#damage-ko

[unluckyxse7en]

You get one magic potion right now, what does it do?

Admittedly I think because I associate potions with "internal change" fsr, I'm assigning it the answer I'd give to the Classic 'superpower' question - shapeshifting, the ability to change my form as I'd like visually - even with my poor visualization skills. Skills and strengths that come with the associated trait would be nice but aren't necessary overall... Although if there's tails or emotive ears involved that'd be a nice harmless caveat to have them about as capable as you'd expect.

If not that... I guess time stops would be helpful? Just enough that if I physically or mentally Need everything to stop for a bit I just Could.

God I guess I could come up with a lot of answers if I think about physical wants and needs as the angle... I think the shapeshifting answer covers most of it though so we'll just go with that one.

#my answer feels so uninventive here -_-; #i tend away from the sorts of fantasy genres with potions so i guess i dont have a good frame of reference for what one could Do #or what other people have done. so im just coming up with 'well if it's smth you drink that has An Effect. what do' #potions dont even NEED consumed iirc so I'm just limited sjfjsjcjsjc #also no excuse for the late reply here i just kept forgetting bc we're in upheaval rn. oopsies snjcdjcj #blablablah #damage-ko #ask games #ask and ye shall receive

[se7ens-oc-heaven]

Trick or treat!! :D

This is late, but Happy Halloween!! Pamela is here to give a lovely trick-or-treater such as yourself...

A gummy hot dog!

... Why? Because it's funny.

(And also a lollipop in return for waiting patiently uwu)

#damage-ko #halloween #pamela #oc #sketches #???? #if even that sjfjdjfjxcj #character art #se7enart #blablablah

[waifubuki]

#still trying to recover from the emotional damages i took watching the first ep #because i know there is still a lot more to come #meme #oshi no ko

[erigold13261]

"JJK Doodles"

While drawing these, I realized that I'm pretty sure Hanami didn't kill or significantly injure a major character of the series like Mahito, Jogo, and Dagon did (though I could absolutely be wrong).

She really out here not doing much, and I love that for her. Go girl! Give us nothing! <3

#jjk #jjk fanart #jjk spoilers #jujutsu kaisen #jjk hanami #jjk mahito #jjk dagon #jjk jogo #jjk ko guy #jjk moon dregs #kento nanami #nobara kugisaki #naobito zenin #kokichi muta #junpei yoshino #eriarts #erioc ilia #as far as i remember #hanami actually didn't do much in terms of damage #like when it comes to main characters #no one really suffered by her hand #:3

[azrielfiend]

hi guys. im on the brink of a mental breakdown so have kitty pics. her name is Jaspers Homestuck Sans Undertale (short: jaspers) if you didnt know

#post #cat #azriel's cat blogging #kitty #kittyposting #i like broke my laptop again fffffuck i have such bad luck with my laptops #i accidentally sqlashed water on it but it damaged the internals of the laptop and now it wont turn on properly unless i have money to fix #the thing is like. i dont have my two main emails that i use for everything on my phone. its all on my laptop and i dont remember the paswr #you can donate on my ko fi if you wanna help me out but im so disappointed in myself rn

[dull-needles]

y'all Astarion enjoyers. I am telling you. So mf seriously. That you must take your vampire boyfriend to the mirror and slap some gloss on those cushiony lips and crank it to 100

#you can thank me later #it is soOo worth it #kissable mf lips hits you for 9999 damage #his little fangs peekin out #1 hit KO #angelic ass mf #astarion #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[karniss-bg3]

Heya folks. Unfortunately I have a bit of bad news from my end. On Friday, April 19th my apartment building caught on fire. Thankfully no one was seriously harmed but I can't say the same for the things people owned. The fire started next door to us on the bottom floor and crept its way up. We were alerted to the blaze at 2am and had to flee. We couldn't catch our cat in time before the smoke became too heavy but we are very lucky we found her later, terrified but alive. All four families, including ours, were displaced after the fire. Two apartments suffered intense damage while mine and the one below mine were spared the worst of it. However, the smoke damage was bad enough that it's deemed unfit to live in. We were only allowed in long enough to grab essentials and take a few pictures, but since then we've had to live in an extended stay hotel. Until the investigation into the cause of the fire is complete everything we own has to stay put.

Ironically, we were gearing up to move this upcoming Friday into a new place. We were in the process of packing but never got to finish. We'd planned our budget down to the dollar to afford the move but now we're stretched thin because of all of the unexpected expenses. While our renters insurance is meant to reimburse us for out of pocket costs we don't know how long that will take and our new place will be expecting upfront payment on the day of move-in, which has now been eaten into.

I've backspaced and rewritten this paragraph at least ten times. I'm not good at asking for help, in truth. I'm proud, stubborn, and I think I can fix everything. I can't fix this. We've never been in this situation before and uncertainty is my greatest enemy.

