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[vaewy]

❀ Korilakkuma Crit Damage ❀

✧ Changes the mount crit splash art behind the numbers to Korilakkuma. ✧ Removed the splash for normal and noctenium crit ✧ Healing crit is Rilakkuma (He's full green due to the green they hardcoded onto that I'm sorry T-T ) ✩ Download ☾

[undead-knick-knack]

When you're the only woman in a stable relationship

[seasononesam]

trigger warning dean girl post but while I get that it's frustrating when people act like sam had a perfect or even good childhood (he didn't) I also think it's okay if people give dean some credit for trying to make it better 😭 like no one is saying he was out there cooking gourmet meals, canonically it was like marshmallow mac and cheese, but like...he did try with what they were given

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ofmd fandom debating if poop jokes are ableist

[c-duceusclay]

Okay, but spirits coming back to enact revenge on the one who killed them is the EXACT SAME THING THAT HAPPENED IN FNAF

[aroaceleovaldez]

idk how you can say it’s not also mark’s fault when a lot of the issues stem from the actual writing - it didn’t feel like rick’s writing and it’s more similar to mark’s work. rick has his issues but he doesn’t write like this. plotwise and consistency issues yes that’s def rick. and it doesn’t make sense that mark apparently did research about details but didn’t say anything about the details with biana or Hypnos. both of them including the editor failed on that. Also when the preview first came out, people said was bad. that was all mark, they told us. mark also confirmed that in the least, the first 10,000 words of tsats were all him too, with minimal editing. also a lot of the complaints/negativity are just on tumblr i highly doubt publishers will look at it or that their career will be ruined lol

I'm not saying that Oshiro is blameless - I'll admit, I'm not familiar with their other work, and yeah there's definitely too much within the book all over the place that feels messy and disjointed. I'm more used to being very clearly able to pick out Rick's writing so I was definitely able to see parts that were him, but there were also some details that very much told who was writing that portion very clearly (One actually kind of interesting one is every time you see use of s's versus s' in the case of like, something belonging to [noun/pronoun ending in S], the s's is Oshiro and s' is Rick, because throughout the entirety of the Riordanverse, Rick always uses s' and this book is the first time we see s's as well.). And there are absolutely plenty of scenes in the book that I know for a fact were written by Mark because they've explicitly said they wrote them and I do think those scenes are bad!

But I have said since the book was announced that I was very afraid people were gonna try to pin all the blame on the queer/nonbinary author just because they're new. I'm very used to Rick's writing at this point and how it's progressed, and a lot of the particular failings I noticed in TSATS are particularly consistent with recent series. I'm saying Oshiro is not the sole reason this book is bad, which is something I have had people attempt to argue to me already. I definitely don't think co-authoring this book improved it's condition much at all though. It probably did only make things worse, particularly in terms of how inconsistent everything is within it. Even if it was just Rick though I doubt we would have avoided how wildly out of character everything felt or the huge timeline changes/errors and incorrect details.

And you have entirely valid point I fully agree with as well - the editors should have totally stopped this mess WAY early on. It's honestly wild to me how little this book seems to have been run by an editorial team, because there's so many even just structurally wonky sentences or inconsistencies (again, switching s's and s' between writers) that you would normally expect to be caught and fixed very early on. It feels like the editing team didn't bother at all to catch awkward places where there is no bridging the gap between who's writing what, or do any kind of consistency checking even within details of the same sentence (Nemesis giving Nico the pomegranate seeds, and him apparently already having some?) or chapters (Will and Nico separately use the same exact simile at different times, seemingly unrelated to the other having used it), let alone multiple books. It makes me wonder if the Riordanverse has a series bible at all? That's writing a series 101.

And I agree that so many of the inconsistencies don't make sense if Oshiro did so thoroughly read through the series making notes, because then those inconsistencies should have been pointed out and corrected during the writing process. I really wish Oshiro had been able to smooth out detail inconsistencies, and given how Oshiro works as well as a sensitivity reader I would have really hoped we wouldn't have gotten stuff like the troglodytes again, or some of the general scenes that felt so viscerally bad like nobody considered any of the other implications within them.

Basically, yes, absolutely, it's everybody's fault and it's everybody's fault equally. But I have already seen people claim it was solely Mark Oshiro's fault, which it was not. It was just as equally the fault of Rick and the editing team.

[coriander-candlesticks]

I've felt like I should check in with Apollo the past few days and finally managed to clear enough space on my floor to feel alright with breaking out the tarot deck again so I did! Lit his candle, said as as formal a prayer as I could muster beforehand, asked Hermes to help with communication, the whole shebang. For further context: I've been wanting to ask Aphrodite something specific (also via tarot, it's the most grounding tool I've got) but I only have the one deck at the moment and, while I've used it to ask Hermes about things in tandem with Apollo, and Aphrodite introduced herself via it (with a card that also introduced Apollo), I wasn't sure if it would be cool for me to use it to ask her specifically something not in direct tandem with Apollo. I mentioned that in the prayer but also said that that might be a question for a different session, since trying to get an answer to that (on top of the general "hey how are we doing/do you have anything you want me to learn") might muddy my ability to understand the message.

Cue twelve cards falling out of my deck/poking out while I was shuffling. I usually pull ~3 cards on top of whatever falls out, but I ended up not feeling like it was needed. Seven of them fell out face-up, too.

