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[crowcollectorarts]

My friend’s Toreador for their birthday a month back :)

[gothushi]

imagine being subby with Simon, you just let him pound into you and fill your overstimulated cunt with his cum over and over again until you are both messes<3

this can either go two ways. ur both deep in a subby mood, pawing at each other till u tumble onto the bed, both whining and sniffling and whimpering as u touch each other. he’ll slide in and try to let u adjust but he starts saying sorry he can’t help it and fucks into u hard, desperate, mouthing at ur tits and nipples until the mounds are covered in hickies and bite marks. he cums the first time and just keeps going, thrusting more erratically, gasping, “need to– to cum again. wanna keep filling u!” so he does just that. whenever u orgasm u can’t even catch a break to breathe because he just keeps going messily grinding, flushing at the lewd slick noises ur bodies are making, cum dripping around his cock and down his balls making a big mess on the duvet that he promises he’ll clean up. when his cock is finally satisfied, he slides down to lick up the mess, teeth scraping against ur clit before sucking lightly while his eyes roll back

OR.. or.. hear me out

brendan has him pissed the fuck off so he comes home all pent up, shoving u over the nearest surface. couch, bed, counter, shower wall, torturing u with his fingers for a couple minutes before fucking into u quick, groaning in ur ear, telling u to be still, take it, his hands grabbing at ur flesh so tightly he’ll leave bruises to be seen the next morning. he doesn’t care if u cum once actually, not now, whilst he grinds in to dump load after load into u, getting his energy and anger out through orgasm. smacks ur clit when u whine at him, uses a couple fingers to rub at it when ur begging to please cum. he’ll bite at ur neck, licking over the mark as u cry out and whine that it’s too much and he’s gotta convince u to take more, “one more baby, easy” “lemme cum in u again, c’mon.. good that’s it” “shh shh shh,”

[katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Really Get To Know Me: 1, 4, 7, 9, 30!

Yeah I have no excuses for not getting to these sooner except I unplugged from the grid and only poked my head n for brief amounts of time. Self preservation. I appreciate you sending this to me tho @thelettersfromnoone! I hope you're hanging in there alright through The Horrors.

From this list

What do you do for work?

At the moment, I am once again working as a part time library aide at a nearby public library. Not the same one I was at before but it's within the same county cooperative. Last job was at a library with a skeleton crew (and like zero real support from the city) so I did a little bit of everything there. This library has a massive staff and sooooo much support from its city it's insane and wonderful. I work at in circulation, and that's about it for now.

4. Do you like cooking or baking more?

I like eating more. :D I only cook and bake because no one else is gonna do it for me. (Mr. kdnfb has many useful skills. Kitchen related ones are not among them, although he is very good at cooking outdoors over an open fire. This is yet another reason I joke that I only keep him around in case of the apocalypse.)

7. Celebrity crush

Idris Elba. Tessa Thompson. Chris Evans. Charlize Theron. Chris Pine. Kate Winslet. Brendan Frasier. Rachel Weisz. Oded Fehr. (Okay the entire cast of The Mummy (1999))

9. Make a confession

I haven't written or even worked on anything that could be deemed original work in about eight months. And it sucks.

30. Have you ever met a celebrity?

I've met Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series. Not sure that counts lmao.

Thanks for the ask, my friend!

<3 kdnfb

[kob131]

Lily Orchard and Pokemon: Gen 3

Okay I'm gonna try to keep these shorter. But to be fair- Lily is going to start belly aching in Gen 4 beyond so I might have more to cover.

"Brendan misogynyist because he assume Gym Leader kid guy!"

Lily's, he's fucking ten. I don't even think you CAN be sexist at that age because I don't think your brain is developed enough to form complex thoughts or beliefs. Also that is LITERALLY the one time he mentions it.

"I like Brendan because he's not trying super hard to be friend or be rude!"

Again, Lily. You misread Blue who does nothing but slag you off and throw tantrums. Your view on story elements is so thoroughly tainted they can't be taken seriously.

"Brendan's salty when he loses!"

Huh, he actually kind of is. I never noticed that. I guess Brendan has about a quarter of a character. ... What, more than what May or anyone in Gen 6 got.

Still doesn't raise him above 'one of the worst rivals in Pokemon.' Also, good job Lily. You actually showed me something new. Took you only...50 minutes...

*Another captialism dig*

We get it Lily- You long to be locked into a gulag and then shot by a firing squad. Move on.

"What is it about Rock that makes it good for a first time Gym?"

That's the kind of thing a retrospective is supposed to SOLVE, Lily. You're supposed to be asking yourself 'Why did the developers choose to do this at this point instead of something else?' But so far, your video has been nothing but you either belly aching or you making half baked jokes.

Anyway- Rock is chosen to encourage the player to diversify their moveset as Rock resists Normal, the most common attacking type in the early game, as well as all of them being physically defensive, which counters most attacks in the early game as Physical Normal moves. It's also weak to Grass and Water, encouraging the player to experiment and understand type matchups better. The Fire problem is solved by either slapping the Fighting type onto the starter or giving it a Steel move in the case of FR/LG.

