#mistep

[asta-daily]

Miscalculation

Ok, so I've made a mistake. There! I said it. Let's call a truce, and... AhAAAaaaAAAH! No pecking! No pecking! We can talk ab... Oh mercy stop bouncing! nononoNONO!

/* Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook - Porte-mine sur carnet A6 */

Ok, j'avoue, c'était une erreur. Voilà! Je l'ai dit. Alors posons nous calmement et... ahAAAaaaAAAH ! Arrête ! Secoue pas ! On peut discu... Oh par pitié arrête de gigoter comme ça ! nonnonnonNONNNNN !

[maskedbutsilly]

“why did i marry this man”

[grendel-menz]

yo im not sure if this is a weird ask so feel free to ignore but like !! sorry i just had a moment bc ive been struggling w being half white for a long time now, like something was off my entire life with how other white people would treat me as an Other, the way they would like reduce me to an animal/the wild friend/make some weird dehumanizing comments, and despite all this not even knowing the truth of my ancestry til i was out of high school. but at the same time i felt like i could never really claim it? like i had no connection to my native side since my father wasn't allowed that so i was basically raised White and every time i looked in the mirror something told me it was wrong for me to even seek that connection. it did not help that i'd meet other half natives here who would tell me that (there is a weird culture here about rooting out "fakers" and accusing people you dont like of faking their history to get yourself more legitimacy). sorry this is all a rambly preface to say id always related to your art about ancestry and culture and finding yourself and how people treat you but felt wrong for it but then you post a picture and you're a stones throw away from me. like, we look like we could be cousins. idk i just went wow, i look like that too, its okay, i shouldnt have gatekept my connecting behind fear of... i dont even know what anymore. idk this ask has no point so from another genderweird half who hallucinates i hope u have a great week month year and i hope good things happen to you. you bring a lot of joy to people

I'm sorry you've struggled with all this, it can be really tough. My situation is a bit different since my mom never let me forget I'm Filipino. I never felt distant from being mixed, just the culture we lost due to some extraordinarily difficult circumstances in the past few generations of my moms side. I'm also lucky in that Filipinos and SEAsians as a whole tend to be very avid about welcoming mixed kids into the community (though there's a lot of racism and colorism involved in the level of acceptance someone gets, unfortunately. I'm pale and treated well, and I doubt someone darker skinned would be treated as well in certain circles.).

I can't speak for Native American communities, but I will solidly say in general that blood quantum and its enforcement is colonial. Your ancestors do not love you in halves or quarters, that would be very strange. When I have a baby I plan to love the whole thing and not just whatever dna percentage is mine. It's just important to research, support, reach out to, and represent your community to the best of your ability. (If I've misspoken here lmk.)

I have Indigenous family members, ancestry, and community, but I don't personally call myself Indigenous because I am still researching and reconnecting, and it's such a big word. There's no rush to things, go at the pace you're comfortable with when it comes to seeing yourself.

Sorry for being long winded! Hopefully that helps or yeah! :D

[2manyflannels]

Aira has been kind of killing it this arc

[rangetsuryuu]

tales of the abyss is the best tales game except for one thing. bad foils.

okay every party member has at least one foil/rivalry when it comes to the god generals, right?

In game foils as follows. In the most straight forward, one to one examples. The final battles of each God General really cements this in mind.

Luke - Asch

Tear - Legretta

Natalia - Largo

Jade - Dist

Anise - Arietta

Guy - Sync

Some of these foils aren't really as strong as others, I'd argue. And on top of that some of these characters have much stronger relationships to the final antagonists of Van and Asch, than others do.

Meanwhile, Jade also has a vague relationship to Sync and Asch, as the father of fomicry. Jade is protrayed as someone's indirectly responsible for some incredibly unethical crimes that Sync and Asch are victim to. That's one of Jade's personal dilemma's, so even if it's not acknowledged directly in the game, we can interpret this to be an indirect relationship with these characters who were directly wronged by his science. A bit of a miss to not have any interactions, but still something that we could reasonably interpret from clues even if not seen outright.

But you know what's a bigger miss? Not swapping Anise and Guy's foils.

They should have made Arietta as Guy’s primary foil and Sync as Anise’s primary foil. 

Because listen. Arietta and Guy don't have a single interaction together but they have an actual historical connection to each other?

