#and i just... brute force

[vela-pulsars]

a little experiment

#rainworld #looks to the moon #five pebbles #rainworld downpour #rainworld hunter #rainworld survivor #rainworld monk #rain world #i know i said i think that while monk has parallels with pebbles moon logically would have survivor #but im starting to enjoy the thought of moon having parallels with hunter as both are doomed to fall despite their best efforts #both terribly wanting to live despite being doomed #i see hunter as this energetic thing that thrives through the thrill of a life it knows deep down is going to be short #something brute forcing its way through its illness just to live a little longer #it and moon are made of the same stuff... neither wanted this fate so they struggle until the end against it

[bansenshukai]

1.17.23 - returning to my original purest reason for art making (to draw shirtless anime men)

#kakashi #scribbles #my babygirl #ilysm. so tragic he has no ass #i hc him as lean but fairly built thanks to his insane training regimen #i like to think he naturally tends to have that body type where he cannot keep muscle on. but he has managed it by sheer brute force anyway #he hates forced bedrest bc the muscle just melts off and it takes so much work to build it again #+ repeated use of chidori -> scarring (konoha's medical division is pretty good but not good enough to fix such a severe repeated injury)

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts - Phantom

#kingdom hearts #kh1 #phantom #heartless #my gif #this one seems appropriate for halloween #the phantom casts a spell that creates a timer above the head of one of your teammates #you have 12 seconds to cast stop magic on the neverland clock tower to freeze the timer. it's a cool way to utilize the environment #however #if the timer reaches 0 then your teammate is killed immediately and their icon and hp/mp bars are removed from the screen #their heart releases itself from their body and they fall limp #they remain permanently dead until you defeat the phantom as they cannot be revived in any way #pretty unsettling stuff haha #it's a really unique fight and i like that you can't just brute force your way though it. you have to be patient and observant

[rabbitprincessthief]

gog i still can't get over minish cap vaati's Everything. He is So Fucking Stupid (affectionate)

Like. This guy's establishing character moment is, in order:

he's introduced as having won an entire tournament to get to touch a magic chest and get a cool sword, which was the prize for said tournament

turns around and does a goddamn evil soliloquy TEN FEET AWAY FROM THE GUARDS who were about to hand him his macguffin on a platter

(like this man fucks up his own horribly planned daylight heist because he cannot keep a lid on the dramatics for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, IN PUBLIC)

(THE BAR WAS ON THE FLOOR VAATI, FUCKING GANONDORF PLAYS THE PIPE ORGAN FOR HIS OWN BOSS INTRO AND HE STILL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS SHIT)

proceeds to fight the guards (it is, admittedly, a curbstomp for him, but it still clearly wasn't his plan, because otherwise why bother with the tournament)

gloats evilly

opens chest, unleashing a whole bunch of monsters

exposits out loud about Zelda's powers like a nerd while she is actively charging up her magic powers to kick his ass

RECOGNIZES and IDENTIFIES said magic as the special power carried by the female royal line

completely fails to recognize it as the light force he is currently trying to get his hands on (he spends like 99% of the game not figuring this out.)

petrifies her

(i have no idea if link could have deflected this spell if he had managed to get the right angle with his shield but i like to think somewhere there is a very short and very funny alternate timeline where it happens)

(more importantly: no part of vaati's original presumed plan would have involved doing this. he 100% created this situation for himself by being an dramatic idiot and picking a fight for no good reason.)

looks in the chest

there's no light force

considering his stated goals he might be as confused as you are about the monsters tbh

uhhh

evil laugh

teleports the fuck out

He then proceeds to spend the rest of the game trying to figure out where the light force is and ends up having to wait for Ezlo and Link to figure it out first because he was, as far as I can tell, GENUINELY stuck on this part. He fucking kidnaps and impersonates the King, not for access to Zelda, but to… send guards to go look for the Light Force, presumably because he was either running out of ideas or genuinely thought that would work.

None of the guards even had any idea what he was talking about. He's not even good at impersonating the King. He's already sent like twenty people to the dungeon by the time you get there and it hasn't even been a week. Somehow the game spins this as a cunning plan and clever manipulation or something.

