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“After you, my dear,” the fairy chirps, her voice is a stark contrast to how she presents herself. While she speaks in a high, melodic song, she stands before Lina in a suit so sharp it would put the finest of aristocratic gentlemen to shame. Her bony hand is outstretched into the tavern, and Lina playfully curtsies in response.
“Why thank you, handsome,” she purrs, feeling incredibly smug as a dark pink blush forms on Mireska’s face, covering her freckles. Handsome, at first it had been strange to call her handsome - admittedly the rather restrictive culture she had grown up in, both in Misrule and especially the Helio Imperium, had had a heavy impact on her. Now, however, it comes to her as naturally as the word ‘hello’, and for good reason too, Mireska is very handsome.
A couple of heads turn as they make their way to an unoccupied booth, the standard drunken men who are all too eager to throw unwanted winks and comments, but their open mouths clamp shut when they get a good look at her companion. Lina looks up at Mireska who has her fangs bared in a mocking smile. There had been comments before, fools who would remark that she should ‘pick one and stick with it’. Others had demanded Lina to ‘try a real man and not some cheap imitation’. Of course they had been silenced fast by fireballs to the face and hanging upside down by a bramble snare, but the experiences often left her apprehensive walking into a tavern.
If it bothered Mireska, she was very good at hiding it, still grinning as they slide into their seat side by side. The fairy puts a spindly arm around her and pulls her in close, which Lina welcomes with a contented sigh. They had been travelling together for only a couple of months, but those months had been the most normal she had felt in … well in her life really. Sure it had been hard to adjust to the fairy’s … unconventional lifestyle, but after the first month it was like clockwork. Visit a new city, let Mireska off her leash to get them some gold, sight see, get into trouble with the law then run like hells. She had to admit it was nice getting to see the world, she could never have dreamed of this as Shabarrah’s human weapon.
“Whiskey,” Mireska announces and Lina jumps, realising a waiter had approached them. Mireska is going for her old reliable, and Lina decides to be a little bit cute.
“You don’t happen to have Molten Red, do you?” She asks. The waiter nods, casting a questioning look between the two of them, although he keeps his trap shut for his own sake as he paces off to the bartender.
“Molten Red?” Mireska asks with a chuckle, “Are ye tryin’ to cause me war flashbacks?”
Lina gives her a gentle nudge.
“I thought it’d be funny,” she says. “Since you tried it ten months ago.”
Mireska’s eyes widen and she tugs at the collar of her shirt.
“Ten months?” She cocks her head, antennae flopping gently. “Ach! Sure time flies when yer havin’ fun!”
Mutterings catch Lina’s attention and she looks out, aware of some patrons pointing at them and shaking their heads. She catches the words ‘wrong’ and ‘disgraceful’. Mireska notices too, her antennae perk at their voices.
“Does it bother you too?” Lina asks. The fairy snorts although there’s a tremble in her voice when she speaks.
“Ah, I’m used to it,” she says. “It’s insecurity on their end, I’m all too comfortable in meself an’ it drives them mental!”
“I wish I had your confidence,” Lina wraps her arms around herself, feeling the other patrons gazes burning into her skin and she can feel that unbearable itch to scorch the earth writhing underneath it. Mireska pulls her in tighter and her voice is gentle in her ear over the chatter of the tavern.
“Hey,” she coos. “I wish I had your confidence! Yer the one sendin’ them all packin’ with one blast of fire!”
“It’s hardly confidence, just aggression.”
Mireska simply shrugs.
“Potato potato.”
Molten Red burns the throat in all the right ways, Lina could never imagine a better drink and beside her, Mireska is shaking her head.
“I dunno how ye down that,” she says.
“I don’t know how you down that,” Lina responds, nodding to her mug of whiskey. Mireska takes a long swig of it without flinching and smirks back at her.
“Well whiskey’s actually lovely,” she says. “One o’ the best poisons money can buy-“
She’s promptly interrupted by approaching men and isn’t that a treat? Their night is about to get ruined. Lina takes a deep breath and balls her fists, trying to quell the fire rapidly increasing in size in her veins. Mireska is eyeing them too, although she’s clearly scanning for any loose change they may be carrying.
“Hey!” One of them barks, Lina can smell the alcohol on his breath from where she’s sitting. “What are you?!”
He’s pointing right at Mireska who frowns back at him, her lip curls and reveals her fangs.
“A faerie,” she says, attempting to lower her voice but the man’s companion lets out a laugh.
“That’s a chick!” He nudges his friend, “You guys inverts or what?”
Mireska lets out a hiss so ferocious that shadowcats would run in terror. Lina’s done trying to bury the fire in order to avoid a scene.
“I’ll fuckin’ batter yis!” She snarls, “C’mere an’ say that again! I dare ye!”
Lina knows what Mireska is up to, and the man leans across the table, glaring right into her green eyes with a mocking sneer.
“Invert!”
Lina jumps up like a shot, launching her forehead right into his nose. Pain ricochets through her skull but years of training means she shrugs it off while he falls backwards clutching his face. She’s quick to bring the fire out, pinning him down and raining burning punches while he howls. Mireska has his friend, clawing his eyes and swiping him, fighting the old fashioned way as she put it.
As quickly as the fight started, they’re grabbed by guards and tossed out of the city. Mireska fires two middle fingers up at the gate as it’s slammed shut.
“Is that how yis wanna be?!” She screeches, “Well joke’s on the lotta yis! I didn’t pay me tab, ye shower o’ gobshites!”
Lina places a hand on her shoulder, the fire ebbing away as the adrenaline wears off, rapidly replaced by growing shame.
“Are you alright?” She asks. Mireska turns and spits blood into the grass.
“I hate that word,” she grunts, a fury that seemed to span back years twisting her face. Lina wraps her arms gently around her.
“I hate it too,” she tries to sound soothing but her voice only shakes. “What’ll we do now?”
Mireska is quiet for a moment, resting her chin on top of her head.
“We could go fish for bottle ends in the outskirt district?” The chirp returns to her voice, although Lina can tell when she’s forcing it. However it doesn’t stop the chuckle from escaping her.
“How romantic!” She looks back up at her. “You’re such a gentleman, do you know that?”
“More of a gentleman than most fellas,” Mireska shakes her head with a hearty tut. Lina brings a hand up to her face.
“But that’s what I love about you.”
#homophobia tw but the assholes get beaten up#hi i hate this but it’s done#i wanted to write smth that showcases my#butch mireska headcanon but i FAILED#dota 2#dark willow#mireska sunbreeze#lina the slayer#fanfiction#dota pride month#dota2
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Magina leaned a bit closer towards Kael, until their shoulders were almost touching. “Do you know that the Bounty Hunter is watching you?”
Kael didn’t even blink at the question. Of course he knew. “Of course he does. I am beautiful and powerful. He surely thinks I am awesome and therefore he can’t help staring at me.”
Magina chuckled. Kael actually believed that, his arrogance was astounding. Or amusing.
Kael turned his head at the sound. Now he stared at Magina.
Magina frowned. “What?”
“You are awesome. Especially when you are laughing.” Kael slung an arm around Magina’s waist and pulled him against his body. Kael’s voice softened, as did his features. A hint of a smile tugged at his lips. He was no fan of openly showing affection. Not because of it being the Anti-Mage by his side, but simply because he didn’t like to show any form of emotion. He was the Invoker, showing emotion was a weakness and affection was a form of emotion.
But when Magina smiled, which was a rare sight, he was gone. He couldn’t not touch. He breathed a kiss on Magina’s temple. It might not seem like much, but for him, for them, here, in public, it was.
Magina knew that quite well and a faint blush tinted his cheeks when Kael pulled away. It was adorable and Kael brushed over one cheek with a thumb. As if he could feel the blush.
“You are awesome,” Magina murmured.
For long moments they stood like that, staring at each other, both smiling a little bit. The Anti-Mage and the Invoker, lost in each other and not caring that everyone stared at them.
