#competent foundation

[psalmsofpsychosis]

There comes a time in your life, most likely when you hit your 30, when you go "this book/fanfic is written spectacularly and the style and the execution of its idea are spotless, competent, gorgeous, it is everything it intends to be with utmost intricacy. But also i fucking hate the ideas and concepts and principles presented in this narrative and no amount of aesthetical execution will change that, and it's fine. I am going to appreciate this narrative for its beauties and leave it behind, it's not for me."

[madrewrites]

so my day has been irreversibly ruined

[northern-passage]

Regarding the "showing off" ask, it is kinda funny how so far everytime MC acts like a badass in a fight, no one is there to look, Clem was passed out against the big monster fight, and in ch2, everyone was dealing with their own fights to notice MC fighting. Maybe only Lea knows because of working with MC for years.

don't worry, while everyone was mostly occupied, they still saw enough 👀

but yeah Lea is definitely aware of the hunter's abilities, and it's mentioned briefly in game but at the start of the two of them being paired together, they were very competent; their partnership only started deteriorating after an otherwise relatively successful first few years.

[alukaforyou]

omg so everything i own needs to be pink and i was like hm i wonder if i can find any pink stuff from that latvian skincare brand called MADARA (!!) so i was on their site and found these 2:

but i also saw this one and like what is this right?

clicked on it to read the description, its p**** soap. 🐱 ok!! yall i remem when this brand was rlllly smallll and the only pink thing they had was lipgloss :( never really used it cuz im not a lipgloss girlie but i just HAD to have Something from this place its called madara ffs LMFAOOO

the brand is apparently highly rated / good quality so ok im ready to be impressed :) i rllly want to try this one from sisley paris eventually cuz ppl seem to love it BUT its 120 for one bottle so i need to sit on that for a sec

lastly look at this foundation brush(?) from glossier isnt it sooooo cute i dont have liquid foundation but i need it u kno??

[shiawasekai]

Last night I spent a lot of time thinking about it...

About Nela's guilt issues with both her yearning for the past and the life she is building.

Because, by the time the game is over? There is a part of her that would drop everything in a second just for a chance to return to her life pre-game. She has built great things, cared for many people, even found love... And yet the pain and the grief and the love for her family is so strong a part of her would give everything up just to have her old life back.

Honestly? The only reason she wouldn't actually do it (in the hypothetical of being given the chance) is because she would be unable to go through with it and hurt everyone, but if the situation were reversed... If she were asked, as a still teenager in Carpenden, if she was willing to go through it all? The answer would be, at that point: no. Never. It isn't worth everything she would lose. No matter how much she loves the people in that potential life. There would be a lot less hesitation.

She cares and loves deeply, that's not a lie, but it's still very much second to how she feels about her family. She knows those thoughts are unfair to everyone, and she feels terribly guilty. So, much like all other things related in some shape or form to her past, she hides that ugliness from everyone, even the man she's freaking marrying.

If ever asked about it, once the people around her start to know about her situation, she'll just say half-truths. "I may miss my old life, but I wouldn't leave you" Not a lie, not the truth either.

Over the last few years, she has gotten good at faking. She can keep the lie going. She can protect them from the ugly full truth. Fake it until you make it, until it gets better (grief doesn't work like that).

Do I think Daeran would realize this? Up to a point, yes. Which is why I kinda see him having a lot of mixed feelings about Samel, when he reappears, at first? Because it's good she is meeting again with what little remains of her family, but Samel is also someone with the power to take her away if he so wanted. The poor old man is just glad his sister is alive and only wants to be a part of her life, but there is no way to know that when they first meet.

And this is putting aside that Daeran must be absolutely hurt by the secret keeping. Even more so when the depth of it starts to become apparent.

Healing and building a happy life are the way out of this particular hole, but that's going to take a long time and patience from everyone around her.

[charlemane]

learning how to swiss darn has made me insufferable to myself, but i stay having fun with it

[prussianmemes]

i think listening to your east german / čssr / ssr mid-80s playlist - or other boomer music of choice - while staring out at the fields forests and farms between plzeňský and ústecký kraj is even better than cigarettes and coffee for the soul

[drdrawer049]

Extremely old meme I made when Episode 6 of Helluva Boss came out.

