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Anya picking her dance dress because it looks like Yor's 🥹🥹🥹

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A crossover of Spy x Family and Batman I made by photoshopping different panels together. I hope you enjoy

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You know how good Spy X Family is? I remembered that i stopped watching it when i ran out of episodes, but did not remember which episode my last one was. So i thought 'lets just do what i usally do in this case, guess an episode at random and if i've seen it, skip to tne next until i hit a fresh one, and if i havent go back until i hit one i have'. I hit a random episode and imediatly overrode that with teh simple 'acutally this is a real good one, lets sit it out'. and the next one too. SpyXFam is so good it turns 'catchup ' into 'rewatch'.

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Note for morrow when more wake, figure out double-ring rabbit cat seperate? Can use for fic eifeltower key... so sleepy no brain. Sorry if confusing morrowme.

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Possibly the nerdiest thing i've ever done... Data-based analysis of DND 5e, 2-member parties

Back when BG3 came out, it really made me apreciate the fact that the Barbarian+Rogue should be an iconic dynamic that is heavily underrepresented in DND content. (that is to say, no one makes 'when the barbarian and rogue go on a solo adventure'-memes like they do for Bard+Rogue or Sorcerer+Wizard). So i decided to do some meta-analysis for which 2-member team-ups also had untapped potential. Which i just realised was still on my computer. So beneath the cut are some screengrabs from the Excel spreadsheets. Credit to the Dungeondudes YT-channel 'party roles'-video-series, for giving me a framework to use beyond the simple 'which saves do you bring'. It was quite helpfull and i found their analysis quite insightfull. in copying their framework I tweaked a handfull of datapoints to account for the different purpose of their analysis compared to the goal of my exercise, or to account for things I personally think they underestimated or undervalued.

First up: Saving throws. For saving scores i counted them as 0, 2 or 2.5. Because it matters a lot more that 1 person resist a save then that both. (though both is still better then only 1). Classes qualified for saves if they: had pre-level-12 access to the saving throw (sorry monks but no one plays level 16) or had were default intended to have the stat as top primary, secondary or tertiary to their build.

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As for party roles, rather then raw stats. As aforementioned i used the Dungeondudes pillar framework. Some minor adjustments i made that felt necessary to account for. 1-Frontline. Druids are scored as frontline, unlike the DD's 'only if you built for it', im merely looking for if they can create a frontline. Given that all druids are prepared casters with access to Conjure Animals and Woodland Beings. I counted them. 2-Generally, Wizards and other Prepared Casters get slightly higher rankings then non-prepared spellcasters. Because assumed scenario for this exercise is 'party splits with preptime'. 3-non-prepared casters were ruled based on a presumed 'default' playstyle. (IE: Warlock is assumed a high-charisma face with the 'at will' and blast evocations).

also note that i changed the scoring between raw stats and party0roles to 0-1-1.5 instead of 0,2,2.5 this was a decision on my part to account for the fact these rolls tend to be less side-steppable. Player choice cannot sidestep an enemy throwing a wisdom save at you. But you can choose to engage with a challenge through a different pillar of play. Having at least 1 partymember with a relevant save is much more important in a situation then having a great investigator or DPS. Because you can always improvise in ignorance, or choose to run from a villain you cant kill.

Frontline:

Utility:

Support:

Exploration: 1-note that I deviated from the dudes with the late-alphabet casters, despite the dudes ranking all of them B, i upped the wizard to account for being a prepared caster. So they're on the board even if the other B's aren't.

Negotiator:

Investigator -Big deviation from the dudes. The cleric, by being a prepared caster with the most divination-access of any is counted here. When you can cast Clairvoyance, speak with dead or 'ask God who did it'. That counts in my book. -while the dudes ranked Sorc and Warlock both mid, the warlocks access to both Speak W Dead and Speak W Animals at-will through evocations made me put them on here. (because if we're talking default builds... Warlock as face with At-will evocations seem like default picks to me)

Damage.

And finally all the data together.

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Of course the pig's tail is on beat. He's the conductor

Awesome

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Fic Draft Thought: Manon Chamack and Playing the Villain

While i was outlining Adrien's social-links for the fic, i think i just had a brain-boom. I think i know why Manon likes to play as the villains when she's playing with her dolls.

Manon is an only child. Whose mother, a journalist in a newly-terrorised city, used to have a lot more time to spend with her daughter. But in the sudden uptake of extreme local news, Nadja's job responsibilities have increased tremendously as a result of the Akuma's. Manon, on some level, resents the miraculous for taking her mother from her. And she uses play to work her way through this, taking out her frustrations on Ladybug and Chat Noir by playing at their defeat. Because some part of her believes that if Ladybug and Chat Noir are defeated, she'd get her mother's time back. It's like when a toddler resents the new baby for stealing their parents' attention.

