#six WF

[thisheademptyyeet]

*posts an iceberg about an ln AU that I barely post about* good luck to understand!

just to be clear, Kai is rk, Robin is rcg and the pretender is sometimes refered as prett.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

consistently amazed by my own ability to Not Do The Things I'd Like To Be Doing, actually

[jonesyjonesyjonesy]

I haven't done a six sentence sunday for Wildflowers in a while, but oh boy, oh boy am I stoked to fuck with you all.

“The veins in your eyes. They look like…lightning.”

I pursed my lips.

“Did you know that?” he asked eagerly.

This wasn’t going well. “Lift your arms, John.”

The sheer curiosity in his expression turned into a smirk that would have been playful in a different moment, but for now made my stomach lunge to expel itself through my mouth. “Are you trying to get into my trousers?”

“I’m trying…to get you ready for bed. You need to rest,” I said as calmly as I could though my blood had been absolutely roiling for the past half hour.

John lifted a hand, unsteady like he was under anesthesia. He gripped the collar of my dressing gown and tried to pull me down toward him, but his strength was buffeted by whatever was in his system and his hand plummeted to the mattress. “You really ought to buy a lady dinner first, Maureen.”

I should explain from the beginning, shouldn’t I?

Hehehehe I am so excited to watch the world burn. Sorry.

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[alteredsilicone]

Viri sells Obols to Corpus telling them it's a good luck charm until Ergo stops her

[speckeltail]

the wolf of saturn six is back

YEAH I SAW

[alketaire]

"would you like to optimize the download cache and reduce wasted hard drive space and loading time?" i think i'd like to hand-deliver a love letter to the studio

but what if warframe

[leolithe]

It's not a wonder how much I love Koumei (and Duviri by extension) when I'm a person who enjoys speedrunning roguelikes lol

I literally love Omikuji; I love being able to rack up random decrees in a mission. I love the hype of rolling a triple six. I love the hype of getting a free Decree. I love the comedy of rolling bad. I love building power with what I have in hand and head.

Omikuji's little challenges are so far the strongest driving force for me to put in effort into a build by myself. I have such a clear goal on how to build her and what kinda weapons to give her... She's pretty much the first frame where I have a real interest in labbing out my very own perfect loadout for her.

...Which is very funny because I'm already over 1000 hours in WF and I'm one rank away to MR30! I have been soullessly copying builds this whole time!!!

And Koumei is finally a gambler-type character who is a woman!!!!!!!!! AND she's a puppet with cute doll animations!!!!!!! AND I LOVE HOW PUPPETS MOVE!!! I LOVE HER DESIGN!!! I LOVE THE COLOUR RED!!!!

THIS IS MY WARFRAME!!! SHE WAS MADE FOR ME!!!!!

[kellyvela]

If Grrm didn't scrap the 5 yrs age gap, then Sansa would be 18-19 and Jon would be 21-22 during reclaiming WF. Somewhat similar in age of Ned Cat when they enter WF after marriage.

Right, but, that "gap" wasn't really a "big" thing. George only thought about it after finishing ASOS and tried to do it while he started writing AFFC, but soon after he realized that it wouldn't work.