Both had their homelands totally wiped by the same tragedy.

Arietta and Guy both respect and adore Van and sided with him. They both want vengeance against a world that's wronged them and stolen their family.

But Guy doesn't go through with it. He ends up rejecting Van and vengeance. So doesn't that put automatically pit him against Arietta that's still stuck in that old mindset? Arietta, whose whole deal is vengeance against Anise for taking her only friend in Ion? Arietta, who's stuck in this idea that a single person can be responsible for her grief, in the the same way Guy was convinced that the death of Duke Fabre's family, could bring relief to his pain?

But Guy was able to recognize this wouldn't work. Luke's death wouldn't change the past.

So isn't it possible for him to see himself in Arietta when he found out she was from Feres Isle?

Hod and it's sister isle of Feres, were both wiped out for unfathomable reasons. Guy and Arietta both left as sole survivors of their respective isles. But isn't that insane? To find a survivor of a tragedy you thought was yours alone?

Imagine then, if Guy had been able to see his own past unfolding with Arietta's revenge against another person who had nothing to do with any of the horror. If he's able to recognize that Luke wasn't a justified target of revenge, then shouldn't he see that Arietta's grudge was just as petty as his own?

But Guy's change of heart isn't actually something that's seen in game. It's just something that's revealed to you. So woudn't it be exciting to see someone who can actually be a reflection his past ideals?

So then. The final battle against Arietta could have been a brutal clash with Guy. We could have had that revelation unfold in front of us, no?

Unlike Anise's final fight with Arietta, he wouldn't have necessarily considered Arietta a lost cause. He could have seen himself in Arietta, he could have asked her to choose a different path then vengeance. He could have told her they were both the victims of a war beyond their scope. Survivors of a nation doomed by something completely beyond their control.

Guy could have revealed to her, his own history with Van and vengeance, he could have appealed to her. Maybe she could have felt that connection. She could have heard it. Listened to it, and then admitted that his sympathy had fallen flat.

"You're right. That was short-sighted of me. Killing Anise, wouldn't change anything. But killing all of you will still bring bring the vengeance and justice that my monsters deserve. And if that brings us closer to Van's revenge too... then all of you have to die."

And Guy could realize that there wasn't any talking her out of it. That she'd somehow become even more embolded in her revenge despite his plea.

In a way, Guy could understand that her vengeance was different from hers but still identical. The only difference was that Arietta didn't care about the abstraction of responsibilty. She wanted real and immediate justice for her real and immediate pain.

Hod and Feres Isle could have been left in the dust to her for all she cared. Feres Isle was nothing compared to her love for Ion and Van and her monsters and her pain for them. If that was the case, could Guy who had claimed his vengeance was for all of Hod still be in the right?

When faced with Arietta's selfish, single minded desire for vengeance, could Guy really have claimed that his own vengeance was for anything more than his own twisted idea of justice?

He could have been terrified to see that she was the worst version of himself come alive. Excuse after excuse for a reason to take out his grief on the world. He could have been disgusted with her revenge or resigned to it. Or maybe he could have embraced it. Regretted it? Wished for things to end differently?

Either way he would have been forced to kill this version of himself that he saw in her, regardless of how he felt about her.

He could have seen Arietta as someone beyond help. He could see the way that Largo and Anise still grieved for her despite everything. And he could have grieved for their shared loss. He could have grieved for the two of them who could never get any justice that could satisfy their pain.

He could have lost the one last connection to his home that he had left, and he would have had to end it himself.

What would it have been like if he had to carry that on him? Wouldn't it have been more fun for us to see that grief unfold firsthand?

Or is that kinda sadistic...?

[maximura]

Chasing That Feeling: Inkigayo 231015

[xrd]

The way people talk about Teddie's localization kind of drives me crazy sometimes bc this like supposed lost connotation that he doesn't understand what he's talking about is still very present in the english text

[quietwingsinthesky]

in the amelia pond au, amelia’s aunt does still send her to therapy between doctor adventures, but since amelia is now secure in the fact that he’s Definitely Real since both rory and mels have also met him and because she lost a tooth last week from tripping on the stairs of the tardis, she doesn’t bite any therapists this time around. and besides, her therapist is a very funny lady. she reminds amelia of her doctor, with how her voice will flip and jump in volume and accent and tone on a whim, with how she’ll talk to amelia like they’re conspiring together. she keeps the pictures amelia draws of the doctor and their adventures for her, even hangs one or two on the walls. she listens very intently to every detail, which no adults in amelia’s life do save the doctor himself and river song, whenever she’s around. and best of all, whenever she tells amelia’s aunt that amelia is doing just fine, don’t you worry, she’ll grow out of this, she winks at amelia so that amelia will know her therapist is only playing along to wave away her aunt’s suspicion.

it is a little odd, though, that she insists on only being called Missy. but amelia is quite used to odd by now.

