#i am judging this take so hard

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Byleth shouldn't have been able to join up with one of the people who worked with people who got their dad killed.

:/

#fe #fire emblem #fe16 #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fe 3 houses #edelgard negative #edelgard discourse #i am judging this take so hard #petty playground squabbles

[ethanharmonia]

Been wanting to draw this for a long time now tbh

Have an Azelf and my Volo Au cosplay in PLA

And some pics i took few weeks ago

My finger is in eternal pain after this

#pla volo #pokemon volo #volo #wielder volo #pokemon wielder volo #pla akari #pokemon akari #azelf #pikachu #togekiss #pokemon #pokemon au #i would add that outfit to my au and never use it again #pokemon trainer #drawing #art #bro looks like he was about to commit murder #akari pls run away that guy will kill you #rei was the first victim of assassination i am very sorry /j #its all fun and games until a blonde guy pulls a giratina from his twin towers #praise the lord yall #pokemon legends volo #pokemon legends arceus #i would kms if i drew that outfit again i struggled so hard my legs were cut off #they gave me a heart attack after this #yes this is what i wear in pla dont judge me #its my biggest drip and i am all in for it #if volo ever showed up like this then i would question if he was either in antarctica or did arceus do smth to him to look like that #bro will fist fight god round 2 when #i would take him down (in bed /hj)

[cxpperhead]

Copperhead takes time to warm up to people. In his experience, most people cannot see past his appearance and treat him differently, be it with thinking he's creepy or worse, thinking him an animal due to his serpentine looks. Copperhead is okay with the latter; people who assume his intelligence is low or that he doesn't 'experience feelings' like a human only makes it all the easier to take them by surprise when they underestimate him so badly.

#🐍 || musings #🐍 || headcanons #He experiences this a lot #Moreso people finding him 'creepy' which is fine by him #He doesn't trust people easily and is fine with whatever they think so long as they pay him for his services #Those who try to play him or give them less than what he agreed to will pay for it another way #It's funny because he will be so quiet and let them assume he's not as intelligent as he actually is #When really he's taking everything in and judging the fuck out of them #One of the few things he's thankful for in having a hard time expressing himself facially is that he can feel rage but look calm af #Which is another thing that's creepy about him because he just can't make the same facial expressions ordinary humans do #And a lot of people naturally assume that because he can't show it then he can't feel it #No eyebrows to indicate surprise or incredulousness #No ability to blink so can avoid any tells that excessive blinking would indicate #No blushing because scales #Can't really blame people for finding him uncanny but it is what it is #I'm feeling a bit better again but I have the hospital in a few hours so gonna catch a quick nap #I have two days off but otherwise I'm working damn near every day until New Year so maybe I can eke out something #Thank you all for being so wonderfully patient with my stupid ass #And thank you to new followers also I promise I am not ignoring you I'm just having a tough time lately #Bless you Chrome for inspiring this thought #I needed distractions tonight x

[bonetrousledbones]

OH RIGHT this is somehow completely unrelated to the last post but i finally got a new desktop theme for This blog which actually works & its actually really really cool and is even compatible with the mobile browser sooooo yall should take a looksie :>

#trousled rambles #on the app that link is just gonna take you to the weak sad loser version. you gotta copy paste in a browser #meanwhile my fellow desktop users will continue to be so strong and so so so so cool with no extra steps <3 #anyway. yeah this is very much Not the 10 year old theme i was talking about earlier this one's like a few months old at most #it has a dark mode and light mode :O which i tried So hard not to make too eye bleedy but i am an awful judge at that #i have it set to dark mode by default so if you flashbang yourself by switching to light mode that's your own fault !!!! #i also have a very half-assed about page and navigation page full of links now. it was very fun to set up actually #its also funny bc i replaced a bunch of icons with papyrus gifs and he is horrifically compressed. just so so small #i'm thiiinking about adding in a music player also but i would have to come up with a way to make it fit Both light & dark mode #so that is a project for another day!!!!!!!!!!! #just like the stupid npf chat thing. i do not have the capacity to keep trying to fix it every two weeks its Fine its FINEEEEE

[eli-writes-sometimes]

