#crit anon 2

[autism-alley]

LETS GO!!!!!!

also means y’all are free to criticize the show w/o fear of show cancelation (however real that threat ever rly was lmao) cheers to my hopes of shit getting fixed s2

[quietwingsinthesky]

theres one that says sam was creepy for waiting outside that terrified, traumatized girls house in hookman and then making out with her minutes later, which, okay, point taken. but i think thats more of a case of the writers leaning into the whole damsels in distress, women want a shining knight to save them & then fuck them after they just lived through insane trauma - cliché

…Okay, see, out of context and if you present it like that, I can see how that seems negative, but I’m replaying that moment in my head and it’s like:

Waiting outside her house? Yeah, that’s his damn job, he and Dean do this countless times over the course of the show. In s1, I can remember them staking out that one woman’s house to wait for Azazel to show up to give her baby blood. At a certain point, we can’t judge him or Dean for doing things that are expected of them in the genre of show they’re in (Supernatural is a cop show with monsters -> Cop shows have stakeouts.) (At that point, you’d have to start saying stuff like “well, they carry guns around all the time, and that’s bad because they might shoot someone,” or, “why do they keep doing torture on the torture-interrogation show.”)

The making out with her bit does seem iffy out of context, but then you watch the episode, and the girl is the one who goes outside and initiates it. Sam is the one to break off the kiss because he’s still mourning Jess. So? What? Was he supposed to use his psychic powers to dodge her lips?

And yeah, like you said, a helping of misogyny to smooth it along, but it’s not like both boys getting kisses for saving the day is an uncommon occurrence.

[welcometomymaddness]

Helluva boss S2E6 thoughts of a rando w spoilers obvi

guess who finally learnt about cuts mfs

So fire-traumatised Fizz x fire-true form Oz?

The ways I can see it, from my least liked to most:

Fizz doesn’t know Oz’s true form; Oz has gone to great lengths to hide it knowing Fizz’s backstory.

Fizz knows of Oz’s true form and Oz tries to keep himself in check around Fizz.

Fizz knows of Oz’s true form; though initially afraid, both have worked so that Fizz is comfortable around Oz regardless of form though Oz does still control himself.

Also, is each sin gonna have a specific animation thing? Bee got lava lamp, Oz got fire (more than others have). I’m not a creative, I haven’t a clue what the others’d be.

Number 3! Dog with no back legs reminded me of my dead girl! It nice! Though cynic in me is saying that one is also albino just so it’s noticeable to the audience. Have some faith in us, Spindle! You could also put focus on it in other ways — hell it has more focus put on it when it’s the last one eating the guy on the catwalk & the one leading the pack.

(It’s also the first one shown via eyes). Emphasis is put on this one a whole bunch. I get that it has prostheses like Fizz. We will notice that without the metaphorical or whatever word is accurate here arrows going “do you get it??”. The dog is also predominantly white with red if that’s intentional to link them even more. In that case make that critter have more of an impact on Fizz than just another one of his pets. Show him hugging it at the end of the ep instead of the pets just all disappearing once Fizz is kidnapped (and saying they’re fine in the subtitles; if it’s important info you want to say you say it in the ruddy ep. I, who was excited to properly watch an ep first time through, opted to turn off way before because the jokes being put there weren’t landing for me).

Oh ah thing! Small change to the apology I’m choosing to believe was done by mistake. Blitzo says something like “I lost something too”. If this is meant to be a genuine apology, rephrase to something like “I focused on different priorities”. It’s still an explanation that keeps him talking about his actions and his responsibility. That’s what an actual apology is about.

Aight aight final thing, what’s up with the “supremacist” comment? I haven’t rewatched stuff in a while and I’m not the best analyst but Striker always seemed to be more “take the royals down a peg or ten” than “imps are better than everyone else and should rule instead of the current royals”. Yeah he had a whole “we [Striker & Blitzo] are better than other imps” thing. But that’s 2 individuals he says are better than other imps. One is him. And one is the person who was in his way (genuine sentiment used or not, you can’t really deny this bit). He’s self-aggrandising, not a supremacist. “Words have meaning” kind of thing, especially such a loaded one.

[wolfofcelestia]

I really hope this doesn’t bother you, but can you give some tips on choosing protocores and upgrading them? (If you don’t want to answer please don’t feel like you have to, some people get pissed when others ask about protocores for some reason). I’m a Zayne main who joined around late June so my knowledge on protocores are pretty weak; I just put random ones and hope they work. But since I’m advancing more on this game, I want to get serious about the combat. I know how to get them, but I never know which attribute to focus on with the protocores and I struggle to upgrade them and what to upgrade them with so I’m a complete noob at this.

