#not all battles are worth fighting

[our-lord-little-toad]

The war against the frog agenda is brutal and endless, but some truths remain.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo being put into a situation where there is absolutely no fighting, just verbal manipulation and perception games, would be amazing to witness. We see a lot in the series how good he is at subterfuge and how he uses his perception to manipulate to great effect, so it’d be so cool to really see it put to the test even more.

Manipulation is one of the most effective tactical strategies of all time, so just imagine Leo putting this skillset of his to the full test. Imagine the boys slowly get up to busting bigger and more powerful criminals, including those with networks of crime under their belt, and a simple fight isn’t enough to take them down. For criminals like this, Leo’s skills in subterfuge would be deadly.

[haveihitanerve]

Jason's reasons for trying to hurt bruce and doing all he did when he was pit mad- red hood stuff? Insecurity. All the Robins grapple with it. That fear they aren't good enough. They weren't enough. Jason? He realizes the reason Dick “hated” him was because he was jealous of losing robin- of having it be given away to Jason. And now Jason feels the same. Tim has the mantle. Bruce gave it to him… when he was dead. Bruce never cared. Is whats running through his head. He died, he failed, he wasn't good enough to live, to save himself. And Bruce saw it, and replaced him. Its all the insecurity. 

[fernsnailz]

my kickflip propaganda did not work

[autisticrosewilson]

You guys would be throwing up and sobbing and writhing on the ground if you knew the Ravager: Year One comic I have in my head, and you'd all kill yourselves if you could read the Ravager: Renewal comic that I'm constantly thinking about. Untold secrets in the mind of a writer who can't draw for shit. Many such cases.

[white-weasel]

Badger by Fish in a Birdcage is SUCH a Hank Hogfish song, like I can see the animatic in my head

[corpocyborg]

did end up finishing the main quest of dai btw. the game was not worth the time i put into it.

[hawkwidows]

oh I hate twt so much hate it hate it hate itttttt turns out when you block people and just don't go online - shitty stupid things still get said, still get believed, still get a disgusting amount of likes and me who removed myself from the cesspool to be a happier, sane, nuanced person can only watch on as that many people run around an echo chamber parroting nothing of their own thought 💀 never wanted to have the ability to reach through the screen and shake people like I have lately but no I'll settle for closing the app and having a rant before bed. peace and love to my small corners of the internet that are still sane 🫰🏽

[offorestsongs]

so many people in this fandom need to realize that when seeing content they don't like, most of the time the best course of action is to block the person/tag and move on instead of making milion discourse posts about it

[existentialcrisis-9-5]

Was randomly suggested a miraculous season 6 criticism and I have been plagued for hours now with visions of a rewrite. I’m going insane please help.

[bastardborne]

cassian is an incredibly disciplined person in several aspects of his life. something that i deeply disliked about those books is that cassian seemed incredibly quick to anger, and while i do love the concept of him wearing his heart on his sleeve, i think there's a level of impulse there that just doesn't translate well when you take into consideration that this man is a five hundred year old period, but also a five hundred year old soldier. he is very passionate, but it's that same passion and care that drives him to make sure he is always giving his best and on his game, both in life and in battle. he is a great warrior, and in that, he is highly skilled at both strategy and adapting to the unknown. cassian always has multiple plans that factor in dozens of different possibilities, and even then he has backup plans for those plans, and most of the time he's making them up on the fly. but there is, to him, a heavy responsibility that comes with having to take into consideration the lives of not only his people but the people they are protecting. he has an intrisnic need to be the best because people will (and have) suffer(ed) for his failure if he isn't. all in all, cassian leads with his heart in work and in his personal life. he is a force of nature, he has earned his ranking as one of the top most powerful illyrians to have existed, and it is integral to him that he remains focused on what's important when it comes to utilizing his power, which, in turn, ends up becoming a tension point when he feels as though he's lost the sight of what he's after in the first place. to circle back to my main point, cassian does keep his feelings in check a lot of the time, especially now that he's older and not young with something to prove. he still has his passion, he still burns hot, but it's more prominent when he's fighting for something or someone rather than based in ego. there is also a lot to say about how cassian is viewed by the people close to him, and how those changes don't seem to register and there's often a default that is also problematic when considering the history and culture of illyria that cassian is a "hot-blooded illyrian male". cassian is actually incredibly patient, does his best to be understanding, again, leads with his heart first, and is a strategist that prefers to have as much information as possible before making a decision and even then, will always do the best with what he has. that didn't come naturally to him (aside from his big huge heart), it's something that he worked and still works on to achieve. his work on himself is never finished, and he strives every single day to be and do the best that he can do and even go above that