#dota#dota2#dota 2#pride month#invoker#anti-mage#i didnt describe where they are#so you can imagine them anywhere#on a parade#or just walking through a city#on a date#or just a casual stroll through a park#whatever#dota pride month#myfanfic
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#dota 2#maidot#dota 2 fanart#dota 2 art#dota2#legion commander#zeuz dota2#puck#queen of pain#storm spirit#io#happy pride 🌈#pride month#pride month 2023
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Pride Month Drabble #7
I’m not late I still have a little less than 10 minutes before I’m officially late
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Pairing: JohnTen w/ side DoTae
Prompt: Formal
It was Doyoung and Taeyong’s wedding, yet for some reason when Johnny and Ten accompanied Taeyong to buy his tux for the ceremony, Taeyong was suddenly nowhere to be found and Johnny and Ten were standing in a fancy tuxedo store in the middle of an outdoor mall where they couldn’t afford even the silk ties by the counter (the cheapest thing in the store).
If Taeyong had shown up back where he had left them, he probably would have stood up and turned around, walking right back out of the store. It was a very Johnny and Ten thing to do, a bizarre sight in the middle of an otherwise pristine store full of rich, stuck-up snobs. Johnny and Ten really didn’t see why Taeyong wanted to shop there in the first place, because he may have been rich, but he hated snobs, and every single person in that store was a high-class snob.
In true JohnTen fashion, upon being left to their own devices, no Taeyong to control them or make them behave, they did what they saw fit to do. They made fun of the employees who treated them differently because they weren’t as rich as Taeyong or Doyoung, and they tried on several tuxes just for the hell of it.
At some point in the store, when Ten wasn’t paying attention, Johnny looked at the younger man, still in disbelief that Ten was his. He put on his jacket, ready to leave to find Taeyong, playing with the small ring box in his pocket with a smile on his face as he waited for Ten to change out of the suit he had tried on.
One day, it’ll be our turn.
#pride month drabbles#pride month uwu#seoft bitch#sweetheart#johnten#johnten drabble#drabble#yuki.mine#yuki.writing#bunbun#bubu#dotae#30 day writing challenge#my drabble
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12 for Greens please!
12. “Give me your panties.”
Every time I write Greens I get softer for them.
Send me a prompt and some characters! Reminder that the challenge is to make everything SFW, so we're getting creative here.
List of prompts
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It did not surprise Butch at all that Buttercup, the girl he had sworn to beat the crap out of as kids because a) he needed a hobby and b) she was the only person on the planet who could take a punch, had grown up to be the coolest girl he knew.
She was grounded, got caught coming home late from a party stinking of weed, and her father didn’t believe Bubbles’ cover story. But even still, she snuck out to go to the Blue Quake concert Butch had saved up all his tips for the last four months to get tickets to. Yeah, he could have given her ticket to Wes or Elmer or any of the others, but she’d punch him in the dick and pogo stick her way to the concert on his stiff corpse if he so much as dared, her words.
Butch, being seventeen and human, felt a brief rush at the idea that she’d come into any sort of contact with his dick, violent in nature or not, but he soon got over it because Blue Quake was happening and they were going together and they were going to have the greatest time ever.
Their tickets admitted them to the floor center stage, where the mosh pit soon undulated in full force, and Butch was living. The music was stupid good, the guitar riffs quickened his blood almost as hot as Chemical X, and next to him was the fucking cherry on top.
The cherry threw her arm around him and sang the chorus to this song directly in his ear. Her bangs were sweaty on his cheek, and he could barely hear her voice over his own heartbeat and the adrenaline, but she was warm and happy and that made him laugh. The mosh pit jostled them, but they were Super and invincible and together, and they were having the best fucking time.
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Buttercup’s phone buzzed in her skirt pocket. It was probably Blossom wondering when she’d be back, and she couldn’t cover for her all night, and she really needed to wrap things up soon before the Professor got wise and figured out where Buttercup was.
Five more minutes. Five more minutes and then she’d be satisfied, but she’d said that five minutes ago, and she didn’t have the heart to tell Butch she had to go, so she didn’t. He could have given her ticket to one of the guys and not worried about curfew or angry dads, but he didn’t. And that surprised her. Butch had ditched her plenty of times before, threats notwithstanding, but not this time. She didn’t care to think about it too much, preferring to have fun in this moment with him.
“That’s our show!” the lead singer said. The crowd cheered, expecting the encore that would definitely come as fans threw flowers and shirts and themselves at the stage in shameless abandon.
“Wow!” Buttercup laughed. “They’re obviously doing an encore, what gives?”
“Hey, Buttercup.” Butch had to press his lips to her ear to be heard over the screaming. “Give me your panties.”
A punch to the dick was her gut instinct, but the lizard-brained part of her suspected he’d like that in his twisted way. He’d been good, solid even, and she was in the best mood.
Buttercup slid her panties off over her boots and shoved them at Butch. “You better make that count, asshole.”
He looked at her like he couldn’t believe she’d actually complied, because he probably couldn’t. He probably had never even held a girl’s underwear before, and that made Buttercup kind of proud. Aw, I’m his first. She leaned heavily into the pride so her anxiety wouldn’t consume her—what did he think of her now?
Butch barked a laugh like he’d forgotten how and clutched her panties in his fist. He averted his gaze. “You dirty bitch.”
“I can see your half chub,” she taunted right back.
Butch’s breath was hot on her forehead. “Bet you can.” He dropped his hand around her waist, and she thought about how she was bare now under her skirt and he knew that.
He raised her panties in his fist and fired off his blaster. The panties went up in green flames and landed on the stage with a flourish. The crowd howled and clapped, and Blue Quake started up their encore.
Buttercup made it home half an hour later to Bubbles playing mobile games without a care in the world and Blossom down in the kitchen entertaining their father.
“She covered for you,” Bubbles said, not looking up from her game.
“I owe her.”
“She watched The Price is Right with him.”
Buttercup winced. “I really owe her.”
“Yup.”
She showered and changed, and after apologizing to Blossom fifteen times and promising her a favor of her choice in the future, she settled into bed with her phone. There was a text from Butch.
[Butch: Confession: I kept your panties]
[Buttercup: I saw you incinerate them!]
[Butch: I didn’t. Got them right here]
He sent her a picture of her singed underwear splayed lovingly on his bedspread.
[Buttercup: You nasty fuck]
[Buttercup: Guess you’ll have a good night beating off]
Butch’s chat bubbles bounced for a long time, then disappeared. Buttercup bit her lip. It was a long time before he responded.
[Butch: Thanks for coming out. Was fun]
“Buttercup, turn off that light. I’m trying to sleep,” Blossom murmured.
Buttercup ignored her.
[Buttercup: Thanks for not giving away my ticket. It was cool of you]
His chat bubbles bounced and bounced. She imagined him typing in his bed, and she thought about his lips against her temple, warm and a little wet. She wondered what he was thinking now (probably fighting or fucking), if it was about her (it was always about her). Buttercup told herself these things, but she didn’t truly know. She’d never asked him. How do you even ask someone that? Do you think about me in bed at night? Fucking weird.
[Butch: Going to sleep. Talk tomorrow?]
Buttercup sat with that question mark for a long time. Hope? Indecision? Uncertainty? God, she felt like Blossom overanalyzing fucking punctuation marks in text messages. She thought about actually asking Blossom, but decided against it after everything Blossom had already done for her tonight. This was Butch, and she was overreacting. She decided to go with her gut, which had always worked with him before.
[Buttercup: Yeah. DOTA?]
His reply was immediate.
[Butch: Definitely]
[Buttercup: 🔫]
He liked her message, and she put her phone away. She may be grounded, but she’d hear his voice as she destroyed him in DOTA tomorrow. He’d bitch and moan about it, like he always did, but she didn’t mind so much.
And maybe…
Maybe she’d ask him.
Maybe.
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If you enjoy my writing, check out more of my fics on AO3, link in my profile. I’m currently updating Trinity House and The Alchemy of Us. Thanks for reading!
#powerpuff girls#powerpuff girls fanfic#ppg greens#Butchercup#ppg butch#ppg buttercup#september fic prompts#having so much fun subverting the expectations of these prompts i gotta say
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Happy pride month, everybody! Can I get a new pfp please? (dota dni, im still salty)
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Just how big has eSports become?