??? I’m sorry if someone got mad at you for asking. This really isn’t a question to get mad about?? It’s totally fine, anon

I’m writing this as a Zayne main who isn’t a whale, so most of my limited 5* cards are not ranked up (with dupes) at all, and most of my stamina comes from free sources. But with the cores I focus on, I’ve gotten to stage 120 on open orbit, stage 140 on Zayne’s orbit, and I get around 25-32 stars in the senior hunter contest (depending on if they have a blue/red stage)

Other people have their own strategies but this is mine, so feel free to experiment with what works for you

First, I want to share a tip about farming for cores because this was implemented fairly recently and it really makes upgrading cores easier

When you're mass farm cores, you'll get a list and from here, you can mark them as trash for upgrade fodder (red circle) or you can lock them so you won't accidentally trash the good ones (blue circle)

When you mark them as trash, they will show up at the top of your list when you go to upgrade your cores, so this is really handy

As for which stat you should prioritize, this varies from person to person. But from my experiences with other games, I prioritize stable attack strength over crit, which can be unpredictable. Even when you build a crit team, it scales from your attack strength, so you'll still need a solid attack to build off of

Each core has a main stat that gets stronger with every upgrade level and four sub stats, one of which randomly upgrades every 3 levels

Since you're fighting against the clock, you'll want to only pay attention to what gives you more offensive power. That means, if I see a core that has a main stat of HP or Defense, it goes into the trash immediately. You don't want to waste your resources on these since you'll get HP and DEF as sub stats on cores that aren't completely offensive anyway

That being said, two types of cores have fixed main stats. The diamonds will always have an HP main stat and the spiky ball will always have an ATK main stat. You can't do anything about these, but you can still look for the offensive stats that you want

My priority list is as follows:

Attack + Attack Bonus

Crit Rate + Crit DMG

DMG Boost to Weakened

Situational offensive stats that change depending on your companion/enemy, like Expedited Energy and Oath Recovery, etc

Ideally, I'd want both ATK and ATK Bonus on the same core. The same could be said with Crit Rate and Crit DMG

While building up my base ATK, look for ATK on main and both ATK and ATK Bonus in their sub stats. If it also has a Crit stat, that's an extra bonus. It's a further bonus if it has DMG Boost to Weakened

Once I have a good base ATK, I look for cores that have either Crit Rate and Crit DMG as their main stats. Depending on how many Crit sub stats you already have, you might not need very many Crit cores

Example:

Right now, I'm running 2 Crit Rate cores and 1 Crit DMG core for my Zayne 140 team. The rest of the cores I'm using have ATK main stats (except for the diamond cores). I'm ALMOST able to kill the boss and the reason why I can't kill it is because my critical hits aren't occurring often enough To fix this, I'm planning on replacing one of my ATK cores with a Crit Rate core, so that I'm running 3 Crit Rate cores on this team So right now, all my stamina goes into farming for a core with a Crit Rate main stat, but I also want to make sure it has ATK stats so my base ATK won't take too much of a hit.

Once you know what your priorities are and what kind of stats you need, you need to figure out which ones to use as fodder

I'm not gonna lie, this is the worst part of cores unless you really like numbers

My method is basically just pick your best ones, equip them to your team, and go through all your cores one by one. It's easier when you go by category and colour (on this page below) so you can test how your stats change when you equip them

Once you've identified your strongest cores, make a mental note of its stats. So when you farm for more cores, you will know if the new ones are better or worse than the ones you already have, and you can mark them as trash or lock them to keep them

I like to save the ones that already have 3/4 of its sub stats so you can already see its potential. But if a core has a sub stat of like ATK 100 and still hasn't gotten all its sub stats, I'd upgrade it a few levels to see how it turns out. If it gets trash stats like HP and DEF, it immediately goes in the trash. If it gets better stats like ATK Bonus and Crit, then I got lucky and found a good core

These are examples of cores that I would give a chance to and upgrade them to level 6 or 9, depending on how much I want to gamble with these. If by level 9, they still have pretty crappy stats, I just trash them

These however, I would trash. The green core has an HP main stat and only has one offensive stat so I don't want to waste resources on that one

The red one has a fairly good ATK stat and would be good if you don't have anything better. But I know that I have red diamond cores with better ATK stats and better offensive stats, so this one doesn't cut it for the stage I'm at right now

Other than that, be sure to save your strongest ATK cores for your ATK cards so you can take advantage of its bonuses

That's all about cores I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure other people have different priorities, but this is the basis of my strategy

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

[manikas-whims]

I just started playing L&DS and I've somehow ended up on Ambigous chaos: long awaited revelry but i can't get past the chapter 9 battle, tips?

So these are some basic Tips for not just this particular stage but for any battles in the game.

the outcome of your battles depends on 3 major things:

1. Stellactrums 2. Enemy Level 3. Protocores

1. Stellactrums

Before battle, make sure to check if there's any specific Protofield Stellactrum required during the battle.

If you match the stellactrums as mentioned, they increase Damage Boost by 5% with each addition as well as the Damage Reduction. And help you to easily break an enemy's shield and defeat them.

For instance, in the above battle, its 1 Pink Stellactrum •

So make sure to use at least 1 Pink Stellactrum card on your team. (Here you can see, i have 2 pink stellactrum cards of Sylus.)

Similarly, if the battle requires 2 pink stellactrums •• then use 2 pink stellactrum cards. Or if 3 green stellactrums ••• are required then use 3 green stellactrum cards, and so on..