"Match Call is stupid! Before you could refuse everyone's numbers but now they get forcibly added and they bother you all the time!"

It's called 'world building' Lily. They call to make them feel like real people.

"The Macho Brace is dumb in the main game because you can't control what you fight in the main game so all your Pokemon become worse faster!"

... What?

First off- Wouldn't that make the Macho Brace a competitive focused item? Thus there being no real reason to bring it up?

Second- Yes, you can control what you fight. Go fight wild Pokemon with the Macho Brace. They'll give you the proper EVs if you care THAT much.

Third- EVs...can't make your Pokemon worse. They can be wasted but they are only ever buffs. And you don't need perfect EVs for the main game. Try proofreading.

"Team Magma/Aqua are good because you don't encounter them that often so they can concoct their plans!"

Lily, you just got done explaining why Maxie (and by extension, Archie in Sapphire) is a fucking moron for trying to erupt a volcano which would kill INNUMERABLE PEOPLE just to make land (or water) for Pokemon. (She says it's for people.)

By definition, they are not good just because there is less of them and thus they can make plans. It just means they have less time to fail those stupid plans.

"The Lavaridge Gym sucks because you have to navigate mud titles and which ones transport you and which ones are trainers are up to fate to decide!"

... Lily. If there are two titles right next to each other that seem to be blocking off more, distant titles that correspond to ones from above- they're probably trainers. Its very obvious which ones are trainers.

I found this out when I was EIGHT.

"Flannery stammers her intro which is dumb!"

Her character is that she's a newbie Gym Leader uncertain of what to do.

Story telling, Lily. A key feature of RPGs. Engage with it.

"Gardevoir broken because Special bulk and Calm Mind!"

A. This is a game for children Lily. Numerous Pokemon can sweep Gym Leaders.

And B. Fun Fact Lily- Most offensive Pokemon prefer high Speed over high bulk since cries are a thing. So if a bulky Psychic is broken, guess how monstrous a Psychic with say...10 extra Sp.ATK, 20 SP.Def and a HUGE increase in Speed would be.

... Oh right, that's GEN 1 ALAKAZAM. The same Pokemon you mocked as 'not being that strong'. Contradicting yourself AGAIN Lily.

"Hoenn has too many water routes, which are boring and annoying-"

Hub, I actually agree-

"-but everyone mock IGN!"

And there it is.

Lily, people mocked IGN both as a joke abd because they gave Ruby and Sapphire, objectively worse games, a 9.5.

"No one ever talks about how Pokemon uses music! They use good themes for the legendaries causing peoples in Ruby and Sapphire but not Emerald! Certainly not BW where N is fucking stupid or Zinna's theme is intense but not battle! The remakes ruined them!"

A- People bring up how Pokemon uses music all the damn time. The Area Zero theme was dissected for giving an atmosphere of entering a new world, unknown and dangerous waters and something completely foreign to everywhere else you went.

B-Lily, the remakes simply had cleaner OSTs. They sound very much the same. You even admit this as you call Omega Ruby's OST for Groudon 'like trying to escape a star going supernova'. A supernova. A term synomous with IMMENSE, INCONCIEVABLE HEAT.

and C-Ignoring N where you just go 'N bad!'- Zinnia's theme is intense because you're facing a Dragon Specialist, using a VERY dangerous Type of Pokemon, before rocketing into space to destroy a meteor threatening to kill everyone.

"Team Aqua and Magma aged well because they're charming! Not like other villains who just spout off philosophy!"

We get it, Lily. You don't pay attention.

Doesn't change the fact that you admitted that these one-note caricatures are so fucking stupid they didn't know fucking with primordial gods would cause issues. Or that exploding a volcano is BAD. That's bad writing Lily. You are praising bad writing.

"Why did you change Wally's Gardevoir to a Gallade? YOU MADEIT EASIER, SEXISTS!"

... Because they wanted to promote Mega Gallade. And they both represent Wally growing from a shy, insecure kid to a confident ACTUAL rival.

Gallade was made because it's a fucking knight guarding a lady, moving on.

"I was pleasantly surprised by Gen 3-"

Not surprised one of the blandest Gens got your approval, Lily. Considering your response to any game that tries to have any kind of ambition is to get pissy.

Well, let's go check Sinnoh.

[dxppercxdxver]

face, outerwear, and informal for brendan?

(I Know he is both of our guy but I want to hear your Thoughts about him :3 )

me when i answer these questions instead of doing my european lit readings peace and love on planet earth

(author's note i'm answering based on what i personally envisage so if this doesn't jive with your imaginings well. Oh Dear !)

