#Ok silly rant over

[ibrithir-was-here]

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[theselkiesea]

It's my works games night and I'd rather be at home in bed. All they wanna play is the old Cards Against Humanity, which hasn't be fun since 2013.

I prefer games that require a bit more brain power.

[theribbajack]

"Now, the vow will be honoured, and my Lord brother's soul will return."

Radahn stans keep winning, but I personally am in Miyazaki's walls rn

[sugarr-moon]

“none of artis actions are justified and everything was her fault shes a shitty parent who got her kids killed and a genocidal maniac”

“arti was completely justified and all of the scavengers deserved to die for killing two innocent babies”

nuanced character enjoyers:

[elusiiev]

OMORITOBER DAY 14: LIBRARY

i like to imagine spirit mari tossing down her favorite memories for omori to read while peeking around to see omori's reaction :3

i was thinkin of drawing her too, but honestly i wasnt very sure what pose to do and i was a bit tired !!

thanks to @/ntrogensolar for the omoritober prompt list!

extra rant in the tags ab why this isnt a full piece!

[frederickkittens]

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[the-valiant-valkyrie]

okay well. one thing that i absolutely adore abt ieytd3 specifically is their dedication to The Bit. The Bit, in this instance, being the telekinesis.

i first heard of ieytd pretty much the year it came out- although i wavered in and out of the community until a few months before the sequel was announced. within that time, there was this trend in what few ieytd fics were published that they would reject the telekinesis mechanic entirely. they would pretend it didn't exist. they brushed it off as a mandatory game mechanic for a VR title, but obviously it doesn't actually matter in canon. it's unnecessary.

but seeing schell games literally go "nuh uh". and take what's a pretty significant step in a unique direction from their source material. and say "actually, not only is telekinesis canon, but we are going to make it's existence critical to the plot of our entire third installation" was so much fun. i respect them so much for that.

a lot of times i find the best sort of games are those that take their silliness seriously. they don't feel ashamed of doing their own thing- breaking the mold a little bit, if it means developing a deeper sense of identity. they took this mandatory mechanic- essentially the only obstacle between them and an untarnished james bond-esque experience- and said "we can roll with this". and just did.

i love a game that's not ashamed to be what it is.

[sovawife]

not directed at anyone in particular but i miss when this community was more of a community. when people actually talked to each other and socialized with people they didnt know in a friendly manner and didnt go around gossiping like highschoolers. i've been here since 2018 and most of the people i know here have been here for a while and are adults now, if they weren't already, so act like one. it feels like everyone's constantly at each other's throats and there's no room to breathe or even be empathetic or civil with each other when we should be. like it seriously in a way almost forgets with all the discourse and stuff that happens people forget real people are behind the screen, like real people that have feelings lol.

i get part of this is because there are so many proshippers rampant in the community now, i feel like there is too from what i've seen and i don't like them either but i feel like people need to get a life and leave it alone like if you don't like it just block and move on lol. it's really childish to be just dwelling on it and spreading more gossip . i honestly don't think the community is ever gonna return to how it was years ago and i don't have hope in it doing so but. it just sucks!!!

[tblsomedoodles]

What would each Donnie class and species play for dnd

Donnieverse dons playing Dnd? I am there for it! : )

So i'm straight up ranting about this now so i'll put everything under a cut b/c it's late and I don't know how to stop typing!

Ok, so since it's a group of Dons, i'm going to say they had a pretty extensive session 0 (planning before playing session) to make sure their characters would work well as a team and all the roles would be covered. So they would start off with characters that fit the roles they were assigned and kind of branch off from there. Role wise, they'd have a healer, a sneaky person, a tank, and a magic dude. the characters change and adjust as they go and the four learn how to break the game "work together" but each character sticks mostly to their roles.

(also for argumenative's sake, their DM is just Alt-Don from Preferable Alternative. B/c I would love to see what campaign that dude would make. AND his reaction to these 4 Donnies consistently breaking it would be amazing. there was a marvel fic I read that involved Loki playing DnD with the avengers, like he, tony, Bruce, and Clint were all players and Natasha and Steve were co-dming. The amount of stupid shenanigans they put their poor dms through was amazing and I imagine Alt-Don would be put through similar shenanigans and would be increasingly frustrated about it lol.)

Seer takes the magic role with a Wild Magic Sorcerer. (mostly b/c Seer being inconvenienced by magic even in a game was too amazing to pass up lol.) Maybe as a tiefling? (wait fk, that's just my baldurs gate character. eh we'll keep it) Yeah, let's give Seer, the dude who forced the Council to rehire ALL new guard staff b/c he terrified the last ones to the point of quitting, some extra creepy spells, as a treat : )

Webs takes the Sneak role. I think he'd start off with Woodelf Assassin Rogue. But he would eventually dual class and add Artificer as a class. He probably ends up having an ingame version of Shelldon b/c of some high rolls and ingame shenanigans.