2. Enemy Level

Check your enemy's levels.

Ideally, all your cards should be at same level as the enemy's or higher. But if it's difficult for you to get materials for that, then at least 2 cards of same level or higher should be enough. I MOSTLY WORK WITH 2-3 CARDS OF SAME LEVEL CUZ I'M KINDA LAZY.

For this I recommend prioritising your SOLAR cards over the LUNAR cards.

As for the cards itself, spare your materials for 5✩⁠ cards, then 4✩⁠ cards. And then the 3✩⁠ ones. However, i recommend to not waste your materials on upgrading 3✩ unless you have no other options. And even then try not to upgrade a 3✩⁠ more than level 40.

3. Protocores

Even with your cards upgraded to recommended levels and your stellactrums matched, your cards won't do much without good Protocores.

So add appropriate protocores to the cards you use.

Above pic is a card I'm still building and upgrading. But i think you should attach good protocores and try enhancing them to their max levels. If you can't, then even +5 to +9 is good. (But still try to enhance them to the max slowly)

If you aren't sure which Protocores to choose, then pick them based on the Talent mentioned on the card itself. For example, if the card talent is about Attack, then try adding Protocores that increase the attack stats on it.

But i personally prioritise Crit Rate, Crit Damage as well as the Oath Strength and DMG Boost to Weakened Protocores.

Try maintaining a 1:2 ratio between crit rate and crit damage. Your crit damage should always be twice of the crit rate. Example- 100 crit rate : 200 crit dmg, 200 crit rate : 400 crit dmg, etc.

Honestly, just add protocores based on what stats you need the most. And this is something no one can teach. You'll get the idea when you play battles for a while.

Now,

you should be able to tackle any battle if you've fixed the 3 things above.

And if you're still unable to get through, then hit the AUTO EQUIP icon.

And let the game pick out your best card options for you..(notice that i still got a matching pink • stellactrum card)

If its still difficult or you just don't enjoy combat much in general, then hit the AUTO option during battles and sit back n enjoy the fight.

I'm also still very new to this game but I hope some of this helps you, anon :)

[zhongrin]

bajsbdjs hi hello it's me, the anon who was complaining about childe always finding his way into my teams, and i come bearing great news:

i finally got alhaitham!!

i slapped on all the artifacts i prefarmed for him + harbinger of dawn (bc i don't have any good 5 star sword and he needs more crit rate) and wow. just. wow.

for context, my alhaitham is stuck at lvl 70 atm with his talents barely leveled up (only his e is up to level 3 lmao while his basic is at 2) and let me tell you, the way i CACKLED when i realized that not only does he absolutely shred all the bosses/camps i've thrown him at before his dendro infusion even ends, but he also kills the wenut faster than my childe (who has r1 skyward harp, 5-8-8 talents, and honestly better artifacts) does. i am on the floor, dying of laughter and honestly i don't think childe or i could ever recover from the fact that alhaitham outdps-ed the character who carried me through every boss, abyss, and domain in just one day.

to say that childe is pissed would be an understatement.

he's livid. he watches you dote and praise your beloved new dps, al dente or whatever his name is, spoil him with enhanced artifacts blessed by yours truly - a luxury he was deprived of despite his show of devotion for you, and just overall ignores him altogether when he's right there.

the brunette seethes when the newest addition to the team glances at him at hearing your detailed comparison, and he nearly shoots his hydro arrow in reflex when the insignificant vermin's eyebrows raises - as if mocking him.

oh, he'll show you.

he'll show you that he's stronger. better.

just like how he had always proven himself countless times on your journey.

at the end of the day, you'll come back to him again. he'll make sure of that.

[cherryc1nnam0n]

Cherry's Favorites Part 2

Contains NSFW, blood, dark themes and more, just my personal favorites, many characters and topics