113 million no-nonsense devotees around the world
147 million periodic guests
US$ 252 million in worldwide livelihoods
an anticipated total prize pool of $71 million for all occasions and rivalries.
No, these numbers don't allude to a customary standard brandishing movement like football or ball. Or maybe, they start from a game that saw its critical flood start a basic multi decade back, a game whose overall income has quite outperformed the profit of the entire melodies market by $20 billion out of 2014, a game that immense brands like Coca-Cola, Red Bull, American Express, Intel and Samsung are competing to support.
I'm talking about eSports- - furthermore alluded to as reasonable video gaming, electronic donning exercises or expert pc gaming- - a kind of PC game rivalry where expert gamers fight for the most elevated position and the main prize.
With a quickly growing overall adherent base and an inexorably coordinated area plan of action, eSports has as of now come to be a veritable offer- - so genuine that people presently meet all requirements for the use of US P-1 Visa, a kind of visa that is for some time been booked for expert competitors.
However precisely how did eSports become so huge, so snappy? And furthermore what factors have added to its turn of events?
The flood of eSports
Fun truth on the soonest notable PC game rivalry: on October 19 1972, a gathering of understudies at Stanford University contended in an "intergalactic spacewar olympics."
The prize? A one-year participation to Wanderer.
However the victors of the present eSports rivalries can anticipate excessive more: the International 2015 Dota 2 Championship- - which happened beforehand this month- - had a prize pool of more than $18 million, making it the greatest ever before for a solitary occasion.
Simply a years prior, the principal ever master video cut gamer, Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, appeared on the front of BusinessWeek, with an eight-page include itemizing the ascent of the business.
In those days, the Cyberathlete Professional Organization (CPL) was basically beginning to squeeze into the nation's awareness. In the five years paving the way to the element, "Fatal1ty" had really won additional competitions and furthermore pulled in significantly more prize cash than some other player: more than $350,000. Intel was the primary patron for the CPL 11-occasion world visit, with different sponsor, for example, Samsung, AMD and furthermore Tylenol.
As indicated by an infographic from ESL, its assortment of enrolled players extended to 1,000,000 in its underlying 8 years. By 2013, that number had really developed to more than 4,000,000. ESL areas could be found in 46 nations, with more than 883,000 enlisted gatherings and furthermore more noteworthy than 30,000 pristine players joining with the class consistently.
Pressing factors behind the turn of events
The significant components behind the development of eSports incorporate the prominence of new frameworks for seeing PC game, fresh out of the plastic new organization models and furthermore a flood in "Geek Pride."
The center components, however, revolve around the creation just as development of new frameworks - especially streaming frameworks like Twitch, where crowds can see live spilling of master gamers rivaling each other practically every day. They may tune directly into see groups of the best players fight straight on across a few landmarks, in both little engagements and extraordinary 5v5 contenders.
These new frameworks have really separated dividers that some time ago limited the gaming experience to simply the major parts in the game. They have really pulled in much more people to the area, while considering two-path correspondence inside the room.
For instance, streaming stages like Twitch (which Amazon.com got in 2015 for $970 million) have really given inspirations for both master players and target markets to accumulate and associate. For proficient gamers, they can acquire income with a blend of advertisements, membership charges for real time their computer games and furthermore commitments from watchers, which has made making money by playing computer games a reachable goal.
For crowds, streaming makes eSports extraordinarily accessible. Adherents don't should be especially competent at playing computer games to take an interest; they can essentially kick back and appreciate the computer games.
As per Newzoo Global eSports Target market Version, with respect to 40% of eSports watchers don't play the actual games. Furthermore, crowds can truly include with players through Twitch, sending ongoing comments or worries to gamers as the contenders stream. Some gamers will respond, while others will unquestionably even welcome crowds to partake on the computer game.
The mutually advantageous plan of streaming frameworks has really caused fantastic interests in eSports. As per a 2014 record from Twitch, there were 16 billion mins appreciated, 100 million uncommon crowds and furthermore 1.5 million unique telecasters consistently on Twitch. Furthermore, the assortment of top synchronous crowds just went across 2 million.
The flourishing of stages like Twitch has incredibly helped attention to eSports just as created huge benefits for the market. These benefits behind eSports, in the interim, have pulled in large name brand names, for example, Nvidia, Intel just as Samsung, to make much more ventures.
Money from these monetary speculations is then used to present shiny new streaming stages, for example, Hitbox, Mobcrush and Kamcord, which considerably more bring issues to light and furthermore produce enormous video gaming regions, while achieve much more pay opportunities for players and brands the same. This solid development cycle in eSports business is a significant help behind the ascent of expert video gaming.
One more viewpoint could be credited to reality that the expression "nerd" has seen a restoration. "Geek" and furthermore "geek" are not, at this point terrible terms. In a way, they've wound up being standard - a character advanced by various fresh out of the box new power plugs, comprising of Nerdist Industries and the local Nerd just as Sundry.
Today, with the allure of the articulation "Geek Pride," people that are smart and furthermore have ability in the advanced territory seek to discover a way to let free just as straightforwardly advance their enthusiasms. eSports have simply wind up being a pristine way to show Geek Satisfaction.
With our general public currently paying attention to eSports - and as someone who investigates players and gaming data - I see massive freedom just as limit with regards to eSports just as more prominent onlooker correspondence in this state-of-the-art existence.
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Mars
“Ares?”
He had only felt a cold shock like this once before, when he had torn through packs of vicious manticore and their quills stung him with a venom that left him in freezing agony for weeks to come. That voice is familiar, haunting. He doesn’t want to turn around, but what other choice does he have?
Of course it’s her, who else would know that name aside from his family and the mortals who feared the empty stone forms of a god that no longer existed? So he turns to face her. It’s no shock to him. Still as radiant as the day they both met, although now he’s aware of a distant glaze in her pale eyes that once gave him more strength than any amount of prayer or terror could give. Her mouth drops, hammer almost following suit although she clutches it as a child would their favourite toy.
“I … I’m sorry …” She stammers, “You just … you look like someone I once knew …”
Now he doesn’t know whether to let that sinking feeling in his chest consume him … or whether to allow himself to bare his teeth in a wide grin. In spite of that … that name being uttered, there is something about her bewilderment that satisfies him. She screws up her face as he smiles, he can practically see the puzzle pieces shifting around in her head.
For a moment he just wants to watch. He wants her to piece it all together herself. Perhaps she would remember when they toppled empires together, how in spite of the victories there was only emptiness and rage inside of him. His desire for bloodshed had no goals and surely she saw that. After all, wasn’t that why she had pulled him aside and told him she couldn’t do it anymore. She was a child of the light and whatever darkness was eating him alive she couldn’t fight it for him. It hurt her, he knew it hurt her, but he could never explain what that darkness was. What would she have thought of him? At the time he believed it would be the same as his father, or his brothers and sisters. That he was an abomination, forsaking everything that was given to him for his own hatred and selfish ideals. A god could never change their being.
Yet here he stands today. Realisation begins to creep across her face. Here he stands. A god she once knew as a goddess. Once the first daughter of heaven who would tear the supposed paradise down from the skies if given the chance. The problem child of Zeus and Hera. She shakes her head and he finds himself holding his breath. Anger begins to surge. He doesn’t care for anyone’s opinion of him and how he chose to change to suit the god he had always been inside, yet picturing the scorn coming from her dug up long relics of rejection that he would much rather remain buried.
It’s sad too, he realises, as she recognises the ancient and familiar fury that burned in him since he was born more than she could ever recognise him for who he was.
“Ares …” She breathes, “It really is you …”
“I don’t answer to that name anymore, Valor,” he snorts, another cold flash of lightning as that word seeps from her mouth. He expects her to coil away in disgust, but she leans forward … smirking.
“Anymore? I don’t think you ever did,” Valora chuckles.
Admittedly, he’s caught with his shield down. A joke. She made a joke. She’s grinning. There’s sunlight beaming through dark thunderclouds. What is happening? The last time he had to address this to someone who knew that name there was no joking, rather there were screams over mixed droplets of blood and tears spattered to the ground from busted knuckles and flooding eyes.
