EXCITEMENT that makes it really difficult for him to sign slower

Keeping with the topic of speech habits, Ocean tends to interrupt people without really meaning to. She just gets this URGE to speak, and she can’t stop herself before the words start coming out

On the other hand, Penny is the type of person to zone out in conversations and then ask for someone to repeat themselves

Ocean has very, VERY poor impulse control. She doesn’t think before she speaks a lot of the time and will just Say Stuff that may come off Really Bad. And usually she doesn’t mean to be rude or inappropriate, she’s just Saying Stuff, and then she’ll get mad when people are angry at her with just making a comment. She just has No Filter.

Penny will forget stuff after 0.2 seconds of thinking about it

Or if you give her, say, a task with five-step instructions, she’ll have forgotten at least three of the steps by the time you’re no longer talking. So it is VITAL that she has written instructions. It’s easier to follow and remember stuff when it’s written down for her to see. If it’s not written, she WILL probably forget.

Ocean gets extremely frustrated when she can’t do something the way she wants to do it

Penny is the “can’t read that block of text, it’s too long” to Ocean’s “MUST READ IT ALL” and then Ricky’s “i’m trying to read it, but i keep going over the same line over and over again”

Ocean will forget to eat and drink for several hours, usually because she’s too focused on something, and if she breaks that focus, she Will Not be able to get it back

Penny and Ricky will both just. stare at a wall. for no reason.

Ricky is really *lets his device run out of power even though the charger is literally right there in front of him*

Stemming from her ADHD, Ocean has RSD (rejection sensitive dysphoria)!

#ask #sorry for the wait for these! coincidentally my adhd made me put them out of sight out of mind #i don’t really like how this post is organized but it’s FINE #anyway not saying the other three choir kids aren’t neurodivergent but these three just give the strongest Vibes #ride the cyclone #rtc #rtc headcanons #ride the cyclone headcanons #ocean o'connell rosenberg #penny lamb #jane doe #ricky potts #constance blackwood #mischa bachinski #noel gruber

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ratcandy · 2 months

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Very hard to specify fandoms but.. lemme try. A wonderful selection of numbers for you to pick and chose and sift through at your leisure… if you don’t feel like answering any don’t make yourself / wanna answer a question for another fandom, not the one mentioned, ummm go for it.

Cotl - 1, 9, 10, 21

hk - 3, 8, 12

And a few I just wanna hear your take on but I don’t know what fandom to attach 🥺- 7, 13, 16, 18, 24, 25

GO !!!RAMBLE AND VENT!!

clover I'm grabbing you by the shoulders this is the WORST!!!! THing u could've done to me (extremely positive overwhelmingly positive). the things I should be doing are looking over my shoulder in horror at this ask.

but good lort I sure did spend my time answering all that insted aof my homework and it felt so good. Fuck yeas.

ok. let's go extremely long post ahead

__ COTL __

1. the character everyone gets wrong

Well as I said in another post, COTL's canon characterization is extremely vague, so the fanon characterization is kinda all over the place and hard to pin down! So it's hard for me to say "everyone gets [x] character wrong" because everyone has a different interpretation of That Guy.

I think I should just say everyone gets EVERY character wrong except ME, because I'm the smartest person ever and always right. So there /j

actually one (1) criticism I have is that not nearly enough people are portraying Shamura as having almost complete memory loss and I think that's a shame. because there's so much more potential in that. there's so much more agony present there, from all sides involved. there is no just punishment. there is no way for them to ask for forgiveness OR apologize, or make up for it, or even know they did anything wrong.

cmon . cmon. stop making them remember. you cowards.

9. worst part of canon

Ooo! Easy answer!

Narinder/The Bishops just immediately being chill with being in the cult!

like what! Why?? The extent we get for any amount of backlash from them is Heket's offense towards being gifted mushrooms and Shamura showing up as a dissenter, the latter of which is especially confusing because. They're literally the only one it would MAKE SENSE FOR for them to not have any issue being in the cult!!!!! They can't remember anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why are they the one that dissents!!!!

Why are they all chill. Why do they just immediately obey and get to worshipping or other chores around the cult. Why do they act like every other follower save for three or four extra lines of dialogue.

Even if Narinder has more dialogue in which he expresses some amount of distaste at first, he still just ... Does all the cult work.

I wish I wish more than anything that the Bishops at least had special mind reading dialogue. Like, SOZO gets that!! AND Sozo doesn't do any work around the cult when he initially shows up!!! He runs around and eats mushrooms!!!! So why don't the Bishops get a similar treatment!!

You're showing me you're CAPABLE, DEVS!!! COME ON!!

10. worst part of fanon

Not as easy answer for reason stated before!!!!!!!

Though I guess maybe the intense fixation on Narilamb as opposed to anything else. I just...... can we . Can we get other things in the ao3 tag.. maybe... Pleas...

Not that I even dislike the concept of narilamb I j.............. it's everywhere. can we . can i have something different. something that's maybe also not ships either pleas....

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

Uhhhhhhhhh ppphgfmb. Had to think on this for a while, but honestly, I do not like Narinder's eldritch form SDHGKSHDG

I dunno man I'm a massive sucker for face opening up in a gross yucky way but there's something about how Narinder's face opens that's jus. Not. Appealing to me

I think if I configure it enough in my brain I can make it work for me......... but as it stands. I do not like it. I think it looks somehow... wonky? I like all the other Bishop's eldritch designs a lot! And ESPECIALLY the purged versions! But Narinder's... just... I dunno. Feels off somehow

__ HK __

Already answered 3!

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Feels like I'm being baited into an answer with this one shDGKLJSDHGKLH EVERYONE KNOWS MY STANCE ON ZOTE I don't need to be any louder about it. He's not a bad character you all (referring to general hk fandom) just don't like it when a fictional guy is mean. because ur cowards./j

He's also not a vessel nor is he the same species as elderbug and saying "he's just some guy" is a COPOUT ANSWER, because he can be just some guy while also being a nosk. Sorry what was I saying

Everyone is wrong about Zote in general except for me is what I'm saying.

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

OK CMON YOU'RE 100% BAITING ME WITH THIS ONE.... COME ON.....

