#c!dream crit

[alliumsduo]

Halloween costume but i'm dressed up as ctommy and i have a c!dream plush and i dropkick him into oncoming traffic

[barzfrommarz]

c!phil: killed his suicidal son, it’s implied c!wilbur was ignored or maybe even neglected as a child, infantilizes him even as an adult

c!wilbur: infantilized his son probably as a direct result of how his own father treated him but still cared deeply for his son even after c!fundy abandoned him

believe what you want to believe I guess!

[tobi-smp]

I just feel like there's an inherent difference from tommy calling wilbur crazy while he watches his brother, his stability, spiral in front of him. desperate and scared, no idea how to help him, but wanting more than anything to Try, to never let go. trying to do anything to stop wilbur from hurting himself, from hurting anybody else, while wilbur actively tries to convince him that he's already too far gone to be helped. choosing wilbur again and again and again.

and technoblade calling wilbur crazy while actively agreeing with everything wilbur wanted to do. no qualms with him wanting to blow up the country or kill people just thinking he's being too mentally ill about it.

both of them were hurtful to wilbur undeniably, tommy probably more so even. but as the audience we should be able to recognize that these aren't on the same level or coming from the same place right.

[mellorphic]

Thinking about how the way this fandom treats anger as a trauma response?

There’s the c!Tommy method - pretend it does not exist or pretend it’s the only trait he has

The c!Wilbur method - demonise and vilify him for it

Or the c!Niki method - turn it into a girlboss trait

[aro-throughyourchest]

two years ... a c!crimeboys poem

a poem about hurting, learning, and wishing the best for someone else.

ws supporters dni

[stemms]

As much as I’ve always admired the sheer creativity and kind attitude of the DSMP fandom, it’s nearly impossible to overlook the weird™ behaviour, regarding c!Primers in particular, and although it has been said countless times before me, I’d like to throw in my two cents. 

The uncomfortable and frankly gross phenomenon of Bowspam, coined by Poppytwt, which portrays a romantic and sexual relationship between c!Tommy and c!Dream, is the reason I made this post in the first place. Unfortunately, some content featuring c!Prime is rather predatory, which contradicts the original source and the whole point of their dynamic. For example, if you type “Discduo” in the Spotify search bar, you’ll most likely find multiple “Discduo / Bowspam” playlists instead, which is obviously very gross, and appears as if the latter was still normalised to some extent. As much as this tag is disturbing in general, the more details you learn about it, the more problematic it seems. 

Originally, Tadca was nothing but a collection of warnings, so that those who felt uncomfortable with abusive content, could simply block it, but Poppytwt claimed the tag, and that’s when things got actually weird™. It happened because some artists drew a couple of weird™ comics by pure accident, and it was used as a proof that all c!Prime enjoyers ship them. Andy never intended for Tadca to be twisted into something so heinous, and for this exact reason, he asked everyone to stop using the tag because of harassment, yet strangely enough, he was the one receiving harassment for something completely out of his control. Unfortunately, it wasn’t an exceptional case, as many other c!Prime enjoyers received death threats and harassment from c!Dream apologists, just for authentically depicting an abusive dynamic; pretending that c!Prime was paedophilic, and sending tons of harassment was easier than admitting that their fave wasn’t as good as they wanted to believe. Weirdly enough, Bowspam enjoyers never faced as much harassment as c!Primers, even though their content fully matched that definition. Plus, c!Trinity also received a good share of criticism because some people believed that it was a second wave of Tadca, except c!Punz got involved in it too. 

Furthermore, it’s important to note that the c!Prime dynamic offers real-life abuse victims a voice, and it’s utterly disrespectful to sexualise it, as it may discourage them from speaking out about their situation because of a fear of being misunderstood, due to constant victim blaming in the fandom, and a misconception that any kind of abuse outside of family, is sexual. Fiction does have an important impact on real life, and unfortunately, some people forget about that completely. We should also remember that while creating c!Prime content might help some people cope with trauma and is often inspired by their own experiences, some people still choose to be weird about it, which I find extremely disrespectful.

[what-the-dark-has-foretold]

Happy Birthday

Shimura Tenko x fem!reader

Navi.

Notes: My dream Birthday I´m not even kidding

Autumn Event

Warnings: smut, mdni, modern au-ish?, fluff, aftercare, spit (incl. he spits in your mouth), reader has long(er) hair, he carries reader, lots of cute petnames (incl. "pretty slut" and variations), reader wears a dress, pretty cute and domestic overall, he overstimulates himself

Wordcount: 2k+

“I wanna sit on your lap.” It was a statement, rather than a request and he had to suppress the smile threatening to break out on his lips.

“Yeah? Is my pretty girl feeling needy?” he asked, extending an arm to pull you closer. You gasped but climbed on his lap nonetheless.

“Hey, it´s my birthday, you know? Shouldn´t you give me like…princess treatment or something?”

Tenko snorted as he helped you get comfortable. Carefully, he rested his chin on your shoulder and grabbed his mouse again.

“I always give you princess treatment.” The sensation of his breath against your neck made you shiver, and you could see him grin in the reflection of his computer.

You stuck out your tongue but cuddled deeper into him regardless. He couldn´t help but smile softly and pressed a kiss to your head. After holding you tightly for a moment, he focused back on his game.

“Wait. Is that my account?” you said, suddenly.

Tenko grinned.

“You hate exploring, so I thought I´d max out everything for you.”

You jerked around, eyes widened in surprise.

“Wait really?” you gasped. He nodded, already knowing you´d bless him by throwing your entire body into his arms.

“It´s really easy to make you happy, you know?” he murmured against your hair while you pressed your face into his chest.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love you so much!”

“Love you too, princess, now let me do my thing yeah?” he gently moved your body again so he could comfortably look over your shoulder and continue playing.

“Hmm.” You nuzzled deeper into him. “Wait, oh my god how did you do that?”

He snorted.

“Sounds like a skill issue on your part, baby.”

You gasped.

“How dare you! I will have you know, I´m a God at this game.”

“With an HP sands and goblet on your Wanderer?” he grinned down at your scowling form.

“Well, at least the crit stats look nice,” you pouted.