He doesn’t know what to say, suspicion welling as he narrows his eyes at her and clutches his spear. The humour on her marble face fades into a forlorn frown that causes his heart to ache more and he debates ripping it from his chest and smashing it into the ground to make the pain stop.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” He asks, carefully. Valora smiles again and the sunbeams are clear in his head as much as he wants them to go away.
“Always so defensive,” she says. “I mean you always told me about how much you hated your name.”
She takes a moment to look him up and down, golden hair bobbing. She still towers over him which feels strange now given how he had become accustomed to looming over his enemies and instilling horror in their pathetic beings.
“I guess I understand that now, looking at you.”
Silence. What can he even bring himself to say? All these emotions are bubbling under the surface to a boiling point and if he doesn’t get out of here they’ll erupt and then she’ll be sorry for finding him. Sorry for being kind to him. Why can’t he trust it? Years of victories in his new name and the image of the god he really is and yet he can still hear his family’s voices in the back of his head, that he doesn’t deserve it.
Valora is undeterred by his demeanour, a stark contrast to when they were young - if gods and cosmic weapons could ever call themselves young, but there’s no doubt they had changed in all their years apart. She rests her hammer by her side.
“So what may I call you then?”
The chains around his scarred chest loosen, and he allows himself to breathe.
“Mars,” he says. “My name is Mars.”
Mars is taken aback when she holds her large hand out and takes his, giving it a shake with a forgotten strength that catches him off guard.
“Mars,” she says, raising a brow. She repeats herself a couple of times, clearly testing it on her tongue.
“Mars!” She nods, “That suits you.”
He could cry, the first time his real name is uttered by someone who knows that old title where it wasn’t met with hatred and disgust. After everything he had put her through and yet she takes his hand and holds it tighter than anyone had ever held him.
“It’s nice to finally meet you, Mars.”
#absolutely bracing myself for anons telling me to kms over this but#bring it on#dota#Dota 2#dota2#dawnbreaker#mars the first son of heaven#trans headcanon#ftm headcanon#im a trans man for the record#dota pride month
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Dota - pride month
okay, since @anx1oustig3r suggested it and I liked the idea, I will write a few short stories for pride month. Some will be from a pride prompt list, some won’t. I will write all the lgbt+ ships of dota I like (which means I can’t write about my favourite ship because it is straight and I’m a bit sad about it...), but if anyone has a wish, give me a hint ;)
The first one is short, like a warm up, but I have two more almost finished and they are a bit longer!
#dota#dota2#Dota 2#lgbt#pride month#thanks for the idea#i am hyped#and motivated#and full of ideas!#dota pride month
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The Reason Why Lol Is Still The Most Popular Computer Game
Regardless of popular perception, Fortnite really isn't the most popular personal computer game. Although Fortnite along with Apex legends still have millions of gamers each month, League of Legends has always been the absolute most used personal computer game for most ages. Back in 2017, the game had approximately 6-8 million players each month, about five times as far as Fortnite. Within this informative article you can learn how is lol still the most popular game after a decade. Together with recent additions to LoL, we could assume this number may rise again. But why? Well, let us look in the critical aspects that guarantee the MOBA's popularity.
How is LoL Still the Most Popular Game After a Decade
Teamfight Strategies
This new game type puts this MOBA apartfrom A MOBA can be actually a multi player online conflict stadium. Even though League of Legends is this, in June of all 2019, Riot Games released a new chess-like game to the mixture. Teamfight methods uses League of Legends personalities (winners ) to combat in this automatic dueling game. The game form is much more laidback than a MOBA and has brought in tens of thousands of players within fourteen days.
No Pay to Win
Do you know exactly what truly turns out a gamer away? Once they must pay ungodly sums of income for equipment that helps them perform far better. Whoever owns got the richest dad gets got the most wins? That's not fair. If it comes to League, this is not true. Riot Games means that you don't have to spend penny. But in the event that you do make the decision to, it will do almost absolutely nothing to enhance your abilities or likelihood of winning. Whatever you simply purchase is just cosmetic.
It is Completely Free
As you are able to aquire in-game skins and like the game itself is 100% complimentary. After a lot of brand fresh games are breaking your finances, it really is wonderful to really own the very widely used PC game of this years on your own PC in just level. Riot will never deceive you to purchasing whatever is not exclusively to make yourself look trendy.
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Consistently Updated
Riot Games is sure to spot League of Legends every two months. It follows they really do their best to keep Trainers work and balanced out any kinks with out you having to update every single day. Additionally they put in a brand-new champion into the store once very 2 to 3 weeks. Just a couple weeks as soon as they have been released, you can even decide to try them out for free prior to paying in-game currency to obtain them. You can even more details on how is lol still the most popular game after a decade by way of going to boostroyal website.
The Recruiting Method
This will work on both sides. On your own way, League encourages team work and makes you really want to invite every one your friends to play with you. Each group consists of five players and also playing with friends is far simpler than having fun with toxic random men and women. So, exactly what does that mean for Riot? Clearly, just about every single pal you have to engage in is just another player within their database. Earning the game even more popular in your paper.
Good Sized Matches
A few games make you play for an whole hour, or more, for only 1 game. Most people do not need enough time to get that on the typical weekday. About the flip side, other games give you 5 to 10 minutes of playtime per match. This will make you more plump. League matches ordinary out in 30-45 minutes per game. Many League players may tell you that this could be a great length to match with regular life.
Play Tricky, Rank Up, Get Rich
Discussing of pride, League of Legends has loads of place for this. For one thing, there is quite a marketplace for gamers who want to acquire critical. Additionally, there are thousands of League gamers making a living doing nothing but posting videos on YouTube and Twitch. While this can be a little margin of men and women that play with League, it will offer you hope should you want to dedicate your career for this.
But for those who are not inside it for the cost, you are able to nonetheless get a significant bit of satisfaction out of simply playing the ranked version of the video game. In the start of every time of year, you do a couple of trainings matches that will tell you where you standout. Afterwards, you devote the rest of the season hoping to accomplish an increased rank. Those who hit Gold, receive in-game content, while Challenger people (high 200) will receive something tangible, like an exclusive back pack or coat.
Customer Service
Riot Games customerservice has to be one of the greatest in the company. Every single ticket is managed in a timely fashion and also using such care you may begin to believe that this agent is aware of you personally. They'll take so long as needed to solve your issue and generally work to associate with you personally. On top of that, a little-known truth is the fact that whether you get any lover artwork whatsoever, Riot may send you anywhere form 5-50RP for your effort.
Develop a Persona
One additional thing that puts League of Legends aside is that the game includes incredible personality. Unlike quite a few other games, every single character is some one that you can connect with, and each and every player's play-style is incredibly diverse. You'll find endless builds, providing you final imagination.
No More DOTA
This really is what gave League of Legends such an incredible launch. Back in '09, League of Legends was published. In-may seem type of sleazy, however, their advertising effort promised what that Dota lacked. At the time, Dota people have been exhausting of a few issues. So Riot announced their MOBA would place an limit to"Disconnections, Obnoxious hackers, Totally imba matches, and Annoying leavers." If you are going to see, that's what they say DOTA stands for. Harsh, it is true. But whether or not they burst by people asserts is insignificant considering that they have been so much more powerful than Dota.
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As Riot bids to take on Blizzard and Valve, the studio faces challenges of its own making • Eurogamer.net
For a good decade, Blizzard Entertainment has been the undisputed champion of developing and publishing prestige PC games. Warcraft, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and Hearthstone (we can maybe skip Heroes of the Storm, sorry) have sat at more or less the top of their respective genres for years. In some cases, decades. Blizzard was way ahead of the curve in setting up, in Battle.net, a kind of storefront-launcher across its multiple games. It has an annual convention, in BlizzCon, where thousands gather to cosplay as their favourite Blizzard characters and cheer the most minuscule of announcements. Most of all, it’s one of the only developer-publishers whose name carries the same kind of “seal of quality” weight that you could apply to the likes of Nintendo. But things change, and a new challenger approaches. A plucky, independent little studio called Riot Games fancies a pop at the title.
