#killing a man? easy

[naferty]

Bucky: I would kill for you

Sam: Sure, you mind getting the laundry instead?

Bucky: No

#text post #incorrect quotes #sambucky #winterfalcon #killing a man? easy #doing chores? absolutely not

[hahahalfwit]

im studying them like little bugs

#im so rrazy about st tos rn it's driving me insane #star trek #star trek tos #spock #leonard mccoy #leonard bones mccoy #can you guess who my favorites are. im going t #though i can't really sketch them out without refs still so umm studies ummmm. #when bones 👁️👁️ #i shouldn't be so hyped up about photo studies #it's so hard to draw these days man #it's crazy how cartoony the whole cast of star trek looks. yall look easy to draw #why is the quality so shit wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im killing

[fisheito]

This is what i mean

#i'm with edmond on this one you guys are too easy #love how eiden's just like KUYA! NO! BAD KUYA! PUT THEM DOWN. DROP THEM....... #and the two softies are immediately swayed like oh 😊 i like him! 😊 #and edmond's giving the megasuper side eye to both of them bc we were just about to kill each other 4 seconds ago. #this demon is a menace. he's brought the entire nobility to a standstill. our nation is in shambles. we have to destroy him #and your excuse is #awwww shucks. but he seems NICE? #healers (man.) too forgiving for their own good (what am i even doing here.) #is yakumo a healer in this world? i'm gonna pretend he can be #like oli's the main healer and yakumo can supplement #oli is the one driving the motorcycle and yakumo is in the lil sidecar :) #journey to a nu world #eiden #olivine #edmond #yakumo

[mishapen-dear]

tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.

but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.

#qsmp neg #qsmp crit #discourse #<- for blacklists #im not grumping or anything im just musing on like. the mechanics of why everyone is so upset about the latest fight #and how it can be avoided while still keeping these fights genuinely difficult and intense #its hard because there's so many players and they all have wildly different strengths and weaknesses #so someone who could take on the code easy needs that enemy scaled differently than someone who isn't a big fighter #but it's hard to do that in a world where they interact w the same enemy #and you only have so much man-power to cater to a big server like this one #and then you bring in the big powerful items that the players can and can't access but which the admins have ultimate power over #and the fact that some of the admins themselves have lag issues or aren't super great at pvp so they accommodate that with better gear #and it starts getting messy #but for the fights themselves yeah regardless of what armour or gear or killing-methods they use there should Always be a win condition #and idk maybe there was one and we just didn't get to see it #but if that win condition is 'parents sit in the safe room with their babies while the others are overrun' #then i think there are ways to build better win conditions #anyway i love game design and player/dm interactions qsmp hire me now i want to know your behind the scenes #jk im too busy to apply #but man. i wanna nerd out so bad that sometimes i think about it

[ultimateinferno]

My opinion on the matter in as few words as possible and why I want Moash to persist as a character through the second half of the series.

#stormlight #stormlight archive #cosmere #cfsbf #i don't even mind the depiction of killing elhokar as a bad thing. phenomenal moment #but my issue with it is it says ''DONT DO WHAT MOASH DOES'' and doesnt even humor the respond ''then what should you do'' #my amaram essay is still floating out but currently the Moash plot is entirely defined by: #''YOU KILLING GUY YOU HATE BAD. ME KILLING GUY I HATE GOOD.'' which is such a nothingburger of commentary #killing amaram was an easy out to avoid answering the question on how you bring a man protected by the system to justice #words of radiance said killing isnt a viable option and then the following books dont tell you what is #oh just wait for the guy you hate to betray everyone and become possessed by a demon then killing him totally chill #it would have been particularly effective if it also looked at what made killing sadeas permissible #anyways. don't care that moash is a villain. only care that the books refuse to properly engage with him

[cementcornfield]

Joe comes to work in a suit and a tie, Jake comes to work in a suit with no tie.

#'that's two different tax brackets' fucking killed me #this man is so funny #this is such a thoughtful answer #this man has been THINKING about this #and it tracks i think with what we've observed #ja'marr has said before how long it took him to make joe smile/laugh for the first time #and it's still not an easy thing to do! #but if anyone's figured out how to do it consistently it's him #(and tee. tbh) #ja'marr chase #joe burrow #jake browning

[finedinereception]

looking back on danny phantom and beginning to realize why i never took vlad that seriously as an antagonist. like a glitch in time really cracked it open for me.

he is a 40 year old man but he is also a category 5 failgirl having a two decade long Mental Health Moment. his hobby is feeling really stupid about a thing he did and then doing it again five days later. he fumbled so hard he almost destroyed all of reality. like on accident.