I understand everyone is under financial strain and if you aren't able to donate I'm entirely in your corner. If you are, a link to my ko-fi will be provided at the bottom of the post. A signal boost would be appreciated to help get the word out. All proceeds will go toward lodging, food, cleaning supplies, clothing and other expenses as a result of the fire. I greatly appreciate everyone and I hope this never happens again. I would love to have some positive news soon but for now all we can do is wait. Until then, thank you for your time and stay safe out there.

-Adrian

Ko-Fi

#signal boost #fire #fire damage #smoke damage #assistance #2024 is cursed #displaced persons #when it rains it fucking pours #ko-fi

[somethingsad]

I'm frustrated by it so I'll just say it.

Ok let's say Ruby is confronted by her shitty behavior and she changes, then what? Where do we go from here? Like do we just forget that she kissed her brother??? Like a "hehe oops my bad😝" moment??? Like how do we go from here when Aka completely made Ruby a joke character? Like 4 chapters ago she learned her lesson and matured and aka said yeah let's throw that all away to drag out this subplot. I cannot ever see this ever getting resolved fully in the future. And I get it Ruby's regressing to old habits but was there really no other way to go about this??? Like how we even move forward with this now when the damage is done? How the hell are Ruby's actions even gonna be addressed properly?

#oshi no ko #onk #ruby hoshino #hoshino aquamarine #hoshino ruby #oh and let's not forget everyone fucking enabling her besides from Kana #like how do you even address that somehow everyone was just on board w her kissing her brother?? #everyone was somehow ok w her behavior? #you're telling me this has no in-world consequences on her reputation as an idol when just a sniff of a man gets them crucified?? #onk 143 #it's a real mess because this just damaged Ruby's character in unimaginable ways

[darrellmore]

Thomas Lynch

#ok ko #background design #the ko trap #planet x #chip's damage #TKO's house #official art

[n3on-graveston3s-calling]

I've only known Sabo for a short time but I love this weird little steampunk twink with amnesia.

#revolutionary sabo #one piece #he's so weird but i like him so far #his little appearance in Gold was neat but hearing him say fire fist??? gut punch. ko. im down & out. emotional damage.

[nose-coffee]

wake driving a minivan w a sticker on the back windshield that says "scourge of the empire on board!"

#alternatively: slapping a sticker on the cryotube that says baby on board #which is funnier gang? #tlt #the locked tomb #commander wake #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #commander awake remembrance of these valiant dead kia hua ko te pai snap back to reality oops there goes gravity #she takes so much fall damage #she's been trying to reach you about your swords extended warranty #fuck off lou #my post #is this anything?

[unluckyxse7en]

Tell me about that book you read as a kid that made a strange and specific impression on your psyche?

(Sorry I didn't answer this sooner!! I was Stuck on it and then forgot 😭 )

(Edit: FUCKER GOT HIDDEN IN MY DRAFTS BASED ON WHEN I GOT THE ASK, NOT WHEN I SAVED IT SO I THOUGHT I LOST IT, SORRY IT'S EVEN LATER...)

I came up with a few books that might've qualified for this - "Freedom" by Angela Dorsey (one of many horse girl books, of the ghost horse variety) or "The Fire Within" by Chris D'Lacey (one of many dragon books - and I think my selection alone speaks volumes about me lmao)...

I think I've decided to talk about "House of Stairs" instead, by William Sleator. It might be an easy answer because it WAS strange and specific as books go, but it's one that's always consciously stuck with me whereas the other two books I think informed me on a creative subconscious level more than anything.

Full disclaimer - everything written from here on is based on dim recollection. I read it just once in middle school, a time I barely recall at all, and some elements are probably distorted/wrong based on how I envisioned things. But I'm writing it as is because it is SUCH a strong memory even if it's off in places, and I think that more precisely answers the heart of this question than if I pulled up a summary online and described it from that.

I'm also hoping to find a physical copy to own at some point, so part of this is because I'll be interested to come back to this and see how much I described poorly or entirely wrongly.

So that said. House of Stairs.

"House of Stairs" is, in essence, a story about sociological experimentation - the focus of the book is on several teens who get trapped in a labyrinthine space that lives up to the book's title, a reference to the M.C. Escher painting of the same name:

You can already see how this is the "easy" answer for a strange, specific impression.

The building they're trapped in is all white, stairs going up and down no matter how far you look - or go. They're trapped with no discernable exits and no resources, for unknown reasons and an indeterminable amount of time.

So then comes the actual experiments.

Aside from stairs, stairs, and more stairs, there ARE landings, here and there - and some of those landings have little stations with buttons on them. As the kids discover, if you push the button, you get food.

...Until suddenly, you don't.

Then the kids have to sort out, is it broken? Can they wait until it gets fixed? Should they try to fix it themselves or go elsewhere in search of the exit?

This leads to many things - heightened emotions, thoughts and theories, tension, arguments - until suddenly they're rewarded with food again.

Well. No one pushed the button, what happened this time?

And so it goes on, until it becomes clear - the stations are conditioning them, training them with rewards to silent tasks fulfilled. And as the book goes, the kids divide into camps - those who want to listen implicitly to the station, and those who don't. The station starts rewarding harmful behaviors to boot, to see just how far they're willing to go, so the focus of the book narrows to the protagonists who search for a way out.