[moomeecore]

help what's with 99% of the time tumblr sends u to the top of a person's blog after clicking on their name on a post instead of to where the post was. this has rendered the site upwards of 20% less usable for me. i didn't even give tumblr permission to update my app!! SOBBING. i hope they fix this. if its on purpose ill riot

[bridgyrose]

Having watched through Hazbin Hotel, I think it gets the idea of redemption that I tend to follow: that there is no one way for redemption to work, that its messy and not completely straight forward, and that it has to be a choice by a character and isnt something that is deserved or can be forced upon them.

And it annoys me when a lot of fandom look at one singular redemption as the only way for a redemption arc to be perfect. Redemption is supposed to be messy, its supposed to vary amongst characters and be a choice they make, a path that'll changed depending on who walks it. One redemption does not fit all.

And this fits for just about all media when it comes down to villains. No villain is born evil, all villains are created and defined by a moment in their life. Be it a mistake that tossed them away, society pushing them away due to circumstances that ended up against them, punished for trying to go for happiness only to feel alone... even the most righteous of heroes can become a villain when society no longer seems them as a warrior of what's right.

And while I understand the idea of keeping villains as villains, I do think that seeing villains being allowed to choose redemption, to go down a rough path with no guarantee to be accepted or even forgiven. A choice to be better because its what they want and as a lesson for everyone out there that its never too late to be better.

Something that a lot of people could learn.

[lostsoulau-ask]

Timeline of Shard and his Mirror counterpart (TW theres sensible subjects, i will try to be as familly friendly as i can but there is still yikes stuff)

Mirror Folks are mostly seen as simply a dark mirror oposite of their Regular counterpart but in this AU, they are their own person!

Of course, if we took a timeline of a MirrorFolk and its regular counterpart life, we see that most of their character and events had been quite different, almost mirror oposite (eyyy).

I will say it now, im not an expert in anything psychologie. If many details are being glossed over or plain wrong, I apologise for this.

Also In this (and future post), you might see me refer to Somius' and Doctor as siblings or things siblings related, i like to refer them a siblings bc exept some arguments and accoastional rivalrey that dosent last for too long, they are getting along as siblings and one refers to the other as their sibling!

And one thing before we begun, neither Doctor or Somius are outwardly evil, one is seriously out of touch and caused horrors, yes, but the dudes never been in a healthy environement in their lives so-

[the timeline of both Shard and Doctor Somius are undercut bc they were longuer than i thought]

Shard's timeline in the AU:

Shard is adopted by the Squeak Squad and grow in a familly oriented crime familly (familly first, job second), after a while when hes an adult he start his carrer as a Knight because he wanted to protect peoples, he goes onto the abandoned Pop Star, meets and help Buddy and Crowny and love story insues.

They are lovey dovey for a while untill the ForgotenLand when Shard takes the Star Rod to avenge his lover's death, turning into the LuciDreamer.

After some time being in a yikes possition mentaly, he and Buddy managed to reunite and they live a happy life (safe for some shenanigans and horrors)

Somius' timeline in the AU:

Meanwhile Somius started his carrer as a doctor because he wished to help peoples but hes not the phisical type (for now), he goes to Pop Star who is still rulled by the Tyrant (aka Mirror!Buddy/Mirror!Magolor), he becomes the head medic of the castle and works in the meadbay, he tries to help Tyrant but its unsuccesful and the poor Somi ends up in a worst place.

After years of abuse, he had enought and goes to grab the Nebula Cane, turning into a Dark Matter. However, the transphormation leaves him in a weakened state all around and he needs to stay in the now-upgraded sickward for a while.

