#also i used to SUCK at smash but it’s actually so easy once you get used to it

[frudoo]

Mountain Man!Price save me… save me…

Warnings: SMUT. Unprotected PIV, creampie ofc y’all know me. Also mentions of guns + hunting deer. Fem!Reader.

MDNI

“You see that one there?” John’s voice is low but not quite a whisper, using his pinky finger to point out a huge buck a couple hundred yards away from where the two of you are planted on the ground.

“Yeah,” You reply softly, keeping a watchful eye on the creature as it takes a drink of water from the creek.

“That’s who we want. Get a dozen meals offa him, easy,” he responds, pulling back from the scope to look back at you with a grin. “Wanna give it a go?”

Your eyes widen and you laugh softly, shaking your head. When you agreed to join him on his hunt, you were under the impression that you’d be acting as moral support, not as an accessory to… deer murder. You’ll cook the meat all day long, but actually killing the poor thing is a far different story.

“Nope, all yours, sugar,” You huff, glancing back at the big buck who was now feasting on a berry bush.

“C’mon, love, ‘fore we miss him,” John insists, lifting his arm and beckoning you closer with a jerk of his head.

You sigh heavily, scrunching your face as the dangling strands on the sleeve of his ghillie suit tickle you. He readjusts the rifle until the heel rests on your shoulder, gently explaining how to rest your head until your eye meets the scope and you can see through it clearly. Suddenly, the tattoos on his biceps make a lot more sense—what you thought were nonsensical spheres and lines are actually a common perspective for your man.

“Yeah, perfect. Don’t let him outta your sight, I’m just gonna…” John trails off, carefully bringing his arm back down and climbing partially on top of you. “Sorry, darlin’, it’s easier for me to show you this way.”

He positions your hand around the grip and your pointer finger on the trigger, then switches off the safety. Once he’s ensured that everything is properly structured, John rests his chin on your shoulder opposite of where the gun is. Your breath hitches in your throat as you try your hardest to keep your attention on the deer, but it’s hard when your husband’s hot breath is blowing against your face and his weight is pressing into you from above.

You try to get back in the zone by adjusting your body, but only succeed in pushing your ass back against his crotch. The low groan that emits from his throat makes you whimper and repeat the action, earning yourself a tut into your ear.

“Focus, baby, or we don’t eat for the next week,” John warns through gritted teeth, desperately holding himself back from grinding up against you.

Biting your lip, you allow your eye to focus on the deer once again, watching him strut to the next bush covered in vibrant red berries. The buck chomps down on a cluster of fruit gracefully, chewing slowly, unaware of the bullet you plan to shoot right into his heart. You suck in a deep breath, slowly start to press down on the trigger, but before you get the chance to fire, a pair of familiar lips attach to your neck hungrily. Your fingers clench out of instinct and the rifle goes off, but instead of hitting its target it buries itself somewhere in the dirt while the buck sprints away to safety.

Gasping, you drop the gun and push it away from you, turning your head back to look at John with furrowed eyebrows. His face is flushed beneath the streaks of green and black paint he had you smear across his skin, eyes wild with the telltale glint of lust.

“John, I had him! Why-”

“Fuck the deer,” He growls, no longer attempting to push down his desires and instead covering your body entirely with his own. “Got my own pretty, wide-eyed doe right here.”

John grasps your throat and tilts your head back so that his mouth can hastily smash against yours. His tongue shoves its way past your lips, tasting your shock, devouring the unspoken questions that dissolved before they got the chance to slip out. You don’t hesitate to kiss back, eyelids falling shut as his big hands glide between your body and the dewy grass to fumble with your cargos. The button snaps a little harsher than it should and you already know you’re gonna need to sew a new one on when you get back to the cabin.

“Fuck, your cunt’s already so damn wet,” John exhales heavily as he pulls your pants and knickers down just past your hips, exposing your ass and the glistening slick that’s collected between your thighs. “My cock’s just gonna slip right in.”

You whine at that, arching your back in invitation. John hisses and smacks one of your asscheeks hard enough to sting his palm. He chuckles at the little squeal you let out before sitting up on his knees and shoving down the pants of his ghillie suit just enough to expose his dick. It’s already throbbing, fully erect and dripping pearls of precum onto your raw skin. He glides the engorged tip through your warm folds before sliding home in one deep thrust.

The two of you shudder in sync as he bottoms out, hitting the barrier of your cervix with a blissful, dull pinch. John wraps one arm around your neck, allowing you to rest your head on his bicep as he holds himself up with his opposite elbow.

“Fuckin’ deep, ain’t it?” He grunts, punctuating each word with a strong pump of his hips.

“So deep,” you confirm with a gurgle, cheeks completely squashed between the fat and muscle of his bicep and forearm. “Feels so good, John.”

“I know it does, my sweet doe.”

Every thrust is devastating, the veins and ridges of his fat cock rubbing perfectly against the sensitive walls of your tight pussy. Raspy groans fall from his lips and echo into your ear as he nibbles on the lobe, the sound of skin on skin ricocheting throughout the busy woods along with your pretty moans. The head of his dick punches against that rough spot that makes you scream, and he chuckles, angling his hips so that he can make you see stars over and over again.

“That’s right, love, scream for me. Let the fuckin’ mockingbirds hear you, so every single soul that comes through here knows how pretty you sound when I make you cum. Yeah, just like that, baby, sing for me, sing for the birds.”

His words encourage you to obey, your cunt clamping down on him like it’s trying to keep his cock inside permanently. Rivulets of slick cream cling to every inch of his dick as he buries his face in your neck, uncaring of how the strands of his ghillie suit brush against your skin, overwhelming your senses. With a final thrust, he pushes himself deep and releases his potent load into your willing womb, spurts of his seed painting your walls an off-white.

Once the two of you have calmed down, breathing evening out, John gently pulls out and shimmies your panties and cargos back up your hips, effectively keeping his cum contained. He moves from on top of you and stands, pulling his own pants up and tucking away his spent cock, then throws the rifle over his back. You’re utterly useless, laying on the grass and mumbling something incoherent. Your lover just chuckles and scoops you up into his arms, carrying you back to the cabin, safe, warm and definitely planning to have leftover soup for dinner once again.

(When he returns to the woods the next day for a successful hunt without your distracting presence, he hears an awfully familiar call from a certain bird in one of the trees.)

[gregmarriage]

anyways, this is my current smash roster, if anyone’s interested

the thing about being chronically ill, is that i currently have a cold, and i’m in bed, playing smash, but it’s not really that different from any other day

[ashwhowrites]

could you write something for robin x reader where robin thinks that reader is straight because she seen her kissing eddie at a party but reader is actually bisexual and interested in robin. the kissing eddie part is just for angst lol

I loveeeeee Robin

Never proofread

I hope this is what you were looking for <3

~~~

Robin always struggled with reading girls. She couldn't separate friendliness from flirting. She couldn't tell if a girl was straight or gay. And that burned Robin a lot in the past. Always falling for the girls that are straight and never interested. Sadly, Robin was used to always being rejected.

With her latest crush, she ran into the same problem. Y/N was the sweetest girl Robin has ever met. Her voice was velvety and soft. Her smile was always bright and inviting. She was gorgeous, smart, and talented. It was easy for Robin to get sucked into her. But Robin could not tell if Y/N was just wanting to be friends or maybe something more.

Y/N was always quick to compliment Robin and it made her head spin. A new shirt? Y/N noticed. Did Robin cut her hair? Y/N noticed. Robin couldn't tell if she was just that great of a friend or if maybe Y/N liked her the way Robin did.

Chrissy was throwing a party, and the whole school was invited. Robin dragged Steve along because her anxiety could not handle a house full of people that wouldn't know who she even was. She didn't even plan to go until she heard Y/N talking about how she was going.

So now Robin stood in the corner, eating at her lips as she searched the party for the familiar face. And she found that face smashed against Eddie Munson's in a heated kiss.

Robin shouldn't have been surprised that she stroke out again, but she really wanted Y/N to be into her. Her stomach turned watching as her hands dove into Eddie's hair and his hands landed on Y/N's ass. The two were going at it like no one else was in the room. With a sad sigh, she asked Steve to take her home.

~~~

Robin avoided seeing Y/N all weekend but knew there was no escaping her at school. Robin convinced herself to just get over it and move on.

But once she caught sight of Y/N, it all went out the window. She felt like someone was twisting her stomach in knots.

"Hey Rob, I didn't see you at the party and you haven't answered my calls. Are you okay?" Y/N asked worriedly as she checked Robin over. Robin tried to ignore how red her face was burning up. Coughing as she backed up. She prayed her freckles covered the blush across her cheeks.

"Yeah, I got there then I felt sick so I went home and slept the whole weekend." Robin lied, hoping her lie sounded convincing. The concern is Y/N's eyes grew.

"I could have come over and helped you," Y/N said, reaching forward to feel Robin's forehead.

"It's fine. How was the party?" Robin asked, she already knew Y/N had a great time.

"It was alright, nothing really happened." Y/N shrugged

Robin's mouth moved faster than her brain.

"What about making out with Eddie?" Robin asked, immediately freezing when the question went past her lips. She was an idiot.

"How did you know about that?" Y/N asked curiously

Robin's mind blanked, blinking rapidly as she searched every part of her brain for a response.

"Gossip" Robin blurted out, swallowing hard as Y/N looked her over. With a slight nod, Y/N accepted the answer.

"I was drunk, he was drunk, and that was it." Y/N shrugged like it was no big deal.

Truthfully it was not a big deal. They were both single and welcome to kiss each other, but it killed Robin on the inside.

She thought of Y/N's lips all the damn time. Imagined countless times how soft her lips would feel. And it stung that Eddie got to find out.

~~~

Over the next few days, Robin tried her best to seem fine. Trying to hang out with her best friend like nothing changed between them. But the rejection was too fresh and it showed in Robin's eyes every time she looked at Y/N's lips.

It also caused Robin to snap at Eddie more than ever. She couldn't handle being in the same room with him, she just wanted to punch him, bust his lip open and watch it bleed.

Eddie picked up on the glares Robin constantly sent in his direction. He called her out and Robin surrendered. Telling Eddie all about her feelings for Y/N, and how badly it hurt to see him kiss her.

Eddie felt sorry for the girl. Seeing your crush on someone else was never a good feeling and it took forever to move on from it. And Eddie did not want to stand in her way. He made sure to clear Robin's worry of Eddie liking her. Agreeing with Y/N that it was a one-time drunk moment.

~~~

But Robin knew the same thing would happen over and over. Y/N won't be single forever, one day she will meet someone. Robin could sit and wait for that day, and suffer before it even happens with the what-ifs. Or admit her feelings...Robin chose to suffer.

The one thing Robin never did was tell her best friend she was gay, and she felt like it was time to admit that to her. Maybe it would ease her mind and help her move on. She wasn't sure how it would help her move on, but she already lied to herself that it would.

And that was when she found out her own best friend liked girls too.

"It's okay, Rob. I like girls too, and I wouldn't love you any different."

But Robin was stuck on the fact that her crush admitted she also liked girls. Robin had an opening, all she had to do was take it....she didn't.

Y/N did though, shyly scooting closer to Robin as she nudged her knee against Robin.

"Any girls in your mind?" Y/N asked, a shy smile on her face. Robin could sometimes be clueless, and Y/N had a feeling she would look way over Y/N's head.

"For a second then I get distracted by something else." Robin shrugged, her answer was painfully honest.

Y/N felt herself laughing at the girl, Robin was too cute for her own good.

"Well I have a girl in my mind and she stays there the whole time, and I never get distracted from her," Y/N said

Robin tried to sound supportive but was never good at hiding her annoyance.

"Who's the lucky girl?" Robin sassed out, crossing her arms over her chest.

"She's you." Y/N smiled, reaching down to squeeze Robin's knee.

"Um huh?" Robin asked, she turned to look at Y/N, confusion clear in her eyes.

Y/N rolled her eyes, smirking as she leaned in.

"This okay?" She whispered against Robin's lips.

Feeling Y/N's breath hit her lips had her in a trance, Robin's body froze and she licked her dry lips.

"Yes," She choked out, her voice cracking as Y/N leaned closer and closer.

Y/N smiled at the answer, pressing her lips against Robin's in a soft but passionate kiss.

Eddie Munson had nothing on Robin now.

