#figure he earns it

[howtofightwrite]

I know DnD is not about realism but how accurate is having, say, your heavy armor wearing paladin have 10 dex or even negative dex? Where medieval knights built like The Rock or like The mountain? I’ve seen youtubers saying that you needed a lot of strength to be able to fight like a knight so women and smaller people couldn’t do it.

I think I know which YouTuber you're talking about, and you can pretty safely ignore them. Their personal misogyny takes priority over their (alleged) expertise when they're forming their arguments.

There's two logistical problems with the idea that you need someone like Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson to make up the bulk of your elite forces. The first problem is that they need to consume a frightening amount of food. This isn't as much of a problem in the modern era, when we have the capacity for truly staggering amounts of agricultural production. But, in a medieval society, with serfs responsible for most of the agriculture, the prospect of feeding each of your elite troops 10,000 calories a day would economically destroy most kingdoms. (And, yes, that is what Björnsson reports to consume on a daily basis. Other estimates place his dietary intake somewhere between 3600 and 8000.) And, to be clear, that is an absolutely absurd amount of food. But, if you want to build that kind of mass, you need a lot of energy, which means, a lot of food.

The second logistical problem is, there's only one of him. Okay, that's not literally true, The Mountain was portrayed by three separate actors, Conan Stevens, a professional wrestler, and Ian Whyte, a stunt actor who had previous appeared as a White Walker in the first season. But, Hafthor Bjornsson took over the role in the fourth season, and is probably who you're thinking of when you name drop the character.

Bjornsson is a member of the 2000 pound club, which include power lifters who can lift over 2000lbs combined between bench press, dead lift, and squats. Not many people ever get that far, and Bjornsson is one of the few individuals who can get into the 1000 pound club from a single lift.

Here's a fun name to know, Becca Swanson is also in the 2000 pound club. She credibly claims that she is the first woman to have achieved that, and I'm not sure if there are any other women in the 2000lb club, but it is achievable.

Now, here's the fun thing about all of this, because you're asking about D&D, and D&D players need to know exactly how much their character can lift. The calculation is (STR*30)lbs. (In the Player's handbook p174.) This also means if you have a real person, and you know how much they can lift in the real world, you can reverse engineer what their strength score would be in D&D.

It's 37.

If you wanted to convert Hafthor Bjornsson into D&D, his strength score would be 37.

Dude can fucking arm wrestle the Terrasque and easily win.

Putting that in perspective, it's a little ludicrous to say that if you want a viable martial character (fighters, paladins, barbarians, etc.), they need a Strength score of 37, when it's not normally possible for player characters to exceed 20 base strength. (If you're wondering, Becca would work out to have ~29 Strength. So, on par with most ancient dragons, and a few gods.)

So, there you have a man and woman who are both superhumanly strong according to D&D.

D&D and math have always had issues like this, and it pops up in a few different places here.

The basic concept that your ability to hit, and the amount of damage you deal is based on strength comes from a very, “schoolyard,” understanding of violence. It's okay to step back and abstract it out, where “strength,” is some amalgam of melee combat aptitude in addition to actual strength, but the idea that being stronger means you can hit harder with a sword or dagger doesn't make a lot of sense. It doesn't even make much sense with axes and maces (the force applied has more to do with the mass and velocity of the weapon, rather than the strength of its wielder.)

A paladin with negative DEX is dead. I don't mean that figuratively, and I do understand what you meant to say, but this rule is a little obscure in 5e. If any of a character's physical attributes (STR, DEX, CON) are reduced to zero, the character immediately dies. Ability draining effects used to be far more common, so the rule existed by itself, though, now it mostly shows up when you're looking at a monster with a physical ability draining attack.

What you probably meant was a negative DEX modifier, meaning your paladin is unusually clumsy. Outside the context of D&D, that would be an incredibly bad thing for a front line combatant. In the specific context of D&D, if they're in heavy armor, it doesn't really matter, if they're in medium, then it reverts to being “a bad thing. Specifically, the rules is that light and medium armor add your DEX modifier to your armor class. Medium armor caps this at +2, but it can go negative with either armor type. However, heavy armor in 5e ignores your DEX modifier entirely.

