#tactical retreat

[digi-lov]

Tactical Retreat! BT4-105 Alternative Art by Shin Sasaki the ST-14 Advanced Deck Set Beelzemon

This Alternative Art of Tactical Retreat!, which allows you to place a Digimon on top of your secruity stack, shows Leomon, Herissmon and Meicoomon escaping from an attack, all of which have cards with secruity effects.

Leomon EX1-027 by Bandai from EX-01 Theme Booster Classic Collection Herissmon P-068 by Kazumasa Yasukuni from the Limited Card Pack Meicoomon BT9-074 by Sanosuke Sakuma from BT-09 Booster X Record

[dc-himbo]

RETREAT!

Tactical retreat due to my tensonitius lol. You may have won the battle... but after a quick break, maybe I'll win the boop war.

Feel free to keep spamming me if you want. I don't mind, and I'll boop ya back later.

[likesdoodling]

The Adventures of Steve and Orphan

No. 58

Turns out Steve’s plan wasn’t quite as foolproof as he originally thought... And now the guard is really mad- Whoops.... Well... You can’t plan for everything. Time to teach Orphan about tactical retreats! They’re not running away, just getting more resources. Mhm. Yup.

Random side note- I have a very wet cat sleeping on my bed right now because she decided that’s the best place to dry off apparently. She’s a good deal less wet than when she first arrived two hours ago, but still. I’m also kinda sick so I’m very grateful to my past self for finishing these a few days ago as opposed to now- (time management whoo!)

[daedalusdavinci]

ok im gonna answer this and then im gonna go to bed but my beloved @dubiousfruitsalad has requested one of those journal things and im going to try and deliver

Put “��” or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I’ll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven’t written but daydream about.

you know for a while i actually wanted to write a sequel to tactical retreat (which, for those who dont know, is a medievalstuck dvekat fic where karkat is a knight and dave is a farmer who inspires him to leave his traumatic job and accept that his dream has changed over the years and tbh i think its still pretty well written i just reread it recently and i really had so many genius comedic moments w that fic tbh sollux is ICONIC but thats neither here nor there (read my fic))

in the first chapter i introduced a character named dave, nicknamed "crow", who was another knight who worked with karkat and frequently had guard duty watching over the prince, john. this was supposed to be davesprite and was a setup for a johndavesprite fic i was going to write after i finished tactical retreat, which was going to focus on a much more traditional knight/prince dynamic bc i am, unfortunately, such a sucker for that kind of thing. i think moreso than any other kid, john fits really well in the role of a prince striving to live up to his dads legacy but chafing uncomfortably under the role as someone who just loves pranks and screwing around. dave is, obviously, such a good knight character, and davesprite and john in particular have such a complicated and tragic relationship in canon where davesprite gave up his whole timeline and ruined his own life just to save john, without ever getting to meet his own john in person, and then for him to butt heads so hard with the john he saved, its just so. ugh. i feel a lot of ways about it. theyre perfect to me. i love a messy relationship

in this au crow/davesprite was going to be an immigrant from derse who immigrated when he was very young and had to work very hard to get his position in the knights, which is part of the reason why he and karkat get along so well, as they both come from similar backgrounds and similarly struggled to prove themselves. hes known john since they were relatively young as dadbert thought it was important for john to train alongside the knights, so theyre extremely close despite how often they drove each other crazy as kids. its very much a situation of john looking towards his future with creeping horror and leaning heavily on crow while he tries to balance his fathers expectations with his desire to cling to youth. on top of that, as they grow out of some of their younger immaturity and into themselves, theres a steadily growing attraction between them that theyre carefully and delicately trying to navigate when they both know johns position wont allow it.

ultimately, however, i ended up scrapping the whole thing as i got further and further into writing tactical retreat, so it never made it past an idea. the message of tactical retreat was so anti knights and blatantly used knights as an allegory for governmental force and police, and i just didnt feel good about writing a followup fic that glamorized knights the way the dvejohn fic wouldve required. i felt like it wouldve undermined what i worked so hard to convey. i still like the story idea, but it definitely doesnt have any place within the tactical retreat universe. however, you can absolutely still see the traces of that idea in the first chapter.

this is unfortunately far, far from the only time i have ever written a fic with the intention of writing a sequel that i never actually wrote. im just following the dopamine babey

[world-of-advice]

[yourplayersaidwhat]

*After two hours into a "combat" encounter deep in a dungeon*

Elf Rogue: Agh, my health! I'm 3 points away from death!

