#greater effort

[cemeterything]

grabbing myself by the scruff of the neck and forcing myself to at least skim read a longform post or piece of text that i just scrolled past despite thinking it sounded interesting because it's "too long" i will NOT contribute to my own attention deficiency and limit my general knowledge and critical thinking skills by needing information spoonfed to me in bitesize pieces to be able to digest it i will NOT

#🐉 #nooooooooo little online boy dont let the greater accessibility of information make you less inclined to make an effort to seek it out #dont let the pressure to work harder and faster and be more productive alienate you from the pleasures of reading

[zoanzon]

I want people to know that, among everything else currently going on with Reddit’s current tailspin as users and mods fight against the stupid shit going on, r/pics has decided to...well...

They decided to implement Mishapocalypse, John Oliver edition.

Or, as one person noted:

#current events #all who live to see such times #more between heaven and earth #the tailspin of reddit #greater than the sum of our individual efforts

[darkfire359]

Everyone is talking about Astarion’s wonderful plotline, voice, expressions, et cetera et cetera, but no one is talking about what a monster he is in combat. I swear he could 1v3 the rest of my party. Sharpshooter is so busted with dual-wielded hand crossbows and thief rogue, holy shit. Why would I use a bonus action to hide when I have a 95% chance of hitting with a shot that does 1d6+1d4+19 damage (before counting sneak attack) and auto-kills enemies if they have <=10 HP afterwards?

Gloomstalker ranger multiclass means that I get 5 of these attacks on the first turn of combat (actually 7 with bloodlust elixir, i.e. permanent haste that stacks with Haste). Add in 2d6 sneak attack, which will often crit given all those attacks (plus blinding raven familiar + durge cloak invisibility giving advantage) and occasional 1d6 poison damage (if Astarion needed healing for some reason), and he is frequently killing ~200 hp worth of enemies per round.

And with the huge initiative bonus, he usually just wipes them before they even get a turn. Not that them getting a turn would matter—even if they get in range of him, he walks around with 22 AC, a charm reaction, and Protection from Good and Evil giving disadvantage to most everything in Act 2.

And this all consumes 0 resources per fight (though Hasted Astarion is obviously even better). I keep thinking I’ll have to long rest at some point, but I just… don’t. I’ve fought something like 15+ combats today since Act 2 start and everyone is still at full health. One of my short rests I took entirely to renew the charge on a ring of jumping.

I feel like I’m missing out on precious Astarion cutscenes and I have no one to blame but Astarion.

#bg3 #astarion #I could also blame my durge PC who basically plays as an Astarion cheerleader #he gave Astarion a special cloak #and a piece of hag scalp #and every single tadpole he’s found #Some Hastes and Blesses and Bardic Inspiration and Singing Sword buffs #Sometimes a Hold person or a Brand the Weak on Astarion’s targets #Would give him Greater Invisibility too if the spell wasn’t bugged #Basically Durge made a valiant effort to resist killing #Only to be a shameless enabler for his boyfriend’s killing sprees instead #Level 8 now but eagerly awaiting lvl 10 to multiclass Fighter and get Action Surge

[hephaestuscrew]

I'm still thinking about that scene in Victoriocity S3E7 where Fleet runs back towards the Beast so as to lure it into the path of the train...

Clara's exclamation of 'Teamwork, Fleet!' after Fleet says he's got a plan reflects her conviction that any plan that Fleet has will be a shared plan, something they do together.

This conviction is a kind of trust, and that trust is part of the reason Clara takes a moment to realise Fleet has headed back towards the Beast. She trusts that he's following behind her. She keeps talking to him, her words full of optimism.

When she realises Fleet isn't there, she immediately realises what that must mean he's done, and her voice sounds more small and scared than I think we've ever heard it before.

Fleet's attempt at self-sacrifice is a kind of betrayal of Clara's trust, but when he echoes her celebration of their teamwork in a more somber tone, I think it suggests that he understands the weight of that betrayal.