The background here is really quite delicious, too. For the unfamiliar, back in 2002 Blizzard released the popular, influential real-time strategy game Warcraft 3, and then in 2003 some modders came along and made a new mode of their own for it called Defence of the Ancients, a kind of weird tower defense evolution of the RTS (and they actually made it with the official world editor which is why, you’d imagine, Blizzard was so aggressive with its terms and conditions in the recent Warcraft 3: Reforged). After the Defence of the Ancients mod gained huge popularity, rival company Valve bought the rights to it – much to Blizzard’s chagrin – and hired one of the mod’s major developers, the pseudonymous “IceFrog”, to make Dota 2 for them in 2009. Another designer of the mod, Steve “Guinsoo” Feak, who worked on it even before IceFrog, went on to join Riot’s co-founders – a couple of ambitious, business school dorm-buddies called Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck – and made League of Legends.
Marc ‘Tryndamere’ Merrill, co-founder and now co-chairman of Riot Games. Image: via Twitter.
Now, Dota 2 is handing out prizes in the tens of millions to its tournament winners and Valve of course has a near total monopoly on the PC gaming storefront. Riot’s League of Legends is frequently the most-watched game on Twitch, is probably the biggest esport in the world, and probably the biggest game in the world too. As of August 2019, League is averaging peaks of eight million concurrent players worldwide. Meanwhile, at Blizzard, the remaster of Warcraft 3 launched to criticism and controversy, the RTS as a genre is in the worst shape it’s ever been, and the company is still getting over the huge protests from both fans and its own staff for the handling of Ng Wai Chung, or “Blitzchung” – one of its own professional players.
That’s just the background. Riot has since unveiled Legends of Runeterra, a collectable card game that will surely go head-to-head for a share of the audience with Hearthstone. And even more recently it’s shown off Valorant, a highly accomplished – if slightly charmless – tactical, character-and-abilities-based team shooter that forms a delicious triangle with Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Blizzard’s Overwatch. All of a sudden, Blizzard, Riot, and Valve have formed a triad of companies vying for each other’s lunch, each enormously wealthy – Blizzard is now Activision Blizzard, remember – and each with their own subtly different vision. The three are so cross-pollinated Valve can’t resist the urge to reboot its own card game, Artifact, and “Project F”, Riot’s least-detailed tease from their wave of anniversary announcements, is an action RPG that looks an awful lot like a League of Legends universe spin on Diablo. Riot’s untitled fighting game is the only one not already covered by one or both of its main rivals.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, though, Marc Merrill, now co-chairman at Riot Games, refuses to be drawn into talk of direct competition – or any kind of rivalry – with the other two PC gaming giants. In fact he argues the opposite. “This may sound strange, but we literally don’t think about the world from a business or industry perspective, especially relative to other developers or other titles,” he said, when I put all that lengthy history to him. Instead, Riot’s ambition is simply to “make it better to be a player”.
“It’s not about ‘beating Magic [the Gathering]’ or ‘beating Hearthstone’, or anything like that,” he added, using Riot’s card battler Legends of Runeterra as an example. “Those are incredible games that we’ve all played – I’ve literally played probably close to 6000 games of Hearthstone. But for a certain type of player, we believed – and the team really believed – that there was an opportunity to do things in a way that would carve out its own niche.
“That being said, when we do look at various genres – I’ll just give an example, we’ll say an MMO – the analysis very quickly goes: where are our player expectations? What are they set by? And where would opportunity be? You look at the MMO, you’re like: WoW. They’re 20 years in or 15 years in, right? WoW is still the genre-defining game, the king of the genre, absolutely incredible, such a compelling game across every dimension. So if the team or anybody was going, hey, we want to go build an MMO that was in the same vein as something like WoW, it would have to acknowledge and understand how it would differentiate in a way that would actually be significant and meaningful… but any of the analysis or perspective that’s oriented from that standpoint has nothing to do with the companies.”
Blizzard’s upcoming Overwatch 2 looks to continue the game’s character-first approach. Image Credit: Blizzard.
Perhaps all the talk of rivalry is a little overblown, then – as it often can be, when people talk about this industry. As sumptuous and ironic as all that historical jostling was between the three companies back in the late noughties, the reality is that now, at least between Blizzard and Riot – which probably share the most in common, in terms of games – things seem rosy. Merrill talks glowingly of Blizzard’s development team (“Rob Pardo and the whole team. Chris Metzen. And [Jeff] Kaplan of course is still there and is an amazing developer”), and will only refer to Blizzard as “an incredible company”. He speaks with pride about the “fireside chat” he had with Mike Morhaime, Blizzard’s co-founder, just a couple of months ago, where the two waxed lyrical about shared learnings and community insights and all that. Merrill talks of developing rivalling games or services in terms of “standing on the shoulders of giants,” or “rising tide that lifts all boats”, and even points to Epic’s work with Fortnite as “a great job from a games-as-a-service standpoint” and a “helpful reminder” for Riot to keep “continuing to evolve”.
No “Riot does what Blizzdon’t”, sadly. But whether Riot and co. admit it or not, there is competition there. There are only so many pounds in the bank and hours in the day to dedicate to Overwatch 2 or Valorant, or League of Legends or WoW. People watch one game at a time on Twitch. They practise one game at a time to become an esports pro, and build one outfit at a time for their cosplay. As much as, of course, people juggle games and swap between them, the world of games today and surely in the near future is one of engagement. This is a time of building personalities around favoured slices of pop culture and one where Netflix, famously, cites Fortnite as a major competitor, over HBO or Hulu. Companies want your eyeballs, rather gruesomely, and they want them all to themselves.
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So yes, as Merrill noted himself, the Overwatch League’s tide can drive money to and lift the boat of the League of Legends Championships, through the added exposure of esports to advertisers and markets and whatever else. But what will the Overwatch League’s viewership look like when Valorant launches, with Riot’s esports expertise and broadcasting weight behind it? And what will happen to Counter-Strike’s numbers – which only recently hit a record high – if the top streamers and players switch to playing Valorant on Riot’s lovely, peeker-free servers instead? What will happen to Valorant if they don’t?
That, of course, is all speculation for now. But behind all of that speculation lies an even bigger question, which is whether Riot itself is up to it. It may no longer be right to call the studio “embattled”, but the vast sexual discrimination lawsuit – originally settled for $10m last year, having been opened in the wake of a devastating report on company culture – is now back in dispute again, with California state reckoning it’s worth more in the region of $400million.
As much as Riot would surely like to move on from talking about it, the reality is it probably never will. Endemic sexism is the type of stink that tends to linger, even more than the odd fart on a colleague, and it’s unclear just how different the culture at Riot is, 18 months on from the first report. It’s part of the reason why Angela Roseboro, Riot’s diversity and inclusion czar hired in the wake of the crisis and referred to as “a godsend” by some Rioters, still posts updates on LinkedIn with titles like “Out of Crisis Comes Conviction”. And it’s why women are still very much justified in asking if it’s safe to work at Riot (according to Roseboro’s own anecdotes they still very much are). Riot’s COO, Scott Gelb, was namechecked multiple times in reports and remains at the company, with Roseboro on-side saying “the memes don’t represent the person and leader that I have come to know” and that “from everything I have read, I can tell you that not everything reported in the media is true”, while Riot sources tell the press “it’s difficult to heal and move on when we are faced with the reality that at the end of the day, Riot prefers to pay the women still here for the trouble of continuing to work with alleged abusers.”
Riot has been open about its cultural issues and, to its credit, appears to be tackling it head-on. This image is from a section titled ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ that sits prominently at the top its company website. Image Credit: Riot Games.
