#whatever - we're used to being on the losing team so I don't care that much for when shit hits the fan.... more

[mcflymemes]

"I NEED YOU CLOSE AT ALL TIMES" PROMPTS *  assorted dialogue for protective moments, adjust as necessary

i'm stronger when you're near me.

if they want to get to you, they'll have to get through me first.

i can't be expected to do this without you.

whatever happens, i'm right here beside you.

you're important to me. maybe you don't realize just how important.

[name], it's you. it's always been you.

don't make me beg you to stay, because i will.

i don't like sleeping alone.

i'm going to hold your hand and i won't let go.

the bed is cold when you're not here.

i always feel better when you're near me. i smile more.

you have no idea what you mean to me.

if you left me, i don't know what i would do.

it would be better if you stayed beside me.

you won't be alone through this. i'll be right here the whole time.

will you stay up with me and keep me company?

i really can't deal with this alone.

would you hold my hand for a while?

we're a team. we can't do anything without each other.

you're the only one who has ever understood me.

no one else gets me like you do.

it's really nice having you close by.

thank you for being here when i needed you.

i can't do this alone.

i'd be better off with you, to be honest.

can you tell them we need to be together?

i won't let them separate us.

after what happened before, i can't let you out of my sight.

i'm not going to risk losing you.

maybe you don't realize how much you mean to me.

it would be better if we went together.

we would do so much better as a team.

i don't think they understand how much you mean to me.

you've always meant the world to me.

please stay close to me.

i like it when i can reach over and grab your hand.

your presence is a comfort.

i always feel reassured when i look over and see you.

never told you how much you mean to me.

they'll never understand our connection.

i'd be better off going with you.

what do you mean? of course i'm coming with you.

i don't really care what they think. i'm not letting you go alone.

you're going to need my help, and i need yours.

would it be okay if i leaned against you for a while?

you're riding with me.

i'll look after your wound.

i promise to take good care of you.

it's just us now. no one else is around.

i can't believe we spent so much time apart.

we were always made to fit together.

i think i was meant for you in some way.

i don't need anyone like i need you.

i promised i'd keep you safe, and i'm not about to break that promise anytime soon.

i don't think you realize just how much you mean to me.

i was made for you, and you were made for me.

we're a team. we're in this 'til the end.

i'm not giving up on you.

you can't die on me. we're a team.

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[freckles-a-constellation]

The Doctor is a tragic character in the best Greek tragedy tradition.

So y'all know how the most common driving factor for intelligence to develop in species is if they're social? (Octopi aren't very social but let's ignore that real quick, the Doctor's a vertebrate anyway so invertebrate intelligence can probably be dismissed as irrelevant) Because after a point, more intelligence isn't really needed to avoid danger or gather food. But more intelligence does make it possible to communicate more efficiently, form more complex social bonds, eventually develop culture. Cue why social species tend to be more intelligent than solitary ones of otherwise comparable lifestyle. And cue why humanity is the way it is.

Now look at Gallifreyans. (I am purposefully ignoring the Timeless Child thing bc I don't rlly believe it and besides, even assuming it's true, The Doctor is similar enough to Gallifreyans to have flawlessly believed himself/themselves/herself to be one for 13+ regenerations, so anything that can be concluded to be true from analysis of Gallifreyans has good basis to be presumed true about the Doctor, whatever the fuck semantics you wanna use) So, Gallifreyans. A species much more advanced than according to DW canon humanity will ever be. More intelligent than humanity. High levels of education and not on the basis of private tutoring. Lives in cities. Has complex language and technology capable of instantly translating pretty much any language of any other species to be understandable to them. (Hell the TARDIS consistently still translates shit to English for the companions while they're outside it.) Complex social structure. That's one fucking social species.

And it gets better. The TARDIS is meant to be operated by a team of six. And even if River was joking about six, it's still clear that it should at least be more than one. Compare the Doctor steering the TARDIS alone to when he was with Susan. I mean, even those two looked like they could use an extra hand. Have you ever seen a human private use vehicle designed with 2+ pilots in mind? Definitely a species more social than humanity.

And the telepathy thing? Hello? Insanely, mind-boggingly social species.

Now take a being this fundamentally social and do something to them so that they see no recourse other than to take one (1) same-species (as far as he was aware disclaimer ig) companion, steal a ship they have little to no clue how to pilot, leave everything and everyone they've ever known and run without ever stopping for breath, no matter how much they miss home, no matter if it hurts. (And I do believe something must have happened to make him run like that, since the beggining, way before the Time War) Have them be scorned, judged, punished, mistreated and rejected by their species, again and again, for ages. Have them love, again and again, only to always lose everyone they've cared about, through abandonment or death. Have them essentially be forced to exterminate their whole species and believe themselves to be the last of their kind, only to be proven wrong by the whole Master situation, which alright is better, but also in some ways is worse. Have them, once again, form deep bonds with companions and once again lose all of them in various varyingly tragic ways until they have no hope left that anyone can ever truly stay for any amount of time even close to satisfactory, that love can for them end in anything but loss and pain. And they can't even avoid love altogether in an effort to spare themselves the inevitable agony of losing loved ones, because they're incapable of not growing to care for those around them. And they can't be without company either, because their sanity goes straight to hell in a handbasket within like,, 5 minutes of being alone.

Let me remind you this is not a human we're talking about. It's a member of a species much more inherently social than humanity. My point?

The Doctor is literally more lonely than the human brain can comprehend.

#*shoves this at any and all unfortunate people* #doctor who #the doctor #classic who #nuwho #doctor who meta #or at least i think it is? #first doctor #war doctor #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thoughts tm

[inf1nyxw0rlds]

reposting my infinite is not weak essay because i got anxious and deleted the last one <3 i've been meaning to do this for months, but i'm not exactly the most functional person and i don't often put myself out there. in the process of rewriting it, i also altered the wording and added a few things, as you might notice if you've seen it before; and if you haven't, then welcome to whatever it is i'm doing here!

this is written with all my love, all my frustration, fueled by years worth of listening to a cycle of minsinformation that left permanent damage in the form of skewed perceptions – based in a false claim and the jokes that came with it – and a hesistance on sega's part to even address him save for a few tossed crumbs over the span of the last half a decade. originally i had an elaborate metaphor here, but there was no need for it and i'll cut right to the chase; there has always been good in infinite's character – but not everyone cares to look for it.

it's been six years since the release of sonic forces. which is insane! it's wild to me! as somebody who's been here since before the game even released, i've seen it all. to commemorate the occassion, when i wrote this originally, i thought that i would talk further about infinite's reception; in particular, the Weak thing. i've discussed it before in brief, and you can read that one here; this time though, i'm going to get more into dissecting the actual problem, and debunking arguments that supposedly prove infinite to be objectively weak and pathetic... when canonically, that isn't the case. i'd actually argue the opposite, but at the very least he isn't lacking strength – his skills are average at worst.

the first reason that i see, the one we're all plenty familiar with and the one i brought up previously, is that infinite is weak because he lost to shadow. once. that's it. do i really have to explain why this is stupid? yeah, he did lose, one time. even against a normal opponent, one defeat in comparison to what we can assume, based on his title, many victories, isn't much of an indicator toward being weak. shadow is also the ultimate lifeform, in case anyone has forgotten that detail, and bear in mind that infinite knows shadow to have just slaughtered his entire team – do you really think he would be at his best in that state?

there's also a fuckton of context clues implying that infinite had issues prior to this encounter, specifically inferiority issues. shadow literally told him, after having wiped his whole team out, to never show his pathetic face again. the face with the, you know. the big scar. the blind eye. (shoutout to the person who pointed this out in the tags in the "first part" of this, by the way! based for that)

this argument is so full of holes that it just drives me kind of bonkers how it can be used to claim infinite is weak and stupid. do i think that the scene is without flaw? of course not. if you want to say that the way they handled his breakdown wasn't the greatest, you can, you have every right to your opinion. but that's just it. we're talking about something else. i get it, the "i am not weak" was a memeable line, but it doesn't actually make him weak. people that reduce his reaction to "just" hating shadow because he got his ass beat, people who call it a "temper tantrum", i ... the context is right there. it was never "just" because shadow beat him up. would people say this about anyone else that shadow happens to beat up? that they're irrefutably weak? no. that's stupid. obviously. so why infinite? because it wasn't a strong enough spectacle. let me illustrate this more with another example;

another reason people say that infinite is weak is because sonic didn't need to go super in order to beat him. and... again, this one, too, falls apart pretty easily. sonic has beaten other characters without going super, and this includes shadow. the difference is the when, the how, the context. it's not that infinite is weak, but it was a weak final boss fight. do you get what i mean?

forces, in general, suffered a lot with this problem. it wasn't a problem that was exclusive to infinite. unfortunately, as the new character, he got the most heat. there was a huge amount of hype for him, so when the spectacle fell short, people were pissed. and i get it. but then that issue became, "infinite bad". that issue became "infinite's weak". it has never been that, though. this is why i personally hate weak jokes – because they're rooted in non-issue and misinfo.