The book is a YA novel so it ends with them finding the way out of course, being recognized for staying strong and finding a way out, and of course the innate reward of getting out despite the adversity. But the premise of this book itself stuck the strongest with me.

It raises questions like, what if that were to happen to me? What would it take? It's easy to claim you'd be strong-willed and find a way out, only because by knowing the book you know a way out exists. But in practice it's much harder, especially without that knowledge. How long would I last, would I immediately fall into the camp that follows the prompts? Would I resist but fall to its sway? Or, would I fall to the enemy camp, once it became clear they wouldn't get rewarded otherwise?

Sad thing is, as fantastical as the space itself sounds with its descriptions - almost akin to a white void with stairs stretching forever - the overall concept of a space being created for such a purpose doesn't even strike me as all that out there, and I think that suggests it's definitely left an impact on how I view the world.

It's just outlandish enough, and yet there's people all the time who would do such a horrendous thing, in the name of research... or perhaps even just their own amusement.

Honestly I barely remember the ending - how they got out, life after. In a manner of speaking, I think I too got trapped in the house of stairs - only unlike the characters I'm still stuck there, poking around the place and contemplating just how much - or little - it'd take for someone to create such a thing in reality.

Hopefully that answers the question in a satisfying way ^^; I was stuck on this for a bit since, as mentioned before, a lot of my childhood has been lost to memory issues - it was hard determining what books impacted me how, when I barely recall what I was like before reading it, you know?

#blablablah #long post #house of stairs #william sleator #damage-ko #ask games #this was such a fun game! if you ever want to do smth like this again id love to play again #again sorry for the delay - i wanted to answer faster I just got stuck on How to do so in a fulfilling waysnfjdjfjdjcjscj #ask and ye shall receive

[stardust-falling]

Guess who got hit with surprise bills that almost emptied my bank account?? I love living in a capitalist hellscape.

Anyway, if you enjoy the things I make and have the means, please please consider buying me a ko-fi or joining my patreon so I don’t have to worry as much about buying food this month! ✨

#ko fi #patreon #siiiigh I hate doing this #but I’m already damaging my health by pushing myself out to do Retail job to try to make up the deficit. #and that’s just for the bills #not for things like food

[gayserblast]

Oh look art of friend's time travel au again. This time right before Kaio has to leave forever to go back to his own timeline.

#my art #ok ko #ok ko let's be heroes #ok ko laserblast #kaio kincaid #kin tag #drawing this may or may not have given me emotional damage

[cronchcake]

shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people

I was tagged by @froizetta - thanks! this was really fun (until it wasn't). I would also like to point out I did not cheat. ehem um. ok.

Backtrack - Emei

Could Have Been Me - The Struts

I Want To Be With You - chloe moriondo

Unsweetened Lenonade - Amélie Farren

That Girl - Emei

Autotheist - Baby Bugs

suffering - Amélie Farren

More Than Anything, from Hazbin Hotel (I'm really shooting myself in the foot here but COME ON they got me with the Jeremy Jordan belts. I was doomed from the start)

Poison, from Hazbin Hotel (I have no excuse for this one)

It Will Come Back - Hosier

This is painting a very specific picture of me and I do not like it, but I will be swiftly moving on to tagging more people to distract myself and everyone else.

@crowreys-wormstache @sonicscrewdriver-hippogriff @intricatecakes @space-lancer @oh-archivist and of course, anyone else who's interested, here ya go, take a stab at this, if u feel like it. XOXO ily byyyyyeee

#ugh aughough I am taking psychic damage as I post this #I SWEAR I have good music on there I just- #lovesick in public by zoe ko is my current anthem ok go listen to that one that one's BETTER- #*i am dragged away kicking and screaming by security* #but yeah just. listen. hazbin is. a show. but I am a musical theatre nerd and if I hear a broadway star belt out their entire heart I WILL #play that on loop #the rest is history #also I have lots of fun themed playlists btw I prommy i prommy okokok bye

[juniepops]

I saw a post and reply combo last night that amounted to “I saw a top competitive player say scvi fixed the ice type but until avalugg isn’t a wasted team slot I disagree” and I can’t stop thinking about it. You disagree with a top competitive player because you don’t know how to use a physical defensive wall

#blissey has base 10 defense and is currently actively one of the most popular Pokémon in gen 3 competitive #because its insane health and solid special defense mean it can still totally stifle special attackers #and like yeah ice has a couple more weaknesses than normal but super effective damage doesn’t guarantee a KO or even high damage #Avalugg has respectable health and really good defense. and even its special defense is a lot better than blissey’s defense #with the new snow buffing ice’s defense and Avalugg’s access to ice body that’s the majority of threats in 3 of its weaknesses neutralized #fire’s the only weakness ice has that’s most commonly used as special moves and that’s when you swap a team member who can beat fire types #also if op was talking about in regular gameplay then. even bigger L because Pokémon main game is easier. NPCs don’t strategize #just run strong moves