#this is gonna have a lot of tags because there's a lot of people in it sorry

[delirious-and-slightly-murderous]

Ok, just, WTF? Dude sometimes I hate this app. (And I'm gonna be a BITCH, but this just gives me soooo much USAian vibes. If this person is not from there, sorry for being a bitch. But if they are, I'm sorry but I can't with your fucking country.)

And maybe I'm just getting annoyed over nothing, and I misunderstood the tags. But I don't think that's the case.

(Will probably delete this later cause I really don't wanna pick fights)

But how the F do you go from this person used to read porn in class, to they don't know maths and are a conservative?

How???

Talk about illiteracy.

First of all, they did NOT let me play gameboy in math class. That's the point, going into class they did not take it away cause it wasn't a phone, but I still wasn't supposed to be using it. Hence the hiding it with the pencil case, so the teacher couldn't see it and what I was doing.

But okay, I'll give it to you that I did not explain that part very well. Sorry, my mistake.

But! I'm saying highschool, starting 7th grade. What kid doesn't get bored during class and do other stuff? Specially at 13 years old? Because newsflash, I was good at math. So when my teacher had to go over the same explanation 3 to 4 times to make sure everyone got it, while I had already understood the first time. Well I got bored outta my mind.

Now, I'm in Uni, I'm a Biologist, and maths are a BIG part of what I do. So do not presume to talk to me about statistics and math literacy.

And a conservative? A CONSERVATIVE???? Fuck that! I'm not about to go into my personal views and politics on a Tumblr post. But no, just no. I'm a firm believer that conservatives are just heinous people who do not care about other people's suffering.

You don't know me and you have no reason to know this, but I'm the furthest thing from conservative you can get.

But, ALSO, some people are just bad at maths, and that is okay. Not understanding statistics doesn't automatically mean you can't understand the socio-political phenomenon at play behind them. And it also doesn't make you a conservative. I have lots of friends at Uni, from the Arts and Humanities, who understand jack shit about maths, and are some of the most politically and socially cultured people I know. People who couldn't hope to read even a simple graph, but are there on the front lines fighting for everyone else's rights and against conservatives and far right shits.

I agree with you that maths are important, I am a scientist first and foremost, how would I not agree? (they are a big part of what I do and what I am). And not understanding math makes people ignorant and dangerous. But maths are also not everything. Generalizing like this is very dangerous and ignorant too.

I'm annoyed, idk, this was totally unnecessary. But I guess I just had to rant.

if there is a screen

ao3 will be seen

[oh-gh0st]

so. Cowboy au

[marivanilla05]

Done reading the Iliad, and one of the reasons I'd been stalling on reading it before was how much hate I saw people give Hera or Agamemnon.

And then I read the actual text and found how silly everything is??? Why didn't anybody tell me that the Iliad is literally just a family feud between the gods, and full of dudes (and Athena) throwing bolders at each other, and Agamemnon and Achilles acting like they're having a petty break-up.

Hera (on at least 3 seperate occasions) tells Zeus that he's their father's worst child, and that he's obligated to listen to her because she's not only his wife but his elder sister. Like, she hit him with the "I'm older than you how dare you talk to me like that."

Then we have Zeus banning all the gods from interfering with the war (except of himself of course) before announcing the "Trojan War: Frenzy Round" where he calls all the gods to join (including A RIVER???) and lets the Greeks win just because Hera slept with him.

Athena manipulating Zeus in almost every interaction because she's "daddy's little girl" + everytime she goes to battle she wears her father's tunic and I'm just imagining it like some toddler wearing their parent's shirt.

She also beats the crap out of Ares AND Aphrodite, leaves them on the floor and says "whoever messes with me will get owned"

Hera proceeds to beat the crap out of Artemis with her own bow. Hermes is literally on Hera's side, but sees that and is like "yo Leto I'm not gonna fight you because I think you should go check on your kid..." while Artemis runs crying to Zeus who's like "my precious daughter who hurt you???" And she's like "YOUR WIFE!"

(Also, on the other end, so many people hate on Agamemnon but not Achilles as well? Like they were both stubborn, Achilles more so. PLUS Achilles brutally killed/enslaved so many people even before Patroclus' death, I'm surprised that Agamemnon-only hate is more popular. Like everyone sucks in the Iliad, it's either you hate everyone, or you like the characters in spite of their crimes.)

It takes Patroclus dying for Achilles to forgive Agamemnon (at this point Agamemnon was convinced to give Achilles so many gifts including but not limited to (returning Briseis, gold, land, one of Agamemnon's daughters' hand in marriage)) Achilles then proceeds to murder a bunch of people.

Odysseus and Diomedes jumping a guy, killing 13 other people, and stealing horses.

Nestor drinking wine in the middle of a battle, hearing the chaos, and saying "wait a minute, I gotta get a good view of this action" Also Nestor kicking Diomedes to wake him up.

Helen insulting the crap out of Paris.

Hector insulting the crap out of Paris. Also Priam basically calling his surviving sons trash now that Hector is dead.

Idomeneus and Meriones being tag-team bros. Why don't I ever hear about them huh?

