#iiiiiii have been fighting with the plot to have it go where i want it to and it’s thrown me off schedule

[franeridart]

The Housecat Philosophy - Ep 71

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[anestheticrage]

Be me: Japanese honor student🎓, 15, with half a brain and even less of a plan. Hunting bitches by day and witches by night. Livin that dank only child✌️ life while mom n dad yeet all over the globe, leavin me plenty of time to forget not to make 2 lunches for myself #quirky 😜

no time for socialization or basic electronics skills ???📱??? when your best friends are an alien demon rabbit🐰👽 and the inexplicable Hole ™ in your brain. lmao, btw did i mention im ✨M✨A✨G✨I✨C✨A✨L✨

dreamin bout my 2D waifus again when familiar pink haired cancer patient dances through my brain passin out fliers: Kamihama Meguca Dating Service: Sponsored by Cult of the Magius. 250 stones per session 🤔

seems legit, Mr. Moneybags. wasn't spending my unwieldy sack of gemstones on anything else anyway. lets pull 💎💎💎

first up we have Redhead Radagast and her plethora of plants. 🌿☺️🦎

anndd, nearly dies immediately. 

well not off to a great start but i guess shes pretty cute at lea- oh FUCK its her girlfriend, Tsundere Poseidon😒🔱💦, and their exasperated, straight and single Sword Mom 😔🗡️🔥. fml gonna have to save up for the next pull. might as well play a few rounds with what i got tho. 

get in some good girl talk about things like school, color coded hair styles, body count, permanent soul damage, and our personal demon pacts. ya know, the usual 😚 . realize my dark backstory seems to be missing, so the girls take me to Ketchup Queen Sappho 🍅🥧 (wtf?) to molest my glowy egg stone. whatevs, more action than ive had since Kuroe 🖤 got added to the story anyway

the gang agrees it's time to hunt down the cutest rabbit pimp 🕶️🐇💵 in the city. >> say 🎵mukyuuu🎵 one more time and ill hug you so hard my backstory will pop right out, you adorable fluffy bastard. plz be my new best friend 💕

Form brand new friendship pact with Kyubae, and remember that my lil Sis 🐥 was always the best wingman for pickin up magic chicks, and kept her side of the room so spotless i forgot she existed. whoops 乁༼☯‿☯✿༽ㄏ Maybe if I find her i can stop paying these exorbitant pull fees.📵💎

speaking of which: hot damn this week's featured bachelorette is a 19 year old model and magical detective🔎 with massive levels of PTSD and self loathing 🥵💙💦 more likely to stab you or dramatically jump off a rooftoop than utter a single positive comment. wow, maybe i really COULD find true love…

... if i had MORE THAN A 1% FUCKING DRAW CHANCE. 😡 smh

hard to make much progress finding sis or winning the broken heart of a hard boiled detective amidst the never ending lover's quarrel of the Trident Vine Lesbians. 💔 Sword Mom tells them if they don't behave a monster will take them away. LOL classic mom 🤣

>>>HOLY FUCK IT DID

declare all-out war on urban legends, starting with staircases ⚔️ to reunite the dysfunctional trio, and hope that I net a way better lineup with the next 10x pull. at least sad sleuth lady came to help out. they say combat is the best way to bond wi-   and there she goes off the rooftop again 🙄 fml

alright that got way off track, we need a fresh start, away from all the loli drama. how bout a little B&E🔓🔨🤷🏻‍♀️ at the local house of worship to clear my head. ahh nothing like the unanswered prayers of the masses to get you in the mood for another wasted pull, and the 🔥 MIGHTIEST 🔥 headache you could ask for with a side of Double Cooked Pork 🐖🍜 (meh 5/10🧾)

venture forth into the spiritual unknown with your new human flamethrower🔥🌻🧡 and ask your favorite private eye to please, for the love of Eve, trade Meguca accounts with me~~~ Head through the eastern spirit portal to meet up with hologram propaganda sis and detective crush's evil ex, who joined a dating-app cult (#fuck) and also turned into the moon?🌕?(that's rough buddy)