Q: I'm obsessed with the five-year gap you originally planned in the middle of the series. How would that have happened? GRRM: Originally, there was not supposed to be any gap. There was just supposed to be a passage of time, as the book went forward. My original concept back in 1991 was, I would start with these characters as children, and they would get older. If you pick up Arya at eight, the second chapter would be a couple months later, and she would be eight and a half and [then] she'd be nine. [This would happen] all within the space of a book. But when I actually got into writing them, the events have a certain momentum. So you write a chapter and then in your next chapter, it can't be six months later, because something's going to happen the next day. So you have to write what happens the next day, and then you have to write what happens the week after that. And the news gets to some other place. And pretty soon, you've written hundreds of pages and a week has passed, instead of the six months, or the year, that you wanted to pass. So you end a book, and you've had a tremendous amount of events — but they've taken place over a short time frame and the eight-year-old kid is still eight years old. So that really took hold of me for the first three books. When it became apparent that that had taken hold of me, I came up with the idea of the five-year gap. "Time is not passing here as I want it to pass, so I will jump forward five years in time." And I will come back to these characters when they're a little more grown up. And that is what I tried to do when I started writing Feast for Crows. So [the gap] would have come after A Storm of Swords and before Feast for Crows. But what I soon discovered — and I struggled with this for a year — [the gap] worked well with some characters like Arya — who at end the of Storm of Swords has taken off for Braavos. You can come back five years later, and she has had five years of training and all that. Or Bran, who was taken in by the Children of the Forest and the green ceremony, [so you could] come back to him five years later. That’s good. Works for him. Other characters, it didn’t work at all. I'm writing the Cersei chapters in King's Landing, and saying, "Well yeah, in five years, six different guys have served as Hand and there was this conspiracy four years ago, and this thing happened three years ago." And I'm presenting all of this in flashbacks, and that wasn't working. The other alternative was [that] nothing happened in those five years, which seemed anticlimactic. The Jon Snow stuff was even worse, because at the end of Storm he gets elected Lord Commander. I'm picking up there, and writing "Well five years ago, I was elected Lord Commander. Nothing much has happened since then, but now things are starting to happen again." I finally, after a year, said "I can't make this work." [Source]

[invested-in-your-future]

I still can't get it out of my head that after SIX VOLUMES WHERE:

Beacon fell

Sun ditched his team and ran off to another continent because Blake needed a comic relief (and showrunners were still queerbaiting).

Mistral had it's huntsmen wiped and academy attacked

Atlas and Mantle literally got destroyed

Vale got offscrened

WF tore itself apart

Team RWBY went "missing"

There's a world destroying immortal satan with god mcguffins.

All that the showrunners can think of when it comes to writing Sun and Neptune(who is from Mistral btw) is STILL just "ayyy Volume 2 comedy clown segment"...

If there was a moment to showcase just how RWBY writers are completely unable to progress characters in any way or have them react to story beats, this would be it.

[piggyinthemiddle]

Oh. Just look at your plump little belly, like a drooping fig just begging to be stuffed with sugar and buttery yellow. I can't wait until your paunch is wide enough to pin your cottage cheese riddled thighs to the bed, holding you down so I can shove bags and gallons of greasy sludge down your helpless fucking gullet until your whining and begging me to stop as your stomach bulges out and distends into a grotesque boulder of lard that crushes the air from your lungs. And then I'll keep going, filling and crushing more into you as you cry and beg for mercy, the only response you'll get is the aching stretch of your insides as they fill, and grow. Too packed with lard to hold together as you flail, but that will only be a welcome sign for shoving six more big Macs into your beet red face. And with a sickening "pop" you'll burst open splattering the walls with my hard work as you pathetically cum as the light fades from your dumb piggy eyes. (Signed- WF)

Enjoy this gem with me.. 🔥

Where can I sign up for this?

[thisheademptyyeet]

Them, the three dumbasses <3

Original base here

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

crying okay so once again thwarted by my inability to count HOWEVER: i am OFFICIALLY seven (7) pages of typing from the end of this book!! and!! today i did seven (7) pages by lollygagging! so i think! if i am On It tomorrow! i could FINISH FORREAL!!!

[sherlokiness]

I think your Sansa chicken metaphor as foreshadowing for jonsa marriage is stronger than the blue flower sweetness meaning jonerys marriage. /s

Hi, anon! Why do I feel like you're making fun of me? I am serious about Sansa being a chicken!!! I'm sure you're familar about the trope in stories where the hero gets a reward after saving the day.

The hero will slay the dragon and get a princess' hand in marriage as a reward. Is it crazy to expect this? I don't think so. The series is ultimately a song. All the stories can't be lies. There are true knights and heroes.

The bitch growled low in her throat and moved closer. Ghost looked up, silent, and fixed the dog with those hot red eyes. The bitch snapped an angry challenge. She was three times the size of the direwolf pup. Ghost did not move. He stood over his prize and opened his mouth, baring his fangs. The bitch tensed, barked again, then thought better of this fight. She turned and slunk away, with one last defiant snap to save her pride. Ghost went back to his meal.