[a-sketchy]

ugh i can’t wait to finish p4g and play arena. KEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE GROWS UP!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!! i need to see him

[nihiltism]

ok so while my ds is getting sand poured into it at alarming rates I'm thinking about how jrpgs in specific have a really weird desync with How Important Death Is. like some address it better than others but it very frequently happens where if you take a step back youll go "am I wild or is everybody just like, Really down with murder in this game". and consequences for said murder, especially in a characterization sense but even just actual physical consequences, don't really happen? unless it's a vehicle for conflict but like. when it is a vehicle for conflict it feels weird because why are These Guys actually taking the fact we killed somebody in broad daylight seriously and coming after us for it while all the other npcs and even the main party took it like it was another saturday evening

see I Think where the issue lies is in the fact that everything is in its own little world when you're in a battle? like. when you fight an enemy and you get leather out of it it's seen as something the enemy Drops and not. their hide. when you defeat a character in a battle it does just feel like you Defeated them. unless there's dialogue afterwards that says otherwise you don't even mentally assume you killed em you just wounded them enough to make them flee or dissolve or whatever. and it's Weird to just. have that assumption there because for a lot of games it really isn't clear if you're killing them or defeating them !!

that last point is extra important when you have the specific brand of Skittish Hero / Noble Hero Who Doesn't Kill People / Rational Hero In Way Over Their Head or whatever where you really don't think they Would kill a guy just to get them out of the way. in that case it's REALLY weird because it's hardly brought up. even if it Is brought up that that guy Sure Did Die the mc doesn't tend to actually have a reaction ??? and I don't know why this is ???? like Any written reaction would be more interesting than nothing even if the guy doesn't have a full on crisis about taking another life having them go "oh shit, The Consequences" would be nice. really anything except (oh cool we can advance the plot now).

I will also mention that Some deaths do matter plot wise but very frequently what makes them matter is how much of it is linked to an in game battle I think. if your mc just finishes a fight and comes back to the overworld and the guy's Disappeared or Dissolved or whatever it means they don't matter. if the guy's still around after the fight it means it's more significant, especially if they're still alive but wounded or Really Shaken Up. because this clears up the indistinguishable line between if a battle is lethal or not and if a character decides to deal a finishing blow now it's Way more telling of their character. even though this is basically the same thing that happened in the (killed In A Battle) scenario. just with more dialogue. I will also mention that the person who deals the finishing blow is Rarely Ever that good hearted protagonist and often they'll even go :0 at somebody else committing a murder despite them instigating and helping murder quite a few people. just. In Battle. so it's less bad. I guess.

this is leaving out the fact that in party deaths are often a Major Major Blow because like. ok that's fair. that's A Guy You Knew that's understandable. anyway I don't really know where I'm going with this I just think it's interesting how in these types of games death can swap from not mattering at all to mattering a Lot and if u don't think about it too hard u don't even question it. I'll probably be putting some examples in the tags idk

[ofcowardiceandkings]

the sinus headaches are already not great but Extra Shit has been added to the pile and im just sat on that right now trying to figure out what the fuck to do

[groupwest]

Want to actually kill myself :-/

[itspileofgoodthings]

I cannot tell you how much more I trust messiness/whininess/a certain plaintiveness of tone or expression even to the point of immaturity in response to things than I do perfectly polished or pat expressions of acceptance.