[cod-dump]

You know what I really liked the MP videogame ask so i want to try again

Multiplayer games and who's banned from them:

Cod zombies: gaz, horangi

Halo coop (campaign firefight spartan ops): roach

New Minecraft server: kronig, roach

Elden ring: ghost

Fallout 76: price, roach

Mario kart: soap

Battlefield: roach, kronig, ghost

For honor: kronig, horangi

Day z: price, gas

War thunder: nikolai, kamarov

Smash bros: laswell, mama mctavish

Horangi has abandoned Gaz and left him to fend for himself so many times while playing Zombies. But if Gaz does it to him he will physically fight him, and he doesn’t care who’s in between them. It’s only with Gaz, for some reason. He’ll help anyone else but Gaz. Gaz returns the favor. Horangi forces them to play Mob of the Dead then screams about it later. Gaz also picks the worst maps to get back at Horangi. They are no longer allowed to play together, especially after the Hell Hound Incident.

“Gaz… No-“

“It’s too late, Hong-Jin. There’s nothing I can do-“

“KYLE-“

“Goodbye, Hong-Jin. You won’t be missed.”

“DON’T LEAVE ME-“

Horangi gets obliterated by hell hounds as Gaz watched. That marked the last time they played together.

___

It’s not that Roach tries to make them fail— He just sucks at the game. He’s not big on shooters and panics when the enemy swarm him. Thankfully there isn’t friendly fire because he has wasted so much ammo on teammates. He has shot Ghost so many times and then screams when the enemy show up. He’s been banned from playing now and cries about being excluded despite knowing he sucks ass at the game.

“GHOST- HOLY SHIT— I’M OUT OF AMMO!”

Ghost ignores him.

“PLEASE THE BRUTE—“

Loud sighing.

“Thank you-“

“Shut the fuck up.”

___

Once more, they allowed Roach to play Minecraft with everyone. No one has said anything about his past crimes so König is unaware of how Roach is when he plays. That’s okay. König is worse. Everyone got together and took over a village and made it their own… and König discovered a Ancient City under it. He had made a massive mine that allowed the Warden to get to the surface relatively easy. Everyone was screaming and discovered all of their loot was misplaced (stolen) and they all had to run and abandon the village. Now both König and Roach are banned from playing. That’s fine, they went a made a server together.

___

Don’t trust Ghost when he says he knows a place while playing Elden Ring because he does know a place. A place where you’ll die without a chance to defend yourself. If he dies to a boss he’ll lure the others to that same boss and watch them die. He has days on this game, way above everyone else, so if he dies to a boss they don’t even have a chance. They don’t play with him anymore.

___

Price enjoys attacking people on Fallout 76. He constantly has a bounty on him. Roach took after him quickly in this game because they both tried to kill each other and failed. Now they team up and hunt everyone else. Since Price has reached the SPECIAL cap and is now using his power for evil, the entire game turned into a manhunt. You can’t bribe either of them to leave you be. You can’t join them either. All you can do is run. Though Ghost has gotten the jump on Roach, he didn’t escape Price. Needless to say they don’t play with them anymore.

“I see you-“

“FUCK OFF NO YOU DON’T!”

Soap gets shot in the head. Roach did in fact see him.

___

Soap is a bitch at Mario Kart. Don’t try to play as Wario. Wario is reserved for Soap and Soap alone. He has a deadly aim with shells and always picks one person to target each game. He’s not even trying to win, he’s just trying to fuck over his chosen victim. He pisses off everyone when he does this and has actually been punched over it before. Only those who don’t know him play with him. The fools.

___

They were all excited for Battlefield 5. Then Roach, König, and Ghost reminded them all why they can’t have nice things. So much screaming and cussing and literal death threats. Roach always chases the closest person. He usually goes after König because he panics and can’t aim worth shit when he panics but sometimes he goes after Ghost… and immediately regrets it. If Roach or König get the drop on Ghost— They’re dead in real life. If the three are on the same team they spend the entire time fucking each other over. Soap hates playing with them because they don’t take the game as seriously as he does.

___

When playing For Honor, König is actually scary good at this game. At first he helped out Horangi but once Horangi showed a tiny bit of skill it was over. König insists that he targets Horangi because he just wants to help him improve. Everyone knows that’s a lie. It doesn’t matter if they’re on the same team or not, König goes after Horangi. He’s nice to everyone else but Horangi gets ‘special treatment’.

“FUCK YOU!” Horangi screams after König team kills him and then refuses to revive him.

“I love you~”

Horangi doesn’t feel loved.

___

Price and Gaz started playing Day Z to have something just for them. After they got a good footing in the game they decided to be nice and invite everyone else to play with them. They helped everyone get started. Helped them get okay gear and weapons… then the betrayal. Everyone was cussing and screaming as Price and Gaz killed them and took their gear.

“Execute Order 66,” muttered Price.

That would be their only warning before all went to hell.

___

War Thunder is normally only played by Nik and Kamarov. It’s their game and they usually play when no one else around, meaning no one had any clue to what they were like. Have you ever been sniped by a tank? No? Don’t worry, Nik will make sure you have a lovely experience. You won’t even see him and you’re dead. There’s a lot of Russian screaming, you have no idea what’s going on, and Kamarov just dived bomb you for the third time in a row. Nik and Kamarov are a deadly team. Price flipped his tank and Nik and Kamarov didn’t kill him but did keep everyone else from helping Price.

___

The one time Laswell was over for game night, Soap’s mom also happened to be there. To be nice they all picked a fun game that the two would be able to enjoy. A game that, normally, none of them rage over. Soap’s mom picked Kirby, gushing over how cute he was, while Laswell picked Toon Link. Soap had forgotten that his mom plays this game with his nieces and nephews and only mentioned it after she kicked everyone’s ass. Only Laswell stood a chance against her. Soap automatically cheered for his mom but quieted down after a murderous glare from Laswell. They all discovered Laswell’s competitive nature and that Soap’s mom was a sore loser that night. They swore to never play Smash Bros again.

[grennseyelashes]

COMPLAINING ONCE AGAIN. look away if you are not a complaining once again fan.

i get that it's a series that you gotta chew over a bit to pick up on some of the nuance of the stories, but if i see another person gushing about what a cutie sweetie pie Jaime is for ordering Ilyn to kill one (1) of Pia's rapists then i might scream. he also brings all of the rest of them into his service without qualm and, after she's found a modicum of distance from them (by befriending and riding in the midst of Jaime's young squires instead) he then decides she's just being too sexy, insisting on having a body underneath her completely normal clothing, and so without consulting her at all just "gives" her to one of them to A) take his own mind off it all, B) as a reward for his squire, and C) to symbolically cuckold Lancel in his own bed as revenge. And all of these things are written very carefully! There is imho absolutely NO way that grrm didn't put all that in there to demonstrate that Jaime publicly "saving" Pia from one (1!) of her rapists was more about his own quest to feel like a hero as he'd hoped to as a child, before he was sent away from the Harrenhal* tourney and decided it was all a con, rather than out of genuine compassion, or him actually divesting whatsoever from his exceptionally vitriolic misogyny. Grrm even goes out of his way to let us know that this aspect of Jaime bullshitting himself does link back to his story with Brienne as well too! We later learn that some of the other Mountain's men who Jaime brought into his service, i.e. other rapists of Pia, later end up at Maidenpool because Jaime ordered them to go there without a care for what happened after that, and at least one of them was executed for rape by Randall Tarly, a man (and situation) that features very prominently in Brienne's own storyline. He coulda had them end up anywhere, or just simply never mention them again. But he doesnt! He links them up with Brienne's story.

It is so frustrating and SUCH a shame that this stuff apparently barely registers to most people (?) because the enormous divergence between what Jaime thinks he's doing and what he's actually doing are what make him such a great character. He genuinely does have semi-decent intentions, in a way (or at least somewhat improved ones), and he's given HUGE opportunity in the story to change his life and be a better man, he could not possibly be in a better position to get his shit together, and we watch him fuck it up over and over again because his little pseudo-medieval misogynist brain is too drenched in the ideology and structures of his society that he has willingly eaten up his entire life, and due to his position within it (yes, even sans hand!) too surrounded by "easy" answers (that he always takes) to ever actually escape his path. It's really good tragedy! And it's also, genuinely, not that diffiult to grasp? So... what the hell, man. Is the power of show-only Braime really that strong that the central differences in the actual books just dont exist, somehow? Cos if so, well, that sucks.

*Harrenhal <- Pia's home btw. and she was actually there for that tourney that Jaime's so sore about missing (and is so intriguing for other plot reasons!), but he's never asked her about it even once lol, even though she told him outright. Which makes sense seeing as, according to him, she's prettier with her mouth closed**

** What an interesting thing to have Jaime think, right after we're told the Mountain smashed her teeth in for "talking when he wanted quiet". Almost as if it were some kind of... intentional... parallel........... 🤯

[mind0invader]

Vent + rant

Why is life so stressful as a teenager,

my friends always hangout together I feel left out no matter what, I get jealous over my friends having another friend, I feel like I’m 6-10 years old again, I used to get bullied and my ‘best friend’ would bully me and so would my other classmates because I was ‘weird’ nobody liked me and I have been left out and people only wanted to group with me when it had something to do with art because I was very good at it but no matter what I always feel alone, I hate socialising, I hate my family, I don’t want my friends I don’t feel like I fit in, I think I’m autistic and tried to actually open up to my parents about my feelings for once and hey got mad at me for thinking I was autistic, I hate my parent, I hate my older sister, she never takes me serious and whenever she talks to me it’s only her who is allowed to talk whenever I try to talk to her shes like shut up I don’t have time for you, I’m also the middle child so I have been left out a lot by my siblings and my family is religious and Muslim but I don’t even believe in god because I don’t get how it works but I’m scared to tell them because I’m scared of getting abused and yelled at like I used to get, I still remember that time where my father smashed my head to my plate bc I didn’t know what he meant by fixing my posture when I was 5 or 6, it’s always stressful at school like last year it was fine and easy and suddenly everything I’m doing is wrong and hard and suddenly I wonder what would happen if I disappeared or committed suicide would people actually notice me or apologies, I rot in my room constantly bc I hate talking I feel like everything gets worse and that I’m no one’s favourite, I get nervous easily when talking in front of people. I love drawing a lot and I want to become a comic artist but seeing that I suck at doing colouring and line-art and others are better just makes me feel useless and stupid, I don’t wanna work or talk to anyone I just wanna do my own thing and do what I want, I don’t wanna be a hijabi, I don’t like wearing it and I don’t want to but my older brother is pressing me into wearing it he keeps asking me why I won’t, I just don’t like wearing it, I don’t wanna cover my hair, I use my hair to calm down at stressful situations, I wanna get away from my family, I wanna call the cops, I just wanna die, I’m just a child and my parents don’t realise that, my mom presses me to learn subjects at home when it’s not even homework, its MY free time and it’s precious to me I don’t wanna waste it on that til I actually need it, I keep getting stress from everything, I feel like I get judged or no one will ever love me, I just wanna be a normal girl but I can’t, I feel like I’m already mature and my parents are always like why are you so serious and so does my sister think that I am overreacting when SHE is the one always trying to get me to do everything she tells me to like I’m a slave like I’m just your little sister like who the fuck do you think you are, I hate how my father yelled and abused me before but I don’t get hit since I don’t yell back and I just do what he says but I truly hate my family because of how they are acting my mom used to be normal I used to love her but since she got stress from that education she was trying to get, she is just another person, I wanna scream and yell so bad but I just can’t, I feel like throwing up whenever I cry, I am emotional and my sister always says some shit to me and laughs it off and tries to show me some stuff like nothing happened, I don’t forget everything that she pushes away I don’t forget whenever my parent act like they didn’t do anything wrong, I observe and hear a lot and understand how some people are and what type they are.

Why has my childhood always been so shit, why am I considered weird? Why can’t I just have a normal life with stress? Why is it that I am not allowed to sleep if the kitchen is not clean I’m not the one eating and dirtying everything like a pig, my parents are unfair when it comes to me and my siblings, I’m a girl so I have to clean everything, im not allowed to be on my phone before the kitchen is clean I have to help with everything, I have 2 other brothers that are old enough to clean and cook but my older brother always gets me to do stuff and tells me I can’t wear pants and T-shirt that’s for females, GIVE ME A BREAK, WHY IS LIFE TREATING ME THIS WAY, THERE IS A REASON WHY I DONT BELIVE IN GOD ANYMORE, why can’t life just give me a break, I just wished I was somewhere else maybe like in anime or just somewhere away from this, I hope I die soon somehow. I hate being a girl, I wished I was born a male not trans but born and treated like one because they have an easier life because WDYM I have to go through pain every month bc I’m not pregnant I’m just a 14 year old.

I also know this is idiotic to post

[smurf4006]

A long overdue concert review incoming!!