If Fleet's plan is that Clara won't realise he's gone until it's already too late, then he thinks "Teamwork, Clara" will be the last words he'll ever speak to her. In what he imagines will be their final conversation, Fleet affirms Clara's understanding of them as a team who work well together, even as he is making a choice that rejects the possibility of their teamwork in this scenario. It's a recognition of what their dynamic has meant. It's a goodbye and an apology, even if Clara doesn't understand it as such at first.

I don't think Fleet sounds scared as he initially faces down the train. When he shouts "Yeah, this way, you stupid machine! Come on then!", he sounds defiant and grimly determined.

In fact, I don't think he sounds afraid until Clara appears, until she might be at risk of being in the path of the Beast or the train as well. It's when he shouts "Clara, stay back for God's sake!" and "Please, get back!" that there's real fear and desperation in his voice. He can confront the idea of giving his own life, but not the idea that doing so might put Clara in danger.

Another thing about these lines is that the move from 'stay back' to 'get back' suggests that Clara didn't obey his first instruction but got closer to him (and therefore to the path of the Beast and the train) between those two lines.

Then Fleet gives what might be another attempt at his last words: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry."  A repeated apology before an attempted self-sacrifice is an implicit acknowledgement of how much losing him would hurt Clara. He regrets causing her pain.

Even so, he's accepted that he is about to die and that it'd be worth it to destroy the Beast. But Clara very much hasn't accepted either those things. She's still trying to yell over the noise of the train; she's pulling off her ring to throw at him.

I think it's a good illustration of how Clara's optimism is a kind of strength. She always believes that they can "make a new plan" and that it'll be one in which no one has to die. I think Archibald Fleet needs someone like that, someone who'll tell him to drop to the ground when his death advances from both sides, someone who - even in a dark tunnel with an murderous metal monster and a speeding train - won't stop shouting that there's hope.

#Victoriocity #victoriocity spoilers #clara entwhistle #archibald fleet #I have feelings about them!! #I've listened to this scene a normal number of times... #Can't decide if it's more angsty if Clara heard his apology or if she didn't... #Also on the topic of Clara's optimism #I think it is a part of her temperament #but I don't think that means it's always easy or that it isn't something that takes active effort #The 'midnight overthinkies' scene showed us that there's a lot going on under the surface #As previously established I don't personally see Clara and Fleet romantically #but nonetheless there is something Orpheus and Eurydice #about two people who care deeply about each other #in a dark tunnel trying to head towards safety #and one of them trusts that the other is behind them #except Clara doesn't look back for a while and then he actually is already gone #and she's alone wondering if she's lost him forever #I think I can draw those parallels platonically #Oh also there's something impressive about a show that can literally raise a guy from the dead in the first season #and yet still have real stakes when he's in life or death situations after that #something deeply sinister about how in Even Greater London no death ever needs to be permanent #but we know that the vast majority of deaths would be because access to that technology is so restricted #inspector fleet #victoriocity season 3 #victoriocity podcast #Clara & Fleet #The empty man posteth

[abirddogmoment]

Pretty excited to catch this greater yellowlegs on my birding loop today - another lifer for me!

#find me where the wild things are #greater yellowlegs #birds my beloved #we are well into the fall migration #im going to make a serious effort to get out a lot the next few weeks #i know the lack of birds for 6 months will be sad #so i have to prepare by visiting every bird in Alberta this month #also!!!!! i got a new/used canon for my zoom lens! (instead of getting a new zoom lens for my sony) #very pleased with the set up #having two cameras is extremely fun i love not having to switch lenses

[daswarschonkaputt]

modern au fem!hanwenzhou

okay so like, pretty much all my art is someone else's fault. i stand by this. this is the fault of @antique-forvalaka (henceforth siv). blame or thank her. she just showed up unprovoked and was like, "fem!wkx has a flat ass and fem!zzs is big tiddy tomboy," and i was like, "umm???" what was i meant to do? NOT draw them? it's a modern au because i don't fuck with drawing hanfu.

most of these were drawn when i was too sick to write and lemme tell you i 100% underestimated the effect of a cough on drawing art. the lineart on wkx's piece took me so fucking long. i even had to go back in and redo bits of it. that's why some of it looks wonky but shhhh don't look.