Now, here's the thing about D&D, its concept of armor is spectacularly weird. Unlike RPGs where armor reduces damage taken, either by subtracting a fixed amount from incoming damage or by reducing damage via a percentage, D&D's system is that your armor class grants you a chance to avoid being hit at all. (5% chance per point of AC, if you're wondering.) Narratively, this is often framed as taking a hit, but your armor turned the blade or something similar. This is because sometimes the enemy attack straight up misses, and that's (usually) determined by your dexterity. This is important, because the game is trying to balance two different power fantasies against each other.

On one side you have the players who want to roll in heavy plate armor, and soak all the hits, and on the other you have players who want to go with light armor, and dodge around enemy attacks. Realistically, that's not an option, but D&D permits it, and again, that's fine. The fantasy of lightly armored fighters makes a lot of sense. I'd even go so far as to say that the barbarian's unarmed defense bonus (where they add CON modifier to their DEX modifier while unarmored) is a really good change in 5e even if it does make no sense objectively. It contributes to the fantasy of this brutal fighter who runs around without armor slapping people silly with their weapons, and shrugging off damage because they're too stubborn to die. In (nearly all cases) the ability to deliver the player fantasy of a class is more important than a strict adherence to reality, and that's fine, that's the point, but the realism of D&D doesn't translate off the page in any meaningful way.

If you wanted a more, “realistic,” (and, yeah, that's incredibly loaded in this context), approach to armor for D&D, I'd say gate access based on your Constitution (or Constitution modifier). Sort of like how your equip load in Dark Souls is based on your Endurance attribute. Give armor and weapons a burden value, and if the combined burden on a character exceeds their CON, the character risks taking levels of Fatigue when they're fighting in heavier gear than they're conditioned to deal with. Maybe add a Conditioning feat or skill if you want to add some other attribute modifiers to the mix should you end up with your heavy armor fighters being underequipped. (Then again, I am one of those psychopaths who really liked the D20 Star Wars' vitality system.) So, ultimately, tinker with the balance until you find something you, and the people at your table, are happy with. Roleplayers who have more meaningful build choices tend to be happier, so long as they don't feel like they're being punished for having a character fantasy.

One of the more amusing descriptions I've read of medieval knights is that they were built like methheads. I can't fully vouch for that, because I'm not an expert on the physical appearance of medieval knights, but it's certainly credible. These guys were eating pretty well for the era, and engaged in a lot of physical activity. Depending on what they were doing, that could easily result in some fairly bulky guys, but it could also result in some wiry looking guys who hide their muscles. Just, knowing what I do about the human body, the answer was probably both, depending on their metabolism and diet. But the image of Sir Methhead, Knight of the Realm, and his implausibly clean teeth, still amuses me.

It's worth remembering that a lot of the times I've seen someone say, “they were built like athletes,” they'll drop an image of a bodybuilder. No. That's not what you would get. Bodybuilding is designed to create its own physique, one that doesn't occur unless you're abusing your body in some very specific (and unhealthy) ways. It's probably better to think of someone like a high-school football player. Bulky, but without the carved physiques of a Boris Vallejo painting. (If you don't know who that is, look up his art. It is a bit dated, but it's gorgeous.)

Alternately, if you do want your characters to look like those paintings, it is your fantasy, have fun.

-Starke

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#writing reference #writing advice #writing tips #starke answers #how to fight write #D&D #Game of Thrones #The Mountain #Hafthor Bjornsson #Yeah Dude's first name is Half-Thor #figure he earns it #I can't judge you for using Boris Vallejo art as your character tokens #I'm still using MTG card art for mine

[puppetmaster13u]

More art for @phoenixcatch7 Possessed Doll Au Someone gets to meet Black Bat for the first time- though lets be honest Cass probably spooked someone and then went running to Batdad when they started trying to figure out how she got onto the Watchtower and if she's allowed

#possessed puppet au #possessed doll au #batman au #batman #bruce wayne #cassandra cain #black bat #art #dcu #dc #ibispaintx #I had fun making B hunched over so he doesn't accidentally knock his head or ears on something lol #Cass blends in with his cloak and she uses this to her advantage #Lets be honest the robins are probably also there they're just hidden or takin a nap in the chest cavity lol #Look Bruce doesn't mean to look terrifying he really doesn't seeing as the JL are his allies #But Cass is new to the family and she got spooked and he's going to protect her because this is his current baby of the fmaily #same vibes as a big scruffy cat standing over a kitten mrrring angrily at you lol #Mans brought her up to the Watchtower because he needed to update the computer and figured he could give her a tour #sketch #Let's be honest Cass is probably the first of the kids to earn sedative or paralytic spikes lol #“Father when can I have spikes” #“When you stop losing your arms Dick” #“What about me father” #“When you stop trying to sneak explosives Jason”

[yesterdayiwrote]

Remember when George did an interview with Channel 4 at his flat in 2019 and this was his home decor...