UGHHH ive just reached a point in planning something where i have to choose who i want the protagonist to run into and its really annoying me

on one hand theres the canon character who i originally imagined it to be, who has a tragic backstory so a bunch of potential for reveals and stuff. the only drawback is that i cant stop feeling embarrassed even though NO ONES GONNA READ IT

and then i could take the easy way out and just make a new character with a smimilar concept but none of the backstory just to stop me from feeling embarrassed about putting a charaacter that already exists into a universe that they exist in

#UIGHHHHH #you can take the boy out of the church but cant take the church out of the boy ig #im just ranting ignore me #THE WORKING TITLE IS SELF INDULGENCE CENTRAL WHY AM I FEELING BAD ABOUT INDULGING MYSELF #like why is it so hard to include the character that ive been imagining in this fic for the last week just because someone might judge me #no ones ever going to read this #its for me and just me why do i feel bad #ugh #im gonna go write him in and tell myself its fine #eli doesnt write sometimes

[wigglesforsquiggles]

me: i shouldn’t hold myself to such a high standard when writing aus, it’s more about the story and characters than the little details :)

me reading an f1 au: [dissects every word for any hint of inaccuracy] idk man seems a surface level of an au :/

#wiggles overshares #i am my own worst enemy #this is why i take 1 bajillion years to plan out an au #bc i know if i were to read it id judge so hard at any mild error

[when-did-this-become-difficult]

quick before the succession finale, what's one thing that you want but won't get, and one thing that you don't want but are definitely getting?

#succession #ill go. one thing that i want but won't get is a judge laughing in kendalls face for trying to get custody. #one thing i don't want but DEFFO am getting is matsson betraying shiv and being super super smug about it #the betraying? inevitable. but the smugness in shivs face after shes had to take SO MUCH smugness is really gonna be hard for me #unless it ends up being twistily fun??? well see. i dont think she has anything in her back pocket

[beomgyutruther]

.

#snapped at my mom because im stressed about my preboard results and then i apologized and explained that i was rly stressed and accidentally #lashed out and she started saying that im always rude to her and taking my stress out on her ??? and that i never do this to my dad #and then she said i never talk to her about anything even though she's the only one who does everything for me yet i still dont talk to her #and well. maybe if she didnt tell my brother 'if u do this u will end up like ur sister in the future. u dont want to fail in life right ? #then dont do this' (nearly exact words) when she was scolding him . i mean maybe then i would actually want to talk to her #and it sucks because i cant rly talk to anyone irl about this because i still feel scared that they'll like. judge my mom #because i still love her a lot and dont want people to think badly about her #but its getting harder ! to exist here ! and the fact that i am constantly used as an example of what my brother should NOT be #especially when i work this hard partly because i want to be someone my brother can look up to #and to have that come from my own mother . it's really hurtful and makes me feel like nothing i ever do will be enough for her #not to mention the fact that i have come out to her 4 times and she still constantly asks me if it's just a phase #<- i thought that part was getting better but apparently not #but i've stopped expecting anything from anyone in that respect so it doesn't really come as a surprise lmao #anyway rant over i just needed to get that off my chest because i really dont know how long i can keep crying and then forcing my voice #to be normal so that no one asks what happened because wow it is taking a toll on me! who knew #do noooot perceive this

[pepprs]

ok mutuals i know this is cringe i am so aware and i am so sorry. but this is my…………………… warrior cat oc who represents me (i am so so so so sorry. i am so sorry.) and im doing some tweaks to her design rn and i can’t decide whether she looks better with or without this like spiky cheek fluff that’s supposed to make her face look more starlike. so what do u think. vote now on ur phones (without fluff on the left, with fluff on the right)