(second author's note i'm answering for both pre and post Mine Incident. since i think he experiences a pretty radical behavior shift)

face: describe your oc's face. what's their smile like? are their orbs cerulean? what would someone notice first when looking at them?

before: oh brendan's an exceedingly smiley guy. he's Infectiously happy. big wide toothy grins, sparkle in his eye, always a little mischievous. he's got sharp features, but in the sort of timmy chalamet way where he's very Defined. they don't really make him look intimidating, just very handome. he's got brown eyes, he's got freckles, he's got curly hair that can Never Ever be tamed, he's got some pretty strong sideburns and also A Moustache. perhaps a goatee. i think most folks just remember him being a very cheerful person? he looks at you like you're both in on a joke

after: oof. yeah. he was angular before, now he's downright Haggard. sunken cheeks, dark circles, pale, skin that seems kind of loose on his bones. he rarely smiles. his eyes have No sparkle whatsoever and frequently stare into the middle distance. they're just. Dull. if folks look a little closer, he's got sharper teeth (maybe too many of them? hard to be sure) and an eye color that's not. Wrong exactly. but not quite right either. guy who's just had All the life sucked out of him. misery and listlessness incarnate

outerwear: what's your oc's outerwear situation? jacket, sweater, cloak? what sort of weather do they deal with most and how do they protect themselves?

before: brendan is. a guy who does not like Clothes, generally. whereas isaiah's usually pretty done up, brendan likes to be wearing as little clothing as he can reasonably get away with. when he was working at the store before taking his job in the mines, his usual outfit was like. shirt. no collar. sleeves rolled up. Maybe braces if he was expecting Fancy Company. pants. really beat up boots. you will almost Never catch that man in proper outerwear unless isaiah bullies him into it. he's kind of the cousin to those sorts of guys who wear shorts throughout the winter. also. he lives in texas. he doesn't really Need it. he's chilling. and also like. if the store's closed and he's just vibing he's Probably Not Wearing A Shirt tbh. who care

after: i think between a combination of Self Consciousness and a sense of Something About Him Being Wrong and a permanent Cold Damp in his bones brendan starts to uncharacteristically layer up. full long sleeve shirts, maybe a collar, probably a loose jacket of some kind. it's so hot out but he can't get the chill of the mines out of his skin. he just can't.

informal: what's your oc's lazy-day look? how do they like to dress when they're winding down?

before: as mentioned before!! No Shirt Rolled Up Pants No Shoes. he is Lying Down And Sweating and he doesn't give a Fuck. maybe he's got a smoking jacket and walks around in just that. he's the 1800s equivalent of the guys who just wear basketball shorts everywhere

after: given the aforementioned No One Look At Me and also Cold Forever. i think brendan leans really heavily on that smoking jacket but also keeps other layers on underneath it. maybe stockings!! maybe some sort of undershirt!! he's got pants on now!! he finds it so hard to unwind he's literally always on edge. uh oh

[hecateisalesbian]

things that have been said in theatre today (so far)

“Reginas Booty, now in Family Size”

“Kiingggg Julian I looveeee you” *said in the bathroom*

“KING JULIAN! Open the, open the door please, I only want to suck on your toeeessss”

“Can you like- eat the spaghetti out of his hand?”

“For the sake of THEATRE. I will have my butt smacked” *ensue cheering*

*smacks butt* “YIPE!!!” *tom and Jerry style*

“You. Are driving me. CRAAAAAAAAZZZZYYYYYYYYYY.”

“Sittttttt. SIIIIIITTTTTTTTT. SIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT”

*holding an empty microphone stand on two of its three legs* “this is Brendan. He’s a male. You can tell because” *gestures to the third leg that’s in the air”

*holding the microphone stand on all three of its legs* “This. Is brenda. She is a female.” “Females have 3 legs?” “Yes. Females have three legs”

*three people come running back stage* “Is our rat back here?? OMG YOU HAVE IT! Thank you!” *runs back*

“Ba da buh ba baaaa” *mcdonalds theme*

“WHY ARE YOU EATING A BANANA LIKE THAT YOU WEIRDO?” “You should be less judge mental of how people eat their food” “HES EATING IT SIDEWAYS?!?”

*from the backstage hallway, in the dark* “hehehehee” *moments later crawling on the ground* “chika dika haaaaaa”

*with the stand again* “You know Bisexual David right?” *adjust the stand so that all three legs are spread apart touching the floor* “This is 3D Steve. You can figure that out for yourself.” *puts the stand upside down* “Oh. And this is Charlie. You can figure this out for yourself too. Because I have no idea.” *adjusts stand to make it taller* “See, this is how tall Brendan is. And Brenda. But Steve.” *shortens stand* “His inches went to somewhere else obviously. His Legs.”

“Omg guys this is so Scurry [scary]”

*backstage dialogue* “HAHA!” “AGGHHHHHHHHHH”

“Ghursts. R. Scurry”

“YOU. ARE. FARTBAGS”

[thefrogdalorian]

So the thing is…in season one the stuntmen and Pedro were seamless in their transitions. We know he filmed a few seasons in season 1

Season 2 was mostly him, and it was perfect

Season 3 was crap…the body language vs dialogue was so disjointed. You could tell it wasn’t him. It lacked, I’m sorry.

If Pedro thinks wearing the Mando suit sucks, wait till he’s gotta wear spandex. He can be locked in an iron clad contract, it still doesn’t change how him doing just voice work isn’t the same.