“I know, baby,” he cooed at you and kissed your temple. “At least you´re good at other things,” he mumbled.

“What? Tenko!”

He laughed.

“C´mon baby, what would I do without you in my life, hm?”

You grew soft.

“And?”

“Hm?”

“What would you do without me?”

He leaned back to look at you properly, hand finding your chin to tilt your face upwards.

“Playing video games and working and nothing more.”

You furrowed your brows.

“What? It´s all I did before you too.” a breathy chuckle escaped him. “What about you then?”

“I ask the question here!”

“Right, my bad, princess,” he teased and kissed the tip of your nose, barely pulling back after.

“Well lucky for you I don´t intend on leaving,” you grinned. “You´re stuck with me.”

He hummed, lips brushing yours. “Marriage and all?”

You giggled. “Yeah, marriage and all.”

“You´re so cute baby,” he murmured and kissed you again. “So fucking cute.”

He moved you to face him and gripped your waist to pull you flush against him so he could deepen the kiss. A mewl escaped your lips. You could feel him twitch against your core at the soft sound.

Gently, you ground your hips against his growing member, drawing a groan from his lips. His hands tightened around your waist, dragging your core against his body to drive you both toward an orgasm. You moaned against his mouth.

“Fuck,” he murmured, barely pulling away, too drunk on the taste of your lips. Abruptly, he picked you up and brought you to his bed – practically collapsing over your form. One of his arms was propped up right next to your head, fingers playing with your hair. His other hand made sure you couldn´t move away from his kiss.

You couldn´t help but mewl, silently begging him to come even closer, even tugging at his hoody. He grunted, settling down until he lay on top of you, hands cradling your face and hips slowly grounding against yours.

“Lemme eat you out, baby, yeah?” he rasped against your lips, but you couldn´t answer, breath completely stolen away. He rested his cheek against yours, watching you patiently until you had caught your breath again.

“Please, Tenko.”

He moaned at the sound of your broken voice and moved down your body, his hands squeezing and groping at your sides as he did so until he came face to face with your clothed pussy.

“Shit, baby, you smell so fucking good.”

Impatiently, he slipped off your panties for you and flipped up your skirt. He took another moment to breathe in your familar smell only to dive mouth-first into your pussy, spreading your outer lips to give his tongue space to lap at your clit. One of his hands held you down by your hips, the other trailed down your inner thigh. He briefly pulled back to wet some fingers with his tongue, but was back on you in a second, easing one of the digits into your pulsing core.

“Fuck, baby, you´re so good, take off your dress for me, yeah? Wanna see you completely,” he grunted, rutting his hips against the mattress at the sinful sounds you let out through your parted lips. You did as you were told, hands trembling and legs shaking at the pleasure coursing through you.

Soon he had you arching your back and pressing your pussy against him more while he sped up the licking and sucking at your clit, even pushing in a second finger to drive you ever closer to your orgasm.

You came against his tongue hard and he moaned at the feeling of you spasming around his fingers.

“Baby, fuuuck, you´re so good, gotta let me do that shit more often, yeah?” he groaned, slowly pulling out of you to push himself up on his hands, grinning down at you with cum smeared across his mouth. He leaned forward to kiss you and you both moaned at your taste now drenching both of your lips. “Tastes so good, doesn´t she?” he rasped and you nodded dumbly. “C´mon baby, say it,” he tapped your cheek expectingly.

“Tastes so good,” you softly repeated, still coming down from your high.

“That´s my pretty girl,” he groaned and captured your lips in another kiss. “Gonna fuck you now, okay?”

You could only muster a helpless nod accompanied by a whine and he smiled fondly at you.

“Prettiest fucking girl,” he praised you again, before pecking your lips once more.

With two fingers he spread your pussy to properly line himself up with your hole.

He eased into you, letting out a low groan against your lips.

“F – Fuck princess, why – ngh – how do you always feel this good?”

A soft mewl left your lips when he had filled you up completely, grabbing at him, disoriented, to press a wet kiss to his cheek.

“Tenko,” you whimpered.

He moaned at the messy sight in front of him. Your hair chaotically strewn over the pillow, your eyes pleading and glassy fixated on him and a cute little pout on your lips. He snapped his hips against yours and your back arched at the feeling. Quickly, his arms circled your waist.

“Fuuuck,” he groaned, setting a rapid rhythm, hands groping and tugging at your skin to have you even closer to him. His strokes were deep, his heavy cock sliding in and out of you so nicely. His lips found yours again, spit spread across your mouth with his eager tongue while he rutted into you.

One of his hands reached down to play with your clit, stroking her in tandem with his heavy thrusts into you.

“Heh.” He grinned at you, eyes lidded, watching your face contort into one of pleasure. “You cumming, baby?”

You nodded wildly, eyes squeezed shut and mouth hung open – just so perfect for him to spit into. “Uhu.”

“Uhu?” he mocked, the hand on your hips tightened its grip so he could drive even harder into you. “My little princess slut is cumming?” One more tug of his fingers on your clit and your body tensed in his hold. A boastful laugh escaped him, though it was cut short by the wild clenching of your pussy that made him topple over your body, his face tucked into the crook of your neck and a loud groan escaping him. The speed of his thrusts decreased, driving into you slow but hard as he came.

“Mmh,” you mumbled, nuzzling deeper into his embrace, but all of a sudden, he picked up speed again. A surprised cry escaped you and your arms quickly found purchase around his shoulders. He moved so fast, holding you tightly and grunting against the skin of your neck. He couldn´t speak, just chasing the pleasure he felt when you spasmed around him, completely drunk on the feeling.

His cock was aching, but his mind was empty, set only on feeling you twitch around him again.

Moans and whimpers left your mouth, your body rocking against his from the way he harshly thrust into you. After a while he sped up even more and his grunts became louder. His left hand found the side of your cheek, shaky hand caressing your skin. It slowly travelled downwards, leaving goosebumps in its wake all over your body, until it pinched at your clit to make you crash head-first into your second orgasm.

He followed suit, body collapsing on top of yours, still rutting erratically into you until his thrusts turned sluggish and then, finally, stopped.

A long moan escaped him, his mouth, open, pressed against your neck.