Start me up | Mechanic!Eddie x Fem!Reader

Wet dreams | Eddie Munson x Cheerleader!Reader

Possessive Techno

Sugar daddy!Techno

Brahms with a Nymphomaniac

Crit Hit | Virgin!Eddie x Reader

A helping hand | Steddie x Reader

Show me | Older!Eddie x Reader

Eddie ‘The Munch’ Munson

Take it | Eddie Munson

Bunny

Eddie's balls

Someone else | Fwb!Steve Harrington

Look in the mirror

Scotty Doesn’t Know | Eddie Munson x Fem!Reader

Use me | Conrad x Reader

Somebody else | Eddie’s girl x reader and stepbro!eddie x reader

Steddie threesome

Daddy Steve

Fem!Reader x Older!Tattooartist!Eddie Munson

Joseph Quinn horny blurb

Moans for a song

Consent is sexy

Final essay | Jim Hopper

Broken bed

Horndog Eddie

What you want

Eddie's glasses

Cum | Steddie

Cum fly with me | Pilot!Loki

Nasty Kurt

Eddie's boobies

Possessive Eddie

Definitely Eddie

Eddie loves teasing

Above and below

Eddie making love to you

Penthouse Eddie

Squirting for Steve

Strong boi Eddie again

Sweet cheeks

Speak up

Steve watching you get off

Girl on the moon | Corroded Coffin x Reader

This dark!Eddie ask is everything

Crush me daddy Steve

Poor Eddie

Undeniable | Older!Eddie

Cockwarming Eddie

More dark!Eddie because I love it

You and abouncer!Eddie fucking in the walk-in during a closing shift

More dark!Eddie because this anon is the best at writing this

Mhm more dark!Eddie

You guessed it, more dark!Eddie

Yes this is more dark!Eddie

Roommate rules

Angel & Devil!Steddie AU masterlist

Eddie's dirty talk

Second Chances at First Times

The kissing monster

Teasing Eddie

A visit to the Healer | Loki

Eddie dry humping reader

Withdrawal | Eddie Munson

Touch me and you lose | Eddie Munson

Thighs | Eddie Munson x Reader

Eddie is a menace

Possible fic material

Fucking Eddie

Eddie slapping you

No more shying away | Brahms Heelshire

Joseph impregnates you

Two perverts in my room | Steddie

Eddie fell asleep while eating you out, again

Don't tease Spencer

Milk | Joseph Quinn

More milk

Rendezvous | Spencer Reid

Subby Reid

Riding virging Eddie

Just a taste

His favorite girl

Gamer Eddie

Red lipstick kisses | Eddie Munson

Mama

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

i forgor if i sent this before but in Sigurd's paralogue i sent in Alcryst and out of habit* i said "Alcryst i want this man's balls obliterated" and Alcryst proceeded to luna crit Sigurd's first health bar into the shadow realm for >150 damage.

i would make a joke about the implications for Seliph's existence but unfortunately i am not a comedian so i shall leave that up to the notes

*by "out of habit" i mean in chap 5 i randomly said "Clanne i want this guy's balls obliterated" at the boss and Clanne got like a 2% crit so i just started saying "[insert unit here] i want this guy's balls obliterated" for every combat against a boss lmao

-- horror anon

HELP

[chaifootsteps]

stolas denying his mistreatment of blitz reminded me way too much of my mom and how every argument between us often ends. i’d try to open up about something she did that either made me sad or uncomfortable, hell maybe it even traumatized me and in the moment i can’t bring myself to hide how upset i am but she’d always twist the conversation to be about her, her, her. started noticing how stolas always ends up crying, she does the same. and the fact stolas is portrayed to be in the right. didnt even know birdman later got with a incubus because i just closed my laptop and decided to go for a walk at fuckin 2am legit dont think i can finish this show ill just check up on this account for updates and crit

Hope your 2 AM walk helped, Anon. I'm sorry you had to deal with that, and honestly, good on you for tapping out. None of us knows how this show is going to end, but I can pretty much guarantee you you're not missing a thing.

[sillylilyposting]

To answer that weird ass anon: People will focus more on Lily’s media takes because it’s generally way more comfortable and easy to show people Lily orchard is a manipulative lying abuser through her opinions (on literally anything, not just media) vs having to show people that same thing through years of triggering, scattered evidence that will put huge amounts of mental strain on about anyone. That and She literally interweaves references and self reports of her actual crimes and personal life into said media takes, it doesn’t take a genius to start noticing that pattern.

And anon, people can literally care about both. You can shit on both her opinions and her actions. In fact I’m pretty sure the entirety of the “Lorch crit community” knows and talks about her real life crimes alongside whatever take-of-the-week she shits out.

^ this is about the idea the idea of someone being able to do 2 things is baffling to a lot of people

"Lorch crit community" will never not be funny to me

Still waiting on the source of the Courtney saying people should stop focusing on Lily's media takes btw

[harlequinoccult]

DnD anon here, I am back again with the subclass for Overdose this time, this one felt the most mechanically interesting to make since I knew I wanted to have this subclass change the fighter's existing abilities to match with OD rather than just throw completely new stuff in, even if I did do some of that, anyways without further ado -----------

Reveler Martial Archetype Some people learn how to fight for honor, for revenge, for money or power…… Not these Fighters, they want Drugs, Alcohol, Partying and Violence, So throw back drinks until you're blind, get high as a kite and dance until you are the only one standing

3rd: Pain Tolerance You are durable, and violently resiliently, so party hard all day and night. while Unarmored you have an AC of 10 plus your Dexterity and Constitution modifier, you also gain resistance to poison and are have advantage on all rolls made in regards to resisting Drugs, Alcohol or Poison, finally you ignore the effects of the first three levels of exhaustion. at level 10 your unarmored AC becomes 13 plus Dexterity and Constitution modifiers

3rd: Overdrive Also at level three your Action Surge becomes Overdrive, when you use Action Surge your movement speed doubles, you gain two additional actions rather than one and all attacks made with the additional action granted by your action surge deal an additional 1d8 of your weapon damage type, however you take 3d6 piercing damage, this damage cannot be reduced in anyway