a point i saw made once was that the characterisation of sonic and the rest of the cast are part of what made infinite's character hard to take seriously, and i'd agree! infinite actually fits the setting quite well; he has a mysterious, serious presence. he's harsh, he's edgy, but it's cheesy enough that it works in the typical style of the sonic franchise. the problem is, when the other characters aren't taking things seriously, it throws the whole thing off. we're being told this is a hard-hitting, high stakes plot, but how can we see it that way, when they're all just cracking jokes?

as a side-tangent of sorts, you know what's real funny? infinite's backstory, the one thing people use more than anything else to declare his obvious weakness, quite likely wasn't originally going to exist anyway, and he was instead going to be made by eggman. i say "quite likely" as, as i've stated, i don't like misinformation, and sega will probably never confirm this one-hundred percent, but this is something fans – myself included – have discussed a few times.

first, there's the odd dialogue and enviroment in stage 29. tails states outright, as you go through the fortress, where containment/test tubes line the walls in countless numbers, "so this is where eggman built infinite". the tubes do, in fact, appear to have low-res bodies inside them. this is also something they detailed in an early version of the script. infinite's remark on sonic's "data" also fits in with this idea of him being some form of android. prior to release, there was also a cryptic message that, when decoded, referred to infinite as "the fated son of daedalus"; in other words, icarus, who flew too close to the sun; his father being an inventor! that's really dope foreshadowing.

you can argue that tails and amy's commentary is speculation rather than solid fact and that they're mistaken, it's a possibility i definitely consider here, but given how rushed the dlc and prequel comics feel, the fact that there was a statement that big changes were made late into development... yeah. i'll buy it. i often find myself wondering what people would think of infinite had this been his story, whether they would view him differently. also, speaking of the dlc being rushed, there are actually unused lines for episode shadow implying that you would have fought the jackal squad; they were likely just unable to implement it in time. it's a shame, as it would have added to that spectacle factor i mentioned. but hey, gotta push for that holiday release!

what i find really interesting is that you can look at his character through either lense: the former mercenary turned war criminal, or the creation of our ol' doctor, and he still reads well! his behaviour makes sense in whichever context you choose to apply; what he thought he had to become, versus what he was made to be. it's cool and it makes me a bit insane. a lot of people criticise infinite for his one-dimensionality, but in my opinion, like... it's the point. he's meant to feel hollow. because he's masking; or because he wasn't made for feelings, but rather for destruction.

something that seems ironic is that many people attempt to "fix" him by... putting him into a box and inflating a single trait into his entire character and calling it "better writing". now, here's the disclaimer, okay: i'm all for people having fun and being proud of their work! i don't think that we should police what others can create. this is just about the phenomenon of watering a character down or changing them to fit ships and narratives rather than those characters being what shape the direction the story and their relationships take, things like that; which... i mean, i'm not a cop, you can still do these things even if i don't like them! i'm not saying it isn't allowed, but i think that you're kind of missing the point.

he never needed fixing. his story needed refinement. that's different. it's more about exploring what we've been given, looking below the surface; infinite is not just an evil, ruthless tyrant that deserves death nor a traumatised sadboy to be made good by the power of love and friendship – not to me. his trauma and anger are both part of him, and you cannot – or rather shouldn't – reduce him to one thing or another. it does him a major disservice, i think. there are good things there, things you can dissect, you just have to be willing to look.

in choosing to ignore what made him who he is, disregarding the loss of his squad and blatant insecurity unless it's funny, you're purposely looking at him through a faulty lense. bad writing doesn't mean that the intent isn't there. context is so important, and you can't analyse him or critique him with worth unless these things are acknowledged. it's like if you were eating a cake, avoiding the frosting and complaining it's not sweet enough. the frosting is there, not even being withheld from you. it has always been there. you decided not to eat it. sorry i'm making weird analogies again but hopefully this makes sense.

this has gotten long, wow. the point i want to highlight, overall, is that infinite is not nearly as awful as people make him out to be. it was never about his strength, it was about the limits and shortcomings of the narrative, a problem not exclusive to him yet one that has been pinned on him for so many years. i don't want it to sound like i'm saying he is immune to criticism, or that forces is, even though i've criticised forces during the creation of this post (and don't think that i think forces is terrible, either! it's my favourite game and i have lots of things i like about it as well! i've just been drawing attention to these parts to better explain what i want to convey lol); but i do hate how the wrong thing is being criticised.

this issue has been watered down into "infinite weak" when it's way more broad, way more complex than that, and i cannot stand it. it seems like such a trivial matter, like, oh, fandom is being mean about my favourite guy, but it did actual damage and forever altered people's perception of him. i am pissed about it! i'm mad! i don't care if you don't like infinite (because i can just block you as we will not get along!) but... it's about why people don't like him. they don't have to justify it, they can continue hating him, but it always bothered me that the reason is so often not a real problem. yeah.

okay, i think that's it. thank you for taking the time to read this, and if you made it this far, you're gay

#transmission #infinite tag #infinite the jackal #long post

[catsinaspacesuit]

About the fandom fights between team supporters, I'm just gonna write this here i case.

• yes, red team supporter

• have only seen hate towards red team, but I'm aware it is going from every direction to every direction, which i think is pretty stupid

• let them do whatever the fuck they want, the killing each other and dying constantly makes it funnier

• this is a competition, they all are going to try to win, blue team might win one day, red team the next and green team the other and that is OKAY

• getting the ccs involved is just ridiculous, they are very aware this is a game, they are all friend and still will be after this. If they don't care, why would you?

• i know most of us are worried about the eggs and that's mainly why we care so much about our favorite team winning and our favorite egg being saved, but again, it's a game and a competition. We can't make it all the time about the eggs, people are gonna make jokes, players are gonna kill each other, teams are gonna win or lose. We're meant to have fun and stop worrying so much.

And about my posts:

• I did and I'm probably going to continue making jokes about red team being cursed, i don't know if they actually are and don't really care, it's just jokes

• if i ever post something about any cubito of other team saying to stop killing or leave alone red team, I'm totally joking and/or being sarcastic. I love every single one of them and I'm most likely crying laughing as i post it (and if it's about BBH, come on, i might not be that active in his chat anymore but he has always been one of my mains and i love him so much)

• I'm autistic and English is not my first language, i might write stuff that doesn't sound the way i mean it. If that ever happens and it seems like I'm hating on anyone, PLEASEEE correct me.

• I love QSMP (specially qsmblr) fandom so much, I literally smile like an idiot when we're liveblogging together and it kinda hurts when i see people fighting about stupid stuff like this.

If anyone actually reads this, luv ya, have a great day/night. No sean pendejos y no pelien.

#qsmp #qsmpblr #qsmp purgatory #purgatory event #purgatory field trip #cats says stuff #qsmp eggs #qsmp quackity #qsmp federation #quackity #philza #badboyhalo #team red #team blue #team green #cellbit #Baghera #Slimecicle

[the-orange-in-red-silk]

#SaveOFMD

As you all know, on Jan 9, Daddy Jenkins had the unfortunate task to drop devastating news on us.

I cried for two days. But then, our community gave me hope and made me feel less helpless:

The OFMD fandom has never been known for being hinged, normal or quiet. So now we're fighting!

If you want to join the fight, please sign our petition, write emails to MAX, HBO, and WBD's Customer Care teams, leave comments underneath MAX's posts on Twitter (never use more than 3 hastags in one tweet!), Instagram, Thread, YouTube, and TikTok, and use the hashtag #SaveOFMD to keep it trending.

Remember to always be a polite menace! And don't spam or you'll be blocked by them.

And don't lose hope. That's the most important thing! Change won't come in 2 days or a week. We're in it for the long haul. Let them see how much we love the show and how bad of a decision it was to prematurely cancel yet another original creative, successful, critically acclaimed AND QUEER show.

It's not "too expensive" to make, don't believe their lies! One episode of House of the Dragon costs $20 million. Each main actress in And Just Like That gets $1mio plus whatever huge amount the costume department alone spends. They HAVE the money. They just rather spend it on bad shows or less watched shows or shows that have an IP they're milking to death and beyond.

Keep fighting the good fight for a great cause!

Let people know, tag media outlets to get publicity, and ask other streaming services if they might want to take over the show.

Be vocal!

FOR LOOOVE!!!

#save ofmd #renew as a crew #our flag means death #ofmd

[toxic-mothers-tourney]

Toxic propaganda: Lusamine (Pokemon)

She treated her two children like dolls and controlled every aspect of their lives. She was unloving, and the second her kids don’t like what she’s doing she’s ready to kill them. She disowns them, and calls them selfish and ungrateful.