You stayed entangled like this for a little bit as you attempted to catch your breaths. Once he had caught his breath again, he pressed several sloppy kisses against your skin and up your jaw. Slowly, he pulled away from your face and propped himself up on his arms to look at your tired-out form. He grinned at you blearily blinking up at him – lips swollen and breath still erratic.

“Fuck, you look so messy, princess,” he murmured, fingers brushing away some spit next to your mouth.

You whimpered.

“Mmh?”

“Kiss me. Please.”

His eyes widened, but a moment later a soft smile graced his mouth and he leaned down to press a soft kiss to your parted lips. Then another. And another until he peppered your face with kisses and he held your giggling form in his embrace. His eyes crinkled at the sight.

“Wanna make out,” you whispered against his mouth, and he hummed.

"Just for a second though, gotta clean you up, baby.”

He moved his lips slowly against yours, fingers brushing lightly against your skin. Suddenly, he sat up, arms securely around you to carry your body with him and place you on his lap – his lips never leaving yours as they moved in tandem. His hands cupped your cheeks, thumbs brushing over your skin.

He pulled back way too soon for your taste. Smiling fondly, he watched how your eyes fluttered open and a pout formed on your lips. “C´mon baby, I´ll carry you to the bathroom.”

He helped you to the toilet and held you steadily when he lead you to the shower afterwards, turning it on for you both. As the warm water finally soothed your skin, he ran his fingers through your hair while you hid your face in his shoulder.

“You okay, baby?”

You mumbled unintelligibly and nuzzled deeper into his embrace.

“You wanna watch something and cuddle a little bit before going to sleep?”

He received a nod from you and smiled, gently patting your head. After a minute of just holding you close to him, he loosened the grip you had on him so he could pull away to wash the sweat and cum off of you.

You trembled once he brushed against your clit and whined, but he simply let out a chuckle as he straightened his back again. For a moment, he just looked at you, holding your face in his hand, only to swiftly pick you up again, laughing at your surprised shriek and carried you out of the shower.

Not too long after, you laid against Tenko´s chest, absentmindedly playing with the string of his hoody. His left arm held you tightly around your stomach and in his free hand he held the remote in order to turn on the tv. A familiar intro music started playing.

However, you couldn´t help but look up at him instead, smiling wide. He mirrored your smile and let his left hand lightly trail up and down your neck. Then, he leaned down to kiss you.

“I love you,” you whispered against his lips.

He hummed, thumb brushing away hair from your face.

“I love you too, princess.”

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

Servant Analysis: Biscione

Listen, this event is about snakes and lamias. You have to listen to me. You have to trust my advice. You must accept that I, ultimately, have and always will be right about my opinions on F/GO servants. This is vital. I will pass away in very dramatic fashion if this doesn't happen.

Now getting onto the analysis

Biscione 5-star Lancer Max HP: 15,300 ATK: 10,995 (Effective ATK: 11,544.75) NP Charge ATK: 0.7% Traits: Chaotic Balanced, Earth Attribute, Female, Animal Characteristics Servant, Demonic, Demonic Beast Servant, Dragon, Humanoid, Non-Hominidae Servant, Serpent, Servant, Seven Knights Servant, Weak to Enuma Elish

QQABB Card Set Quick: 4 hits; Arts: 4 hits; Buster: 2 hits; Extra: 5 hits

Poisonous Dreams A Increase own debuff success rate by 30% for 3 turns. Increases own critical damage by 50% for 3 turns. Inflicts a 2000 damage Poison for 5 turns to all enemies Inflicts Toxic Poison for 5 turns to them. Reduces their healing received by 50% for 5 turns. 6 turn cooldown

Mana Burst (Dragon) B Increases own Quick performance by 30% for 3 turns. Increases own Buster performance by 30% for 3 turns. Grants self Debuff-on-Attack buff for 3 turns: - Inflicts a 500 damage Poison for 5 turns to the enemy when attacking with Quick cards. Grants self Buff-on-Attack buff for 3 turns: - Gains 5 critical stars when attacking with Buster cards. 6 turn cooldown

Serpent from the Coat of Arms EX Grants self Invincibility for 2 attacks, 3 turns Charges own NP gauge by 30%. Increases own NP generation rate by 20% for 3 turns. 6 turn cooldown Passive Skills Magic Resistance A: Increases own debuff resistance by 20%. Presence Concealment B: Increases own critical star generation rate by 8%. Independent Action C: Increases own critical damage by 6%. Dragonkind B: Increases own Buster performance by 8%. Reduces own damage taken by 160. Anti-Lancer Attack Damage Aptitude for Append Skill 3.

Visconti Ascenza Quick, Single-Target Noble Phantasm 5 hits Inflicts a 1000-5000 damage Poison for 5 turns to one enemy, based on Overcharge. Inflicts Toxic Poison for 5 turns to one enemy. Deals damage to them, dealing 15%*N extra damage to enemy with Poison status, maximum of 150%. Reduces their NP gauge by 1.

Whew, it's been a while since I've had to type all of that out. Alright, let's go through this step by step.

Base Stats and Generation Stats

You have probably noticed that Biscione has a pretty high HP stat and a pretty low ATK stat, which is never really a good thing. HP in a linear stat, where every one point of HP is simply a point of HP, but ATK does not function that way. This usually makes it so having more ATK is a much better than having more HP. But it's not all that bad for Biscione from the start. She shares the highest base HP stat among single-target Lancers with Enkidu, but manages to be fifth out of the seven 5-star single target Lancers when it comes to her ATK. Being a Lancer class will help her fairly low ATK stat as well, since Lancer class servants have a 5% inherent bonus to their ATK stat.