7th: Never Enough At level seven, your Second Wind ability becomes Never Enough, first of all you gain uses of your second wind equal to your half your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long or short rest, secondly whenever you use second wind roll on the table below, gaining the effect you rolled for 5 minute: 1d10 1: Your movement speed is doubled and your jump distance is tripled 2: You gain Resistance to the Slashing, Piercing and Bludgeon damage types 3: All melee attacks you make deal an additional 1d4 damage of your weapon's damage type 4: You gain 5 + double your constitution modifier in temporary hitpoints 5: You gain advantage on all dexterity checks and saving throws and When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail. 6: You become immune to the frightened and charmed conditions 7: when you are reduced to 0 hp you are instead recovered back hp equal to your fighter level, this effect may only happen once for the duration of this effect 8:You gain advantage on all strength checks and saving throws and when you count as one size larger when determining the weight of things your carrying capacity 9: You gain resistance to cold and fire damage type as well as well as become unaffected by extreme cold and extreme heat 10: You gain a +5 to all attack rolls If you use Never Enough again, the previous effect ends early

10th: Dance-like Footwork At level ten, dealing damage with a melee attack to an enemy prevents them from making an attack of opportunity against you until the start of your next turn, additionally once per round you can swap places with a person who makes a melee attack against you as a reaction

15th: Party Favors At level fifteen, Whenever you use your Never Enough Ability, roll twice on the table and pick which effect you want from the two results

18th: Party's Over The only thing scarier is than a Reveler having too much fun is when they stop having any fun. Once either the 6th round of combat begins or you are brought to below half health, you may enter a state of anger that lasts until the end of combat as a free action, once this happens you cannot have disadvantage on attack rolls, you crit on a 17 or above and all attacks with melee weapons deal one additional dice of damage, (For example if a weapon deals 1d8 damage it now deals 2d8 damage), once this ability is used it cannot be used again until you finish a long rest --------- And that's the subclass, Again probably needs to be balanced in some areas but I think this one came out really cool in the mechanics and flavor, I'd love to hear what you think and what OD would think!

Party Favors is unbelievably big brained. love it. tastes like fighter mixed with wild magic and i fucking love stupid ass wild magic.

and OD would get mad serotonin from doing stupidly big damage and would take any dumb ass effects in stride. would also insist that their crit fail number be higher if they beef it because it would be funny.

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

(ofmd crit)

again thinking about the differences between s1 and 2 surrounding humor and it being a comedy show. like s1 was fun, joyful, feel good comedy. s2 had not one but TWO sa jokes (hopefully only two! i don't remember any besides those). HOW do you jump so far like that. how on earth did they go from one to the other. it's actually mind boggling.

the more i think about it all, to me it really feels like s1 was just something they were all having fun with, and s2 is what happened when they got too popular and they felt like they had to make a statement and really do something to keep up the popularity from s1. does that make sense? jfc man. the difference between the seasons is just SO unfortunate for everyone involved bc they really did have such a good base.

I feel you so much, anon.

You know, right after s2 ended I was upset and I thought it was only because of what happened to Izzy.

But the truth is, the more I thought about it, the more holes I could poke in the new season. And I didn't like that. I suppose the writers just lost the plot? Because the cast is amazing, and they deserved so much amazing material. And while yeah, there were moments that were great this season, it definitely didn't feel like the same show it was in s1. That one felt consistently amazing. And personally, I think of it in two ways.

On one hand we were given some frame of reference in s1, and doing things differently in s2 could be disorienting for someone who's tuning in for the new season after loving the first.

But that isn't necessarily bad! Hell, the first two episodes of s2 were incredibly dark, but I was with it! I would've loved it so much if they explored the darker themes more, really put their pussies in it like they did at the beginning of the season.

And yeah, you're right about the SA jokes. It's... distasteful of DJenkins to "okay" the insertion of those in s2 and then turning around and calling the show "kind". That's. That's not kind, my guy. In what world is it kind?

Anyways I still have *many* opinions about this show, so if you'd like to anon, I'd be happy to share my thoughts some more.

Thank you for the ask <3

[truculentbitch]

most crit blogs operate on facts 🤷

i get what you’re saying and it’s valid not to want to talk about dregirls, idc about that specifically. i’m not trying to argue, and definitely not trying to argue for people to talk about dregirls. i just don’t think it make sense to say this when a huge majority of conversations on crit involve speculation and theories about dteam, and whatever they’re doing or whoever they’re talking to. i don’t get how sylnap speculation (before it was confirmed obv) is different from dregirl speculation if they’re both based on things that have factually happened and interactions we’ve seen. or even dnf speculation. most blogs have discussed one of those things, and none of those relationships are factually, objectively real (again besides sylnap now), so what’s the limit? i don’t think talking about dregirls equates to not operating on facts if dnf speculation, previous sylnap speculation, toosh speculation, snf speculation, and every other unconfirmed relationship isn’t also categorized as that.

even outside of relationship speculation, so many topics and conversations on crit involve things that aren’t necessarily confirmed as 100% factually true, theories, speculation, inferences, and the like. why is this one topic different, and a testament to a blog’s validity and character? i personally think it’s all the personal preferences of blogs, which is all fine and fair.