The nan curtains, the faux fur sofa throw, the mirrored dining table, three lamps in a tiny sitting room... I'm obsessed with all of it...

#f1 #george russell #This is when he was earning 5 figures and in debt by the way so I'm 100% not knocking it #I'm living for the student flat vibes compared to the expectations people have of f1 driver's glamorous lives #This is where he tells the story that he couldn't see the starting lights in Australia so just guessed via a reflection #He's a long way from Monaco #This is your posh tory

[cheese-water]

The best option was to kill Ranboo. Everyone begging for him to “live” assumes that choice would be the merciful option is naïve for thinking Hatch would simply set him free. No he said verbatim that Ranboo would continue to be our plaything until they became “unusable.” That isn’t being alive, that’s torture, especially for someone who was begging to be killed in the end.

People pushing for a 50/50 split are also naïve in the way Showfall Media operates. While we never know what would happen if the vote split, it wouldn’t of mattered anyway. Hell, it doesn’t matter that we choose to kill. What has been the constant sentiment throughout this series?

OUR CHOICES DO NOT MATTER

Ranboo was dead man walking before the show even began. Do you really think Hatch really is gonna let Ranboo die on his own accord just because twitch chat felt bad for him? NO! He is probably being reprogrammed as we speak, up and ready for their next show. None of this matters. All of this was for data on the newly implemented live audience Hatch installed to see how we would react to certain things.

How could Ranboo’s death be our fault, when our actions and emotions were also being used by Showfall Media?

Who says we weren’t just as trapped as Ranboo, only we get the privilege of remembering his death.

#generation loss #genloss #ranboo #ranboolive #THE MAD LAD #I’m like a detective #I find a single piece of evidence then I make it my whole personality #generation loss finale #oh predetermined fates my beloved #if ranboo ends up permanently dead I’ll eat my hat #There’s NO WAY hatch just lets him die scott free because of TWITCH CHAT #Is his name hatch? #Who cares he’s trying to live up expectations/earn the approval of his maybe dead mentor figure by any means possible #And that’s just simply unethical in the long term #I mean if EVERYONE did that earth’s population would be zero #tsk tsk tsk #simply do you bro who cares about “tHe FoUnDeR” 🙄 #Why am I like this lmaoooooo

[lucky-slice]

low key i think to deny Riko's trauma is to deny his narrative importance in the story.

like Riko's trauma related to his father parallels neil's. His concept of brotherhood adds complexity to Andrew and Aaron's relationship. He acts not just as an antagonist but as a foil to other character's relationship to trauma and violence.

to solely view riko through the lense of his actions is to miss the point. He is a character in a story, not a real breathing human being.

#i don't know guys like i though we were having fun here #lets go back to making up literary motifs that are probably nonexistent in a self published book series thats basically a sports manga #i'll start #isn't it nifty that riko was abandoned by his father and then abused and ostracized by his guardian figure in a very similar way to neil #isn't it fun that riko was cast aside by his father for his brother just as andrew was cast aside by his mother for his brother #isnt it fun that aaron kills someone to protect his brother while riko's story ends with his brother killing him #love earned through death in both ways #isnt it fun that riko's hunt to be the best ends with his brother killing him in the same way he essentially 'killed' kevin #by smashing his hand #isnt it fun how riko is just as desperate for love and attention and belonging as everyone else #there is a story in which riko is saved and heals from his past in the same way every other character does #the fun part is that story exists yet it is not the story that is told #like come onnnnn #“riko is evil” #“rikos trauma isnt as bad as *insert character” #“riko did this - riko did that - bluh bluh bluh” #im boreeeeeeddd #gnat be quiet #riko moriyama

[otaku553]