Donnie has the healer/support role. He's a half-elf Bard. He specifically chose Bard so he could use his high charisma to screw with the campaign. Specifically he's a Creation Bard (only just found out about the Creation college and it sounds like he'd have fun with that.) (it would be neat if he eventually duel classed into a cleric, if only from a character story stand point. Like the character preformed so well even the gods were like 'hey u want a job?')

Dee has the tank. He sticks to that pretty closely, with a Human Champion Fighter (with a protection fighting style from the start.) Does he play this character somewhat based on the way his dad is? yes. Will he ever admit it to anyone? Not a chance lol. He might branch out later on to duel class in like Warlock or something but yeah.

(I had wanted to give Dee something like the Turtle Monk I personally play, but I imagine they would set these characters up for longer term play, and as much as I love my DnD ninja turtle, he wouldn't work as well as a tank in later levels as he does in earlier ones due to shenanigans. Specifically the Turtle race trait of having a flat 17 for AC combined with the Monk trait of getting to add your wisdom modifier to AC if you don't wear armor. fker has a 19 AC at the start, which is amazing for early game. But can never go above a 21 ever, which isn't quite as good late game.)

So yeah! That's probably what they'd play as they drive their DM bonkers : )

Thank you!

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

I was drawing warriors in a doodle

and then I drew him in a separate doodle

and then I realized I’d drawn him doing the exact same expression at the exact same angle in both doodles

[skippingseaglass]

chat i think this is why they say that social media is bad for people

[i-love-hyacinths]

WTF DO YOU MEAN THE TORIES WANT TO BRING BACK MANDATORY NATIONAL SERVICES. "No criminal charges for no completing" but also they wont fucking tell us what makes this mandatory. Istg I will change career paths into politics just for the chance to tell rishi sunak and all the other Tories they are cunts to their face. ISTG they act like they want us to protest against them because what other reason would they have for their bullshit but they then also restrict our right to protest. Anyways fuck the tories, fuck the bullshit politics in this country. If you live in the UK and care about the youth or minorities then do not vote conservative

[desalvar]

citing all my sources of inspiration for Nikodemus would mean unironically putting Misfits 2009-2013 at the top of the list

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

how do people do little comic things. this shits impossible lmao

[ishikawayukis]

missing young k hours D-1

[five-of-cr]

here's the thing about matthias: he isn't the honorable, reformed hero some of the fandom seems to see him as.

yes, he was raised by a tight-knit family of comrade soldiers and decides to betray them in the end. of course that took incredible strength. i don't deny that. but we also need to recognize that the drüskelle are not just some rogue cult. they are a core part of the fjerdan government, who is trying to wipe out the grisha because they are seen as dangerous. that's literally just genocide. however indoctrinated someone is, this is something that is evil from every angle, even if the character can't or won't see it.

and look, i love a good redemption arc, but matthias is such a passive actor in his. he falls in love with nina against his will. she changes his attitudes toward grisha because she's beautiful and kind so all grisha can't be bad, right? this a classic example of the trope of separating the "good ones" from the rest, where you cherry-pick specific individuals to point to as exceptions to a group's nature, which is still implied to be evil. you have to do a lot more than fall in love to truly unearth and address the roots of bigotry.

tbh, this is my biggest critique of the books as a whole. i loathe the "love conquers all" trope that pairs together a character from the oppressed group and one from the oppressors, letting the one show the other through the power of love that being bigoted is not nice. it puts all the responsibility on the former to prove their humanity, and gives all the credit to the latter's ability to be persuaded to recognize it. and then it inevitably leads to forgiveness, because the character has "earned" it by changing their views, once again making the victim seem like the villain if they don't absolve the oppressor of their past "mistakes". also, it's incredibly unrealistic for someone to fall in love with a person who actively hates them and considers them sub-human. in real life, people have to work on their bigotry before that happens, not use the relationship as a plot device for character development.

i think the idea of writing a character like matthias is neat. i think portraying someone's struggle to throw off the suffocating, hateful dogma they've been fed all their life is a story we need more of. i think personal growth of this variety should be celebrated, because otherwise people would never change. but i don't think the people, fictional or real, get to do this without facing profound consequences. it is not enough to feel sorry. it is not enough to apologize. it is definitely not enough to fall in love. and i think writing that lets people off the hook like this grossly oversimplifies power and oppression, and ends up being a feel-good way to romanticize people who cause a lot of harm.

a last note: my opinion is 100% influenced by my being bipoc. matthias is a classic aryan supremacist, even if being aryan isn't the thing he's being supremacist about. my gut reaction to that type of character is always going to be mistrust, both because people in real life have given me reason to be mistrustful and because characters like these are often written in a way that makes you sympathize with oppressors. i don't think matthias earns that trust, and i don't see why i owe him my affection as a reader.