Also the amount of times I read the phrase "the two named Ajax" or "Ajax and Ajax" like did they just stick to each other because they share a name? Like Ajax (the greater) literally has Teucer, his own half-brother to back him up, and for some reason the two of them just hang out with Oilean Ajax on the battlefield???

There are a lot more but I can't remember any right now.

[shinra-makonoid]

This is the most hilarious post I've read on this trash so I'm sharing with my followers. I'll explain to you, kindly, why this is most probably not the case:

I'm currently studying to become a doctor. Not really a "home breaker" lifestyle. I'm lucky to have the skills, the opportunity and the support to be able to do something that isn't crime. Most people in my place would not commit such crimes (because crimes happen due to circumstances and not because of people being evil, 101 sociology). Not saying it is completely impossible, but I'd say it significantly lowers the chances.

I'm lucky to be in a country where the large majority of people don't have guns. So even if I wanted to be a professional home breaker I wouldn't be afraid of being shot because that's not a thing here, especially in cities.

That may surprise you based on your imagined view of me, but I... Don't like when people get hurt or get killed. Being robbed or having someone getting into your home, threatening you etc is very traumatic. Violating someone's space causes a lot of damages. I don't support that for anyone, no matter their backgrounds, their past, or their beliefs. If souls existed and that people had evil souls, I'd still think they don't deserve being harmed. That's a fundamental core choice I made in my life, and that's even the reason I made this post to begin with.

So no... I can assure you, this isn't why I'm arguing this. I'm being honest when I say this is barbaric and isn't gonna fix the issue, because I have the knowledge and studies supporting that view point. If you argue it's morally ok to kill people because they hurt you, you have fascist ideas. That's just how it is. Doesn't make you a bad person, it's just not something I support and I will call it out, it's my right on a public website.

Now I'll ask you, kindly again, to not tag me on that post. I had it muted, everyone can have their fun time imagining why I'm arguing what I'm arguing, how evil I am etc etc. You're free to talk about me in your circles and on that post. It's all ok I don't mind. I know who I am, what I support, I explained it. If you can't read, it's your issue and it doesn't concern me.

Just don't tag me, please. That's just a simple basic boundary. And it's very difficult for a lot of you to accept it. You should think about that, instead of focusing on me, in my humble opinion. Maybe you didn't see it on my other posts following that one tho, but I've asked repeatedly to not be tagged.

Thanks for the good laugh tho.

Just read someone claiming that being ok with killing someone breaking into your house is a "facist usamerican opinion".

As a victim of a home break in, where I got beaten up for the sin of dropping a plastic bag holding snacks I had just bought, where I then had to witness an aunt and her daughter crying their eyes out tied to a bed, fearing they would get raped, myself fearing the same for them after I too was tied and gagged next to them.

And also as the son of another victim of a break in, who got stabbed in the gut and almost died of blood loss half naked right in front of his infant daughter.

I have to say

Kill all home intruders, if they have committed the sin of breaking into the place most safe for you and your family, with the intention of taking everything you worked so hard to get, not to mention the lives of you and your family, you have all the right in the world to respond with deadly force, no questions asked.

[ultra-raging-ghost]

Little discourse ramble vvv

I didn't watch bads among us stream yesterday but apparently punz was in it?? Which was weird??? I've heard it was puffys lobby so she got to pick and choose who joined which makes more sense because bad has a habit of playing w dteam in group settings when he can't pick who joins, like in the Spanish games A couple times (why was sapnap invited to those? We'll never know). Apparently he didn't include punz in his stream title yesterday??? Which is interesting???

I have no idea how to feel about this tbh, it's just weird

Maybe it's cuz I haven't been into mcyt streams for long but like... bad does things that make u think he doesn't associate w these people, and he doesnt do 1on1s with them, but he does do group things with them when he doesn't get to pick who comes with, but he could just skip out on those things, but then he's skipping out on things where 90% of the people there are his friends which is a lot to ask when he doesn't get to hang out with non-realm ppl regularly, but then also we literally have no idea what goes on in his head because he doesn't talk about anything on stream, but also like!!! He has an alt now so he could utilize that??? Maybe??? And like we have had tubbo vouching for him and I trust tubbos judgement, like... It's just weird, it's weird shit

Part of me wants to just chill out for now till he says smth but I know he's not gonna say anything, I don't even rly feel like this is entirely his fault bc it wasnr his lobby but then I'm like why tf is PUFFY inviting punz??? And like did nobody say anything about it??? It's just a mess, bro. I might keep liveblogging just for my own comfort till something more arises from this but I'm not gonna be maintagging it so others don't have to see

Edit: gonna maintag but gonna also bbh tag it for filters, cheers

[joocomics]

i know that i've already talked WAY too much about jungsu's reverse strength kink but that video got me thinking....

can you imagine when he's trying to be a brat(doesn't happen often but when it does he can be a Brat), he tries using his strength against you because we all know that that man is strong as fuck. he won't let you push him around like he normally would, wouldn’t let you pin him to the wall, wouldn’t let you do anything. and he would have this extremely infuriating smirk on his face the entire time.