Lusamine tries to control her children and mold them to be what she wants them to be. She has an obsession with rare creatures called Ultra Beasts, researching them endlessly and wanting to even merge with them. She tries to make herself and her children Gladion and Lillie to embody the traits of the Ultra Beasts, including their appearances.

Lillie ends up running away and taking her friend Nebby, a Pokemon being experimented on by Lusamine and her organization the Aether Foundation. Lillie gets put under the protection of Professor Kukui and his wife Professor Burnet, taken into their home. She helps with Pokemon research and slowly learns how to overcome her trauma about facing Pokemon and being controlled by her mother with the help of her friends. When Lillie changes her outfit, she feels relieved because her mother never allowed her to dress differently.

Gladion also runs away from Lusamine and the Aether Foundation. He joins Team Skull, a gang of misfits that do petty crimes around Alola. He's very protective of his younger sister Lillie. He uses his own Ultra Beast against his mother as she slowly turns more crazed in her quest.

Actual Quote: "Calling me mother? I don't have any children! Certainly not any wretched children who would run off and reject my love!" Ma'am you have TWO of them

Was an asshole to both her kids. Obsessed with hunting otherdimensional pokemon instead of caring for them. Forced her daughter to dress like the fucked up space jellyfish she was obsessed with.

Both her kids ran away at 10 years old because she liked aliens too much

Loses her husband in a wormhole, then goes COMPLETELY insane trying to keep everything else exactly as she wants it to be. She gets so obsessed with extradimentional beings that she explicitly styles herself and her (teenage) children after them. Her idea of "Pokémon Conservation" is VERY different than what most sane people would think of.

She becomes so obsessed with Ultra Beasts that she (presumably) drives Gladion away and becomes incredibly controlling of Lillie, even to the point of dressing her like a Nihilego.

"Trust me—children would all be much happier if they'd only listen to the adults around them." is what first hints at her controlling nature.

As the game reaches its climax, we also see Lusamine being emotionally and verbally abusive towards Lillie, from "Calling me mother? I don't have any children! Certainly not any wretched children who would run off and reject my love!" and "Back when you were small, you would listen to everything I said, without question. For a time, even you were adorable to me! … But you changed. You've become ugly." The later also expands on her being controlling for quite a while. We can assume similar things were said to Gladion before he ran away.

She clearly blames Lillie and Gladion for being "bad children" rather than take any responsibility for her actions. "The daughter who stole my Cosmog from me and the son who took my Type: Null! All I ever did was give you two all the love I had, and all you did was betray me! You have no right to ask for my attention now!" She seems to think she's been nothing but good to them, but this is disproven by Lillie telling her "You always do that… It's just like it was back at Aether Paradise… Only thinking of yourself and what you want…I am the one who is sick of you, Mother! Children… Children are not just THINGS that belong to their parents! Pokémon are not just THINGS that a Trainer can do whatever they want to! I am alive! Cosmog is alive! We are not things for you to collect! We're not made for you to just discard when you get bored with us! … That is terrible, Mother! You are terrible!"

Only when the story is retconned in USUM does she ever apologize for what she had done and try to change.

Lusamine's husband went missing and she proceeded to try and make her children "perfect" by making them as washed and willing to take orders as possible. This eventually led both of them to steal some of the pokemon she was trying to use to become alien satan and led her son to joining an actual street gang.

She also dressed up her daughter to look like the alien she eventually summoned and let metroid all over her.

Neglects her children in favour of unleashing Ultra Beasts that are basically bound to wreak havoc in the world; forces her daughter to look as much like a Nihilego as possible and berates her for becoming ugly when she decides to take control of her own appearance; guilt-trips her kids for "leaving her" when she controlled and berated and abused them until they ran away, telling them that all she did was love them. Just not a very good parent, really. She's careless towards Nebby, a Cosmog, too, risking its death to forward her plans despite her daughter's pleading not to.

lady is actually Fucking Crazy. she runs a corporation. she neglects her kids. she's got animal abuse going on. she potentially STOLE her own son's pokemon. I could go on

emotionally abusive. horribly controlling. may or may not be forgiven depending on which game you play. gave her kids ptsd. proclaims herself mother of pokemon under her care then abuses them also, all while being objectively very attractive. 10/10 no notes

#Toxic propaganda #she probably has THE most propaganda submitted #lusamine

[samueldays]

Thea: The Awakening guide to the Piece of Cake achievement and AAR, part 2/2 (turns 100-197)

(Continued from part 1.)

Disaster strikes while my away team is far from the village. A 3-skull pack of undead giant spiders attacks the home team, leaving everyone in the village badly injured after I lose the fight. And this happens in the 99-100 interturn, so I can't savescum to avoid it. What do?

Load up everyone with food and wood, run to the herbalist to buy instant healing! Here I was saved by having enough food types to get 6 movement. (It's 5 tiles, but one of them is difficult terrain.)

Then I beat the spiders in the rematch now that they're wounded and fewer in number. Thank you, devs, for tracking internal state of wandering encounter groups, rather than resetting them for each fight.

Away team does some sidequests and easier random encounters, sharing some food with dwarfs who give me a little mithril in exchange, more gathering, and rescuing a child from slavers. Sadly, I don't have enough force to destroy the slavers outright yet.

A random gatherer is attracted to the village by my buildings, deciding that joining us would be better than wandering the postapocalyptic wilderness with nothing but Dad's old sword. Welcome aboard, Pakoslava, here's your gathering basket and silk tunic, you'll be fishing from the safety of the village harbor for the foreseeable future.

Now we're up to 15 people in total, and the group limit of 16 who can act in an encounter is almost relevant, if I bring the explorers home. But we're going to keep growing!

A group of human refugees passes by the village, their home taken by an Orcish clan. In stock games, I might have expected a "drive out the orcs and retake our home" quest from them. In Thea, it's instead "we stayed in one place too long and attracted trouble, really" as talking to them reveals they're migratory.

But they tell me that I'm welcome to go beat up the orcs anyway, and loot the lumber and prepared stone from the stockpiles and quarry they left behind. I attempt to use Social Combat to convince them to stay and join my village instead. Most of them say no, they're going off to see the land of their forefathers in their south, but one desperate mother asks me to raise her twin children whom she fears she can't care for on the road. I happily accept.

There's a dialogue option in this event for "no, I meant I wanted healthy working adults to join" which is just so mean, I've never been able to bring myself to check what it does. (I can't even savescum it, since this is a random interturn event and saves only happen on the player's action phase.) With cabbage patches, slave rescues, and these, we're now up to 7 kids in the village. Kids, funnily, are represented as an inventory item with zero weight. They're all identical and they stack.

Blessed Paths +1 comes online turn 111, giving me another advancement point in the process. Village gathering radius now includes 2 wood sources (due to realistic economy, each has a limited production rate, rather than being able to produce as much as you can get villagers to gather), 2 seaweed, mushroom, granite, fish, spidersilk. Now I could sit everyone in the village and craft-research my way to an economic victory of rebuilding civilization, but that wouldn't be very interesting. So instead I adjust the home gathering a bit, queue up some cooking, and the away team does another resource dropoff. At this point I've pretty much explored the map due to its small size, and done most of the quests I can, so their focus shifts to monster hunting and gathering.

When I was new to the game, I used to fall into a trap of having the party wander around grabbing whatever struck my fancy, and spending more turns walking than gathering, wasting a lot of time. Even if you reserve the last move point for camping, you aren't guaranteed to be in range of a useful resource. Now I've learned to be fine with letting the away team sit gathering for 5+ turns in one spot. Current focus: Coal, which I'll need a lot of for crafting reagents.

While all these major events happen, I make sure to do incremental upgrades of gear in the background. My early Cane+Spidersilk baskets were worth +3 gathering. I've picked up a couple of random drops of scaled leather, and Cane+Scaled baskets are worth +4 gathering.

Right now the only gear I can produce is gathering tools, craft tools, light armor, and clothes (AKA really light armor), but I have an advancement point, so... let's get Jewellery (Rings). First ring to craft: Amber + Amber, another +2 gathering, two of them. I don't have a source of gatherable amber, that might be my next priority, but I have a few pieces of random resource drops and a few more from deconstructing weapon drops. Then a couple of other miscellaneous jewelry pieces from random resource drops to boost various stats like this one:

That's +4 special trait applying in Sneak, Hunt, Intellect and Hex challenges.

I decide to get a 3rd Crafter now that my resource income has been growing: more people, better gathering gear, levelups of gathering skill, Blessed Paths giving access to more village resources. As a rule of thumb, you never want crafters sitting idle. Too few crafters means a resource backlog you can use later, too many crafters will have nothing to do. Even when they're not producing actually important gear, they should be grinding experience for advancement points, or cooking food, or creating more baskets than you need so that you can roll for Good Quality baskets that have +1 gathering and reduced weight.