And don’t even bring up Vadar, he bearly moved. Din is so animated when it’s Pedro vs his doubles.

i can see what you mean but i don't think season 3 was entirely terrible in that way, personally. i don't think there's too much difference to season 1, which i just finished rewatching! you can definitely tell something is different from s2 but there were still a lot of classic din movements i loved in there. i love the way he leans on the tree and pushes himself off in ch17 for one, that's just the first thing to spring to mind.

but i hear you and i don't think anyone who loves the show a great deal and pays attention would disagree with you in saying that it wasn't as good as season two in terms of din's movements and physical characterisation. at the end of the day, unfortunately, it's the best we're going to get from now on and i personally don't want to waste energy on getting upset about it. it's sad but pedro isn't going to come back to be din full time so we just have to enjoy what we have. is it as good? no. is it still good overall? for me, yes. i think it's obvious there's a lot of time and effort put into making mando, they really do care about what they make.

i don't know how his costume for fantastic four would work, but i guess it's a bit different than the heavy armour he would've been wearing and moving in for season 2. no doubt his age and physical limitations would be taken into consideration before casting a role like that. if pedro says he couldn't handle mando, i believe him. it seems like he had a great time on set and everyone enjoyed working with him despite the nasty rumours.

i would never compare din and vader in terms of physicality but it just shows that star wars has a track record of casting iconic voices for helmeted figures. din wouldn't be the character he is if it was just pedro behind the helmet, the physicality and stunts brendan & lateef bring make him the complete character. but he's just that, a character, not real and that sadly means that there isn't just one person who can portray him, much as i would love that and love it to be pedro. in the same way as vader could never be just james earl jones, din could never be just pedro, sadly. but the character as the sum of all those parts - face, voice, movement, stunts - becomes something better than what just one person could create.

[incomingalbatross]

Seven chapters into Tenthragon! Disorganized bullet-point reactions below, by chapter.

Ch. 1-2:

I love the atmosphere so far.

These chapters do well at establishing that Brendan really is doing his best for Patric and cares about him (even if the evidence might not be enough for a small child to find security in that).

Despite that, Brendan also really gives the feeling that there is Danger here���not only that Patric isn't safe here unless he stays within bounds, but that Brendan is in some way constrained. If this were fantasy, there'd be a curse in this house.

(I have a very general idea of what or rather who IS in the "other house," but only very general. I don't know any of the whys or hows or plot developments, really.)

So it SEEMS like there are two Marys, and if so that's really something you need to EXPLAIN to the small child, guys.

Also, I don't like that thing of Mary trying to scare him into behaving by citing Brendan. I've seen that tactic before, and it is both unhelpful and unfair.

Ch. 3:

No, I don't like Mary. That's HIS money. Let him spend it. :(

Oh good. They DID explain the twin thing. Paddy doesn't need that stress.

She bought a SWITCH? It is not her job to buy a switch for a child who isn't hers! Much less to threaten the boy with it when his actual guardian didn't even want it in the house and doesn't know she got it!

Ch. 4:

Even allowing for the fact that this is all being filtered through Paddy's perspective, the list of People I Dislike here is growing. Why do they seem to enjoy scaring children.

Tentatively putting Ludovic Tenthragon (mentioned only) at the head of the list, though.

Ch. 5:

This! Is why you don't make children under your care afraid of you! They're scared to tell you when something goes wrong and then it gets worse. (It's fine, I'm sure this is the ONLY time something like that will happen here…)

Poor Paddy, locking out the dragon. (If I heard strangers partying on the other side of my wall I would ALSO be uneasy. It's bad enough being in a hotel room by yourself at night.)

Brendon gets significant points for this night. But also YES, sir, Paddy is afraid of you. Part of it is just that you all live in a cursed house.

Ah, so Eann Tenthragon was a LITERAL prodigal son.

…Tentatively removing Ludovic from the top of the list. Awaiting further information.

Oh. Oh BOY. Yes, I see someone else owns the coveted top-of-list space.

Ch. 6:

Very glad Paddy is getting along better with Brendon. Sad Brendon can't spend more time with him.

Prue is very good at appreciating music.

Continue to really admire the atmosphere. The way it's not fantasy and yet in every important way, all the fairy tales are true and Paddy's surrounded by them.

Ch. 7:

All right, the dragon is Hugh. ...I can see how that fits in.

(For the record, I would like to state that it is NOT Paddy's fault this house is so confusing. If I saw a house that looked exactly like mine I wouldn't notice it was facing west instead of east either.)

OOF. So he didn't KNOW Paddy was there. Yes, I see the rock and hard place Brendon has been living between.

STOP TERRIFYING THE SMALL CHILD

See, the fact that he's talking to a seven- or eight-year-old who he wants to terrify makes it difficult for me to tell how much of the supervillain monologuing is sincere—but on the other hand, the fact that he's saying it with the intent of being believed is quite bad enough. The malice is real, and it's frightening.

In conclusion: someone save the child. I'm going to stop here for the night, before I get sucked in.

[crystalelemental]

Sync Pair Retrospective - SC Rosa (and Naomi)

Technically, SC Rosa's initial debut was five days later, but since she's rerunning now, we may as well do this. SC Rosa followed up the third anniversary, which was a big deal for most, but not to me. Rosa was actually my prize of that month. And in the intervening time, how has she held up?