so what do you do? nothing. absolutely nothing. you pull away, stop touching him. you don't even kiss him. but you do tease him. a lot. you get so close to him that he can feel your breath on his lips but you pull away just before he can kiss you. you sit on his lap for five seconds, rubbing against his dick but pulling away as soon as he gets hard, acting like you didn't do anything. things like that, that drive him crazy.

poor baby is so desperate by the end of it that he comes to you begging for anything, with tears in his eyes. and when you test him by simply nudging him towards the bed, he falls down like he has no bones. he's just so desperate that all of his strength dissappears, you know?

and when you finally let him feel you, he cries. actually cries. and apologises for everything and anything and pleads you to let him come. you don't though, because brats don't deserve to come, do they?

tags: sub!bf!jungsu x fem!reader, role reversed, jealousy, dacryphilia, begging, angsty (didn’t intend it to be like that sorry </3) | 18+

imagine silently punishing him for days... wearing your most revealing clothes around him, wearing the tops and skirts you know are his favorite. dropping small items on the floor so you can show off your ass, bending over his desk just to grab something really quick while he's working on music. taking unnecessarily long time to get ready after a shower; you're gonna catch a cold, he murmurs hoping you will finally put on at least underwear, but you say your moisturising cream is still drying

and it works every time - at night, he hovers over you, kissing your neck because it's your weakest spot, rubbing between your thighs to show you how bad he needs you, and he really does - you can tell it's becoming painful. but you pull yourself together, and turn around. i need to catch up on some sleep. i'm not in the mood. i have to wake up early tomorrow...

He breaks down the night you come home from a night out - the one where he saw how people were looking at you, trying to figure out if you're a couple so they'd know whether they could approach you while you sat sipping your drink beside your friend.

He hated it; it filled his mind with thoughts of you not being his, of someone else taking you away from him; how he'd be nothing without you, and he hated it.

“Please...” he says, falling to his knees. He sounds out of breath despite the two of you spending the ride home in silence. “Baby, please...”

You glance down and the sight of his pleading eyes, hurting, make your chest clench, but you remain composed. Sounding more unbothered than pretending to act clueless.

“Please what, Jungsu?”

“I'm sorry for everything.” His voice is still low and fragile. He's not angry, just slightly broken. “I shouldn't have acted that way, I'm sorry... I'm so sorry, but please... don't do this to me.”

You take a quiet breath, looking away.

“Get up.”

You catch the way his fingers twitch on the sides of his body; every part of him is desperate for even the slightest touch of yours.

So, as you expect, a quick nudge on his chest is enough to have him falling on his back.

A quick but firm strip is enough to have him naked beneath you.

And once your cold fingers wrap around his erection, you witness an expression of weakness that you've never seen creeping on his gorgeous face before.

Few measured strokes and he breaks in your hands. His toned chest falls and rises with uneven breaths; his vision blurs as tears well up in his apologetic eyes.

When he looks up at you as you finally welcome him inside your warmth, his gaze is shimmering. And when you grind forward for the first time, he lets the tears fall - just the way he lets more raw apologies to slip from his lips.

a.note ! ah i didn’t manage to write him as bratty as i wished but this is the scene that unfolded in my head as i was reading your ask rae (which was brilliant once again idk how you do it truly ��) i don’t know why it got so angsty but i hope you enjoy my thoughts regardless <3

[luna-loveboop]

have more Lu posts? oh DO I

@loz-chainsofcorruption Thanks <3 I'm doing better now

This is such a fun ask! I have a lot of posts on the Links and their relationships!

Here's the Sky and Time and Sky and Hyrule posts you mentioned <3

Ok so I'm just gonna make a list linking (HA!) some of my favourite posts that I think are most relevant. Some of these are from wayyy back-sometimes my opinions have changed. Most are really long, so I'll put:

* before the shorter/more trivial posts.

Bold the awesomest/most popular posts

.and I put emojis after some posts to differentiate :)

:D Here we go!

Wars and Wild -This is my most popular Wars and Wild post

Wars and Wild :)

Wars and Wild (another)

* Wars and Wild

Wars and Wild This was my 1st post on these two- listen I saw drama coming

Wars and Wild <3

Wars and Wild :D

..Suddenly seeing how many Wars and Wild posts I've made is sending me ASBDXFACADJNAIFXDS

Dungeon teams (doodles-style)

Time and Four

Time and Four :)

Time and Wind Ohh I love this one. these two <33

Time worried about Wars

Hyrule and Time

Twilight and Time

Twilight and Wars

* Twilight and Four the sillies :D

Four and Twilight

Legend and Twilight -This one was a long time ago so their relationship has developed more since then, but I think it's still relevant

Legend and Twilight- Legend's hat ToT

Legend and the master sword

Triple threat- I was never super into triple threat but I made this post and people liked it. I still think it's cute :)

Sky and Legend

Sky and Wars being Knights Feat. Wolfie

Sky and Wild- cooking

Sky and Wild

Wild and Sky and the master sword

Wild and Twilight- shade Feat. Wolfie

The Girlfriend Trauma Trio

The Girlriend Trauma Trio No.2

Miphlink in Lu thoughts

Shorter/more trivial character relationship posts- these ones aren't as long but I like them :)