Her generation stats are more interesting, however. At 0.7% NP charge per hit, this puts her Arts card at a pretty crazy 2.8%, her Quick at a pretty respectable 2.8%, and her Extra at 3.5%. Her AQQE chain on average will generate 33.6% of her NP, and this increases to 43.848% with her Skill 2 and Skill 3 active. Her BQAE chain will generate 35.0% NP, and 43.512% with her skills active. This is not factoring in crits, overkill hits, or support bonuses, and this is honestly pretty impressive. A crit, overkill Arts card in a BQAE chain will generate 70.56% of her NP gauge, so Biscione's NP generation is quite good. Her star generation is also not bad. Her QBQE chain will generate 21.67 Critical Stars on average, and 29.879 Stars with her skills active. Since her NP is Quick, this can be extended with an NPQQE chain into 48.564 Stars, or 50+ with her skills active. She is pretty proficient at generation crit stars, and even her BAQE chain will generate 25.59 Stars with her skills up. This can be even further increased with class score and append skills. With a maxed out class score and the append skill that improves Extra performance, her QBQE chain will generate 34.17 Stars offskill, 41.428 with skills.

Yeah Class Score + Append gives +50% Critical star generation and +100% Extra Card performance. It's completely insane for star generation. It's also decent for NP generation, since it doubles the NP generation made by the Extra card.

Skills

Starting with Biscione's S1, we have a fairly decent skill. The increase to her Debuff Success rate is pretty powerful since it allows her to much more easily stack her poison through the fairly common Magic Resistance passive. It also increases her critical damage for 3 turns, which is nice since she will produce a fair amount of critical stars, although she is not exactly built to be a proper crit DPS. It's more the kind of skill that gives her a secondary back-up to just hitting with her NP. The heal rate reduction is just a nice bonus, and while she can inflict a fair amount of Toxic Poison through this skill and her NP, she is not trying to stack Poison damage itself just for the sake of it. She will be killing enemies through more typical means.

Her S2 is a fairly standard double card buff, with Quick and Buster being generally preferred buffs for Quick Servants thanks to the increased synergy with Summer Skadi and Mighty Chains, but it will also give Biscione two on attack buffs. The first will inflicts another Poison stack to an enemy with her Quick cards, while the second will generate 5 crit stars with her Busters. The Buster buff isn't necessarily amazing, although it's still a decent consistency booster, but the Poison debuff on hit is very important for Biscione. Biscione is already a really good target for Poison on hit Command Codes, and this amplified her ability to deal more damage by a lot.

Her S3 is largely defensive, being a 2 hit invul along with an NP charge and NP generation buff. This is a pretty solid, if somewhat uninspired skill. It's very fire and forget. This NP charge and generation is nice, but there's nothing spectacular here.

Her passives are pretty okay as well. Passive damage cut is nice, and a 20% passive debuff resistance is not bad either. There is a lack of solid offensive buffs here, but this is not a dealbreaker.

Noble Phantasm

Biscione is the frightening return of the anti-Poison DPS. Her NP inflicts another stack of Poison and Toxic Poison, and then deals even more damage to enemies with Poison stacks. She will deal 15% more damage with her NP per Poison stack, and at 10 stacks, she will hit her maximum and deal 150% more damage, which is pretty insane.

With just her S1 and her NP's poison, she will at NP1 do a little bit less damage than Robin Hood on neutral targets. Robin Hood will do 50,572 damage, while Biscione will deal 46,998 damage. But with one more Poison stack, a mere three, Biscione will deal 52,420 damage, allowing her to easily outpace Robin Hood in this niche. She also does a lot more damage than Locusta at NP1, so Biscione is the strongest anti-Poison DPS in the entire game. At maximum Poison stacks, which is not remotely out of the question, she'll do 90,380 damage to a neutral target, which is pretty crazy.

On an Archer with double Summer Skadi support, with 10 Poison stacks, she will deal slightly over 500,000 damage. That's with no CE, no additional supports such as Oberon, and all at NP1. She can do some absolutely insane damage.

It is also worth noting that her native Poison damage isn't bad. 3000 Poison damage at a base with 2 Toxic Poison stacks for 5 turns results in a pretty powerful Poison status, in addition to any more Poison from her regular attacks and Command codes.

The one problem with this NP is that it has pretty poor NP generation. This isn't necessarily super surprising for a single-target Quick NP, but it will only generate 9.66% of her NP gauge with her two skills up, and 15.12% with two Summer Skadi's as support. She will require face-cards to continually use her NP in a typical set-up, which is not necessarily the worst thing to ask for. Her NPQQE chain will generate 98.112% of her NP gauge with double Summer Skadi and crits, so you're probably getting your gauge back with good luck.

Craft Essences

When it comes to what CEs to equip on Biscione, you have a pretty wide selection. Biscione will generally work best with CEs that provide additional NP damage since she provides no Type 3 buffs herself in her kit, but you can also use CEs that provide additional Quick performance, Critical Damage, or NP Generation as well. Of particularly funny note is Biscione's Bond CE, which will inflict an additional Poison stack whenever she deals a critical hit, as well as increasing her NP damage by 30%. While it doesn't provide much in terms of stats, it is actually quite a reasonable bond CE.

It is also a very good idea to focus on CEs that give her big ATK increases, since her base ATK is still on the low side, and the Lancer class will increase the ATK she gets from CEs too.

Command Codes

Poison, Poison, Poison. There are three Command Codes that inflict Poison, and they should definitely all be applied to her cards. This is a very simple way to dramatically improve her overall damage, since her NP only cares about how many stacks of Poison are on the enemy, not how strong they are.

From there, it's largely up to you. Critical damage is a pretty reasonable option for her Busters, and you could increase the crit star absorption on her Arts card since it is a pretty powerful NP generator.

Append Skills, Class Score, and Grails

This section is going to be talking about the optional, resource intensive ways of increasing a Servant's performance. Biscione actually really wants her Append Skills, an aspect that might be surprising, but as a Quick Servant who wants to use her cards to generate crit stars, she benefits a lot from her appends. Append 1 is a big star gen buff and NP generation buff all in one for her Extra, Append 2 combos very well with her 30% NP charge, Append 4 is a pretty reasonable passive critical damage buff, and Append 5 is really powerful for most servants, although not critical for Biscione.

Class Score is a complicated factor, because it affects an entire class of Servant, but Biscione does appreciate the buffs. Objectively, Class Score is most powerful for Quick Servants, since it provides bigger buffs to their damage than Arts or Buster, improves their critical star generation by a healthy +50%, and improves their Extra card even further.