(Meanwhile the guards are just. Poking around in random bushes and shit hoping to find the light force. One of them asks you what you think it might look like.)

Zelda is literally right next to the throne and Vaati does not figure it out until you find an actual honest-to-goodness LORE TABLET spelling out that the Light Force is Stored in the Zelda, at which point he's like "ahahaha you've done my work for me this was definitely my plan all along" and takes over the castle and throws a bunch of monsters at you to stall for time while he figures out how to extract the force from her. Somehow he still doesn't think to actually lock the fucking door.

#vaati #minish cap #loz #mc #he's my stupid little squeak squeak and i love him #meta #op #sorry this got long but i have So Many Words about this little bastard #i think he's a really fun foil to ganondorf tbh - #ganondorf looks like a brute force guy but in practice tends largely toward manipulating and long cons and cunning #the appearance of dumb muscle but is actually refined and clever and skilled while also still being built like a brick wall #vaati looks like a classic scheming squishy wizard guy but actually is just cheating and does almost all his nonsense very directly #and his plans tend to be either Do X / ??? / Profit stuff or barely exist at all #to the point where og four swords is gated primarily by your ability to convince great fairies to help you rather than vaati stopping you #ganondorf is a guy given power who wants a magic wish granting artefact #vaati is a guy given a magic wish-granting artefact who decides he wants more power now actually #vaati has had a significant minion approximately once (shadow link) and that was in shared custody with ganon

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Dave and Thatcher from the Lake Mandela au!

Dave's actually the first person Thatcher met when he arrived at the town, and he's nice (albeit a tad strange). just runs a small tech/general store downtown with only one other employee.

#mandela catalogue #tmc #tmc lake mandela au #lake dave #lake thatcher #shmorps art #I always have to brute force drawing Thatcher cause I forget how to draw him every time /VLHHJ #Anyway yeah! Dave's silly. just trying to help out the outsider. #At least he's nice. unlike some of the other locals.

[hoofpeet]

I like this replacement ingo era a lot and I don’t draw it often enough 

#replacement ingo au #yeagh ... first month or two of the #sugar deserves to have a bitchy era i think #i would be mad as hell too if i was a wild doggy living in the woods and suddenly have to have a full time job #IN A JOB I HAD NO EXPERIENCE IN NO LESS .... #also fun to think about how sugar just had to. brute force its way thru learning how to be a subway boss #emmet voice get in the train . this is the control room good luck #sugar voice COOL . OKAY

[prettyflyshyguy]

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Feat slightly sunburnt Claire.

#resident evil #resident evil 6 #Leon Kennedy #Claire Redfield #c virus au #infected leon #my art #you came this far just to become a monster #sorry claire i'm trying to destroy my same face syndrome via brute force #and you are in the firing line #look i know this seems great and all but i dont think i'll be doing one of these every day #this took it out of me LMAO

[spider-man-2o99]

^^^ #1 most autistic (spider-)man on th whole entire planet earth of all time ever who scampers and skitters and scuttles all about

#talking tag #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #marvel #comics #comic panels #miguel o’hara voice Crawling Noises Crawling Noises Crawling Noises (<- he is actively saying it out loud) #seriously i will never Not be saying it but god im just so obsessed w/ how he Moves hes just a lil freakin GUY bouncin around like a Flea #he is a Very Distinct Character from Peter. but. also. like.. hes also still always Spider-Man. yknow? and i like that abt him a lot. #peter can get away with brute force bcuz peters a POWERHOUSE who holds back most of the time. mig is canonically of a more agile/Jumpy build #and thus whenever he TRIES to brute-force stuff. 9 times out of 10 it Does Not End Well For Him lmao #but Sometimes he gets lucky and Stuff Just Works!! <:) #h

[xx0yeet-everything0xx]

im sorry but jason and reyna are literally percy and annabeth but so much more hardcore