Finally watched Suede performance live for the first time in 2024. Never in my life like even once would I think it was possible. You could say I’m a casual listener. The 1st song that got us hooked was actually ‘Obsessions’ way, way back when they released the single. When we found out they were coming to our country via instagram, we were elated & excited that it was held at Zepp. It was gonna be an intimate gig with smaller crowd & great ambience. Right when they opened the ticket queue, I immediately surfed the website & bought a pair of electronic tickets with QR codes. Ah gone are the days when we had to physically line up to buy tickets. Well except BMTH, it was so easy to get it.

Historically like other veteran fans, our playlist was full of Suede songs during our university days before graduation. The only way we could get in touch with their fans >12 years ago was thru tumblr. (However it’s sad that f*ckyeahneilcodling was deactivated coz the Italian girl admin was so sweet & friendly!) Currently we subscribed to Apple Music, I’m sorry it sucks to get paid 0.000000001 cent for each stream but I ain’t got no place to store physical CDs no more :(

Back to the live performance, I came with an unfairly low expectation. Thought they're gonna play whole setlist of new songs that most of us hadn't heard of. Maybe Brett will get tired of us eventually & smash some of the front row's iPhones through Simon's cymbals? What if Neil pass out suddenly onstage coz he had MECFS? Will Mat's bass drown & ended up buried in all that noise? Richard's fine I guess, he's an impeccable guitar demigod who never seemed to make a mistake. At times during our short road trip, I joked with ageist nuance on how we were on our way to see a bunch of old men who thought they could still rock it.

Boy was I mistaken. They opened with Turn Off Your Brain & Yell & it was the most energetic performance I ever seen. I'm the most irregular concert-goer who had only attended to a few local artists, Muse, Placebo & MCR; so I might be a little biased towards Suede but they are so underrated it’s maddening.

Brett's thunderous vocals echoed through the hall & stunned us all. How did a 57-year-old bloke manage to sing with his whole heart & emotion like that? I was perplexed on how they always sound better live than a studio record. Anyway, they played a lot of classic oldies we were familiar with. I almost cried of happines ala fanatic Swiftie when they played Life is Golden coz it was sucha beautiful song. It was also the first time I saw a frontman would wade through the crowd & allowed them to hold the mic & sang? Dare you to point me at least one frontman who’d be so intimate with his crowd coz there’s no others like Brett Anderson. He’s special in his own way & is irreplaceable. The security was somewhat complacent or relaxed most likely coz the civilized crowd did return Brett’s mic after the song was finished.

It was a bit comedic seeing Neil switching instruments time to time but yet I can’t stop wondering how did he heal his MECFS? I have acquaintances with MECFS & they shared how debilitating the disease was. Made you feel more sympathetic coz decades ago most doctors would brush you off & their diagnosis would lean more towards psychiatric disorder.

Throughout the 20-track setlist, I was amazed at how the band literally came back from the dead. I’m pretty sure they were split once & I didn’t know they reunited in 2010. Maybe I was aware maybe I wasn’t ah who could remember when you were so busy with life.

Thanks again Brett, Mat, Simon, Richard & Neil, the crew, roadies whoever for making the gig a dream come true. The jetset touring lifestyle is exhausting but I knew you guys are enjoying this journey too. While I wished they play Heroine, The Power, By The Sea & The Chemistry Between Us, there’s also an array of songs that my brother had wishlisted too like Killing of a Flashboy. I did remind him that he could always drop a comment for song request on their social media like instagram? We both were never fond of Drowners, Animal Nitrate & Metal Mickey thus guessed we were the younger generation who didn’t dig the Bernard Butler era. Their hardcore fans loved it though as evidenced by the roaring crowd that night.

It was worth the half-days we took off from work. Will we go again if they ever come back? Absolutely. I’d even go as far as to suggest them to do a Vegas-esque residency .

P/s: my photos were all blurry coz I was quite afar away; we are in our 30s who preferred leatherette comfy seats on the pretentiously elitist balcony which dampened our concert spirit. At times we did wish that we were down there but I was petite like Sabrina Carpenter who could not see anything in the standing zone. Not uploading any video, there’s always youtube for those who wanted to check them out.

[auncyen]

Ok car accidents I've been in because it's come up recently lol

my dad was stopped at a red light on a rainy day and a guy coming up from behind tried to brake but hydroplaned, managing to push my dad's car into the car in front as well. Why this was stupid driving: you are always always supposed to adjust your driving to account for weather conditions. Posted speed limits are for GOOD DRIVING CONDITIONS. If it's raining you need to start braking sooner and if it's really coming down you just need to slow down, period (because the alternative is hydroplaning when you hit water). Also my dad might be guilty of not giving the car in front of him enough distance. Since I was a kid in the backseat at the time I can't really critique too much on that.

a town I lived in had angled parking on a main street. I was going down the street when a lady decided no she was going to back out right then, never mind looking behind to see if there were cars (I couldn't easily switch lanes to avoid her because THERE WERE CARS. I did brake hoping she'd realize I was there and stop but uh. no she just didn't look and kept backing up into me. This was the accident that totaled my car at the time--it actually was still drivable, but not worth repairing according to insurance.)

JUST RECENTLY BEGINNING OF APRIL me exiting a parking lot going straight. see a minivan up ahead and to the left come to a stop--there's no stop sign, though, no reason for them to stop, and they stay stopped for several seconds, so I thought maybe there was a parking spot there or maybe they were just stopping to handle something in their vehicle since it wasn't too crowded in that part of the parking lot. I'm still just going straight and since they've been stopped this whole time I'm not expecting them to step on the gas RIGHT WHILE I'M PASSING IN FRONT OF THEM. Luckily I'd already mostly passed them so they hit the rear passenger door for only cosmetic damage to the car and not, say, the driver's door, which probably would have still just been cosmetic damage for the car but might've been a little more upsetting for me. This one is still just. Did she step on the gas without even looking up??? What was she doing? Like #2, the car that hit me was much bigger than my vehicle and once again was barely dented in comparison to how my car looked after.

I was not actually in the vehicle for this one, THANKFULLY, but my first car got utterly destroyed one night because I had to park it in the street and some drunk came through, jumped the curb to leave tire marks on the grass behind where my car was parked, and then smashed into my car and pushed it quite a distance into the street, shattering windows and doing pretty bad damage to the rear. Person never was caught and I just had to eat the loss on this one, which sucked a lot at the time, but at least I wasn't in the car for that one because that one probably would have hurt. Stupid driving because. Yeah given the path they left on the grass the consensus was "clearly intoxicated driver".

Like here's the thing as someone who started as a nervous driver: a lot of the difficulty of driving is just getting used to the motions and learning how to coordinate, say, looking for a street sign because you're in a new area while still paying attention to cars around you. After a certain amount of practice though that gets easy. Then the tricky part is that it's so easy because you do it so often that people just drive without thinking and certainly not thinking about "hey these are bad weather conditions, I'm going to need more distance if I have to brake suddenly" "I've had a bit to drink so maybe I shouldn't drive" "I need to remember to always look where I am going because I am driving a vehicle that weighs thousands of pounds." Why would they think about it??? Driving is easy!

And that's when stupid accidents happen.

[fioras-resolve]

Today's Guilty Gear Strive notes

-Went 0-2 against an Axl, the thing is that even with Strive’s “small” roster, there’s enough characters that there’s always someone you don’t know how to fight. A friend of mine once said that zoners distinctly suck to fight against compared to other archetypes, because while for a rushdown or grappler the ways of beating them will always be generally the same, zoners’ counterplay is specific. 

-Just went 2-1 against a Ramlethal. It’s fucked that I used to play as her. Siwansi actually wants to main her, she related so hard to her story as a machine coming to accept that she has feelings too. But god, Jack-O is such a character. Easily the character of all time. I think most people who know enough about Guilty Gear know that Jack-O was heavily nerfed from Xrd. She was “basemented,” as one designer on League of Legends put it. When one character is so much of a fucking problem that she makes the game unfun for other players, that’s when it’s time to hit the nerf hammer. It’s time to hammer her so hard that she’s functionally unusable except by the most dedicated players. And like, this always sucks for the character and their players, but personally I still find myself liking Jack-O a lot. I like her mix, I like her play. She’s one of the hardest characters to learn and she only barely earns it.

-Just went 2-1 against a Potemkin, I can kinda tell when my brain is cooked and I’m not gonna be able to play something for much longer. This is around that point with Strive right now.

-Playing the Arcade Mode now, this is fun! Arcade Mode in Strive works similar to Arcade Mode in most fighters I imagine, and also Classic Mode in Smash Ultimate. Each character has a storyline and some set fights they do, and the further you get into a character’s story without dying the harder it gets. BUT, if you get through it all without dying you get a secret best ending! Pretty cool! Jack-O’s story is about confronting her other self, Aria, and trying to understand her place in this world.

-It’s really interesting seeing just, the Way that difficulty escalates over time in this mode. It’s well known that single-player modes in fighting games are very easy to do badly or at least mediocre, and like, yeah I’d say this is on the mediocre end. P4A did it the best IMO. But like, the thing with this game is that over time your CPU opponent starts using more Techniques, like Wild Assault, Faultless Defense, you get the idea. It’s certainly good as a way of reminding the player “Hey, these techniques Exist,” but I kinda wonder how effective this is as actual Content.

-Like, okay, I lost a round once in that mode, so I get the Normal ending, where Aria and Jack-O defeat Nagoriyuki together, and this is pretty cool. But if I hadn’t died to that one Johnny I would have fought Nago alone and possibly gotten the True Ending. Which would have been cool. I’m gonna try again.

-Brisket -w-

-”How do you handle story in a PVP game?” The eternal question, to which there can never be one true answer, only a thousand entertainingly false ones.

-That’s enough of that for now.

[fatedtime]

@cawsket

SORRRRRRRY for the @, I just have a lot of things to say and enjoy talking about this sort of thing! Also people have left tags kind of akin to this and I figured, why not share my thoughts?

First I'll clarify that this post is very specifically about last season of anime, and was even more specifically made because I had other dunmesh posts of mine get tags with people saying, "I don't usually like watching the most popular anime of the season, but maybe i'll give it a shot" and I wanted to beg people not to get tricked by tumblr, it's not the most popular anime, that honor went to Frieren, please give it a shot because I did the calculation and my favorite character is likely not going to get his best scenes in the current confirmed run, so anything I could do to convince more people to watch it/read it/et, I was going to do. I never once said Dungeon Meshi was unpopular, only that it wasn't the most popular thing that season by a long shot.

That being said.

You're likely getting that impression vis a vis youtubers and such because this season sucks is much more typically popular isekai (please don't come after me konosuba fans I'm happy you got a S3). There's less competition, and Dungeon Meshi is competing better right now. Also, the people who like Dungeon Meshi REALLY LIKE IT, because it is exceedingly unique, so the likers are much more likely to talk about it, proportionally speaking.

Now, Anime Lists like MAL and Aniilist are usually populated by anime fans, it's true, but it's... not like there's some huge demographic divergence between Anime Likers and more casual watchers? Animation is niche. To use Netflix as an example, look at how comfortable it is treating its animated library exceptionally poorly. The Average Person, so much as that even exists, is... like... watching Live Action. Generally speaking, the interests overlap -- while there is going to be stuff that is popular among Hardcore Anime Likers that is not more widely popular among casual fans, stuff that's more popular among casual fans is also likely to be popular among Hardcore Anime Likers, because people who are into anime That Much tend to be watching like. 20+ shows a season. They're gonna watch the stuff that breaks containment too.

Frieren is actually an amazing example of this. I can't quite overstate to you how popular Frieren is. It was a smash hit with casual anime fans, or people who don't really watch anime generally, because of its relatable exploration of grief and it's setting which is easy for your average fantasy liker to get into. It trended on twitter very regularly. Its banger of an OP, by Yaosobi, has over 90M views on Youtube. It's It's also the highest rated show on My Anime List right now. It has overtaken the king, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which is pretty nuts.

Of course, using one source frequented by one demographic of people is bad practice, so I'll prove my point another way -- by comparing other sites. r/Frieren has 3x the users than the Dungeon Meshi sub. The official Frieren twitter has over 5x the number of followers than the Dungeon Meshi twitter. And pixiv… is awash with Frieren's ass, not Marcille. These are ways casual fans would interact with these shows, and fan-content produced is a pretty reliable way of checking the pulse of the market when it comes to anime. Also, being on Netflix does not an automatic success make, alas. This is why I'm biting my handkerchief and begging everyone I know to watch Pluto.

(mentioning this was just an excuse to plug pluto. PLEASE. IF YOU'RE READING THIS. WATCH PLUTO!!!!!!!!! its good.)

