#AND ITS SUCH A SHITTY RESPONSE

[friendlynaborhooddisapointment]

jason writting batlantern fics on ao3 for trolling bruce

I JUST SAW THIS!!!! so sorry i took to long to respond. you r so correct.

he started on ff.net when he was robin, but when he got out of the pit and found out that all of his fics got deleted (cuz ff.net is a bitch like that) he dubbled down on ao3💖

[proshippers-against-censorship]

U18 proshipper here, so I fall under the main issue in the discourse around children.

People my age have no fucking excuse to not show basic respect and decency to other people. We should and do know better and some of us do! Like, ffs, I could understand basic etiquette when I got on the internet at 11 (I should not have been on the internet at 11). I know our brains aren’t fully developed, but that doesn’t mean we’re allowed to be a dickhead for no reason. If we are, it’s okay to call us out on it. I’d hope that most of us understand that we are immature and make sure to try and be kind and learn from our mistakes, but even if we don’t it’s STILL OKAY.

And that helps me get onto my other point - internet safety. I knew this kid once who showed photos of her face and said publicly that she was 12 on social media (against ToS. I have also been 12 on social media, but I wasn’t naïve enough to share that fact!).

I’m still grateful for being as responsible as I was when I was really young. If I wasn’t, I would have been susceptible to a lot of danger (I didn’t share my face, my real (first OR last name) or my age, among many other things). Of course, I still don’t do this. I see little kids, literally that age, sharing all these things.

Kids need to be taught better internet safety. There’s still a lot of very real danger on the internet, and we need to protect them from it as best we can. I’m not blaming the kids who do this, to be clear - they don’t know better. But it still stands that they need to learn to be more secure on the internet.

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[blueteamtexas]

All I want is north and york being impressed with chorus wash and thinking hes hot. is that too much to ask

[hawkyon-days]

So after Lucas asked them to come to his game, Mike and Dustin not only didn't go, showing Lucas that a role-playing game is more important than him, replaced him with his little sister, showing him that he is replaceable, but also didn't even tell him they were doing it??

[jenna-louise-jamie]

thinking about yassen gregorovich instead of sleeping (because i love him) and how he is a catalyst. yassen stabbs ash -> ash kills john rider -> ian rider raises alex -> yassen kills ian rider -> mi6 blackmails alex into becoming a teenage spy.

i have so many thoughts that i can't properly articulate. obviously this is a simplified chain of events, but yassen and his choices set off a chain reaction of the world's most unfortunate dominos. especially when you read russian roulette. to be clear im not necessarily trying to blame him for everything because that feels very mean. he was also just a 14 year old kid when everything in his life went wrong, just like alex. only difference being yassen literally had no one.

i think i should write an essay about this because i haven't even gotten into my thoughts about what yassen and alex's dynamic would look like past eagle strike. i would imagine it'd be similar to ellie and joel from the last of us part 2.

where obviously yassen loves alex and alex on some level cares for yassen back but struggles to reconcile that with the fact that yassen is responsible for his uncle's death. a very unforgivable act. it would be so messy and complicated and angsty, because on one hand here is an adult who truly cares about him and has a connection with him through his father. yassen could tell alex about john, and trust that yassen truly wants whats best for him. but he killed ian, and he cannot take that back.

while alex reels from those feelings, yassen is also trying to reconcile his love of alex with the knowledge that he on some level is responsible for the suffering alex endured at the hands of mi6. and possibly even the fact that alex's godfather is the one who killed john and helen.

[wackywatchdotcom]

i will say im not super invested in the idea of the show giving us too much information on c&a. like itll be super cool if we find out about it! and im sure itll be relevant information if we do but i think the information we get is going to be not super indepth, because im not sure itd match the tone of the show? its less about mystery and like The Lore and more about the characters and examining how different characters respond and have been responding to the environment set up by the show

(it WOULD be fun to learn more details about c&a and i AM curious i just dont think itd actually enhance much abt the show itself, and as such, i dont think its super important writing wise for the audience to learn about it either)

that SAID i do ascribe to the idea that ALL of the cast members worked for c&a before the ended up in the circus, no exceptions. i dont really know how say gangle or zooble wouldve ended up there, but i feel like they all ended up there one way or another. and i think most of the cast doesnt talk about their life in the real world bc its gone and theres no reason to dredge it up (or theyve forgotten it or most aspects of it), but it does make it fascinating that not even pomni, who has the least reason to avoid these topics at least early on, broached the subject of what in the WORLD is c&a UP to. it literally is never brought up ever as of ep 4. which makes me think the company was probably always super shady in some way to the pt that its employees were kinda desensitized to the idea that its c&as fault that horrible things happen

[lathrine]

there's a TTRPG opinion i've seen A Lot online (mostly [but not exclusively] in D&D circles) that giving your players magic items is stupid and bad and they should Be Earned Through Sweat And Blood because otherwise they Unbalance The Game.

this might be true at big tables. i wouldn't know.

but i have DM'd A Lot. like A Lot A Lot. i wouldn't consider myself like master dungeon master or anything-- there is a lot im not good at and a lot i still have to learn-- but i do have a pretty good grasp on how the flow of a small table works. i have DM'd for tables of two-three players almost exclusively for six years.

i don't know what the current stats are, but many years ago WToC released stats that showed most 5e players never get past level 10.