i’m just clarifying again that i don’t care about dregirl talk at all, i don’t care for the conversations, this is just about your response and what it implies. i’m genuinely wondering how that correlation can be made for one single topic of discussion. it’s being depicted as an invalid topic for critblr, of all places. no one mentioned dregirls or tried to talk about them in your inbox anyway, at least in those asks. who cares?

apart from everything else and whatever else i say i want to make it clear that none of this is a testament to anyone's, blog or anon, validity or character. that's not at all what i'm saying - i've never said that.

if you're wondering about where the line is between baseless speculation and extrapolation on actual facts? it's complicated.

if we take sylvnap as an example: there's been speculation for a long time based on their behaviour on early streams and certain things they would say about each other. being sure of their /r rlship based on that would be drawing a long bow and would be less welcome on crit, even after years of it, bc there's no solid proof of anything, just interpretations of the 1% of their interactions that we see publicly. from ~18m ago we had actual proof of the closeness of their rlship through certain leaks, certain ways that their lives were (officially, bureaucratically) intertwined in a way that typically only occurs with couples. then a lil while ago we had proof - the wedding invite - that could be talked about more publicly.

previous to any solid proof there were arguments about what that 1% of interactions meant - were they in love? were they fwb? was sapnap being mean to her on purpose on her bday stream to avoid speculation or bc he really didn't care about her or was this just their rlship dynamic and was it /r or /p? all of that is impossible to know from the tiny, tiny, miniscule look we have at their interactions but we could argue it forever bc each of us has a whole 99% to fill in. we could be here til kingdom come arguing about it bc we're basing shit on fucking nothing.

that gets tiring and really fucking boring so you're gonna find that ppl who've been in the space for longer aren't interested in it. think about all the possible situations and interactions and happenings that it's possible to do this same shit to. think about how tiring that is to be constantly squirrelling into every single little thing when that thing has nothing provable behind it. some things blow over quick - eg the 2-3wks where every anon and 1/2 the blogs were convinced dream was fucking yasmina - and some take longer. some end up true and some don't. but nothing's ever been proved true by baseless gossip so i don't care to engage with it.

i'm not saying the theories speculated about are wrong; i'm saying that until there's something solid behind it, it's the same as any other unsubstantiated rumour or gossip and that's nothing to me.

i'm not interested in talking for hours about what a certain word used on socmed means about a potential rlship etc when the end result is just ppl solidifying their opinion of a stranger based on possible scenarios they've imagined. it's nonsense.

in the same vein, i think speculating about dteam rlships based on the small amount of shit we see is foolish. i'm not interested in discussing whether snf hate dream bc they go to eat cookies without him or whether dnf don't care about sap bc neither went on a flight with him to la. that's stupid to me. acting like we know any of these ppl and then arrogantly discoursing about their behaviour and lives and characters bc we see maybe 3% of their lives rather than the 1% that regular fans see is fucking stupid, pompous, and completely reductive.

if you're asking who cares about dregirls? a whole bunch of ppl and it's ridiculous to deny that. it's ridiculous to deny that any discussion of 'dregirls' doesn't end up being extremely negative towards dream and the women involved. there's no denying the way women end up dehumanised and dream ends up demonised in every single one of these conversations on crit. not by everyone ofc but it always happens. it leads to claims of dream and any woman being at turns predatory and manipulative or pathetic and foolish. it happens every single fucking time and some of us have been around long enough to not want to even start down that path.

[walpu]

ADESINA, DREAMS OF A DOOMED PLANET (1/4 - Combat Skills) 5* Quantum Destruction

(Basic Attack) Single Target Rusty Metal Desert: Deals Quantum DMG equal to 50%-110% of Adesina’s ATK to a single enemy.

(Basic Attack) Blast Cradle of a Doomed Civilization: Deals Quantum DMG equal to 135%-286% of Adesina’s ATK to a single enemy, and Quantum DMG equal to 90%-140% of Adesina’s ATK to adjacent enemies.

(Skill) Enhance Abandoned Towers: Adesina gains Adherent Macropod for 3 rounds, which will consume 3% of Adesina’s current HP, in exchange for increasing her Attack by 15%-23% whenever she attacks, this effect can be stacked a maximum of 5 times per round. Once the Adherent Macropod dissipates, Adesina gains Putrefaction, consuming 10% of her current HP and gaining 10%-35% RES to 3 random types for 3 turns. This effect can’t reduce Adesina’s HP to lower than 1. Simultaneously, gains Beetle Teeths for 3 rounds, which will high up the chances of Adesina being attacked by enemies. While this debuff is active, whenever Adesina is attacked by an enemy she will mitigate and store 50%-89% of the Damage Dealt, once she stores damage 3 times she will launch a follow-up attack dealing Quantum DMG equal to 500% of the amount of Damage stored. 