I don't need to explain anything. Zote is the only character in the game actually. I don't need to defend myself on this it should be obvious.

__ MISC __

Already answered 7!

13. worst blorboficiation

looks at the ahit fandom for a second LOOKS AWAY AGAIN REALLY FAST i can't go back there. I can't do that again. iam side-glancing the folder on my desktop for the old AHIT rant and breathing through my nose about it.

In a more general sense something i've seen across multiple fandoms is aggressive sand-papering of characters and I cannot stand it. And I'm assuming that's what blorbofication in this instance is referring to. Like, taking a guy who sucks, or just has very prominent flaws, and . Getting rid of them.

W. Why. You're taking away everything interesting about them. Looks at the object show fandom for a split second before looking away .. solemnly.......

I haven't seen that as much in the cotl fandom. Like I'VE SEEN IT but not AS Much as other fandoms. I'm saying that because this morning I saw a post characterize literal actual god of Chaos Leshy as a soft sweet uwu boy and I .......................... felt something within me shrivel. for a second.

buT I KNOW THAT'S NOT the general consensus of his character so whatever

also i'm. Hmrnm. Man. It really sucks being a fan of a lesser appreciated character, because more often than not, what little content there IS of that character is........................ not. that guy Like, it's that guy on paper. He looks like that guy and has that guy's name. But everything else is just.......

In the nicest way I can say it, it is an OC dressed up as that guy.

and when there is very very little content of that guy to begin with, it's Very Disheartening for me when what little content there is portrays a version of him that is not. Him. That's just not the same guy

Blorbo'd him to the point of being barely recognizable. WHICH IS VALID AND FAIR, I get it, I understand doing that, but for me it's. I cling to (even vaguely) canon characterization too much unfortunately.

I'm not saying any specific character for this becuase 1) it's happened more than once hdgkJH and 2) I really don't want to seem like I'm targeting any one person's interpretation specifically, because again, lesser appreciated character curse.

ok that kinda went all over the place. I hope that answer makes sense

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

I already answered this for cotl specifically, but in general, often the way ships are treated in fandom jus doesn't do it for me

And. It's probably the tragedy liker in me talking. Wherein I only get super into a romantic pairing if I can imagine 1 million horrors being involved.

That or if it's funny,..........

BUT like. the HK fandom specifically had this a lot. Lots of these bugs always being shipped together. And I politely nod my head about it but it's... I don't . A lot of it I just don't get

It feels like a lot of the pairings in the HK fandom are popular due to aesthetic rather than the potential of it, and that's............... I don't get that. For instance (bear with me) any ship with Grimm outside of with Brumm doesn't click for me. Brumm clicks because Duh, Tragedy potential, but the rest...?

I mean, yeah, sure, equally as likely tragedy potential, maybe, but I don't see that explored as much. I see Grimm paired with anyone and 9 times out of 10 it's because ohh look at how pretty they are together wow

and I can respect that for the prettyness because I won't deny the artists of that fandom do make him a pretty Guy, but it's like. I don't get it past that.

I dunno, maybe it's just me having fallen hard out of shipping over the past few years. Was super into it when I was like, 15 and younger, maybe, but then I jus sorta lost interest

ok except for leshycat in cotl. because it's funny. sorry

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on…

SOZO sorry. sorry I'm normal

I feel like one of the only people who is looking at Sozo and recoiling in horror because of the potential of him and it HURTS it HURTS ME why is NOBODY ELSE LOOKING AT HIM

and I KNOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE I've got people following me now that are showing me that <3 Hi <3 if you've read this far <3 BUT IT'S NOT .. ENOUGH FOR ME

combing through art and fanfics and gritting my teeth and feeling like screaming because GUYS.................. GUYS HE'S... OAOUGHHEHHGHA

i need to write it myself or no one will. i need to write the horrors myself or i'll just have to suffer with it in my head. i need to write. i need to write it. no one else is going to. i need to fucking.c ogr him

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

shipping in general in all fandoms . idk if you needed me to tell you that though

but also literally any morally grey character for any purpose. you get huge splits in fandoms on either "that guy is HORRIBLE and deserves DEATH!!!" or "this guy has done nothing wrong in their entire life" and I want to put my head thru a wall. towards both sides

please please please please can we just. can we ... can we like characters for their flaws <3 and acknowledge them <3 without emphasizing them beyond reason <3 not in spite of them <3 p

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

idk how common this is but I know I saw it enough in the cotl tag to make me horrendously uncomfortable when i first started looking through fandom stuff .

hey so why were so many people mad you couldn't breed the bishops in the mating tent. or narinder with aym and baal. hey why were people mad about that. hey. hey why were people genuinely trying to argue that the bishops weren't actually siblings because they weren't blood related. hey. hey. hey. hey. hey.

again I don't know how actually common these complaints are especially since I blocked quite a few of the common offenders I saw in the tag (because good lird. guys.) but . again. I saw it enough to make me 😦☹🙁

also can everyone in the hk fandom shut up about silksong "taking too long" pleeeeeease it'll be out when it's out i'm tired of people whining about it taking forever. can u people lay off the devs for like two minutes. pleas

#ok got everything outo f my system i'm so normal now.#ask #violence ask game #zote #<- he's mentioned in there i swear #among all other things that I'm too lazy to tag

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bougiebutchbitch · 1 year

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hello! i really like your art and your writing (kakagai is one of my otps) and i think your art style is really pretty, but i do have one question. please don't take this offensively, i'm just curious since i see a lot of mlm artists doing the same, specifically in the kakagai/kakaobi fandom.

why do you always depict kakashi as sort of smaller, weaker, skinnier... almost more feminine than gai or obito in your art? we've seen them standing side-by-side multiple times and there's practically no difference in size between them.

maybe it's simply your art style, but i'm only asking as i see a lot of artists feminize kakashi and i wonder about the reasoning behind that. i'm not accusing you of feminizing him, but sometimes that's what it seems like from an outsider's perspective, especially when it's commonly seen among mlm artists.

again, i don't intend to offend you or your art in any way, so please take this lightly. :)

.....my dude this is such obvious bait, even if you say you don't intend to offend. However, this is a serious issue so I will be answering seriously.

I suspect you have been looking at my old art.