get ambushed by Acid Horse on Wheels 🌈🐴 and vomit up my soul so hard that its time for a crossover episode. T U R F F F   W A R R R *que operatic harmonies* 💛 Blondie with the hair drills and enough attitude and guns to fill up a noble phantasm tries to ban my account permanently, but PI heartthrob denies her admin privileges. aww babe i didn't know you cared. 😭♥️

get kidnapped by my new true love and go back to her place 😏  defs enough empty rooms to house five emotionally traumatized girls and at least two ghosts hehehe👻 XD 💚🃏💜🎸 decide to form the anti-gossip brigade and recruit my blazing sunflower after getting ambushed by the witch living in my fruit loops🥣

❌outvoted 2:1 that cults are bad. mf. fiinneee one last pull to round out the team and then I'll delete the app. cmonnn Karin 🎃~

OH HELL YEAH TWO FOR ONE.

Always wanted a daughter 💜🔨🐄 with a penchant for pissing off the local Martial Arts & Books Club and drinking suspicious liquids offered by total strangers. Well if it's good enough for her AND the sexy mayadere with enough game to seduce a mermaid, might as well get in on that myself. 

#curseddrank 🤢 0/24 would not recommend to a friend, 'cept maybe Ria

win alot of cash 🤑, blow up a fountain, meet the pied piper²🎶🖕, moon cult, monochrome feathers, something about liberation✊🏻; adopt temper tantrum cow girl. aces 💜🥩

Next up!!! skydiving with DJ Hammer! Jump to apparently-not-certain death after suicidal A.I. 💚💾🗼 tells you to rescue her hostage before they run out of Radiohead albums and have to move on to Thom Yorke's solo discography. save the invisible shield kitten 💚👑😿 from happiness and get chased through the internet by the sexiest homicidal Paint Pallette 💚🎨😈 since Caravaggio. (apparently green is the color of the digital apocalypse. i’m deleting Kako from my friend's list)

that’s it, fuck this app. 250 stones 💎 per-life-threatening-experience is more than i’m willing to deal with 😓 don’t wanna mess with the perfect nuclear family anyway. we've already got: 

✔️the two emotionally traumatized moms with memory and commitment issues

✔️the adhd daughter with anger management problems and a giant hammer

✔️the psychologically abused scizophrenic cat

✔️and the eccentric aunt with crippling anxiety

#squadgoals

now that were done hoarding bitches, its time to hunt the witches. and the bitches makin the witches. btw did i mention the witches ARE the bitches! AND WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!? 📽️⁉️💀 wait fuck lets back up a second

This is Nemo📕 and Token🧪 and they have all the answers but prefer if you only ask vague questions in exchange for vague responses so they can fill in the rest by discussing their superior intellect 🧠 at length. not to mention they built that dating app, so of course everyone in my harem decides to be a FUCKING. TRAITOR.🤬

cept waifu prime ofc 🥰💙. [PTSD > brainwashing] 'yOu CaN bE tHe LeAdEr NoW'. i have been from the very beginning you traumatized Hinedere nightmare. maybe if you weren't so caught up collecting surrogate daughters you would've noticed IM👏THE👏ONLY👏 ONE👏PROGRESSING👏THE FUCKING👏PLOT✨

rescue the rest of dysfunctional found-family™ from selves before my adorable firebender burns down Disnihama🎡🔥😱 during her weekly anxiety attack. (love the makeover T B H) 

CHAPTER 8: Magical Girl Massacre🩸🗡️

   - everyone has like, the shittiest day ever

   - the new Pope really needs to be extradited from the church

   - make friends with a really pretty tree 🌺🌲✨

i swear, if i don't finish this god damn story in time to get that free pull im gonna beat the shit out of every mirror i find in that giant mansion that i haven't even had any time to even mention yet. 🖕🏚️ let alone EVERYTHING happening with the prequel [fuck you, I'm the star] girls 💗💜💙💛❤️️ and their multidimensional melodrama. We don't need that many repetitive af episodes to emphasize that Homo-ra is a shitty person. we've all seen Rebellion. 🙄