Grails do provide Biscione with more ATK, which is pretty good, but it is not strictly necessary. Getting Biscione from Level 90 to Level 100 will improve her NP damage by about 8.68%, and getting her to Level 120 will improve her NP damage by 26.11%. Getting her to Level 120 is obviously a pretty big investment, however, so it is something you can skip if you so wish.

Supports

Biscione is a Quick DPS with a secondary focus on Buster cards. She is basically built to be used alongside Summer Skadi, but she will work with any of the major Quick supports, such as OG Skadi and Kazuradrop. She will also work with other Servants focused on inflicting more and more Poison, if that is how you choose to want to use her. It's not a bad idea to pair her with Servants like Koyanskaya of Dark or Locusta if you want to play with a more fun team.

There is also the Ciel / Summer BB team if you want to have Biscione operate at full capacity for several turns and inflict a ton of Poison. I am not entirely sure if this comp is actually good, but it is deeply funny.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

Well put together skill set that is focused around inflicting stacks of Poison and using her NP repeatedly

NP has a very fast ramp up, and does a huge amount of damage relatively easily

Poison is a really solid anti-type damage source, since it can be inflicted on the majority of enemies in the game

Good backup plan in Buster crit damage

Office worker ascension

Cons:

Really bad versus enemies with debuff immunity, as she will lose all of her damage potential

While very strong, she can still be outdamaged by some ST Lancers, most notably Enkidu and Scathach.

Provides basically no support to the party. Entirely selfish Servant.

Biscione is a pretty damn good Servant. This one is a pretty easy recommend to raise up if you have her, as she is very rewarding when given a little bit of extra attention. She might just be one of the best ST Lancers in the entire game.

[transmutationisms]

Your understanding of succession is very nuanced and I find reading your takes very enriching! All I wish is to have your literary analysis skills. If you could share where you started in understanding topics like psychoanalysis, bodily fluids as a symbol, using political lens to understand lit, or anything like that, that would be much appreciated! Sorry if this has been asked before, if you could direct me to that post I’d appreciate that

hi! i wouldn't consider myself any kind of expert in lit crit and i think it's something i continue to get better at just by doing more of it. so i'm not sure how helpful i can be here lol. but, some texts that have probably formed theoretical foundations for my reading of succession are:

history of shit, by dominique laporte, tr. rodolphe el-khoury

water and dreams: an essay on the imagination of matter, by gaston bachelard, tr. edith r. farrell

psychoanalysis of fire, by gaston bachelard, tr. alan c. m. ross

marx's 1844 manuscripts

anti-oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia, by gilles deleuze & félix guattari, tr. robert hurley, mark seem, & helen r. lane

body fascism: salvation in the technology of physical fitness, by brian pronger

'malthus and the evolutionists', by robert m. young

the birth of biopolitics: lectures at the collège de france, 1978–79, by michel foucault, tr. graham burchell

discipline and punish: the birth of the prison, by michel foucault, tr. alan sheridan

faces of degeneration: a european disorder, 1848–1918, by daniel pick

capitalist realism, by mark fisher

three essays on the theory of sexuality, by sigmund freud, tr. james strachey

society of the spectacle, by guy debord, tr. donald nicholson-smith

le paris moderne: histoire des politiques d'hygiène, 1855–1898, by fabienne chevallier

we have never been modern, by bruno latour, tr. catherine porter

the arcades project, by walter benjamin, tr. howard eiland & kevin mclaughlin

french modern: norms and forms of the social environment, by paul rabinow

[wrxngpacks]

HEADMATE PACK — NOT A REQUEST

Names: Tommy, Clem, Attacus, Admiral, Argus, Beetle, Big T

Age: 16-19 (age slider)

Orientation(s): graysexual, demiromantic, bi

Gender: demongender , genderthreat , demomboything , floragender , mossgender , mothgender , bugthing

Pronouns: he/him, it/its, red/reds, t/ts, crim/crims, crit/crits, threat/threats, moth/moths, bug/bugs, critter/critters, grow/grows, plant/plants, tree/trees, disc/discs

Species: demon hybrid

Aesthetic(s): mosscore, naturecore, bugcore

Interests: insects, arachnids, nature, music, building crafts, scrapbooking, collecting trinkets

Role(s): mood booster , coltenoir , medic , soother

Emoji combos: 💿🪲, 💿🌱, 💿😈, 💿🕷, 🪲🌱

Source: Dream SMP, C!Tommy

Faceclaims: credit

[barzfrommarz]

RIP ladyddanger you were never afraid to say the truth

[joannaliangart]

Here; (is the only place) (2025) 2 x 10.5” (closed), 16.5 x 10.5” (fully open), 1.375 x 16.5” (pop-out accordion segment) 16 page accordion-fold book (+23 page pop-out accordion). Risograph-printed, ink and coloured pencil illustrations and poetry.

Here; (is the only place) features riso-printed ink illustrations and poems. The book connects childhood grief with climate grief through their shared experience of losing home and being swept into a future that threatens unbelonging. Depending on how the book is held, the openings cut into the pages become doorways to frame the past (pages) or only empty space— regardless, something has disappeared.

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My last crit at ECU was for this piece!! im graduating this May my god it still hasn't really sunken in yet

I got a lot of positive feedback for this work and my live reading of it and the colours turned out even better than I could’ve hoped :']

I’ve applied to a few zine fairs including VABF, so hopefully I’ll be able to sell these there! Otherwise I’ll look into maybe an online store or smth like that (spooky but exciting)

Oughh I don't know about new favourite (There Are Good Things Yet To Bury still pops off to me lol) BUT I think it's definitely been one of my favs to work on!! in terms of process n all that C: BECAUSE!! I got to try out my new dip pens and finally use those acrylic inks (that i got in 1st year cause they were on the class materials list and then we never fuckin used em. rip but hey now here we are full circle) and do some traditional illustration!!! New territory for me and it was really fun!!