I absolutely used to do this - to cut a very long story short, I got back into this fandom way before I watched the show again. Meaning I got back in through fanart. Meaning I was looking at a lot of other people's fanart that did this, and just kinda assumed that was how it was in the show. Then watched the show, went '......huh that's not right actually', and in my more recent stuff, they're a lot closer in size and skin tone.

It absolutely is an Issue, less with feminization (feminize Kakashi all you want!!! go for it!!!!!!) but more with racism and colourism, especially when Gai is drawn super dark and super masc and super buff and Kakashi is drawn super skinny and super pale.

I'm not really in this fandom anymore, so please don't bother trying to drag me into old discourse. Buuuuut basically, look at my new art. You'll see that Kakashi and Gai are much closer in size, and they either have the same or very similar skin tones, like they do in the show. This is a conscious change, because I was unthinkingly feeding into some Very Problematic StereotypesTM before.

However, I feel like I should say... none of that has anything to do with feminization? Feminize whatever characters you like! Be free and wild!

And like... I mostly interpret & draw Kakashi and Gai as gaay trans men, so uh. I'm really not feminizing them lol.

#lmaoooo this is so blatant lol #I ain't engaging in disk horse #especially not for a fandom I'm not part of anymore #take that shit elsewhere plz and thank u #ALSO LIKE #YOU CAN FIND SCREENSHOTS WHERE THEY LOOK THE SAME SIZE #YOU CAN FIND SCREENSHOTS WHERE THEY LOOK VASTLY DIFFERENT SIZES #BECAUSE NARUTO IS A SHITSHOW AND THE ANIMATION IS EVERYWHERE #You can literally make whatever point you want to make about character sizes by using #different animation shots lololololololol so there's no point using that to push an agenda?

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Legendary Gauntlet Teambuilding - Raikou

We have yet another new Legendary Arena coming up! Exciting times, seeing this mode make a bit of a comeback. Raikou is here at last, and from the breakdown of its stage...yeah. Yeah this is unexpected.

General Overview The comparison everyone is making is to Latios, and while this may be a tad unfair, it’s also completely accurate. Raikou’s offensive stats sit just below the 1000 mark. For reference, you know how Tornadus isn’t that offensively threatening, and is more just an annoyance you can sit on too long? 1300 offenses. Raikou is notably weak. Its HP is also lower than most stages, and the only real standout is...well, speed kinda. Its gimmick is buffing team team speed constantly, then getting a minor power boost of 20% for boosted speed. Later phases, unlike Latios, do not become more aggressive. Raikou’s second and third HP bars give +2 to both defenses, with bar 3 being assumed to summon Rain to get perfect accuracy Thunder as well as some new multipliers.

The other notable feature of the fight is that it’s another 3v3. Thank god, the strikers were getting worried they’d only have two new modes to dominate. Legitimately, the sides are more dangerous. HP values are ridiculously low, around 5k and 7k respectively, but one spams AoE attacks while the other is Electrode who will explode at half HP or less if you let it. This is...admittedly very funny. Their offenses are higher than Raikou’s as well, with stronger multipliers from the look of it, so they’re definitely the more dangerous threat in a sense. But also those HP ranges are not impossible to one-shot even off-type, so like...no one’s really worried about this.

I can see two major issues you’re likely to run into with this fight. One is Discharge. Raikou seems to spam this a lot, and while there’s no Hostile Environment to be seen, paralysis can really cause problems with gauges. The fact that it’s not the usual single-target spread with Go Viral also complicates matters, as it can bypass Status Immunity tanks and just break the striker. The other is weakness. Ground as a weakness is...challenging. There are many options at this point, but almost everything is limited. The only non-Limited sources of Ground damage are Hapu, Clay, Bertha, and Courtney. I don’t think Courtney is in the current ticket rotation either, so like...good luck. These aren’t bad answers, but it’s painful when they’re your only answers, given that Hapu and Clay are...bad. Very, very bad. At damage. Clay has some interesting tank sets, and Hapu is a good accuracy debuffer, but most of your damage in this fight will be done off-type.

But I legitimately am not concerned. Any EX Striker, which means a lot of your Legendary Arena pairs, can likely handle this thing provided an okay defensive support. Raikou has zero direct gimmicks to check, and is a straight 3v3 fight with unimpressive offensive potential. I don’t see people getting tripped up on this one.

Useful Units and Combos While Raikou does not specifically need gimmicks checked, one thing to be wary of is anything focused on Cakewalk or Hunter’s Instinct. It charges speed too rapidly to be stopped on that front. While mitigating those speed buffs is of arguable value to stop its multipliers, this isn’t necessary.

Accuracy has similar irrelevance. It’s +1 ever, and that’s easily mitigated. if you want to cheese that way, go for it. But frankly, flinch and sleep work better. It can be disrupted, and gains no immunity to status. All the usual tricks work, completely unhindered.

Lithe is a valuable skill, to just remove the potential threat of paralysis. I won’t say it does a ton, but it can be a problem.

Raikou has mixed offense, but more heavily skews special. Wild Charge is the only physical threat, really. So specially defensive supports are handy, such as Lodge Cynthia and Lodge Elesa.

With no other gimmicks to check, Raikou is free. For anyone worried about the defense boosting, remember that crits bypass defense buffs. Raikou’s got nothing. Like if you really need to limit him, debuff offenses. It doesn’t buff them back up ever, and it doesn’t break down your defenses like Latios. I don’t want to say this is just “easier Latios,” but man it might be.

Gauntlet Interactions Because Raikou has no specific gimmicks to check, it’s the ideal. If you see Raikou in the rotation, you have a free set to throw whatever you need to at. There’s no requirement for status, debuffs, weather, anything. Thank god.

Teambuilding Team 1: Hop, Hapu, Tech Kangaskhan Finally, a stage in which Hapu can shine! If you EX’d Hapu, this is her one and only moment. High Horsepower is acceptable DPS on this stage and this stage alone, being able to easily truck sides once Hop’s shiny new EX support sync goes through. Tech Kangaskhan debuffs defense of the opponent, and can flinch. When your gauges run low, and they will, Hapu has Mud Slap to fall back on. With Potion from Hop, you...basically can’t lose.