(Ultimate) AoE Hell Planet, Dead Planet: Deals Quantum DMG equal to 199%-388% of Adesina’s ATK to all enemies, plus 18.8%-30.1% of Quantum DMG for each debuff applied in Adesina. All debuffs will be removed after she uses the Ultimate. After she uses the Ultimate, she will gain Defective Brain Matter that increases her Speed by 50-100 and her attack by 30% for 2 rounds. Her DEF is decreased by 5% whenever she takes an action.  Gain 14%-45% Break Effect for each ally that is alive, and 14%-45% PEN for each ally that is down while Defective Brain Matter is active. This effect counts as debuff.

(Talent) Enhance Nest-Filled Caves: Increases Adesina’s CRIT Rate by 7.7%-17.1%, and CRIT DMG by 8.9%-21.8% for each debuff applied to her. Whenever she accumulates 3 debuffs, enhances her Basic Attack to Cradle of a Doomed Civilization. The ability will stay charged until used, even if the debuffs are lost. Cradle of a Doomed Civilization can be acquired multiple times, up to a max of 3 times, allowing it to be used more than once in a row. Adesina is immune to crowd control debuffs.

(Technique) Enhance Worthless Palace: After using technique, creates a dimension that lasts for 25 seconds around the character. Enemies within this Dimension will be inflicted with Shared Trauma, disabling them to attack Adesina. After entering the battle while the dimension is still active Adesina will gain Entomophobia, which has a chance to make Adesina to select the wrong enemy against targets, but increases damage taken by the attacked enemy unit by 30%. Entomophobia lasts 2 turns. 🌺 anon

WOUL PULL FOR HER

[hislittleraincloud]

Surprised Jenna - like many other Latino/Latina people with influence have already - hasn’t come out to endorsement Kamala after Tr*mp and his supporters made that Puerto Rico garbage comment

HEY.

SHE'S 22 YEARS OLD. AND SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO SHIT. YOU CARE MORE THAT SHE DOESN'T FIT YOUR PERCEPTION OF A YOUNG WOMAN WITH A POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON HER FANS WHO DOESN'T "USE" THAT POWER. LEAVE THE GIRL ALONE AND STOP INSULTING HER INTELLIGENCE, INTEGRITY, AND TAKE ON THE WORLD. YES, SHE IS A CELEBRITY BUT SHE DOESN'T OWE ANYTHING TO ANYONE.

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Yes, m'dear.

I expressed the same sentiment of yours that earned me the ire of the shitbird anon I just quoted verbatim a few days ago.

I hope that everyone remembers how silent Ortega is being on this, especially when she's made a big shit about "wanting to be the Puerto Rican Dakota Fanning" (even mentioning this in newer interviews, still), whining about not having/seeing representation, etc. My critics here hate seeing me crit her up, but she's the one who puts herself and some of her views sparingly out there; but this Puerto Rico thing is just as big as the insults that happened in 2017 after Hurricane Maria (the paper towels, the lack of response from that POS orange fuckface). That ugly ass diaper wearing motherfucking imbecilic rapist from Hell wanted to trade it for Greenland. Our baby girl here was only 15 then, but she is now old enough to fucking put her platform where her mouth is (yeah, as the days have gone by, my anger about it has only risen, especially since we're even closer to Tuesday).

I'm not Puerto Rican, but I am Mexican and Spanish on my father's side. I'm a full on burrito with extra rice (my mother is Southeast Asian)

If I were famous and had a platform like she does, I'd have been begging my fans to vote blue since Day 1, because 1) we know Trump hates us brown people to begin with and has been saying horrific things since the 2016 campaign and 2) Project 2025 is terrifying and facets of it are already cutting into our lives and making a huge mess of it for women, trans people, and people of color. I mean for fuck's sake, Tennessee (our Jairo's home state 💕💔) ratified a law earlier this year that brings back Jim Crow era-like anti-miscegenation discrimination regarding marriage (it was targeted towards 🏳️‍🌈 marriages, but if an officiant objects to solemnizing the marriage of a mixed race couple, they're legally allowed to do that per the law...even Jon and Cairo [if they were real] wouldn't be able to marry if the officiant objected to Jon marrying an obviously not white Cairo). It's exactly what the Heritage Foundation wanted, and it's only going to get worse if the orange fuckface is let back in.

As usual I digress, but this shit is serious.

Anyway, all of the most famous contemporary Puerto Ricans have spoken up about the floating island of garbage and the whole "Latinos love making babies"/have no pullout game (which yanno, Ortega should really be on top of too, it was a DOUBLE insult to her and her family), but she's ✨busy✨. Too busy to stand up for her mother's peoples, but not too busy to make TikToks with Thing. Fuck that, and y'all should keep it in mind the next time she does say shit about politics.

But here's a celebrity who has (another Puerto Rican who has a massive, massive number of 🏳️‍🌈 wlw fans, even though she too is into guys and married), and I love her for it:

"Oh, but Tor, that wasn't an endorsement!" — Okay babies, 4 years ago vs. now

Bonus "Like" from Johnna Dias-Watson that Imma take for soft endorsement, so even freaking Divina has a tiny voice here...and she's queer. 💕 🏳️‍🌈💖✨

Once more, if Ortega finally does come out for Kamala, I will issue corrections and apologies, but it's almost too fucking late — the election is only five fucking days away — and it'll likely be too little. There are already a good handful of kids her age who think that it's okay to either vote 3rd party* or sit it out, spouting rhetoric that is well-observed and intended but impractical.

