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kitkatt0430 · 6 days

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Hollywood comes to Central City, interviewing meta humans to try and make the powers for a super hero movie more realistic.

Barry arguing over how his powers work because everything they want to do with their speedy character is not how being a speedster works, it is wrong and bad, especially if they're just going to pretend there's no such thing as the Speed Force because then what the hell is protecting their speedster from the consequences of friction????

Cisco trolling his interviewer over how his powers work for the fun of it, when he isn't being distracted explaining how other meta powers work.

Mark Mardon wants to know if he could get a work release from prison to make the weather for the outdoor scenes more authentic. Who needs fake rain when their weather guy can make a real storm, right????

Frost keeps freezing their cameras and running away.

Leonard Snart convinces six different interviewers that he is six different types of meta. He's still not a meta.

Mick sets someone on fire. He somehow gets a date out of it because she's a stunt woman.

Lisa keeps stealing things from her interviewer and insisting it's very definitely her (non-existent) meta power and not her picking his pockets because he's a super easy mark.

Hartley keeps asking about how the studio treats it's minority workers and encouraging unionization of the non-unionized workers. They're listening.

Ralph attempts to get a job as a stunt man but can't seem to find the right person to talk to about auditioning. Teaches someone how to make balloon animals with his arm. Somehow no one realizes he's a meta despite this.

Top somehow gets cast and fired as the lead actress all in one day. Doesn't want to talk about it, just wants to ice her hand because breaking someone else's nose really hurts. No charges filed, everyone is suspicious.

Mirror Master leaves someone with a suspiciously broken nose trapped in a mirror. Team Flash unusually reticent about removing this guy from the mirror.

Eobard somehow manages to show up for an interview. Throws a fit when asked if the homoerotic undertones to his rivalry with the Flash are mutual or something he's bringing to the table alone.

Rainbow Raider offers to help actors be more authentic with their emotions. At least one actor takes him up on the offer, gives best performance of career.

Shawna takes her interviewer on a teleportation trip around Central City. Ends in a bar where they commiserate about shitty ex boyfriends.

Jitters sends Jaco to run a coffee booth for the interviews. Somehow he winds up with a bio-pic movie deal. No one knows how this happened, least of all him.

Goldface's interview devolves when his interviewer asks his second in command how long he's been in love with Keith. Though stunned, Goldface is receptive to the romantic possibilities, leaves his third in command in charge of the operation to whisk the second in command of to Coast City for the weekend. Interviewer possibly taking notes for a fanfic later on.

Amunet gets arrested for human trafficking after her interviewer turns out to be an undercover police officer that she 'spontaneously' confessed to.

#the flash #fanfiction #fic ideas

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destinylightsup-2006 · 6 months

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My Nice List for Christmas (2023)

Here are the characters I think they're nice. (As I believe they all are)

Pure Vanilla Cookie (Cookie Run)

Hollyberry Cookie, Dark Cacao Cookie, Golden Cheese Cookie and White Lily Cookie (Cookie Run)

Gingerbrave (Cookie Run)

Cherry Cookie and Cherry Blossom Cookie (Cookie Run)

Cream Puff Cookie (Cookie Run)

Cotton Cookie (Cookie Run)

Pumpkin Pie Cookie (Cookie Run)

Milky Way Cookie (Cookie Run)

Sea Fairy Cookie and Moonlight Cookie (Cookie Run)

Cream Unicorn Cookie (Cookie Run)

Clotted Cream Cookie (Cookie Run)

Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos and Lie Ren (RWBY)

Qrow Branwen (RWBY)

Penny Polendina (RWBY)

Oscar Pine (RWBY)

Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus (Sailor Moon)

Chibiusa (Sailor Moon)

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson (The Simpsons)

Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)

Mario and Luigi (Super Mario)

Peach and Daisy (Super Mario)

Yoshi (Super Mario)

Geno and Mallow (Super Mario)

Rosalina (Super Mario)

Kirby

Adeleine and Ribbon (Kirby)

Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony)

Spike (My Little Pony)

Sunset Shimmer (My Little Pony)

Princess Celestia (My Little Pony)

Princess Luna (My Little Pony)

Steven Universe

Sonic the Hedgehog

Tails the Fox (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

Alice (Alice in Wonderland)

Hercules (Disney)

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)

Invincible

Sulley and Mike (Monsters, Inc.)

WALL.E

Po (Kung Fu Panda)

Superman

Batman

Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)

Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado (Demon Slayer)

Ryuko Matoi and Mako Mankanshoku (Kill la Kill)

Elsa and Anna (Frozen)

Pit (Kid Icarus)

Palutena (Kid Icarus)

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon)

Woody and Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)

Leo, Raph, Don and Mikey (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Spider-Man

Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man)

Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls)

Isabelle (Animal Crossing)

Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy)

Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy)

Puss in Boots

Raya (Raya and the Last Dragon)

Sisu (Raya and the Last Dragon)

Fa Mulan (Mulan)

Tari (Meta Runner)

Meggy Spletzer and Melony (SMG4)

SMG0 (SMG4)

Ryu (Street Fighter)

Chun Li (Street Fighter)

Poppy (Trolls)

Emmet Brickowski (The LEGO Movie)

Stan, Kyle and Kenny (South Park)

Butters Stotch (South Park)

Courage the Cowardly Dog

Muriel Bagge (Courage the Cowardly Dog)

Yoda (Star Wars)

Judy Hopps (Zootopia)

Jenny Wakeman (My Life as a Teenage Robot)

Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack Parr (The Incredibles)

Frozone (The Incredibles)

SpongeBob SquarePants

Thomas the Tank Engine (Thomas & Friends)

Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians)

Felonius Gru (Despicable Me)

Lucy Wilde (Despicable Me)

Margo, Edith and Agnes Gru (Despicable Me)

Optimus Prime (Transformers)

Bumblebee (Transformers)

Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger (Inside Out)

Dipper and Mabel Pines (Gravity Falls)

Sportacus (LazyTown)

Captain America (Marvel)

Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg (Teen Titans)

Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samurai Jack

Frodo Baggins (Middle-earth)

Gandalf (Middle-earth)

NOTE: I do not own everything

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hjbender · 5 years

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Loki talks a bit about the Jötuns in The Little Frost Troll but I'm curious to know more. Will Loki have heats? Are gems and dripping gold a part of the Jötuns' cultural wear?

Oh boy, Frost Troll asks are my favorite asks, and this one actually inspired a piece of character art that unfortunately I haven’t finished yet, but I hope to be posting it soon!

I’m rubbing my hands together and smiling like a villain because I assure you, Anon, nobody is more excited about getting into the detailed aspects of troll romance and mating than I am. (I’ve spent months building an entire world around this and I can’t wait to share it with everyone. I hope it will be as fascinating and enjoyable to you all as it is to me!)