Team 2: Aaron, Clay, Tech Raticate Clay is fairly incompetent in general, but this is legitimately his stage. Far more than Hapu. Bulldoze counteracts the only thing Raikou has in its favor: speed. Add in a Poison chance and a Tech nuke that actually functions with Aaron’s support, and you’ve got an easy winning solution. Throw in Tech Raticate to debuff defense sharply and even Bulldoze starts netting KO on Electrode before its first turn.

Team 3: Support Hitmonchan, SS Brock, Bertha This was the hardest clear, just because of gauges. I expected better of Brock, but that’s honestly on me for expecting. Bertha is a decent answer to Raikou. Not a great one, but an okay one. I think they think she’s the best pick, but the Rain in the final phase is pretty negligible. In any case, once she gets set up, her sync will easily one-shot. Brock just flinches. Take out sides quickly so his flinch matters. Also recall that Bertha caps team crit, so all you need is attack. Hence, Hitmonchan.

Team 4: Support Porygon, Grant, Courtney Courtney’s the actual best solution. Sync based on Defense >>>>> Sync based on Sandstorm. Courtney’s Bulldoze is also real DPS for taking out sides easily, so she’s far more effective than Bertha. Grant helps flinch, since Courtney also addresses defense debuffs.

Team 5: Lodge Dawn, Acerola, Naomi Lodge Dawn breaks this dude in half. Defensive boosts for the team, debuffing special attack, recovery that keeps pace with its Latios-tier fail damage. Naomi is the damage dealer of choice, because she’s the only option that’s so frail the two Sure Crit Discharges can actually net a KO on despite being debuffed to hell and back. Acerola helps with Sandstorm and blocking said Discharge with her flinch rate that she never wants to hit.

Final Thoughts Raikou is a very, very simple fight. I’d say Latios is generally worse off, just because Raikou’s paralysis can legitimately mess something up for you, and the speed boosts make it, I imagine, harder to solo, because it won’t do that Latios thing where it just sits there for like four actions charging two gauges. Also it rotates in Quick Attack which is...perilous. But any generally competent team should have little issue with this. The comparisons to Latios are very, very apt.

#pokemon masters #legendary arena raikou #legendary gauntlet teambuilding

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Hey, may I ask a quick question regarding character building in my fics? - Do you think Geralt’s comments about Anna Henrietta is just? Like he told Dandelion “your duchess is no more than an innocent child” or something like that? I mean, yeah, she’s kinda spoiled and perverse, believing she could stop the war with a letter to Emhyr, issuing a death sentence to Dandelion because she caught him cheating on her, etc, etc. But how could she be so widely respected and loved if she’s just a spoiled child? Yes she’s generous (offer the Hansa her protection) but I think only generous and kind won’t win you so much love and support?? Is there anything else about her that make her survived the crude game of throne and win everybody’s love? Is there something I’ve missed? 🤔

Ps. If you’re interested in the fic I’m talking about… https://archiveofourown.org/series/2783617 it’s 100% book Gerlion. I haven’t watched twn.

Thank you! 😃

hi hi thank you for the ask!

fickleness

although geralt's comments were motivated by jealousy, he was accurate in his observations that anna henrietta is a spoiled princess duchess. his comment that she is fickle is spot-on:

A znacz ty – przerwał Geralt – takie powiedzenie: łaska księżnych na pstrym koniu jeździ? Nawet jeśli ta twoja Anarietta nie jest płocha, a na płochą mi ona, wybacz szczerość, wygląda, to…

And have you heard, interrupted Geralt, such a saying: the favour of duchesses rides on a motley horse. Even if your Anarietta isn't fickle, and fickle she, forgive [my honesty, looks, then...

(thank you @karanfile for the translation help, because the offical translaions changed it to “the favors of duchesses are uncertain” and the fan translation, which i remembered, was “princesses leap after love like hares”)

he’s absolutely correct about this, because anna henrietta’s help is defined by whims and desires, initially her love for dandelion, goodwill towards ciri who she knew, and sympathy for the company (and later, as you noted, executing kicking dandelion out due to his offense). she has the capacity for real goodwill towards people, but is, at the end of the day, unpredictable in her favor, which she might take away.

she does this a couple of times, first when geralt meets her, as you noted about the letter:

"What?” The duchess’s nose, it appeared, became even pointier, and a nasty, grindingly snarling note sounded in her voice. “Did I hear right? The war is still raging? Why wasn’t I informed of this? Minister Tremblay?”

“Your Grace, I …” mumbled one of the golden chains, genuflecting. “I didn’t want to … concern … worry … Your Grace …”

“Guard!” Her Majesty howled. “To the tower with him! You are in disfavour, Lord Tremblay! In disfavour! Lord Chamberlain! Mister Secretary!”

"At your service, Your Enlightened Ladyship …”

“Have the chancellery immediately issue a severe note to our cousin, the Emperor of Nilfgaard. We demand that he immediately, and I mean immediately, stops warring and makes peace. For war and discord are evil things! Discord ruins and accord builds!”

“Your Grace,” mumbled the chamberlain-confectioner, as white as castor sugar, ‘is absolutely right.”

and a second time at the banquet:

The pointy-nosed duchess suddenly fell into a fury, and one of the barons fell out of favour and was escorted to the tower for some imprudent word. Few–apart from those directly involved–seemed bothered by the matter.

similarities with dandelion

i think a really defining feature of anna henrietta is how geralt describes her:

"The duchess listened to my tale, seldom interrupting, fortunately. When, however, I briefly related the results of the conversations with the druidesses, she wrung her hands, in a gesture suggesting worry as sincere as it was exaggerated. I know that sounds like some sort of bloody oxymoron, but believe me, Reynart, in her case that’s how it was.”

i think the widespread public support for anna henrietta is a different kettle of fish, because public figures often have different external lives than internal lives. anna henrietta is comparable to dandelion - who is famous and renowed as a brilliant poet (more or less), and one who doesn’t know him might think him a romantic soul, but those who know him (including us as the readers, seeing him from geralt’s pov) know that he’s pretty... hmmm ... good-for-nothing philanderer, who, similarly to geralt’s statement above concerning anna henrietta, plays with love, and in doing so, people.

she is known as kind and golden-hearted, but has the capacity for selfishness and acting spoiled in her personal life. which, like dandelion, doesn’t immediately make her a rotten person, it’s just that appearances deceive, and she has an external persona that represents only half of her entire personhood and truth.

it is interesting because they are similar - one might even compare them to how geralt and yennefer are similar- but - unlike geralt and yennefer, who fell in love with each other’s depth - are doomed to fail because they both fell in love with each other’s external personas instead of the depth of who they really, truly are - which is also how geralt knows dandelion, which is why he’s upset that dandelion thinks anna henrietta loves him fully, he knows it will end poorly because she doesn’t know him like geralt knows him.