Nothing major happens for a while. I visit the orc site the refugees told me about, and try diplomacy at the Orc Matriarch. She gives her side of the story as "goblins were here first, those humans came and beat up them ten years ago, now the goblins joined us for reconquest of rightful home". After some more diplomacy, I convince her to regret the bloodshed and trade peacefully with my people. Lack of full 'trade' mechanics means I get a one-time pile of random resources including Ancientwood. Nice.

A kid grows up to become a gatherer. I get an advancement point and consider unlocking Amber, but check the map to see where it is first. Bother, it's on the other side of a large fjord, 20 tiles from the village. Oh well, off goes the away team. Double bother, the game's first 4-skull wandering monster pack has shown up.

New plan: Advancement point into unlocking Swords instead, start making Granite Swords for everyone since that's a decent tier resource (it's fantasy granite) available in my village gathering radius. Flee the adventuring party back home, we're not ready to fight this yet with a split party. 17 people at home will be much better off. The mithril from the dwarfs earlier is turned into one really good sword. Other scraps are also thrown into the forge, like enchanted bone + gold to make Kostey's Stabber, a sword that boosts magic, given to one of the sages.

The bats don't attack the village, so I feel besieged. Really glad I got Blessed Paths up fast enough to use it now. A kid grows up and becomes a Medic, which is nice, greatly reduces death chance if badly wounded after a fight. Here, take this bloodstone +2 medicking I just crafted, here's your basket, get to gathering. Another advancement point rolls in from the crafting, and while I could put it into unlocking Amber, I should wait until my team can actually get over there.

The other things I want to get right now are Blessed Paths +2 (needs advanced resources), unlocking the Gold (fantasy gold, good crafting ingredient) near the village, Bows, Shields and Spears crafting tech. So I sit in the village under siege, gathering and crafting for a while, as the bat horde wanders off into the fog of war. Random event raiders hit my village, and I fend them off for a Tactics skill boost. They drop loot, and I dismantle some of it for more Amber. Unlocking the resource in advancement points unlocks the ability to gather it from the ground; I can freely use any I have on hand. It's annoying micromanagement, but at high levels, it's worth checking the ingredients of dropped loot to see if you want to recover some of it by dismantling. Or, just dismantle everything anyway and make your own.

By turn 150, the bats are nowhere to be seen, everyone is better equipped, and my research is progressing well, so I unlock Bows and start making those. Another kid grows up to be a Warrior, bringing me to 19 adults, and once I have several bows made (cane+spidersilk creates very light bows), I send out a 10-person expedition to go get amber and kill bats. Advancement arrives on schedule from making more bows at home, expedition beats up a baba yaga, gets a curse, rescues a kid.

This is where Realistic Economy bites. I could be collecting amber at double speed. I'm limited to getting one batch (6 units) per turn. An Amber Charm (+2 Gather, +1 Craft) takes 8 units to make. Each dedicated gatherer and crafter should have two of them, and I could use even more to fill in whatever slots don't have something else. Figure 25 charms at least, 200 amber... I could sit here for 20 turns. I probably won't, but seriously consider that the "Expedition" can sit in place and pretend it's a village for a long time.

A child falls ill in the village. One bizarre folk ritual later, it becomes a Child Wraith, mechanically a tank character who can't use weapons but deals large amount of Poison + Drain damage, and has no mundane skills. (Really, did you expect a wraith to help catch fish?) The village also randomly attracts a wandering Hunter human character, and now I'm up to 20 human adults + the wraith, 4 children. A Rat Witch visits the village, and I dispel her swarm.

I settle for a haul of 124 amber, which is more than I have coal for, so crafting can start while I go get coal. On the way back from the ambermine, I attempt the next step of the Cosmic Tree Quest, which is the dragon guarding shards - you can fight, sneak past, or try to convince him that his oath doesn't apply any more. Social Combat scales with your people, I have a large party, I talk the dragon into leaving and he's so thankful for being freed from this boring place that he hands out Magic buffs, a mithril axe, and some diamond. Orcs come by afterwards, asking me to please lock up the Cosmic Seed instead of restoring the tree because blah blah elves.

"The whole land is shaken with tremors." event plays for the first time on Turn 181, inflicting 3 wounds on everyone in the village. This is the first sign of the Giants returning. I need to hurry, Giants are super deadly.

My exploring party hits up the Divine Quest too, meeting Perun's avatar. This is a quest step that can be done with diplomacy or fight - different patron gods favor different approaches, and will bless or insult you correspondingly. Perun prefers a fight, and will heal all your party of their wounds if you win the challenge against his avatar, so this one you can afford to be headstrong about. Then he charges the party to go destroy the Thundercatcher that's been sapping his power.

Since I did the avatar encounter the favored way, it's made easier. Instead of a 5-skull challenge to grab the thundercatcher rod without dying of electrocution, I can fight the rubbery beast (a bies) as a 3-skull challenge, and use its hide as an insulator. This is easy by comparison, I break the rod, release the thunder, and - Victory! Also an orcish devotee of Perun joins the party.

That completes the Divine Quest on Turn 185. Now for the rest of the Cosmic Tree quest.

Expedition heads to village, drops off resources, picks up cooked food, also picks up enough people to fill traveling group to 16 with warriors and child wraith. The dropped-off resources are enough to build a Blessed Paths +2, but that's unlikely to matter now. I'm off to smash Zmey. Only 7 people are left in the village, I hope no giants wander in and kill them while I'm gone. (Kidding. Encounter fights can't kill people - you get 1 turn's grace to rush for the herbalist and heal them. Death only occurs if you leave people at low or negative HP across turns.)

Elf Alysir makes the compass to lead me to the stump of the Cosmic Tree, I get blessings, I go to check where Zmey is, and I laugh at the fact that the final quest point spawns 2 tiles from the village:

This conveniently means I can load up literally everyone to do the encounter with Zmey and go home again, instead of using just the away team, which is kind of an anticlimax. But I'll take it. Didn't even bother with a save. Game won on turn 197.

The Zmey encounter at the end of the Cosmic Tree quest reminds me of Planescape:Torment a bit. Firstly because you can talk Zmey down, instead of having to fight it. (Although the talking is implemented as Social Combat with a Speech skill, which isn't quite the same.)

Secondly because the genre and tropes of Thea strongly signpost "This game is about restoring the Cosmic Tree" with the way destroying it created the postapocalyptic setting of destruction in the first place, and all the search for its last seed. But if you take the time to explore and talk to people, rather than being generic murderhobo protagonist, you learn about two other options you can do with the Cosmic Seed at the end.

There's the human scholars who had a plan for controlled demolition the Tree to banish magic and bring about an age of reason, enlightenment, and electricity, while the magic beings fade away. This is reflected in an option to burn the last Cosmic Seed. And there's the orcs who would rather you locked away the seed to leave a twilight age of just enough magic to sustain elves and orcs, but with the orcs getting a chance to shine - they'd lose to elves in the default outcome and lose to humans in the age of reason.

The final choice:

Well, final for the main game. There's postgame opportunities to visit whichever one of Elf Foresttown, Human University or Orc Bartertown matches your ending choice, and there's extra content from the Return of Giants DLC that was only a foreshadowing earthquake here. And there's 103 more turns to click through for the other achievement, but that's a gimme at this point with a fortified populous village.

In closing, I want to note how much leeway there still is on this. I did not unlock Mithril, Diamond, Dragonbone, Dragonleather, nor Nimblewood. I did not unlock 2H Swords, Crossbows, Heavy Armor, nor Artifacts. I feel that I won mostly by paying attention to the economic engine underlying Thea: gather -> craft -> advancement. Secondarily, there was knowing which fights to pick, L5 Perun's large bonuses, rerolling for a good start, percentage chances to attract population that added up over 100+ turns, and a little savescumming -- but surprisingly little, really. I didn't need it against the dragon, avatar, or zmey, and couldn't use it against the undead spider disaster.

Thea: The Awakening is available on Steam and GOG. Recommended.

(Back to part 1.)

#all #vidya #thea the awakening #longpost

[thirstyforred]

my working notes (as in done at work when I should do work instead), unedited, just transcribed

girlies, and i know no one cares because i never wrote that Rissberg fic, but what if Carla Demetia Crest Raven Way was the last living member of the research team by the time of witcher saga and she was totally a GILF? What about that?

