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[loosesodamarble]

Ranking Josele's Weapon Proficiencies

I made Josele a bit of a beast when it came to wielding non-magical weapons. She knows how to use a decent variety and is pretty skilled too. However, she's not a master with every weapon that she puts her hands on and I'm going to rank her skills.

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1. Sword: Her go-to weapon. She mixes dancing into her combat style, making her hard to read especially since she can just switch to more traditional footwork to throw enemies off. Yami and Fanzell are likely the only people who can stand toe-to-toe with her going just on swordsmanship. Asta eventually joins them but upon introduction, Josele would trounce him. She has a special technique passed down from her father called a Blade Pivot. It involves pretending to make a regular thrust attack but turning her wrist at the last moment to change the blade's direction and switch into a slashing attack. It should be noted that the Blade Pivot is a family technique. Josele wouldn't share it with Yami or Asta or even Nacht, only her own children. (If it's not obvious, this isn't a real technique. You'd probably break your arm and sword trying this. It works for Josele because anime logic. 😆) 11/10 skill. -Josele isn't as masterful with curved swords like cutlasses and sabres but they're still swords and so Josele still makes them bend to her will. 10/10 skill.

2. Dagger: She will sometimes dual wield a sword and dagger together. Daggers don't have as much reach as swords but they're excellent with skirmish scenarios and can also be thrown for range. She can use the Blade Pivot with daggers too but it's not as effective due to the shorter blade not being able to arc as effectively as a sword blade. 10/10 skill.

3. Bow & Arrow: Her main method of ranged attacks. She wouldn't consider herself having mastered the bow the way she would for the sword but her quick drawing skills and accuracy are second to none (as far as cc are concerned; who besides Yuno has been seen using a bow?). She can manage to fire two arrows at once though that’s only when she can be stationary; it's not a technique she can pull on an active battlefield, only on a quiet hunt. Known to use a bow to deal blunt strikes in melee as well. 9/10 skill.

4. Spear: The polearm that she's best with. She can stab with it, throw it, twirl it, and can even stick it in the ground and swing on it for a little acrobatic fighting. Is a little more defensive with spears than swords or daggers, using the staff to catch melee blows pretty often. 8/10 skill.

5. Axe: Josele really could be an axe murderer. She's pretty good with these things. She can hack with the main blade, can use the butt of the handle and even the backside of the blade for blunt strikes. She's also been known to use the flat of an axehead to block precise/piercing strikes like a mini shield (thought she readily admits that it's not a good way to use an axe). She can also throw an axe pretty well. 8/10 skill.

6. Greatsword: Josele is no stranger to going two-handed when using her weapons. The little extra weight does affect her footwork but not so severely that it makes her "bad" as using greatswords. She does manage some grace with greatswords but there's a reason it's not in her regular arsenal. She still keeps one at the base though. 7/10 skill.

7. Halberd: Josele learned the hardway that halberds weren't just "long axes" but she picked up the weapon pretty easily after that. Knows how the leverage the axehead with the staff to make strong swings. 6/10 skill.

8. Crossbow: Josele knows her way around a crossbow and can aim it nearly as steadily as she can a bow even when on the move. The ability to determine her drawtime with a standard bow vs. the mechanical slowness of a crossbow does hold Josele back though. 6/10 skill.

9. Trident: The pronged head took Josele a while to get used to. She doesn't use it as effectively as other polearms but she doesn't look like a complete fool with a trident. 5/10 skill. 

10. Sickle: The curve was a little hard to learn how to work with but Josele successfully uses sickles. The way the edge is positioned on the inside of the curve is something else that Josele doesn't work well with 5/10 skill.

11. Hammer: This is definitely Acylla's (@faewraithsworld's oc) weapon. Josele can use a hammer if absolutely necessary but it's one of the few weapons she doesn't have one of, not even in her extra arsenal. 4/10 skill.

12. Flail/whip/similarly flexible weapon: Josele would be screwed. She makes "stiff" weapons like swords and axes graceful. She doesn't know how to work with loose and flexible weapons like whips. 1/10 skill.

[fluorescentbrains]

me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off

[roselilies]

[nakakabaliw]

trying to get through the day.

[not-mary-sue]

Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

[innerenigma]

•Normalize Fanart for Fanfics Again You Fools•

It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.

Spread the Word :)

[charliejaneanders]

Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

[kumanikanna]

So I've binged this manga, and here's my one and only contribution to this fandom.

[k9effect]

Reblog for a larger sample size!

No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

[braxiatel]

I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits

[greelin]

[guy who genuinely fucking loathes himself voice] well on account of my charming and endearing nature. Of course

[aberrantcreature]

The secret wish is to write a fanfic that someone loves so much they make fan art of it, or to create a drawing that someone creates an entire fic based off of it.

[hexgirling]

“that character is a war criminal” that character is from a fictional fantasy world and did not attend the geneva convention

[randomgirlyoudontknow]

love is stored in the fictional couple i’ve gotten overly invested in

[ekingston]

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

[dndspellgifs]

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.