(and as an unrelated point i don’t have anywhere else to put, i think she is beloved throughout toussaint because everyone loathed her late husband duke rajmund, so she was pretty lovely in comparison!)

representation of toussaint

Angoulême was speaking.

“There’s something bewitched about this place, this fucking Toussaint. Some kind of charm hangs over the whole valley. Especially over the palace. I was surprised at Dandelion, I was surprised at the Witcher, but now I’m nauseous and I’ve got a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach. Shit, I even caught myself … Eh, I’m not going to tell you that. Seriously, let’s get out of here. Let’s get out of here as fast as possible.”

“(...) But the Witcher shall stay here. In Toussaint! With me!”

“I think,” the vampire said calmly, ‘that you are wrong, Madam Vigo. The dream that the Witcher is dreaming, I humbly submit with respect, is an enchanting and beautiful one. But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.”

“(...) Why do the merchants stay here, in the middle of nowhere, and not in Beauclair? Isn’t the duchess keen on putting them up? Perhaps she disdains merchants?”

“Not at all,” answered Fierabras. “The Lady Duchess always invites them, while they graciously decline. And stay among the vineyards.”

“Why?”

“Beauclair, they say, is naught but feasts, balls, junkets, boozing and amour. A fellow, they say, only grows idle and stupid, and wastes time, instead of thinking about trade. And one should think about what’s really important. About the goal guiding us. Without let up. Not distract your thinking on mere bagatelles. Then, and only then, is the intended goal achieved.”

apologies for quote spam, but from these excerpts we can glean that toussaint is a fairytale valley amidst a war-torn continent, an island of the lotus-eaters, a pleasant dream that one never wants to wake up from. (no wonder it’s a wine valley, because there’s something to be said about blissful drunken stupor and pleasant dreams being the same thing... it is no wonder that regis is the one to deny to fringilla that the dream can last forever)

as the monarch of toussaint, anna henrietta perfectly represents it. she, unlike most of the rulers of the continent, is NOT strategic or war-minded, because she does not have to be, is honestly kind of empty-headed, she has no dark secrets, she’s just... a blissful dream. just like toussaint. and of course, as it would be in perfect toussaint, just like in a storybook with a wonderful beloved princess, everybody loves their duchess.

however, as regis notes, a dream dreamed too long turns into a nightmare, from which we awake screaming. the dream is toussaint, anna henrietta is toussaint. the concept of a benevolent and goodhearted ruler ruling in a perfect land happily ever after is wonderful - but to outsiders from beyond toussaint, that is, our company, who are imperfect and do not belong in this fairytale land - she cannot be “dreamed for too long” because the dream will begin to turn in on itself, and that benevolent goodwill is now fickle favor...

#sorry there's no conclusion to this i wanted to do this before i left for work today fhsjds #cecilia-ccc #ask #c: anna henrietta #anna henrietta #the witcher books #analysis #also oooh i will look at this fic in a few weeks when i have time

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for the Nai pet-name ask, my immediate thought was what ive read on/off from Avatar fics (im not into the blue people but i have a friend who has NO ONE else into it and, again, im also not into it; but she knows im always down to read fics for fandoms im not in, bc 70, 80% of my joy for fanfics comes from how well-written they are over who theyre about or how in-character they are. so, bc i love her and i love good craftsmanship, i read whatever Avatar fics she likes (off-handedly, youd probably like "daddy issues" by makoodles on ao3, thats one if the Avatar fics my bud has sent me and it seems like your vibe if youd be into that fandom/reading fics regardless of if youre in the fandom or not)) and the reader in the fics ive often have been sent, when she is being romanced by someone like Tsu'tey who was born one of these aliens (as opposed to the dreamwalkers with "demon bodies" who were originally humans (some can switch back and forth still, but Jakesully and Quaritch only have their alien bodies now. but, still, originally human so they wouldnt call a human!reader the insults someone like Tsu'tey would). but yeah the Avatar people fucking HATE humans as a species generally (which. fair. considering the context) hence why im looking at them for the human-hater that is Knives) will go from insulting them to gently calling them the insult as a term of endearment. it usually is "my human" (or "my sky-person" since thats a synonym for human for them, but that isnt applicable here) or "little demon" which, idk, im always weirdly soft for Weird Nicknames Of Endearment esp when they start off as insults but then become full of affection

but yeah i just think thatd suit Nai too, maybe not the terms themselves (tho i can see him using "(little) demon/devil" bc of the Christianity thing tho, i will admit) but rather the concept of an Insult He Would Use For Any Human then becoming a specific term of endearment for the reader. itd be like an illusion of control over his feelings. hes still insulting them, he still hates the reader/all humans, see?? hes insulting them still (pay no attention to the fact that its become less and less insulting over time and spoken with more possessive affection as you take less and less offense to it. maybe the reader has one back for him. (the only time i saw the reader in the Avatar fics ive been sent was in another one by makoodles, where the reader called Tsu'tey "big guy". idk if thats a befitting exchange for someone on the level of Nai tho lmao rip)