And like Salamandra tries to recruit her because she's awesome and authored that only one existing dissertation on witchers and mutagens. But she's like 'no <3', and Azar and Prif are like 'uwu pappy JdA, she doesn't want to work with us :C'. So Jacques sends over Albrecht who's like 'I can hand draw a perfect circle', and Carla is like 'lmao is that supposed to impress me? <3', and then they fuck. YES, Al fucks that grandma. And they bond over their mutual interest in demonology because I never wrote that Rissberg fic, but that's what I actually planned for Carla to be doing at Rissberg, Kiyan idea had to come from somewhere, so it might be from a bunch of guys going 'maybe my experiment will succeed', even tho a woman already told them no, it won't <3

Anyway, Al and Carla work together wasting Salamandra's resources and not making much progress in demon + witchers stuff because of all that sexual tension in the air

and don't tell me that Kiyan and Fail Experiment don't look at least somewhat similar. also don't tell me about Ortolan, I don't care, I'm not read storms or whatever

instead let me tell you how Albrecht dies, because I love making up guys and then killing them silly, it just fucking works, so you know how the Order splits and whoever cares for fire stays with de Lowe and goes to build that totally-not-Malbork in Redania? yeah, so for whatever fucked up reason Order ends up being at war with Redania, and Siegfried ditches this fucking circus before that because clearly no one actually care for good-doing, and Al kinda ends up being in charge, and there's that whole siege of that castle, and now he's acting grandmaster and they're clearly gonna lose, but at this point, he's just so fucking lost, and then he summons something he shouldn't but is all so sure of himself, like 'we're in the chapel stupid demon, you can't do shit to me :D', but the demon is just laughing and goes 'fool, you don't worship the Fire, your faith is in JdA, but Jacques is no more, he was a mortal and now he's dead. Your god is dead and you have no power!' and then Albrecht just gets ripped apart. That would be sick! lowkey vibe of that Castlevania moment with lies? in the house of god? more likely than you think!

anyway one may ask, thirsty, marcin, my bro, what de fuck it has to do with Carla, and i don't know, it's work in progress and i never wrote that fucking Rissberg fic, but trpg has a chapter about demonology in the latest book, i didn't read it like all, because fuck reading and fuck trpg, but there's that mechanic that lets PCs bind the demon to themselves, and when you bind Bes and it gives like dexterity and shit like that, or claws, idc, anyway Greater Binding done by Carla, she's now fresh as ever after 400 years of girlbossing

#albrecht tag #rissberg

[fizzingwizard]

sims nonsense

first of all, why do i, the tenant, care what my unit rating is. second of all the compensation for enduring a ghost throwing the radiator around in your apartment is $20?? lol

the event didn't even work. ghost appeared, i confronted her. she ignored me. the option to confront againt was grayed out "till later." she went into the radiator. at that moment, my sim's oven caught fire. the ghost came out of the radiator to freak out about the fire, then never came back. the event ended without me ever seeing her again.

using your laptop to keep your eggs and toast warm... work smart not hard

i cant make her stop doing this lol she has a perfectly good dining table but every now and then she'll put her food on the laptop instead. i'm gonna switch it out for a regular computer and hopefully then the game registers that there's already an item in that spot

tfw you're lured into a life of crime by santa claus??

last but not least, whatever tf this is:

why did she get on her bike indoors

why did she vanish

where is she lol the bike spazzed by itself for a while there

reset didn't work. changing her outfit fixed it but i couldn't find her to do it for a while... in the end i made her take a shower and that brought her back when she changed her clothes.

this was during a trash overload event and i'm annoyed that it's not apparently prompted by anything the tenant does. my sim had only been living in her house for a couple days, she likes alone with two foxes. she hadn't accumulated that much trash. the trash just materializes wherever it wants. and when she went to clean it up, she only managed to get three of the trash heaps, because the others vanished??? i don't mean after some time had passed. they appeared, then almost immediately were gone. it happened in winter so i wondered if they got buried under the snow, but i couldnt figure out how to get them out. anyway i still passed the event for whatever reason

having lots and lots and lots and lotssss of bugs with this game. game crashed a bunch and i had to repair it once when i was getting not expanded to ops error. that isnt funny. but what is funny is how the game keeps losing track of the property owner. it always thinks he's at people's houses when he's clearly on the porch of his own home. and if you invite the property owner over he does not come. he's successfully arrived (without being invited) a total of one time so far. for a while any time i switched to him, he had 0 social. idk why. and i keep getting the option, when i want to switch to him, to switch to his cat. he lives alone and the game consistently thinks he's not at home even when he is, so if i click him i'm taken to a neighbor's house that the game thinks he's at. but i'm allowed to click the cat who is at home for some reason, and find the property owner there. no idea whats going on here except i think it's clear the sims team did NOT check if this pack would work with other dlc. it's not like i'm trying to do anything weird here. we're talking bout seasons and pets. if that can mess things up so much it was not ready to launch - or should have launched with a warning that you should only buy it if the only other sims 4 content you have is the base game x'D

#sims #sims 4

[redwineconversation]

I can see you (waiting down the hall for me)

I've been complaining about Sonia Bompastor's wretched youth academy for so long now that part of me feels like it's part of my brand, but whatever. I'm going to keep whining about it until it either stops or finishes me off, whichever comes first. Based on Bompastor's comments in the Sangare interview, it's probably going to be the second one.

Anyway, let's chat more about it, because it's either that or Textor vs the Financial Watchdog (and don't worry, I have plenty of thoughts on that, too).

But let's pour ourselves a cup of tea in the middle of an LA heatwave and have a proper chat.

So in theory I'm actually really sympathetic to Bompastor's youth academy experiment and could almost get behind it. You only know what young players are capable of when they actually play in games. You can shine on the youth level with the U-teams and in practice, you can show a lot of promise/potential. The only way to really find the limits of the potential is you have something to actually compare it to.

And all players have to start somewhere. I'm also sympathetic to that as well. If Lyon hadn't taken a chance on Amandine Henry back in 2007 then she (probably?) wouldn't have become the (un)contested best defensive midfielder in the world. Wendie Renard wasn't a household name until Lyon rolled the dice on her. By a series of (un)fortunate events Selma Bacha found herself playing in the pro team at 16. None of those things would have happened if Lyon hadn't said, okay, let's see what these players can actually do if we put them through their paces.

So again I'm sympathetic to the idea. You don't know what the academy players are truly capable of until they are put into a position where they have to come up with answers.

But there's a difference between the Lyon of 2006/2007 and the Lyon of today. Lyon could afford to roll the dice back in 2006 and 2007 because if we're being realistic, they had nothing to lose back then. Lyon was a club with plenty of ambition because Aulas wanted to create the best team in the world, but they hadn't begun their European reign. They didn't really have much to compare themselves to, so might as well roll the dice and see if you can swing the odds in your favor. If you have to roll the dice again, who cares.

Trouble is, Lyon doesn't really have that margin of error anymore. Lyon can't get away with having a series of bad games or inexperienced players or players who internally panic at big games because there are consequences now which didn't happen before. The UWCL has become more competitive, even the D1 Arkema has in its own way shrunk the margin of error.

In order to stay at the top, you need depth. That's true for any competitive team, not just Lyon. Chelsea is buying up players in an effort to become as stacked as possible, for example, because you need options, you need to be able to rotate with little to no consequences in terms of your performance on the field (whether Emma Hayes is actually capable of the second part remains to be seen, but I'm also not a Chelsea fan so am not going to touch on that).

Point is, if something happens, you need to be able to deal with it. And you need to be able to deal with it in such a manner that it seems as though the glitch isn't a big deal, just part of the norm and you get on with business as usual.

If last season showed us anything, it's that Lyon's depth is superficial at best, and that's actually a really big deal. Now I will concede it was an unprecedented injury crisis. [Arsenal will argue no one has been hit as badly they have, and it's debatable (again, Lyon was without 10/25 players at one point in the season, but whatever. Some care about context, others don't).]

Lyon had to present its options, and it turns out, the options they had on hand weren't much to write home about. And a lot of that has to do with Bompastor's decisions, and again, I think it's really fair game to criticize her choices.

Now, I will concede that - for the most - Vicki Becho did step up towards the end of the season. The trouble is, that happened after her costly mistake against Chelsea. Should she have known better than to give Lauren James the perfect excuse to dive for a penalty? Yes. But there's a difference between knowing it's the wrong choice and doing it anyway.

Am I being too harsh on Becho? Yes and no. Yes in that Becho's mistake in the return leg against Chelsea wasn't the only reason Lyon ended up getting eliminated, even though it was one of the more important factors. No in that it's true she's young, and young players fuck up. It's part of the course. Young players will make costly mistakes because they are still learning, but more accurately, they are learning game management.

One of Lyon's strengths is/was they are/were particularly good at game management. Big players show up in big games, and Lyon has played a lot of them. They just know how to handle pressure and expectations accordingly, because they have been there so many times before. Lyon gets exposed when those experienced players are taken out of contention, and you're left with players who don't know how to handle pressure, who don't know game management.

Academy players don't have game management, they just don't. And it's just a question of experience - if you've been in a situation enough times, you just know how to handle it, when you're new to it, you don't. It doesn't matter how talented you are, how much potential you have, big games come down to experience. How you are going to cope with the expectations, with the pressure, with a big of other factors you might not have been exposed to before (hostile crowd, media expectations, opposing players with questionable professional ethics, etc).

You don't know how you will handle all that until you have been in that situation.

And this is the catch - I'm just really, really lukewarm that Lyon is the one having to find that out. Yes, these academy players are talented, they have potential. But we don't know a lot of things about them yet. and that, for me, is a major red flag.