#my art #i have been doodling this silly little cat all over the place for almost 10 yrs btw. and i VERY much suffer from same face syndrome with #both cats and ppl and ive been trying to add like unique variations and stuff when i draw but it’s rly hard. (also ive been getting back in #into drawing if u couldn’t tell. i straight up stopped when i was in college bc i just couldn’t function and this was not the thing i #thought i would come back to once i got out of school but here i am swimming in warrior cats stuff again at age 23 💀💀💀) BUT ANYWAYS. i am #adding butterfly and star motifs to this character who is also me. like u can see her ears are kinda wobbly bc they’re supposed to be shape #like butterfly wings! but the star thing isn’t as evident so I thought maybe the cheek fluff would be nice but then it’s like.. the ear #wobble is already a change and im just worried i will forget the cheek fluff when i doodle her and stuff. ive been rly lenient w how i draw #fluff on cats and stuff and i want to get better at it but i feel like i’ll annoy myself if i mess around w it. but it looks good and is #symbolic so idk 😭 ofc like i would be the best judge of this bc I know what my comfort level is and stuff but … do u like the fluff is what #im asking i guess. and do u think i should carry it forward and make it a thing even if it takes a while to get used to #purrs #i feel so cringe posting my warrior cats characters but idk. it’s my blog i get to post whatever i want so this is what im posting 🤸🏻‍♀️ #ALSO plus when i doodle i already majorly simplify her markings so it’s just the freckles. and the markings im whatever about but i feel #like the physicality is really important smth i would always capture no matter how intense the drawing is and smth i kinda want to #challenge myself to get better / more consistent at a little bit. so yeah. idk #pepe

[gachaparadise]

ahhh the Penacony leaks are really coming in now.

*chuckles* I'm in danger.

#i keep going back and forth about if i'm skipping Ratio. I was 100% going for him but now. looking at whats coming #I like Sunday and Robin and Boothill and Gallagher and Misha and Aventurine and DUKE INFERNO?!? #okay. i just saw that Aventurine might be sustain unit. i NEED one of those so bad. #my accounts gonna be completely fucked if i don't get a good support sometime soon. so like. that moves him WAY up my priorities list #and moves Ratio down :( still dunno exactly what he does waiting for official release to make final decisions #but. if he's really an imaginary dps. i might... *dies a little bit* skip him #i just!!! i have DH!!! i WANT to use DH! he's my favourite character in the damn game! #and >_> is Ratio going to have story relevance? i thought Argenti would get more then just a companion quest but he hasn't #and that kinda... bums me out? i like the meet a character THEN roll for them not the other way around. i like character who matter plotwis #A!NY!WAY! putting that aside. i might just go for the 50/50 and take what i get. just to smooth out my pity if nothing else #i don't have most of the standard pool so chances are *knocks on wood* i'll have something new to work with #and like we are getting an absolute BARRAGE of hard skip banners coming up after him. #i do not care for these women at all. extremely mid designs i SLEEP #(except for the judge she fucks but. jades are tight right now honey im sorry!!) #so. i've got a little but of time to save afterwards #post: misc #game: honkai sr #these tags are long and disjointed but its *checks clock* almost 2:30 am so. i'm a bit. you know. #i could save this draft for tomorrow and edit into something resembling a human's train of thought instead of word vomit but #i kinda wanna capture the moment. this is how i saw the leaks. the essence of desperation of a f2p. aahhh gacha my beloved.

[my-current-obsession]

I see a lot of people saying that the royals (mostly Alfred, but I’ve seen a fair bit of complaining about all the others too) are statistically bad in Engage. I have to wonder, what difficulty is this based off of? On my Hard playthrough most of the royals were my best units, and Alfred in particular was amazing. Ivy and Celine were probably the weakest two - Ivy due to being a bit slow and having AWFUL dex and luck, and Celine just lacking power due to splitting her attention between strength and magic.

Is it just Maddening that they’re specifically bad for? I have not (and will not) played that mode in any FE but my impression is very much that Maddening mode is a different experience and you’re basically forced to play a certain way to win. That’s probably even more true here since fixed growths are in play, so you can’t count on RNG to give you good units. You have to find the ones that the game wants you to use, and stick with them.

For me, one of the biggest joys of FE has always been the RNG of it all - I love the random growths meaning different characters shine (and suck) each run, which encourages you to give different units a try. I love that, at least on Normal and Hard, you have enough breathing room to basically play how you want - favor the units of your choice, reclass whoever into whichever classes you fancy, etc - and doing so MIGHT make your life harder but probably won’t doom your entire run. The versatility and random nature of your units growths makes strategy & combat in this game infinitely more appealing and adds to its replayability.

Like I LOVE Persona games and Stella Glow (which gameplay wise is fairly similar to FE) but in those games the characters are what they are, and the stats on level-up are set in stone. Once you’ve done ONE run and know what works, Complacent Gaming kicks in and you repeat the exact same steps in future runs. In FE even if you use the same characters in the same classes, their performance WILL vary based on how blessed or cursed the RNG has been for them.