The question, beyond the culture itself, is what impact that culture might have on the games Riot makes and indeed its wider community. There’s an easy hypothesis to make: while Riot’s battle to overcome its apparently deep, ingrained “bro culture” played out in public, the company was making fighting games and competitive shooters and, of course, League of Legends, notorious for the toxic experience many have playing it online. Genres and games can’t all be tarnished with one brush, obviously, but MOBAs, “hardcore” shooters, and fighting games can also be fairly named as genres that naturally lend themselves to greater toxicity – or at the very least greater imbalances in their audience. One 2019 study, for instance, suggests the five games in which the highest percentage of players received harassment were Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, PUBG and League of Legends. A survey from 2017 suggests female players make up just 10 per cent of the audience of MOBAs as a genre, and seven per cent of the audience of first-person shooters. Of tactical shooters, such as Valorant, that number is even lower, at four per cent. The concern, in other words, is there’s a vicious circularity to it all. A company allegedly dominated by men and a troubling culture making games dominated by men, with troubling cultures. These games need more attention than many others when it comes to managing toxicity among its players, and the question – if you follow that hypothesis – becomes one of whether Riot as a company is up to that.
I’ve already raised concerns about Riot’s plans for handling toxicity with Valorant, specifically in its reliance on the exact same communication system as League of Legends, with some added voice chat thrown in for good measure. Merrill’s attitude seems to suggest that the laissez-faire approach in-game will continue. “I think it’s a really interesting challenge and opportunity around: how do we do that in a way that is really healthy? And in a way that can be embraced rather than be perceived as Riot trying to, you know, create sort of this ‘police state’, or ‘thought police’ – we don’t want to do that. We want to help people learn in an organic, effective way.
When I visited Riot in January, I noticed some of the internal efforts to right the ship. Company computers feature regular, Clippy-style diversity and inclusion pop-ups, for instance, which include reminders to avoid booking meetings up multiple flights of stairs, making video conferencing available where possible, and tips for what to do if you catch yourself interrupting someone. Image Credit: Riot Games.
“When there’s competition – of setting people against each other – some percentage of the time, there’s going to be intensity. And with intensity, some people are going to handle that really well, and other people are going to handle that less well. And that then goes to [Riot’s] question, which is: how do we help people learn how to behave appropriately? How do we improve human dynamics? How do we train sportsmanship? How do we reinforce a positive culture around celebrating your teammates?
“We faced lots of criticism,” Merrill admits. “As an organisation, as entrepreneurs, from the game standpoint. I mean, if you wanted to come find things to criticise Riot for, there’s a laundry list, right? People could talk about how we used to be X and Y [culturally speaking], or, ‘oh, the monetisation is evolving in a certain way,’ and, ‘the community’s toxic.’
“From our perspective – and obviously we’re biased being very close to what we do – I think the League of Legends community is an amazing community. And a lot of the frame of reference people are looking at in terms of [the players] is skewed by the headlines they’ve seen around toxicity. Which is an error on our part where we were talking about, ‘hey, look, we’re incrementally improving something that had bad positioning,’ because we’re trying to say we’re improving toxicity by doing XYZ. That reinforced that we’re thinking something’s bad and we’re making it incrementally better, rather than talking about what’s great. And the reality is it is great. And when you look at the behaviour that happens in online [gaming], it’s just like what would happen on a basketball court.
Having played a few thousand hours of League of Legends I have to disagree with Merrill on the community front. Despite a definite improvement a few years back, games without any toxicity at all are still the overwhelming minority – even if other games may suffer too, and the wider community in person is all happy days. Image Credit: Riot Games.
“The difference is in real life, right, you can go talk to somebody and say, ‘hey!’ You know, or you can shove somebody – you can walk away. In an online game, people oftentimes don’t have the ability to do that, or if you leave the game you get punished, things like this. Which then from our perspective gives us a responsibility where it’s not our fault that humans can be rude or mean to each other, but it’s our problem. So what do we do to help cultivate a positive community?
“And whether it’s things like how we’re doing reform-oriented behaviour, and report cards, and how we introduced the honour system and all these things, there’s a whole lens to look at what Riot’s been doing across community cultivation and think that we’re a global leader in how the internet is going to be managed in the future. We’ve helped give advice to Google and Twitter and a variety of other companies that have actually come and asked us for best practices and expertise around dealing with human behaviour in an online world.
“And so that mindset, in the approach and innovation and the focus on that, is something that is really, really important. And it’s just a really hard problem to solve.
“I think there’s a similar parallel with, you know, our culture and organisationally… it’s incredibly transparent. Developers are incredibly empowered, everybody loves information sharing… there’s a lot of great things to appreciate about how Riot operates. But we’re not going to bat a thousand, especially at scale. And so then we have had some lawsuits – for the first time in the company’s history, right – but with 2500 employees over 13 years. Again, I think there’s lots of lenses with which to look at that.”
Riot’s mysterious ‘Project F’. Image Credit: Riot Games.
To bring it back to that question of internal culture – and its mirror in the battle with toxicity in-game – Merrill’s take is this: “We want to help people learn how to thrive and succeed in these [competitive in-game] environments, because we think that helps generate life skills. I think the same thing through internally [at Riot]. I think we need psychological safety, because we’re a creative company. There are ‘fragile ideas’ – these ideas that need vulnerabilities – and people need to feel safe so they can have the crazy ideas, and they can debate it among their friends and peers and developers and colleagues. These are just all really hard problems to solve. We’re really working hard to try to build a great community, build a good company. I think there’s a lot more we can do. I think there’s a lot more everybody can do.”
As Merrill himself put it, perhaps the rising tide will lift all boats, and the company’s libertarian, reformist approach to both its own culture and that of the community will win out. Applications from women to work at Riot are actually increasing, he tells me – after an initial dip – while applications from senior women at the higher levels of the company rose significantly, which Merrill assumes is because of the way the company tackled the accusations head-on and talked about them openly. The word from employees, as of 2019, is that “real progress” has been made.
It’s likely most Rioters you talk to – at least in the public eye – will say the work is never done, and the company can always improve. That’s certainly the message from Roseboro’s updates and indeed from Merrill himself, and there’s a laundry list of positive steps you can point to Riot taking since the report – social impact funds, community work, and the positive noises employees have made – just the same as there’s the laundry list of problems Merrill pointed out. But as a new world order of PC gaming approaches, with Blizzard tripping up on its own feet and Valve barrelling down the path to techie esoterica, Riot’s greatest problems are still ones of its own making. The solution lies not just in Riot repeating the mantra of always improving, but in whether the company’s leadership actually believes it: that the work really is never done, in both its internal culture and that of its games.
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Let’s Play!
Hey all, welcome back! I’m a gamer, are you? I play PUBG and Mobile Legends. Today, let’s talk about some of the gaming communities; The PUBG community, The CSGO community and The Sims. Does these games benefit us or harm us?
What is Social Gaming?
According to Collins Dictionary (2019), social gaming is defined as the activity of playing online games with other members of the same online group.
The Positives
Social game brings benefits to an individual when adequate amount of time is spent and when there is self-control. It helps to release stress, decrease loneliness, create teamwork and strengthen the bond between friends or family when online mission is accomplished. Esports is providing a lot of job opportunities nowadays. For example, it is required to hire announcers, location sponsors, TV broadcasts and online live-streaming channels to organize a CSGO world tournament. Refer back to the previous blog on fan as in fandom, I am also a fan to Team Liquid that is professional in playing Dota and CSGO. Team Liquid has earned total prize money of $24,448,847 in 1430 total tournaments (Top 10 esports teams, earnings, and salaries 2019). It is clearly shown that playing games provides job opportunities and by playing professionally, it is possible to earn income.
The Negatives
On the contrary, an individual that is addicted and obsessed with social game leads to negative impact like violence, social replacement and bankruptcy (Bartholomew 2019). Violence occur when an individual is obsess with violent video game or shooting game such as Dota, CSGO and PUBG as they can just simply shoot anyone in the game where he or she will just bring it to reality by shooting anyone in the real world just like the case where a Kurdish man accidentally killed his friend with a shotgun when role-playing PUBG (Subarno 2019). Besides, social replacement happens when an individual that is addicted to social game lock him or herself in the virtual gaming world where the actual face-to-face interaction will no longer needed. According to Jansen (2010), there are 19% of the online users paid for digital games and 5% of them have paid for tools or materials to use in computer or video games. This has shown that gaming communities are growing towards monetisation rather than playing leisurely which means when players get addicted, bankruptcy happens.