Yes, Alice Marques was impressive against Sam Kerr and Chelsea in the 2022 ICC. But that was a friendly. What happens if we reset and it's not a meaningless ICC but a semifinal play-off, and it's not Sam Kerr she's dealing with, but Guro Reiten's left foot or Lauren James in the penalty box at the 122nd minute, down 2-1. What decision will she make, and what guarantee will we have that it is the right one?

There's a difference between the captain of the U-19s, even playing in the U-19s, and playing for a semi-final spot. Let's go with a different scenario. Lauren James doesn't dive and Lyon finds themselves playing the semi-final against Barcelona in the Camp Nou. How will she handle 70,000 screaming at her every time she breathes near the ball? Don't know. Am mighty uncomfortable with the idea of having to find out.

There is a huge amount of hype around Liana Joseph and Maeline Mendy. It's justified - these are two really, really talented players with an enormous amount of potential. But we don't know how they will handle the situations Lyon finds itself in. It is 0-0 in the 88th minute in the title-deciding match against PSG, Delphine Cascarino just tore her ACL. Can Mendy find the right cross and can Joseph make the right decision with the entire Parc des Princes screaming at them every time they touch the ball?

Big games come down to intuition, too. You have to have the experience to trust yourself - trust that not only you will make the right decision, but that your teammates will make the right choice, too. You need to keep your head down and just do your job, everything else will fall into place. Will these academy players know how to do that? Realistically one of two scenarios will happen: they will be overwhelmed by the occasion, or they will be so desperate to prove themselves they will make the wrong decision at the wrong time.

Now, as I said, you become a big game player through experience. You play enough games and you know how to handle the situations because you've already lived through them, and the metamorphosis isn't as overwhelming as it was the first time people were asking questions of you.

So how do we get there? I really hope most, if not all, of these academy players are set out on loan along with Malard. Let another team have to deal with these growing pains and Lyon can apply the polish in a couple of years. Let someone else find out how Joseph solves the problem of another team parking the bus and let another team find out what happens when Mendy is just having a bad day and can't get in an accurate cross. Let another team find out how Marques copes with a forward continuously diving in the penalty box.

Let another team teach them the rules of poker. Lyon can teach them how to bluff afterwards.

#all good love stories start in the rain

[the-firebird69]

We tried to remind out the iron ore for them and they said no we sort of get it. I said fight us for it we said no. Some we're going to have a us do it and it forced Tommy f to stop them.

Zig Zag

It just cause a trouble and they need to see it and we are in here in Florida building and Tommy f is trying to find us all the time is that these job site monitoring and he's asked to leave everyday and his crew and they drive around all day long bothering people and they're losing until it's a great idea I saw it we started doing it and it works we're doing big now it's a lot of fun we're going to rain so why it is just a lot of stuff tons of it we go after not one worker had to put down a hammer.

As Hera said 100 projects start tomorrow 200 more shortly after and I'm pretty sure it's 100 it might be more than that depending on what we agree on it's about 50 projects that people want to do and don't want to have too much involvement in they just don't feel like going through it there's too many people who are idiots and I say they pick all the colors they sign it you put in they don't like it they get in there they tear it out and they leave and they own the place and the sun says well just leave it there for a while and is there a place is there a place I can't see the windows that's what we say cuz he wants to be vacant on purpose so after 30 days we require the property most of them haven't payment plan and they didn't want to do that cuz it causes trouble that's one big thing that people want to do and they do it because they can't stand living near regular folks cuz they say they give him a hard time it used to be mild but they couldn't stand it and correct your English or laugh them a little tell him not to do the stuff and you're so sensitive that our son stuff was too much when they say go screw just shove it you're stupid that's really stupid get too sensitive cuz and you're too stupid to be sensitive people can't stand you usually they shoot you know as he's leaving and then he said back I don't have to listen to you except hearing the dumb noise I'll see you get killed right away near me instead of smacking it says you're saying it to get back at me and you're already out of shouting range started yelling screaming running around in circles fell over five times got up all bloody took his clothes off and started squeaking through the neighborhood and they grabbed him and arrested him and he went missing and he's going these people are like that they're really really dumb and like animals they can't have anybody here has that piss for a reaction doesn't know anything so tired of you people saying you're going to hurt him I'm tired of seeing you threatening tired of you being there. Were going to hit you now your comments

And yes we're looking at Miami and send a team down there and they picked tons of lots whole bunch of lots and they're building tomorrow it made an operation Rush paper it's part of The 100 this is like four big projects that we have planned and we bought the land already and all of it is a go.

Big numbers in today huge numbers of trump gone he was hit all day long everyone's here haven't talked about the money now and they're going after him he talked about things he did here and put together and they're going after we had two jobs we found skeletons I knew they were there were careful on the area called the police and they said excavate them out and we'll come take them I always said better yet or just cut a big box of dirt and them that way whatever is in it is in it so we did that and we have a way of doing it and ask for doing it it's couple came by and asked us what was it and I said the police want these I said there are relatives and we called the cops and they arrested them on site for suspicion of homicide and it was not Trump and sister it was John remillard and the other girl has a daughter the granddaughter yes and they're interested and have not gotten out all day today. Several more bodies are found and straight up they said they're going to attack our company I'll say we're going to attack you

Godzilla and camera have attracted about 10 I'll tell you an hour today and now it's 100 octillion each and that's ridiculous is a huge numbers and it's true they're way too big they're like one octillion total all day it's just giant that's a lot tonight it'll approach to for the day and night

Huge numbers after the ships in total about 100 octillion globally and it's about right and we're going to use it concept very shortly. The several wars starting and several movies. One is Antarctica and they're fighting over there ore the other is Greenland. Now there's a lot of them up there huge batches it's around 100 septillion an hour from each side and it's growing that's a lot

Massive groups are trying to get to Hawaii humongous groups are trying to get their from USA is a gigantic group by the way going to Hawaii route 400 trillion an hour. get up to go there

All the banks are inundated Massachusetts is going to be a bus pretty soon that's going to break just because the money is a huge environment in the FDIC the rest of the banks all together has about 10 billion dollars but it's his original money and somebody that he deposited and it's in there

Thor Freya

[hmnbd]

crush dialogue prompts!

here are 26 dialogue prompts inspired by the troubles of having a crush, being the crush, or helping a friend who's head over heels for someone else. you can use them on your fics, wips, rps or whatever else you wish. feel free to use them as they are or edit them to fit your muses/characters better! happy writing !

"is it hot in here or am I the one making you blush?"

"I know we don't talk much but I would love to hang out with you more often, if that's okay"

"okay, fine. I might have a little, tiny, practically microscopic, thing... for you"

"you want to go get coffee... with me? really?!"

"you know what... the feeling is mutual"

"someone's been leaving sticky notes with cheesy pick up lines on my desk for weeks now and I didn't want to admit it but it's kinda cute"

"is it bad that I'm mentally planning my wedding? they literally just held the door open for me once"

"wow, your hands look so soft and... holdable"

"I've noticed the way you look at me and it's really cute. no one's ever done that before"

"I think you're more special to other people than you think. trust me."

"you look really nice today. and always. I think you look great all the time! there's not a single day that you don't look awesome. wait, what do you mean I'm repeating myself?"

"I might have not been totally honest with my feelings, but I didn't wanna lose you"

"however it is that you feel about me, don't worry. we'll figure it out in a way that works for us two"

"I know we don't know each other and I hope I don't sound like a creep but, respectfully, I think I should let you know that you might be the coolest person I've ever seen. that's it, that's what I wanted to say."

"you're making me feel things I haven't felt in a while"

"I've always believed we make a good team, don't you think?"

"I don't care if this is your favorite song, it reminds me of them, so now it's MINE. it's going on their playlist"

"you gotta help me out... how do you make someone notice you?"

"what do you mean no one's ever told you how beautiful you are? you're the most stunning person I've ever seen"

"is there something you're not telling me?"

"I'm afraid I love you more than you ever loved me"

"hey, so I know this is the tenth time we're going out together and I'm probably asking way too late but... is this a date?"