BAD, ACTUALLY

Look, I'll be the first to admit when my assessment of a pair doesn't play out functionally. SC Rosa was a fairly mediocre pick from the outset. Despite massive sync damage and DPS, and the coveted debuffs I love so well, Rosa's kit is very awkward. She struggles to reach full debuff, and despite the high base speed, has legitimate gauge issues as a four-bar spam. The biggest hiccup is just...what move to use. Debuff special attack/evasion for multipliers on all foes? Debuff special defense to boost damage that way? CS was a real struggle. And despite good debuffs, many AoE sure crits in Gauntlet are physical, so fights like Latias that she should conceptually dominate, she loses to really bad because Earthquake just obliterates her. She didn't really hold up to the standard of particularly excellent PokeFairs, and landed somewhere around okay.

Which is a damn shame for what came next.

Grass has always been fairly over-saturated as a type, and for a moment Rosa was top damage in that type. With the recent introduction of SS Lyra and Grassy Terrain, Rosa was a fairly strong candidate for its use, perfectly complementing Dire Hit All+, while Lyra's trainer move could top off Rosa's special attack. They're a particularly powerful combination. While Lyra remains dominant, however, Grass has...somewhat shifted focus, due to the new top meta performer: Adaman.

Physical grass is where it's at now. Adaman remains the best sync nuker in the game, and with his ascension, SS Acerola's value skyrocketed. PMUN stacking at lightning speed, and she provides Terrain and Sun? That's just ridiculous. Every physical Grass-type damage dealer, which is most of them as it turns out, went crazy under this. Mallow finally had a real set with SC Steven/SS Acerola. Brendan finally got his Mega. SC Sonia went from a fairly niche pick, to a pretty perfect partner to Adaman as a high-DPS pair that needed the gauge he didn't touch. And comparatively, Rosa...gained nothing.

At present, there are no good sync pairs to enable Rosa. SMUN stacking remains much harder than physical, due to the lack of anyone as consistent as SS Acerola, and now even Argenta mimics it in a more freeform sense, rather than relying on field effects. Evasion debuffing remains an exceptionally rare talent, and none who can perform it partner well with Rosa. While special defense debuffers exist, there's only one with special attack debuffs as well, and it's Bede, who compounds her gauge concerns and offers nothing else to the table.

Rosa has yet to get her due. Which...is fitting. OG Rosa is the first ever free sync pair, and it's taken four years for them to consider maybe giving her a free move level boost. Winter Rosa is pretty atrocious without 3/5, and even then only useful under Hail, with no indication that seasonal pairs will get grid expansions like PokeFairs and even general pools. Lodge Rosa sucks, and now SC Rosa feels...wildly underwhelming compared to others within her type, with fairly awkward multipliers and limited team support. She's not bad, but it does feel like, for all the alts Rosa has, DeNA doesn't really put their heart into it.

Naomi Hour You guys remember Naomi? Remember when they did these NPC trainer class free pairs? How great it was to have these random characters show up with names and a presence? Remember how they haven't added a single goddamn one since New Years? DeNA, listen, you've introduced a lot of shit this past year, and somehow the coolest one is the only thing you didn't keep up. Fix yourself.

Naomi came in as a sort of savior to Ground-type F2P. Your other options are Clay and Hapu, who are, to put it generously, completely useless. Hapu's arguably the worst pair in the game bar nothing. Terrible DPS, atrocious sync, no real utility. Clay at least has triple Endure approaches and can kinda tank a bit because of it for Gauntlet, but it's sure not pretty, and his damage is pretty poor. Naomi succeeded where no one else in this godforsaken type could. She was actually...a pretty good striker for Ground.

The trouble with Naomi was that, as a common, she was afflicted by the standard curses of poor stats and painful conditions. The stats aren't too bad. Offensive stats are pretty good, and she can buff speed, but multipliers are based on speed so it's...kinda required without very specific comps. The other issue was Sand. She required Sandstorm being up, and that is a notoriously poor weather condition to rely on. By this point, it's the worst one. Sun and Rain are dominant, and Hail made a huge comeback with Irida. Sandstorm doesn't really have anyone that compares. Ingo was a pretty hefty reliance. To make matters worse, her Ground Zone support was Courtney, who emphasizes physical, and Naomi is the only specially offensive Ground type. She is, quite literally, the only one Courtney doesn't get along with.

Time has not significantly changed Naomi. The reliance on Sandstorm but desire for Ground Zone has not made her life easier. She lives entirely on Ingo's good graces. While the new Variety Giovanni can be considered an alternative, compressing both Sandstorm and Zone into one, the mismatched offensive presence and gauge annihilation does little to help. Naomi's also fairly cursed by the awkward trainer moves. X Sp Atk separated from her crit/speed button is fairly painful, as any other combination on trainer move could've opened more options for partners. As it stands, few exist who salvage her.

That's not to say she has nothing, though. On an F2P budget, Ground Zone is a non-consideration if you can't draw Courtney, and Naomi has Acerola backing her instead. All she needs is a good support. And, to the surprise of many, she actually got some. Lodge Morty is a surprising winner, being able to boost crit and speed on his trainer move as well, and having X Sp Atk All separated out. With Acerola's flinch potential, they can sneak in some extra actions for buffing her up by first sync. Lodge Dawn is worth noting as well, thanks to Team Sharp Entry saving a turn, and access to both Spd/Sp Atk boosting.