Loki isn’t going to enter a heat in the classic sense (or a rut, being that trolls are intersex), with lots of panting and moaning and a primal, irresistible need to mate, but he is going to enter a subtle phase of sexual receptiveness that even he isn’t fully aware of (at first), and it’s gonna be coming up very soon in the story, like within the next two chapters or so… unless I go off on a rabbit trail and spend some time casually wandering around on a certain subject, which has been known to happen.

As far as cultural wear goes, the frost trolls—and most trolls in general—have relatively rustic, simple attire with only a little jewelry, if any. Think leather and carved wood and pieces of hammered metal. Royalty would of course be an exception, and I have it in my mind that all trolls possess an appreciation for gold and gemstones. Hunigmál, or “honeymetal”, is their word for gold, since honey is prized above any stone or jewel. Bracelets, armbands and anklets are popular pieces, as well as rings worn on the horns and fingers. Bee motifs are a common design in gold jewelry.

Trolls also like to decorate their navels, either painting them using plant dyes—most commoners choose this method—or wearing little jewels in them, such as royalty does. And before you ask: yes, you’re right, I totally yoinked the idea of bellybutton gems from the treasure troll dolls that were popular in the 90s. I thought the image of Loki wearing a jewel in his navel was outrageously cute. XD

But I headcanon that trolls wear navel jewels for more than just looks; to them, it’s a way of honoring their mothers, and a way for expectant troll-mothers to lovingly adorn their bellies and unborn little ones. Much respect is given to mothers in troll society, but because of his hard-nosed, unsympathetic father, Loki was never allowed the opportunity to honor or even mourn his mother after he died giving birth. But now that he’s out from under Fárbauti’s cruel thumb, he’s probably going to get his chance. :)

Thank you for the ask!I hope I answered your questions and didn’t spoil any surprises you might have been waiting for.

#ask bender #the little frost troll #frost troll meta #hjbwrites #jotunn loki #troll culture #troll biology #making it up as i go along #thorki #treasure trolls #gonk trolls #i love trolls more now than i ever did in 1990

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ruakichan · 3 years

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State of Roo Gaming conglomopost:

Alchemy Stars (summer event):

120 pulls no Fleur. I has sad. Got trolled by two 6* in the same element even. Outlook bleak. This is gacha life. Game took a look at my A3 water team and said I didn’t need him. Game doesn’t understand thirst. : ( I need him.

That said, I am here for the energy of Fleur and Brock as Those Two Guys, even more so as Those Two Guys Who Absolutely Should Not Be Left Alone Unsupervised.

Summer story’s pretty interesting, though I did get bored with a lot of the beach-life stuff as I do in every gacha that does summer events sans GBF. I don’t particularly feel anything toward Beryl, unlike Eve; she’s very passive so we haven’t seen any of her personal thoughts or feelings about much. Hell, half the reason I’m so salty about Fleur is cause he actually got more development than Beryl did so far, which made me like him more than just a pretty face!

Humor beats are still pretty spot on though. And at least this game really knows how to make events feel like events.

3 more days and I’ll be done with Stage 4 for Regal, THANK GOD. The dispatches are such an annoying time-gate. I have a ton of energy packs saved up so I should be able to clear out Stage 5 much more quickly. Looking forward to getting my first Eternal Silent Hunter!

I ran out of characters I feel like A3ing so now I’m just grinding to level up equipment.

I don’t know if I should get Barton (who I do not have) or Nemesis (who I need one more copy of to max breakthrough and thus have her skill set to pre-emptive) from the free ticket they give. This is one of the few times where both would technically be dick picks, but one would be useful for meta (Nemesis is one of my core Thunder units) while the other I don’t have but would like to. DECISIONS! At least the ticket doesn’t expire. i’ll end up forgetting about it most likely

GBF (lotto drama):

Man that lotto drama whaoooo. I’m mostly retired/seasonal in GBF these days (and my loss of reliable/fast internet in a week will just compound that due to ping/racing/refresh) so I don’t really care, but just whao.

That said, I think with this being people’s last straw shows that some people really don’t know how to give things up on their own and don’t realize it’s okay to fall out of love with something you once enjoyed or spent a lot of time/effort/money in. I saw a lot of complaints about X or Y no longer having magic/fun etc for them any more, and they still stick around cause they keep hoping that it’ll come back, and I can tell you—it rarely ever does if you stick around. It’s okay to move on. That sunk-cost fallacy just does harm until only bitter feelings are left.

As for me, I did come out with a T3. Picked Nehan cause I always go dick picks in gacha and I was clamoring for a Nehan unit back during SoR’s original run. Used the second one to go meta with G.Narm though since there was nothing left for me to really get, but I dislike Narmaya so she can just sit there in my inventory with all her other versions CAUSE SHE WON’T LEAVE ME ALONE I guess.

Did literally nothing else though; just no real time to play grindblue lately.

Exos Heroes (director’s notes):

Hahaha, the devs noted they were nervous about how people would react to the first Memorial Saga and I BET IT WAS DUE TO THE TWIST LOL but anyone who has used Rachel or came from Exos Saga weren’t gonna be shocked. Regardless, the translation referred to the story as from “Ramge and Rachel’s youth” and I laughed cause IT TOOK PLACE A WEEK BEFORE THE MAIN GAME’S STORY????

Hope the 2nd MS ends up actually giving rewards for side quests.

Thank god though that they are going to implement a give up section for tag battles. I no longer have to set up [my absolute most hated character in this game] as a sacrificial character any more and can set up some more proper teams.

Infinity Core is still shit but at least now they will be showing what you’ll be facing the entire week instead of day-by-day reveals. Half of the issue is playing a guessing game on what FCs you need to hoard in case their theme comes up and thus purposely limit yourself from actually achieving higher stages. Still wish they’d just allow you to keep the stage you’re on if you already cleared it in a previous week. Why the hell do I have to redo the stage(s) every week if I already passed it? At least quick battle will be implemented to a limited degree.

Glad they acknowledged the biggest problem in the game: inability for new players to catch up. The gap between vets and newer players never ever narrows due to all the time-gating elements this game has. I’ve been around the block in a lot of games and the ones who have this gap never has good player retention and ends up shrinking just to a core base of cliques until the game dies. Too bad no solutions offered.

I was disappointed Blue Kaya doesn’t buff HP for support units, then remembered HP is the biggest problem in PVP so yeah, no, nevermind, good on them for realizing that. Didn’t roll for her since I went ham on the summer banners and defense scales poorly in this game due to the HP inflation.

... oh man, I got momentarily excited when I saw Saint West was getting SF3. Then remembered Rachel, while from Saint West, is the heir to Saint West’s throne, and is basically labeled as Saint West in everything else in the game, is actually the general for Lenombe. Fuck me. When will they buff him. I’m tired of facing SF3 nations and seeing my nation’s gimmick being told to pound sand cause they refuse to buff his nation even though he’s fallen way off the meta a long time ago. i think i will literally blow a fuse if greenland gets sf3 before lenombe

In non director’s notes news, I linked up Shadowbane to Lenombe. Luna and Garlond are pretty fun to use and I hope to eventually slap them onto my WR team for tag week to see how that works out, but they worked really well in Infinity Core. Glad I finally have a viable Frost unit I can use since who is Bathory? She doesn’t know me.