Orc Fighter: My weapons are broken! My armor's been torn! Cleric, I need you!

Human Cleric: I've no more spells! I had to reattach my foot after that last fireball, thank you wizard!

Goblin Wizard: Hey, I was trying to finish the fight! Not my fault this thing is so strong!

Teifling Bard: *Is unconscious*

Dragonborn Paladin: Here Bard, my last point of Lay on Hands. Ugh, I'm out of spells as well.

Genesi Sorcerer: Foul Demon! You have broken us down, and you have bested us! Tell us, what are you, and what do you want?

Statue, that hasn't thrown one attack: Hello, I am your friendly dungeon helper. I am to either give you a hint on the next rooms puzzle, or summon a trolley to take you back to the entrance safely. Which would you ask of me?

Orc Fighter: ... Trolley?

Genesi Sorcerer: Trolley.

DM: Wise choice.

[paristandard]

still on my silmarillion kick and back on my ‘recreating napoleon paintings’ kick here’s the whole Formenos crew probably right after taking the Oath

[nillisaie]

I finally finished drawing this silly comic! It took me too long to make since I didn't plan ahead and my layers were such a mess, but I finally did it! I also drew a bonus panel!

[corellianhounds]

There were parts of TBoBF I wanted to like but the writers and directors just kept making story choices that made their characters look dumb or inept.

I wanted to like the fight sequence with Mando and Boba working around each other in the streets, but if they were able to hide on the rooftop of the bombed out Sanctuary until getting the drop on the Pykes et al., why on earth would they leave the rooftop

Why would you come out of hiding. Why would you give up your cover in exchange for being wide out in the open. Why would you give up the literal high ground to go stand in the middle of a three-way intersection within a more achievable firing distance for your enemies. Why wouldn’t you stay on the roof firing from afar, something the both of you as hunters would not just know how to do better than anybody else there, but would know TO do in this specific situation. Why are you negating the element of surprise and the entire purpose of being on the rooftop to begin with.

I don’t care how cool they could have looked. I don’t care that we get to see the jetpacks in action. I don’t care how it’s supposed to represent some “I’ve got your back” moment between these two. It’s an incredibly basic directorial and fight choreography flub to have your two characters purposefully put themselves into danger when you’ve literally just established that they had the strategic advantage. Even children know it’s harder for people to get to you when you’re up somewhere out of reach.

[goldensunset]

i tried shiny hunting the cyndaquil line once in pla during a special outbreak but those guys literally almost killed me

[anomalous-root]

witches in the sky

[saanphoenix]

Emmrich: "You're gravely injured, Rook!"

Rook, fucking dead on the ground: "Is that a pun?"

[excelsior9173]

just had a complete breakdown at work :)

i cannot handle the levels of anxiety the dog i am caring for is experiencing. it is stressing me out and i am already experiencing an extreme amount of overwhelm with my workload and also doing some really important testing on tuesday.

keep getting myself somewhat under control and then i just break again. i hate crying. i hate feeling this overwhelmed. i feel like i’m drowning

[local-ragamuffin]

DAMMIT- I’VE BEEN SPOTTED-

Apparently it’s Coming Out to Sherlock Holmes Day and nobody told me until I landed back in the States so uh

Hello

I am ace

I’ve fulfilled my obligation for the day.

Well in the UK it's already sunday so too late.

[moe-broey]

Finally..... I have.... The Three Pages......... all it took was 17 or so pages

[luminous-studiess]

i have a very very very serious problem w mental blockage n deadlines and perfectionism right now (long story involving paper cramming in college a nervous crash/breakdown and my slow decline into terminal procrastination) so i decided to rewire my brain HARD RESET into “progress not perfection” by turning in the most efforty bare minimum thing (shows effort and commitment but basically the vibes are go girl give us nothing) on time . it was 2 pages