If Maddening IS as difficult and particular as I’m assuming, and basically every unit’s viability is determined from the moment you get them and you HAVE to play a specific way to win... is it really right to judge units based on that specific difficulty? Like, sure, so-and-so SUCKS on Maddening, but so does EVERYONE except this specific handful of units and if you use anyone else you’re just hurting yourself.

I feel like we should be judging characters based off a difficulty where everyone is at least VIABLE from the beginning, but judging how likely they are to REMAIN that way based on their growths/classes/personal skills/etc.

To put it another way, what would a tier list of a Maddening run look like? My impression is that it has two, maybe 3 categories of who you can actually use, who gets benched immediately, and MAYBE a middle category of who exists to fill a spot on the team and take a few hits/deal a smidge of damage for just a little while until someone better comes along to replace them. Meanwhile on Normal and Hard you can have a full spectrum of who on average is statistically the best through the worst, with everything in between. And considering several “unusable” units on Maddening are at least GOOD or even better on a normal or hard run, can you really call them bad? At the very least CLARIFY you mean they’re bad on Maddening specifically instead of in general.

#fire emblem #fire emblem engage #fe17 #happy for all the people who love maddening mode out there but it's Not For Me #for one i am a casual gamer that doesn't hate myself. I want a challenge but not TOO MUCH #(this is the same reason i don't fight superbosses in KH games. it's equivalent to smashing my head repeatedly against a brick wall IMO) #and if i'm right about how maddening works it also sounds like it takes the most fun aspect of FE out of it for me #since i'd be railroaded into using specific characters and strats instead of being able to play however i want with whoever i want #basically i want people to clarify if they mean maddening mode specifically when they call units awful #because i'm not bothered at all by people saying ANYONE is bad on maddening. i believe you i guess. i also don't care. #maddening plays by a distinctly different set of rules so i barely think of it as the same game #any FE veteran would tell you not to waste EXP on your pre-promote in the beginning #yet awakening lunatic is affectionately called Frederick Emblem so... i've learned to think of that difficulty as its own entity #but most units can be used on hard and the royals specifically are mostly still GOOD on hard #if i had polls i might not have made this post at all btw. because really what i want to know COULD be condensed into poll questions #what difficulty do you prefer/think is default/judge characters by & were the royals GOOD units for you? #anyway my second (hard) run is underway and alfred CONTINUES to be a great unit for me #about to go into chapter 10-11 and alcryst and diamant are doing great so far too #celine however is struggling. she is REALLY hurt by trying to be physical AND magical. she ends up middling in both #she might end up outright benched in this run

[hawkwidows]

keep typing out posts and rewriting bc everything I’m trying to say doesn’t feel right and I’m scared but at least typing it out usually helps in a small way anyway 🙃👍🏽

#even this post had a wall of tags that I ended up deciding still wasn’t worth it #just hard to judge anything rn so I feel stuck but I’ll just keep trying to get a feel for things from moots I guess #it was just me unsure if I can even post bylerween things in time and scared to post art when I was finally for once finding a rhythm #and how frustrated I am at some people (not moots) but can’t discuss it so idk why I brought it up when I was typing it out before #I am just not vibing with state of shock impulsivity and hostility it’s not for me #but like can I even say that yknow did I make disappointed enemies in one sentence idk bro!! I don’t mean to if I do!! #so I thought maybe I’d take a break but I neverrrr take breaks not even last yr when sttwt was disgusting so woof. but we’ll see #oh look the wall of tags are back!! she cannot be stopped 💃🏽

[essektheylyss]

So often I consider writing a post on various different ways of using point of view and tense and why you would use any of them and how it might affect what you're trying to say, but honestly there is no way to write that post that would not be only a minute sample of uses and rationales and circumstances, and in the end the meaning would simply boil down to, "Literally everything a writer puts down on a page is a choice that has meaning and effects so you might as well make the choices intentionally before you inadvertently step on your own story."