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Screaming into the void about my fic-draft...

unstructured Persona 5+Miraculous Ladybug crossover fic draft thoughts beyond the cut. Bewarned.

just realised... i can really simplify my fic-draft if i just pull an Aglae for Sublime and say 'who gives a damn about creating a reason for introducing new characters, they've always been here'. No introduction just retconed into having always existed, same with Lucky-girl (whose name i still dont think i've heard used even once in the show). I mean... I dont actually need to write an explanation for why Sublime would be in Paris in a S1 part of the fic, because: 1-The show doesnt explicitly say she came to paris in-between S5-6, it just didnt establish her presence in the S1-5 bits. it establshes she's originally from belgium and that she used to go to school there. it does not state that she only comes to paris in Adriens year of public school. (which I will insist was a reasonable assumption for me, and i suspect most the audience to make. Just an erroneous one) 2-Even if they do end up writing an explicit 'moved here last month' bit... I dont think a reasonable audience is going to give a shit about that in my fic. like... it really hurts to realise that this thing i've been stumbling over for what feels like months has been nothing but me catastrophising. Here i was thinking i had to somehow tie it to the Volpina episode's Transfer Student plotline when i can just... not bother.

----------- I've went over the timeline three or four times, and am extremely glad that in my current draft nothing glaring is standing out as a plothole. Which is nice given that the draft-timeline now includes arrows pointing to the timeline being rewritten in the timeline.

Did have to/get to scrap lila from the fic as a result. honestly, i was willing to give writing Lila a try, but the more i looked at her the more certain i became that cannon is working off a timeloop with her, so much of her behaviour only makes sense if her future self tells her to do things...

Given that said entire timeloop can only start if Maribug is the only one fighting Hawkmoth in the S5 climax (because that is the only way that she could off-screen obtain the broach without interference), and given that within the concept of this crossover the Thieves would've always been there even in the 'original' timeline (and thus would've interfered with it.). I dont think the Lila-loop is viable to the fic. In summary: Lila doesnt exist, or if she does the timeloop never forms and Lila* never comes to Paris because her future self never set events into motion to make her come to paris... *ominous asterisk is ominous, dont worry about it --- Really hope that we get an answer as to wether Sublime was born leg-less, or if she lost them/needed an amputation and the circumstances there relatively soon... Its not an imediate problem for the fic but it feels like its the big 'elephant in the room' for the P5-thieves VS Adricrew* comparison. Because as of now she feels like my fic should be written with the assumption of her being a Ryuji parallel/foil... but i also dont want to assume the circumstances of her prosthesis to be anything as bad as what happened to Ryuji. (note: Yes i know that medically speaking 'had to be amputated' is generally indiciative of a worse injury then 'broken and will never fully heal right'. I mean that i do not want to assume Sublime has a Kamoshida in her backstory) Like I know enough to be sure that I want them to be paralleled... But i also know too little to know if/how they would serve eachother as foils. (but then i might be catastrophising here too? I think it might make more sense for Adricrew and Phantoms to be aquintences more then coworkers.... or like 'same industry, different company'?) *still trying to come up with a name. ---

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Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it

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i know everyone talks about the toxic relationship between marinette and lila when it comes to exposing lies, and the mental gymnastics they both do just to get a win or whatever, and as entertaining as that is.. have we ever considered the "make a better lie to get my friend out of trouble"/"why should I do that"/"we're friends aren't we?" from adrien and lila. like what the fuck was that all about. Like he was never about exposing her or her lies. dude just straight up was like, cool. doesn't matter if no one else knows the truth. just us.

not to drag lila + marinette content but i want to see more content of adrien being on the same level as lila and not as a pawn, or a victim of lila, etc etc etc. that boy can navigate social circles and I know it in my heart.

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also the implication that mari can personally choose to murder him with little trouble NOW (post senti reveal) when she used to be willing to surrender her miraculous if a KNOWN illusion of adrien was threatened byblila?

Like, there is definitly some major "not a human, not worth life" implication there.

"Adrien came back to life, so it's no big de-"

NO! I won't accept that, not even for a moment. Do you realize how easy it is to disregard life this way? To keep sacrificing someone because you know they won't be dead for long?

This is what the writers did to Marinette. It made her kill Adrien. It made Adrienette even worse.

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Ok as a person who hasnt watched Frieren, that 'processingspeed adjusted for lifespan' tidbit is a hilarious concept... It gave me a mental image of a human flirting with an elf, getting them into the bedroom, showing off some their new lingerie... And that then, an entire human lifetime later, the elf catches onto what was happening and pitches their tent.

Do you think Frieren is aro and/or ace?