NO, I DONT CARE IF YOU WANT SAPPHO'S BACKSTORY, I ONLY HAVE 79 STONES LEFT AND IF YACHAN FINDS OUT I HAVEN'T DELETED THE APP YET IM GONNA HAVE TO GO SLEEP IN WITH SANA 😭💎💸😠

uhhhggggg where were we… Topple a cult and burn down Hotel Denoument only to realize that Sis was fused with the dating app servers this entire madokafuckin time (told ya she was the best wingman 😊). 

Dilemma: Sis =🥚, Triumvirate of Trouble want 🐣. What do? vote now:

Help Hatch - IIIIIII

Not Do That - IIIII

What The Actual Fuck Is Going On - IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Lets just fight everyone until something good happens.

🔥🔫🔥🗡️🔥😱🔥🌆🔥😱🔥🛡️🔥💣🔥

Kill (???) the artist-in-chief of the italian reindeer murder police after teaching her the true meaning of Christmas 🎄 hatch 🐣lil Sis and realize she WAS your wingman all along🐰 MUKYUUUU! we're just gonna ignore how much trouble it would have saved if you'd just mentioned that. "yOu DiDnT aSk..." 

FUCK YOU SPACE BITCH. ONCE AN INCUBATOR ALWAYS AN INCUBATOR 🖕🐇🔪

anywho, somewhere along the lines we of course summoned the Antichrist ⚙️ because why not raise the stakes to max and still not kill off a single character. Madofuckinkami, can we PLEASE wrap this up. 😩💤

feathers (not the culty kind, tfm) rain from the sky, and the power of friendship and not having the Urobutcher 🔪🩸as a lead writer saves our peacefully sectioned off alternate reality 😇

TL:DR fuck cults, real life waifus DO exist, don't sell your soul to space rabbits, or your stones to megacorporations. Enjoy arc 2 on the JP server with your shitty translation patch you filthy fuckin weebs 

Yours Truly, 

- Thirsty Weeb Eroha 💗💎😘 

[f4liveblogarchives]