I usually stick with digital illustration for all my finished illustration work (vs my traditional sketchbook is only rlly for studies or sketches/thumbnails) but oughhh my god this might change me. this might do it LOL

Maquettes / Ideation phase

I knew I wanted to do more cool stuff with windows after TAGTYTB + at the time I recently had a dream about my childhood home again. It's something I noticed a long time ago, and all poetic metaphor aside I do literally just. only really dream about my childhood house lol, or rather do sometimes dream of other imaginary places but I NEVER dream of the current house I live in (maybe like 1-2 times that I can remember in the 8+ years I've been living here). I also wanted to do a long skinny accordion fold guy. No particular reason than it was an idea that kept sticking to me lol; + I hadn't done anything with accordion fold+windows and AH there's so much potential there because of how every single page overlaps each other with that folding method!!!

So! That was the basis for my concept, and I started to fold n scribble on scrap paper to make these maquettes. I also started numbering them which was SO helpful thank god because I think I ended up with TWENTY OR MORE maquettes by the end wagh!! But oh my god these were so helpful to make so many of I really hit on something with this one below, 1 big rectangle and 2 circle windows... It wasn't even intentional, I just cut them into the paper and then started drawing/writing, and once I reached the flipside realized that you could see the words "this is my home" on one page, above the drawing of the house which was on ANOTHER page. WHAT!! literally so cool I'm so happy that happened it literally dazzled me:

Midterm / printed maquettes aka poem writing in affinity publisher

In my final crit, one of my profs asked if 'this is what I saw in my head the whole time' in a 'wow I can't believe it looks this good congrats' kind of way LOL which is like so oof but so fair because this is what my midterm presentation looked like LMAO:

I have a LOT of analysis-type notes I wrote down in my google doc so I can remember in the future all my intentions with the poems and its a pretty LONG list. One of the main ones is how the semicolon ; operates as the symbol of being inbetween a continuation, barrier, threshold, stop, doorway... ALSO it kinda looks like a lock+door handle (!!)

Also this might've been before my midterm, but I went back to my childhood home area and ough. I'm glad I did cause I got inspiration for the illustration imagery when I saw how big the trees had gotten. I literally said out loud "oh!" aough my god. I don't know I just hadn't expected it... I think I had even noticed it a few years ago when I visited but forgot and I just. augh. Included the experience in one of the poems in this book "I looked for my grief / I looked / for disappointment [...] and still i was / startled / by the / bigness of the / trees [...] it's just such a relief / to know that something grew / up with me"

ILLUSTRATION TIME BABEY

this whole process was FULL of stress but like GOOD stress. I was on my fuckin grind dude All my text/poems/windows layout was all formatted in affinity publisher, and then I printed that out (at staples, I was gonna use the library but they couldn't print tabloid size paper rip) and just pencil sketched right on those. I COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS DIGITALLY I DON'T THINK. Because it involved cutting out the windows so I could PHYSICALLY take the paper and see where the images would line up on other side. which was fun as hell

Then I took to staples again and made photocopies (so I didn't fuck up the original pencil sketch), and then traced the tabloid size + windows onto my nice paper. Also look at my setup !! We have this glass table in my house, and I had the kickass idea to put a bright light underneath as a DIY lightbox yippee!! It is however a very low table and while I had a lil stool it prob wasn't great for my back or legs lol (sidenote why are lightboxes so expensive its just a box with a light in it man)

inking time! dip pens ouh my goodness... Still trying to get used to them but they give such nice results.. I'm surprised at how much I like how the illustrations turned out tbh but I am really enjoying this kind of weaving, vignette/snapshot/overlapping almost collagey kind of vibe it has, especially with the text. Similar to the poems I also have a list of all my illustration symbolism/analysis kind of thoughts. it's a shorter list, but one of the main things on there is how I kinda in the moment ended up creating these visual rhymes: The door hinge = rollerskate wheels = moth (plucked wing) = pine cone scale; representing how things follow you from past to present in different forms, things changing but into what? I did separate layers for lines and colour, main book and pop-out accordion. The colours were fun because the acrylic inks came with a dropper and I'd drip bits of ink from real high up to get a lovely splatter !! and also used a straw to blow wet ink around all around a good time I used a sheet of plastic to protect the paper with the lineart on it from the wet ink/water going onto the colours layer. The lightbox was good but defo less effective with the colours layer because the water would warp the paper and lift it away from the table surface (so I couldn't see the lines below rip) Oh my gosh and I used pencil crayons for more texture!! forgot about that lol but it really really helped, and I did some frottage of my childhood house's key+traced its outline; I really wanted the key to be as "real"/"connected to reality" as possible (+yes once again that is a truth in the poems, I do still have it because before it was sold someone broke in and completely destroyed the door handle/lock. we assume with a crowbar.)

also my cat would sit behind me on the couch while I worked sweet creature... (ouh and I know there's Himi Gouache in that one image but I didn't use gouache lol I was considering it but didn't) I worked on the illustration every day of reading week from morning to night to get it done in time for risograph printing hoowheeee

Scanning and Prepping for Risograph Printing

I scanned my lineart and colours with my school's fancy scanner (which I'm gonna miss once i graduate augh it scans soo nicely staples scanners dont do shit for detailed scans)

I knew how to do it in photoshop already, but Managed to figure out how to split my colours so I had files for just blue, just yellow, etc. Ended up with SO MANY FILES!! i love you risograph printer even if I had to prep and print 16 files and redo 2 masters lol

I checked how all the colours looked digitally but you really can't exactly predict how risograph will look until you print it, and I was trying to extrapolate and imagine how the prints would look based on these digital mockups lol.