Dunno who I’d put in Rudley’s spot since I use him so that my Lenombe team has at least more than one chance to kill these tanky SF3 nations. Zeon is just useless now due to the prevalence of Misty and I tried out Misty and she’s okay, but she’s not the best synergy with Lenombe. I wish A.Zeon would get his FC already so I can pair him with Schmid to get the Vagabond SF bonuses... (but I’m thinking the outcry against the genderbends pushed that back RIP...)

AND FINALLY. FINALLY!!! YOU CAN GET R1 GEAR AT YORM SHOP. OH MY GOD. I CAN FINALLY GEAR MY CHARACTERS. NO MORE HATING MY LUCK. /bloodtears

#roo gaming #also i picked up this idle game that is basically Ads: The Game #but it's cute and i just run it when i'm watching YT vids #still also doing alice closet

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snowtimeisbesttime · 5 years

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Thoughts and questions on Pesterquest Volume 4! Tip: I am so fucking mad.

-Jade's theme is a remix of Carefree Victory, but with a few... different motifs. Veeery subtle, just a robotic voice rapping (no idea what it says though) and a dude beatboxing. Tirona also had a remix of the same song back in Friendsim...EDIT: This remix's got all the kids' instruments jamming out, and the beatboxing's Dave's addition. Still no idea about the robot rapping though.

-It was to be expected that Jade would be hit the hardest by our No SBURB AU; I thought she still dreamed on Prospit... she just can't catch a break, can't she now?

-(Turns out Pesterquest's No SBURB AU also goes for all human / Earth-based fanventures! That's actually kinda neat)

-...what is NOT neat is that unless MC moves people between universes (which they probably will do), it looks like we won't get Davekat nor Rosemary here.

-Good to know that the butterfly Grandpa Harley blasted to smithereens that one time likely wasn't an outlier in any way besides screentime!! wait fuck i wanted to go for the joke angle but MC says the island is very empty later on shit it's another layer of sadstuck now

-The kids register the MC (who actually has a name of their own!) as a blank kinda friendy loking thign (with a dash of First Guardian unpredictableness), though our pals from Friendsim saw them as a normal (as much as can be) alien... We'll have to wait and see how the Hivebent trolls see them (besides wondering wh0's that douchebag, of course)

-Aradia also gets floofy hair!!!!!!!!! And we get to see her!!!!!!! And Sollux too!!!!!!!! (what does she know though?????)

-Of course Jade's kinda jealous of our fancy space powers....... (crying cat)

-I can't believe the Manthro Chaps are just Jake's fursona(s)

-There's a few early / classic Homestuck jokes, like Jade's name being Gigi (because she's GG; I've got no idea what the story behind “Lynn” is) and Squiddles being a TV show! And of course Jade relates (without needing future knowledge) to Inkabelle, who spends years lost and alone but is rescued in the end...

-Bec remains a good boy and best friend, and of course he reminds us of a good girl and best lusus: Ladyy. And also of a rat bitch, unfortunately.

-HAUNTSWITCH (the town) IS MENTIONED!! And there's someone there making sure Jade gets stuff sent her way... whoever they are, they're probably the only person who knows where her island is.

-I'm positive this fic's already been written at least once, because I read it and it was great, but: alternate universe where Joey and/or Jude take Jade in when Grandpa dies, and she gets to have a happy childhood, and never ever believes she deserves to be alone and miserable and to suffer more than the average person- or at all even. (Jade and Joey could bond over their dislike of Grandpa's trophies... and the fact that he abandoned them both.)

-Considering this quote: “Frost floods your veins and nestles into your heart with a burning chill, for reasons that you don't quite understand”, when MC finally gets their memories it's going to be a Big Fucking Moment. I have a theory that they might be Timebound (and a Scorist) because they've kept Mallek's hoodie as opposed to all the clothes they got from other friends, but those are hints to Blood and Heart if I've ever seen some.

-She's been bottling up her emotions practically her entire life. And now we've destroyed the only thing she had to look forward to. At least she gets to vent a little, even if it doesn't last long.

-Methinks Bec may have had very good reasons to keep Jade at least out of the temple (not so sure regarding on the island), even if the game is (seemingly.) no more. Because we've got a Bec Noir lookalike on Prospit, with red powers, who immediately gets rid of the teleport pad in the frog temple.

-And explicitly after going to Prospit -after entering the Medium, SBURB's domain-, Jade decides that it's fine if life basically screws her over in all ways, because it's her fate. Her good (or perhaps, better) end is a bit of a silver lining, but not that much. Once a player, always a player indeed...

-Of course we had to get the kids all together for this one, even if MC took their time to figure out they could do it. It's good to know that they'll have some happy moments at least...

-Unless my game glitched out, Rose's theme does not play when we zap to her house, while John's and Dave's do. She instantly figures out that Jade's feeling down because SBURB didn't happen, and John sees the writing on her walls, though he wouldn't have had a chance to mention Dave's. (Curiously, it looks like MC can't see those.)

-When we zap to Dave's room, she almost gets a shuriken to the face; and while Rose is the type to try and keep a cool and collected façade, that seems to be the catalyst for shit starting to leak everywhere, as opposed to hitting the fan: she asks MC about Dave's brother -who she finds psychologically fascinating-, and starts thinking about the ethics of using the retcon powers. Lastly, she says that we don't have to worry about this now.

-...Wasn't Rose aware that something had changed from the beginning? Didn't she literally do Light stuff in her bad end? Couldn't she perceive MC's narration? (Dave did say that they just mumble away sometimes, but he's a Time player (one of the most meta aspects), and nobody else's said so before; as far as I remember the only one who also seemed to be aware of it was Marsti, Voidbound.)

-So. Are we going to have to deal with the (with sincere apologies to all rats) Ultimate Rat Bitch, like what happened in Friendsim? Because it sure fucking looks so. there might or might not be a direct reference to the epilogues, besides what i've written here. We'll just have to wait and see how things turn out, once we befriend everyone in Pesterquest. (is this the third, pumpkin route???)

-(Admittedly, Bec Noir's Prospit red zappy cousin's description is vague enough that it could possibly apply to an Alt!Calliope-possessed dead Jade; with the black tendrils being the Witch hood and the wings maybe coming from consuming Lord English back then? But it's a pretty long reach, not even counting that its wings are explicitly said to be leathery where cherub wings are feathery, and most importantly, that this is not her style. All the evidence points towards U!Dirk.)