Anyway; tl;dr no, Dungeon Meshi wasn't the most popular thing last season, the most popular thing last season was a show that also hit the casual market but features a more conventional storyline + more conventionally attractive characters, which I think is worth noting and talking about. It's not unknown by any means, but quite a few people were under the impression it was ranked #1, which is why I made the post. I could go over the other shows too and make comparisons, but tbh this is already getting long and, y'know. It was a post made about last season's anime. I don't want to bore anyone, and just saying 'well, the anime landscape changes' might have been enough to explain the disconnect.

As an aside... and because tone is hard to convey via text, I mean this as nicely and gently as I can, and you're not the only one who said it, which is why I'm commenting, but...

.....I'm confused by the number of people who bring up 'It's done by Trigger so it must be super popular'? Trigger is pretty infamous for, 'amazing animation and interesting premises absolutely ruined by terrible endings'. I actually asked my group of kind of casual anime enjoyers, 'Hey, have you heard of Kiznaiver' and they were generally like, 'what is that' with one 'WHY DID YOU REMIND ME OF KIZNAIVER.' My GF practically begs people to watch BNA. Obviously, small group sample sizes do not a study make, but... they haven't made many season's smash-hits? Most people know of Trigger, but not a lot of Trigger shows are highly regarded in the long term, because of some issue or another with their plot.

I'd see the argument with like... Mappa or Madhouse or something, but honestly, 'made by Studio Trigger' serves as a word of caution, more than praise, for many of their shows imo. That's not to say I wasn't excited about a Studio Trigger adaptation, just that... I wouldn't really call Trigger an industry darling or anything. I mean there's a pretty famous YA novel out now whose main inspiration was 'DARLING IN THE FRANXX HAD A BAD ENDING I'M GONNA WRITE MY OWN VERSION GOD DAMMIT" lol.

I know that it’s easy to forget being on tumblr, which is the Eating Monsters and Elfyuri website, but outside of the gay circles, it is important to know that Dungeon Meshi… isn’t actually that popular.

Yes, it’s doing pretty well! And the per-ep rating is going up, plus stuff like MAL reviews are a dark pit from which no light escapes. But even just seeing the ambient discussion, it’s pretty clear that… Dungeon Meshi is by far from the most popular thing this season. Frieren, Villainess 99, Apothecary Diaries… all of them are beating it out handily in the polls.

So like. Do buy the manga if you can. Watch it, if you’re on the fence. I like all of the shows I mentioned and think they’re good, but you cannot argue that they are more… conventional in many ways with how they depict bodies and relationships, which leads to their greater appeal.

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than two enchantments

Somehow this exploitative free-to-play game keeps driving me to stay up hours late writing 3k word essays about it

Making Path of Champions Not Terrible

Prologue: Free-to-play games suck

A game might be free to play, but it's never free to make, so companies have to find some way to profit. This usually consists of forcing a terrible horrible no-good very bad grind on players, then providing microtransactions to skip the grind. This, naturally, doesn't create the most fun gameplay experience. Path of Champions is no exception, as it recently added a MASSIVE extension to the amount you need to grind to reach 100%, more than tripling the required resources.

I want to explore options to make Path of Champions non-predatory and overall better. The theoretical context for this will be a release of "Legends of Runeterra: Path of Champions: Definitive Edition", a game that you buy once and then you own it and can play it. This context both solves the profit problem and completely removes the need for exploitative grindy design. This theoretical release would only include content that currently exists, with no additional work or future updates. Things can be moved around, but nothing that would take more than a few days of development time total to implement.

Part 1: Should there even be progression at all?

A game can't be grindy if you start at max level. However, if all progression were to be immediately removed, new players would be completely overwhelmed with options and abilities. When presented with too many new options at once, common reactions are refusing to choose any, or picking one and just sticking to that forever. Having all the abilities at once would also overwhelm players with too much complexity and stuff to keep track of. Either the game needs to be significantly scaled down, or there needs to be some progression.

While having some progression like this could lead to grindy gameplay, I like to think of Super Smash Bros Ultimate as a comparison. The game's roster is enormous, so much so that a new player would be completely overwhelmed. Thus, the game starts with only 8 characters, and unlocks new characters one by one over time. This lets players try out the new characters as they obtain them, experiencing the variety of the game without ever getting overwhelmed. And notably, you don't grind for characters in Smash Bros. You CAN, but you unlock everyone in a reasonable amount of time just by playing the game normally.

One complication, however, is that unlocking a champion in Path of Champions is just one part of progression. There's also levels and star powers. Because of this, simply translating Smash Bros's progression mechanics to Path doesn't quite work. So how exactly SHOULD the progression work?

Part 2: Ethical progression

A major part of making a game addictive is time-based rewards. Daily and weekly quests pressure you to play frequently, coming back every day to maximize your rewards. An easy way to change Path of Champions to not give players an addiction is to make the time-based quests refresh instantly. That might sound like it would encourage players to play MORE; if you can get unlimited rewards in a single session, surely that would encourage players to play for many hours, right?

Well, it might make the average play session last longer, but it removes the fear of missing rewards; with daily quests, if you don't log in and play today, you'll miss the rewards! Even if you aren't in the mood to play that day. With unlimited rewards, you can just play at your own pace. You never lose or miss out on anything. You might even end up getting less rewards overall, but the actual rewards aren't the point, the point is the psychology, the way the game's reward structure pressures the player to play and make the game a habit, a routine. That's rude. Let players play at their own pace.

Another rude, exploitative aspect of the game's progression is one used by seemingly every digital card game, in this case even when cards aren't involved: Duplicate rewards. Random rewards are okay, I actually think they're good for reasons*, but duplicate rewards are just greedy. Duplicate rewards are when a player obtains something from a random reward that they already had, making the reward useless. Typically it's converted into some kind of resource, but that's always less efficient than just getting an actual, new reward.

A player earning a reward only to obtain nothing is, obviously, stupid bullshit. It's cruel at best and gambling at worst, and unlike in physical games, digital duplicate protection is simple and easy. So easy, in fact, that certain rewards in Path already have duplicate protection. So just do that for all of them. Obviously.

Part 3: Random unlocks are awesome

Random rewards get a lot of hate, and for good reason, especially when developers refuse to implement duplicate protection or when Super Holo Foil Quantum Secret Rare cards exist, tempting players to gamble on pack after pack. It's understandable to want to ditch random champion fragments and switch entirely to wild fragments that let players choose exactly what they want. However, imagine being a new player: You've just obtained 30 wild fragments, and that's enough to unlock a champion! So you go to the champion unlock screen and... there's 50 of them. We've been over this, dumping a truckload of choices on a player all at once is bad, don't do that.

There's also another reason why getting random champions can sometimes be better than choosing them: It's hard to know what you like before you try it. If wild fragments were all that there were, you might scroll right past what would be your favorite champion and instead buy one that plays similar to a champion that you already have. Unlocking random champions prompts you to try them out, which could lead to discovering that the theater kid murder man is actually a blast to play! Or maybe he isn't, and you drop him. Either way, it exposes you to a variety of playstyles that you might not experience if you had the ability to just unlock the aggro champions.

There's many ways that this could be done, which starts getting into the details what the exact mechanics behind progression should be, but I think Smash Bros holds the solution to all of life's problems: Set aside the idea of using fragments to unlock champions, and instead just have a random champion get unlocked after hitting certain milestones, like every 5 adventures won. Don't even bother displaying the champions that haven't been unlocked yet, let them be a fun surprise for players to discover. Maybe let players choose which champions to unlock after hitting a certain legend level, once they've unlocked a bunch of champions and won't be scared off by too many options.

Part 4: Legend level > champion level

Every playable champion starts at level 1, and can be grinded to level 30. Why? What the fuck? That's too much. I'd advocate for removing champion level grinding completely, but the complexity of getting a new champion with a new deck would be greatly increased by having items on all the cards in that deck. However, some aspects of champion level are so generic and universal across champions that they can be easily moved to legend level instead.

Legend level is a system to track how much experience the player has with the game, not linked to specific champions. It carries many generic upgrades, such as starting gold and rerolls. However, champion level also has many generic upgrades, such as "get items on first card reward", "+15% rare item/power chance", "+10 max nexus health", and "revive once per adventure". These have NOTHING to do with the champion, and could be removed from all champions' level up rewards and instead moved to legend level. The starting deck items and the relic slots should be kept in champion level, since those contribute to the champion's complexity.

The final note is that because the complexity of champion level rewards is fairly low, leveling up champions should be fast, and getting to maximum level shouldn't be difficult or tedious in the late game. A single run through a 3-star adventure should get a champion all the way to max, because once you're at that point, you can handle the complexity hidden by champion level and should be allowed to play a champion at full power pretty quick.

Part 5: Champion level > fragments

Star powers, like champion level rewards, are part of a champion's individual complexity. Like champion level rewards, they should be obtained over time to avoid overwhelming a player with too much new stuff at once. And like champion levels, getting them should be fast and easy for late-game players who can handle the complexity. So obviously, they should just be champion level rewards. I thought about this for a good while, trying to figure out how fragments should be obtained and used, but the answer was so simple all along. Obviously they should be champion level rewards.

This, combined with the changes to champion unlocking, ends up getting rid of fragments, the core currency of Path. And because fragments are gone, most reward quests are now pointless. Good fucking riddance.

The first star power should be obtained at level 2, after completing a single adventure with the champion. The second* and third are less important, they can be obtained whenever. To let experienced players start playing the actual champion right away, a legend level rewards should be added that instantly levels all champions to level 2, giving them the first star power.

Part 6: I wish constellations were finished

Constellations throw a massive wrench into my plans. In an ideal world, I would just wait until all champions have their constellations, then put all the Stuff in the champion level. Probably extend the champion level to take longer also because of all the Stuff extending the progression. But unfortunately, as of the time of writing, only certain champions have their constellations. I COULD just ignore constellations altogether, but I really like the Star of Discovery and Star of Legends and want to include them. But adding an actual Discovery and Legends upgrade for every champion would take Work, and I have to use stuff that already exists or is easy to add. SO!

Constellations will mostly be ignored. The champions that have them will not have them. EXCEPT for Star of Discovery and Star of Legends, the champions with constellations will have those upgrades as champion level rewards. Champions without constellations will have the following in their place: "Cards you obtain during adventures have an additional random common item" and "Support champions have an additional random epic item". These are generic enough to be copy-pasted into every champion level reward list easily. They could go in legend level instead, but champions with constellations give specific items instead so it has to be in the champion level.

This doesn't have anything to do with preventing grinding or limiting complexity, but you'll understand if you've read my other rants about this game. TL;DR, it's a counterbalance to the items that starting deck cards get.

Part 7: "Weekly" adventures and "monthly" challenges

Weekly adventures are 3 randomly generated adventures that give rewards the first time you win them. Normally, they refresh each week, but they're really simple to adjust: Just give the player a button that refreshes them. That might encourage players to refresh until they get an easy adventure, so make the button only pushable once, and then the player has to win an adventure to be able to press it again. The rewards also need altering: Make the dark star portal give an epic relic* instead of a rare, and make the shadow portal give a rare relic instead of champion fragments. The starlight portal is great as-is.

The monthly challenge is a set of 70 randomly generated micro-adventures that's basically a boss rush. You have a limited number of attempts, there's rewards for reaching a certain number of wins, and it refreshes every month. The main reward is fragments for Aurelion Sol, a dumb bullshit super champion that's absurdly overpowered on purpose. Because A-Sol is different, he gets to keep the fragment mechanic and star power system.

I think it would work best with the following changes: 1) You can refresh the challenge whenever you want. 2) To prevent refresh-exploiting, you can't see the later challenges until you reach them. 3) You can only receive the rewards for each win threshold once; refreshing won't let you get them again. 4) Getting all 70 wins will give you exactly enough fragments to get Aurelion Sol to 4-star. This turns the monthly challenge into just a challenge, a boss rush that tests your skills and your roster of champions against a legion of ever-stronger foes, giving you the full power of a dumb bullshit space-dragon as a reward for clearing the whole thing.

Part 8: Epic relics, forge not included

Before constellations, Path's first attempt at extending the grind was epic relics, obtainable only by super-expensive gold reliquaries and usable only by using a spirit forge on a champion to give them an epic relic slot. Instead of all that bullshit, epic relics will be obtained from the dark star portal "weekly" adventure (mentioned above) and champions will unlock a single epic relic slot through champion level.

Part 9: +1 starting mana breaks the game

If you've ever tried to play a 2-star adventure with a 1-star champion, the difficulty spike is impossible to miss. The star levels on adventures can usually be ignored; 1-star adventures can be easily beaten with 0 stars, and 3-star adventures are easy at 2-star, but 2-star adventures will rip you apart without that second star power. What's the deal? Simple: Every champion's second star power, in addition to being a unique power, also gives +1 starting mana. And, fittingly, enemies in 2-star adventures will often have 2 starting mana as well, putting you at an incredible disadvantage if you're still at 1-star.