* Flora and Wild

* Four and Wild

* Four and Wild :P

* Four and Twilight

* Four and Wind

* Four and Wind heights

* Time and Wind

The bet on Time's age- Four is smart

* Time father figure

* Time and Twilight

* Twilight and Wild

* Twilight and Four

I did an art thingy?!?? chain and the master sword :)

Age polls - age polls downfall duo who's older

Here are some of my posts focused on a certain character- I love they all have so many quirks and character traits and I love them <3

Wars Medic this is my first Lu post that got over a thousand notes! Fun fact if I don't get any notifs on this post for a week I get concerned and check the tags to see if the Wars fans are doing ok.

Wars being tense

* Wars and his scarf

BLUE FOUR

Four is a dramatic theater kid

Four notices things

Four gives a lot of unnoticed help

Downfall Dou and Four's age

Four- Colours <3 I like this post

Four working with the others in battle !

Four doesn't like repetition

Twilight being a fighter

Twilight's angry dog face

Twilight- helm splitter

Twilight's stubborn

Wolfie being weaker

Sky in battle !

Sky and Skyward sword details

Sky dungeon details

Sky's good at explaining things

Birb

Time love life help I love this post dhxbxhxbd

Time will talk about his life

* Time evil thought lol

Malon!! love language quirk I LOVE MALON

Dink's blade and tendency towards revenge

Dink's armor details

HYRULE MAKES PUNS

Hyrule's spider sense

* Hyrule and stronger monsters

* Hyrule being fast

Wind is fast and the favourite reblog of Wind's-quick post by @wawawanwan

* Wind's not ok (?)

Wild's crazy theories :)

Wild's apology this is just a longer ramble talk

Random art appreciation stuff- a lot of these I made to simply look at and smile or laugh sometimes because I love the pretty art <3 and their faces dhdbxhxb

Ocarina of time in Lu

omg eye colour

* Wars face

* Wars face

* Four's smile

Twilight's face

* Malon and Time and Twilight faces

* side profiles

* Best reaction panels

Art parallels

Memes- these are just fun memes I wanted to include lol

my first lu post/meme

Wild and Hyrule meme

Wind text meme

Wolfie memes

* Wolfie and Dink

Lu food chain you did not see this from me

Bestest meme reblog

I hit the link limit, so these are just some of my favourites! There's more posts under the Lu tags in my blog, so you can go to each boy individually if you want more. Thank you for asking!! Posts on the Lu chain- hope this is about what you wanted/meant.

:)

[bitegore]

I made a character sheet to plot your OC's development over time! (There's supposed to be a character name in the big white space next to "over time" but it got eaten a little lmao)

You can use this for whatever you want, and you don't have to credit me. Feel free to change or edit anything you feel like. Please don't tag me if you credit me - just link to the original post.

Credits, explanations & a transparent version under the cut :D

Credits:

The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

Fonts used were Bisdak (titles) and Rockwell (body). Both are free! You can use them to fill it out if you like.

Inspired by a comment @maybe-solar-powered-calculator made on this other post about filling it out for characters at multiple points along their arcs. Thanks for putting the idea in my head :D

This is explicitly released under a CC0 1.0 deed, ie: you can do fucking whatever you want with it and I don't care and you don't have to tell anyone where you got it from and no one gets to stop you.

-

Last time I made one of these I got a bunch of questions on all manner of things, and I can never keep up, so I'm just appending a set of notes for how to use it and a glossary because I know some of these phrasings will be confusing.

Ignore or change anything you don't feel like works for you here. You can do whatever you want forever.

Suggested / intended use & general notes:

This sheet could work for something story-level, if you want. But it's really only good for individual arcs; if the character goes through multiple arcs in your story, then they're going to fit poorly here. In that case, you're probably better off doing versions for each arc, or just adapting this to a different format more suited to your thing.

Also, if your arc has a nontraditional structure - divorced from the typical "rising action - climax - conclusion" type of structure where there's a clear 'important turning point' - it may not work as well either.

The mindset section is meant to come at it from a 'golden mean' standpoint - that is, everything on either extreme of the slider is 'too much' and therefore bad. It's not bad-to-good! The far right side is a flaw too. They're only grouped the way they are on basis of the specific OCs I personally had in mind when I put it together.

Growth is labeled 'worse'-to-'better' but it means, like, active decrease in that area vs active increase; if nothing changes, it should stay at the center even if it sucks. The category is about contrasting changes, and sometimes changes are for the worse!

The entire sheet is very deliberately subjective. It should really be answered from the character's perspective - how they feel about it, not what's necessarily true. Technically you can do whatever you want and I can't stop you, but it's a better tool if you approach it from the point of view that the character may believe things that aren't true - that will define their behavior way more than the objective facts of the story.

-

Definitions:

This part is long as hell - recommend using ctrl+f to find the specific words you're stuck on. I defined everything.

