#skill: skill boost

[imasallstars]

SR/SR+ 【Moratorium】Riamu Yumemi

FOCUS STAT 　　　 6176 VOCAL TOTAL APPEAL 　　　 13 440 Skill:「Angels Dance」 　　　(Skill Boost) For every 7 seconds, there is a 40~60% chance that skills activating in the same time will be boosted, for 3~4.5 seconds Center Skill:「Passion×Cute」 　　　When both PASSION&CUTE-type idols are in your unit, all cards gain a 30% boost in TOTAL APPEAL and a 25% boost in their LIFE stat.

※ this card is available through ranking in the Top 200000 in the Moratorium LIVE GROOVE event. You are able to get multiple copies of this card, by ranking in higher tiers of the event

※ you are also able to obtain this card by reaching 10k, 20k, 30k, and 40k points in the Moratorium LIVE GROOVE event.

[erabu-san]

Burning going to be my new gender i afraid

+ a doodle i made yesterday before sleeping

[juha-art]

some custom DE skills I've been working on

ACUMEN Wield keen practical judgment. Make sense of the world. MASQUERADE Play the hand you're dealt. Keep up appearances. CURATOR Keep and categorize information. Recognize Patterns.

DOCTRINE Stick to a regimen. Live by a code. TALE SPINNER Create meaning through stories. Understand narratives. INOSCULATION Reach out. Grow in tandem.

GOLEM Power through physical tasks. Use your body as a tool. FORTITUDE Raise barricades. Thwart intrusions. CREATURE COMFORT Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

PROCESSING Take in stimulants and give them a new form. Keep records. FORGE Form matter into shape. Build something sturdy. COMPOUND EYE Maintain split concentration. Watch and be aware of being watched.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gearing up for the stat boosts

MDZS Disco Elysium AU Part 3 (Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 4)

[gailynovelry]

Thinking a little bit about that one "I'm an English major and a professional as opposed to you amateurs" anon. Gonna roast 'em a little bit, but with the intention of addressing a thing we've had in mind for a while.

Real talk, coming from someone who WAS an English major; majoring in English is not necessarily a guarantee that someone is a good writer. For one, you can be bad at your major, full stop. For another, it's not even a guarantee that someone identifies as a writer to begin with. English as a major is pretty broad, and it covers reading too, among other things. There's library science, analytical academia, historical preservation & interpretation (MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS HELL YES), editing, nonfiction trades (often crosses over with STEM majors), marketing (crosses over with business majors), and also book design and typography (<3 <3 <3 our favorite, crosses over with art majors).

Someone can major in English and take a specific minor with the goal of falling into a trade that is not writing literary fiction. In fact, we would argue that most people who get something useful out of their major are the ones that do that.

It's also worth noting that it's possible to be an English major focused on "lowbrow" fiction. There are people who major in English and use the experience towards the end of writing erotica. There are people who major in English with the intent to write genre fiction. There are people who major in English to study the history and social context of fanfiction.

These things are, in fact, worthy fields of study! The realm of the "amateur" is the realm where a lot of cultural conversations and innovations happen!

Expecting English as a major to be a tract specifically for producing acclaimed literary fictionists is not realistic, not how the discipline typically works, and it's certainly not a thing you can use to hold over other writers' heads. It is perfectly possible for people to write good things (professional-grade things even) without ever touching a college course.

I sat through so much bad writing in college. Technically bad, thematically bad, gramatically bad. And I routinely bump into non-graduate authors who write texts, formal and informal alike, that blow my own writing clean out of the water with their quality.

In short, dismissing other people in your general field as "amateurs" who are beneath you is an incredibly unprofessional thing to do.

[ebonyheartnet]

For anyone struggling this morning, here’s a couple coping techniques:

1.) Physiological sigh: take a slow, deep breath in through the nose, then a short, sharp breath through the nose. Exhale slowly.

Key points: You don’t want to fully fill the lungs with that first breath. Just get most of the way there before that short & sharp breath.