assorted headcanons beneath the cut:

fem!zzs

this was the first one i started drawing, and then i nearly gave up because zzh's face is the fucking worst to draw. like, i even tried tracing a still and it still didn't look like him. okay, thots:

f!zzs has long hair that she takes relatively good care of but she pretty much always just ties up and ignores

she keeps it long because she sometimes does infiltration missions and it's helpful to appear super feminine

she knows how to be pretty and well presented but she literally never gives a shit

left alone she will happily sit in a sports bra and panties and eat ramen

oh yeah when she's lying low after leaving tc she disguises herself as a male vagabond. @luckydragon10 is very attached to f!zzs's fake stubble.

the hoodie look is an adaptation of my favourite zzs look from woh which is the meili look. look i am a simple woman, put the characters in a veiled hat and my brain just goes hrrrrnnnnng.

fem!wkx

oh hello other actor in this drama who is incredibly fucking hard to draw. luckily i had already drawn modern wkx before so i was a bit more used to his face. okay, some more thots:

the first one i drew was the big profile which is labelled in the csp file as tiddies out wkx

in my head f!wkx has a flat ass and flat chest bc siv said so, but she wishes she were curvy like wkx

she's very much styled after a femme fatale, emphasis on the fatal

she's pretty much always immaculately turned out, perfect make-up, perfect clothes, all very expensive

i had to draw her in stockings and garter belt. i just had to. also that lace texture killed me and took me like half of wanda//vision (which i was watching in the background) to get right

part of the reason i even did modern au was because i wanted to draw wkx with a sniper rifle

on that note the sniper rifle is traced from a photo bc i am lazy and at that point was very ill

"oh? so you have chosen death~♡" -- that's her vibe

fave wkx is angery wkx up in the top right corner. i drew her last.

one big regret that i didn't draw her splattered in blood and smirking like lelouch from code geass. i just think that would be neat.

fem!hy

thank u han ying for having a face that i can draw. thank u actor for having distinguishable features for my face blind self. thank u. thots:

this was the last set of these that i drew and i had to think long and hard about what to do for her. i knew i wanted her to be shorter than zzs but curvier than wkx but that was literally it

originally when i started drawing f!hy i gave her short curly hair, like close to a pixie cut, but i couldn't make it look right, so i went back to siv and extracted her suggestion of a side cut or undercut

in my head, hy and zzs run two-man missions all the time, with zzs as front woman and hy as tactical support/getaway driver

siv said to me that she sees wkx playing dress-up with hy bc hy is more receptive to it than zzs and i was like oh yes so that's why there's a little classy hy over on the right

also the more i drew f!hy with her little undercut and sweats i realised she looked like a fuckboi and i was here for it

special shout out to my favourite tac gear item: the throat mic. they're just so sexy. don't come at me.

shout out to fancy dress ass-kicking hy. the backstory here is that wkx put her in a pretty dress for a nice evening out only for it to devolve into a battlefield so hy takes off her heels and just starts blasting.

oh yeah special shout out here bc my brain was just like "play with the colours" so i did and now there is no consistent colouring for this set.

anyway i love hy's little button nose. so cute. love drawing it.

ok i'm done.

standard disclaimers for my art: all of it was drawn in clip studio paint (my beloved). i use pose references using the built-in 3D models and assorted poses i've downloaded from the store. faces are drawn using stills from the show i've founded on google images. when i draw fashion there's a high change it's from runway collections, in this case hy's dress is from the paolo sebastian moonlight serenade collection, specifically this one. and the fancy han ying look is adapted from ashi studio fall/winter 2017, specifically this look.

#kaputt suffers in art #fem!hwz #idk what the woh fandom tags are but #woh #hanwenzhou #at this point i should probably make a master tag for all my gender swaps bc i am apparently not done #neither am i restricted to kp #fem!zzs #fem!wkx #fem!hy #modern au #i wasn't actually planning on posting this #it was just for siv and co #but siv told me the woh girlies would want to see it #so i'm posting it for them #all of you can thank her for this #this is part of a greater effort i am undergoing to relearn how to shade faces #when i was at uni i just used block shading bc it was fast and looked decent #but before i did not #so i am relearning

[nikoisme]

Niko. I need Peleus slander.

