#that could've gone way worse LMFAO

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obstacle dress by blackfern

i was trying to recreate some fits from my oc grammar (pictured above)'s pinterest board before i realised i don't really have that many patterned dresses in the style she'd wear... so i whipped up a recolour of one of my favourite meshes! also i made a patreon bc simfileshare keeps going down... what has the world come to

bgc

teen to elder, fem frame only

human, vampire, & spellcaster occults

everyday, formal, party, & hot weather categories

disallowed for random

ten swatches in various patterns from freepik

swatch previews on patreon

it looks especially good with accessory coats btw you should definitely try that out

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[avaritia-ffxiv]

The thing is, I've never really learned how to play Scholar. I think the highest level content I've ever taken it to was Holminster with NPCs, so not exactly comparative to a real situation. And that was ages ago, I have no memories left of it except vague impressions of using Excogitation on Thancred.

But I hate playing DPS and very much enjoy healing, so yeah I could level SMN/SCH just using SMN. I can't really play that either, but at least no one else's lives would depend on my performance.

But that'd be boring and I'd be guaranteed to have a depressing time, so instead I was like, what if I straight up took SCH to alliance roulette? My level 91 SCH, when I have every last alliance raid unlocked. What's the worst that could happen! Tower at Paradigm's Breach? Okay yeah I'll cry if that loads, but surely I would be able to pull it off too, not like I don't know that raid. It'd just be my job I didn't know.

So I queued as Scholar, kinda terrified but more eager to be terrified than suffer playing a DPS. It didn't end up being Nier, though! Just Orbonne. Double Scholar in our party, two other Scholars in the raid as well. Alright. That's a lot of Scholars. Time to make a fool of myself.

It went well, actually! I had ACT open to see how I'd end up doing and so I could educatedly die of shame if I did shitty, but I didn't. Didn't know my abilities super well, but at level 70 you don't have... That much, so I took it bit by bit and read my tooltips in between and during the fights (dw I had read them before queueing too, but that's not really. Comparable to being in a Real Situation). Was so overwhelmed by everything being new and unfamiliar I dropped my DoT at several points, and the fuck is keeping buffs aligned, but the raid mechanics I at least knew so I only had to worry about my buttons. Wasn't a messy raid overall either, so no overt scrambling.

Ended up second highest in DPS out of all the healers, healed more than my co-healer, and overhealed less than my co-healer. I can only conclude neither of us really knew our job.

So anyway I'll probably be doing that again and I'm sure one time my hubris will land me in Tower at Paradigm's Breach during a very messy run and I'll be traumatized for life, but that's the fun part of playing healers.

[caatws]

Your comment about Gamora's death in comparison to Natasha has been on my mind lately too. I wasn't in love with how they initially handled it with Natasha, but I think eventually she got more closure than Gamora received in vol 3.

I don't know what direction they were going for but how do you have a prominent character in a team film die and only two other characters speak about it, worry over it and have any grief displayed. That's ludicrous to me. Even if you set the film a couple years later you can still have one or two emotional team conversations about it. You could have at least one more person struggling in a different way. The guardians being depicted as a family only makes the problem more obvious. Either everyone but Peter and Nebula are the worst family members ever or the writing sucks. When Gamora shows back up you would think there would be emotional fallout even years later. Only Peter seems to be aware or have any response besides Nebula who has been interacting with Gamora and maintaining their relationship. You would think this was a common every day occurrence for most of them.

The same issue effects Gamora's characterization and arc. Endgame showed her to be exactly like the Gamora from the first guardians movie if memory serves me right. We see she can be tough and harsh at times. But she can also show empathy, vulnerability and the will to do the right thing. Vol 3 acts as if none of this is part of her character anymore at first just because of living with the ravagers. I would buy that if not for the fact that there's no way everything that's made her who she is from years before would suddenly be gone and we already know from Kraglin and Yondu that ravagers don't lack the ability to care. You're telling me Gamora went from emotional and in tears about Thanos winning in the future during Endgame and wanting to stop him, to not wanting to even remotely help with the High Evolutionary at first in vol 3. That's so inconsistent it's like they forgot her characterization. Also Nebula was getting on Gamora for some of her actions as if she has room to talk. She wanted to blow up all of Zandar in the first movie and she was ready to leave people behind in vol 2. Did they forgot how Nebula behaved in previous films because pot meet kettle.