In the first book of the series, Ghost faces off against a mongrel bitch bigger than him and will successfully defend his prize. What's the prize? Sansa/Winterfell.

"Hungry again?" he asked. There was still half a honeyed chicken in the center of the table. Jon reached out to tear off a leg, then had a better idea. He knifed the bird whole and let the carcass slide to the floor between his legs

The chicken is a honeyed chicken. It's sweet. *insert quotes of Sansa involving honey and being honey sweet* I'll make smth longer than this later. I think.

Arya was always quick and clever, but in the end she's just a little girl, and Roose Bolton is not the sort who would be careless with a prize of such great worth.

"Do you blame me, my lord? Such a prize is not easily won. A nubile girl, I hear, and not hard to look upon. Good hips, good breasts, well made for whelping children."

"She is old enough to be Lady of Winterfell once her brother is dead. Claim her maidenhood and you will be one step closer to claiming the north. Get her with child, and the prize is all but won. Do I need to remind you that a marriage that has not been consummated can be set aside?"

Who will win the prize that is Sansa Stark? Is this sexist? Even Jon says Arya is a prize.

He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything. I have always wanted it, he thought, guiltily. May the gods forgive me. It was a hunger inside him, sharp as a dragonglass blade. A hunger . . . he could feel it.

Jon's hunger for Winterfell gets mingled with Ghost's hunger. Since Ghost gets to successfully eat the honeyed chicken, I'm gonna assume Jon's hunger will be satisfied.

Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre's. He had a weirwood's eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone of all the direwolves was white. Six pups they'd found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.

He had his answer then.

Indeed, Jon forgot about the WF hunger because of the appearance of Ghost and how he's different.

Jon said, "Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa."

Winterfell belongs to Sansa.

Then Ghost emerged from between two trees, with Val beside him.

They look as though they belong together.

And Sansa belongs with Ghost.

[northoftheroad]

hey! im really new to the fandom and ive been looking through your blog (quite literally awesome btw) and im finding your resources so helpful! I was just wondering if you have a recommended reading order/place to start? i want to get a good understanding of the storylines but i also wanna focus on dick grayson bc ive just been drawn to him the most so far, also on the batfam in general. Im having a hard time figuring out where to start haha

Hi, welcome and I'm happy you've been enjoying my posts ❤️ Maybe you've seen my three reading lists (pre-Flashpoint, New 52 and the current run) but decided there's too many old comics to hunt down? Perfectly understandable 😎

I guess there are as many possible starting points as there are Dick Grayson fans to give recommendations. Personally, I'm fond of the New Teen Titans from the 1980s. Read with modern eyes, they're not flawless, but it's still the start of the modern, growing-up version of Dick Grayson. The book will eventually decline in quality, but there's still a lot of comics to enjoy.

For older stories with Dick as Robin, DC has published two collected editions with stories from the 60s and 70s. They're partly the same comics in both volumes. I like them, and if you’re curious about this period you’ll be spared the job of looking through many, many floppies for the occasional Robin story.

If you're looking for something considerably shorter, there’s also The Gauntlet (Dick’s field test, a great one-shot) and Robin Year One, which I'm sorry to say I don't love, and Teen Titans Year One, which is a good short and modern retelling of vol 1 of the Teen Titans.

If you look at current comics, it's no secret I think Tom Taylor’s run is pretty dull, but a lot of people love it. That's one starting point, but I'd rather recommend to start reading volume 4 from the start. The book has had its ups and downs (feel free to skip the years before Taylor started writing, when Dick is not-Dick) but some of the pre-Taylor stories are very good.

But - the best current books with Dick are no doubt Batman Superman World’s Finest, and the spin-off six issue WF Teen Titans. Dick is not the main character in WF, and he's not yet Nightwing, and it’s still superior .

That's what I can think about on the spot. I hope you’ll find something helpful!