The eventual kazuha and sanemi dynamic

#kny crossover #genshin impact #kaedehara kazuha #shinazugawa sanemi #one day I’ll finish writing the first chapter. one day #anyways I love thinking about these two #i think platonic relationships are so fascinating #like you could definitely construe so many different friendships as romantic ships but to me these two as friends has so much potential #sanemi canonically dislikes Giyuu because he gives off a ‘better than everyone else there’ vibe that is purely unintentional #and canonically is friends with Iguro for reasons I still cannot figure out #sanemi’s so interesting because it’s not like he’s a purely chaotic character despite what his first appearance would suggest #the manga and genya’s memories clearly show that he has a lot of respect for oyakata-sama because oyakata-sama is not high and mighty and- #does in fact understand every sacrifice that goes into the battles that they fight that he must sit on the back lines for #sanemi is a very loyal person I think once someone has earned his loyalty even though he owes about showing this in very aggressive ways #I think he goes off against genya especially because genya fighting as a demon slayer goes against everything that sanemi has fought for #since they lost their happy lives sanemi has been fighting for at least one of them to still be able to live normally and he probably thinks #that Genya spat on that sentiment by becoming a demon slayer anyways #anyways I think sanemi and kazuha would have such an interesting dynamic #sanemi has the authoritative upper hand as a pillar but kazuha isn’t even a demon slayer which means sanemi’s position doesn’t do much #beyond acting as an indicator that he is one of the strongest of the corps anyways. #they’ve both lost a lot but sanemi still has someone to fight for whereas kazuha is holding onto the last embers of a corpse’s wishes #and I think them having a talk about their motivations would be very good #because I don’t think at this point that kazuha has very much reason to live beyond carrying on Tomo’s wishes #if the swords are parallels to visions I think Kazuha’s turning point will be when he receives his own nichirin sword #sorry for the long tags lmao

[bluesdeluxe]

Aleksandr Selevko (EST): Free Skating at European Championships 2024 | No commentary

Music: Ad Martem by Havasi Choreography: Rostislav Sinicyn

Aleksandr not only improved all his personal best scores, but also earned Estonia its first medal Euros medal — silver!

#i needed both his programs non-geoblocked somewhere yes #fs video archive #aleksandr selevko #figure skating #euros 2024 #estonia #sports #mikhail selevko #<- tagging the guy too because 1) he earned 2 spots for estonia and aleksandr wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for the younger bro #and 2) DO YOU HEAR THE CROWD'S REACTION WHEN CAMERA SHOWED MIKHAIL??? JUST T-T <3 #eesti #eestiblr #<- PLEASE watch your local SLAY X2 at the main european figure skating championship #THANK YOU ESTONIA YOU HAVE MAGNIFICENT ATHLETES

[azulock]

Day eleven, almost at the end, now all that's left is to check up on the oh so flammable Gävle Goat! Yall know I'm very much in the give Reo therapy club, so here we are, come on, he deserves love and support. Also, yes, I have a very casual relationship with my father, why you ask?

summary. when take the holiday to finally bring Reo to meet your father, he is overjoyed - but at the same time, he is just as anxious. A part of him insists that your father won't like him, despite your assurance that everything will be just fine. Still, he worries, but maybe he just has to accept that some things are worse in his head than they are in reality.

pairing. Reo Mikage x Fem!Reader

wordcount. 739 words

11. Family Christmas Dinner - Reo Mikage

"But what if he doesn't like me?" Reo whined as you pulled him down the snowy street. "I mean, I'm sure he knows you c-"

"Reo," you cut him off, turning to him and taking his hands in yours, "love, you are getting caught up in your thoughts. What did your therapist say about that?"

"Ah," he paused, sighing before looking up at you. "That I should focus on what is real."

"Right," you assured him, squeezing his hand in support, "and in this moment, what is real?"

"The birds in that tree, the snow on the ground, you," Reo looked around, counting the things surrounding him until his eyes met yours again, his hands returning your gentle squeeze.

"Good, good," you soothed him, taking one step closer so your faces almost touched. "Besides, if my father decides he doesn't like you, he can take that up with me. This is my life, he doesn't get to make the choices, and I love you."

You were right, he knew it, and despite doubts still swimming in his mind, Reo felt safer by your side. When you'd first brought up the idea of spending Christmas with your father - since this year his wife would be spending the holiday with her daughters - he was equal amounts excited and terrified.