But Naomi is still very much a free pair. She's tough to use, and incredibly frail. Even max defenses and minimized offenses won't always salvage her. But I do respect that she's intelligently minmaxed. The decision to drop all bulk in favor of sufficient firepower to be passable is a sound one, even if the AoE meta can be punishing. I just really wish we got more of these.

[tatya-time]

He’s the guy that Brendan killed in his game but he’s back? He’s both a survivor and a hunter and he sucks!! :3

“…. why did he throw me under the bus?!?!” Tatya grumbles as she deploys Bartholomew to stay close to her and watch her back.

[stereax]

WHAT A WIN! What a showing by the stars. That said, Carolina is not a team that will allow getting walked on again. This shift in momentum is kinda reminiscent of game 6 against the Rags, Devils let the game get away from them but came back to completely dominate game 7. Much to improve still for the Devils, but an impressive trouncing all the same. Can’t allow 3 shorties or not score on 4 minutes of 5 on 3.

Carolina’s weakness is in goal clearly and the Devils need to take advantage while playing a much cleaner, tighter game defensively (their 3-0 win against Carolina was their best, most complete game during the reg season IMO). I think Akira Akira should get the start. VV looked shakier than Jack when they drafted Luke. I don’t hate 11-7 but whatever they decide, Luke’s earned a spot in the lineup. Brendan Smith, I apologize for being a hater.

I’m going to rewatch all 8 goals on repeat until game 4.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Those are my comeback boys. Made Andersen AND Kochetkov look like SIEVES last night.

Yeah. The shorties... no bueno. VV, you can't give up THREE of those. Akira should get the start but Lindy's probably gonna ride VV until he loses. Not a bad thing but. Ya know. Akira Akira... 11/7 works well for us, I think.

Which reminds me - I was reading that in both the Rags and Canes series, the first two games, the opponent did a fuck ton of "full ice forechecking" which isn't sustainable over a seven game series - "it was big jokes and laughs on the bench for them the first two games now they are sucking wind and look shocked just like the rags did" , "now their confidence is gone". Do you think Carolina can adjust?

[rocktoberr]

GOOD LORD I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON I WAS AVOIDING SOCIAL MEDIA

i hate trade season </3 my heart is in pieces on the floor again

tbh brendan makes sense to trade out as much as it would suck but like we have alan and obv mac (because i refuse to consider it an actual possibility that he gets traded) and its baseball half the team plays at least 3 positions. the whole thing for the rockies is that our pitching staff is as reliable and sturdy as running a madden25 ranked match on that one cousin's grimey ps2 only connected to internet by dial-up. that and the constant more or less vote of no confidence given to literally any vet not a fan favorite. its not a baseball team its a money grab. im one bad day of rockies news from writing myself in as the gm that fixes it all 2012 wattpad style

even if mac does get traded i hope he goes to the damn yanks literally just for the - gather? idk the word for what im thinking and im way too tired to be writing rn - w dj because i would write that fic to hell and then some . . . sideplot bryzzo would go so hard with it . . . . .but also going to a big name bigger wallet team means he's getting recognized as the absolute KING that he is and god knows he more than deserves it. tf you mean chappy got the gold glove ToT not in my heart

anyway we have to stay positive or we collapse so

bo nix looks like the strongest runner in this season's roty campaign and the broncos look really damn good when the defense comes to play nate atkins had a touchdown and whats his name that took chubb's number had a pick. cant stop thinking about holding kirk cousins to field goals. i'm not thinking about justin simmons im not thinking about jerry jeudy im not thinking about drew lock im not thinking about kendall hinton im not thinking about noah fant im not thinking about brandon mcmanus im not thinking about all the guys we've lost since 2015 im not- the javonte touchdown when he was carried into the end zone was hilarious and lives rent free in my mind

the nuggets looked like shit about halfway through won their game tonight and the rumor why joker's out is that his wife is having another baby. vlatko might have reinjured his knee and saric showed up big time. jamal was extra fluffy and adorable even though he kept making bad passes in the 2nd half and made some huge shots. russ was called for the weakest tech ive ever seen cooked and is now the all time nba leader in triple doubles (200) (i think) coach malone was hilarious to watch on the sidelines and is now tied as the nuggets winningest head coach

THE CHIEFS FINALLY FUCKIN LOST TOO

I get trading Brendan. I feel like all of us saw it from mile away honestly, it’s the least surprising thing that would happen this off-season. What would be surprising if we got someone value from him.

However, Mac gets traded I physically do not know what I’ll do with myself. If he gets traded, obviously I’m gonna want him to win the World Series right away because he deserves it and deserves everything good happen in life and I know him and Judge have been friends since childhood so there’s that as well that would add a different synergy to the Yankees roster.

