#paced offense

[myearts-uwu]

It feels weird being a wmmap fan and I'm just one of the biggest haters of the novel which in some fan's eyes is considered as gospel or smth... I don't get it-

[mydisasteracademia]

What are your thoughts about the pacing of the series, because I personally think that everything has been rushed to absolute hell.

The only real timeskip we get is the 10-11 months at the very beginning when Izuku is working on improving his physical condition to receive OFA.

After that, it's like all of the major events are spaced at like days or weeks apart, and I just don't like it. You're telling me all of these major events happened in their FIRST YEAR at UA alone? Yeah, I'm not buying it at all.

I really don't get it either, to be honest.

The beginning was a little weird to me, considering we're going from middle to high school very quickly with very little in between the time skips to get us settled in. And once Izuku gets into Yuuei, it's just one plot point after the next, after the next, after the next - it's exhausting to read through. I have to admit, I'm a manga reader through and through, and I'll defend reading the original all day every day, but sometimes I wish we had more filler or at least more chill arcs in between whatever the next calamity is going to be.

I continue to refuse to believe that ALL OF THIS happened within the first year at Yuuei. Besides being the single worst year in the school's history for staff and students alike, there's just too much at play here that needs to go down. They should've broken it down into the cast's entire three years at Yuuei to make it more believable. Give AFO more time to get Shigaraki ready, give Shigaraki more time to perfect his control and his techniques, give the League more time to become a more feared villain group - and give the kids more time to BREATHE. They're literally kids, they shouldn't have to deal with all of this in their first year alone. Can you imagine how AWESOME it would be if we had to see third-year Izuku going toe-to-toe with Shigaraki? How awesome it would be if we got to see them all matured, having trained themselves up, and going all out in a civil war against the villains' side. But we won't get that, because - and this is my opinion - everyone is too impatient to get the ball rolling. I don't think Horikoshi and the team want to wait until 1-A's third year for a climactic battle of ideals. And that's honestly kind of disappointing.

It's too much even for the audience. Many times in the manga I had to stop reading for a while because I needed time to process what the hell just happened before diving into the next problem at hand.

I don't know. You've got a good point in that the pacing is off, even for a shonen manga. I know it's taboo to even suggest, but I really do wish there was more manga filler to at the very least give readers time to process each arc. I know that's probably what the manga breaks are for, but I jumped into the manga after MHA started airing as an anime. It's too much.

[kairukitsuneo]

How to create your own Transformers OC: Step 1: You screw up.

[iwannabeanelfyaknow]

" Bombastic side eye "

" Criminal offensive side eye "

[ratatatastic]

scare the hoes more and keep yapping about ekky (& others) getting used to maffhew, it delights me. and say even more about how sasha handles this feral and sweet omega that gets dropped into his orbit. smth smth “feels like i’ve known him 10 years” or whatever vows sasha recited to the press, cameras, and god

apparently we are taking more tumblr user ratatatastic abo yap thoughts for 500 may god hear our screams up wherever he is. big man in the sky you fuckin owe me one.

i think theres so much in particular to say in concerns of 1619 and how quickly they gelled irl but even more so in an abo au

ive always enjoyed when people assign matthew stronger scents that take getting used to if you don't like it already and i know ive read a fic where his scent notes did skew towards stronger cinnamon foods/drinks

anyways on that note it wouldnt surprise me that sasha takes so easy to this spicy little omega.

Like of course he does, he smells like the pastries he used to eat back at home, the pastries he eats now because he's found an established Finnish bakery down here that makes them homemade every morning, the bakery he likes to frequent with the other Finns when he can.