#and really at that point you might as well go read body work by melissa febos instead #I've said it before and I'll say it again: I do mean LITERALLY everything. #I am actually EXACTINGLY intentional in my writing #to the point that I can fully identify EXACT things that I chose to do for reasons I didn't much like #and still now am annoyed at myself for doing. #like there is ONE specific thing in luminous worlds that I did out of lack of confidence and yanno what? still annoyed about it. #(it's published and done tho and that was the choice I made so I have left it and moved on cuz the lesson was learned.) #I was editing the piece I mentioned this weekend and there was one point where the manner of address was in dispute #and the editor had said to explain if I really felt strongly about not making a change #and I did take many of the changes suggested cuz they didn't do anything to the meaning OR they actually clarified a meaning #but this one which I had done somewhat unconsciously I realized like. no that actually has a purpose and meaning. #I'm really not saying 'agonize over every aspect' but like... idk understand WHY you're doing things #do! not! ever! compromise! on your intentions in a story! #anyway this is my only only only hard rule of writing #every time I have compromised on this rule I have regretted it #but I still love things I wrote years ago because I judge all pieces on whether or not they did what I intended. #if they accomplished that? they were good and they're still good.

[elfcollector]

Did you like TWC Book 3? I've put off playing because I've seen some people saying that the pacing is off and that sort of thing.

i really liked it! i'm also admittedly like....probably not engaging with it the way the folks who are critiquing the pacing are, though, so i may be the wrong person to ask. if i'm totally honest, i do think it's a bit silly to go into the amateur project that's overtly designed to be tropey and melodramatic and etc and take a super critical lens to it. not that it's wrong to do it, but it does feel a little bit like reading...i dunno, twilight, and being like "damn, the lore here is kinda flimsy." like who on god's green earth is reading twilight for the lore and not the shoddily written but very fun romance

this is all to say that i do agree that the pacing isn't always solid and there are plenty issues with the writing, but i'm just too old to find reasons to dislike things that are fun, even if the fun thing has flaws, if that makes sense? there are bigger discussions that are absolutely worth having about mishandling of race and things like that, of course, but in terms of writing quality i'm not engaging with twc expecting it to give me the experience of reading lord of the flies. i'm expecting it to give me melodrama and overwrought romance and boy is it delivering.

anyway, i liked book 3 a lot and think it delivers on what it's trying to do quite well! if you engage with it as a fun tropey melodrama written by somebody who's got a lot of passion but is not a professional, then i imagine you'll enjoy it as well! if you're expecting more than that then i can see the writing flaws being disappointing.

#nonsense. #does this make sense? #anyway this is not by any means meant to be read as like. a criticism of ppl taking a fine-tooth comb 2 the writing #party hard if u enjoy that! #so much as me saying im rly not sure if twc is worth that nor is it trying to be #i am engaging with it as the romance 16 yr old me wanted and im getting it babyyyyy #also some of the writing issues are just like. the nature of choice-based games #that u rly cant circumvent so again. u sorta gotta judge it based on what it is

[yappacadaver]

in some ways (most ways) the tumblr style baby praise just makes me feel worse abt myself. Like damn do I really be needing some stranger online to pat my ass about how im such a good bean for washing my hands after taking a piss goddamn

#like if thats your jam and it works for you kudos i am not judging #but holy shit the post i just saw #one of them 'dont push yourself so hard uwu you are a precious bean for completing an inhale/exhale combo uwu' and like #cool im about to work myself into an early grave just for having seen that #actually making a big ol dookie in the toilet and making art are two different things and i find it slightly- just slightly- offensive that #we are conflating the two. to make people who only take dookies feel better. #cant be any more than slightly miffed though at the end of the day it's just someone's diary entry that escaped containment most likely #anywho gonna do my precious bean move of the day and take a shit

[joshuaalbert]

haha I love that kirk trying to offer compassion is framed as a stupid thing to do! this feels just like the star trek you know and love!

#I’m trying so fucking hard to judge this on its own merits I really am #I did not go in intending to be negative about this I really wanted to give it a fair shot #but it is really goddamn hard when it keeps directly taking messages that trek repeatedly hammered home and going #‘well actually I think that’s stupid’ #yes compassion was not always the solution!! sometimes they had to fight!! obviously!! #but the point was so often that it is worth TRYING #so to have spock be like lmao no that’s fucking stupid. even if maybe in this situation it a little bit was. it feels Bad. #aos liveblog #the ship breaking up does look really good #at least on my phone. I’ll give them that. it looks good.