Fantastic Four Vol. 1 #9

Session Start (Wackd:#Wack’d): Fri Oct 21 08:31:33 2016 -0400 [22:42:50] <Wackd> Iiiiiii am going to read more Fantastic Four [22:43:01] <maxwellelvis> Where did you leave off? [22:43:24] <Wackd> Issue 8 [22:43:27] <maxwellelvis> Ah. [22:43:32] <maxwellelvis> Go forth then [22:43:39] <Wackd> Alicia Masters and her father, Puppet [22:44:07] <Bocaj> eeesh [22:44:08] <Bocaj> thats [22:44:12] <Bocaj> that was not a great time [22:44:19] <MousaThe14> Ah, yes, the Puppet Master [22:44:36] <Wackd> Puppet J. Masters [22:44:45] <Wackd> I too would turn to villainy with a name like that, probably [22:45:01] <maxwellelvis> At least your name isn't Telford Porter. [22:45:10] <MousaThe14> Also, apparantly Alicia didn't have a surname at this time [22:45:22] <MousaThe14> And wouldn't until a fan wrote one in many many issues later [22:45:47] <MousaThe14> @Max, You joke but I have a character with a similarly cruddy name [22:45:58] <Wackd> Okay so I get why the Four is selling shit to cover their debts [22:46:09] <Wackd> But, uh, why are they splitting up [22:46:16] <Wackd> That seems unnecessary [22:46:55] <Wackd> Also, I love that they lost all this money because Reed bought stocks [22:47:07] <Wackd> Even the smartest man alive is no match for Wall Street [22:47:24] <maxwellelvis> I told you, Reed Richards is a master of many arts and sciences; finance is not one of them. [22:48:53] <Wackd> CAB DRIVER: "Hey you really shouldn't take a cab being broke and all" [22:49:03] <Wackd> THING: *puts the cab through a streetlight* [22:49:23] <MousaThe14> I wonder if Wack'd should read Strange Tales to get the full experience by going through the awful saga of The Human Torch's brief solo series [22:49:35] <Bocaj> noooo [22:50:05] <MousaThe14> But quite a few iconic FF villains get their start there, strangely enough [22:50:23] <maxwellelvis> The only thing noteworthy about that run was the issue that did the test run to see if people wanted Captain America back, [22:50:25] <Wackd> "If only we could be like the superheroes in some of these comic magazines, Sue! They never seem to worry about money! Life is a breeze for them!" [22:50:29] <Wackd> Wonk wonk [22:50:32] <maxwellelvis> and the first appearance of Paste Pot Pete. [22:50:47] <MousaThe14> I mean, who'da thunk freaking The Wizard and Paste Pot Pete were introduced as Strange Tales baddies [22:50:49] <Bocaj> I'd laugh at Paste Pot Pete but he is canonically better than Baron Zemo [22:51:11] <MousaThe14> @Wack'd, yeah, Stan is not subtle. [22:51:26] <MousaThe14> Really trying to sell his heroes on the "They have REAL problems" front. A little too hard [22:51:43] <maxwellelvis> It's a new concept, gotta get it over for Summerslam [22:51:54] <Bocaj> I think he did it better with Spider-man [22:52:05] <Wackd> "We can make money if we go to Hollywood and make a movie! But we're broke, how do we get there?" *two pages earlier establishes they've not sold the Fantasticar yet* [22:52:46] <maxwellelvis> Well, he had Steve Ditko for that. [22:53:00] <maxwellelvis> And the good sense to give Ditko free reign in terms of plotting. [22:53:22] <maxwellelvis> Well, not to the extent of free reign Ditko got with The Question [22:53:22] <Wackd> They've taken a film deal from SM Studios. I...er...hrm [22:53:34] <maxwellelvis> Keep going. [22:53:48] <Wackd> ...oh goddammit SM stands for Sub-Mariner, doesn't it [22:53:59] <MousaThe14> Oh right, ths was a Namor story [22:54:35] <Wackd> I was gonna say I'm surprised they got away with that in 1961 but [22:54:36] <MousaThe14> .... That's exactly who he'd sound like [22:55:04] <MousaThe14> While the Fantastic Four would have powers appropriate to be in some BDSM material.... this is still the 60s [22:55:08] <Bocaj> Listening to the first couple episodes of the Fantasticast it struck me how heavily the early Avengers borrowed from Fantastic Four. [22:55:12] <maxwellelvis> because when I think of a haughty prince from another world whose strength is eclipsed only by the chip on his shoulder, I think of that guy. [22:55:26] <Wackd> The presence of Alfred Hitchcock makes me suspect there are a lot of celeb cameos I'm not catching [22:55:36] <MousaThe14> @Wack'd, there are. [22:55:38] <Bocaj> They fought a shape changing alien in their second issue. They fought Namor. They fought Dr Doom. They fought Kang who was actually Rama-Tut [22:55:59] <MousaThe14> I think Bing Crosby is supposed to be in there. But of course it's all dated so we won't truly know unless we research [22:56:04] <maxwellelvis> To be fair, the Four WERE the faces of Marvel at the time. [22:56:19] <MousaThe14> And apparantly sold well [22:56:46] <MousaThe14> And apparantly the connective tissue of the beginning of the whole danged universe as it was being born as a universe as we know it today [22:57:06] <MousaThe14> Spider-man may have been the crossover bicycle, but the FF got all the first rides [22:57:23] <Wackd> I love that the Sub-Mariner is doing this because hes BORED [22:57:39] <Wackd> "Eh, I've got all this money, figured why not buy a film studio. Why not" [22:57:41] <MousaThe14> I mean, after searching for your people for a while you gotta acquire a few hobbies [22:58:22] <maxwellelvis> He's waiting for Giganto to recuperate and then he's coming back to lay waste to the surface once more. [22:58:55] <Wackd> Oh hey no his ACTUAL plan is to...get the Fantastic Four killed doing stunt work [22:59:05] <Bocaj> Namor is such a petty little shit [23:00:02] <Wackd> Including...making the Human Torch fight magical "savages" [23:00:06] <Wackd> Uuuugh [23:00:15] <maxwellelvis> Then he can capitalize on the infamy his movie will garner for years [23:00:36] <Mukora> Cooooooooooooooooooool [23:02:45] <Wackd> Namor decides to fight the Thing himself, and only wins because--I shit you not--the Thing randomly gets struck by lightning and turned human again [23:02:47] <MousaThe14> Oh cool, my Ben and Johnny picture is actually spreading relatively quickly [23:03:00] <MousaThe14> @Wack'd, that's gonna happen a lot [23:03:02] <Wackd> The only thing pettier than Namor is fate, it seems [23:03:21] <MousaThe14> Convenient becoming Ben Grimm again is a well they return to early and often [23:04:22] <Wackd> "HEY SUE I KICKED ALL YOUR FRIENDS ASSES, MARRY ME" "I would've said yes if you hadn't KICKED ALL MY FRIEND'S ASSES" [23:05:33] <Wackd> And so the 4 return from their traps and they don't even bother to explain why Ben's the Thing again [23:06:43] <Wackd> Sue, stopping the guys from whaling on Namor: "It's 3-on-1! You've never teamed up against anyone before! Except, y'know, Doom. And Mole Man. And Puppet Master. And...uh...basically everyone, thinking about it" [23:07:16] <Wackd> Of course the more compelling argument turns out to be "he still hasn't paid us" [23:08:31] <Wackd> WELP THAT'S OVER [23:08:42] <MousaThe14> @Wack'd, It's different this time, she has will-she-won't-she feelings for the man in the tight shorts and swimmer's build [23:08:52] <MousaThe14> Which will persist for.... quite a bit of time [23:09:18] <maxwellelvis> You know it's funny how in this universe, a movie HELPS the Fantastic Four deal with their financial woes. [23:09:20] <Wackd> Yeah, I know [23:09:24] <Wackd> I joked about it further up