Honestly, I don't think we know enough about how elves process romantic and sexual attraction to give a good answer to that, at least not going by what the anime has shown.

Like, elves' emotional processing seems to match their lifespans, right? It took Frieren decades and decades to fully process how she felt about Himmel. If she ever fully fell in love with someone, it could take twenty years for her to really show it, for all we know. She certainly feels SOMETHING intense for Himmel, even if she doesn't reciprocate quite what romance means to him.

My vibe is that Frieren is alloromantic, at least, and no clue about her sexuality, but her portrayal in the show would certainly fit an aspec reading of the character, and I know that various neurodiverse people have felt seen by how her emotional processing is displayed. Valid readings all, I think.

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The Four Batboys (Dick, Jason, Tim and Damian) gets possessed by the Treasures of Ruin (Wo-Chien for Dick, Chien-Pao for Jason, Ting-Lu for Tim and Chi-Yu for Damian)? (Just a "funny" terrible AU and crossover)

Going to be honest... While im familiar with the concept of pokemon in general, im a couple generations behind. (last time I considered buying a game was when they made the faerie type, and even then I dont think i ever bothered to hand over my money. Im also just personally not really into posession stories (not trying to yuck your yum mind you, just saying I personally dont often find them engaging.) I cant even comment on whether those specific bird-to-treasure corespondences are sensible or intuitive. So i dont think have the knowledge required of the Treasures to even begin to properly analise this. Beyond some generic broad, overviewing concept-level spots where I think things could snag.

Genuinely, there are 2 ways to categorise posession stories. One sorts by physical effects, the other by the nature of the posession itself.

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Physical effects can roughly divide into:''Posessed with superpowers from posessing entity' VS 'Basically just a human with a second brain'. If its the former? Thats going to run into the fact that the whole batfam 'schtick' is their being non-powered supers'. While having a single exception (i think his name is Dave, or a second Dick? I know it starts with a D at least) works... I fear that a collective of four sudden-onset supers could threaten their underdog appeal. No problem with having one of them get posessed and gain powers for a day a lá Jimmy Olsen in the old days. But its the Syndrome Incredibles 'when everyone is special' quote, with the addendum that a large amount of these characters appeal is that they are (at least nominally) 'not special'. Meanwhile if you go the latter, powerless option, you risk removing a key aspect of what makes Pokemon Pokemon. Pokemon without special moves are unlikely to 'feel' like pokemon, They'll just feel like 'weird animals'. Especially if you've already robbed them of their physical form. (which is where most poke's draw a lot of their sense of identity from already).

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and then you still need to think about the psychological/spiritual level of the posession to worry about. This can roughly divide into: 1-Supernatural backgroundforce that subconciously influences things. 2-sense-able presence in back of head that leaves emotional impressions 3-Hearing Voices 4-Full on split personality with swaps 5-Jekyll and Hyde, One by day one by night. Now obviously these arent mutually exclusive, a character can spend 99% of the time as a type-1 and then when shit goes down go full 4 for example. And they all have their strengths and drawbacks that i feel very much unqualified to fully explore. But i can see some potential snags within each of these (broadly divisible between 'cat 1' and 'cat 2-5') 1-generally this the most boring possible form of posesion, to such a degree that I'd argue its barely posession at all. For most people, it seems at least to me, that the clash between two distinct personalities (put a pin in that) is the central appeal of the trope of posession... And in Stage 1, the posessing spirit doesnt have the ability to meaningfully express such. 2-5 meanwhile all fall into the big shared, and previously pinned pitfall: How much 'recognisable personality' do most pokemon really posess in the first place. Sure Ash's Charizard and Ash's Pikachu have strong senses of personality developed over multiple seasons of Anime... And a handfull of Psychic types have dictated maniphesto's to the audience. But those are outliers that probably dont apply to these. (I say based on nothing more then a quick wikiskim) How much personality do legendaries, most often speach-less entities that appear in a single in-game questline (frequently more as an enemy to be fought then as a character to interact with) really have? I cannot say for certain wether these 4 treasure-pokemon do or do not have enough personality to meaningfully impart their 'essence' to the crossover when stripped of corporeal form and rendered naught but a voice in the head. But on a cursory glance I personally do not feel confidant that they're going to be able to easily get their 'them-ness' across... and thats not going into the more specific concerns...