#homestuck #pesterquest #jade harley #pesterquest spoilers #thoughts and questions #epilogue spoilers #<-- yes. really.#long post #(in case the readmore breaks or something)

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thirstyforred · 6 years

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Thirsty rambles about Gwent cards - neutrals

aka i made all my fav neutrals so i could talk a bit about why i like them the most

Avallac'h & Avallac'h Sage - what to say here, they're just nice, standard Av has too dull colors imo, but the premium loop is nice. The Sage? damn i love this orange/yellow whirlpool, very nice, kinda autumn feels with those leaves. both lines are nice, kinda ominous, tho i feel like english has 2 different VA, the "appearances..." line one sounds soooo different from "you will see..."

Ciri Nova - why only one? because others are just f ugly. also tbh i like ciri's av taunts better than her actual voicelines

Lambert, Vesemir, Eskel - aka Silver Witchers. now, i hated old OBT trio because they were not an actual trio (but also because they're ugly so i won't make their single cards), and im very sad that this is the only trio of cards that we get in HC, and the truth is i find this image more interesting as standard card than as premium loops, there's just too much going on here, it's chaos, it's ugly, i don't what this, meh. Voiceline comes from Lambert's cards and it's the only one that actually seems to fit the mood of the scene

Triss Telekinesis - at first i wanted to do Butterflies, that was the card i used the most in my first Dagon hybrid decks (until they Gold Immunity Update it, that is), but idk Tele just looks nicer than Butts??

Gaunter O'Dimm - i remember that in OBT i tried, truly tried, to build a deck with him, but the guy was just so heavy on RNG that it made no sense... but the loop is nice and colors, and i guess i just love all HoS themed cards

Iris von Everec - the pose, the colors, flying rose petals, the voicelines, i bet this card even smells nicely

Stregobor - just for the fact that the skull he holds turns into Renfris face, just wow

Dorregaray of Vole - love how much details is on this card, all the animals and candles, and the fact that it's canon that Darregaray looks like Lifecoach

Iris’ Companions - i never ever used this card, but just looks like something from horror, nice~ also, i feel like i have to say it, i just hate english VA here, especially the Dog

Nivellen - it's just a fun little scene :'D #wish that was me

Olgierd von Everec - if i have to point put one HoS card i don't like that much, then that's the one, mostly because we can't see Olgierd's face, which is a crime if you as me. tho i like more "A moment. I need to smoke." line but i doesn't seem to work with this particular scene. also i remember what pain in the ass he was before his first nerf

Operator - for a very long time i though that it's 3rd Avalach's cards, i mean he kinda wear the same clothes and mask, like is not Avalach then who the hell is it? i just don't know... but he was good at coping nekkers back back in first swarm decks

Duda: Companion & Agitator - i never got into playing Zoltan, but damn Duda is one cute birdo, kinda sad that we couldn't meet him in Wild Hunt

Hanmarvyn’s Blue Dream - idk even what this one does, but it's one of these cards that only looks better animated

Korathi Heatwave - oh i loved the dessert effect it left on board, even tho it was a pain to play against

Phoenix - tho just now in HC i'm starting to like this card, previously it just wasn't very interesting to me

Renew - literal real life saver, the most beautiful thing to get on hand in 3rd round, absolutely blessed card, totally worth this gold 4th sloth in OBT, now in HC im not so sure, but still beautiful

Shupe - idk how Shupe works and i won't even try to understand, but cards are fun, and i love that on all of them you can see CDPR red chicken. you go Shup my beautiful troll son!

Sihil - cursed card of current meta, but not so op as people like to say, just be like old Emhyr and play no units at all, then he and Eithné won't give you a shit (or be like me and play werewolves, because they can't be targeted), anyway i love Sihil and i play it even with higher provisions [EDIT: i wrote this before hotfix, rip Sihil decks]

Villentretenmerth - there's here something so damn dramatic, too dramatic, calm you tits Borkh

Alzur’s Double–Cross - nice monster eye i love it 100/10 alzur knew good shit

Bekker’s Dark Mirror - another card that makes me every sentimental about OBT, all the swings you could pull with this~

Marching Orders - i like the shadows, also very useful in millfgaard

Scorch - idk i guess i love orange... and totally scorching my opponent

Impenetrable Fog - now here comes my boi! i love how foggy is this card, and i have so many good memories of weather Dagon, yeah yeah got nerfed like 2-3 times, but like, what's actually so bad about control monsters? stop fucking killing every new idea for this kind of decks, not everyone wants to play vore and deathwish

White Frost - i don't think it was ever used after nerfing frost in first months of OBT, and im not sure people are using it now against artifacts... but that's one good looking card

Crow’s Eye - another simple, pretty image

Caretaker - 1, idk who and why decided that this guy should be neutral, while he thematically and visually fitted so nicely with Monsters 2, if this is only about his new ability in HC then he could keep the old one and they could make new neutral cards, it's not like super hard or smt 3, im still mad that Monsters can consume from graveyard but can't actually control graveyard, especially now when with TB we got cards like Xavier Lemmens and Lippy Gudmund (yeah he's Skellige but like) if i can't control board with Monsters then let me at least control graveyards you cowards!

#Thirsty's fav premium cards #this thing was in my drafts for almost 3 weeks now #ugh i have no time for gwent now

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holoir · 6 years

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Frenzied Allit is the Monthly Reward card for November 2018 in The Elder Scrolls Legends. The 1-cost Reptile comes with a power of 1 and a health of 3, making it more resilient to damage than most 1-cost creatures. Frenzied Alit is another “flagellation” creature: it increases in power by +1/+0 when it takes damage. As with every monthly reward card, you will need to reach

rank 1 to receive three copies of the card by the end of this month,

rank 5 to get two copies of the card,

and rank 9 for a single copy of Frenzied Alit.

Let’s evaluate at the card using Quadrant Theory, before we look at additional uses and synergies with other cards.

Frenzied Alit in Quadrant Theory

Opening

With a cost of 1 magicka, Frenzied Alit is definitely be a decent option during the game opening as you are attempting to establish board control. The flagellation ability makes Frenzied Alit a better choice if your opening game plan is to fight your opponent’s creatures for board control. If your game plan is to maximize damage to your opponent’s face immediately from turn one onwards, the card does not offer the greatest power value. Ideally, you want to use the Alit to kill a 1/1 creature and a 1/2 creature during opening, which will develop him into a 3/1 as a result. If you are facing a lot of Token decks, the Alit might be a good choice to deal with these small threats early while sustaining your board presence.

Parity

At Parity, Frenzied Alit alone offers little value. His 1/3 body does not have much of an impact on the board. It lacks a Guard or Charge attribute to make at least a bit of an immediate impact and is just too small a body to make an impact. Frenzied Alit requires support from other cards to make a reasonable impact during this phase of the game. There are a few options that allow you to retain and increase value considerably, but it will require a special built-to-purpose deck.

Winning

Equally, when you are winning the game, a 1/3 body alone does not make much of a difference. Frenzied Alit just is not the big body or the guard removal action that you are looking for, when you are starting to swing for victory.