General categories:

Mindset: how your character thinks about themself and how they act. Their understanding of their own approach to life. Attitude, viewpoint, decision-making process, that sort of thing.

Circumstances: the relationship between your character and the world around them. Where they are, what that place is like, and how they feel about it.

Growth: how the character and their impact - their attitude, their behavior, their immediate surroundings - changes over time.

Outset: the start of the character's arc.

Present: the 'center' of the arc. If you're planning something ahead of time and it hasn't 'happened' yet, then this is the near future.

End-game: where they are after the conclusion of the arc.

Mindset terms:

Center of the world: "If I have a problem, it's the only thing that matters to me." Self-centered, self-absorbed. Doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond that - they don't necessarily have to be unpleasant to be entirely focused on their own life.

my life isn't relevant: "Everyone else's problems are so significant, I don't pay any attention to my own". Someone who ignores or neglects their own life in service of some other thing, or doesn't consider their own behavior to have any real importance.

Only see enemies: Paranoid. Everyone's out to get them. Anyone who seems nonthreatening is hiding their potential for danger and everyone who seems threatening is a threat. The character must remain ever-vigilant, lest the cashier at the 7/11 suddenly stab them, or their best friend turn out to secretly be trying to poison them to death.

Only see friends: Naïve. Everyone is a good actor who wishes everyone else well, and if they don't seem like they're acting from a place of kindness or care then you probably don't understand what they're up to. The character is pretty sure the stranger holding that knife is, like, someone to chat up maybe, they're clearly only hanging out in this dark alleyway because it's a nice spot and no other possible reason.

overthink everything: Ten thousand thoughts per every single action taken. Maybe they never get around to acting at all. They have to consider every possible outcome. What if by eating lunch they accidentally trigger the apocalypse?! Who's going to think about these things if not them?!?!?!

impulsive to action: Act first, think never. What do you mean "consequences of actions"?

Unilateral decisions: "I will make every choice and no one else's opinions or thoughts are relevant". Discounts outside suggestions. Firmly convinced that they know best in any situation, and will brook no disagreement with their views when it comes to actually doing things.

Command me, please: "I don't know what to do and I don't know what to even start with, someone please tell me what to think". No confidence in their own views. Will not make any decisions unless forced and even then will beg someone else to please tell them what to do. Has no idea what's best and is pretty sure anyone else will have a better idea.

can't ask for help: No one will ever help the character; they have to do everything themself, even the things other people have repeatedly offered to do for them and have much more experience with. Doesn't necessarily mean that no one will help them or that they are explicitly barred by some real-world circumstance; just that, for whatever reason, they refuse to ask for help. This is an attitude thing - will they ever reach out? No? Then they're here.

too reliant on others: Have they ever solved a problem alone? Do they believe they're even capable of doing so? The character all the way at this end of the scale absolutely never expects to be able to do anything themself, has no trust in their ability to solve a problem, and needs someone else to come save them from it. The kind of person who needs ChatGPT to do their homework. Again - doesn't actually mean anyone will help them, or that the people they're relying on are reliable - just that they think they are helpless without ... well, help.

Weapon maker: This has to do with problem-solving strategies and not actual weapons. The weapon-maker is a character who views every situation as a conflict that cannot be de-escalated or solved by cooperation, and responds appropriately. The most fundamental weapon maker character turns everything into an argument, a fight, a war, etc. There are a bunch of other responses to conflict, though - they might avoid problems that need solving because they avoid conflict generally too. Fundamentally what you want to answer here is: when they see a locked box and they don't have the key, do they respond to it the same way they'd respond to someone telling them "you can't open this box"? And how do they respond to that? Typical weapon-maker approaches: - brute-force the box open or try and then give up if it doesn't work; and also get into an argument that might turn physical with the hypothetical person - shrug and give up immediately, in both situations so on and so forth. Another hallmark is that they kind of suck at problem-solving and give up if brute-forcing a problem doesn't work. This is not someone who is picking locks unless someone else told them to - they have one solution, it's to make everything into a conflict, and then to win that conflict by beating them or to give up because they think they'll lose.

Tool maker: This person approaches every situation like it's a puzzle, not a fight - up to and including actual fights. Tool-maker characters generally assume that a situation can be solved by just finding the right approach and doing it the clever way. There's the same fundamental question as above - if your character sees a locked box and has no key, would they approach it differently than someone telling them they're not allowed to open the box? 'Typical' tool-maker approaches: - I can trick the person into giving me the key by saying the right things, and I can also pick the lock because fundamentally there are 'right answers' to both of these - If i make friends with this person, they might change their mind, because now we're cooperating. I can still pick the lock because there are 'right answers' there. - The person has a reason for wanting me not to open the box, so I can definitely figure out what that is and solve the reason so then they'll let me open it. I can take whatever it is even if they really want to keep it if I just find the right answer. I'm going to break this box into little pieces because that's the easiest way to get into it but I could probably open it some other way if that wouldn't work.