For example: Do how linguistic are the posessing spirits going to be in your fic? Will they talk in full sentences with their host (removing one of the core aspects of the Pokemon Brand Identity), Or do you limit them to name-calling... because while 'pikachu says pikachu and ash understands he means food' works rather well an animated tv-show where meaning can be imparted through a combination of charades, context, the intonation of the pika-peeks as well as precedents set with previously established cast-dynamics... In most forms of pure-verbal fic, you'd be left with nothing but context clues and a sort of meta-narrative telepathy that can only be passed off as intuition. --- So while i cannot help you much with this in specific... i hope these broader points of worry are at least usefull feedback if you intend to write this. As a final signoff to this post... Please note that the relatively dour and downspirited nature of this post is merely a result of my lack of personal passion in these tropes and franchises leaving me with little to spark inspiration that could guide me to say 'you should definitly remember that Jason's undead-ness could tie into this lore-tidbit'... I assume that there is a ton of potential, narrative synergies that you might have seen that I merely lack the knowledge required to even begin to understand. (being, as aformentioned, 2-3 generations behind in Pokemon and only a distant observer to the Bats) Know that I am in no way attempting to break your spirit or say this fic would be some kind of doomed endeavor... these concerns are merely that, points of concern that i would personally recomend thinking about well in advance for the sake of balancing the three parts of your crossover so you can do the Batkids, the Treasures and the wider genre of posession-narratives the justice they justly deserve.

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Reason #1618348 why Persona 2 needs a remake in the modern gaming era.

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Gabriel specifically told Marinette to make sure Adrien never knew he was Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth/Monarch. He didn't show any remorse for the way he treated Adrien. If he actually loved Adrien, he wouldn't have treated him like an obedient drone for the last few months of his life.

A wise man once said "He may have been your father boy, but he wasn't your daddy."

Allright, @crimson-ace lets start by getting the obvious out the way: Clicking the Anonymous question button doesnt work when you send the ask 1 minute after leaving a comment, and immediatly before leaving another comment on the same post you are talking about. You cannot layer a troll-sandwitch with an anonymity filling. Now to give you more grace then you deserve, given that all signs point to 'obvious troll'. Im nonetheless going to abide by Hanlons razor and give you a last benefit of the doubt.

While i have a lot of negative feelings about the decision to write an abuser as a complex figure with nuanced emotion in a childrens show that is notorious for its inability to manage pay-offs to basic concepts. I nonetheless need you to understand: 1-Abuse is complicated, and not all abuse comes from a place of malice. Gabriel can be both an abuser and have genuine, dying regrets about the strain he put on his relationship. These are not mutually exclusive traits. 2-How often in cannon does gabriel actually treat adrien like a drone/slave? Because those moments that involve ring use are very much fewer and further between then most of you seem to think. (most of them arent even cannonical to the timeline, occuring in Ephemeral, Chat Blanc and similar. And even then i cannot help but notice that bringing them up in an attempt to distract from Marinette's 3-4 paterns of on-screen Catdrienabuse might be likely to backfire

3- At no point in that post did I ever defend Gabriel. In fact the only bit of that post that described the actual reality of the events that happend rather then the fandoms deliberate, malicious misreading OF the scene, explicitly says that the few moments are not enough to redeem Gabriel. While TA might think that Gabriel 'died redeemed'. Neither I, You anon, nor the character of Gabriel himself hold that opinion. 4-There is a difference between gabriel technically asking that his crimes be covered up to protect adriens memories of the good days, and marinette's choice to go way above and beyond that request to manufacture the big 'hero' lie. There is a difference between 'dont tell them I was a supervillain' and 'tell them I was secretly the hero and personally saved the world from the guy who almost started WWIII in New York'. Gabriel did not ask to be turned into a saint. That was wholy and fully a Marinette decision. 5-Even if gabriel had asked to be made into a hero (which i need to reiterate, he explicitly did not), that would not free Marinette (the person the post is actually about if you hadnt noticed) from acocuntability for her choices in maintaining the lie... such as: Murdering Adrien in cold blood Emotionally manipulating Sublime to prevent Adrien from getting a support network outside herself, absolve marinette of her decision in Revalator to mind-wipe Alya rather then face accountability, otherwise wash marinette's hands from any other crimes against adrien's right to self-determination she's inevitably going to commit as-of-yet-unnaired episodes in the upcoming season. If you genuinely think that post was me defending Gabriel? You need to read it again, that post was about only one thing and one thing only: The fact that the fandom has wildly reinterpreted what happened in that scene because they'd rather rewrite cannon and erase Marinette's choices and decisions in the story, Then risk having to accept accept that Marinette , according to the text of the show, supposed to be considered fully responsible for the various gaslightings, manipulations and on-screen murders she's comitting this season. But her stans (that, i presume, includes you) would rather reduce this character, textually stated to be 'considered fully mature' in the eyes of magic and 'already the best possible version of herself' to an easily-manipulated, spineless perpetual-victim. Rather then engage with the fact that the character is being written (and has for been so for 3 seasons straight) as a selfish, manipulative controllfreak who lacks the ability or desire to respect the agency and personhood of others.

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This guy… gotta love him!