"listen, saying I have a crush on them is an understatement. it's more like being crushed by a giant boulder, to be honest"

"oh, come on. flowers are not cheesy. wouldn't you like it if they brought you some too? come on, let's pick some cute ones"

"it's a first date, not a white tie event, you're gonna scare them. TAKE THAT BOW OFF"

"I do think about you. all the time, actually"

#this is to motivate me to write my own character who has a crush too lmao #prompts #dialogue prompts #writing prompts #writing #story prompts #sentence starters #starters #story starters #writing tips #fanfiction #fanfic #rp memes #rp starters #mine #creations #writers on tumblr #writing memes #am writing #writing community

[takamishinko]

karasuno and nekoma scenario + headcanons for ftm reader

pronouns: he/him

warnings: dead naming, slight harassment and tranphobic comments like using the wrong pronouns.

a/n: this was a request from @mi-ts i hope you enjoy this and this is what you're looking for :) i added in some headcanons of my own as well. pls tell me if i said anything offensive in there by accident, i was also super tired when i wrote this so pls excuse me for any mistakes :'D

karasuno:

i feel like the entire team is pretty supportive and definitely not transphobic

the only person that i could possibly think of that doesn't understand transitioning would be tanaka but even then he'll still support you in whatever decision you make

let's start off with the first years

hinata and kageyama definitely uses correct pronouns though i feel like kageyama might forget sometimes but he'll just use they instead

tsuki doesn't care much and i don't think he cares a lot about anything other than maybe yamaguchi

yamaguchi would be really sweet about it, correct pronouns 100%, no mistakes or mess ups. he'll probably pay more attention to you and help you with whatever you need

kinoshita and narita are both super supportive people so they wouldn't care that much but they would definitely use right pronouns and all that

ennoshita is kind of the leader of the group right? i feel like he would advocate your pronouns only if ur comfortable with it though

alright third years

suga.

supportive supportive supportive super supportive

makes sure your absolutely 120% comfortable with your surroundings and if there are people bothering you he's not scared to get asahi and daichi to square up with them

daichi is pretty lowk about it. respectful of course. always tries to help you with suga but doesn't end up helping a lot but that's ok

lastly asahi would be…

pretty nervous about making sure he doesn't use the wrong pronouns or make you uncomfortable

like overly cautious but you find it funny and adorable

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"yo y/n! what took you so long? practice started 10min ago." tanaka shouted from across the gym.

"sorry…i got caught up with something." you replied with a sad tone in your voice.

the team immediately noticed something wrong. you were usually a pretty cheerful person and sulking like that didn't seem right to them. 

"woah woah, you good man?" noya said while tapping you shoulder.

"yah i'm fine guys, thanks." you lied.

"even a dumbass like hinata and king over there would know you're not fine, what's wrong." said tsuki.

"hey we heard that! but seriously y/n-kun, is everything ok?" hinata said while walking over with kageyama. 

"it's nothing much really… some second years called me uhh… "baby girl" today and asked me if i had anything to do after school. they wouldn't let me go either even after i told them i had somewhere else to be…. and the fact that i'm not a girl anymore." 

"they fucking what now?" suga said with an incredibly hostile smile on his face. 

"do you know their names?" daichi asked.

"yah its f/n l/n and f/n and l/n…" 

"those two sons of bitches??" tanaka and noya screamed in unison. 

"yah do you guys know them or something?" 

"they're in the class beside ours, we don't know much about them except that they're annoying as fuck. they've been making girls uncomfortable all year long." noya replied.

"oh… they must've thought i was a girl since i didn't wear a… y'know." 

"that's still no reason to do that to you y/n. first of all you weren't comfortable with them flirting with you, second of all you also told them that you're a guy and they still called you that." asahi said 

"yah that's true." daichi said with the rest of the team nodding their heads in agreement.

"don't worry y/n, we all know it's not your fault the binders don't work. no matter what you wear or how you look, the team will always see you as who you want to be!" suga said with a bright smile on his face this time.

a smile appeared on your face with warm thoughts entering your mind. knowing you have friends that care about you this much is truly a blessing you don't want to lose. 

"on a side note, suga and i know those 2 as well. in fact we know their homeroom teacher too, i'll go report to their teacher tomorrow. he loved suga and i, we were his best students." 

a small giggle came out of you and so did some happy tears. 

"thanks guys! it really means a lot." you said to all of your friends.

the rest of the practice was filled with joy and laughter. a few days later you received a handwritten apology from the two assholes you were talking about.

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nekoma:

same as karasuno i'm almost 100% sure none of them are transphobic and they would all be supportive. same case of tanaka with yamamoto though if anything

after you came out kuroo just gave you his signature smirk and a big thumbs up and continued to do his chemistry.

kai.

omg don't even get me started

he is SO supportive and just the nicest person possible

he's not aggressively supportive like suga but he's literally just always there for you. before you even realize you need something he already has it.

water, food, whatever it is.

yaku (personal nekoma fav), super chill about it

"oh cool, just let me go tell lev so he doesn't mess up your pronouns."

"lev for the last fucking time it's y/n and he/him it's not that hard to remember."

bonks lev everytime he messes up but he eventually got it

fukunaga just goes: 

":3 👍" 

so precious, never messes up your pronouns and names

kenma definitely doesn't mess up, remembers it well and i think he would just be like:

"cool, make sure you let the team know. especially lev…"

yamamoto would maybe mess up but he's trying his best

inuoka and shibayama:

i love these 2 so much btw^

inuoka would be excited cuz this is the first time someone ever came out as trans to them.

shibayama is just beside inuoka also being excited and nodding his head agreeing with everything he says

in conclusion these 2 are baby

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"hey guys what's up!" 

"ah y/ns here." kai said with s bright smile on his face, greeting you to practice.

"yo! what's up we're just getting started can you help me set up the net?" yaku said while waving over to you.

"yah i'm on my way give me a sec." 

"kenma go help yaku-san get off your game." kuroo said while poking at kenma.

"give me a sec. I'm almost finished." 

inuoka and shibayama were on the side listening to yamamoto talk about something. you and shōhei rushed over to help yaku with the net. 

"there, all done. thanks guys. kuroo let's start practice." yaku yelled

"yah everyone get ready-" 

just as kuroo said that, two boys entered the gym. they didn't look like they were up to anything good so kuroo stepped up and asked them what they're here for. 

"how can i help you two?" 

"we're just here to find d/n, oh there she is. hey~ you haven't answered our question yet, you free this weekend sweetheart?" one of the boys said as he attempted to move closer to you.

kuroo lost his shit immediately and pushed them away from you. 

"first of all his name is y/n, second of all it's he. lastly if you don't have anything else to say, please leave, our practice is about to start." 

"chill captain~ we just wanted to talk to this beautiful lady over here." 

"for the last fucking time you bastards it's-" yaku cut off kuroo before he could finish.

"leave it to me. you, tall one on the left, f/n l/n from c/n right?" yaku asked.

“y-yah why?” 

“your chemistry mark, 53% and you didn’t pass the test you took on thursday.”

“w-what ??! i don’t even know my mark yet how do you-”

“and you, the stick on the right, f/n l/n. you’re even worse, 49% as your total and your test? i’d embarrassed for you.”

“what the fuck?? w-who are you?!”

“yaku morisuke, 3rd year. the assistant for your chemistry teacher. now if you don’t want your marks leaked to the entire school i suggest you leave y/n here alone and get out.”

“tch yeah whatever !” the 2 boys said as they scurried away. 

“yaku-san!! that was so cool!!” everyone said.

“don’t worry about it! it’s what y/n deserves” he said with a huge thumbs up.

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[kitkatpancakestack]

In response to this. I am replying in a new post bc I have the "no sense of brevity" flavor of ADHD so I know this is gonna get long.

@yramesoruniverse thank you so much for asking, as a matter of fact I do have some thoughts *cracks knuckles*

Let me preface this by saying I am not going to sit here and pretend I don't spend 90% of my waking hours ruminating on this. We all know what we're doing here. That being said, I have considered several variations on how I would love the 9-1-1 team to deliver this:

1. Let's call it the "Two Trapped Dads" scenario:

I implore you to consider the ANGST and POETRY of Buck and Eddie getting trapped somewhere, as civilians, and being forced to depend on each other in order to survive. The serve of this hypothetical scenario would be made more rich set in the context of them having had an argument, or just there being some kind of withstanding tension between the two that has been ignored and left to build to a nauseating degree.

(Side note: I love Buck and Eddie because when they fight it's never with any real animosity. It always stems from the terrifying magnitude of their Love for each other. It's not arguing, it's just them caring about each other very aggressively. Absolutely iconic.)

ANYWAY, in this scenario they careen into disaster over Christopher, as I see it playing out that for some reason they believe only one of them will be able to 100% make it out alive. I imagine the tension has been building since the guardianship bomb and Buck regresses to what he believes he does best, which is being a sacrificial lamb, which shoves their moment from 4x14 back into the forefront. It would force Eddie to not only seismically double down on what he said, but literally spell out to Buck what he means to Eddie, not just Christopher.

Example:

Buck: Obviously you're the one that's getting out, you have a son waiting for you.

Eddie: Screw that, you mean just as much to him as I do.

Buck: I'm irrelevant unless you're dead, Eddie, and there is no way I'm letting you die here today.

Eddie: You're such an idiot, Buck. How can you still not get it?

Buck: Get what?

Eddie: We're a family. All three of us. What did you think that whole will thing was about, anyway? Christopher and I . . . there's no us without you.

jfc someone stop me before I write an entire script, but I think you get the gist of this one.