The PlayerUnknown’s Battleground (PUBG) community
My experience in PUBG with my brother and my boyfriend:
PUBG actually helps strengthen my siblings relationship as we communicate and coordinate better when playing together. Furthermore, PUBG helps me to understand and trust my boyfriend as well. I remembered there was once my phone is lagging while swimming halfway through the river until I almost lost my life in this game, but my boyfriend was actually there for me and keep healing me with the ‘first aid kit’ and ‘bandage’, so that I can be alive and continue to play the game. Hence, I think PUBG is a game that benefits me as long as I surround myself with the right people.
The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) community
On the contrary, when you are not surrounded by the right people, gaming can be toxic. It is sexist and racist just like the example in the video below. In the video, the Chinese girl is being boycott by the other three male team members through their words and actions in the game.
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(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3J_AKlfAc)
The Sims community
Also, some games promote LGBTQ, just like The Sims 4. In The Sims 4, players can now form same-sex relationships to get married and even male can get pregnant that encourages gay intercourse and gay parenting (Duffy 2016). This may be reflected to the real world as well. In my opinion, I am strongly against it as we are not told to have same-sex marriage even some of the countries such as Australia, Brazil, and United Kingdom have recognized it.
References
‘social gaming‘, 2019, Collins Dictionary, viewed 23 November 2019, <https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/social-gaming>.
Bartholomew, J 2019, Video games: pros and cons, Utah Valley Pediatrics, viewed 24 November 2019,<https://www.uvpediatrics.com/topics/video-games-pros-and-cons/>.
Brain, E 2019, The Sims 4’ gets pride month update & island living expansion pack, Hypebeast, 11 June, 20 November 2019, <https://hypebeast.com/2019/6/the-sims-4-pride-month-lgbtq-game-update-gender-neutral>.
Duffy, N 2016, ‘Feature: how the Sims became the most LGBT-friendly game of all time’, PinkNews, 8 June, viewed 20 November 2019, <https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/06/08/feature-how-the-sims-just-became-the-most-radical-lgbt-friendly-game-of-all-time/>.
Jansen, J 2010, 65% of internet users have paid for online content, Pew Research Center, 30 December, viewed 22 November 2019,<https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2010/12/30/65-of-internet-users-have-paid-for-online-content/>.
Subarno, A 2019, 12 bizarre incidents that happened across the world that were reportedly because of PUBG, Scoop Whoop, 12 February, viewed 24 November 2019, <https://www.scoopwhoop.com/bizarre-incidents-reportedly-because-of-pubg/>.
Top 10 esports teams, earnings, and salaries 2019, Influencer Marketing Hub, 15 March, viewed 24 November 2019, <https://influencermarketinghub.com/top-10-esports-teams-earnings-and-salaries/>.
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BUWAN NG WIKA
This was the main or the star subject or event that will be happening in the whole month of August, and since our Filipino teacher is new, and is very enjoyable, we do have to also give a good job in this month too, especially on her subject. Although we have to leave the minor activities like our Story and Poem Making, or as in Tagalog “Maggawa ng Maikilng kwento, at Tula.” Which by the way, was just maybe something minor to get our brains just a bit more vast an filled in ideas though, so it maybe just something short, these two activities may also be something to make our thoughts gear up in this month.
Now, Buwan ng Wika, is one of this celebrations in which us Filipinos have to cherish, of just becoming ourselves, and to actually have the pride to express, or to show that we are truly Filipinos, even though that the main reason why we had this celebration, is just the celebration of our Filipino language.
At this time though, we have to scratch that, and lets us all talk about the two major activities in this month, which were the Sayaw at Dulaan, Laro ng Lahi and our Tabo sa Banay. First we had our Sayaw at Dulaan, which in by the way was a bit surprising as it sounds, it’s even greater, if you may have found any secret talent you may have hiding, but long story short, the 1st Group won, and the others just took on to their defeats.
Next was our event on Laro ng Lahi, and we can only say that is was so memorable, and enjoyable. Since there we just a lot of activities, and competitions, which just made us burst our adrenaline, and hop in. There were some few great ones, like the Taong Dota, in which it just left us really soaking wet, even though that we did get 2nd place, but still the memorable part is our experiences, not our winnings and accomplishments.
Lastly was our Tabo sa Banay, which was just a bit common in Nissi. We don’t have anything to tell about this event, since it’s really common in Nissi, that we just need the whole event or some pictures to explain themselves.
Overall, this event was mostly or just having the main subject our Filipino subject. This event has also made us view that our country’s language, may not also be the most important thing as Filipinos, but rather our culture and our pride, for embracing our Pinoy blood.
© : Sittie Hafsah Panambulan Liwalug, David Roy Sumalinog, Catherine Joyce & T. Aprilyn Ymbong for the pictures
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Dazzle and Tresdin were sitting in their favourite spot, leaning against a fallen tree trunk and looking over the mountains and valleys in front of them. The sun was setting, it was quiet, the air cool.
Dazzle was restless. The Crystal Maiden had visited earlier and she had flirted shamelessly with Tresdin. That wasn’t a problem, but it had made Dazzle think about Tresdin and about their relationship. “Tresdin, do you miss being with women?”
“What?”
Dazzle looked at the sunset, not because it was beautiful (though it definitely was) but because he wanted to avoid Tresdin’s gaze. “I mean, you have only ever been with women before me but I am definitely not one. I was wondering, maybe you miss it?” When he had fallen in love with Tresdin, Dazzle had been sure it would be one-sided forever. Everyone knew Tresdin was a lesbian and everyone knew what happened to those who ignored it. He would’ve stayed with her regardless, he would’ve loved her anyway, without ever pushing for more. He wouldn’t have been content to only have her as friend but it would’ve been enough.
Despite everything, she had fallen in love with him. Him! It was unbelievable and sometimes, especially when he watched Tresdin flirting with women, he wondered.
Tresdin chuckled. “You are definitely no woman. You have too many body parts in one place and too little in others.”
“I know!” Dazzle was a bit frustrated that she didn’t directly answer his question so he pushed for an answer. “But do you miss it? Are there things you miss when you are with me?”
“Hm.” When the sun set in the mountains, it got cold fast and Tresdin pulled Dazzle closer, aware that he tended to freeze. She gave off enough heat for the both of them and he snuggled into her. “What do I miss when I’m with you instead of a woman?” Tresdin played with a strand of Dazzle’s hair. “I guess I miss the licking. You know, down there. And the tits.” She sighed a bit. “Tits are awesome. But you know that.”
“I do.” Still not looking at her, Dazzle wondered if that answer helped him in his insecurity today or not. While thinking about it, Dazzle watched the colour of the sky change from orange to deep red.
“I prefer to miss some licking and tits to missing you, though.” Tresdin’s voice was soft, her fingers brushing against Dazzle’s neck while she wove them through his hair. “Sometimes I think about being with a woman. But then I think about the fact that I’d have to give you up for it and it isn’t worth it. It would feel nice in the moment, but that would be it. It won’t feel nicer than being with you, just nice in a different way and I don’t miss it enough to even remotely want to give up what I have with you. Do you miss your home? You have been living with me for some time now, don’t you want to go back, to your house and to your people?”
Dazzle blinked at the sudden change in subject and turned his head. But now it was Tresdin who stared at the sunset, avoiding his gaze. “I miss the heat. And sometimes I miss the drugs, they made everything seem so easy. I could go back, live in my house a few days, then with you a few days, but I don’t really want to.” He smiled, though Tresdin couldn’t see it. “Especially since you keep me warm when I’m cold.” He shrugged. “It isn’t important, as long as I’m with you I am happy.”
“Then I guess we are both happy with what we have.” Tresdin turned her head now and found Dazzle smiling at her. She kissed him, then sighed. “I think I miss that I’m no longer a lesbian. It was so easy, to tell all the guys ‘no, thank you, I don’t want to go home with you because I’m a lesbian’.”
“As if you need an excuse like that to tell someone off.”