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now, the ask could end there. but, in case you dont like any of the above but do like the idea of "insult to endearment" pipeline, i do have a list of "pet-names" in my notepad app for character inspo so lemme look through my insults section (you might get lucky looking for something Christian-specific tho for Knives but, alas, i wasnt ever raised with that religiok so i only vaguely know it via pop culture osmosis. maybe something with "sinner" or "infidel" or "nonbeliever"?? maybe "angel" in a wholly sarcastic/mocking way, but that feels more modern!Knives than canon-universe!Knives) idk. anyway) similar ones i know that are unrelated to those fics for a fandom in not in would be: hellkite (its a regency era insult im super soft for, for absolutely no reason lmao rip), spitfire, princess/pretty boy, speck (it was a shortened form of "speck of dirt" that became affectionate, kinda like "squirt" but less kid-oriented. i came up with it for a story ive since abandoned for the Male Lead to call the person he has a slowburn hate-to-love relationship with and felt very clever lmao), baby (ive laughed so hard at the "baby"/"now is not the time for pet names"/"im not doing that. im insulting you. you are such a fucking baby" misunderstanding meme as soon as i saw it ages ago), tornado, harpy, nerd, idiot/jerk/dork/pansy/bonehead/dummy/twerp/blockhead/dimwit (aka some of the Schoolyard (Common) Insults though theres others in this list that could also qualify to be here), asshole/bastard/bitch/fucker/dickhead/smart-ass/jackass/dumbass (aka the Includes A Curseword (Common) Insult), heathen/scoundrel/cad/cassanova/rake/ruffian, airhead, pervert/perv, deadbeat, bugger/git/prat (The Brittish Variety), freak, weirdo, coward, scavenger, chicken, missy, hermit, walnut/peanut, punk, porcelain, doll/dolly, charming (as a shortened form of a sarcastic Prince Charming), wannabe, my toy, pet, livestock, furball, poppet, stringbean, flower, kitten/kitty-cat, cupcake/muffin, ladies, canary/parakeet/mockingbird, pretty, carrier (kinds like of disease, to carry a disease, a carrier. could similarly work with an actual illness, like calling someone "herpes" or "pneumonia"), ladybird, morsel, meatlet/meatbag, maggot, sonny/buddy/bestie, "feeble turtle duck" (which is what Eska refers to her "boyfriend", Bolin), Bambi/Mickey Mouse/Minnie Mouse/Seasme Street/Cinderella/Sniw White/Rapunzel/Ugly Duckling/Little Red (Riding Hood. similarly, "Big Bad" or "Mr Wolf"/Princess and the Pea/White Knight/Muppet, pest, colonizer/squatter/settler (close companion ideas that i dont want to attach but also dont, bc the following would only work in a sci-fi sense: planeteer/terraformer/parasite and i tried to think of some more plant ones for my own purposes (tho maybe Nai would call his human something closer to an antonym of a plant, idk) so heres the related listing i came up with for my own devices for your in tandem needs pollinator/weedling/harvester/reaper/uprooter), my little monster, mastercard (as in "my little wallet" kinda sugarbaby talk or something idk), bossy girl/needy thing/runner boy/errand dog, lamb/lamby (as in "sacrificial lamb"?). i hope something here is either to your fancy or inspires you to something that would be ♡

if you want my vote for what i listed that i can at knock my head around and see Nai using as an Insult Of Endearment, id pick from my own wordbank the following: (beside the Christian or anti-plant ones i already mentioned. i think anything here would come to be attached with a possessive "my" inbtime tho) "my human" (maybe also "my mortal"? idk), little demon/devil, spitfire, speck, "my toy", "my pet" (bc i can see him initially rationalizing his attachment to his human as like that between an owner and a pet, or as a plaything of his, or something like that anyway), pest, parasite (this one i specifically like bc he would use it as an insult against all humans but then, in time, it would come to allude to how he wants your existance to depend on him, need him, to survive), livestock, squatter, morsel, meatlet/meatbag, harvester/reaper/uprooter, little monster, needy thing, lamb, canary/parakeet (in a "caged bird" way anyway)

tangentially, if he picks an insult like "my little monster" or "my pet" or something, i can imagine him also becoming obsessed with you allowing him to put his fingers in your mouth as an extension of how hed like controlling you, whether thats to look at and mock how ineffective your mouth would be to defend you or because he wants to be a pest and pull at your tongue. just him going "bare your teeth for me" or "open your mouth" and grazing his fingers along your canines with contemplation (at first to mock you but, in time, to worry how defenseless you are and allow himself to poke at his own bruise). idk. anyway)

ill still make a vote in your poll to my favorite of thr listing but im too shy to reblog yet, forgive me, but i thought you might like this consideration via anon if nothing else considering how skittish i am otherwise with attention. i hope thats okay, and that you have a good day!!

gonna put this under a read more so it doesn’t get any longer!!

firstly anon thank you so much for taking the time to come to my inbox and give me all your thoughts on this i appreciate them greatly 💕💕

now to get into it!!

so i’ve never seen the avatar films….i never saw the first or the second. i know very little about them actually LMAO. however!! i could absolutely see the similarities that you’re pointing out and i think it’s so lovely that you support your friend and their obsession and i think it’s great fun that you’re drawing parallels to other fandoms/thoughts/etc.! that’s what it’s all about baby!!!

(side note: i believe i have read makoodles my hero academia fanfic back in the day and they are a wonderful writer!!! i have a bit of a harder time getting into fanfic of characters/stories i don’t fully know but i’ll absolutely take a peak still!)

okay okay now onto the actual pet name portion of it. first of all your roster of them is crazy expansive. and kinda wonderful to have on hand!!!

also like i think you hit the nail on the head with the idea of a name given as an insult sorta becoming one of endearment over time for nai?? i like that a great deal. i think it’s pretty fitting for him too. if the reader is human, ig!! i have toyed with ideas of a fic where the reader is another independent? bc i think there are others….? elendira the crimsonnail is one right?? or a hybrid of some kind-? and for that reader i definitely think he’d have something a lil more reverent? i could then see something closer to “little one” “dove” or following the religious theme of “angel”

continuing on that note…i was unfortunately raised roman catholic and went to a catholic school most of my life SO. i do have a wide knowledge of this hfksjska i think “lamb” really stood out to me. i could also maybe see (and everyone feel free to boo me and drag me off stage call me crazy etc. etc. BUT)….like a scornful Biblical “child” as in, “Bow your head, child.” that sort of speak.,.,that sort of demeaning version first where he’s trying to assert that he’s older and wiser and better and that you have much to learn from him and then softening later into a gentler term of endearment. but idk i’m not as obsessed w that one it’s just a Thought.