Losing/ Turnaround

Unfortunately, the same is true when you are losing the game – Frenzied Alit alone will not allow you to make much of a comeback when the game is already well-progressed. A 1/3 body, even if it’s growing power a little bit, is not that much of a threat to your opponent’s larger creatures.

Summary

By using Quadrant Theory, we can see that the card offers opportunities during game opening for decks that care about board control in the early game. Since most Aggro or mid-range decks do care about this, he is generally worth considering. However, as the card does require a lot of synergistic cards to offer at least some combo-value in all the other quadrants, we shall expect that the card will see play only in very tailored decks. Prime candidates for this are flagellation, health-boosting and / or healing decks. Each having a game plane of allowing it’s creatures to stick for a longer time on the board and wanting to kill multiple of their opponent’s creatures.

Synergies

Sword of the Inferno and other Items

Sword of the Inferno

Legion Shield

Yew Shield

Enchanted Plate

Imperial Armor

Hackwing Feather

Dawnbreaker

With Sword of the Inferno being one of the most popular cards in the recent FrostSpark Collection, an obvious synergy exists with this two-cost item. If played on Frenzied Alit, Sword of the Inferno makes him effectively a +3/+1 while also dealing 2 damage to another creature. In an aggro deck, this would allow you to swing three damage to your opponent’s face in turn two, while likely removing one of your opponent’s creatures. However, Frenzied Alit couldn’t easily be buffed further on from here. Also, he is not the best 1-cost creature to synergize with the Sword. So use this with caution.

To boost Frenzied Alit even further, you would need to consider items granting more health, such as Enchanted Plate or potentially even Imperial Armor. With a Hackwing Feather, a 3-cost item, providing +1/+3 and the Regenerate keyword, you can basically create a mini-version of the Frost Troll that does not grow as aggressively but can have a similar effect.

Equipping an item that provides the Guard keyword would actually help Frenzied Alit a lot in the dodge department and make him a reasonable blocker for your opponent. The 2-cost Legion Shield could promote the Alit into a 3- cost Hive Defender. And a Yew Shield would be just perfect in a Token matchup.

Another option is to simply use a very powerful item, such as Dawnbreaker or an Heirloom Greatsword to buff his attack value. With this, you would have a powerful threat swinging for face, that could also be used to kill-off creatures with 2 power or less for an additional greater swing next turn.

Healers and Health Boosts

Another category of cards with reasonable synergy are cards that can heal Frenzied Alit from any damage he has already taken, as well as any cards that boost his health even further.

Healing Hands

Almalexia’s Disciple

Blackrose Herbalist

Plea to Kynareth

Restoration Tutor

Bruma Profiteer

Ring of Imaginery Might

Healers allow you to get more value from Frenzied Alit, as they heal any previous damage, allowing him to keep engaged in the fight for the board:

Healing Hands – As a 0-cost card that heals and provides an additional +1/+1 boost, this action is a cheap alternative to strengthen Frenzied Alit during game opening.

The Exalt ability of Almalexia’s Disciple would allow you to heal Frenzied Alit and all your other creatures for a cost of 4-magicka. Potentially a reasonable consideration, when you have been able to develop your board a bit wider.

Once each turn, Blackrose Herbalist can heal one of your random creatures in play.

Plea to Kynareth allows you to heal Frenzied Alit alongside all other creatures in the same lane and boost them by +1/+1.

Restoration Tutor can heal a creature when summoned.

Health-Boosting Creatures can also help to grow Frenzied Alit further while fighting for board control:

With Bruma Armorer in play, Frenzied Alit would immediately gain +0/ +2 when summoned, which would allow him to grow a bit further.

Ring of Imaginery Might could be used to convert Frenzied Alit into a 5/5 creature, which is about average, when considering the cost of 5 magicka needed to play both cards. If your deck already runs the Ring or is built around it, then Frenzied Alit might be a reasonable addition.

Flagellation Decks

Raging Horker

Fighters Guild Hall

Fearless Northlander

Brassilisk

Frost Troll

Gridstlehide Dreugh

Fletcherfly Golem

The game plan in Flagellation Decks is to boost your creatures by self-pinging them or while fighting for board control. Oftentimes, this allows you to snowball these creatures into much bigger threats. In addition, some healing or health-gaining cards can help not only Frenzied Alit, but also your other Flagellation creatures to endure one or two additional turns.

One of the key cards for this deck is Fighters Guild Hall. This support adds +2/+0 to a creature that’s been dealt damage to. Assume you get Frenzied Alit on turn one and the Hall on turn 2, you might use the Alit to kill a 1-health creature, making him a 4/2 which is decent attack-value for the cost of three magicka.

Furthermore, Flagellation decks include additional cards that benefit from taking damage, as well as card that can be used to inflict damage to your own creatures.

Flagellation Creatures

Raging Horker is pretty similar to Frenzied Alit, although the Horker is gaining +1/+1 for a cost of one additional magicka

Fearless Northlander is a 2-cost 2/5 who gains +2/+0 when taking damage.

Brassilisk, a 3-cost 2/2 Fabricant, summons a copy of itself in the other lane when it takes damage and survives

When the 4-cost 1/6 Frost Troll takes damage, he gains that same amount of power. With Regenerate, the Frost Troll can be developed into a bigger threat across multiple turns.

Whenever the 5-cost 3/5 Gristlehide Dreugh takes damage and survives, you will draw an additional card.

Whenever Fetcherly Golem takes damage and survives, you summon a 2/2 Fetcherfly Swarm.

Cards with Self-ping effect

To allow you to control, when your creatures get this power-boost, your flagellation deck will also likely run a few self-ping cards like Rapid Shot, Sharpshooter Scout, Firepot Spider, Skaven Pyromancer, Dushnikh Yal Archer, Valenwoord Huntsman or even Wildfire Dragon.

Firepot Spider

Rapid Shot

Sharpshooter Scout

Ravenous Crocodile

Skaven Pyromancer

Valenwood Huntsman

Dushnikh Yal Archer

Wildfire Dragon

Summary

Obviously Frenzied Alit is not a super powerful card that will dominate the meta for the next couple of month. Monthly Reward cards have never been designed like this, and also they should not be. As they are a bit more difficult to get for new players who are joining the game later on, they have usually strengthened a somewhat under-rated theme, and attempted to make it a bit more viable.

And Frenzied Alit does a decent job at this. It expands the Flagellation theme in a reasonable way and adds an additional flagellation creature for these types of decks. I have already seen a few flagellation decks on the ladder this month and would expect a few more coming our way in early December.

Outside of this archetype, the card has reasonable use during the Opening phase, particularly against Token decks and when combined with the appropriate items or health boosting/healing cards, the Alit can add much more value than meets the eye, initially. It is great to finally see the Monthly Reward cards coming back as an “insitutation” to The Elder Scroll Legends.