2.) Pattern breathing: put one palm face up and place your other hand’s pointer finger at the base of your thumb. As you slowly grace up to the tip of your thumb, breathe in. Pause at the tip, then slowly trace down, to the base of your pointer finger, as you exhale. Pause again at the base of your pointer finger, then repeat for the rest of the hand.

Key points: Due to the extra stimulus, this is especially good for anyone who struggles with focusing. I’ve also used a paintbrush/cotton swab dipped in cold water, which also helped a lot. I’m also including the visual I put together.

3.) Changing your body temperature: A warm/cold bath/shower, ice water/an ice pack to the face, etc.

Key points: Do not do this one if you have a heart condition. Name of the game is to change your body’s chemistry to calm down extreme emotions.

4.) Chew or drink something: Bonus points if it has a strong taste, it’s cold, or a little tough. This will give you something to focus on and make it slightly easier to ground.

Key points: Your body can either have a panic attack or it can make spit. It’s not really able to run the chemistry for both mechanisms at the same time.

(Also, I’m broke af, so like, please blaze this traditionally)

[sgtpeppers]

Introducing Sgt Pepper's Beatles Book Club Band!

A monthly Beatles book club on discord, with weekly discussion prompts and the chance to share your review at the end!

^ could be us!

How to join: If you're 18+ and love all thing Beatles and books, please send me an ask/dm with your discord username if you're interested! I may limit the number of people who join to start off with depending on how many there are, as I expect there may be some trial and error as we figure things out.

When: We'll start book one on 1 October.

Book one: We'll decide as a group, but my initial idea is The Beatles: The Authorised Biography by Hunter Davies.

If you have any questions just give me message <3

[fromtheseventhhell]

I'm not sure how to get it into people's heads that Arya is a female character. She's not a boy, not nonbinary, trans, agender, or genderless. I don't intend this in a way to be negative or wanky, but her girlhood is imbedded within her character. The problem isn't that Arya stans are missing the point by overemphasizing her femininity and wanting her to be a barefoot tradwife baby making machine, but that we're stating it exists when the majority of fandom and the show itself have gone out of the way to minimize the relevancy of her gender. I'm fully convinced there are a lot of people who think Arya would be the exact same character had GRRM created her as a male character named Arry instead, perhaps they'd do a better job at acknowledging her importance.

What's most ironic to me is how these same fans will gush and coo over the sisters being more alike than we think, but only if it involves giving Arya's characteristics to Sansa. Well acktually, Sansa likes to ride horses just as much as Arya does! They're so alike uwu! But dare acknowledge that Arya has traits and aspects commonly associated to Sansa then not only does that get accusations of wanting Arya to become Sansa, but that it's solely about showing Sansa up and wanting her to grovel in Arya's shadow and superiority 🙄 Hypocrisy and projection showing itself.

Somewhat of an aside, but I recently saw a post on reddit complaining about the fact that all four of Daemon's children survived the Dance specifically focused on the fact that both Rhaena and Baela lived. According to the OP, one of them should've died and their post-war roles in the story should've been given to only one of them. Which at its core is really the main conflict between Sansa and Arya stans, no matter how much the Stansas want to cover their ears and play dumb. It's not about Arya stans projecting their sibling squabbles onto the two of them but simply the fact that it's not possible for two characters to fulfill the same role in the story, specifically when it involves two female characters. The existence of two Stark sisters is an inconvenience for the people who want the story to revolve around Sansa.

I have to believe there's some bubbles that they don't want to admit will burst if TWOW will ever be released and that's why they cling to the idea that Arya stans are the delusional ones. They have to believe that the parts of Sansa's seasons 5-8 storyline they like came from GRRM instead of D&D or else their Jonsa and QITN fantasies will fall apart. I have no idea how someone can watch the scene where Sansa tells Arya she couldn't survive what she had while Arya can only sputter out that she was training and believe 1) it makes sense for their book characters and 2) D&D didn't blatantly favor Sansa and Sophie over Arya and Maisie.