[skysteelsun]

Thoughts so far: MCH

Battle

I am, for the record, really liking the flow of the adjusted MCH rotation so far; I’m starting to get a handle on the heat gauge. It’s hard to get used to not having Lead Shot (and I put Hot Shot in its old place on my hotbar, and I keep accidentally using it like it’s a DoT, which in turn overheats my Gauss Barrel waaaay too quickly, but that’s muscle memory and I’ll hammer it out soon), but everything else, I’m really liking. I’m particularly pleased with the shorter timer on Wildfire, making it more practical for non-boss fights, which was always my primary complaint about Wildfire in the first place.  I am super looking forward to getting cooling abilities, though, because even my Hot Shot abuse aside, it is very easy to overheat the gauge quickly if you’re really powering through the rotation/Reload/Quick Reload cycles, and Quick Reload is sadly not really enough on its own to compensate - at least not how I’ve been playing, which admittedly likely does need some adjustment. That said, the c/d on the Gauss Barrel once it’s overheated is much shorter than I expected it to be! I expected it to be a super long punitive c/d, but instead it is absolutely short enough to be fully recharged between pulls or before the end of larger pulls, making that extra overheated punch something worth pushing for if, for example, you’ve got Wildfire off c/d and you’re pushing 100% heated. The new role abilities are great and I have no real complaints. I’m happier than I have words to express that MCH finally, finally has a self-heal ability in Second Wind. It’s long overdue. I love that I never have to grind for Invigorate ever, ever again, because (no disrespect to LNC/DRGs intended) I hate playing LNC. I like that I can restore TP/MP without sacrificing any DPS on my end - and speaking of support abilities, I really appreciate that Hypercharge’s debuff effect is now the same on both Rook and Bishop. For the moment the fifth role ability I took is the stun, but that could change; it was a toss-up, for me, between that and Palisade. Time will tell whether I decide the protection buff is worth more in a party than an extra stun.