Tresdin snorted. “You are right, I don’t.” The sun had vanished behind the mountain range and Tresdin stood up. Dazzle shivered in the sudden cold where Tresdin had warmed him. “Come my pretty troll, let us get you inside before you freeze to the spot.”
Holding a hand out, Tresdin pulled Dazzle to his feet and then against her side again as they walked to the house.
Dazzle’s insecurity was gone, at least for today. It would probably return, the next time some female flirted with Tresdin. Maybe one day she’d miss the licking and the tits so much that she’d leave him for it.
It would hurt like hell but he was a troll shaman, he knew all the drugs to make him forget, to make him feel good and to make life easy. He’d not worry today, when Tresdin had chosen him over a woman she found attractive. Not today, when she had told him she liked him too much to leave him for any woman. She had chosen him, at least for the time being and it was enough. Because maybe the ‘time being’ would be years, or centuries or the rest of their lives. Who knew?
#dota#dota2#dota 2#legion commander#dazzle#myfanfic#dota pride month#yes i know this is a straight pair#but i love them so very much#and it still fits#kind of
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Rylai had been very patient. She had been waiting until Lanaya had left the library before asking her: “The parade is on this weekend, do you think you’d like to go with me?”
It was already late, the castle illuminated by thousands of magical lights that glowed faintly orange. Rylai had tried different colours but because the ice was white with a hint of blue, every other colour made it appear disturbingly unreal and cold. Oh, she didn’t mind the cold, but she didn’t like when things looked cold.
The colour had almost no effect on Lanaya, because she was dressed all in black anyway, which swallowed the light. Only her skin seemed warmer, darker.
“What parade?”
Rylai laughed. Of course Lanaya didn’t know what month it was. She probably didn’t care about it’s meaning as well, since she was too absorbed by her studies. “It is pride month. And there will be a pride parade. You know, for all the queers and such. Like us.”
“There is a month dedicated to queers?” Lanaya stared at Rylai. “Why?”
Now Rylai rolled her eyes. “You study all the time, you read all these books, and you have never thought about reading about queer history?”
“No. It doesn’t affect me.”
It didn’t. Because Lanaya was always studying, it actually didn’t affect her. She didn’t even care about having a label, though she did understand all the existing labels of queerness as well as the need for others to belong. As well as Rylai’s need to shout out her own label, to scream at the world how much of a lesbian she was, and then grin at everyone who frowned at her for either being a lesbian or for the screaming. Well, in her defence, Rylai screamed out all of who she was at the world, it was her way of living. Be loud, be open but be nice. Always. Be so nice that no one could ever not be nice in return. Be nice in such a loud and obvious way that no one ever dared to hurt her. Be nice until everyone liked her.
“Okay. Will you go with me anyway?”
“Yes.” That was typical of Lanaya. Even when she didn’t see the reason behind what Rylai liked or wanted, she usually followed her anyway. She was studying all day but whenever she wasn’t, she liked to be with Rylai and she obviously liked to learn everything that there was to learn about Rylai during that time. As if she was someone to study as well. As if it was important for her to know as much as possible about Rylai.
“Will you wear matching outfits with me?”
“Like for Halloween?”
Rylai grinned as she remembered Halloween. “Yes. Similar to that. Will you?”
“Yes.”
A squeal of delight. “As lesbians?”
Lanaya shook her head at this outburst from Rylai but she couldn’t repress a smile. “I guess that is acceptable.”
“You want to go as ace lesbian?”
“Lesbian is fine.” It wasn’t important for her to present a label though Lanaya knew she fit the ace lesbian. It was more important that Rylai was happy and she’d probably be happiest to be in perfectly matching outfits. Lanaya had learned that much about her girlfriend.
It was easy to make Rylai happy because she was so open with her joy. Like now, when she slung her arms around Lanaya’s neck and kissed her. “It will be awesome! You’ll see, we’ll have so much fun!”
They would have. Rylai because she loved huge events with people and music and whatnot and Lanaya because she adored Rylai and loved when she had fun. She’d take a book and when it got too much she’d find a quiet corner to unwind, sure that Rylai wouldn’t mind.
“I need to buy a few things. Want to choose what to wear?”
“If you want me to I’ll accompany you but I don’t mind. I’ll wear whatever you choose.” That might be a mistake, her costume for Halloween had been... peculiar. If Lanaya chose the clothes for the parade she could prevent the worst. But on the other hand, it didn’t matter. And she was curious how Rylai wanted to go. It would be eye-catching, that was for sure.
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They were walking over the square, looking at this and that, at the people and the wares for sale in the various stalls, grabbing a bite to eat, but mostly just strolling around.
Until Davion stopped at a stall and took a small green plushie. He turned it in his hands, then he showed it Alleria. “This is cute, isn’t it? It looks a little like you.” He held it beside her head and grinned.
Alleria frowned. Gondar watched the two. They were so gorgeous, he loved to watch them interacting with each other. Laughing with each other. They looked so straight, in the beginning it had been unnerving. It wasn’t anymore.
“It’s a bit green, don’t you think?”
“You are green.”
“My clothes are green. Neither my hair nor my skin is.” Alleria crossed her arms in front of her chest. Her clothes weren’t even completely green.
Davion lowered the plushie and snatched a kiss from Alleria. “Don’t play grumpy, the plushie is cute, you are cute, so there definitely is a resemblance.” He held the plushie out to Gondar. “What do you think?”
“Um...” Gondar didn’t know. He didn’t think the green creature looked like Alleria at all and he wasn’t sure if it was cute. Besides, he was still bewildered whenever either of the two included him in a conversation they were clearly having between each other.
Davion sighed dramatically. “Oh, I see.” He put the plushie away, then slung an arm around Alleria’s shoulders. “Then I won’t buy it.”
“Who’s playing grumpy now?” Alleria leaned up. Though she wasn’t small, Davion was quite a bit taller and she had to get on tiptoes to nuzzle at his neck.
Maybe Gondar should’ve been jealous about the ease with which they showed each other affection. But there was never a reason to. He could be as quiet as he was able to be, as invisible as possible, the two never forgot him.
The same now, as they sauntered away from the stall with the plushies, Davion still an arm around Alleria’s shoulders. But as soon as they reached him, they split, without even looking at each other, taking Gondar in the middle. Davion snatched a quick kiss from Gondar as well before he put an arm around his shoulders, while Alleria took his hand. They had started taking him in the middle whenever they did something together a while ago and he had never asked why. It was nice. Because it was normal, for them.
Gondar was sometimes uneasy when they could be seen by others, like now. He had never been open with his sexuality, he had been insulted for it far too often. Probably because he was an easy target, small and seemingly harmless, unlike Davion who was tall and powerful and a knight.
But it was so natural for Davion that Gondar didn’t want to hide. He wanted to be brave enough to walk arm in arm with him, on his other side Alleria. He wasn’t harmless, he had never been in danger and it was amazing to have them, to know how much he meant to them. To have them take care of him in this strange way of theirs.
Besides, he had seen the Anti-Mage and the Invoker earlier, together. Not holding hands but the way they had been leaning towards each other while talking had been very intimate. They were not uneasy to show their sexuality.
“Maybe we could find a plushie that looks like Gondar?” Alleria’s voice held amusement and when she saw Gondar’s slightly horrified expression, she laughed. And then she kissed him on the cheek. Easily, because they were about the same height.
Davion tugged on one of Gondar’s ears gently. “No. He is a plushie, I don’t need a plushie that looks like him.”
“And I’m not?” Mock indignation.
“You have no pelt, do you.”
They kept bantering a little, back and forth, with Gondar in the middle. He remained silent, he wasn’t used to such a kind of conversation and he didn’t need to join it to feel good. To feel included.
Davion’s hand moved from Gondar’s shoulder to his lower back, but neither Alleria nor Davion stopped touching him while they strolled over the square and through the streets.
#dota#dota2#dota 2#myfanfic#dragon knight#bounty hunter#windranger#dota pride month#i know i am the only one who ships them#in this polyam relationship#but i do#so here we go#oh and sorry for calling windranger alleria#its from dota allstars#i think when i first wrote about them she was still called alleria in dota2?#they changed it one day
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