[gottagobuycheese]

last year it was getting interrupted every time I tried to eat something on Official Premises, this year it’s suddenly being shunted 5 hours away and put on nights for a week...truly hwang si-mok hours...

[afklancelot]

ignorance, willful or otherwise, is often portrayed as a bad thing in stories, or at least most stories i read. but- get this- what if the phrase ‘ignorance is bliss’ ended up being truthful?

my idea is that there’s these cosmic horror entitys, a pair of em, that disguise themselves as humans and go about torturing humans for their own sadistic amusement. got the typical ‘humans are insects’ thinking and everything. one day they pick a Guy thinking none the wiser.

here’s the thing, though: their traps only work if they are noticed. if the person somehow does not notice any anomalies or dangers in their environment that the eldritch pair created, the anomalies/dangers will disappear as if they never existed. the entities themselves did not know this until the Guy because no victim was dumb enough to not notice.

unfortunately for them, tho, the Guy is about as oblivious as it gets. he’s not exactly book dumb, but he’s the type of guy to not see sarcasm no matter how blatant and in general is just not perceptive at all, socially or otherwise.

so when the entities first try to trap the Guy in an infinitely generating hallway with his apartment unable to be unlocked, he just breaks the damn door down with his body because he’s worried he left the stove on/he needs to feed his cat and he actually succeeds (he does end up having to pay for repair damage, tho).

the entities are Very Baffled. they’ve never been upstaged and it turns out they dont like bein upstaged. so they try again. and again. and again. it never works. the Guy always finds a way to Not Notice and escape any harm. even if they dig a simple hole to trap him like team rocket does he ends up walking right over it like it’s solid ground while on a call with a friend.

what he DOES notice, however, is how often he seems to see the two entities-disguised-as-humans (they tend to stick to one specific human form), to the point where he even considers them somewhat friends. when he ends up seeing and cheerfully greeting them when they’re coming up with the Next Big Trap that’ll surely torture+kill him (spoiler alert: doesn’t work) they smile politely while on the inside they’re absolutely FUMING.

bonus: the frame at which the story is told is from the perspective of ANOTHER cosmic horror entity who generally leaves humanity alone but is extremely interested in the antics of the Guy and his eldritch stalkers. the narration is the equivalent of amused sports commentary.

[jaythelay]

If I kept doing LC content, I'd probably pull another Comic Dubbing situation, where nobody made high quality content until I did, and then it became the norm seemingly only after I stopped.

Because wow. I haven't found anyone who edits as hard as I did for my LC videos yet, mostly seeing just...honestly boring or uninspired clips with friendgroups that sound...dead.

But I imagine, once one creator with the passion and drive sees my content they'll be like me, and go "I can do that. Shit I can do that better than them!"

And I look forward to it as I have with undertale comic dubs.

Because before UT comic dubs, all videos doing dubs were intensively lazy. still ass PNGs with dollar store mics, reading dialogue in their normal ass voices, not a hint of editing or energy or passion. I made some slick edits and suddenly everyone was aswell. Good shit. Like seeing mediums grow, especially when I was but one of the losers at the forefront essentially giving guides with my amateur editing of the time that people could easily replicate.

To this day I still think anyone who watches one of my UT dubs could replicate them better than me, and when I get sad that perhaps that inspiration didn't hit, that maybe the artistic foundation I laid wasn't utilized, I'll get a comment, go to one of the videos, and see in the reccomended that while I moved on, so many talented creators took up that space and surpassed me. I won't know who was inspired, but I can see the rise of quality since, and say, hey man, I think I helped that growth, and as an artist, that's all I really want from my creations.

Foundations for others to build off of. One day a creator will see it, and recognize the sheer potential within them by recognizing my own flaws, knowing how I did things, and wanting to surpass them.

[xcziel]

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[in-sightjournal]

Ask A Genius 993: Project 2025

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[miraclemaya]

ive been writing a worm/scp fic about taylor making art for some reason. i dont really know why but okay.