Thats when Doctor shows up, Somius was wildly terrified at the fact that someone else was using his body but after a while of ...erm 'sibling rivalerie' (im sorry i don't have other terms right now-) both soon learn that cooperation is the key to live a normal life.

After a while of adjusting, healing the few wounds left and helping around, Tyrant showed back up and while Somius is too terrified of him Doctor decide to give the Tyranical overlord a piece of the Karmic Boomerang. And thus the Tyrant was gone from the throne and turned into a soul beast.

Doctor is ...exentric and out of touch, yes but hes not evil, living in the Mirror World isn't easy and many things that are seen as horrifying in the regular world are like a normal saturday in the Mirror World. Plus, hes the one whos facing the horrors head on most of the time since it takes a lot to make him nervous.

While Somius is still the kind yet awkward person hes mostly (?) known for, but his anxietie became worst (with everything that happened, would you blame him if hes a nervous wreck) with the medbay turning into a full on Hospital that replaced the old castle with him (and Doctor) as the head director.

In the AU, even after they gets out of the Mirror, both Doc and Somi are still trying to keep the fact that they are two in this body, mostly fearing of the consequences.

@kirbyoctournament

[witchblade]

i think the one evil thing about vtmb is that the outfits/armor had stats and you couldn't just wear your fashion.

[consciouschunkofmoss]

screaming crying sobbing i love my friends so much its unreal

[alyanas-little-hideout]

God.

this all just reminds me why I hate DMing and playing 5e so much.

so much of the game is just missing, and most of what actually is there is just useless. There's so many pages of rules that they clearly had no interest in rather than optional rules where you can actually use that as a subsystem.

not to mention that they use naturalistic language for all effects so half the time it's impossible to tell what's flavor text and what's supposed to act as a keyword since they try to pretend they don't use keywords while STILL USING KEYWORDS.

it's either a rule the DM has to make up, a rule that's not meant to be used and just exists to spite DMs, or a rule that's so badly written that it's basically just being made up by the DMs anyways, bringing us to the first problem!

It's often remarked how D&D 5e's play culture has this sort of disinterest bordering on contempt for actually knowing the rules, often even extending to the DM themselves. I've seen a lot of different ideas for why this is, but one reason I rarely see discussed is that actually, a lot of 5e's rules are not meant to be used.

Encumbrance is a great example of this. 5e contains granular weights for all the items that you might have in your inventory, and rules for how much you can carry based on your strength score, and they've set these carry capacities high enough that you should never actually need to think about them. And that's deliberate, the designers have explicitly said that they've set carrying capacity high enough that it shouldn't come up in normal play. So for a starting DM, you see all these weights, you see all the rules for how much people can carry or drag, and you've played Fallout, you know how this works. And then if you try to actually enforce that, you find that it's insanely tedious, and it basically never actually matters, so you drop it.

Foraging is the example of this that bothers me most. There's a whole system for this! A table of foraging DCs, and math for how much food you can find, and how long you can go without food, etc. But the math is set up so that a person with no survival proficiency and a +0 to WIS, in a hostile environment, will still forage enough food to be fine, and the starvation rules are so generous that even a run of bad luck is unlikely to matter. So a DM who actually tries to use these rules will quickly find that they add nothing but bookkeeping. You're rolling a bunch of checks every day of travel for something that is purpose built not to matter. And that's before you add in all the ways to trivialize or circumvent this.

These rules don't exist to be used, that is not their purpose. These rules exist because the designers were scared of the backlash to 4e, and wanted to make sure that the game had all the rules that D&D "should" have. But they didn't actually want these mechanics. They didn't want the bookkeeping, they didn't care about that style of play, but they couldn't just say, "this game isn't about that" for fear of angering traditionalists. And unfortunately the way they handled this was by putting in rules that are bad, that actively fight anyone who wants to use that style of play and act as a trap to people who take the rules in good faith.

And this means that knowing what rules are not supposed to be used is an actual skill 5e DMs develop. Part of being a good 5e DM is being able to tell the real rules that will improve your game from the fake rules that are there to placate angry forum posters. And that's just an awful position to put DMs in (especially new DMs), but it's pretty unsurprising that it creates a certain contempt for knowing the rules as written.

You should have contempt for some of the rules as written. The designers did.

[iwatcheditbegin]

tree is not doing her job once again

I think people have a misunderstanding of what tree’s job actually is

[shadow-bender]

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