This ask came literally seconds after I drafted a post talking about this exact topic and it's so wild to me that we were both up thinking about Arya + her girlhood and wanting to discuss it 🥹

As for this ask, you really hit the nail on the head. Arya's gender is an essential aspect of her journey but fandom ignores that because they've decided that there's only one "right" way to exist as a female character. Arya's self-esteem issues stem from her being a non-conforming Lady in a misogynistic society, she has to disguise herself as a boy in part because of the threat of sexual violence, in Harrenhal she is assigned gender-specific tasks/labor, political matches are made without her knowledge/consent, she is threatened with sexual violence multiple times, and even her role within the FM is influenced by her gender. Her being non-conforming doesn't mean she's the complete antithesis of everything feminine. The obsession with propping up Sansa has ruined people's ability to perceive complex female characters, ironically including Sansa herself. They genuinely would've respected Arya more if she had died passively rather than fight for her life and you can't tell me that isn't misogyny.

That Reddit post is a great example of how people genuinely can't (or refuse to) comprehend the idea of two female characters occupying the same space. Cause you're right, that is the root of the issue. I think the only reason they bother with the fake "Stark sisters uwu" crap is because they've backed themselves into a faux-feminist corner and they don't want to look hypocritical for disliking Arya. So instead, they pretend to care all while rewriting her to serve as Sansa's prop. This is also why so many Queen!Sansa truthers are also anti-Dany + think that Sansa becoming Queen depends on Dany's downfall. They desperately cling to the show as canon, when D&D have openly admitted they changed the story because they favored Sansa/Sophie. They're fine with how show!Arya is written because to them, that's exactly how she should be; a subservient lapdog for Sansa. TWOW is definitely going to ruin that illusion, and one of the reasons I'm optimistic about it being released is getting to see fandom's reaction.

[imasallstars]

SR/SR+ 【Baraka Storia】Natalia

FOCUS STAT 　　　 6180 DANCE TOTAL APPEAL 　　　 13 442 Skill:「A "Good Morning" Just For You」 　　　(Skill Boost) For every 11 seconds, there is a 40~60% chance that skills activating in the same time will be boosted, for 5~7.5 seconds Center Skill:「Passion Ability」 　　 All PASSION-type cards gain a 30% boost in their SKILL PROBABILITY.

※ this card is available through ranking in the Top 200000 in the Baraka Storia Token event. You are able to get multiple copies of this card, by ranking in higher tiers of the event

※ you are also able to obtain this card by reaching 15k, 25k, 35k, and 45k points in the Baraka Storia Token event.

[erabu-san]

Burning going to be my new gender i afraid

+ a doodle i made yesterday before sleeping

[lavendel081]

Seberis Commissions and Gifts I got!

1.@/ryooshi (tumblr and twitter) 2.@PresageFlower18 (twitter) 3. @languidnimbus (twitter) 4. @negot0 (tumblr and twitter) 5. @uoxou_1613 (twitter) 6. @yideliaa(twitter)

[a-most-beloved-fool]

since i just had the displeasure of blocking a new follower of mine who is a terf, i'd like to remind the new people here that I SUPPORT TRANS RIGHTS and if you don't, you should go ahead and unfollow and block me because i am not going to tolerate your bullshit. and that does mean ALL trans rights, not just people who are fully binary or who have medically transitioned.

[musubiki]

another fun fact: marshall can beat lime in a fight BUT only if hes buffed by mochi or another one of the top 5 witches

[theropoda]

i hate that Media Literacy is the latest new thing the tortured underground posters of tumblr have latched their sense of moral superiority to bc like like here's a life skill that's actually essential, invaluable, incredibly important for navigating day-to-day life, that is objectively a Good Thing, a lack of which is something that ought to be cause for concern (all of which is unlike previous subjects that have been paraded around as Indicators of Superiority like having sex and doing drugs and going to clubs or whatever when theyre literally just things people choose to do) but people on this site cannot go a single day without being so fucking condescending about it and making it less about "genuine issue in modern society we should talk more about" and more "uhhhh i interpreted this anime Better Than You Did which means im better and smarter than you completely ignoring the fact this is a skill that is learned/taught and not born with and isnt an inherent indicator of morality".

[simplyghosting]

Who needs drugs when you can just ask your siblings “Who does a better job? Me or the professional you paid $80 to do the job last time” and they say you

[frugalkubal]