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

AU where Jason comes back to Gotham and begins his plan to confront Batman and all that. Except after only like a week the Joker gets hit by a bus and then shot by a little old lady with a shotgun and dies.

Jason’s plan is now in shambles because the dramatic climax of his plan is no longer possible. But that’s fine. He’ll think of some other suitable alternative. Granted, it’s not quite the same if he uses some other villain. Making Batman choose doesn’t mean nearly as much when it’s not about the person who killed him.

And really, is he going to try and get Batman to kill Black Mask or something? Scarecrow? Red Hood is competent; he could do it himself so why bother.

So Jason lays low continues to build his criminal empire with astounding speed and efficiency. If only he could think of a good way to announce his return. Nothing he can think of is dramatic enough.

Meanwhile, the Bats are freaking out because who is this guy that’s taken over half of the Gotham underworld in like a month? He’s obviously trained, but they just can’t seem to get any information on who he is or where he came from. It is beyond frustrating.

After a few months Jason is frustrated that he just can’t seem to find any dramatic good way of making Batman prove himself. It has to be something big! Something magnificent!

During his weekly chat with Talia he complains about his problems and she suggests he come back for a visit. He argues that he can’t just leave, but she says if he has competent enough lieutenants it’d be fine. He spends the next three weeks making sure that everything will be fine if he leaves for a week. He will not have all of his hard work falling apart and going to waste due to incompetence. Absolutely not.

So then once his lieutenants are sufficiently prepared (and the rest of Gotham’s criminal element sufficiently cowed), he heads to Nanda Parbat, only to find Ra’s on the phone with Bruce, who is demanding to know if the Red Hood has any affiliation with the league.

Oh. Oh. He can give them affiliation.

A new plan begins to form.

He’s going to be the most affiliated he can be. Jason immediately goes to Talia with his newest plan: Overthrow Ra’s and takeover the league. Talia whips out her forty step outline for overthrowing Ra’s and tells Jason she’s so proud of him.

Jason has a new goal now, so he gets to work. He checks on things in Gotham, but everything seems to be fine and there haven’t been any unplanned explosions so it should be fine if he stays here for a bit.

Taking over Gotham really was good practice, as it turns out. Thanks to Talia’s plans and previous foundational efforts the takeover happens in no time.

Meanwhile the bats are still freaking out. Red Hood hasn’t been seen in three weeks, he may or may not have league of assassins connections, and even in his absence his goons seem to be managing things competently.

Back in Nanda Parbat, Jason and Talia finish their takeover. And now, finally, he’s ready to confront Batman.

He arrives in Gotham as the new head of the league. His arrival is loud, elaborate, and dramatic enough to fulfill his inner theater kid’s dreams.

Batman is speechless. And not his usual grunts instead of words, but actual surprised speechless. Jason is alive?!?!?!?

Jason was not expecting all the tears. And hugs. And mother henning. Goodness gracious, this was not part of the plan.

Bruce is obviously struggling with Jason’s revelation that he took over the league, but the newest little birdie seems almost relieved at that(?) and Dick and Alfred both seem strangely proud. Whatever. Even Bruce seems to be at least mostly ignoring that for now.

Then someone asks him if he knows Red Hood. Jason blinks. Says that yeah, he knows Red Hood. Everyone seems to ease at that. One mystery solved. Jason quickly realizes that most of them have no idea he is Red Hood. Cass seems to be the only exception but also appears amused and willing enough to not mention it.

Dramatic appearance complete, Jason now has a new goal: see how long he can keep the bats (minus Cass and potentially Alfred) in the dark about his crime boss identity.

He will bribe Cass as much as it takes to keep her on board with the causing chaos plan, but she seems eager enough. Favorite sibling status definitely unlocked. (The whole killing thing is fought over at great length and a truce of sorts is eventually made)

David Cain is never heard from again.

Damian shows up at some point.

At least one league member has suddenly found themselves as an HR rep for Gotham criminals? They’re still not quite sure how that happened.