Plot

Oh boy okay here goes my heart; spoilers for the new level 60 quest under the cut. Also please bear in mind that as I’ve only done this first quest, this is a lot of speculation and guesswork and rambly thought nonsense, but I gotta get it down somewhere, ye know?

So at first glance, it seems like my fears were true: Stephanivien is definitely taking a back seat in the MCH quests going forward, with the focus shifting to Hilda - which I didn’t expect at all. As everyone who’s followed this blog for a while knows, I’ve been craving some interaction between Hilda and Steph, and with any luck, I’ll get it from this questline! I also wonder what it means for Hilda in terms of the MSQ; while obviously being a job quest NPC doesn’t mean she can’t be involved in the MSQ from now on (lookin’ at you, Estinien), it does make me a little worried SE doesn’t plan to do much more with her. I do hope she at least remains a MCH NPC for many, many expansions to come... although not at the cost of my Skysteel babies, of course. Speaking of, none of them are around for this quest, and my heart hurts. They’ve all been sent to help with Ishgard’s contributions to the war effort in Ala Mhigo, including Joye (no, I’m still not over Stephanivien referring to her as “my indispensable right-hand woman,” and no, I never ever will be, thanks for asking). Joye is the one who seizes my interest in particular, because she’s our most likely tie to moving the 60-70 MCH quests from Ishgard to Gyr Abania, when otherwise it’s hard to guess at the present stage in the MCH quests just how we’d end up there - given that we’re supposedly training the Ishgardian City Watch. Listen, what I want more than anything is for Joye to turn up wearing the new MCH AF gear, being badass and kicking ass in the name of House Haillenarte and Ishgard in Ala Mhigo and/or Doma. I want that so badly, you guys have no idea; I will literally actually scream. I also just really want my platonic soulmate babies to reunite because you can’t tell me Steph doesn’t miss his girl, even as he’s absurdly proud of all of his machinists proving their worth alongside Ishgardian knights.  Also I feel the need to scream a little bit about Stephanivien being an absolutely beautiful nerd over the gobbie tech in Idyllshire, because oh my god you wonderful ray of sunshine please god never change - if I’m at all okay with Steph taking a back seat in the MCH quests, it’s because it means he’s safe and free to just keep being his happy, hard-working self, without any wild crises coming along to put him through hell again. I’m not sure I could endure another arc where he doubts his own motives and wonders if he’s a terrible person; it might very well break me. Biggest surprise, to me: Rostnsthal! I swear I was just telling my roommate the other day how I didn’t expect we’d ever see any more of him, barring a cameo in a future expac or something - and here he is, back again to teach a new batch of machinists! Bonus points for letting my usually well-behaved WoL be playfully crude; character development. I also just love how Stephanivien goddamn sprints away at the end of the cutscene with Rostnsthal, because as much as he loves the tech in Idyllshire, he’s got so much work to do and he’s so here for it he is one happy little sunbeam. So basically, it’s not what I’d hoped the MCH quest would be, but it’s also not what I was afraid of: Steph is still around and will very likely still turn up periodically; I have high hopes of seeing Joye, Celestaux, and the others at some point in the future; they didn’t shove me with some new NPC who could never hold up to the old cast, and Hilda has more than enough personality and style to keep me invested. Also not gonna lie, I hope this stirs up some more Hilda RPers, because feed me. Iiiiiii think that’s everything. Yes. Looking forward to level 63!