A note - the center of this bar is someone who generally has different responses to different kinds of situations - like, in the box example, they'd approach the box and the person with two different general attitudes and processes - but generally responds to those situations using the same kind of decision-making process for each category every time. Most people are nowhere near either extreme. Characters tend to be classifiable into weapon-maker and tool-maker because they are fictional and it's easier to define one kind of approach than many. Approximately average approaches: - pick the lock if no one's around, but give up if someone is there because someone telling me not to open the box is a conflict i think i'll lose but a locked box is just a puzzle that i can solve - argue with the person, but give up on the box, because they're approaching the box as a puzzle and they don't think they have the skill to get into it, but the person is someone who can be convinced or bullied into handing over the key

I made this particular dichotomy up, which is why I think I get a lot of questions on it whenever I put it into anything, but I also don't know of any other snappy way to describe this sort of thought or approach variance, and it's genuinely useful for character writing in my opinion.

Pessimist spot-finder: Generally a downer but not necessarily. This kind of character just approaches everything with a close eye for problems, issues, reasons to find fault. If they're miserable, it might be why, but like, they can be a cheerful spot-finder if you want, I just wanted to get at "the glass is half empty" and "the glass is half full" more than anything.

Optimist upside fan: The opposite. "The glass is half full". If there are problems, they can find something about them that's not so frustrating or bad to focus on. Pretty damn good at overlooking minor issues if there's no reason to fixate on them. Not necessarily cheerful.

Abysmal company: could not give less of a damn about treating people the way they 'should' be treated. Maybe they take pride in that. Maybe they just think it's irrelevant. Either way, they know they treat people badly and they don't see any reason to stop. Does not necessarily mean that they treat people badly if they think they're doing the right thing and are wrong. Doesn't mean they're actually pleasant or unpleasant to hang out with, either, unless you really want it to mean that.

Decent to others: treats people well as a matter of course, or at least they sure think they do. Makes an effort. Would probably care and/or consider changing their behavior if someone said they were treating someone poorly. As before - they can be completely un-self-aware and just think they're doing right by people while treating them completely horribly.

Morality is irrelevant: 'abysmal company' for broader approaches to life and problems. Maybe they just know they're myopic and don't think other people's problems matter. Maybe they just gave up on trying to differentiate between 'good' and 'bad' and outsourced it to someone else or stopped paying any attention. Maybe they just like to take morally unjust actions and can't be bothered giving a damn when someone points out that they're morally unjust, or maybe they're proud of it. Kind of a villain trait generally, but not necessarily - it doesn't have to mean they act badly, just that they don't care if they do. Also, this is about how they choose their own actions and view their own behavior. They can think morality is relevant for other people as long as they ignore it when they act themself.

Always in the right: feels morally righteous in every decision they make. Standard superhero type of trait. Doesn't necessarily pass judgement on others, doesn't necessarily act well according to everyone's moral code (see: blue and orange morality), but they are extremely principled and will never deviate from the moral code they personally believe in. And they do genuinely believe in it.

Circumstances terms:

Generally terrible to generally excellent: how subjectively decent is your character's situation, overall? If they think everything is horrible, but the situation is charmed to everyone except them, then it's generally terrible.

Need for changes to passive tolerance: will they do something about it? Do they feel like they have to?

No agency in action to decisions are huge: agency being "how much power do I have to make changes here?", this just asks how much they have. No agency means that, no matter what they do, nothing will happen - they might be locked in a cage or somehow otherwise completely unable to use any sort of power at all, even the power of just leaving. The other end of the spectrum is where every decision the character makes makes a huge difference, not just to themself but to everyone around them as well. They can start wars, they can have anyone they want killed, they can do anything whenever they feel like it. If they think they have no agency even though they do actually have agency, they don't have agency here. If they feel like they have all the agency in the world and can do anything, then they do even if it's not true. It's perceptual again.

Stakes are deadly to mistakes solvable: what are the consequences of failure? Will you die, will you lose status you can't afford to lose, will you lose belongings, will you have to apologize, will nothing happen at all? Mistakes solvable is where they think every mistake is solvable forever - the character pushes someone through a woodchipper and they come out and to fix it, maybe an apology has to occur, but not much else. Does not necessarily mean no one gets hurt or killed as long as the character thinks there are no permanent consequences. This is the most important one on this section to keep subjective because it will greatly influence how your character approaches situations. A character who thinks everything is deadly-stakes may go to cartoonishly-extreme lengths to avoid turning a report in a day late. A character who thinks all mistakes are always solvable may push someone through a woodchipper and then just assume they can say they're sorry and it'll all go away. The setting and their approach do not need to be applicable.

Needs go unmet to attended with care: how do the people around them treat them? Do they pay attention when the character needs something, or do they ignore it? Does the character have to do everything themself around here, or are there people who will help out?

Regarded poorly to regarded well: how do they think other people see them? Are they respected, are they liked, or are they disliked? Do people broadly trust them or are they pretty sure everyone regards them with suspicion?

Nothing changes to changes in seconds: functionally the 'stability' meter of your setting - is the situation generally stable, or are things constantly changing? Does your character feel like every five minutes, there's a new problem that needs dealing with, or do they feel like nothing has ever happened ever?