Is it ever a wonder that the cute omega that sent him such a terribly sweet text when the trade news broke out (you know, after the initial excitement worn off because Sasha does chuckle at memory of the brash "Fucking, right!" that pinged on his phone the very first time from an unknown number) smells like... home... No matter all the rumours that have swirled around Matthew, the rumours Sasha has personally experienced himself playing against him...he smells nostalgic. Like Sasha could be at home right now—you know, home home—lounging outside his cottage with tea and pastries on the little table that he's set out. The warm cinnamon that wafts from the typically sterile room they've assigned for pressers smells divine, for lack of a better word. It smells indulgent. Because Sasha can't have those homely pastries all the time, what, with his training regiment.

It's why he doesn't quite believe it that Matthew's the one that's the centre of it all. He's absolutely convinced he's hallucinating because the season is about to start and he's had to cut back on all his favourite sweets as much as it pains him to but for the betterment of the team? He'd do anything. And yet despite the way he rubs at his nose to at least try to clear it, he smells that cinnamon. That cinnamon that's definitely coming from new omega they traded over who's laughing so obnoxiously at the lectern they have set up that if his scent didn't catch your attention, his loud mannerisms certainly did. His voice is practically bouncing off the walls in big loud echoes that should hurt Sasha’s ears. Emphasis on should. As it is he finds his heart melting more than it should instead.

It's been quite a long time since someone's scent has moved him this much. All the people that have, have been in his life for so long he's forgotten what it's like to feel instant scent compatibility. His nostrils are flaring and he's trying his best not to open his mouth to huff in big gulps of it because it's rather impolite to be so obviously scenting the new guy. It could be misconstrued as Sasha taking offence to the new presence in the room.

Some part of his brain is still trying to catch up to the idea that Matthew even smells at all because the first time he met him (down here for some joint offseason ice-time) he didn't particularly smell like much, if at all really. Whether it's because he put on blockers to not intrude on pack territory until he smelled more like them, or he was still on suppressants even in the summer, Sasha wasn't sure and he definitely wasn't going to ask about it.

Known him for 10 years? He feels like he's known him his whole life. But 10's a safe number, 10's a number that won't scare off this new omega, right? 10's a number that conveys "As Captain I want this to work out, I'm opening up my pack for you, I won't shun you, you're welcome here," and not "If I stick my nose in your neck right now to scent you, they're gonna have to forcibly evict me from the new home I've found in you, and it's not gonna be a pretty outcome."

It's also why he's a little nervous when Media Day is over because despite how much it dragged along in years past it practically blitzed by and now Sasha has to—

You know, properly scent the new addition. Give them the purring acceptance of their Pack leader's scent to carry with them. And it's nothing big, it's just some chaste wrist rubbing... something subtle and not too overwhelming for everyone: the pack, and the newcomer alike. It's not like Sasha is going to mouth at Matthew's neck glands. He doesn't think he can even handle that right now but that's a problem for future Sasha—for when Matthew is really part of the pack and not like a goldfish in a plastic bag being dunked into an aquarium to get used to the water temperature. He just has to rub his wrist against his, it's like basic Alpha etiquette. It'll be fine, mostly. He hopes.

And it's as anticlimactic as he thought it'd be: gentle reintroductions and reignited chatter of excitement about the new season that's about to start... maybe just with the new lingering scent of sweet and spice in the background as if someone lit up a candle without Sasha even noticing it. It's a struggle to keep his eyes from closing from how heavy they feel, from how relaxed he feels in the presence of this new omega he knows has pissed him off on several occasions as composed as he was about it.

Matthew presents his wrist in a flourish successfully managing to divert his attention back to what they're supposed to be doing all alone like this in the dressing room like this, "I'm sure you've been dying to do this huh, Cap?"

Sweat starts to break out at the back of his neck. He knows? Sasha doesn't think he's been sending off any signals that could've hinted otherwise but Sasha admits that he's well out of practise, he hasn't had to reign in his scent this much in such a long time, and maybe Matthew picked up his weird fixation—

Matthew waggles his eyebrows for extra effect an offbeat later when the joke doesn't seem to land the way he wanted it to.