#danny phantom #vlad plasmius #like. why didnt he hire a human hitman to kill jack. what is danny going to do if jack steps out and gets headshot by a rooftop sniper #its literally that easy #all this suffering when he could have just had Old Man Yaoi with jack instead #i dont know if gaysex could fix him but like he didnt even try smh

[ghost-bard]

Omg ppl are finally noticing how Not Good™️ q slime is this is a real yippee moment (hes been in an obvious downward spiral) (he wanted to move on but couldnt) (and ppl keep bringing up shit that wasnt his fault) (and it takes for him to physically deteriorate for ppl to notice) (i am very normal about this character i swear)

#qsmp #quackity smp #q slimecicle #q charlie #slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #qsmp slimecicle #like. cmon man #the signs have been there each time hes logged on lmao #the best hed been recently was pre JuanaFlippa appearance during the b day stream #but its like. when will ppl stop bringing up the death of juanaflippa and tilín as a gotcha moment #its like. getting annoying (for me as a viewer who likes the character) #like idk. its just like. its been confirmed that the deaths werent his and marianas fault #and slime is also blamed like. disproportionally??? #hes super unstable dont get me wrong but #other than tilíns ACCIDENTAL death #he never actually killed an egg lmao #but bc hes so. unstable ig its easy to just. ignore everything else huh? #sorry im just like. idk. the ppl that he sees most of the time are the same ppl that keep bringing it up #like. fuck man. #i just want q slime to get better 😭😭😭 #and theres so much holding him back yknow? #like i said. so normal about this character. obviously

[dez-wade]

Also btw Forever made a backpack that can hold 4 million totens and created a very fast totem farm that got him 100 totens in like 15 minutes. He even went to a dungeon without armor for fun to prove how unkillable he was.

So if in the future there's a new rule that limits how many totens a player can hold... You know why.

#qsmp #genuinely want to see how quackity plans to kill him #my man is not a good fighter but he's not easy to kill at all #q!forever

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

job applications: this is entry level! anyone can apply!

job applications: ...as long as you've done at least six months of highly specific work, or have this exact degree, or if you kissed a chicken during the last moon of 2012-

#im back in the trenches bois its Not Looking Great #gonna apply to this stupid thing anyway but #it looks like stockin grocery store shelves is the way im gonna go #unless i get Very lucky or manage to bullshit my way into this job #college isn't necessary but Man a lot of places want you to attend. no <3 #but noooo instead i have to like. work. till i die. and never make enough money to live comfortably. sigh #sometimes i think to myself 'i should make video essays on youtube and see if that goes anywhere' #and sometimes i think 'i should scribble up things that people would buy and make a shop' #and sometimes i think 'what if i killed someone with a stick. would that be fucked up or what' #absolutely unprompted #AGHHHHHHHH THE BOXES WE AS HUMANITY HAVE LOCKED OURSELVES INTO IM GONNA LOSE IT #i was born to be a handsome decoration / weird little artist for eccentric wealthy people #i was meant to drape myself across a beautiful philanthropist woman's lap and doodle lil animals for her #while she rambles and feeds me grapes #yk. if i did make a shop i could have an extra section for small crochet things #coasters. small hand warmers. tiny shapes. simple cat toys. that sorta thing. quick and easy stuff #i could make them w/ specific colors so that they're subtle fandom themed #i literally have a coaster in damian's robin colors... a black/red SB square... #hm. thinking #oh shit i gotta work on that new commission sheet #OH NO. I FORGOR SOMETHING I SHOULD NOT HAVE FORGOR. I HAVE MADE A LITTLE FUCKY WUCKY #excuse me everyone i have something to finish

[rosiesriiveters]

okay but do u ever think about rosie’s crew hearing about him re-upping? do you think he tells them before he asks his CO? do you think they saw it coming? even if they did, did it still scare them? that their dear friend could still die? did they beg him to just go home? to come with them? when they were back home, i wonder how often they thought about him… did they read the newspaper hoping that they wouldn’t find out their fearless leader had died when they should have just dragged him home with them? did their hearts sink when they learned that rosie was shot down in east berlin? they must have truly thought it was over. i hope rosie tracked them down after the war to visit them