I have an idea that smooths this over: Just make starting mana defined by the adventure. Now, in my perfect vision of the game, a LOT would be determined by the individual adventure instead of by progression mechanics, such as nexus health, item rarity, and starting gold. It would help keep the early adventures' difficulty intact, while letting you challenge the later adventures early without too much of a disadvantage. However, deciding exactly where to set each value for each adventure would take work, and this version of the game can't have much extra work done. But starting mana is SO impactful, so universal, and so easy to set that I think I can get away with this one.

2+ star adventures are designed with the expectation that you have 2 starting mana, so just take the +1 starting mana off of all champion's 2nd star powers and instead make 2+ star adventures set you to 2 starting mana. Similarly, all champions with constellations get an additional +1 starting mana as their 5th star power, so 5+ star adventures will set the player to 3 starting mana. There's currently only one 5 star adventure, but that's beside the point. This will let confident players jump into later adventures with newly-unlocked champions, without being met with an absurd difficulty wall, and will at least partially maintain the difficulty of early adventures.

Conclusion: Still too much grinding?

Yeah, there's still a lot of grinding in this game. I mean, 5 adventures per champion unlock x 50 champions = 250 adventures get them all? A bit much, certainly. But that's mainly because there's 50 fucking champions in this game; the actual rate of unlocking is one every 5 adventures, which I think is pretty fast. That's the main point; there's still quite a bit of grinding in this game, but that's only because of how much stuff is in it. Any faster, and the game risks throwing options at you faster than you can try them.

And progress is GREATLY sped up compared to the original game; collecting all the relics is MUCH faster due to duplicate protection, and leveling up champions is faster just by design. Getting champions to 3-star is also much faster, since you no longer need to split fragments between unlocking and upgrading champions. In the late game, you can easily get a champion or two to max level within the 5 adventures it'll take to unlock the next champion, making 100% completion take just 250 adventures, and you'll only need to play a maximum of 5 adventures with each champion.

Maxing out a champion and getting all the relics is fairly quick, letting you easily reach the part where you can PLAY a champion instead of just thinking about how cool it'll be when they're finally at full power. All the while, new players get a measured ramp-up from the simple core gameplay to the massive quantity of items and powers and champions.

But most of all, the important thing is that the game doesn't pressure you or exploit you. You can play at your own pace, blazing through 20 adventures in a single session and then going to play something else for the next week, with no fear of missing any rewards. The game doesn't suck away your time trying to wedge itself into your brain. You play it when you want to play it, how you want to play it, and you stop when you want to stop. This is a version of the game that respects your time, rather than begging for a place in your daily schedule. It's a version of the game that I wish I could play.

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 315: I Didn’t Expect This to Blow Up

Previously on BnHA: Horikoshi was all “guess which plot that you thought was dead is actually not dead and is making a comeback!” and we were all “EVIL HPSC??” and he was all “girl you know it,” and that’s the story of how we got a sexy Lady Nagant flashback with lots of guns and murder. Flashback!Lady was all “gotta murder peeps to preserve the people’s trust,” but then a little while later she was like “actually wait that makes no sense,” and so she shot her evil boss and they sent her to jail. Back in the present, Deku was all “okay fair, the hero system might in fact be a little fucked up, but hear me out... have you considered not helping AFO take over the world so he can murder like a bazillion more innocent people??” The chapter ended with the not-all-there Overhaul finally revealing himself to Deku, and I honestly have no idea where this is gonna go.

Today on BnHA: In what is unfortunately the single worst plan ever concocted by anyone in BnHA, Nagant is all “I’m going to try and get this Deku kid to panic and freeze up by putting someone in mortal danger.” Deku is all, “[doesn’t panic and freeze up at the sight of someone in mortal danger].” Nagant is all “omg no way.” Deku, who is now all of a sudden being so OP that even I have to acknowledge that it’s OP lol, is all “[smashes Nagant’s gun arm to bits]”, which sucks but is also really cool, and which also apparently makes Nagant decide that she actually likes this kid after all. Deku is all “NAGANT I REALLY LIKE YOU AND THINK YOU’RE GREAT SO PLEASE JOIN UP WITH ME AND STOP BEING EVIL.” Nagant is all “aw shucks (✿ •͈ᴗ•͈) well okay then” and everyone is all “( ･◡･) ✰ ( ˆᴗˆ ) ( ᵘ ᵕ ᵘ ⁎)” and then Nagant FUCKING EXPLODES LIKE AN EGG IN THE MICROWAVE AND FALLS TO HER DEATH!!!! except not really because Hawks saves her??? In conclusion, (a) THE FUCK, and (b) AFO TURN ON YOUR LOCATION I JUST WANT TO TALK.

so I have to tell you guys something, which is that barely ten minutes after I made that “please don’t send me spoilers” post the other day, someone replied to the comments in a stunning fit of “tell me that you’re twelve without actually telling me you’re twelve” energy and posted what seemed to be the copy-pasted spoiler summary from reddit or twitter or whatever lol. so here is my good news/bad news rundown of all that

good news: I have very well-conditioned ABORT!! reflexes and have trained myself to immediately look away from the screen (usually in dramatic fashion) as soon as I realize that whatever I’m reading is a spoiler

bad news: unfortunately as I was subsequently deleting said comments, I accidentally read the very last one

good news??: said spoiler was so unbelievably, absurdly over-the-top that I’m almost positive this person was just trolling. like, there’s just no way lmao

bad news: but in the unlikely event that it is true I will absolutely lose my shit I swear to god

(ETA: “NAGANT DIES.” that was the spoiler I read lol. like, literally all I read from the person’s comments was “My Hero Academia Chapter 315 Title: “Beautiful Words.” Chapter starts with...” and then I noped out of there, and then of all the comments to read as I was deleting, it had to be that one lol. I seriously was just like “SURE, JAN.” all “just how gullible do you think I am” sob. but I was wrong. a troll, but an honest troll they remain.

but anyways like I’m pretty sure Nagant isn’t even actually dead lol, so in the end this whole little adventure doesn’t even have a point to it, but for me it was a journey!)

anyway, so there are apparently two versions of the chapter today?? no idea what the difference is, but I’m going to go with the Bean version, because it’s the one at the top and I don’t feel like making decisions today

huh, so Overhaul is actually more coherent than Horikoshi was letting on

look at him having a whole back and forth conversation with her. side note, how is he still this jacked when he’s been sitting in a cell doing absolutely nothing for the past six months

anyway so he says he’ll go with her on one condition. I wonder what that condition could possibly be. do you think it could be the thing he literally hasn’t shut up about ever since he reappeared lol

yep! and damn -- maybe this guy will surprise me after all

still would be nice if you also felt a bit sorry for the little girl you tortured and traumatized, but this is something at least. maybe Deku will yell at him for that other stuff lol

(ETA: also can’t help but wonder if he wants to make amends because he put him in a coma, or because his plan was a failure and ended up destroying the family. just hoping you’ve finally had that “hurting other people is bad” epiphany dude.)

anyways so now Nagant’s arm is transforming again, and this particular transformation happens to be the only truly unsexy thing that Nagant has done thus far so I’m just gonna skip right on ahead lol

aaaaand we’re back to the delirious ranting

buddy. just. read the fucking room, guy

wow she really is aiming at Overhaul, then. those theories were spot-on

damn she’s really out here all “it really fucks with kids’ heads when you kill people right in front of them and make them blame themselves” like yo

I’m picturing her saying all this in a very loud stage-whispery tone while making very significant eye contact with Deku lol

uh oh but wait

um. okay. who’s gonna tell her. Nagant I might have some bad news for you about the kid you’re trying to capture here. specifically about the way he tends to do the opposite of what you’re thinking that he’s about to do

holy shit

so it’s basically just “tap x repeatedly to charge up your attack” lol

and okay, so that’s cool and all, but is anyone else wincing at the thought of what that must be like on his knees. oh to be young

anyway, but so to the surprise of basically no one, Deku did not, in fact, freeze. I am very sorry, Nagant. he’s just like this

LMAO

someone wanna tell me how getting yoloed in the fucking ribs by this fucking slingshot kid moving at literal sniper bullet speed is in any way even remotely better than getting hit by the bullet itself lol

(ETA: this is 10x funnier now that we know the bullet wasn’t even gonna hit him lmao.)

anyway so now Nagant is having an extended “!?!?!?” reaction about how Deku just moved with no hesitation, and I’m starting to get an inkling of fear that the rest of this fight isn’t going to go very well for her and maybe that’s what all the “hoo boy” is about

oh my god Deku are you about to Gomu Gomu no Rocket yourself at her you insane little man

now Three is popping up again and he’s all “I see you’ve learned your lesson and are now only using three quirks at once instead of five” like with all this effusive praise about how great and badass Deku is and sob, okay, yeah. this chapter is basically one of those machines that shoots tennis balls at people, except instead of tennis balls it shoots hot piping discourse

OH MY GOD

YOOOOOOOOOO but also, NOOOOOOOOOOO

lol oh my god it’s literally two opposing reactions at once wtf. do I love this or hate this. like just for once can Horikoshi actually let a badass lady character win their fucking fight without getting their arm ripped off, BUT ALSO fucking look at that absurdly cool “SMASH” onomatopoeia though. it looks like it’s about to float right off the page holy shit that’s some seriously good art

anyway so is this really the end?? do I need to break out my ಠ_ಠ faces

lmao okay yeah I can definitely see how this would piss a lot of people off

he basically one-shotted her and she’s all “damn this kid is so amazing that I’m about to do a complete 180 turn on all of my previous angst” lmao. Horikoshi is really shounening it up today

on the plus side though, maybe this means there’s still a chance for her to join up with him after all? unless that spoiler was true lmao, then all hell is gonna break loose

YESSSSSSS

OH MY GOD AND HE SAYS THE BULLET WOULDN’T HAVE DONE MORE THAN GRAZE OVERHAUL ANYWAY, wow, I’m actually more relieved by that than I would have expected. I mean I would have forgiven her either way, but it means that there was still more hero in her than she was letting on

YES!!! FUCKING YES, THANK YOU

lol but I mean, it’s also like, “oh so today they get to have brain cells”, thank you so much lol. sometimes it’s really hard to tell which times we’re supposed to question these character decisions that seem dumb, and which times we’re just supposed to full on embrace them and switch off our critical thinking

but okay, so in this case it really was Nagant going easy on him on purpose, and not just her fucking up for no good reason even though she used to do this for a living and was the best in the game. and I know in this case it’s probably just Horikoshi giving us some consolation headpats to soften the blow of her losing so abruptly, but you know what, shit. I’ll take it

also you guys the light is coming back into Deku’s eyes again for just a moment here and I’m having feels about it?? the way it still comes back when he’s reaching out to save someone, and following his own hero path instead of the much darker and lonelier Christopher Nolan path that’s been laid out for him instead that he never wanted?? it’s both reassuring and also very sad

YESSSSSSSSSSS

DO IT LADY OMG PLEASE?? PLEASE COME BE HIS NEW IRRESPONSIBLE ADULT SUPERVISION YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO

AHHHHHHH SHE’S GONNA DO IT AHHHH

p.s. I am now absolutely scared shitless that that spoiler was actually true sob. swear to god, I will throw this manga into a fucking volcano. but we’re almost at the end of the chapter and this seems just WAY TOO GOOD to be true fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck f

UCK

NOPE NAH SEND IT BACK, NOPE, NUH UH, DIDN’T ORDER THIS. “GULLIBLE” OKAY FUCK YOU?? “COUNTERMEASURES” NOPE, DON’T NEED ‘EM, WE’RE ALL FINE HERE. WE’RE ACTUALLY GOOD SO YOU CAN JUST GO, OKAY. PLEASE

fuck, lol, I don’t wanna do it. I don’t wanna scroll down what have I ever done to deserve this oh my god

WHAT THE HONEY-ROASTED FUCK

WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT FUCKING VOLCANO IN ICELAND THAT I KEEP SEEING ALL THESE PICTURES OF. WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT. LET’S GO

ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW

can someone please give AFO a really good, sharpish kick in the balls. just really let him have it. I’m so tired, what the fuck

-- ARE YOU KIDDING ME LOL WHAT

bro. I was literally going through my Excel folders to find the spreadsheet about female characters in BnHA that I made back when Midnight died. was gearing myself up for a wholeass rant. and honestly I might just let all of that continue simmering on low to keep it warm just in case lol, because to tell you the truth I have absolutely no idea what’s happening right now

my girl straight up does not have a face. she used to have a face. people usually need those, idk. like, even if she’s alive, her gorgeous eyebrows are definitely not making it out of this and I’m gonna throw a funeral just for them

how the fuck did AFO just blow her up?? how did he know what was going on?? and if he had a quirk that could explode people at will, why is this the first we’re hearing of it?? you’d think that might have come in handy at Kamino or Jakku, like what

(ETA: present!me, who’s had more than three hours of sleep and can now actually remember facts about the series, would like to remind past!me that AFO gave Nagant a quirk, and so this is probably just more Vestige shenanigans now on his part. that’s also probably why Air Walk suddenly stopped working out of nowhere. still doesn’t explain why he doesn’t go around blowing people up more often though but maybe he thinks it’s gauche.)