Oh, thank Christ, he's just teasing him. It's a joke. He doesn't actually mean it in the way Sasha thought he meant.

"Yes. Yes, I have," Sasha chuckles in relief, shaking his head at Matthew's attempt to lighten the mood.

"10 years, or so I've heard, bud."

"You heard? Uh, listened to the..." he trails off.

"Kinda hard not to when the setup made it sound like you were in the middle of the Earth, my guy. I don't think my ears are ever gonna recover from that."

"It's the first day for everyone," Sasha lightly chastises, not particularly aggrieved at all but wanting to keep up the banter to stall for time, so he can prepare himself. Quite honestly he feels like travelled back in time to the young anxious Alpha he was breaking out into the league for the first time.

"Be gentle, I bruise easily."

"Right, gentle. I'll treat you better than my clothes on the delicate cycle."

"Is that supposed to be a line?" Matthew says in glee, his voice pitching into incredulity.

"Line like fishing?"

"Oh, come on! You know what I'm talking about! You've been in this country long enough to pick up on that!"

"Yes, yes, that."

Matthew shoves at his shoulder playfully. "Just go on and do the thing already."

"Doing the thing."

Matthew snorts but his wrist is limp in Sasha’s hold. And as much as it was a dumb joke he does feel delicate between his fingers like that. So delicate that when he rubs his own wrist against his—to transfer over their pack scent—he feels like he's going to break it if he holds onto it for too long. It's why he drops it as quick as he took it, hands scrambling to his sides in an effort to remain polite but also to get a handle on himself so his pheromones don't go haywire with the new stimulus. It's a bit of a losing battle because he knows his scent just. But he can play it off as the excitement of an Alpha being able to claim another member to his pack, it's a possessive kind of thing.

"Well, see you around! Call it a hunch but I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of each other." And the joke wasn't funny the first time, truly the equivalent of leaning on the office fax machine and going "You come here often?" to your coworkers who just want to get their work done—and just as sleazy too with the greasy grin Matthew has permanently stuck to his face but Sasha still laughs like he did the first time he heard it.

And it's only now that Matthew is gone that Sasha realises the room smells strongly of cinnamon, so potent that anyone with a working nose would be able to tell that. Like Matthew was doing his best to ease Sasha’s obvious nerves when Sasha should've been the one to calm the omega who's been uprooted from their own pack and thrown into a completely new environment, himself.

"Jesus, it reeks in here. Smells like cinnamon," Aaron wrinkles his nose, wandering back in after his own media duties were done, finding Sasha all alone in the locker rooms.

"It does?" Like he can't tell the room smells like the equivalent of someone knocking over a Yankee Candle into an open fire.

"Yeah, like an awful lot." Aaron scrunching up his nose, trying to fight off an incoming sneeze. "It's strong," he says without thinking, swallows before his eyes shift over to Sasha and then to the floor, "Not bad just... strong..." The I can get used to it is left unspoken between them.

"I like it," Sasha admits because if Aaron is confessing to things without thinking then he might as well too. They've known each other long enough.

"I can tell." Aaron snorts, "You reek too."

Sasha lets out a questioning little noise, tilts his head to the side as he silently urges Aaron to continue.

"You have no idea what cinnamon and cardamom smell like together, do you? I feel like I walked into a bakery when I should be at the gym right now."

"Is that bad?"

"For you? No, of course not," Aaron's eyes soften, and while his scent wasn't anywhere close to abrasive, it does lighten up just a tad bit in the presence of his pack Alpha. "For me? I'd rather dunk my head in a bucket of coffee beans." A bit of an exaggeration on Aaron's part but the wry grin he has on really adds to the fact he's just joking—just a little, maybe there's some truth hidden in there. He knows how Aaron is, the way he tries to downplay anytime he bristles about something. Peace and vibes, and all that.

So Sasha can joke as well, "Forsy's stall is over there," and motions his head towards it across the room.