i do like “lamb” quite a bit tho. i am….TUCKING THAT ONE AWAY.

i do like wretched readers and a more specific nickname nai might give them…..wretched little thing, needy little thing, brat, etc. etc. the caged bird is quite intriguing too…songbird, canary, etc.

now finally…..that lil snippet at the end ab nai putting his fingers in your mouth?? oh i’m ILL. i’m SICK. yeahhhh i fan absolutely see that. i think he thumbs at your dull lil canine teeth. and absolutely calls you pet while he does so. THIS IS A GOOD THOUGHT ANON. it’s gonna stick around in my head yup yup yup

ANYWAYS THANK YOU!!! for all your thoughts and ideas 💕💕 i appreciate them greatly and appreciate you taking the time out of your day to message me 💕💕 hope you have a good day as well 💕

#thank thank you this is very amazing #this has defs got the mind moving #cielo chats!#long post

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Kamigami no Asobi/ Ludere Deorum (Anime) Critic, opinion, whatever (no major spoiler)

So, I just end to watch this short anime (12 episodes) and I’m like MEH. I don’t care about the game, truly, I give 3 fucks. Is only about the anime.

The basic plot is “A bunch of gods from different religions have to take classes in a school with a human for a REASON”. And at first, when you see which gods are (Japanese, Greeks, Nordic and Egyptian) you can think: Ok, this will be great! Like, knowing that Greeks, Nordic and Egyptians in some point fight historically between them, the god’s relationships must give a lot of drama and conflict, right???

WELL NO, ZERO. The story now is “Everyone love the human, plot less deep than a paper” ISTG.

Let’s start with the only woman in the series, a girl that’s so annoying that make me want to rip off her hair. Zero personality, she only adds something because the rest of the gods are pretty much teenagers with the mindset of a 10 years old child who seems to never see humans in their lives for more than 5 minutes (which in some point it contradicts it because one of the gods almost marry a human??). Typical lady who can’t stop to cry for legit anything but, somehow save the world and somehow know how help everyone…

The gods are just plain stupid, which, coming from beings hundreds of hundred years old, HOW THE FUCK? The only ones are the two who are like on top the school, Zeus and Thoth (this last one was my main reason to see this anime), who act a little more as millennial old god. One of them literally have the attitude and personality of a toddler…

The only big GOOD APPLAUSE to this anime was make the Egyptian gods (Anubis and Thoth) NOT WHITE and neither with “people of color offensive stereotypes”. Are the same, act the same, as SHOULD, but brown skin color.

But the rest is a little meh. Both are the only different ones, the Japanese gods look just as the Nordic and Greek. Their “god form” is a mix of Sailor Moon style with some vague representation of their characteristics.

Their personality are based on one quote of wikipedia, ignoring the 99% of their original lore, their relationships are also very basic. Half of the screen time are just simping over the girl, trying to see who will keep her as if she was just a prize and not a being with own brain (hello misogyny my old friend) and she is pretty much a toy with no self-love or even the ovaries to speak (she shutters and say “but” all the time).

They also end shirtless or semi naked way too often to be barely 12 episodes long and make me think, whoever made it, was thinking in “I will make a bunch of hot dudes, showing tasty meat, to make the girls see this anime”.

Another issue with the design is that they look pretty similar. Except the change of the hair color and style, they are the damn same, to the point of be hard to identify them at first, even the girl has THAT FACE. Again, only is easy for the Egyptians gods and Zeus. They are all so absurdly THIN like, damn, they have muscles but, you know, to have these muscles, do you have bones below or something? They are eels…

Their conflicts seem so damn deep in some point that make you think “ok, now the drama start!” but no, all is fixed in one chapter as if they put the issue under a rug.

The names are a big “wtf”. The character Melissa is showed as if is going to be important but I still try to figure out why the fuck they made him/her.

Being an old shitty person a side, I can say, even so, they somehow manage to be charming enough to make you get a little sad when the bad shit happens. After all, they are just a bunch of bimbos: no brain, pretty, nice guys.

There are a few plots twist that can make you say “cool”.

Background and scenery are great, night skies were my favorite.

Score: 2.5/5 and 5/10. Is fine if you are bored one day and want to binge a fast show without need to think, but don’t expect too much. And kinda avoid it if you are fan of any of these gods (much less a nerd of their mythology) or you will end spitting foam and cursing in old latin.

#Kamigami no Asobi #Ludere Deorum #anime #anime review #anime opinion #anime critic

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Okay so for no other reason than I'm bored, I'm gonna list what I think are the five worst designs in fgo.

So uh, click read more if you're interested about my opinions on this

Okay so without further ado, here are

Bubblegum's Top 5 Worst Designs In Fate/Grand Order

Number 5

Apocrypha's probably one of the most "eh" installments in Fate, but at least we can all agree that the majority of those characters' designs were sick as hell. So uh, what the fuck is this? First question: why is he grey? Is it like a Hulk reference? Okay, I can get behind that. Second question: why is he in bdsm gear? Like I get that his whole thing is "Aggh! Oppression sucks!" but this is so uncomfortable to see in game. Imagine if you were going to war, and the dude next to you looked like he just got of a sex dungeon. His first and third ascensions are fine but this one is just, no.

Solution: Remove this stage and make some sort of mish-mash of the no armor and yes armor stages to replace it

Number 4

Okay, here's the thing. I actually really like Kuro as a character. The Prisma Illya rerun was the second event I actually gave a shit about, Kuro's NP's super cool, and she was the only single target archer I had for a while.

Her design's actually pretty cool too. I love this version of EMIYA's outfit, and the torn cape is something I can fuck with. However, Kuro is canonically a fifth grader, and that is WAY too much skin for someone that young to be showing. That's it though, I like nearly everything else about her, and any issues I have would go away if she wasn't a minor.

Solution: Age her up ten years or so and we're good

Number 3

EMIYA Alter has a similar issue to Kuro, in that he's really fucking cool... until you realize that's supposed to be Shirou Emiya, and it all comes crashing down. The sword guns are sick, and the shirtless sleeves are unique, but that man is not Japanese enough to be Shirou Fucking Emiya no matter how hard you look at him. This is such a big yikes that FGO NA actually editted his sprites so he's closer to EMIYA's original skin color, but even that wasn't really enough.