*Psst: No, it's not okay to vote 3rd party in our solidly 2 party system in our general election. The last two times a crapload of people voted 3rd party, it gave us Bush & the Iraq War and Trump & his maelstrom of domestic destruction. Republicans adore 3rd party candidates for the general election because they fucking know the kind of people who will choose them are mostly sanctimonious, ignorant and/or unhinged leftists whose votes would otherwise be unfavorable to them. Cut the shit and get serious if you're one of those 'but Republicans and Democrats are the same!' crap à la Chappell Roan (the elder Gen Z whose attitude about our politics is influencing other Zs). They are not the fucking same. Just looking at the SCOTUS picks should tell you that it's fucking laughable every time someone says this. Democrats are also not the ones who are passing misogynistic anti-abortion and phobic anti-🏳️‍🌈 and anti-🏳️‍⚧️ laws that affect everyone at their state level. Do your due diligence AND your civic duty towards your fellows and pick the one who isn't intent on destroying anyone who isn't a white (male) Christian nationalist.

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

I really wanna start an anti catradora blog since there are so few but idk where to start, can you please give me some tips?

Well! First of, I'm very excited that this side of fandom will be getting another participant, and second of all, I'm very flattered that this question is going to me! I'm always happy to give some support xoxo!

All of my tips are going to be from personal experience both from my time generally engaging with fandom, and running this particular blog.

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1 ) Try to be polite.

Yes, you will get people who disagree with you. The very existence of anti-fandom implies that we are not the norm. The majority of our main fandom already disagrees with us. And they might be assholes about it. Don't tolerate rudeness, but also, try not to feed into it, either. Not only is it terrible for mental health as the blogger, but it perpetuates this idea that the blogger in question reacts to negative attention. Which, if you've been on the Internet long enough, you know very well how quickly negativity breeds if it's allowed. Positivity breeds too, so I think it's in anyone's best interest to simply... Not be an asshole. Even if it means being the bigger person for a moment.

2 ) Pick and choose your battles.

"Battles" is a melodramatic way to put it, but I'm only using it because it's a well known saying. Anyway, this part is from the first part. So... the thing about being "the bigger person" is that... it doesn't always happen. I definitely don't let everything go by me without snapping at it sometimes. Well, I just think it's funny. I used to think it was way funnier in the past, too. Sometimes anon hate/fandom takes are really stupid and it's hilarious to share. But if it's not funny, insightful, or you simply don't want to engage... Don't engage.

3 ) Connect!

Anti-fandom is still fandom, and I personally treat it as such! There's still art to enjoy, stories to read, discussions to be shared. Community is not necessary, but when I was first putting out anti-c//a posts it really helped me to know that there were people that like, didn't think I was insane for pointing out things that bothered me! Especially since my choice in writing anti-c//a/crit fics is not an easy medium and well, to be honest, sort of requires that I know someone out there enjoys the fruit of my labor.

Yes, spop antis are limited, but go say 'hi' to the people that are open to engagement! We're mostly pretty friendly, and in my opinion, open-minded.

4 ) You are required to have an "on the nose" blog name.

NO, okay, I'm being totally facetious! Obviously, name the blog whatever you want, I just laugh when I see a new anti blog and it's something like "catra-needs-jail-time" or "catradora-is-dogshit". They're a handful of bloggers like that, if you want more to follow (the two I just named are jokes... As far as I know).

The real advice to be clear that your blog is anti-catradora/critical; or whatever other stances you'll talk about often. Nothing personal if that's not what you want, but make it easily found that you're not open to certain things, or you are open to certain things. I.e. I think that C//a are pretty obviously adopted sisters canon, and that point is very purposefully the first post on my blog (has been for two years), so no one is surprised when I start ranting about sister!c//a in particular.

5 ) It is never, EVER that deep.

Part of anti/crit blogging is that there's salt involved. Ranting, sharing things that frustrate us, being annoyed with canon... But also, it's really not that deep.

If I would have got this question two years before, I would have not added this part. But yeah, no. Part of why I run this blog still is because I know it's simply not that serious... People will steadily find my blog and the others in this community, and they will come around to their own conclusions on their own time. There is no trying to convince someone else on a POV that they simply don't want to see. There is no war against anti fandom and main fandom (though, some will have you believe otherwise).

The bloggers that are still active and open about unpopular opinions in 2023 are not people that stress themselves out or respond to every braindead take, they're not people who get attacked/overwhelmed by stans very often, they're not rude, they're not close-minded-- actually, I would go as far as to say that they're extremely fucking chill about this hobby. Passionate and dedicated, but self aware and self-respecting of mental capital/health.

And so, that'd have to be my last piece of advice.. Chill. It's just not that deep. And if it ever becomes "deep"... take a million steps back, and give yourself that space to recuperate. Your mental state is infinitely more important than an anti-blog, and no one will judge you for taking breaks or anything as you'll need them.

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