Since you lived far from your father, and you were always so busy, he hadn't had the chance to reach this milestone in your relationship yet. So he was happy, overjoyed, but he still couldn't help the fear that he would cause a bad impression.

"I know, but," he grumbled, biting his lip as you came to the front door, "you should have let me buy a better gift at least."

"Reo," you laughed, shaking your head as you pushed the key in the door, "that would make my dad think you believe you can buy people with money. That wouldn't have helped your case. Now, we are going in."

You waited for him to nod before opening the door, calling out for your father once safely inside. From the stairs to your side came your father, poking fun at the both of you for dressing so nicely when you'd just be spending the day indoors with him.

You rolled your eyes and snapped back, telling him he should dress a bit better for the holiday, before coming up to him for a hug. It was shocking to see the casualty of your relationship, but at the same time it was soothing, the type of easy affection Reo had never known in his family.

But before the thoughts of his family could dominate his mind, Reo felt himself being pulled back to earth, pulled by your father into a hug that he awkwardly tried to reciprocate as you scolded the old man for not respecting people's spaces. When your father pulled back and rolled his eyes, Reo could clearly see how you two resembled each other in more than just appearances. Quickly, you stepped in, getting the introductions out of the way.

In all truth, Reo had come ready to have to try his best to impress your father, he'd come ready to try and charm his way out of a judgmental stare. What he didn't expect - despite your how you'd told him before - was to find a laid back man who poked fun at Reo whenever he'd be at a loss for words and who acted as if he was of as little importance as any other person on the street. In a way, that made him feel more at home than he could ever have imagined.

"And here I thought she was ashamed of me or something, 'cause she never brought you around," your father laughed as you shook your head with a groan.

There was a moment of pause, as the words spoken as a joke resonated deep within Reo. But quickly he laughed along, a genuine, true laugh. He could still remember the difficult nights, where he sat alone thinking the same thing - that he hadn't met your family yet, because you felt ashamed of him.

But now he could see it wasn't true. Where he'd come anxious, expecting a protective father who knew Reo wasn't good enough, he found a man who trusted his daughter's choices, and welcomed him like family. Yeah, maybe you - and his therapist - were right, some disasters really only exist in his mind.

shout out to: @fivenightsatwhoreville @minarinnn @loser-vxbez @pinksodacan

#mikage reo x reader #reo mikage x reader #reo mikage #bllk x reader #blue lock x reader #blue christmas event #yeah I'm like that with my dad some people say it's disrespectful but he doesn't care and neither do I #we don't do formalities in my family but I respect him absurdly just not as an authority figure #respect and love have to be earned even withing family and I think Reo of all people would benefit from being included in a family like thi #anyway take reo to therapy 20-forever

[hetalia-club]

Local Hottie Beauty Pageant 2023

(I will do a new round every week. The winner will challenge the next and there can only be one left standing in the end. Remember to vote every week.)

Vote even if they're not your main #1 because this is a knock out. Also keep in mind this is not a favorite character competition this is the local hottie beauty pageant.

Round 18: Fight

Previous Rounds 1. England .vs. France- Winner: England- 46 2. England .vs. Germany- Winner: Germany- 69 3. Germany .vs. Romano- Winner: Romano- 26 4. Romano .vs. Denmark- Winner: Romano- 154 5. Romano .vs. China- Winner: Romano- 239 6. Romano .vs. Lithuania- Winner: Romano- 70 7. Romano .vs. Austria- Winner: Romano- 189 8. Romano .vs. Norway- Winner: Romano- 88 9. Romano .vs. Italy- Winner: Romano- 242 10. Romano .vs. America- Winner: Romano- 30 11: Romano .vs. Iceland- Winner: Romano- 228 12. Romano .vs. Ireland- Winner: Romano- 120 13. Romano .vs. Estonia- Winner: Romano- 244 14. Romano .vs. Japan-Winner: Romano- 96 15. Romano .vs. Finland-Winner: Romano- 86 16. Romano .vs. Netherlands- Winner: Romano- 132 17. Romano .vs. Russia- Winner: Russia- ??