Hawks just straight up out of nowhere. just Mirioed his way straight into the chapter just in time to be too late sob. here I was looking forward to seeing your face when Deku showed up with his new best friend. can’t believe Horikoshi deprived us of that moment

on the plus side, WELCOME BACK, HAWKS’S FEATHERS. I have no doubt that in this chapter of Deku being an almighty threequirk-mastering god, and Nagant losing anticlimactically only to be immediately blown up because girl characters in BnHA can only be cool for one fight and one fight only, there are still some people who are focusing solely on the “how dare Hawks get his wings back when he is a MURDERER this is an outrage what about CONSEQUENCES” discourse, and to hell with all the other discourses lmao

anyway, so yeah. wow. and now it’s just occurring to me that maybe the real reason why Overhaul is there is so he can get a head start on that amend-making by actually doing a good thing for once in his life, and using his quirk to heal Nagant. assuming he can still do that

and so now Horikoshi has got me out here actually rooting for Overhaul. you know what, on that note I think I’m just gonna go ahead and call it a day sob

[stressy-enby]

Hello! So here's my request:

The 1-A girls including reader are having a girls night in one of their dorms playing Minecraft (teaching Momo how to play for the first time), giving out study tips, eating snacks and watching movies, etc... When their in a topic about their crushes and reader shyly tells them it is Tenya Iida... While the girls are shocked and ask a lot of questions why iida much to reader whos not really liking the questions, the girls decided to help reader out by setting both iida and reader on a date by grabbing readers phone and texting iida, much to readers protest and what the girls don't know is that the boys are having a boy night at the common room too and doing the exact same thing, helping iida out to finally ask reader on a date.

so yeah, haha that's all and you can add your own ideas there and can this be a oneshot? I also want to see the perspective of iida if that't possible? I hope this is okay? thank you!! ☺

Took a few liberties, included some personal touches, I’m really happy with how this came out and I hope you are too!

Risks

Masterlist

Weekend nights in Heights Alliance were arguably the best. 

Mr. Aizawa was more flexible about curfew on Friday and Saturday nights, so the class took those nights as opportunities to have slumber parties and late night get-togethers. 

This was one such night. You, Ochaco, Tsu, Momo, Toru and Kyoka had gone to Mina’s dorm room with snacks and games in hand. Your hostess had offered up her wide selection of video games and her Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ accounts. Toru had even come through with an impressive assortment of face masks, nail polish, and hair accessories. Needless to say, everyone was more than set for a night of careless fun.

“Wait, how do I craft something?” Mom held her controller out to Kyoka, brows pinched together.

“This button, here,” she took the controller, demonstrating by crafting an axe.

Upon realization that Momo had next to no knowledge of Minecraft, the party had abandoned its Super Smash Bros. tournament in favor of showing her the ropes. You’d vowed to help her make a simple house by the end of the night.

“Pro tip: make sure you collect all the same type of wood.” You suggested, eyes focused on the white stripes you were attempting to paint onto Tsuyu’s light green nails with some success. 

“Yeah, unless it’s on purpose, like if you use a different wood for the roof or floor, it’s just gonna look like you hobbled it together in less than a minute.” Mina agreed, before promptly shoving a handful of popcorn into her mouth.

Ochaco gasped playfully, swiping the bowl away. “Don’t eat all of it!”

“I’ll eat whatever I damn well please!” Mina retorted, making a grab for the snack as Ochaco floated it over to Toru.

“Okay guys, I can’t take it anymore.” The invisible girl grabbed the bowl out of the air. “We’re all together, hanging out with zero stress for the first time in months! Does anyone have anything juicy to share? Someone’s gotta have something!”

Kyoka rolled her eyes. “I don’t know about the rest of you, but I didn’t come to gossip.”

“This class is a pretty tight-knit group, ribbit. Nothing really happens that we don’t all know about.” Tsu pointed out.

“Okay then. Crushes.” Mina prompted.

“What about them?” Momo asked.

“Who’s got ‘em?”

There was a moment of silence. You noticed how a few pairs of eyes flicked to Ochaco, who had gonna very red and very quiet. You sighed, musing to yourself about the things you did for friendship.

“I, uh, I kinda like Iida?”

You hated how you phrased it like a question. You hated how you mitigated the confession with the word “kinda”. You hated that silly, totally inadequate word “like”. Your feelings for Iida went beyond a simple crush. You’d had them for him for months now, you were long past the “like” phase. You were head-over-heels in love.

Toru gasped dramatically. “Really? Iida?”

Ochaco smiled at you, gratitude evident in her eyes. “You two would make a sweet couple.”

“What do you like about him?” Mina asked excitedly. “When did you fall for him? Are you gonna confess?”

“Take it easy,” Kyoka chuckled lightly.

You also laughed, albeit uneasily. You were beginning to regret not keeping your mouth shut. “Okay, I’ll take those one at a time. He’s kind and attentive, and he’s very loyal. I think I realized that I liked him a few weeks after the sports fest, and absolutely not.”

“Why don’t you want to tell him?” Momo asked, pursing her lips. “I think he’d appreciate the honesty.”

“Be that as it may, I don’t wanna make things weird between us or potentially ruin our friendship.” You explained “I don’t wanna jeopardize what we have now by confessing.”

“Plus, Iida doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who’s want to date someone, ribbit.” Tsu put in, examining her newly painted nails. “He’s very serious. He’d probably see it as a distraction, these are really pretty, (Y/N), thank you.”

You smiled weakly at your frog-like friend as Toru threw a piece of popcorn at her head. “Tsu!”

“No, she’s right.” You sighed heavily, motioning for the popcorn bowl, intending to drown your sorrows and maybe yourself in it.

“I’m sorry, (Y/N).” Momo patted your back sympathetically as she passed the bowl down. “I can’t imagine how frustrating it is.”

You hummed in agreement as you shoveled the snack into your mouth. “Whatever. It sucks, bur I’ll get over it.”

“Like hell you will!” Mina snapped “Ochaco: our romantically challenged friend’s phone, if you please?”

Ochaco dutifully and bemusedly took your phone from Mina’s bedside table and handed it over to her.

“What are you doing?” You questioned, suddenly on high alert.

You were ignored. Mina instead took your hand, and placed your thumb over the home button on your phone, unlocking it.

“Seriously, what are you doing?” Kyoka asked.

“Texting Iida.”

It took you a few seconds to process her words and what they meant. Once you had, though, you made a sudden grab for the phone. “Oh no you’re not!”

“Chillax, I’m not gonna send him anything embarrassing.” Mina swatted your hand away as she scooted safely out of your reach. “I’m just gonna suggest that you two go out sometime and heavily imply that it’ll be a date.”

“Now hold on,” Momo cut in, setting down her controller. “We shouldn’t be interfering. This is between (Y/N) and Iida.”

“Yeah, if (Y/N) wants to ask him out, they’ll do it themselves, ribbit.” Tsu chimed in.

Mina sighed, slumping. “I know you’re both right, but I can’t just let them wallow! Iida really likes you, (Y/N)!”

“Oh yeah?” You raised both eyebrows.

“Yeah! He’s a lot softer with you then with anyone else!”

“He does tend to let you get away with things,” Kyoka admitted. “Remember the other day when you were sitting on your desk? The guy didn’t even bat an eye.”

“He also seems like he talks to you more than he does the rest of us!” Toru pointed out.

“Plus he worries about you more than the rest of us!” Ochaco added on.

“He looks more relaxed around you.” Tsuyu threw in.

“Sometimes when we have class representative meetings, he’ll offhandedly mention you.” Momo reported thoughtfully. “He’ll tell me about something you said or did that he found funny or endearing. It’s actually pretty adorable the way he talks about you. It’s like his whole face lights up.”

You were quiet for a very long moment. It was too good to be true. You liked playing it safe. You kept your cards close to your chest until you were absolutely sure you had the wining hand. And if you’d learnt anything in your hero education, it was that sometimes you needed to take a risk.

“Can I have my phone, please?”

Mina tossed it to you. Without another word, you navigated to your messages, and typed something out quickly. Before you could reconsider, you took a risk.

You hit send.

. . . 

This isn’t actually all that bad.

When Kirishima and Kaminari had suggested a “boys’ night”, Tenya had been apprehensive at best. He was all for class bonding activities, but what was the point if it was only a fraction of their group?

“(L/N) and the girls are having a sleepover, so we may as well something ourselves.” Sero had pointed out.

Despite his skepticism, Tenya found himself thoroughly enjoying himself. After admitting he’d never seen a Marvel movie, Midoriya had immediately logged the common room TV into his Disney+ account and began the first ever 1-A Marvel movie marathon.

“Ugh, does this mean we have to watch Age of Ultron?” Ojiro groaned “That one sucks.”

“Yeah, but at some point I’m going to make Iida watch Wandavision.” Midoriya replied “Ultron is important to understanding it, sucky as it may be.”

“That’s not gonna be for a while if we’re watching every single Marvel movie, though.” Sato chuckled. 

“Yeah, we’re definitely gonna need more than one night for this shit,” Kaminari chortled “Wandavision not withstanding.”

Tenya smiled, not quite following but listening all the same. He suddenly felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.

(L/N): Random question. Want to go out and get dinner tomorrow, just the two of us?

It was indeed a random question. He had no qualms about spending time with (L/N) though. Even if it was just the two us them. Especially if it’s just the two of us. Tenya quickly shook the thought away though, feeling he’s cheeks flare.

Me: That would be great! Do  you have a time and place in mind?

(L/N): Would 6 be ok? As for the place… would you be up for a surprise?

Tenya hesitated. Usually he’s say no. He liked everything to be perfectly planed to a T. But something about (L/N) made him want to be spontaneous. They made him want to take risks. So he decided to do precisely that. He threw caution into the wind as he sent his response.

Me: 6 is more than ok, and I’m always up for a surprise if it’s with you.

Tenya cringed immediately after hitting send. The instant regret was crushing and depressing. He wished he could be honest about his feelings, about (L/N) without overthinking every move he made.

Oh well. What’s done is done. He slipped his phone back into his pocket, praying you wouldn’t respond. However, his plea went ignored a minute later when he felt his phone vibrate yet again.

Biting back a groan, Tenya opened his texts, inwardly bracing himself.

(L/N): Awesome! I’ll meet you at 6 in the common room tomorrow, then. Can’t wait! ❤️

He gaped. That tiny red emoji wormed not his brain and burned itself behind his eyes until that was all he could see. He barely even registered the rest of the message.

“Whatcha lookin’ at, Iida?” Kaminari, never one to understand personal space, leaned over to glance at the class rep’s phone phone before he could angle it away. “You sly little- IIDA HAS A DATE!”

“No I- that’s not- Kaminari!” Tenya sputtered incoherently, arms flailing. “That was entirely inappropriate. You shouldn’t look at other people’s devices without their permission. It’s rude, demeaning, and an invasion of privacy!”

“Forget that, what’s this about a date?” Sero leaned in on Kaminari’s other side.

“Iida and (L/N) were texting,” Kaminari announced “They asked him out to dinner, he said yes, and they send a heart emoji.”

“What color?” Aoyama demanded, squinting.

“Red.”

“Oh my,” Aoyama leaned back in his seat, a coy smirk playing across his lips.

Sero chuckled, leaning across Kaminari’s lap to pat Tenya on the arm. “You lucky bastard.”

The blue haired boy brushed his hand away, bristling. “Not that my personal activities are any of your concern, but it’s not a date. We’re just going to get something to eat.”

“I’m not an expert or anything, but I don’t think many people go out one-on-one for dinner if it’s platonic.” Midoriya pointed out. 

“Yeah, plus, that emoji says a lot.” Kirishima added “(L/N) clearly means this to be a date. If you don’t feel the same way about them, you need to tell them.”