Bestie imma try my best to stay positive this offseason however the nuggets are so iffy that you can’t really predict how the seasons gonna go and it seems like we are nothingness without jokic which adds a whole new problem.(also it has been a brought to my attention that Malone shops at my local King Soopers which probably means he lives somewhere close to me, and that scares me) Also, the Broncos are just confusing. They confuse me I don’t know how to feel. BUT YOUR RIGHT AT LEAST THE CHEIFS FINALLY FUCKING LOST. ALL HAIL JOSH ALLEN

Anyways, if we trade Mac, I will literally crash out 

[monstersliveinthemirror]

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I want to start journaling again. I haven't touched it since February of this year and I think a large part of me is just scared that all the things I've been holding in are going to come out and overwhelm if I let them. I LIKE journaling, I want to document this important part of my life and memorialize how things are changing and how things are staying the same, but I'm so scared to actually admit what all is going on with me. I don't want to look back and realize I'm still writing about the same shit and nothing ever changes. And frankly, I'm scared to admit to myself how much I still care about things that I should be over by now. Brendan has made me feel so fucking sick about this idea about still having hurt from Alex that I can barely even admit it still hurts. It's been 18 months, it's over it's dead it's done why does it still occupy my brain? And knowing Brendan's disdain for the fact it still does? Makes me feel ever worse about having those feelings. I shouldn't even care what he thinks, he's not my friend, he's not my partner, his opinion shouldn't matter, but I'm letting it impact me and that fucking sucks.

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I've been thinking a lot about this idea of reintroducing myself. Who am I, anyway? For so many years, I've been trying to be something for other people, but who am I when I set that all to the side?

I know I'm feeling particularly existential because it's my birthday this week. I don't usually feel very mortal, but something about being another year older and still struggling with the same things.

Things I'd like to address this year:

1. The worthiness wound. (When did I first start to believe my only worth comes from giving to other people and being "perfect"? How have I let this schema affect me in relationships (patterns of losing myself in relationships, trying to please the other person all the time) and how do I rebuild my own self worth to believe I am worth loving, even when I am not people pleasing?)

2. The dysphoria/gender identity situation. (What is going on with this body of mine? Will building strength help me feel connected to this body? How can I get past the internalized fat phobia and how much is that playing into all this?)

3. Values, and by extension, Alex. (How did I convince myself to do something I find so horrible? How did I justify that to myself? How do I prevent that from happening again (again, the worthiness wound) and how do I forgive myself for what I have done?)

[whatyourusherthinks]

The Mummy (1999) Review

The Mummy! Or to use its proper name, the Brendan Fraser Mummy. It's the 25th anniversary of when it came out, so the studio that owns it is rereleasing it in theaters for those nostalgic for it to see it again. I am not one of those people. Surprising, considering I was negative 6 months old when it came out. But I do like pulpy archeologist adventure movies. It's just a shame that you really need to turn your brain off for all of them. Or at least ignore the fact that the ancient booby traps are completely impractical and the main character are always kinda terrible people. (Looking at you Dr. Jones.)

What's The Movie About?

Two siblings discover a map to the ancient Egyptian city of the dead, and they rescue Brendan Fraser to take them there. When they arrive, they accidently awaken a thousand year old priest who brings curses to the land and tries to kidnap the female main character to bring his girlfriend back to life.

Y'know. The usual stuff.

What I Like.

This is an action comedy, and the best thing about the movie is the action, and the comedy. The action is fun, frenetic, and exciting. And a lot of the time the comedy is beautifully integrated as well. I've heard people say this movie is unintentionally funny, which I don't know what they hell they are talking about. All the comedy is witty, quick, and obviously intended. Beni is a perfect foil to the good guys and I was actually kinda sad he died, even though he's a slimy bastard. Speaking of which, all the characters are kind of terrible, but I love them all. Brendan Fraser is such an interesting actor, especially now days. I feel like you don't see a lot of actors doing both Oscar-appealing dramas like the Whale at the same time as weird conceptual nerd-bait like Doom Patrol. I really like the Evie character too. I like that she's smart, and even though she's a damsel in distress, uses her position to trick Imhotep and distract him. Speaking of which, I love the guy playing Imhotep. He has so many smarmy facial expressions, I love him. It's a pretty impressive performance as well, since it's almost entirely a physical one. (Actually, all his lines are a dubbed over monster voice, so maybe it is an entirely physical performance.) I also really liked Winston. There should be more characters like him.

What I Don't Like.

It's been said a million times, but the CGI in this movie is pretty bad. It's so bad even I can tell it sucks. Moving swiftly along, this movie is also really stupid. Mostly in a fun way, I might add. But if you start thinking about almost any part of it, the plot, character motivations, and mechanics of the mummy's curse swiftly fall apart. I don't like that Imhotep is afraid of cats. That's just dumb. If it played into his final defeat, like a horde of cats is what kills him, it would have been better. Finally, the movie is kinda racist. I think. Maybe? I'm actually not sure. They didn't hire any actual Egyptians to play any of the characters, but they did hire some non-white actors to play the Egyptians and this did come out 25 years ago so eeehhh... The Medjai are the most competent and badass characters in the movie, but the movie also opens with a bunch of white guys shooting hundreds of jabbering locals so eeeeeehhhhhh... Beni is a sleezy French thief but he's also shown to be really cunning and the second or third smartest person in the plot so eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh... Just to be safe I'm going to assume it's racist. Not maliciously so, but that's still not great. Also Rachel Weisz sort of gets sexually assaulted like 3 times and the movie plays it off, so that's also not great.