"Oh, hilarious."

"If I was funny I would say jock."

"You know, what? I think I will hit the gym today, thanks for reminding me."

"Mmm, anytime." And when Aaron's half out the door he adds, "Ask the staff where they put the jerseys we used today!"

"I'm going! To the gym!" he echoes back, not bothering to turn around as he shuffles down the hall in a hurry, and decidedly not going in the direction of the gym. It's not surprising when he hears chatter pick up and shoes scuffing briskly into the direction of the laundry rooms.

[im-still-watching-anime]

i am officially, FINALLY all caught up again in both the manga and the anime for bsd and OH BOY there are thoughts and opinions but also WHO CARES because my tags are finally FREE to be unfiltered

[petr1kov]

Penny for your last of us thoughts? 🪙

No pressure - I just saw your post and love to talk about TLOU. I loved TLOU 1 as a teen and still do but hate Duck-man and have basically erased TLOU2 from my brain. Would love to hear what you think!

to give credit where credit is due, i think joel and ellie are good characters who had a very compelling relationship with each other, which is why the first game worked at all.

that being said, i've always taken issue with the way society's collapse is portrayed on most zombie stories and it's no different on this series, but it annoys me a little more than usual because it does try to take itself seriously and fails to provide a perspective more interesting than presenting us with a literal trolley problem at the end of the game (in a rather contrived scenario).

i like some of the ideas both parts 1 and 2 try to tackle, especially the messy way we deal with grief and trauma, but i think that it ultimately never escapes a very surface level 'humans are selfish' read of the world that is presented as fact, which is disappointing considering its main strength is the way it handles ellie and joel's relationship in the story

[rinbylin]

watching the first episode of the 2017 webdrama and then skimming through the sanitised 2021 remake (starring whr - fun fact) is the same bewildering and depressing experience of watching addicted 2016 then moving on to what SWM 2023 did to the story in the process of what it believed to be "fixing" the problematics of its canon

[fiddleabout]

i am Once Again asking mister vlatko sir your lordship what the FUCK crystal dunn has to do to play in an attacking position for the national team

[merrysithmas]

all my followers who think mando3 is trash please like this so i know im not alone lmao

[bumpscosity]

was thinking abt how godawful dee day was like possibly the worst episode of the show and i thought i must've just been rly disappointed the first and only time i saw it bc there's no way an episode 14 seasons into a show could be THAT bad but i watched it again and. it really is

[emdotcom]

You can call me out for being a nostalgia-blind hater for this, but the power of the 90's Trigun show was that it starts off as a western, but then you're 16 episodes in & That happens.

[moodr1ng]

all these years all of you had me thinking nana (the manga.) is yuri and then i go to read it finally and not only is it not yuri its also like. idk. like maybe it gets better if you keep reading but as far as ive read its how you say. bad.

[strangestcase]

glad we all agree Allan LXG is forgettable at best. sure sure the story needs an old British hero to work but what is his personality really. Sean Connery playing him like every single sentence he says is utter torment also doesn't help.

[starfruit-baby]

amano is really fucking funny for being a shounen author because a really big chunk of KHR was blue balling, and the majority of these resolved in an utterly dissatisfying nut manner. she kept coming up with "THIS guy is one of the toughest men ALIVE. this guy is so strong GOD cowers before him. this man has been to every circle of hell and came out LAUGHING." with mixed and matched battles between them that either threatened to happen but dissolved, happen but get cut from the viewer and you only see the results, or happen and end in the blink of an eye with a somewhat stupid resolution. just hysterical to think this dominated the shounen scene in the late 00s/early 10's alongside bleach, one piece and naruto

[waledxman123]

Eastern Kentucky Colonels vs. Ball State Cardinals: Full Game Preview and Analysis

As the 2024 college basketball season heats up, all eyes are on the Eastern Kentucky Colonels and Ball State Cardinals as they prepare for their November 27 clash. Both teams have shown glimpses of their potential, and this matchup could serve as a defining moment early in the season. Fans can expect an intense battle as these squads bring their contrasting styles to the hardwood.