#being a part of rosie’s crew is great bc u know that man’s going to get your ass home if it kills him (and he’s not an easy man to kill) #also i imagine it must be strange right bc rosie’s doing all this absolutely insane shit like manoeuvring his b17 like it’s a fighter and #re-upping and getting shot down (twice!!) etc etc #rosie’s riveters watching their beloved pilot like okay this might as well happen <3 #rosie rosenthal #robert rosenthal #rosie mota #masters of the air #tv: masters of the air #ch: rosie

[angelthemanspanker]

The way some people characterise Buffy in fics like you described genuinely put me off Buffy fandom for years, it was absolutely everywhere, in Spuffy fics, in faith/buffy fics, it felt like I couldn't read a fic without the obligatory 'Buffy apologises to whoever the fuck for being so mean' and I just stopped, it was so baffling

For real its so weirdly pervasive. It genuinely blows my mind bc I totally get the urge to use your fic to call out a character/plot point you don't like, more power to you. Like I'm constantly imagining rewrites of the scenes where Xander is at his most insufferable but no one in-show is verbalising obvious holes in his bullshit (my big one is that besides a one off line from Buffy that everyone in the show ignores and a DELETED line from Giles is that NO ONE calls him on his absolutely infuriating "I was jealous of Angel being with the girl I like and I'm gonna have the gall to pretend it was bc I saw him turning evil coming" BULLSHIT)

But like. Buffy? You came out of this show and the person you had beef with and want to call out is BUFFY? THE VAMPIRE SLAYER? The protagonist of all time? Bc she's mean sometimes :( people try to apologise for trying to kill her and she's so unsympathetic :( she carries out her responsibility as the Slayer whether she wants to or not even if the person she's targeting is a character I like :( why won't she apologise. why won't she apologise. why does she insist on taking up space. why can't she just be nice all the time. yes my ao3 tag is princessspuffy why do you ask. yeah I know their relationship is abusive but I think Spike would forgive her :)

#NONE OF YOU DESERVE HER. SHE SAVED EXISTENCE AND YOU SAY SHE SHOULD HAVE SMILED MORE KILL KILL KILL #anyway. normal about her. #buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #im not a spuffy hater i love their mess but spike is easily the most common Why Wont Buffy Be Nice To Him i see #even though SPIKE loves her bc she DOESN'T let him off easy #'im a monster but you treat me like a man' was about the kiss in intervention #he hit on her and helped her fight and played nice with the scoobs all season #but he was clearly doing it to GET something and buffy is obviously completely unresponsive to that #but he lets himself get tortured almost to death for buffy and dawn and doesn’t seem to plan on telling them about it until buffy tricks him #THAT was real. the first real selfless good thing he did for her. AND SHE KISSED HIM FOR IT. #buffy has IMMENSE capacity to forgive people who she can see are actually trying #she just has zero patience for coddling self pitying murderers bc she learned from her first boyfriend #if you choose to do wrong she'll stop you but if you choose to do right she SEES that and she remembers it #she responds to action not words. you are what you do. and even if you're a monster #if you try to do the right thing she'll treat you like a man

[apotelesmaa]

I don’t feel like tracking it down but that one “project sekai characters I can beat in a fight” by a popular pjsk youtuber made me sooo angry like I know he did not read any of the stories. Specifically pissed that he put emu “on several spots teams” “canonically scaled a two story building” “had the body strength to climb up to the ceiling and just hang out there” “power scales with looney toons logic” ootori in the easy win category. She would kick your ass be so serious. Wouldn’t even be difficult for her. Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby.

#project sekai #also putting the mmj girls down as easy to beat. even I know idols have insane workout routines. #& HE PUT THEM BELOW TOUYA. touya is like a wet paper bag. #but like in general emu is more of a force of nature than anything. realistically she’s insanely strong #i think in general emu & the mmj girls + akito (sports guy) r winning dude. #also mafuyu. archery & pent up rage. #nene is out of shape but I think rui designed nene robo to just straight up kill if she’s threatened. #in general I cannot take u seriously if u think the male cast (minus akito) is stronger than the female characters who r canonically #super strong… absolutely bonkers man. they’d kill u.