“You don’t want to go on a date with (L/N)?” Todoroki asked, raising an eyebrow “I would’ve thought you’d be happy for an opportunity like that.”

“See! Even Todoroki can see you’ve got it bad for them!” Sato exclaimed, pointing an accusatory finger at the confused heterochromic boy.

Tenya ignored his overly-excited classmates. He flipped back through his conversation with (L/N), staring at every text until he’d inadvertently memorized them all.

Me: Is this a date?

. . .

“So much for subtly, I guess.” Kyoka remarked.

“Subtly gets you nowhere with Iida!” Ochaco insisted “You have to be upfront with him!”

“But I sent him a heart,” You groaned for the fourth time.

“Well, there’s no sense in bemoaning it now.” Momo reasoned.

“It was a calculated risk.” Toru admitted, an undercut of worry in her voice.

“A risk, huh?” You chuckled humorlessly “I seem to be taking a lot of those tonight.”

Ding!

Seven pairs of eyes darted to your overturned phone at the same moment. No one moved an inch.

“Well,” Tsu nudged you “are you going to look at it?”

You gulped, shakily taking the device. The girl’s gathered around you. As you opened your text messages.

Iida: Is this a date?

“No backing down now!” Ochaco squealed, gripping your shoulders tightly and shaking you.

“Go, go, go, go, go!” Mina bounced on her knees like it was a sporting event.

You took a deep breath, then texted back.

. . .

(L/N): That was the idea, lol. It doesn’t have to be if you don’t want it to be, tho

Tenya pursed his lips, showing the response to Midoriya.

“C’mon, Iida.” His friend chuckled lightly “Just tell them the truth.”

The truth. He did want it to be a date, but a simple “I want to go on a date with you” didn’t seem sufficient. It wouldn’t do justice to how he really felt.

Tenya had already taken a risk tonight, so what was one more? But knowing what he now knew about your feelings, it didn’t seem quite so scary anymore.

Me: I’d love nothing more than to go on a date with you, (L/N). Truth be told, I’ve wanted to for a while now, I just haven’t had the courage to ask you myself. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. ❤️

[olivia-anderson-fanfic]

Into The Unknown, Part 2

First

Interdimensional travel? Awful. Don’t try it at home. It’s a lot like how one would imagine getting sucked up a straw: you get squished and pulled until you come out the other side a goopy mess.

Speaking of goopy messes: Tim keeled over and threw up.

He ignored the yelling right next to him because, honestly, he couldn’t even bring himself to look up at the moment. The bright light of this world -- apparently it was daytime here, ew -- hurt his eyes even through his sunglasses and he really didn’t want to move from where he had curled up in what seemed to be grass.

But, eventually, he did. He pushed himself up onto his knees and squinted over at her.

Ladybug had detransformed at some point and was now wearing an old t-shirt and some sweats… and she was apparently fighting off a baby. Damian kicked, screamed, and wiggled in her hold as she tried her hardest to trap him in the blanket again.

“... how are you losing to a baby?”

She sent a glare at him and then mumbled a curse as a tiny fist connected with her face and Damian wriggled away from her.

“Let me think about that, Red. What could go wrong if I, a meta used to fighting other metas, tried to use force against a human child?”

Okay, yeah. It was probably for the best that she hadn’t tried anything.

Oddly enough, when Tim walked over and replaced Marinette, Damian started behaving immediately.

He frowned, tipping his head to the side confusedly. He picked up his younger brother and stood up. “Why’d he start freaking out?”

She did the exact opposite of standing up, opting to spread out in the grass and glare at the sky. “I don’t know. He just started freaking out when I tried to put the watch around his neck.”

“Weird,” he mumbled.

“Yeah.”

He took the time to look around properly for once. They were in a park but it must have been a weekday because there was hardly anyone around. The only people that had paid them any mind were a group of teenagers -- probably ditching, he thought -- that were staring at them with wide eyes.

Tim glanced at a street sign to make sure the common language was English before sending them a glare. “It’s rude to stare, y’know.”

The teenagers quickly looked down at their phones. Tim knew better than to believe that they were actually paying attention, they had the same posture that a lot of lookouts did, but whatever. No one would believe them, anyways.

He gave her a few more minutes before he adjusted his hold on Damian and offered a hand up.

Ladybug took it with a faint smile and he pulled her to her feet. She grabbed their discarded suitcase and they started walking aimlessly.

“Okay, we’re here… but we still need a cover.”

“Um… you’re the one that’s good at hacking, right?”

He nodded. Damian reached a hand out of the blanket and began touching his hair. He was too busy wondering what to do to really mind.

“Great. How about… we’re the kid’s siblings?”

“We can pass as his parents. I mean, it’d be a teen pregnancy but it wouldn’t be bad,” said Tim. “We still had him at eighteen-ish.”

She shook her head. “He’s darker than both of us, it wouldn’t make sense. Maybe I had him with some… darker guy and now you’re my boyfriend? No, that feels racist for some reason. I’m his half-sister, our parents died, and you’re my boyfriend.”

Tim frowned. “Why am I always the boyfriend? He’s my brother.”

“Well, frankly, you look nothing like him. He and I, at least, have similar noses.”

He scowled. It made sense but it still annoyed him. “Fine. I’m your husband, though. I want to have at least some rights.”

She rolled her eyes. “Sure. Guess that’s good for tax benefits, too. Better get me a cute ring.”

“Okay, but the diamond is going to be fake.”

“Cheapskate.”

“Cheskae,” Damian said, yanking Tim’s hair like the little shit he was.

“See, he agrees,” Ladybug said with a victorious grin.

~

They went up to a hotel (Red Robin had tried to talk her into a five-star one but she managed to bring it down to a two-star when showing him the cost) and tried to reserve a room.

“May I have a name for the reservation?” The nice lady at the front counter said, smiling at them.

Red Robin glanced up from where he was awkwardly bouncing with the baby in his arms to shoot her A Look. It was unfortunate that she had no clue what the look meant. She considered the question for a moment before eventually saying:

“Dupain-Cheng.”

Red Robin relaxed a little so she was pretty sure she had gotten it right.

She hesitantly took the baby from him -- the kid had apparently forgotten about his earlier freakout because he was just as weirdly still as he had been back in Gotham -- so he could pay.

The moment they got into the hotel room she fell back in the bed. The baby squirmed a little on her stomach to get comfortable before joining her in her laziness.

Red Robin sighed and sat next to them, resting his head in his hands. “Okay. We’re going to need supplies for him. Do you want to do a supply run or should I?”

She shrugged a little, much to the baby’s dismay. Have you ever had a baby babble angrily at you? It’s very cute.

“You’re so helpful. Thanks, Ladybug.”

“No problem,” she said as if she couldn’t hear the blatant sarcasm in his tone. Then she pushed herself up to squint at him, the baby sliding down to her lap smoothly. “Wait, are we still going to be using codenames?”

He frowned. “Obviously.”

“... for fifteen years?”

“Obviously.”

She rolled her eyes. “Great, so when we take the kid back we’re going to explain to him that, on top of all the adjustment of moving to a different dimension, he needs to now use a different name for you, and messing up isn’t an option. Also, I feel like people are going to question two random people called ‘Red Robin’ and ‘Ladybug’ at some point.”

Red Robin frowned, clearly thinking hard, and then nodded slightly. He removed his glasses and looked at her with an awkward smile. “This is Damian, I’m Tim.”

She raised her eyebrows because he was looking at her expectantly and she really didn’t know what he wanted from her. “Uh… am I supposed to know you?”

“I mean… kinda?”

She squinted at him for a while before shrugging. “That one guy? Timothy --.”

“Yep!”

“-- Chalamet?”

He looked oddly hurt now. “You think I look like Timothy Chalamet?”

“I mean you both have the same sickly Victorian boy look about you.”

“... for the sake of our fake marriage I’m going to pretend that you didn’t say that. I’m Tim Drake.” She still didn’t show any hint of recognition (probably because she didn’t recognize him) so he groaned and motioned to Damian. “This is Damian Wayne.”

“Wayne? Like Waynetech?”

“There you go,” he said.

She grinned at him. “It’s not my fault you made me guess.”

He huffed a little. “Alright, fine, then who are you, then?”

“Marinette Dupain-Cheng.”

“... who’s that?”

“A nobody. Like secret identities should be,” she said, giving him a smug look.

He rolled his eyes. “I feel like this is going to be a long fifteen years.”

“Shouldn’t have dragged me into your mess, now you gotta deal with the consequences.”

He stuck his tongue out at her. She returned it. So did the baby.

~

It was decided that Marinette should be the one to go on a supply run since Tim needed to start making identities for them.

… it would be a lot easier if there wasn’t a baby crawling all over him. She’d better get a crib while she was out because he didn’t know if he could deal with a baby smashing the keys for much longer.

“Dami -- no, stop, I -- I swear to god -- you’re a baby okay I can literally just drop you and you would -- please stop --,” Tim cut off his irritated rambling when Damian nearly got them on a good few government watchlists by smashing the keys at the wrong time.

Fed up, he grabbed the kid and set him on the ground. It’ll probably be fine. He only needed to do a few quick things, anyways.

He was shocked to find that there was a version of him in this world. The idea of a Tim who didn’t do vigilante-work was foreign to him. He had apparently stayed with his parents and was now working towards a business degree. This dimension’s Tim wasn’t nearly as famous as he was and the three of them had landed in Texas so it was unlikely that he would be recognized but he would prefer not using the name if he didn’t have to. Just to be safe.

Damian didn’t exist, as far as he could tell, but Bruce Wayne did and he was still famous so it wouldn’t be a good idea to use his last name either.

There was a version of Marinette, too, but she was currently in France helping her parents run their bakery. Very little chance of her getting recognized.

So, he decided to use her last name for all of them. Quick and easy. He’d have to tell her that he changed her birthplace to New Jersey when she got back to the hotel but he doubted she’d have much of a problem with that.

… oh. His phone was ringing. Apparently he could tell her now.

He picked up and wedged it between his ear and his shoulder as he worked at finding them a few social security numbers to… ‘borrow’.

“Yeah?”

“How big is the baby?”

Tim blinked a few times. “... baby sized?”

“No. Like… what size diaper do you think he would use?”

He scoffed. “Do I look like I would know the diaper sizes?”

“Do I look like I do? Just… how old do you think he is?”

Tim looked over the edge of the bed to where Damian was currently shaking Kaalki like she was a maraca. Kaalki, for her part, only looked vaguely annoyed as she bounced around in his tiny baby fists.

“I dunno. Like… a year-ish? Just buy one of everything we can see what fits.”

“Fucking hell I forgot you were rich. You said a year? I’m using that.”

He rolled his eyes. “Okay -- OH SHIT DAMIAN NO!”

He tumbled out of bed and raced over to Damian before he could stick his finger in a socket. He didn’t really know if that was enough to get shocked but this was not the way to find out.

Damian was apparently very annoyed about him foiling his attempt at dying because he squirmed around in his grip and yelled incomprehensibly. Tim ignored the baby fists trying to knock his teeth out -- his teeth had faced far worse before -- and scooted across the ground to his phone.

“-- to god, Tim, what happened if you don’t answer I will run over there --.”

“It’s fine. Just get… you know the things that cover electrical sockets? Make sure to get some of those,” he said, tipping his head back to rest against the bed so he could kind of relax despite the ball of anger in his arms.

Marinette groaned. “Fuck, you can’t just scare me like that.”

“Yeah, you were the one that suffered the most during that.”

She scoffed but he swore he could hear a tiny laugh hidden under her mumbled ‘shut up’.

He smiled a little.

She didn’t hang up, probably expecting to ask him something else soon, so he listened in idly as he tried to calm Damian down enough to start working again.

She mumbled to herself while she looked for things. Some of the speech was normal but most of it was pretty much as incomprehensible as Damian’s babbling (admittedly, it probably didn’t help that he was only half paying attention).

“... tty trai… now?... oh... alright… oh, great, does she work here?” She murmured to herself. Then, louder: “Hey, lady --!”

“We’re in Texas,” he reminded her. “People are expected to be more polite down here.”

He was too late. Someone started yelling on Marinette’s end and, if the tiny sigh of annoyance was anything to go off of, it wasn’t her.

The yelling lasted approximately five minutes before someone intervened.

He heard her speak in rapid Spanish to the employee and, to his surprise, he could actually understand every word of them talking shit about the lady who had screamed at her. He didn’t know what to think of this outside of pulling the phone away from his mouth so he could try and roll an r. He was delighted to find that he had gained that ability as well. He continued rolling his tongue.

Damian stopped his squirming and gave Tim a confused look… and then he started to giggle. He twisted around in Tim’s lap and started trying to mimic the sound.