Final Summation.

Yeah the movie is really stupid, but I had a lot of fun! I think it should be clear at this point that I am a simple dude. I see fun action with charismatic heroes and funny quips, I will like. It is totally better than Phantom Menace. (Which I mention not only because movie-goers in 1999 said the same thing, but also because Phantom Menace is being rereleased in like 2 days at time of writing and I'm not watching it because I've seen it before and it sucks.)

[dxppercxdxver]

SHOW ME THE CAVERN SAINTS? :3

i feel as though you have read everything i've written thus far but GLADLY i will give the people a snippet

this is in the days following the mine collapse, where our dear brendan is presumed Extremely Dead and those remaining are doing Super Well about the whole thing

The shop was a quiet, miserable place, with the absent Brendan’s specter lurking around every corner, tucked behind every shelf, laughing with his characteristic charm. With the ring of the bell over the door, each customer that passed sent Isaiah’s neck a-craning, peering over his stock just in case Brendan had at last stumbled home, to the waiting bed he kept made, to the pot of soup Aoife tended to by day and night in equal measure. Of course, it never was to be, and after the first day, the charge in Isaiah’s nerves began to diminish, replaced by an awful sucking ache just behind his ribs, somewhere around where his stomach used to be. Aoife’s face was ashen, trying as Isaiah might to console her. What had he to offer, he wondered? Should their Brendan be well and truly gone yet, the world could supply him a new best friend, but it could hardly grant the girl another eldest brother.

i gotta get back to these lads i love them so muchlies

[moviesteve]

The Virginian’s ambitions aren’t that great. It wants to be a normal, everyday western like they used to make, in which man’s-gotta-do men negotiate morality in a lawless world, a baddie wore a black hat and a fair lady was open to a bit of courting as long as it was respectful. Can such a western be made? Is there an audience for it? The TV show The Virginian, which this isn’t, was one of several long-running series with high production values and fine actors. It ran for 249 shows over nine years, a way behind Bonanza (430 episodes between 1959 and 1973) and Gunsmoke (635 episodes between 1955 and 1975). Together, with the likes of Rawhide, The High Chaparral and The Big Country these shows went to town on the genre, working through all the permutations the western could offer and grinding out the last dregs of sympathy for it. By the time they were done, the western was dead. Clint Eastwood kept going, a lone voice, but precisely the sort of movie that The Virginian is – modest in budget, and desiring only to tell a tale of the old west with no allegories or meta-statements or fancy claims of any sort – simply couldn’t get made any more. Since then, there’s been a revival in the fortunes of the western, of sorts, with films like 3:10 to Yuma, The Salvation, Slow West, The Proposition, Django Unchained, Bone Tomahawk, Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, brilliant all, but they all had ambitions, often revisionist. The bog-standard oater really was toast (to really mix the metaphors). Which brings us to the meat of The Virginian, based on Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian: Horseman of the Plains, which was praised for its authenticity when it was published in 1902 and led to a stampede of authors writing me-too versions of the same. Director Thomas Makowski and writer Bob Thielke stick largely to the original book’s story – about the dealings between the Virginian (hooray) and Trampas (boo), the Virginian and the Judge, who sees him as his successor, and the Virginian and fair lady Molly, who he will woo if she’ll look his way. All this seen through the eyes of a fancy New York writer, Owen Walton (the echo with Wister is clear), who is getting an introduction to the Wyoming of the late 19th century. Molly and Owen It’s a cast full of people who have the right faces for the job. Country star Trace Adkins also has the voice as the Virginian, a big rumbling gravelly thing that appears to come from his boots. Steve Bacic plays Trampas as a scowling, belly-crawling no-good to the Virginian’s upright man’s man. Victoria Pratt plays Molly, a teacher, we’re told, though Pratt seems to have decided on a bit of saloon-gal swishiness. And, with an “And…” credit, Ron Perlman is the Judge – upstanding, four-square, rumbling back at Adkins whenever Adkins rumbles at him in the scenes they share, like two volcanoes facing off. Brendan Penny plays Walton, the “tenderfoot” through whose eyes and ears we see this unfamiliar (is the idea) territory where justice and manners are rough and much needs patient explanation. Except, obviously, it doesn’t. After thousands of movies and TV shows, Walton’s narrator figure – never named in the original book – is in the way in the 21st century and that final scene, as the Virginian and his fine lady Molly walk off into the sunset while Walton trots along awkwardly beside them actually admits as much. There are other problems, like the piling on of Western cliché early on – a whipping, a near-hanging, a quick-draw shootout, a testy card game, rustlers, Indians – done breathlessly. It’s interesting in these opening scenes watching the actors attempting to put back in with their performances the air that poor pacing has sucked out. After that… kind of nothing. A formless almost-story of one minor event after another, with the odd death-out-of-nowhere maybe meant to spice things up. Until it all comes to a close with straddle-legged guns-blazing shootout. It’s not terrible, but it’s not terribly interesting either. The Virginian – Watch it/buy it at Amazon I am an Amazon affiliate © Steve Morrissey 2023