Growth terms:

Changes in place: do they go somewhere else? Does the physical setting otherwise change (eg; earthquake, war, etc) ? Are there any other reasons that the 'vibe' or 'experience' of the place is different from before?

Change in power: does the character's percieved agency (see: no agency in action to decisions are huge) change? Alternately you can use it if they've gained or lost power in some percieved way (deposed, assigned a commanding position, etc).

Change in bonds: do their relationships with people change? Have they made new friends, lost old friends, changed the nature of their relationships with friends or partners, etc?

Change in beliefs: straightforwardly, have their beliefs, morals, etc, changed?

Change in hurts: have they undergone some horrible experience? Do they have past trauma from some pre-arc horrible experience they're healing from and/or discovering they're more powerfully subject to? Did they experience a physical injury that they're recovering from or which materially changed their life? Did something recent dredge up old issues? So on and so forth.

Change in hopes: Do their desires for the future look the way they used to? Do they care about different things now? This is something the character is not actively working for, but may be tied to actual goals.

Change in fears: are they overcoming fears? Growing past them? Gaining new ones? Are they scared of shit different from how they used to be?

Change in goals: Not the same as a hope because it needs to have a specific, achievable outcome the character is actively working toward. Do those material goals look different? Perhaps they no longer want to work against something, maybe they didn't have any goals and now they do. Or maybe they've realized the goal is impossible, or something has happened to make that goal unachieveable. Whatever it is, if there's a change, it's a change.

Change in self-awareness: their beliefs about who they are and what they're like, and what their circumstances are. Have they gotten more self-aware, have they gotten less self-aware, or has nothing changed?

Change in relationships: their relationships' overall health and resilience, as far as the character is concerned - which doesn't mean they're necessarily good, just that the character thinks they're how they're supposed to be. Have they improved? Have they gotten worse? Have they not changed?

Change in knowledge: do they feel like they know more about the world, their place in it, the people around them, etc? Not necessarily how to do things - just general information and awareness.

Change in social standing: how does others' regard for the character change over this part of their arc? Do people like them more or less? Are they respected more or less than before? Has nothing changed? And so on.

Change in skills and abilities: do they feel more skilled than they were before? Do they feel like they know how to do as many things as before? Again - not necessarily rooted in reality - a classic example of a character being wrong about this is a 'big fish in a small pond' character who used to be the high school sports star going to college on a sports scholarship and discovering they're not the best any more, and suddenly feeling like they're the worst - when they're better than they've ever been in an objective light. Use a subjective viewpoint for this.

Change in agency in life: how does the character's percieved agency change? Do their decisions matter less now than ever? Do their actions make way more happen than before? (See: no agency in action vs decisions are huge)

Change in outlook: Here's the upper/downer part. Are they more or less hopeful for the future? Do they think things are more terrible now? Are things improving as far as they're concerned? Or has that not changed?

Change in goal progress: how do they feel like they're progressing on the goals they've set for themself? Are they getting further and further away? Are they getting closer?

If some of this doesn't make sense and you want a clarification, you will have to tag me to get my attention, because I'm turning notifications for this post off the minute it leaves my immediate social circle.

Transparent version: (sorry you had to scroll so far)

[blae-kitta]

Sketch page! Margaritabille au by @kerink with Bill making a caesar, Ford in the outfit I'm living in rn, a joke post I've already posted of where Ford loses a bet, and an interaction that been lodged in my frontal lobe for ages and was gonna make a proper comic for and then didn't

[keferon]

Hey, saw that you're having a bit of rough day. :(

I'm almost finished the next part.

But, would you like Prowl to bully "the wet bread moron" Josh? (as a treat. there's a part I could slide it in) Like a little petty revenge like get back at people being jerks to orcas?

-GLC

Oh I would absolutely love that yes🥺👉👈

[bowandbrush]

it’s honestly scary being a fan of usagi miyamoto/yuichi whilst being in the rise fandom and not shipping leosagi,,,because it feels like everyone and their grandma likes it. like I’m sorry!! Don’t kill me please

[saline-coelacanth]

Alright guys, season 2 part 2 of Dragons Rising is almost here so I just wanna remind everyone that even when the episodes come out, you NEED to tag your spoilers because not everyone is gonna be able to watch it right away.

Please treat this like a normal release and continue to tag spoilers for a while after the release. If this was a normal release that didn't have all the episodes leak ahead of time, you'd still tag your spoilers for people who aren't able to watch right away, so this should be treated the same way.

And also I guess this is another reminder to TAG YOUR GODDAMN SPOILERS PEOPLE! I have seen so many posts that aren't tagged as spoilers and it's driving me crazy! And I'm not even trying to avoid spoilers so I can only imagine how much more annoying it is for people who ARE avoiding spoilers. A little trick I tend to use is anything that could be considered a spoiler, no matter how small or irrelevant, it gets tagged as a spoiler. Because even if something doesn't seem like a big deal to you, it could still make someone upset having it spoiled for them.

So yeah, keep tagging your spoilers and don't stop tagging your spoilers when the episodes release officially. Give it some time before you stop tagging spoilers.