if you have a two-three player table, any campaign book is lethal under level 5, and 6-10 is only slightly better. it does not matter how savvy your players are, how experienced, how tactically minded. you, the dungeon master, are playing a constant stressful battle against yourself to keep your party from instantly becoming paste. do you fudge rolls on the fly so enemies dont inflict 27 damage with an ill-timed crit, absolutely vaporizing your level 2 bard? do you reduce the number of enemies in an encounter, constantly fluctuating between too few and too many? do you let every roll lie where it falls, so The Struggles Are Real, regardless of the consequences? do you give them an NPC companion, to help even the odds? the answer is you do all of the above-- plus some extras-- in varying amounts. its one of those dm things im not very good with.

i'm running Horde of the Dragon Queen right now, and the inciting incident is a bandit siege on the town. the players are level one. the encounter is the entire night with a boss fight at dawn. if you follow the encounter Exactly as written the party fights-- and i am not exaggerating-- upwards of 60 enemies without a long rest, with a single short rest, and at level one.

as written, it is not survivable with a party of under four players. and frankly a party of 4+ would struggle.

and this is relevant, i swear, because as a dm of parties of two-three players, i love magic items. i love giving them out, i love the party having them. i love knowing that i dont have to pull my swings because the playing field is more level. i love being able to present them with A Challenge knowing it wont be an exercise in futility-- just challenging. i love giving silly magic items, that arent particularly powerful in their own right but if used cleverly can give a pretty big step up in future scenes.

i love making magic items, themed specifically for the player. something i can give them at a big milestone or story point, that's maybe a little beefy but feels Special.

i dunno mang. its the video game of it all. i have given out Tons of magic items over the years and my players have used maybe like 10% of them. i think very few players want an item that just lets them win the game. most people just want to feel Cool when playing the imaginary make believe game with their friends, and magic items are a great way to do that.

i think if you cant trust your players with magic items, because it'll Ruin The Game, there is a fundamental disconnect somewhere at the table.

[ari-kari]

more adhd ranting below

I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that I might be on the "severe" side of the ADHD spectrum and tbh that's pretty scary.

obviously there's a lot of stuff in my life that's made setting permanent habits hard. I've been moving jobs and houses virtually nonstop since...age 18? that's kryptonite to a neurodivergent person. not to mention all the rest that's taken place along with it.

but when I look at the course of my life, and compare the effort I expend with my overall ability to function...there's a bit of a canyon there. And that's scary. It's scary for your best to be so far from "good enough" that you question if you're ever going to be able to be a fully-fledged person, even with meds.

anyways I'm not an r/antinatalist edgelord anymore and I swear eugenicism is bad but tbh there's about a hundred reasons my parents should've thought twice about my conception and the fact that they *both* have severe ADHD is one of them.

[connormoving]

i need a job

[dykedvonte]

you make really good points, I think I used the term karmic wrong sorry. I think of it more as not how I personally think he deserved all that happened to him (which thinking back os exactly what karma means, I messed up sorry), but as his fate being directly tied/parallel to anyas. I handnt noticed the toxicity of jimmy and curlys relationship, from the first playthrough I watched and the first interactions I had w fandom I saw so many ppl just. dismiss the terror Anya went through and focus too much on him as the "ultimate victim" and that just didn't sit well w me. I really dislike seeing ppl go "oh well nothing could've been done" I think it's much more complex than that. also I forgot to mention in the last ask that I really appreciate you bringing the point that this game isn't just about the harm of patriarchy but also very very critical to capitalism, I haven't seen too many ppl touch on this. I hadn't thought too deeply about how it makes "he deserved to become disabled as punishment" come up and I agree that's really messed up. I'll try watching a playthrough again with all of this in mind. but either way thanks! I really appreciate your answer 🫶🏼

I guess this is just part of being in a fandom like this. I've noticed a lot of people don't actually see posts outside of their curated view. So some people only get like anya posting or jimmy or curly and it can make it seem like that is what is saturating the conversation.

I mainly just follow the general tags and look for anything new because I'm like obsessed but I know some are only looking for what they want or believe to be the case and can get weird about other ideas.

Sorry if I came off mean its just a last few of the asks have been like circular conversations like this and its not draining per say but seeing all the nuance and details get overlooked to fit a straightforward and basic narrative really sucks cause there's a lot to explore character and theme wise.

[chai-dye]

😭 My hot take that no one wants to hear is that narcissism and hyper-empathy are both regarded in simular harmful pop-psych manners but it's just easier for everyone to cry 'narc abuse' and shit on 'empaths' than think critically about it for 5 minutes

[softness-and-shattering]

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[beepbeepmfkr]

Say it with me folks, the concept of the "male loneliness epidemic" is a thought pattern meant to examine the negative affects of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy on men. If you cannot engage with conversations about how men are negatively affected by toxic masculinity without rolling your eyes and saying something to the effect of "sucks for them, maybe they shouldn't be such pigs", congratulations, you are missing the entire point.

[shummthechumm]

whenever im reminded of th//stlec//law's existence i am one step closer to writing another several paragraph long hate-post. there aren't enough in the world i think

[weirdbabs]

im sure im not the only one but paranatural is set so firmly in 2011 in my head i refuse to even consider that it could be later. every time a middle schooler uses a smart phone im just like ah yes. they come from money

[an-absolute-nightmare]

from the bottom of my heart i am so, so tired of my mother, she's not a terrible person but my patience is so thin i just feel like doing something drastic