Lucky for me, they actually turned out BETTER and brighter than I was imagining!! Except for pop-out accordion side A, which looked wayy too busy and forest-green for my liking lol. So I had to redo the master and ended up doing NO blue colours, only blue lines which I think turned out ooo yummy tasty speaking of redoing masters, I also had to re-do the teal in the main book too because it was WAY darker than I was expecting and making the text too hard to read waaagh but I'm so very glad I fixed it because it made a world of difference in legibility. In total ended having to buy 4 new masters to redo orz

Trimming folding binding

This was kinda irritating lol .. I didn't realize I guess the stack cutter in the comd studio cuts at a bit of an angle or smth cause the size was slightly smaller than I wanted. which is a problem because I need my windows and folds to line up as precisely as possible and the slight size difference kinda fucked that up :(( but ah well. it doesn't get super in the way of experiencing the work but I'm a little miffed lol I also had to score and trim all the pop-out accordions one by one waghhhh Look at this pile orz

I'm SO glad I scored all the fold lines for these though that was so smart of me thank god because I could not have folded them without those guides holy shit it would've gotten so misaligned. AND it made it soooo satisfying to fold along a score line, like with the gentlest pressure it folds perfectly right where you need ouh chefs kiss cutting the windows is tedious sigh but!! I'm very happy with the circle cutter I bought just for this project (and for future window cutting in future projects ofc). I actually bought 2 circle cutters but the first kinda fuckin sucked when I tested it out rip. You can't see where you're cutting and it's fine for Cutting A Circle but not for when you need to cut a circle in a SPECIFIC spot like I do lol. Olfa Compass Circle Cutter for the win babey (not sponsored. is that even a thing on tumblr posts. lol) also when you grab a handful of the folded pop-out accordions it makes me feel like I'm grabbin a bunch o fun caterpillars C:

Final crit!

I was really strugling with figuring out where or how to install this thing, but thankfully my profs had booked a space that once I took a look (I'd never been in that room before lol there's still so many rooms I probably don't even know exist at ECU) ended up working really well ! I borrowed a blanket/tablecloth from my supervisor at my workplace when I was talking about my project and wanting to find a fitting tablecloth, and the pic they showed me of it was p much perfect very colourful !! yaaay thank goodness I was able to haul a plinth over to the room and set it up by the window C: natural light and near the rooftop garden, very good! And set up a bunch o chairs so people could sit while I did my reading.

The reading went very well!! I actually lol its soo funny I had practiced a bit at home and had always held the book out to my right, but on the day of I held the book to my left n as I started reading realized "oh no. unexpected flip I can't see some of the words as good" LOL but once I got to the pop-out accordion I kinda had an excuse to switch to holding it out to my right haha and it went smooth The class really liked my performance and the work overall which I'm awaughhh :'] like TAGTYTB people were really into the "choreography/architecture" of the windows, as one person described which is SUCH a good word for it o my goodness

And 5 people bought a copy!!!!!! oh my god!! tbh I thought maybe 1 or 2 ppl might but 5!! I'm not particularly close with any of them either, I'd consider like 2-3 I'm more familiar with but even then oh my gosh. awaa ;;w;; was so so lovely and gave me a lot of confidence in the piece I printed 100 copies! don't know if i should print more or not seeing as it was so successful... my energy is pretty spent now and I wanna take a while to recover lol now that the semester is winding down. But I'm gonna lose studio access to the comd risograph printer soon so i dunno... ah sigh

Now the grad show is my next big thing. my application is submitted and the due dates gone n passed, but this crit gave me the confidence n idea to do a reading of the book(s) I'm showing...... I sent an email if there's any way I could add some kind of scheduled event to my application but idk it's been a week since the due date so it might be too late to make changes rip

other fun stuff

It's now in the ECU artist book collection!!! I was so spooked by it but my profs recommended I look into it and the process was way easier and the person I emailed had the vibe like they did this all the time lol???

🎶 Music I was listening to while writing the poems to try and catch the vibes I needed:

Virgina - Boys Go To Jupiter

Claw Machine - Sloppy Jane ft. Phoebe Bridgers

Death Throes Of A Struggling Romance - (formerly Maryknoll)

Copacabana - Harvard Dn & Tonics acapella with Soloists Elio Kennedy-Yoon and Andrew Courtney

No More Birthdays - Sophie May

Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl - yeule

wish u were here - Boys Go To Jupiter

Lovers Always Lose - Boys Go To Jupiter

Ankles - Lucy Dacus

+like the whole Meet Me After Practice album - Boys Go To Jupiter LOL i love it soooooo fuckin much

[hananoami]

[ 08/26 - 09/09 ] SHC Team set up & Stat Attributes

Stellactrum Requirements

Team A: Silverbay Division ( 5 ) Sapphire memories + ( 1 ) Ruby memory

Team B: Goldbird Division ( 4 ) Pearl memories + ( 1 ) Violet memory

Team C: Soaria Division ( 3 ) Pearl memories + ( 1 ) Emerald memory

(Team A) Silverbay Division w/ 𝓕𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒓

For this season the following memory receives a +40% DMG Boost from seasonal bonus: [Hidden Motive] + [Fleeting Sweetness]. Having a Perfect Match with the Protofield Stellactrum means [Resonance Skills] can break 2 Protocore Shield Layers in a single strike and increase DMG to weakness by 100%. Matching the Protofield Stellactrum attributes also gives an additional bonus. For each matched Stellactrum, increases DMG boost 5.0% (currently increased: 30.0%) and DMG Reductions 5.0% (currently increased 30.0%).

COMPANION: Zayne’s Foreseer [ Defend | DMG | AoE ]

WEAPON: Everlasting Song [ Support | AoE | Heal ]

♡ AFFINITY BONUS: 112 (Zayne’s Protective Skill) When you take a fatal blow, Zayne teleports to you, blocks a hit, and counter attacks. Enemies will be knocked back.

[ HP 4400 || DEF 110 || ATK 220 ]

MEMORY PAIR BONUS [FS]

STARTING EFFECT: increases team DMG by 8%, reduces team DMG taken by 8%. When fighting together with Foreseer, increases DMG of Eternal Sin by 25%.

DUO RANK 1: boosts Ardent Oath charge by 20%. When you and Foreseer are granted with Ward of Curses, team DMG will be increased by 12%.

DUO RANK 2: increases Energy Charge cap by 1. When unleashing Resonance Skill, Foreseer gains 1 stack of Divine Prayer, and your DMG is increased by 10%, lasting for 10 seconds.