Do your worst

I don't have much at this moment but jesus christ that man is a huge mess. What's wrong with him. The more i read the messier it gets

#like. achilles didn't have to put in a lot of effort to be greater than his father. look at that man go #(↑ i was joking btw. i'm not dead serious) #this man was made to be doomed. everything that could go south went So Fucking South for him #also i see he fucked up your timeline. man just seems to make things a mess #asks

[loki-zen]

while i have a slight preference for italian-american (new york) pizza over italian-italian (they’re v similar but in the subtle differences i’d largely pick the new york) one big plus of italian-italian pizza culture is nobody thinks it’s weird or boring of you to want a margharita

#and there is perhaps a greater tendency to put effort into making that experience #rather than thinking of it primarily as a base for other toppings

[nebuvoid]

for a couple moments while rewatching 9 i was questioning. is 9 still my favourite ff? theres some aspects that didnt age well or felt incomplete. but when you follow the whole story, see these cute and silly characters suffer and see where certain things are heading, and then you watch the ending sequence with the heart killing combo of vivis letter, zidane and garnets reunion and memories of life, it all feels worth it. no other ff hits me with such raw real feeling as 9 does, not from the ones ive played so far anyway. sure you have the very real environmentalism and grief in 7, and the rebellion against politicized religion in 10, both very real world themes too. but death is the realest thing of it all isnt it. i know it sounds super cheesy but even im capable of being heartfelt sometimes. and that, coupled with the charm and bittersweetness this game exudes, is why 9 is my favourite ff

#ff talk #ffix talk #ffix #for ref i played/watched 7 9 10 12 13 15 #12s theme was...uh... starwars is cool #13 was about found family and rather dying fighting than bowing down #both neat as stories but nothing that rocks your world #15 was about being a martyr for the greater good and your loved ones just letting it happen :) unless you do the dlcs #where was i i lost myself in my hatred for 15 for a moment again #anyway yes 9 definitely still holds up muah muah #this one doesnt get proper capitalisation because i didnt put as much effort into the wording

[penroseparticle]

Circuit training was invented by big exercise to make you more tired

#funnily enough- yes! #the whole point is you fo more exercises faster #by working opposing muscles to allow rest time #resulting in greater full body effort and ergo caloric burn etc. etc. #blah blah blah im tired

[angelsarecomputers]

so im kind of curious

IMPORTANT: bottom does not = sub, and top does not = dom, especially not in this context! this post refers to positions in penetrative sex.

#if you want my opinion #i think that kim does either but prefers being a bottom #due to the greater effort it takes for him to control himself in that position #and because he likes to watch men fall apart beneath him. As sort of role-reversal yknow? #aka he’s just like me fr #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #dick elysium

[innerbeast]

💭 your most memorable nemesis/rival

Send 💭 + a topic and my muse will tell you what they think about it.

most memorable nemesis/rival

"they've all been fairly memorable..." especially with his faulty memory banks. "it's hard to forget someone who granted ya so much grief, or handed ya so great a trial to overcome. some don't deserve to be forgotten with all they've done and wished to accomplish, others leave a stain in your memory."

he can recall faces of plenty, names of even more. the struggle of overcoming and defeating them, the time in his journey and the limits of his skills in the moment of victory. saying one was more memorable than the other was almost... insulting.

some deserved the insult, but plenty did not.

"... i'll remember that they lived, that they fought well. i'll remember that their journey had meanin', even if i didn't understand it. or want to. i can't bring myself to say one was more memorable than another... and there are some i don't want to give the pleasure of keepin' in my thoughts."

#guy who chases you to the end of the world. guy who thinks you suck bc youre a shard of someone greater. #guy who thinks your efforts are wasted protecting your home. evil pope. women that want you stamped out to avoid foiling their plans. #evil twink. eviler twink. how tf do i pick just one-- #thegreatfraud

[madhyanas]

‘all my problems would be fixed if i had somebody to love.’ well as much as i believe that love is the answer, ENDEAVOUR TO LIVE MORE LOVINGLY AND PEOPLE WILL FLOCK TO YOU WITH LOVE SITTING WARM IN THE PALM OF THEIR HAND!

