#reduce fights

[artfight]

Hold on now, what do you mean there's 50 days left until Art Fight starts-

[jazforthesoul]

every time someone reduces CAPTAIN !!! elizabeth "lizzie" lafayette down to "a sad lesbian" a fairy dies bc i shoot it with my gun. like you're telling me you were spoon-fed a character that has one of the most realistic and RAW representations of grief and perseverance in the series and all you got from that was "she's sad" ????

is she a constantly happy character? Fuck no! that's acknowledged!! but to take EVERYTHING that she is, which has positive and negative aspects THAT ARE BOTH SHOWN, to take the fact that she is THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE MAIN BACKGROUND PLOT, and reduce her down to NOTHING but her relationships?? ?what the hell!!!

[maulfucker]

I think the problem to me is that people who are mainly into the fandom side of star wars don't get that Maul is not the loud, dramatic monologuing villain he seems like around Obi-Wan. he is only "overconfident" in battle. every time he takes over a place or organization he has someone else be the public leader while he rules behind the scenes. he's nearly impossible to track down. he doesn't want to be the center of attention. he doesn't like when people pay attention to him. unless he wants to kill them

[kidspawn]

The whole "we could wake them up" quote (which is, understandably, incredibly iconic for SOC fans) is almost always taken out of context.

It's not only following Wylan showing a capacity for trickery when he's pushed to it (Jesper had just put himself in a dangerous situation), but is directly followed by Wylan admitting he's never seen a dead body and Jesper thinking he hopes Wylan isn't in a situation where he has to be familiar with killing and violence.

"Pretty ruthless, marching Have you ever killed anyone?" "I'd never even seen a dead body before I came to the barrel," Wylan admitted. "It's not something to be embarrassed about," Jesper said, surprising himself a little. But he meant it. Wylan needed to learn to take care of himself, but if would be nice if he could do it without getting on friendly terms with death. pg. 354, Six of Crows

Which... this scene is less "omg what a badass, Wylan's secretly so ruthless" and it's more, "Wylan is willing to do ruthless things to help himself and the people he cares about when he's pressed, but it's not authentic to who he is or how he'd want to handle things." Maybe he would, but it doesn't mean he wants to.

[stonesparrow]

I know there’s dcst app games n whatever but I can’t help but imagine a 2D fighting game where if you pick Senku he doesn’t even whip out science weapons—if you hit the move button he’ll run forward for 0.2 seconds and then start wheezing and pass out on the ground and then you lose.

[is-nino-actually-luka]

Ladybug always complains about how useless and random her lucky charms are but the one time she got an actual gun she threw it all away so she could use the laser sight on it so honestly it’s probably for the best

[densewentz]

i think the turning point in my life both academically and professionally was realizing that. If you Go First, be it a presentation or an interview or whatever. If you go first, you are being judged based on NOTHING but yourself. They aren't comparing you to anyone else, you don't have an act to "follow". You are the Bar. You can literally just do the best you can and at that point it will automatically be the best they've seen so far. And once you're done you're done. You can mentally and emotionally check out.

Game changer insofar as being stressed about presenting because now I just bulldoze over everyone else to go first like a feral hog.

[iizuumi]

More reno sandwich!!!!!

[ther0sesared3ad]

fuck chatgpt fuck snapchat ai fuck meta ai fuck instagram ai bots fuck character ai fuck ai on google searches fuck generative ai

[badninken]

I think Law's ego is suffering worse damage while assisting in this fight than it did during his tour of Dressrosa in chains.

The pain of compliance...

It's tough having the ultimate set of abilities for battle support.

He'll be put on Zoro-boost duty forever.

With a few deep breaths I think he could come to realize just how much he could control the entire fight if he embraced the role of player rather than piece on the board. Learn the strengths of your allies and move them all around where they need to go before they even ask for it!

[phoenixwithapencil]

You ever think about how the Kings of Yore are nearly exclusively remembered in full, faceless, often nearly inhuman battle regalia, weapon in hand?

What were their names? Not their titles. Their names.

[anghraine]

Speaking of Sauron, I've been amusing myself by thinking about how a disproportionate number of people who super ruined his day are descendants of Melian:

Lúthien, obviously, kicked his ass.

Elwing retaining Lúthien's Silmaril and giving it to Eärendil led to the utter defeat of Morgoth's forces including Sauron.

Tar-Telperiën and her nephew Tar-Minastir, descendants of Elwing's son Elros, were responsible for the vast Númenórean fleet that crushed Sauron's attempts to seize Eregion in the Second Age.

Tar-Minastir's descendant Pharazôn (a usurper and terrible person, but nevertheless) led a massive force against Sauron that intimidated Sauron's armies into giving up. Sauron tricked Pharazôn and managed to take out Númenor, only to end up drowning with it, and was significantly damaged and limited by the event.

Meanwhile, a different descendant of Elros, Elendil, survived! He led Númenórean dissenters away just in time to establish sprawling Númenórean-controlled kingdoms in Middle-earth.

Elendil and the Elvish king Gil-galad proceeded to defeat Sauron in single combat after a long siege. The effort killed them but also took out Sauron himself for a very, very long time. Elendil's son Isildur cut the Ring away from Sauron's body as repayment for the deaths of Elendil and Isildur's younger brother Anárion.

Anárion's children produced various lines of descent that would go on to include the Stewards of Gondor, resolute enemies of Mordor who recruited the Rohirrim into Team We Hate Sauron.

Isildur's and Anárion's descendant Aragorn spent decades criss-crossing the map to spike various evil plans, like when he torched the Corsair fleet as Thorongil and disappeared into the night only to turn up decades later to threaten Sauron with Elendil's reforged sword.

The Ring ended up in the hands of Frodo, who would be only too happy to turn it over to Aragorn as Isildur's heir. Aragorn promptly rejected the idea, crucially leading to Frodo remaining as Ringbearer while Sauron came to mistakenly believe Aragorn had the Ring and meant to use it.

The only time Frodo was ever truly captured by Men (the people easily assumed to be the greatest danger to the quest) was by Anárion's descendant Faramir. Faramir could have taken the Ring with disastrous results for everyone but Sauron, but instead shrugged off the temptation and laughed at it before helping Frodo on his way.

Sauron understandably panicked about the Aragorn situation and sent his forces to Gondor earlier than planned, despite knowing at that point that the Steward Denethor was much better prepared than he'd hoped. Faramir used his abilities to lead a retreat across favorable ground that inflicted large casualties on Sauron's armies, as planned. This tactic functionally sacrificed Faramir and Denethor but bought enough time for the Rohirrim and Aragorn's mainly southern Gondorian armies to arrive and turn the tide of the battle of the Pelennor Fields. Sauron's forces in that battle were defeated. Again.

Aragorn exploited Sauron's understandable fixation on him by making a flashy frontal assault as (unofficial) king of the Dúnedain to distract Sauron's attention from the real threat (three hobbits making their way to Mount Doom). This was 100% successful. Through a series of good and bad choices on the part of the hobbits, the Ring was destroyed and Sauron with it.

Bad day all around for Sauron! Aragorn, meanwhile, married Elrond's daughter and became overlord of Sauron's allies with Faramir as his prime minister.

[mitskiluvr]

that body never belonged to you in the first place

[sheepthatgobaa]

Thought about the fabsnap profiles and an idea popped into my head

[croszukis]

hate ppl on this website (so this side of fandom that is convinced they’re above normie sports fans) calling for arber to be an attack dog

[kagoutiss]

divine intoxication