He tried to hide his smile as the two of them kept making r sounds at each other. He didn’t think he’d succeeded at keeping his face relatively neutral, but he didn’t really mind.

~~~~~

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@nathleigh @peachmuses @unoriginalmess

[dimpledlavendeer]

Again because Hee just has the prettiest lips 🖤

This is a bit long bc I couldn't help myself 😩 and a bit suggestive

Making out with Heeseung pt. 2

Hot version

We all know that Hee is a duality king

I mean he definitely likes hot concepts more than cute ones but the things is HEE ROCKS BOTH VERSIONS

Like Hee can stare at you all hot and teasy way

But then the next second he can pout and use his adorable doe eyes to melt your heart

Let's say if he is in mood to tease and see how crazy he can make you

THEN BELIVE ME WHEN I SAY HEE CAN MAKE YOU BEG FOR A KISS OMG-

Let's just say Hee is really dressed up that day

I mean in his regular style but well somehow Hee is even HOTTER that day

And Hee realizes that you just keep staring at him

Well this amuses him ;)

So Hee decides to test his theory on you to see if he can make you go crazy

Waits until you two are alone at a room

When others leave he just locks you inside with him ;)

You're like :000

"What are you doing Heeseung?"

"I realized we didn't get any alone time today baby"

"Alone time?" Your voice cracks because of the small smirk on his face but you try to cool it off bye continuing with "well you and me were both busy today"

"But I missed you baby" Hee says while stepping closer

You start to step backwards as he keeps getting closer because YOUR CHEST WAS ABOUT TO EXPLODE AND HEE WAS LOOKING TOO GOOD TO BE CLOSE WITH AT THE MOMENT

You again attampt to be cool by saying "I missed you too :)"

"Then show me"

"Show you what?"

"How much you missed me... did you miss me me as much as I missed you?" Hee said stepping forward one last time and you felt your back touching against the wall

Hee looked so hot, he just got out of practice and he was slightly sweaty

His lips were looking pinker than ever and that made them too irresistible to not kiss

You couldn't stop your gaze from keep falling onto his lips and well he was too sly to miss that happening

He was still breathing heavier than normal as an after affect of the practice and that was also something that made you crazy

The ends of his hair were sticking to his face due to sweat and the hat he was wearing just made it look hot

You were just staring at his face and you were sure it was obvious what you were thinking doing so

Hee was just enjoying this moment thinking how long you were gonna resist

But Hee wasn't gonna go easy on you ;)

"Is there something you wanna say to me baby?" Hee said blowing his hot breath to your face while moving closer

You were just watching him, eyes focused on his lips

"Or should i ask is there something you want me to do for you?" Hee corrected himself

You couldn't take it anymore and you gathered all the confidence you had to respond to him although his presence made you feel so small atm

"Yes..actually there is something Heeseung, will you help me with it?"

"Anything baby just name it"

"Kiss me then"

A cute grin started to form on his face while he was trying so hard to contain his seriousness to tease you

"Kiss you? Why would you need me to do that, Can't you kiss me on your own?"

"You said you would help with anything tho"

"I guess this is something you need to help yourself y/n, my lips are here and nothing is stopping you" he whispered while his lips were barely away from yours by an inch

"Heeseung please"

"Please what?"

"Please kiss me"

"Do it yourself" he said licking his lips to test your nerves once more

You gripped on his shirt pulling him even closer if that's possible but still not kissing him

That made him smile "I didn't know you were this scared to go get what you want y/n honestly I th-"

You cut his words by finally kissing him

He let out a small moan because of this sudden action of yours while smashing you against that wall and deepening the kiss

His tongue was now involved in the game and it wanted to intertwine with yours

You weren't gonna give in that easily so you just bite his lower lip teasing him and making him impatient

He pulled off and said "Be good y/n"

"Be patient Heeseung"

And you just dive into his neck kissing and sucking his soft skin

When you reached the crook of his neck you just stopped there and leave a wet kiss knowing this was his weakness

He hissed and grabbed your jaw to make you look at him

"You're being too bold for someone who was begging me to kiss her a second ago"

"And you are being too impatient for someone who said I could help myself with it Heeseung. So what now you're needy?"

"I'm not needy y/n"

"Oh you're just too desperate for a kiss then huh Hee?"

You regretted that you said that after seeing how his eyes got even darker but it was too late now and you weren't gonna back off

"What did you just call me?"

"I think you heard me pretty well"

"Let me show you what desperate is then y/n" he said and just smashed his lips on yours

His hands found yours and lead them behind your back while you were still standing against a wall

Now he was keeping your hands together with one of his hands behind you and his other hand was just making its way down from your waist to your hips

He squized your flesh slightly but it was enough to get a small moan from you

You could feel his satisfied smile against your lips while he was continuing to kiss you deeper than ever

His lips were placing wet kisses everywhere starting from your lips and moving on with your neck

He had no mercy after you called him "desperate" and tbh he didn't even care about the marks that will form on your neck because of his bites on your soft skin

You were going crazy and you definitely wanted more but it wasn't the place nor the time for it

"Heeseung please"

He ignored you and kept teasing your skin with his tongue which was making you crazy

You managed to say his name again breathing deeply and he still ignored you

Until you say "Heeseung I'm begging please"

Now you had his attention and he raised his head to look you in the eyes

"What is it y/n? You're too desperate for more?"

Honestly you were and considering your situation you had no power to tease him back so you gave up

"Yes Heeseung I am okay? I am desperate for you to touch me" you said not even knowing how you sounded because everything besides him was just unclear atm

"But not now and not like this Heeseung please okay?" you moved on by saying this

He just looked at your eyes for a while and then your lips

He kissed you one more time

Fixed your hair and then his hat

"Just wait until we're home, Don't even think I will let this slide y/n"

"Oh Heeseung I don't want you to let this slide" you said smirking

He liked the way you replied and kissed your cheek softly

"I love you" Hee said before unlocking the door to get out

"I love you too"

click here for the soft version 🖤

[a-d--a-s-t-r-a]

Until2022′s Guide to Catching Up When You’re Drastically Behind in Study:

I. Assess the damage

The first step in the plan is to confront how bad the situation is and then make some calls about what you can realistically achieve in the time you have left. 

List everything you have to do, down to exact detail - don’t write ‘catch up on readings for Virology’, but instead note down every chapter. This will make it a lot easier to gauge how much time and energy you need for each assignment or exam, and will help to motivate you as you work through. 

Use an Eisenhower matrix to sort these tasks:

Important and Urgent: Any and all compulsory assignments, exams, tests, etc. 

Important but Not Urgent: Lectures for upcoming exams, compulsory readings or labs, etc.

Urgent but Not Important: Additional homework or tasks that are due soon but aren’t worth much, like logbooks or small quizzes

Not Important and Not Urgent: Additional readings, nice lecture notes, and other ‘good-to-haves’

Now cross out everything that you can afford not to do. That’s going to be everything in your ‘Not Important and Not Urgent’ zone, and probably all of the things in your ‘Urgent but Not Important’ zone. I know that it’s annoying not to get everything done, or to sacrifice the 5% that you could have gotten, but unless you can do it in 10 minutes and it’s really worth it you simply don’t have the time to spare here. 

Having said that, if a class has lots of small assignments due, don’t overlook them because they’re not worth much on their own - make sure you take a look at the overall percentage left to go in that subject. If you can dedicate a whole day to just that subject and smash through all those assignments in one, you’re crossing a lot of work off your list. For example, I have weekly quizzes and 2% labs in my Pathology course - if I’m behind, I’ll dedicate a whole day and do all of those assessments. That’s 20% out of the way and a big leap towards catching up. 

II. Tackle the low-hanging fruit

Seeing the product of countless days of procrastination is probably pretty daunting right now. I could offer you platitudes here but it’s a lot easier for you to actually take some action and feel better about it yourself, so:

Do everything that will take you less than 10 minutes to complete. Reply to those emails, the messages in the assignment group chat, upload your peer assessment, do all the little things you need to do for someone else. That should cross out a big chunk of things from your list, and you’ll be left with the important stuff like finishing assignments and studying for exams. 

If you’re panicking (seeing the huge list of stuff which you have to finish in an impossibly short time will often do this!) then try an easy square breathing exercise. Breathe in for a count of 4, hold for a count of 4, exhale for a count of 4, hold for a count of 4, repeat. Splashing cold water on your face is helpful too, as is having a glass of water. Do not use this time to procrastinate! It might sound like a good idea to relax by watching Youtube or Netflix, scrolling through Instagram or playing a video game, but you’re going to be sucked back into the procrastination game that got you here in the first place. 

III. Create your plan of attack 

You’ve left it too late to be regularly revising, so our plan of attack is basically going to be: cram every subject consecutively. This is the best way to get everything done when you’re pressed for time like this - don’t switch tasks or subjects. Interleaving subjects is great when you’re on schedule, but right now you don’t want to spend quarter of an hour getting into the groove of a certain subject and then switching before an hour has passed. 

University is just one assignment after another, no breathing space in between, especially towards the end of the semester. All you need to do is work out what’s due first and what’s worth most, order everything according to those criteria and then focus on the first assessment until you’re done. Once the assignment is handed in or you’ve sat the exam, then you can move onto the next task.

If you have two different assignments due for different classes on the same day, plan ahead so you can dedicate a full day to each subject instead of working on both at the same time. 

Plan out every single day - make sure you’re scheduling in time to eat, shower, sleep, and take breaks as well as to study. Be specific when planning your time out each day as to what tasks you’re hoping to achieve - don’t allocate too much time to any single lecture, but at the same time, be realistic about how much you can cover in one hour. 

Choose wisely based on what you do or don’t know. There isn’t much point in spending this precious time revising the things you already know you’re good at, so suck it up and schedule in the hard stuff first up, but be prepared to move on if you can’t get it down. You’re far better off going into the exam knowing 10 things badly, than 1 thing really well, so focus on the basics and if you have time to learn the more complex details then go back and do that later. 

You also need to be flexible and prepared to adjust - sometimes an assignment will take longer than expected or a day just won’t be as productive as you thought it might be. Don’t panic, just re-plan and shift things around so you keep moving in the right direction. 

IV. Grind it out 

Now that you have a clear idea of what you need to achieve and when, it’s time to get it done.  

For once, you shouldn’t need to worry about simple procrastination. You’re  probably already panicking, so turn that anxiety into motivation which will fuel you and let you focus for long time periods. Fear can be a great driver - when the threat of the exam is looming over you, it’s amazing how well you can knuckle down, assuming you don’t want to fail. 

Pack a bag with everything you need - your laptop or tablet, your charger, headphones, a water bottle and a travel mug, snacks and meals for the day, and anything else you like to have with you when you’re studying. Then take yourself to the library, the local coffee shop, the office - wherever you like to study, but don’t sit at home. There’s too many opportunities for distraction and you cannot afford that right now. Being in an environment where other people are working will motivate you to do the same. 

If you’re working on an assignment, the best way to get things done quickly is to let go of any preconceptions of doing a great job, or having a perfect draft, and instead just focusing on having a draft. Bash out the worst draft you’ve ever written, fill it with run-on sentences and spelling mistakes. But make sure you finish a draft. Then all you have to do is edit it, and it’s a lot quicker to do it this way than it is getting bogged down in the details before you’ve even begun. 

When you’re studying for exams, the number one way to learn is through active recall. There is no point in wasting time writing out a full set of notes if you’re two days out from the test. Even if you feel like you don’t know a single thing, start off straight away by testing yourself - do past exams, drill flashcards, try and write outlines or mind maps and then check your notes or textbooks and fill in what you’ve missed. If you don’t know the answer or you get it wrong, look it up and try to understand it, and then test yourself again in twenty minutes. 

It’s important to strike a balance here: don’t overextend yourself, but don’t continually take breaks. If you think you need a break, you probably don’t. Take two minutes to stretch your legs and drink some water, but do not pick up your phone. If you’re starting to feel mentally fatigued, especially after a few hours, it can be helpful to switch locations - go outside and study on a park bench, or shift to the dining hall. Sometimes the change of scenery is all you need to feel refreshed. 

V. Rinse and repeat

This is your life now. Make sure you stick to a regular sleep schedule - aim for at least six hours a night - because otherwise your fatigue levels will seriously impact your memory, retention and critical thinking abilities. It’s not worth the few extra hours you might get in, and you probably won’t be productive anyway. 

Remember that the advice I’ve given you here is based on what I do when I am severely behind, not how I study on a daily basis when I’m on top of everything. These tips aren’t all great for long-term learning, but are the most efficient way to cram when you’re behind and under pressure. 

You’ve got this.