Good luck for the last days on the ladder!

Look what I found after my morning-flagellation ritual. ;) I was dusting cards from today's #teslegends Festival of Madness and found: Frenzied Alit Have a look at uses and synergies on tesl.blog: Frenzied Allit is the Monthly Reward card for November 2018 in The Elder Scrolls Legends. The 1-cost Reptile comes with a power of 1 and a health of 3, making it more resilient to damage than most 1-cost creatures.

#Monthly Reward Card #Strength

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valeriemperez · 7 years

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It looks like Candice unfollowed The Flash's Instagram and Twitter pages. I wonder what that might mean. :/

I noticed! And I think it means she finally decided to love herself instead of accepting how poorly those accounts treat her. As one tweet she recently liked stated, “What you allow is what will continue.”

Is it bad that whenever Iris graces our presence, I always shout “My queen!”?

If that’s bad, then I’m bad right alongside you! Except I think I say “My baby” more often lol.

Do you think that CS being there during the baby announcement scene was a writer or director choice? She seemed so out of place during that shot. Since they couldn’t keep Wally for it or involve Cecile, Cisco being there would have been more believable.

It definitely came across as a directorial choice to me. In fact, AJK even said that it was all Tom C. in this interview. My guess is that it would have been Cecile in that moment if Tom had had Danielle N. that episode, but either they didn’t ask her or she wasn’t available.

I hate to say it, Tati, but that bachelorette party looks so boring until that guy with the eyes comes in and they start fighting. Do you think we have some new writers who lead boring lives themselves or could it be the case of not knowing our ladies that well?

I’m pretty excited for the episode, but I didn’t really see the ladies do anything before the fight other than sit down to a nice dinner. I’m sure they had more activities planned for after! I would actually say S4 is the first time since S1 that the characters have been doing anything fun lmao.

do you think they will let Barry and Iris be more intimate once they’re married, since it’s ok on a family show for married couples to have sex, be seen in bed together, etc?

It’s definitely a possibility, but I don’t think we’ll ever see anything more risque than Iris/Eddie in 1.08, Barry/Linda in 1.13, Barry/Iris in 3.04 & 3.10, Cisco/Cynthia in 4.04… The show has already established a specific tone and I don’t expect them to veer too far. But we could easily get a bedroom scene with actual kissing in a bed while wearing sleep clothes lmao.

From everything I’m reading about the fandom’s complaints about Iris or the anti’s complaining, it makes me wonder if trolls are getting paid to be overexcessive (?) about it. A market for paid trolling does exist in all sorts of genres, but this harassment that CP/Iris gets, even when the episode is not focused on her, is really getting out of hand. The silence from the EPs and costars baffles me.

I understand why you would think that, but my guess is all fandoms really are that paranoid (if they’re on our side) and racist/sexist (if they’re the whining fanboys and Iris haters). As for EPs and costars, I guess they believe acknowledging the hate will intensify it...

@eboniangelvibez said:

Tati, Do you think The ⚡️will address the CS/KF duality? It’s frustrating, to me, esp. since Barry Allen and Vibe are metas. Savitar was an aberration of Barry. However, Caitlin Frost as we keep being told is different… I was a little annoyed that Team ⚡️, essentially, are ok with her being back. While I understand Cisco (to an extent) I’m uneasy with how quickly everyone else, especially the WA’s, have forgiven her transgressions. She is easily baited. What’s to say it can’t happen again?

They seem to think they’ve explained it just fine, lol, so I don’t believe they will try to do it any more explicitly than that. As for why they let her back, they love her and are big believers in second chances. I don’t like it either, but the writers made their bed.

Petty momeny and I rarely have them so indulge me. :) Barely any blogs make SB gifs anymore. I mean I see so many WA ones. I even see the same moment giffed so many different ways with different parallels. Heeheee. I’ve known they aren’t relevant for a long long long time now but still lil petty moment.

Believe me, I love it too! Pettiness ftw in this instance.

#the flash #eboniangelvibez #anonymous #tatiana's thoughts #more asks under the cut #long post for ts #spoilers #sbask

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zm-sc · 7 years

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Trying to figure out Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost with canon quotes; Part 1

So. We are into season four of The Flash, and this conundrum that really, should have never been one, still is. Worse, it’s backtracking? It only does seem like it, as we saw Caitlin struggling yet again to contain Killer Frost in 4x01. Wasn’t this supposed to be solved now? Isn’t this the reason why Caitlin left six months ago, to figure things out? Well, she might have. Sorta. Because it is clear that Caitlin decided to return to the team that much easily because she thought she had Killer Frost in check, most likley because she hadn’t broke through in a while. Fair enough

But, for now, let’s take it back to season two, the first season in which Killer Frost was hinted

2x15:

[“Jay Garrick” just died and Caitlin is being rude and distant. So Cisco is freaking out because this behavior reminds him of Earth 2 Killer Frost he encountered in the previous episode]

Caitlin: “Cisco, I’m not a meta-human”.

Cisco: “Okay, I hear you, but you’re acting just like she did over there. You’re being shut off. You’re being detached. You’re being cold.”

Caitlin: Because I have to be right now. I just watched Jay get killed right in front of my eyes, just when I was starting to feel normal again, just when I was beginning to love. So if I let myself feel, if I let all of that pain and anger out, it’s never gonna stop, and that’s not gonna help me either […].

[Caitlin trolls Cisco after she touches him and he jumps off at the contact of her "freezing” hands]

Caitlin: “You deserve it for thinking that I could ever become like her. Cisco, you need to stop worrying about me. I may be sad, I may want to be alone for a little while, but I promise you, Killer Frost will never exist on this earth, okay? Besides, you tested me. I don’t even have the meta-human gene, so please stop worrying about me, okay?”

There is no character more damadged on this show after Barry, than Caitlin. We all know her trauma, we are all ready to stop seeing her suffer already. But at this moment, it seemed like the show was telling us that this big part of her character, would play an entire role in her Killer Frost transformation in the future. No other character on the show has ever been automatically deemed prone to become evil based on the amount of hardship they faced, except Caitlin, which makes sense if this was supposed to be the trigger to her morphing into Killer Frost. However, a season later, it turned out it had nothing to do with it anymore? Or were we supposed to forget it should? Let us continue

2x20:

[Caitlin is being held hostage by Hunter. She asks him why she is keeping her, he says he doesn’t want to be alone anymore. She tells him she is never going to be with him, and he says]

Hunter Zolomon: “You think that you’re not like me, but I’ve seen the darkness inside of you, Caitlin. Just like it was inside Killer Frost. All you have to do…is unlock it.”