Despite having some concerns about whether all of the cards were "supposed" to be pulled, it was pretty coherent! And covered quite a few things I've been thinking about recently, including sorting out anxiety vs a warning/displeasure, a follow-up of a card that was the focus of my last pull, and a reminder to look at outside/intellectual sources to combat the whatever-the-fuck-my-brain's-on. There were four cards that fell out face-up together in a pile: a card I associate with Apollo at the front and one associated with Artemis (the Moon) at the back, with cards related to unity & growth in the middle. I'd had a pretty bad experience attempting an offering to Artemis last month and have stepped back and avoided asking her for anything or specifically invoking her in prayers/offerings/etc. since (except for once when it involved a pregnant friend b/c it seemed odd and tbh a little disrespectful to ask Apollo for help and not her as well) because I took it as a sign that she didn't want me to work with her. I'm also aware, though, that that bad experience could have just been a meltdown/panic attack. Regardless of whether it was either of those two things, a "hey slow down" warning, or a combination, it was nice to have some clear reassurance & an official introduction. It's also significant, I think, that part of the Moon card's message is about not letting anxiety/"self-deception" (direct from the guide) cloud your intuition. I've been wanting to burn the candle I dedicated to her for a few days now- it's possible that was a sign from her as well.

As far as the deck-use question...the first card that fell out was the Empress (face-up, reversed). My initial thought was that it was a "no", but I decided to look at the meaning in case it wasn't that which was. probably a bad idea. It freaked me out a bit because I couldn't figure out what it was referring to. I ended up using my alphabet oracle tiles for a makeshift yes/no system after finishing with all the other cards and got clear confirmation that my instinct was, in fact, correct.

All in all it was really cool?? By far the most cards I've had in one pill iirc, and a good lesson in identifying how my intuition works.

[bhaalswn-arch]

BHAALSWN ;; ORIGINAL "DARK URGE" CHARACTER. ALKAS. HIGH HALF-ELF. ( A LAWFUL EVIL CHARACTER TURNED CHAOTIC NEUTRAL. ) ROLLED BY EMMETT. 27. GMT. ( THEY/THEM ) ( ALL SPOILERS TAGGED. ) [ study in: resentment & repression. soak in blood. suppressing dark urges. undoing what his father had designed him to be. a saviour's heart trying to overshadow the darkness. ]

Is this a twisted fantasy? Yeah, fantasy, yeah Some pleasure can be damagin', unfair to be, yeah

[zzrrbbitt]

spent some time doing extra tweaks, and now that i was finally more satisfied with pandreo, i finally was able to make my changes to panette too :)

[artsybi]

[image ID in alt text] (click for the quality that tumblr ruined)

you uh,,,, ever spend over 5 hours on fanart for a fic that you've only read 4.5 chapters of, that's based on a game you've never played? ,,,,,, just me?

anyway, read take back the fortress by @medics-secret-shipfic-folder bc holy SHIT

cmedic means. so much to me. and he's SO fun to draw. this is a bad omen for everyone >:)

(also yes. these lyrics are from "back in school" by mother mother, the line has been stuck in my head for a WEEK, and it felt applicable here.)

[evilkitten3]

i have a lot of thoughts on fandoms and treatment of female characters but i do not seem to have the words to put said thoughts into. frustrating.

[electric-plants]

me trying to figure out what team comp to bring against the polychrome tri-stars

[undead-knick-knack]

So Bells Hells met a Ruidus inhabitant

[boykingjake]

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

that one ofmd meta:

[rjalker]

aww darn it. realization.

[ID: The "Same hat" meme, of a black and white comic panel showing two people wearing the same hat, waving happily at eachother from a distance. The one closer to the camera is labled, "Tremaine", and is saying "aw fuck", the one further away is labeled "Murderbot" and is saying "damn it". End ID.]

Martha Wells' refusal to let characters be disabled includes Serious™ forms of mental illness. they're just not allowed. They will only exist for drama and then immediately get fixed.

god damn it.

hi would you all like to know one of the main plot points of The Fall of Ile-Rien? Trigger warning for mentions of suicidal ideation below the cut.

(Archived read-more link)

We are introduced to the story while our protagonist, Tremaine, is plotting out the best way to kill herself.

Because, we are led to believe, she's been traumatized by the horrific war being waged against her people. She has spent almost all her free time volunteering to pull bodies out of collapsed buildings.

But then the story progresses.

And it gets revealed that actually, she's not depressed at all, and not actually suicidal, it was all...because of magic. And now that the magical item has been removed she's no longer suicidal, because she wasn't ever actually suicidal to begin with. She's not actually mentally ill, it was literally all just magic. The trauma of the war does not impact her in any way.

And now in System Collapse we get strung along for literally 100 pages being told that something horrible happened to Murderbot off screen and then it's the most terribly written and meaningless reveal ever, and then at the end of the book we're just supposed to pretend that the problem is fucking magically solved now because uh...it knows what the word flashback is...so we're pretending this solves everything and it's not gonna be a problem anymore :|

And again with the continued lack of any permanent damage to any of the traumatic injuries these people are constantly suffering.

But yeah it looks like this clickbait bullshit """system collapse""" is gonna be just as cheap and shallow and magically cured as Tremaine wanting to kill herself.

Because writing a character who's actually depressed and traumatized and suicidal from what she's gone through would be too much effort I guess.