Solution: Make him an agent of the counter force who isn't Shirou. That fixes everything

Number 2

Yeah, yeah, we all knew this was coming. Apocrypha's Jack the Ripper, in lore, is an expert example of why Fate should be allowed to stray from the source material. I love the idea that the discarded fetuses grew a conscious and started murdering people. Personally I feel that idea works better as an Avenger, but there's no way Jack the Ripper isn't an Assassin. Designwise, however, they are an expert example of why Fate shouldn't stray from the source material. This is creepy, and not in the kind of way Jack the Ripper is supposed to be creepy either. Give them some fucking clothes.

Solution: Give them actual, normal clothing for a child to wear and give this outfit to a different, adult character because it's lowkey kinda cool

Number 1

Hey Fate? What the actual fuck is this?

First off, I feel Jeanne's Saintness would work more for a Santa than Jalter, but I digress.

Secondly, Jalter's already a ridiculously popular character, why did you turn her into a little kid? Who the fuck looked at the Firey Big Booba Goth GF and went "Yeah, that's cool, but what if she was 8?"

Finally, and frankly this is the worst offense, WHY IS HER CHEST JUST OPEN LIKE THAT? Like, you almost have a cute outfit, that actually looks somewhat normal on a kid, but then you gave her that giant ass chest window so we could see her bra. What the fuck.

Solution: Trash it. Trash all of it. You're better off just making a new Jeanne alt from scratch.

#fate grand order #fgo #fate series

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a-single-slice-of-toast · 2 years

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My thoughts on Tricolor Turf Wars

I'll probably be rambling a lot so here's a 'Keep Reading' for fair warning.

So to preface this, I did not get to play in the second half of the splatfest world premiere. I was busy that Saturday afternoon and the event had ended before I could play again. The only experience I had with tricolor was Team Scissors players complaining about their time with the new mode. Perhaps I was just smug and proud of being on Team Rock, the winning team, but I initially thought they were just salty because they won nothing in the splatfest results despite leading in the halfway report. It wasn't until earlier today that I finally got to experience the mode for myself... twice. I got to play two tricolor matches. I was also busy today as well. But nevertheless I got to experience the mode. My first match was won by Team Grub with Team Gear getting the participation clout. My second match was won by me and my teammate with me securing both of the Ultra Signals. This might seem like bragging, but I will explain why I bring this up in a bit.

Queuing for tricolor is weird. Instead of just queuing to be in a tricolor battle, you basically are put into a separate queue which could potentially bring a tricolor battle. It feels like a 10x/100x/333x battle except instead of being a treat for lucky or successful players and an incentive to give your all during the match, getting a tricolor battle is the thing you are actively hoping for if you are in the queue. I can see why they did this, as some people might just want a normal turf war experience without the weird extra mechanics and pressure tricolor battles adds. But, from my understanding, the winning team doesn't get that option. SO WHY IS IT AN OPTION IN THE FIRST PLACE? Either give everyone the option to queue separately or don't allow anyone to choose.

There really is no matchmaking for Splatoon 3. For those who are unaware, matchmaking is the process in which an online multiplayer game places players together in a match. For more competitive games, such as Splatoon, matchmaking also involves placing players of similar skill levels so they can have fair fights. Obviously, there are ways around this algorithm, such as by creating low-level alt-accounts to get into lower-level lobbies, a process called "Smurfing". Splatoon probably had this issue and Splatoon 2 definitely had this issue. From what I've seen with Splatoon 3, people don't even need to hide behind a smurf account to do this, because even in ranked mode, you could be fighting against S-rank players while in a B-rank lobby. The whole reason I was able to last in Tricolor as a Gear Ruler without getting bodied is because I was fighting alongside a Ruler +5 in the first match and a Ruler +15 in the second. Doesn't that seem odd? A player with 15,000 more splatfest points than me is certainly a far greater and far more dedicated player than I am, and yet they managed to get paired up with me? Now, when it comes to offense, especially with the sloshing machine, I can hold my own, but I won't complain when I'm given someone who has the skill of three players combined as my teammate.

The Ultra Signal is weird. How long do you need to hold it for exactly? In my first battle, I held it for a good 2 seconds before I got splatted by someone. My teammate and the members of Team Grub kinda just threw themselves at it for a good bit. Then, my teammate managed to hold it for about the same time as I did, and they secured it. So, is it two seconds to activate it or is it three? Does the time your team holds it for add up, or does the signal's timer reset after it is dropped? I'm not sure, but I'll just say you have to hold it for three seconds and leave it at that.

The Sprinkler of Doom feels like it could do more. For my first time seeing it, I just kind of stopped for a bit and looked at it. It certainly does its job as basically just a larger version of the sprinkler sub, but it isn't helpful for much else. I saw a roller from Team Fun just kinda roll on through its range without a scratch. After dispatching the roller, I turned around and saw that the green ink was replace with purple ink, so the sprinkler did its job. Yet, I felt like to Team Fun the sprinkler was more of an annoyance than a threat. A giant sprinkler doesn't exactly work as area denial more just automatic turf painting. But, I kind of expect a thing called the Sprinkler of Doom to pose some sort of actual threat. What would motivate the winning team to do a better job of defending the Ultra Signal, a slow painting sprinkler or something like a turret that fires a slow, but steady stream of tentamissles or a giant rotating ink wall?

There seem to be two strategies to securing the Ultra Signal. One is to try and wipe out the defending team before moving in, either you or your teammate can move in while the other covers you. Crab Tank is really good for providing covering and suppressing fire. The other strategy is much more risky, as it pretty much involves hoping your enemy is bad at tracking movements and that your have plenty of special power up on your gear. I would suggest any special that is particularly distracting. For this, I used booyah bomb to clear a path to the signal while also forcing the defending team to back off. While the burst of ink expanded, I rushed to the center to try and secure the signal. I speculate specials like a well-aimed tentamissles or a well-timed reefslider may work as well.

But yeah, that was it. I'm not sure how to close this so...

GG Team Grub and Team Fun and can we get Shiver to 3-0-0 for next splatfest?

#splatoon 3 #splatfest #team gear #splatoon #just me talking

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