[supertrainstationh]

R33 WF/R36 "Redbirds and Bluebirds" excursion train by R36 Coach Via Flickr: R33 WF/R36 "Redbirds and Bluebirds" excursion train by R36 Coach   Via Flickr: R36 WF (GE) 9586 lead (1st car), St. Louis Car, 11/1963 R36 WF (GE) 9587 (2nd car), St. Louis Car, 11/1963 R36 ML (WE) 9543 (3rd car), St. Louis Car, 2/1965 R36 ML (WE) 9542 (4th car), St. Louis Car, 2/1965 R33 WF (Single Unit) 9307 (5th car), St. Louis Car, 9/1963 R33 WF (Single Unit) 9308 (6th car), St. Louis Car, 9/1963  Six cars, 265 seats (no standees).    WF cars built for 1964-1965 World's Fair, R36 ML (IRT Main Line) cars assembled from leftover R33 shells at end of R36 contract held over by the decision to have the last 40 R33s built as World's Fair single units for 7 service with large picture windows and turquoise "Blue Arrow" livery.    

[zydrateacademy]

The First Descendant - First Impressions

Whether or not you like a game like this depends on your personal threshold for grinding 1% drop rates and your personal suspension of disbelief of watching women with swimsuits on take several thousand bullets to the stomach.

I'm not some young buck that gravitates towards media just because it has some tiddies on the loading screen. I was brought here by all the comparisons to Warframe and Destiny. Warframe is a game I still actively play with over a thousand hours played. Destiny quite a bit less so, I played D2 and was quickly bored by the "endgame=raids", since I'm not a hardcore player by any means my progress was quickly halted and there wasn't enough activity in the world for me to really bother with. But the gameplay itself can be fun and satisfying up to a point.

I'm not going to waste any time talking about the story. It's a framework for the gameplay and much like the two games it's copying from, you mostly forget what happened five minutes after it happened. The intro cinematic threw a lot of names at me like the beginning of a fantasy novel. "The humans were defeated by the Volges, then the Colossi came and then..." Like what are the Vulgers or whatever, what are Colossi? Is that a faction or literal? (It's literal). That Vulga boss sure looks human to me. Does the game explain that? Absolutely not! I still don't know what "Achre" is, just that we have a lot of it. Anyway, who cares. Moving on.

The game shares more DNA with Warframe than Destiny. Each zone is a quasi-open world but they're mostly just instanced shooting galleries with precious very little in between the missions. You may run into some players that help you during these missions but half the time they run off to do their own thing. Which I can't fault them for, they've got their own progression to get through. Sometimes I just catch a high level player just going for that 20% blueprint, so that's always nice to get some backup. But the loop is basically Warframe's relic mechanic spread across the entire loop. You do missions to get some token, then you either go fight a Colossi or do some elite fight planetside to crack the token open, very much like WF's relics. The main problem here is that seems to be the entire game so far.

The visuals seem to be a bit overdesigned which is often a problem I run into with Eastern MMO's in particular. The main villain looks like someone sat down to draw a gothy suit of armor and didn't stop adding tassels or metal fixtures for six hours. Everything shares the same philosophy to where minute by minute visuals get drowned out by all the gunfire as I spend more time looking at my health, the enemies health, and my bullet counter far more than the "looks" of anything. During cutscenes or even just finishing crafting something we're treated with some mechanical metal sound every second anytime anyone or anything does anything at all. It's so excessive and actually does the opposite of the intention; at the end of the day everything feels a bit homogeneous. Warframe also has a similar problem, but it takes the three or so designs and standardizes them. They have the knowledge that people aren't going to stop and look at the walls very much so you needn't waste more time adding panels or alien ridges. The First Descendant does not understand this distinction.

Look, I'm enjoying the game for what it is right now. I play a lot of fantasy and stealth games and sometimes I just want a nice gallery shooter. However, I can't tell you if I'm going to be playing this in another six months or not. I fear that this game may share the fate of other Live Service games, or turn into the forgettable Outriders where once you hit the end game you just hit a wall after sixty hours and just think "well, I guess I'm done here". TFD has the markings of this very problem but if they are vigilant with keeping up with the community, updates, and maybe a little buff here and there with the droprates to shed this company's previous reputation, they might have a decent competitor here. That, or they'll just cut and run like the rest of them. Time will tell. Until then, it's hard to argue with free.