#i think i pin a lot of my hope for a better life on singular 'fixable' issues. such as having a romantic partner or losing #weight or academic success. #and i've come to the conclusion that if i put more effort into making things better for me personally (and for no one else) then love will #gravitate to me regardless. not in the more superficial sense that i was hinging my optimism on #but more in the sense of putting greater intention into my mental and physical health #and into my relationships with close friends and family #and generally (as i was recently advised) not just letting life happen to me. #i think taking charge of my life and attempting to influence it's direction to a place that makes me personally happier will naturally #attract more love along the way. #<3

[lnane]

random student: yea that group is the Bad At Math group. They suck lmao

me, who teach both the alledged "Bad At Math" group as well as random students group: kiddo. They work 5 times more diligently than you do. Theyre actually trying. Theyre not lesser than you. In fact, if we are to compare skill, you are lesser to them.

#putting in the effort to try always makes you greater than those who dont #especially if you dont push others down for their groupings #also i seriously am confused were they get these lables of groupings from. nowhere is anyone saying that there is a group #for those who are struggling. #theres smaller groups sure but no lesser

[theramblingvoid]

It's missing Bag a Legend hours

#fallen london #apparently some parts of it don't make sense with greater lore or something idk but consider: i don't know the lore #all i know is it gave me Some Type Of Feeling when my character tried to hunt a monster based on curiosity alone #and found themself the only person who could even have a bare chance of undoing this...monster yes but also political figure #nightmare. near-god #a once in a thousand year chance and the way the writing gives you the full knowledge that you did not get there by skill #the nuns were training for much longer. april probably could have made the bomb herself #in fact it almost feels like the player's position in bag a legend relies on them NOT having the skill #less skill and knowledge than willingness. simultaneously disposable and essential #and for Hallowrove it was still a story about wanting to know #but it became more than just curiosity about a monster few had seen and instead shifted to #wanting to know whether this could be done. whether /they/ could do it. test the kind of power they'd been subject to #in one form or another for a lifetime #and see if it would actually give way. and if that giving way would actually turn out to MEAN something #and it did. the rulers are killable. the chain can be broken #and it didn't. the Bazaar still holds power. if anything more comfortably without their murderous colleague #but it made them uneasy. uneasy in the same way every person of London is every day #knowing that they're in the power of something so far above them in strength and so far from human as to see them as collectables #and for the player personally just. the sheer amount of time and effort you have to put into making that little tilt #the held breath feeling that this is a two sided hunt and you could die at any moment #the way it's such an ever present element all through the story that you are so far from the only or first person to try this #idk it just #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #bag a legend does things to me. i could write an essay #multiple probably #however i won't. because i don't know the Lore and people would so get on my ass for it jdhfjfjs #bag a legend spoilers #voidrambles

[pheidippidestriesthings]

Finally putting my Stardew Valley AU on paper.

Hargrave is obviously in the place of Klint, the war veteran who arrives after the farmer. In this version, Hargrave's discharge is due to injury and unfounded (and untrue) suspicion of leaking secrets. Not the way this lifelong military man thought his illustrious career would end.

But after recovery, and aided by the understanding and companionship of the farmer, he discovers community life has its merits too, and dedicates his leadership experience to rallying the town in support of the efforts to restore the Community Center. Perhaps there is still more he can offer, even when his original source of pride has been entirely squashed.

#pheidippides branches out #armello #armello hargrave #hargrave proudclaw #stardew valley au #armello au #traditional art #yeah i did this on a post it note #but it also turned out pretty good despite it being my first trial in drawing plausible mobility aids #He would start out on cheap axillary crutches borrowed from the town doctor #because his only other option at first is getting around via wheelchair and he doesn't want to look or feel disabled #what can I say? the Proudclaw is defined by his pride and self-image #Later as he integrates into the community the doctor has the idea to try out forearm crutches since they allow for greater mobility #and naturally Mr. Proudclaw likes the idea because they're a bit less eyecatching as well #by the end of the story he does try a prosthetic-cane pairing but has come to like his forearm crutches and his new life #so he saves the prosthetic for special occasions similar to how one would save a tie or a nice jacket- too much effort for his daily life