[hephaestuscrew]

In Ep45 Desperate Measures, Minkowski really needs the SI-5 (particularly Jacobi) to believe that she will shoot Maxwell if they don't back down. In that particular situation, she's desperate to be seen as unafraid and ruthless. If she can convince the SI-5 that she is willing to kill Maxwell, she can avoid having to find out whether she is. Only by giving the impression of being relaxed about violence can she avoid having to commit it.

But her hands betray her. As Minkowski points the gun, Maxwell notices how "her hands are shaking. A lot." Minkowski can't hide that sign of how on edge she is, no matter how much she might want to. Maxwell tells this to Jacobi with a little laugh, giving it as evidence for her certainty that Minkowski won't kill her. Jacobi believes Maxwell's assessment of the situation, but her assumptions are wrong; Minkowski fires that gun with her trembling hands. She's not the sort of person who can kill with steady hands, ruthless and unafraid. But she can still kill.

Later, in Ep53 Dirty Work, Minkowski claims "even in that moment, I didn't mean to do it... the noise. The explosion. It was a reflex. I think it was." I don't entirely believe this explanation of the incident, but I do think there is probably some element of instinctive motion involved when Minkowski pulls that trigger. In which case - contrary to Maxwell's assumptions - the lack of calm suggested by Minkowski's shaking hands could have actually contributed to her shooting Maxwell. If her hands are shaking, her reflexes are probably tensed, and her finger is trembling on the trigger, which just needs one small movement to fire...

#wolf 359 #w359 #renee minkowski #renée minkowski #A little bit of Tumblr user hephaestuscrew lore for you #is that I get shaky hands really easily #which makes it frustratingly difficult to hide when I'm even slightly nervous or stressed... #Minkowski threatening to shoot someone 🤝 #Me expressing an opinion in a work meeting #Trembling hands solidarity #Another point is that if Minkowski's hands are shaking that badly #it wouldn't be easy for her to aim a gun precisely #She could have missed #She could have shot Maxwell in a non-fatal place #But if her hands are shaking that badly. she has less agency over that element of the situation #and I think Maxwell knows that too but she thinks it increases her chances of survival #because how can Minkowski kill her if she can't even aim the gun steadily? #wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers #the empty man posteth #Oh also. I know that for me the most effective way to make any trembling in my hands (and sometimes my arms and legs too rip) worse #is to realise they are shaking and to really focus on how much I don't want them to shake #And Maxwell draws attention to Minkowski's trembling hands. and uses this observation against her #And I think that might have made Minkowski's hands shake even more dramatically

[tawneybee]

Little Nightmares analysis

It's always interested me when people make Thin Man vengeful against Six based on him kidnapping her in the game. But I think his intentions are the opposite.

When he kidnapped her, he put her in a monster form right? Made her lucid and quiet. But he also put her in a room filled with toys and comfort items.

He's getting her out of the way. It would've been extremely easy to just kill Six when he had her in his hands, cause that would've broken the cycle. But instead he put her in a lucid state in a comforting room. To keep her out of the way.

But with Mono, he was chasing him down and trying to use his powers against him, which we've seen can disintegrate people.

Even as an adult, Mono chose killing his younger self to break the cycle over hurting Six.

#little nightmares #little nightmare six #little nightmare mono #little nightmare thin man #little nightmares six #little nightmares mono #little nightmares thin man #little nightmares 2 #mono is noble even after being betrayed and abandoned #yall underestimate him too much #and perhaps hes a little too attached to the only friend hes ever had #i dunno #but it wouldve been so easy for him to just kill six when he had her #he didnt choose to do that #instead he chose to go after his younger self #poor boy

[beastofwant]

yeah you're allowed to "have preferences" or whatever the shit but if you treat people like ticking time bombs because they've got a penis I think you should really re-examine where that's coming from and idk, grow up a little

#mad scrawl #'afab and females only!' just say cis women #unless you're comfortable with a trans man who has a beard and looks identical to a cis man #(you wouldn't be.) #I'm SO SICK of being reduced to my genitals #I'm SO SICK of being treated as female light #kill yourself #I've been sexually assaulted and yet somehow I manage to realize someone isn't a Potential Rapist #JUST because of the way their body is. #Or because of what they were assigned at birth #it's really fucking easy to be normal about trans women and yet people in this fucking local queer group fail EVERY TIME! #die!