#hetalia #hws russia #hws sweden #aph russia #aph sweden #ivan braginski #berwald oxenstierna #local hottie beauty pageant #poll #No crown for russia until he gets a streak. #if he wants the title 'king' he's gotta earn it like Romano did. #original #i would like to say that no matter what happens Romano will more than likely be the runner up #Considering we would have to do teh runner up based on amount of votes/ rounds won. #I'll figure out a different way to do this next year.

[luciuscodedswedeboy]

sorry to get on my father figure soap box again but the clearest way we know that even DJenks himself doesn’t believe Izzy is Ed’s father figure is that Ed never for a single moment behaved towards Izzy like he did towards Pop Pop

#like fucking hell y’all #we can see Ed fawning so fucking hard to Pop Pop to get his approval and trying to earn his kindness #he never had to earn anything from Izzy because Izzy was always his inferior officer #besides the fact that he asked izzy to be his first mate AFTER he was *already* ‘the legendary blackbeard’ #and ed told Izzy he had to be loyal to him when Ed asked him to fulfil that role like?? #what part of any of this says Izzy was a father figure or that Izzy had any power in their dynamic?? #make it make sense #izzy hands #the izcourse #ofmd critical #david jenkins critical #our flag means death #ofmd #fandom wank

[flamingredanon]

"I once thought of you as my weaker half, the part of me that I needed to be rid of so that I could lead the Toppat Clan without weakness.

However I was foolish in that decision and paid dearly.

But you Henry, you have done what I could not and shown yourself as not only the stronger half between us...

...but you have become your own person throughout your struggles."

#henry stickmin #terrence suave #doodle #henry is surprised to see terrence while terrence is just beaming with pride with henry #au idea where terrence and henry were once whole but terrence decided to throw away part of himself so that he would lead the toppats bette #this failed spectacularly and terrence was dethroned by reginald #meanwhile the other part of terrence found himself taken in by gadget gabe #who decided to give this identity the temporary name of henry stickmin and let him stay at his lab for a bit #with henry finding himself testing inventions ever so often for some money before deciding to go see the world for himself #and soon henry would find an apartment and then get the idea to rob a bank one day and setting his path before him #terrence originally wanted revenge against the toppats for dethroning him and wanted to fuse back with his other side #but after seeing the toppats get to space and henry earning the respect and friendship of reginald and the clan he decided not to #only wishing henry well before going off to figure out what he wanted to do now #rambling in the tags #retro anime aesthetic #fake anime screenshot

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

fulfilling his purpose

#when he helps around the house <3333 #im obsessed w this figure he’s so cunty i love him :((( #sadly there are bills to pay and since he earns no income i have no choice but to put him through intense labour #ari noises ✩

[thistaleisabloodyone]

Going back and rewatching the one series of videos on CL Live where Zin, with the help of staff and a seemingly shockingly large budget, pull pranks on the members, with hidden cameras and everything.

One of the pranks is to have fancy eel bentos delivered to the waiting room, but never enough for everyone. When it was Likiya and Rui, there was 1 fancy eel bento and Likiya was a good leader and left it for Rui. For Kazuma, Itsuki and Takuma, there was 1 fancy eel bento and we never see how that works out because someone had to go and find the hidden cameras.

(goddamn it, I can't help but love this man)

But then we get to what I have been calling the Little Shit Committee.

Makoto is not a part of the Little Shit Committee, he just wanted a fancy bento. And if he'd been paired with, like, Likiya, he would've gotten one, no fucking problem.

Unfortunately for him, he was paired with Riku and Kenta. Kenta, like, subtly stole the first one, while Riku and Makoto were distracted - Makoto talking to a staff member, Riku - staring at a mirror. Then they move back towards the tables and Makoto comes over and see Kenta's bento.

And you know what my beloved little shit goes and does? You know what Riku fucking does?

He steals the fucking bento as soon as Makoto turns towards the table. And then laughs as Makoto looks, honestly, kinda sad.

Baby, darling, buddy, I love you, what the fuck? 😂 Zin legit stands up and goes "Ehhh?" at the screen, and I don't blame him. Riku, bad senpai, bad.

Like, how long have you known Makoto? Because you were both in Exile Generations, so you presumably met him at some point in 2013, assuming you didn't meet him earlier. And you stole the bento out from under his nose? You little shit 😂

Look at this poor, sad child. They did go and get him a bento, which was lovely of them, considering they were about to prank them.