5☆ Forever Sealed (sapphire/solar) Lv 80/awakened rank 3 using +9 and +14 SSR protocores

5☆ Promise Everlasting (sapphire/solar) Lv 80/awakened rank 2 using +9 and +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Hearts Within Reach (sapphire/lunar) Lv 80 rank 1 using +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Business Trip (sapphire/lunar) Lv 80/awakened rank 3 using +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Snowy Serenity (sapphire/lunar) Lv 70 rank 1 using +12 SSR protocores

5☆ Exclusive Tutorial (ruby/lunar) Lv 80 using +9 and +12 SSR protocores

(Team B) Goldbird Division w/ 𝓖𝒐𝒅 𝓸𝒇 𝓽𝒉𝒆 𝓣𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔

For this season the following memory receives a +40% DMG Boost from seasonal bonus: [Omnipotent Perception] + [Sparkling Traces] + [Fragrant Dream]. Having a Perfect Match with the Protofield Stellactrum means [Resonance Skills] can break 2 Protocore Shield Layers in a single strike and increase DMG to weakness by 100%. Matching the Protofield Stellactrum attributes also gives an additional bonus. For each matched Stellactrum, increases DMG boost 5.0% (currently increased: 30.0%) and DMG Reductions 5.0% (currently increased 30.0%).

COMPANION: Rafayel’s God of the Tides [ Sustained | Buff | AoE ]

WEAPON: Tidal Embrace [ Sustained | Buff | AoE ] ♡ AFFINITY BONUS: 114 (Rafayel’s Protective Skill) When you take a fatal blow, Rafayel teleports to you, blocks a hit, and counter attacks. Enemies will be knocked back.

[ HP 4400 || DEF 110 || ATK 220 ]

MEMORY PAIR BONUS [TP]

STARTING EFFECT: increases team DMG by 8%, reduces team DMG taken by 8%, and increases Crit DMG by 10% when fighting along side Sea Spirits.

DUO RANK 1: boosts Ardent Oath charge by 20%. The starting level of Sea Spirits rises to Lv. 2, and Sea Spirits will last for 5 more seconds.

DUO RANK 2: increases Energy Charge cap by 1. During Heavenly Rain, recovery rate of energy charge is increased by 30%.

5☆ Temple’s Promise (pearl/solar) Lv 80/awakened rank 2 using +14 and +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Temple’s Sunset (pearl/solar) Lv 80/awakened rank 2 using +13 and +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Private Trip (pearl/lunar) Lv 80 using +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Tipsy Invitation (pearl/lunar) Lv 80 using +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Your Fragrance (violet/lunar) Lv 80 rank 3 using +15 SSR protocores

5☆ Before Sunrise (pearl/lunar) Lv 80 rank 3 using +15 SSR protocores

(Team C) Soaria Division w/ 𝓛𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆

For this season the following memory receives a +40% DMG Boost from seasonal bonus: [No Restraint] + [Dreaming]. Having a Perfect Match with the Protofield Stellactrum means [Resonance Skills] can break 2 Protocore Shield Layers in a single strike and increase DMG to weakness by 100%. Matching the Protofield Stellactrum attributes also gives an additional bonus. For each matched Stellactrum, increases DMG boost 5.0% (currently increased: 10.0%) and DMG Reductions 5.0% (currently increased 10.0%).

COMPANION: Xavier’s Lumiere [ DMG | Single-target | Control]

WEAPON: Moonchaser [ DPS | Sustained | AoE ]

♡ AFFINITY BONUS: 111 (Xavier’s Protective Skill) When you take a fatal blow, Xavier teleports to you, blocks a hit, and counter attacks. Enemies will be knocked back.

[ HP 4000 || DEF 100 || ATK 200 ]

MEMORY PAIR BONUS [MN]

STARTING EFFECT: increases team DMG by 8%, and reduces team DMG taken by 8%. The Enemy [Moonstruck] is extended by 3 seconds.

DUO RANK 1: boosts Ardent Oath charge by 20%. [Moonlight] will attach 1 stack of [Phasing Moon] to the enemy, increasing DMG dealt by 25%.

DUO RANK 2: increases Energy Charge cap by 1. When [Moonlight] is activated, the cooldown time of your Active and Resonance Skill is reduced by 0.5 seconds, and a small amount of energy charge is restored.

DUO RANK 3: increases team DMG by 8%. When your Active Skill or Charged Attack hits a target with [Moonstruck], [Moonlight] will be activated, boosting CRIT DMG by 30%.

5☆ Midnight Whispers (amber/solar) Lv 80/awakened rank 3 using +9 SSR protocores

5☆ Midnight Rainfall (amber/solar) Lv 80/awakened rank 3 using +9 SSR protocores

5☆ Precious Bonfire (ruby/lunar) Lv 80/awakened rank 3 using no protocores (bc i forgot to equip..)

5☆ Fluffy Trap (emerald/lunar) Lv 80 rank 3 using +12 SSR protocores

5☆ Unique Aftertaste (ruby/lunar) Lv 80/awakened rank 3 using +12 SSR protocores

5☆ No Restraint (pearl/lunar) Lv 80 rank 1 using +6 and +9 SSR protocores

[aro-throughyourchest]

People crit Boundless Sands a lot and that's valid, but GOD. Inconsolable Differences was a fucking trainwreck. Like everything you thought was going to go right didn't. And Wilbur thought it was a victory. It’s just like a shitty protective thing which Tommy needed but it’s somehow the only situation where tommy can be free of dream? Like it might be cool for it to be a self-gratifying thing <- bc wilbur is known for that but.

And then for Wilbur to put Tommy's most precious items in the hands of Dream all for some big fucking act, and all tommy is can do is watch and be horrified as two of the most timebomb people on earth play with his heart. first his discs, then Wilbur's life. It really just. I don’t know how else to explain it its just BAD. like none of the emotional disturbance or the wrong wilbur did like taking advantage of tommy’s emotions (“you did this to prove one of your stupid points”)

IT COULD’VE BEEN GOOD IF ANY OF THIS WAS ADDRESSED. LIKE HOW TERRIBLE IT WAS OF WILBUR TO DO THAT. like goddamn no one respects this fuckign kid.

I just. hejdgsjsgsgshh inconsolable differences makes me so goddamn mad!! “you’re free” some fucking bullshit!!!

[awesamcozy]

And everyone thought i came from crit meanwhile im posting about c!dreams fuckimg pussy on my main um

[imsosocold]

Seeing cute “parentinnit” aus while  knowing/remembering Tommy threatened to kill Michael to split up Ranboo and Tubbo but nobody ever acknowledges it