#like annabeth defeated arachne through just being smart and percy defeated kronos through fulfilling the prophecy with luke #meanwhile reyna got past the hunters while bound to a chair w/ a SACK on her head and jason decided to decimate a titan through BRUTE FORCE #and im not saying that theyre BETTER than percy-annabeth (although i like them more-). just that they are certainly the epitome of #'why use words when there are weapons all around you' #jeyna or not these two were THE duo and it is a CRIME we didn't get more of them #brb writing a whole-ass fic #btw im right so liek. dont go at me with 'well annabeth and percy—' NO they are awesome and smart but they simply do not Brute Force #their way through shit the way jason and reyna can. i love those two <3 #literally insane about them #pjo #hoo #toa #percy jackson #annabeth chase #reyna pjo #reyna avila ramirez arellano #jason grace #heroes of olympus #percabeth #jeyna #if we're feeling it idk #yeet.txt #ksadjhugdkqk the LONG-ass tags rip lmfao

[vampirerite]

#skeletxt #100 club #just learning i never actually posted this #trying to tidy up my 100 club tag #read this as normal man has weird friend who brute forces shit instead of just asking for the garage code like a sane person #also weird friend just doesnt fucking knock on the front door. there are other people living there. they will let you in. dipshit.

[noneedtofearorhope]

ok, i just checked like, 40 or 60 years of records of full moon dates. we got a big one coming in 2026. it'll finally land on april first, april fools day. so it'll be a fool moon. get it?

#i wasnt even sure if it was possible #i know the leap year is meant to help realign the gregorian calendar #but i was too lazy to try and use reasoning to figure out if it was possible or to pick out the pattern #so instead i just brute forced it #was planning to check thru to 2060 lol

[fleouriarts]

art is fucking stupid. objectively it should be easier to draw one species (human) than to learn how to draw several mammal species and adapt them to a bipedal stance. so why have i hated most of the human art ive done the past few months. make it make sense

#text #ughhhh ive been telling myself to just wait this out and ill be good at humans again soon enough #but im TIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #need to brute force myself into remembering how to draw humans consistently in a way i like soon #like ofc i enjoy making furry art. i think its pretty evident. but oh my god i miss being able to draw a Guy #aaaauuuuuggghghfhfhhfhfhg #most of the human drawings i have liked have been in my “silly style” which is very geometric so maybe i have to lean into that #idfk i just need to figure it out already #posting this when i have a human drawing coming up on tuesday is kinda funny but thats like 1/100 that i actually like

[turtletoria]

art block :-(

#turtlearts #wordgirl #wg #im having such a hard time drawing and i took a lot of insp off of ehlir's style for these .. god i love ehlir's art it looks so good ToT #also does anyone else obsess to the point of art block over silly details?? i couldnt draw becky's face to my liking and literally got so- #obsessed over it i couldnt draw anything. even now im like fighting the urge to just draw her face over and over again til i get it right #anyway rn im just tryin to chill out like its ok to not get things right u have to draw a million bads to get one good u drew it once - #u can draw it again etc etc #sometimes u just gotta brute force ur way thru things itll be alright

[butwhatifidothis]

What gets me about GW defenders saying that "Claude siding with Edelgard shows how far he's willing to go to get what he wants, he'll use anyone to further his goals" is that, even if that were accurate to his character... that's not what he does in GW. At all.

Which one of Claude's goals are ever progressed once he sides with Edelgard? And how does siding with Edelgard, specifically, accomplish said goal?

Maybe... killing Rhea? But all of the reasons he says he wants her gone in this game are either completely unproven or blatantly incorrect - there's no proof of the Church forcing arranged marriages, Crests do not force obligations onto those that have them (which Claude himself literally proves), and the Church is helping Dimitri restore Duscur - a foreign nation - meaning they are actively willing to help fulfill Claude's main goal that he came to the officer's academy to achieve.