2. Next we have the "Just-Tell-Me-What-You-WANT" scenario:

The Drama Queen in me is obsessed with this one. It would, unfortunately, require a significantly laid foundation between Buck and a love interest (Taylor ig? It's not important, tbh). Originally, I had this scenario flipped, but since we as a fandom have collectively established Eddie as the Pining Idiot in Love, we're gonna switch it up.

So, again, Buck would be progressing significantly in his relationship with [insert intentionally poorly-defined love interest here]. In the fallout of the guardianship scene, I can still see him struggling with how to untangle his Feelings about what Eddie said to him, and losing himself in the disingenuous familiarity of "Buck 1.0" (I am with Eddie in that I hate his software updates but it's canon material so there you go). The escalation of this hypothesis results in Buck contemplating taking the next step with Taylor or, more realistically, contemplating moving out of the city with her as she's been recruited for a promotion elsewhere. I could see Eddie coming over to Buck's place and them discussing this, because they discuss everything, and Eddie just getting more and more exasperated because Buck doesn't look happy but he won't stop and think, he's just barreling ahead as usual. And so Eddie calls him out.

I think it would be something like Eddie going, "What are you even doing? You obviously don't want this."

And Buck being like, "I'm not discussing what I want with you."

and Eddie just exploding, "What? What do you want, Buck? You never express what you really feel so just . . . what do you really want?"

And Buck just going fuck it and grabbing him and pressing years of want and need and love into Eddie's mouth and yeah *fans face* I'm FINE.

3. Finally, the "Wait-For-Me-To-Come-Home" scenario:

Ideally a season finale moment, paralleled to the other couples on the show. The episode would feature a series of calls relating to couples/families experiencing some degree of separation but always finding their way back to each other. At the end there's a montage of Bathena, Madney, Mavid, Henren etc. reuniting after some sort of contention and then it would stop on Buck alone in his apartment, sitting at his table identical to what we saw in Tsunami Pt. 2, completely overwhelmed by how quiet it is and how alone he feels. And maybe Buck is considering something he heard on one of the calls. Whatever the situation, it ends with him heading to Eddie's house and it's late, like two in the morning late, and the final scene is Buck knocking on Eddie's door looking wild-eyed and desperate and there's no dialogue, just them. And Eddie opens the door wider and steps back as Buck steps in and they just stand a breath's distance away, just staring at each other, and then Eddie closes the door and everything fades to black and *flings myself off a cliff*

Bonus: I call this the "Fever Dream" scenario because I dreamt it when I was, in fact, feverish and hallucinating after my second COVID vaccine:

Buck is out running an errand before going into work and ends up in a robbery situation where he obviously intervenes and ends up getting hurt. The episode would open with the 118 being unable to reach Buck and ragging on him, and the first call they respond to is, indeed, Buck on the verge of death. The rest of the episode would then show the sequence of events leading up to that moment and finish with Buck and Eddie in the back of the ambulance, and Buck just touches Eddie's face, or wraps his fist around the St. Christopher necklace hanging around Eddie's neck, and Eddie is Not Handling Things and then Buck flatlines in the back of the ambulance and jfjdsaldflja somebody stop me before I write a fic *flings myself off another cliff*

As you can see I haven't thought about this much at all. Also, you deserve a fucking award if you made it to the end of this.

I have buddie brainrot! They're actually ruining my life! I have lost control! I'm doing GREAT!!!

#buddie #somebody take my brain away from me #I would like to put it away for a few days and be free from this endless cycle of violence #evan buckley #eddie diaz #idiots in love smh #greatest love story of all time though #buddie meta #long ass post #speculation

[jinmukangwrites]

Wanted to challenge myself and write something under 500 words. Honestly just proud of myself that I managed to keep it below 1k. This is a win for me regardless. Sorry for the lack of writing from me lately, idk why I haven't been in the mindset to write. I've been doing nothing but rewatching Naruto lately, but idk I was in the mood to write something tonight so I chose a random prompt and challenged myself to keep it short. Enjoy!

Prompt: "i can't believe that you lied to me." w/ Legend and Hyrule.

Warnings: description of minor injury, fever, infection

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They're trekking through the woods when it happens. It's sudden and unexpected, the sound of a body hitting the ground coming so much quicker than anyone can react. Fear shoots through Hyrule's veins as he spins around; his eyes immediately locking onto the very still and very limp-looking Legend.

"Vet!?" Warriors shouts out, but Hyrule is the first towards his body, skidding to his knees and grabbing his shoulders to push him onto his back—that way he's not breathing in lose dirt with his suddenly very quick and very short inhales.

"He's unconscious," Hyrule calls, his voice more shaky than he'd like. However, he can already feel worried tremors attacking his fingers as he desperately tries to figure out what's wrong.

The others urgently gather around one-by-one. Warriors pushes to the front of the others—and they willingly part as they know he has the most knowledge in field medicine. He presses the back of his palm against Legend's head and swears. "Fuck. He has a fever."

"What's wrong?" Wind asks in a small voice somewhere behind Hyrule, but his question goes unanswered as Warriors presses his fingers against Legend's neck to count his pulse.

However, the question doesn't go ignored. Not by Hyrule. His stomach tightens in a knot and he finds his bottom lip being worried between his teeth.

Legend told Hyrule not to tell the others... not to worry them with something trivial. But... there can't be any other reason he'd randomly pass out like this.

Hyrule shoots his shaking hands forward and grabs at Legend's belt. Warriors makes a shocked, inquiring shout as Hyrule unbuckles the belt and tugs the outer layer of his tunic up to expose his side. Warriors confusion quickly turns to intense concern as he sees what Hyrule has just exposed. In Legends side, near his hip, is a large cut in the fabric that reveals bandages underneath with stains of a sickening, unhealthy red.

Soon, at Warriors demand, Wild is cutting open the tear in the tunic even larger. Legend will be pissed at the loss of his tunic, but Warriors doesn't seem to want to jostle him around too much by removing the tunic normally. Once Legends chest is bare—covered in nothing other than a one-handed attempt at bandages—Warriors takes the dagger from Wild's fingers and carefully finishes the job himself by slicing open the white-stained strips of fabric.

What meets them under the fabric is festering, bloody, and bad.

"It's infected," Warriors snarls.

From there, it's Warriors commanding the others to get water and various ingredients for a makeshift wound cleaner as they're all out of red potions thanks to their last big ambush.

All Hyrule can do is sit there, unsure if the weight in his stomach is worry for his friend... or anger that he had been lied to.

It must be both, he decides.

-o-o-o-o-

Legend wakes up with a headache, feeling hot and cold all over. There's something wet on his forehead, but when he groggily reaches up to grab at whatever it is, a hand wraps around his wrist and pushes it back down. "You have a fever, dumbass."

Ah. Legend remembers now. He creeks his eyelids open and sure enough, a very unhappy Hyrule sits above him, his glare as sharp as daggers.

"You're an idiot," Hyrule says coldly. "You said you'd be fine. Next thing I know you're passing out in the middle of the trail. I can't believe you lied to me."

Legend sighs, and leans further back into the blankets spread under his body and rolled under his neck. He can only see Hyrule from where he weakly lays. He wonders where the others are... and if there's any chance they'll be able to save him from Hyrule's justified rage. Nah, they're all probably just as pissed.

"I didn't want to make anyone worry," Legend whispers, his voice scratchier than he expected. He supposes it's what he deserves—hiding his wound from everyone like that. It was by bad luck Hyrule caught him wrapping the wound after the ambush. He just... everyone else was much more wounded than he was, and he preferred the rest of their dwindled supplies be used on them. He's taken care of himself before.

He... just must have underestimated the state of the wound on his side. Perhaps the sword the moblin got on him wasn't as clean as it should have been?

"Well, looks like you royally failed, you shit-brain martyr," Hyrule hisses. "Now everyone is worried."

Legend desperately wants to sink into the ground and cease to exist. However, all he can do is try a weak "I'm sorry."

And bless Hylia for Hyrule being such a gentle soul. His eyes immediately soften. "Just... just don't do it again. We're... a team here. Your wounds are our wounds. We want to know when your hurt, no matter what. Warriors just barely managed to save your life this time."

Legend takes a shakey breath. "Okay. I promise."

Hyrule nods his head, all anger that had painted his body is now gone, replaced with companionable, smothering worry. "You should rest some more. It'll save you a little longer from the lecture Cap and the old man have for you. I heard Time practicing his, and it's not pretty."

Legend lets out a startled, exhausted laugh at that. It tugs on his side, but thankfully it's not as painful as what it was before he lost consciousness. Whatever Warriors had given him, it must be very good. Goddess above, his an idiot. "That sounds like a good idea."

"Something you need to learn how to start having," Hyrule teases, a twinkle in his eye.

Legend hums and closes his eyes, sleep already luring him in. "No promises there," Legend manages to mutter. He's completely overcome with unconsciousness before he can hear Hyrule's scolding.

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