[janestvalentine]

I couldn't decide which tags I wanted to reblog this post with...so I decided to do all of them:

#rimi talks#like you can absolutely get into discussion of copaganda in comics and the authorial end editorial centrism, #because god knows a lot of comics (esp older ones) just absolutely REEK of performative activism or copaganda or what have you, #and there is definitely plenty to be said there, #but that's not what people saying this stuff are talking about 😭, #it's all just ''but i want the white man to kill a crowd of evil goons but it's fine bc none of their lives mattered bc they got in his way!, #and don't worry he was unquestionably right to have killed them and it was really cool and sexy of him to do so and also he was right'', #(now don't take this as me disagreeing that fictional murder can be sexy. of course it can. ive seen pamela isley.), #(but while i would call her sexy i would not call her RIGHT for being a murderous ecofascist yk), (x)

#'but you see this guy is making the world better by killing people, #bc he's only killing the really bad guys like the sex offenders and paedophiles and rapists', #buddy. please tell me which demographics are most likely to be accused of paedophilia and rape., #i cannot emphasise enough that if you go into superhero comics and then get annoyed bc the characters don't kill people, #maybe you just don't like superhero comics., #and also i don't like you., (x)

#LITERALLY, #also: ever heard of the brutalizing effect? there’s really conflicting evidence about whether execution BY THE STATE even ‘works’, #as a deterrent against crime, #(and is in practiced applied really racistly but anyway), #and ur telling me u want VIGILANTES to kill their enemies???? like now uve created a norm where superheroes can kill villains without, #due process and now both villains and goons are NAWT going to surrender peacefully to superheroes bc theyll be scared of. yk. GETTING THEIR, #HEAD CHOPPED OFF, #wait sorry that’s not even the main mechanism behind the brutalizing effect i was just also saying that would also fuck up superhero’s MAIN, #priority: um? fucking making the streets safer? if the villains are worried about their safety after getting defeated then they’re gonna go, #even more all out before going out #anyway brutalizing effect is when the people who will commit violent crimes are NOT deterred by executions of convicted felons, #bc they don’t identify with the convicted felon they identify with the executioner, #also. obvi. parallels to police brutality if superheroes killed., #but even besides that like why would superheroes want to create a norm of killing. they would not want to normalize killing., (x)

#yeah‚ this! precisely this is such a succinct and effective wording of this exact problem, #like. doing the above is/would be no different to watching every movie billed as a chick flick hoping for a bodice ripper, #yeah if you try hard enough you'll find what you're looking for a couple of times, #but you've fundamentally misunderstood what it is this genre can do for you. congrats you missed the thesis, #go read jack reacher number three hundred and four or smth, (x)

#people who act like its bad that batman realises the value in every humans life, #like be so fr, #yeah jokers awful but why do you only put the blame on batman, #what about the gcpd's role or the legal system not sentencing him the death penalty? thats the real reason jokers alive after all he's done, #but sure blame the vigilante, #why do you want your superheros to be murderers? the people that kids are supposed to look for as symbols of hope and justice?, #you want superheros... to be murderers., #think about that for a second, (x)

#it’s like going into a bakery and hating all the cakes there, #honestly i love the hardship that comes from those decisions of to spare not kill etc., #seeing how it takes a toll both physically and mentally on characters and yet they keep pushing through regardless, #it’s what made me realize i like Superman and Superboy tbh, (x)

people who go into superhero comics (the "heroes don't kill" genre, where (admittedly, often very flawed) discussion of the morality of taking a life and themes of lawfulness, vigilanteism, and redemption are like the entire foundations of the genre) and then get pissy about how they want edgier protagonists who kill their enemies. bro just go watch Generic Action Blockbuster #74821384

[chronologically-challenged]

I think that the party's communication issues can be summed up as "man, is it awkward to tell someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with them if you've only know them for a few months? Probably."

[soupmanspeaks]

Glammike but a kid should go up to Freddy during a Meet-N-Greet and mention something about playing catch with their dad and then Freddy looks them dead in the eyes like "haha I never played catch with my dad :3" before 4 beats of silence pass through that entire greenroom and bro gets looks from everyone send tweet

[ohmytiredheart]

Honestly I feel for Sam but serves him right.

Even if we ignore the potential intermingling of the web or any other other spooky strings that are likely being pulled, there's a lot to unpack here.

I wouldn't say Sam "deserved" it, but Alice tried warning him for months. This is what he gets for sticking his nose in places it didn't belong.

Did I say the same thing about Jon in TMA? Yes and no. Obviously there isn't a story without someone doing something dumb, but I think Jon's situation and Sam's situation are a little different. Jon was an idiot, yes, but he (and everyone else around him) were forced to go in completely blind. He had no idea what he was doing and didn't have any warnings or help at all except from his creepy boss with ulterior motives.

Sam also went in blind, but he was warned several times by several people including the eldritch computer to stop and turn around. He could have avoided this if he just returned Alice's calls or looked at her messages.

But nooooo he had to poke around with his little crushy crush and get himself thrown into a portal to what we can only assume is the TMA universe. Serves him right.