But, seriously. Makoto and the Little Shit Committee. Like, Kenta subtly taking the bento, fine. Riku, you stole the bento out from under Makoto's nose. Like, you didn't even seem to notice it existed until he saw Kenta's. You little jerk😂

#tbeh i feel like riku is honestly very competitive around food #and like winning food #when his team won the spicy ramen challenge #he teased shogo (who's team lost badly) with the prospect of the won dessert #before eating it himself #but did go on to actually literally feed the dessert to the rest of his team #on rampe dorm #when they did a competition to win jars of food #he figured out which one likiya (who lost) wanted #and basically stole it out from under his nose #like a little shit #and then teased feeding it to likiya #something something feels like he treats food as a thing to be won/earned #the rampage from exile tribe #aoyama riku #thistale watches

[petrichormore]

!! The following is a rant and is slightly fandom critical, it’s also over-exaggerated and half joking !!

!! I’m just expelling frustration it’s not serious I’m just being silly rn so beware all ye who enter here (and also read the tags) !!

the only character that is allowed to kill an egg without repercussions is q!badboyhalo because this fandom treats him like a glorified nanny and they only care about him when they’re yelling at him to take care of their fav egg. he ain’t that egg’s government-assigned parent and he isn’t responsible for constantly keeping every egg alive but i damn well know if an egg dies on his watch, or if an egg dies of neglect he’s gonna get blamed - especially if an egg dies of neglect since he’s the only islander that cares about that apparently lmao (mostly joking). And the worst part is he’ll probably blame himself too but it honest to god is not his problem.

Bro needs a vacation - an actual one where he’s not taking care of an average of 3 eggs daily lmfao

#sorry I’m salty and I’m mostly joking I’m not actually that pressed #and plus q!Bad likes to babysit so it is His Own Doing I’m sure others would help if he asked #the thing is he’s never going to ask he’s allergic to asking for help #also this is more about the fandom anyway #they always yell on twitter and IN HIS CHAT to take care of eggs #but if he misses one sign or doesnt read the eggs damn mind he’s an unfit parent like. okay. #^^^ that last tag is specifically about how much people nag on him about tallulah in particular #‘bad is always leaving her behind i only trust Phil’ SHUT THE FUCK UP SHE LITERALLY SEES BAD AS A FATHER FIGURE #tallulah would be dead several times over if it weren’t for him #so would chayanne and so would Leo and so would half the players if we’re being honest #anyway I would be so sad if he killed an egg but he’s earned it at this point tbf #q!badboyhalo #fandom critique #i like the qsmp fandom usually but when people chat hop to tell him to wake up chayanne i get… silly

[birdsong-warriors]

Seriously I cant understand why Swift, after being so rude to Firestar decides to join his father. It's like... no sense or very hypocrit

I've been getting a few messages about this, so I don't think I told this part of the story as well as I could have. ^^;

Swift isn't joining Tigerstar out of any sense of loyalty or obligation. He's considering it as going undercover to at least gather more information on what's going on across the river and look for opportunities to stop his father's reign. He wants to do SOMETHING about the situation, and this is his best chance to do so.

This isn't to make any excuses for his behavior because he's still being a hot-headed, inconsiderate jerk over the whole thing and misdirecting his frustrations onto innocent cats. His intentions may be good, but his execution of them is really bad.

#tldr swift is an impatient jerkhole with anger issues #but he still considers himself loyal to thunderclan #theres also the bonus thing where he figures he cant go back unless he earns it #and the only way he sees that happening is by defeating tigerstar #he doesnt necessarily want to kill his dad even after everything but he feels a desperate need to do SOMETHING #bird rambles #asks #anon

[friendshapedcas]

Buddy needs to become a theatre guy or smth in season 2 bc it can’t just be glossed over that the only thing he ever earned himself and not his father just handing it to him was the lead in the play

#give me theatre buddy who tells his dad to go kick rocks or give me death!!! #like my guys word SHATTERED bc he discovered everything he thought he earned was just handed to him #but not the part of Romeo!!! my guy got that bc the director gave it to him Not his father #grease rise of the pink ladies #buddy aldridge #rotpl #also side note but Jfc I could not figure out what order these words went together idk why but I had to switch around like 6 words bc #I wrote them all out of order