I haven't seen any of James Gunn's other films so I don't want to judge him too harshly but either he doesn't know how to write women in complex traumatic situations or he thought what he did was enough which is sad. He showed an afterlife in the film so couldn't he show Gamora at peace or have the Gamora who came to the future explore her feelings around it and bring closure that way.

i totally feel you anon. i've been a hater of natasha's ending this whole time as well, but now seeing how gamora's ending has been depicted (or rly a lack thereof lol) it's weirdly making me feel almost at peace with nat's death. bc it's like oh wow it could've been handled so much worse lol.

with nat my biggest problems were the fridging, her arc ending before she got to do more/have her own story, and her not getting a funeral with tony...truly just minor inconveniences now in comparison to what's happening over in gamora land lmfao

and yeah, i was honestly pretty surprised how much rougher around the edges this gamora seemed. like yeah the ravagers are pretty rough and tumble themselves but it caught me off-guard how much colder it seemed to make gamora, for lack of a better word i guess?? i don't doubt her being really harsh and terrifying in the past under thanos like nebula was saying, but yeah 2014!gamora is still the gamora who was like on the brink of betraying thanos. like even if this gamora hadn't gone through most of vol 1, she's still the gamora who already had one foot out the door so she could stop thanos bc she cared abt innocent lives, so it was a tad surprising to see her act so coldly toward the rest of the gotg or even rocket who was actively dying and would clearly be sorely missed by the others. like not super surprising or even super ooc to me, but just kinda surprising considering her appearance in endgame

like her cold shoulder toward peter i can get, bc it's clear that his baggage with original gamora is hurtful to her and i think that's more than fair. but since the narrative also establishes that peter is seemingly the only gotg character to even have this baggage at all, since the others don't even so much as mention missing or grieving original gamora, idk if she'd need to be such a hater toward them too lol.

and honestly i think her characterization would've made a lot more sense if the narrative had actually included the rest of the gotg's grief for original gamora and sorrow that this gamora isn't her. like, if not being the gamora this world expects her to be has been weighing down on gamora for years, i could see her rly becoming like this, cuz that's a whole lotta pressure she's never gonna live up to! that would be a great character conflict for her. but by erasing original gamora from the narrative outside of peter's grief, we can't even rly justify this gamora's behavior through this issue either

the only other gunn project i've watched is the suicide squad and i don't remember much of my thoughts on it besides generally enjoying it. but i think callie @starmora put it best yesterday when they said that gunn's always had favorites and gamora's never rly been one of them, especially compared to rocket, who gunn has been outspoken about seeing himself in most and being the hidden protagonist of sorts throughout the gotg franchise (to the point that even in the movie, lylla straight up tells rocket, "this story has been yours all along"), so it's unfortunately not surprising that gamora's arc has been...whatever this is. and like, idc that gunn's favorite is rocket bc that's fine and rocket's had a pretty solid story/arc (though i feel like there's something missing between iw when he lied abt being captain of the ship to impress thor to vol 3 where peter decides to make him captain, especially after rocket spent the entire film incapacitated), but it just sucks that it meant there wasn't much wiggle room to deal with the gamora situation

and also i 1000% agree - WE SHOULD'VE GOTTEN AN ORIGINAL GAMORA POST-END CREDIT SCENE!!!! i would've loved to see her like watching everyone dance to dog days are over or something from the afterlife and just kinda feeling satisfied with everything, despite the way things ended for her

[imagining-in-the-margins]

Here are the rest of the TB&TB Anon Asks 🐇 !

1. Correct. Absolutely zero other commentary required. You are right.

2. [Link] It's the subtle kind of neediness that really speaks to them 😂 Absolutely adorable, thank you for sharing!

3. Nope, she's an Original Character. I didn't think any of the women of the BAU would interfere in that relationship, and Diana is gone in this fic. So, all I had left for an "antagonist" was an OC.

For those who are wondering, I usually picture Teresa Palmer when I think of Candy:

4. I'm actually not a fan of the song, but I do appreciate everyone who thinks about me while listening to the music they love! It really makes me so happy to think about.

If I had to pick a character I thought that song picked, I would choose H2M Reader every single time, hands down. For those who do see Bunny in it, though, you'll really enjoy Part 18 with it.

5. YOU are amazing! Thank you for your comments!

I won't be showing any more of the conference (they are usually only 2-3 days, and it's already been two days), but you can bet your ass it was awkward, lmao. Only for Bunny, though. Candy and Spencer continued to act like nothing had happened and remained focused on work (which was actually a relief for Bunny, that they didn't make it worse).

I also appreciate you telling me to take my time. I realized I probably could've finished the chapter on time if I forced myself, but the next Part is very important, so I'd rather take my time. It is almost done, though!

6. You are so wonderful, thank you so much! I am so happy to hear each of the emotions I wanted you to experience hit the way they were supposed to.

It felt wrong not to give you guys the ominous warning at the end of the chapter, considering what is coming over the horizon. I wish you the best of luck 🌚

7. Please, he was so mad 😭 I was getting lightheaded imagining being in that situation. I would be mortified if I were either of those women lmfao.

8. Hahah, yeah... she's not the best lately. But she will be slightly redeemed, enough for us to understand why Spencer admired her so much in the first place. Everyone does stupid shit when they're deeply hurt. Important part is what we do after.