And... that's it! That is the only possible thing that even POTENTIALLY helps Claude's dreams, and taking a five-second look at it shows that it actually does nothing at all to help anything. But in the meantime? Claude weakens Faerghus through agitating Sreng and invading it himself, forcing Dimitri to fight a three front war; he actively helps Edelgard get herself out of a messy situation, even though not helping her and letting her die would have actually helped him and would have actually been him using her like people keep saying he's trying to do; he and Holst even admit that by the end of the war Edelgard is going to make a vassal state of Leicester after taking the lion's share of Faerghus' territory for themselves, which Leicester can't do anything about because of Adrestia's far stronger military. He is the one saying that! He is the one pointing out that that is going to happen! And yet he just keeps going anyway!

He is the one getting used. Very blatantly, and very extensively. Claude walked himself into a trap and lied to himself into thinking he's the one with the upper hand, which somehow managed to convince a large portion of the fanbase too. There's no gray morality here, there's no cunning being showcased, Claude is just an evil stupid tool

#clyde discourse #doing a read over for what i have for the GW rewrite and just. man. #like. it's hard to even like Clyde as a villain because he is just so incomprehensively incompetent in literally everything he does #once Part 2 hits #like imagine if he helped EdeckyWecky up to the point where she'd ACTUALLY die without his help... and he doesn't give it #he lets her die and lets the Empire crumble without leadership #but Dimitri can't take advantage of that because he still has to deal with Sreng and the Alliance #meanwhile Clyde is sneaking in more and more Almyran forces through Nader manipulating Mr. King of Almyra #until he has enough to take on the weakened Kingdom and force it under submission through the constant pressure he's forcing it under #not through brute force but just through wearing them down to the point where they just can't keep going #and in his zeal to conquer Fodlan he fails to recognize that he's just become Shahid; someone who wants to become king no matter the cost #like imagine it's never said outright but that THIS is how power corrupts once genuinely good people #they're so focused on getting to the end point that they gradually care less and less about how red their path to that end point is #until oops everyone is either dead; too scared/unable to fight back; or are also swept up in the mindset of By Any Means Necessary #THAT'D BE A NEAT VILLAIN. even if it's not *Claude* at all that is a villain i could get behind! #but people keep insisting that 1) Clyde isn't a villain (he is) that 2) he's doing the right thing (he's not) #and that 3) he's in any way compelling (he's just brown Eddy Geddy but stupid)

[mightymizora]

I write Gortash to be charming and manipulative and quite good at playing the society game but equally I am VERY interested in reads where he’s actually… not?

I keep thinking of Wyll’s response to Gortash having risen through the ranks. It’s a “her? Really?” Kind of reaction which is so interesting.

So what if Gortash actually isn’t good at it? What he is good at is information brokering. He’s just got so much blackmail fodder, has so many people bent over the barrel that none of them feel like they can stand against him? That they all see a bruiser from the hells, but none of them think to try and stand united against him because he’s already ripped away all ability to do that?

It’s an interesting take and I’m very here for it.

#enver Gortash #bg3 #dressing himself up but always being seen as this brute force under it all #I mean I guess really my stuff is a bit of both #he still has the reputation and some of the nobles are just not having it #but others are happy to be bought #happy to entertain the new power

[mumintroll]

do you have any study tips?

hiii, im still struggling to learn to become a person who studies bc i was a lazy coaster for so long lol but some things that have helped me are: having a planner where i make a list of all the work i need to get done every day (having everything laid out + getting the satisfaction of ticking a box makes it easier and more rewarding imo), using the pomodoro technique or apps like forest to give myself set time periods in which to work where i try not to let myself do anything else, trying to work away from my house/room whenever possible (in the library is best for me but even just going downstairs to work instead of in my bedroom helps). if u manage to get organised for even just a week, for me the satisfaction that i felt from getting stuff done more than i ever have before makes you want to do it more... if it feels like a slog try and think about how good it feels when it is done rather than the bad feeling of doing it and know that you will reach it if you just keep going!

+ above my desk i have a post it note to remind me of this post which helped to change my mindset a lot lol

#hope any of this cld help.. i am still quite a bad and lazy worker compared to a lot of other students i know but im working hard to change #my ways! it takes a lot of brute force but it is rewarding and worth it #also just convince yourself you love the subject youre doing even if you hate it..... finding even a small amount of joy and interest will #make it easier and better and maybe even fun