In case you had doubts, 2x15 truly was saying that Caitlin can’t possibly be rightfully angry without it meaning that she is leaning towards the evil side. Why is that, for everyone. I reached to the conclusion of “evil” predispositions. After all, even back in season one, this was the impression she was giving. Because “My once promising career in bio-engineering is over. My boss is in a wheelchair for life. The explosion that put you in a coma, also killed my fiancé. So this blank expression kinda feels like the way to go.(1x01)”. She was portrayed as rude. Closed off. Distant. No fun. That’s how she was deemed the mom of the team, the party pooper, pessimistic, always does everything according to rules, Dr. Caitlin Snow. Back then too, it was the way to go. Don’t let them in, don’t let them know. As well, there were those two times when the show suggested an interesting way the accelerator affects people

In 1x06, Barry tells his childhood bully, Tony Woodward: “The thing that happened to you, Tony, it happened to me too, but it didn’t just give us abilities. It made us more of who we are.”

And in 2x02, as she is held hostage by Sand Demon, Patty tells him: “Getting those powers didn’t change who you are. They only highlighted the worst parts of who you already were.”

Meaning, the dark matter would enhance the side that prevails in someone (good and bad)? In this case, Caitlin’s sadly impressive track record of emotional turmoils would be far enough to justify leaning towards darkness. So there is our explanation, right? As negative as it sounds for someone who is part of a heroes team and does have non evil predispositions as we have seen many times, why not? Well, the writers might have ended up deciding otherwise. Because season three offered a different narrative, if not several, and each doesn’t add up any more than the other

Part 2 upcoming

#caitlin snow #killer frost #danielle panabaker #the flash #mine

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i-am-snowils-admiral · 7 years

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Now I'm curious... what were you thinking for the meta type stuff for that Frozen au?

For the record I may have a vaguely incorrect idea of what meta means and so may have used it incorrectly.

That said, I was mostly going to go on about casting and how the story would need to change, so I’m glad to do that since I didn’t get to put a lot of it into the short thing that I wrote.

Elsa:

Roy Mustang. I honestly don’t know if I want him to have ice powers. I suppose it has to be that way for the plot to work, but for some unknown reason, in a lot of my own personal headcanons and aus, Roy has power over poisonous plants, meaning he’d build a castle made up of...interwoven vines of poison oak, nightshade, etc. He decorates the castle with oleander flowers, dangerous red berries and mushrooms. But for the sake of having the story make sense, I’m leaving all that behind (*sigh*) and sticking with ice.

Kristoff:

Riza Hawkeye. Kristoff will probably have to change the most because I’m royai trash and need it to happen. In the beginning of the snippet I wrote for the original ask, I quoted a part of the movie where Kristoff admires Elsa’s handiwork, remarking that the ice is “flawless”. I’m working off of that where Riza’s initial attraction is to the strange sorcerer who can create ice so beautiful, and then sees him decked out in his icy dress robes and kinda...forgets that the ice is supposed to be the good looking part. Anyway, though. Black Hayate would probably take the part of Sven, though he’d have to be enormous. I can’t really stand the thought of turning Black Hayate into a reindeer, so instead I’m going to turn him into a Miyazaki-style enormous wolf. Because reasons. Riza can be a beautiful, Princess Mononoke-type wild child who uses her attunement with nature to get some major awesome cubes of ice. I love her.

Anna:

Edward and Alphonse Elric. I’m splitting Anna into two people because of two reasons. First, there’s two Elric brothers, and second, I think that Anna could have afforded to harbor a little more bitterness towards her sister, and so I’m throwing Edward in to have abandonment issues while Alphonse handles more of the “unconditional trust” type thing. In this au, Edward received the initial wound from Roy’s ice powers, though it was a little more serious than Anna’s streak of white hair. He ends of losing his arm and his leg to frostbite when Roy’s magic hits him, and both he and Al are wiped of their memories. He gets automail somehow, but I’m not sure where I want to put Winry in this. Alphonse is the one injured by Roy’s blast of self-doubt in the ice palace, the way Elsa freezes Anna’s heart in the movie. The frost spreads throughout his entire body, much the way his entire body is taken away in the transmutation.

Hans:

I’m using an oc for Hans. I didn’t necessarily want Hans to have any romantic attachments to any of the characters (real or imagined) so I’m going to call him Ed and Al’s half brother. In this au, Roy’s mother (Trisha) ends up marrying Hohenheim, who had a son of his own, and then gives birth to Ed and Al, making both Hans and Roy half-brothers to them (though not related to each other). Technically, I could say that Hans is 03 Envy, but I wasn’t particularly fond of that development, so I’m just going to have him be miscellaneous half-brother Hans, possibly named Skyler (I have a lot of weird aus, and in one of them Ed and Al have a half-brother named Skyler, but he’s nice so idk about using him here).

General plot stuff:

Hohenheim doesn’t leave, and Trisha doesn’t die of an illness. They die the way Elsa and Anna’s parents do. Roy particularly misses Trisha, because though his step-father is kind, Trisha was most understanding about his ice powers, and it was Hohenheim’s idea to “conceal don’t feel”, while Trisha had some doubts about that method.

Hans/Envy/Skyler/whoever is the son of Hohenheim, who married into the royal family after Trisha’s husband and Roy’s father died. Skyler (I’m gonna use Skyler because using Hans is confusing) wants the throne not because he has a ton of older brothers like in the movie, but because he’s jealous that Roy is the crown prince even though Skyler himself is technically the eldest. Turns out having a parent marry into royalty doesn’t give you many royal rights. Skyler shows up at Roy’s coronation, and quickly becomes a bit of a role model to Ed, who sees him as the older brother who did everything he could to be present for him, as opposed to Roy who shut himself away. Technically Skyler didn’t even show up till now, but Ed just needs support and so doesn’t think much of it. Skyler’s excuse is that he was away at school and didn’t even realize that Ed and Al were all alone till he arrived for the coronation. Sketchy but semi-believable. Unlike Hans, Skyler actually remembers about Roy’s ice powers, because he was there when Ed was injured, and didn’t have his memory wiped. His plan is to antagonize Roy until his ice powers are revealed, forcing him to flee the country, then to use Ed and Al’s deferment to his judgment to get himself crowned king.

Once Al gets frozen (haha), Ed becomes determined that, per the troll’s instructions (which definitely did not come after a musical number in which a troll who probably wasn’t Maes Hughes tries to get Riza and Roy together), Skyler will be able to un-freeze him. Ed doesn’t consider himself as an option because he has Issues and doesn’t believe himself capable of the type of pure love that will save his little brother (he is, obviously, but like I said, Ed has Issues). Once they return, Skyler decides that the death of the younger, beloved prince would be a good way to solidify Roy’s fall from grace, and leaves Al to die by locking him in Roy’s old room. Edward comes to find him (sorry Olaf fans out there, Ed is not Olaf, and Olaf is not in this au, but someone has to pick up the one piece of plot he’s responsible for) and, after he discovers self-deprecating notes that Roy has written to himself to remind himself to “conceal don’t feel” in order to protect his precious little brothers, becomes convinced that Roy had loved them all along and tries to drag Al back out to Roy in one last, desperate attempt to save his life. On the way, Ed’s automail acts up because of the cold, and he ends up collapsed on the frozen lake, with Skyler about to strike him down. Alphonse throws himself in front of Edward, as Roy, who had broken out of prison in an attempt to save the brothers he cares so desperately about, attacks Skyler with his ice powers, immobilizing him (do I want him to die? I don’t know. Depends on what you want it to be rated).