Eastern Kentucky Colonels: Scouting Report

Eastern Kentucky enters the game with a reputation for fast-paced, offense-heavy basketball. Known for their aggressive full-court press and ability to create turnovers, the Colonels thrive on pushing the tempo. Their roster includes seasoned veterans and rising stars who have excelled in adapting to head coach A.W. Hamilton’s system, which emphasizes quick ball movement and perimeter shooting.

Key strengths for the Colonels include:

Three-Point Shooting: Eastern Kentucky’s guards are sharpshooters, capable of making an impact beyond the arc. This will test Ball State’s perimeter defense.

Transition Game: The Colonels capitalize on turnovers, turning defensive stops into easy baskets on the other end.

Depth: The bench has consistently provided solid contributions, ensuring minimal drop-off when starters take a breather.

However, the Colonels’ defensive rebounding has been a weak spot, often leaving them vulnerable to second-chance points. Addressing this issue against a physical Ball State squad will be crucial.

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Ball State Cardinals: Scouting Report

The Ball State Cardinals boast a defense-first philosophy under head coach Michael Lewis. The team focuses on disciplined play, limiting turnovers, and maximizing efficiency on both ends of the court. Their roster is highlighted by a mix of experienced big men and versatile guards who excel in half-court sets.

Key strengths for the Cardinals include:

Rebounding Dominance: Ball State has been one of the best rebounding teams in their conference, particularly on the offensive glass.

Interior Scoring: With skilled forwards in the paint, the Cardinals rely on high-percentage shots close to the basket.

Defense: The Cardinals excel at forcing contested shots and keeping opponents off the free-throw line.

One potential challenge for Ball State will be keeping up with Eastern Kentucky’s pace. Their defensive discipline will be tested, especially against the Colonels’ dynamic guards.

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Key Matchups to Watch

Guard Play: Eastern Kentucky’s perimeter shooting versus Ball State’s defensive rotations. Can Ball State keep the Colonels’ shooters in check?

Rebounding Battle: Ball State’s size advantage in the paint could prove decisive if they dominate the boards and limit Eastern Kentucky’s possessions.

Coaching Strategies: Both teams have head coaches known for their tactical acumen, making in-game adjustments critical as the game unfolds.

Game Outlook and Predictions

The upcoming game is expected to be a clash of styles: Eastern Kentucky’s high-octane offense versus Ball State’s deliberate and defense-oriented approach. The Colonels’ ability to dictate the tempo could disrupt Ball State’s rhythm, while the Cardinals’ rebounding advantage might allow them to control the flow of the game.

Prediction: In a hard-fought contest, Ball State’s physicality and ability to limit Eastern Kentucky’s scoring runs give them a slight edge. However, if the Colonels catch fire from three-point range, an upset could be on the horizon.

Final Score Prediction: Ball State 74, Eastern Kentucky 70

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Betting and Viewing Information

For those planning to bet on the game, sportsbooks are highlighting the close nature of the matchup, with Ball State slightly favored due to their home-court advantage. Bettors should consider:

Over/Under: A high-scoring game is possible if Eastern Kentucky sets the pace.

Spread: Ball State’s consistent rebounding and defense make them a safe pick to cover a small margin.

Fans can catch the action live through local broadcasts and online streaming platforms. Tip-off is scheduled for prime time, ensuring plenty of excitement for college basketball enthusiasts.

Conclusion

This matchup between the Eastern Kentucky Colonels and the Ball State Cardinals promises to deliver drama, strategy, and high-level competition. Whether you’re rooting for the Colonels’ electrifying offense or the Cardinals’ stifling defense, this game has all the ingredients for a classic. Make sure to tune in as these two teams battle it out for early-season supremacy.