Because of the self-sacrifice, Al unfreezes, and Roy is convinced by his brothers that there is still love in their family, and uses it to end the eternal winter that he had unwittingly started. He and Riza forge a tentative friendship-that-will-probably-turn-to-romance, and everyone lives happily ever after.

This got really long, sorry. Thank you for the ask, though! I’m glad I got to expand on it.

#fma #frozen #royai #parental!royed #parental!royal #thestaffofra

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hjbender · 4 years

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Hey, I've been reading The Little Frost Troll and to admit, there has never been a anything more wholesome and beautiful as this And I had this question I've been wanting to ask you. You see, I've been imagining Canon Thor and Loki suddenly thrown into an alternate reality travel (I don't know how but I'll leave that to your imagination) and came across this reality, which is The Little Frost Troll story. What do you think would happen if Thor and Loki met the Thor and Loki of this reality?

First: thank you! It makes me so happy to hear you’re enjoying that sweet and wholesome (well, wholesome until the sex drive turned on) story. 😊

Second: holy troll-y I’d never thought about what might happen if Canon Thor and Loki met TLFT Thor and Loki and I am intrigued! 🤩

I bet Troll Loki would be in awe of his “tall, beautiful Æsir” version, which is ironic because I headcanon that Canon Loki has serious issues with his body image and self-esteem after it was revealed he was a Frost Giant in Thor (2011). And even though he shows Troll Loki his true skin (“I’m not Asgardian, see?” he murmurs), it still doesn’t matter. Troll Loki instantly adores his “cousin”.

“You’re so beautiful!” he gushes, tail wagging and hands clasped together under his chin. “And you can do magic! Will you teach me?”

Canon Loki looks down at this sweet little creature and his heart aches. This version has learned to love himself, has made peace with who and what he is. Perhaps he can, too.

I imagine them wandering off together, talking about their lives and their cruel fathers and being misfits, feeling like they don’t belong anywhere, redemption, sorcery, personal doubts, how they each deal with problems related to their heritage, maybe shedding a few tears together.

And meanwhile both Thors are standing to the side and having an amicable conversation that may sound like:

“So… do you love your Loki as much as I love mine?”

“Twice as much.”

“Impossible. No one can love anything more than I love my Loki.”

“One can now.”

“Oh, really?”

“Aye, really.”

After a challenging scowl, the two slowly smile at one other, grasp each other’s arms in unified Loki Loving™ truce, and are bros forever after. 💪❤️

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Back in London, I used to order the kids’ birthday cakes from Hummingbird Bakery and M&S (Giant Colin the Caterpillar & Pirate Ship) which tasted great and were reasonable value. However, last year the kids requested rainbow cakes so I took a look online. To my surprise, it was difficult to find bakeries nearby that did 5/6 layer rainbow cakes; it was a bespoke option and pricing was not exactly transparent or cheap. Recently, a new bakery called Flour Shop opened; they sell 8-inch rainbow cakes starting at $110, and 10-inch for $220!

In the end, I decided to take a leap of faith and create my own. The cakes were enjoyed by all and everyone was impressed; my friends even suggested I start a business! The point is you can bake your kid’s birthday cake if you would like to; you just need a little time and imagination. The cake batter is quick to make but colouring and cooking the six layers followed by frosting is a little time consuming. The great thing is you can make the cake over two or three days or longer because you can refridgerate or freeze the sponges (just individually wrap in plastic wrap/ clingfilm). As another cheat/ time-saver, you can buy a couple of packs of cake mix/ ready-made frosting to avoid baking from scratch.

Trolls Rainbow Cake

Paw Patrol/ Lego Rainbow Cake

Equipment

For further descriptions on these items, check out my Baking Toolkit post.

Electric Hand Mixer

Layer cake pans (I use Wiltons 8-inch layer pans (4 in a set) but it’s fine if you only have two pans. Use with greased parchment liners or cooking spray.

Wilton Color System for colouring sponges and frosting (I also have the Gel system for colouring frosting)

Optional Items for Professional Finish

Icer Tip and Icing Smoother for applying frosting evenly. Can use regular spatula instead.

Turntable Rotating Cake Stand which makes applying frosting quicker.

Cake Leveler for cutting off dome off top of the sponges. Can use long serrated knife instead.

Ingredients

Simply double up on the cake ingredients from the Victoria Sponge Cake Recipe.

12 oz butter, softened

12 oz caster sugar

12 oz self raising flour

6 medium eggs

2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

1½ to 2 teaspoons baking powder

Frosting Ingredients

2 packs (8oz) of cream cheese (I prefer Philadelphia brand), softened

1½ stick (6oz) of unsalted butter, softened

1⅓ cups of powdered sugar, sifted

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Method

Preheat oven to 170C/338F.

Cream butter and sugar together with a mixer for five minutes until pale and creamy.

Add eggs and vanilla extract. Eggs should be added one at a time, mixing in between.

Finally, add sifted baking powder plus half the sifted flour and mix using large metal spoon in figure of 8. Add remaining sifted flour in the same way.

Divide equally into six bowls. Add colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple and stir.

Bake in layer pans and check if cooked (using cake tester, toothpick) after 10 minutes. The six layers are thin so should not require a full 20 minutes to cook. The sponges should not be brown on top.

Loosen edges with palette knife and cool on metal rack.

For the frosting, mix butter and cream cheese using electric hand mixer with whisk attachment.

Add sifted powdered sugar then mix, followed by vanilla extract and colour and a final mix.

Assembly

If necessary, slice off the domes at the top of the sponges.

Place two sheets of greaseproof paper on the plate/ turntable as shown in photo on right. This will be removed after all the frosting has been applied, leaving the area clean.

Place a little frosting in the middle of the plate/ turntable before placing the first sponge on. This will hold the first sponge in place.

Add some frosting using icer tip or spatula and spread evenly to edges. Repeat for first three sponge layers, then refrigerate for 30 mins. Then add the remaining three layers the same way and refrigerate for a further 30 mins.

Next apply a thin layer of frosting all over the top and sides, also known as a crumb coat. Refrigerate for 30mins. Repeat process two more times.

And voilà, now you can decorate however you would like. I just added confetti sprinkles by spraying oil spray onto greaseproof paper, scattering on the confetti (which makes it stick to paper), then gently press onto the cake. I also bought Busy Books for the figurines/ cake toppers; I bedded the Trolls into some marzipan which I coloured green to make look like grass.

Trolls Rainbow Cake

I am excited to be making a different shaped rainbow layer cake this year and plan to use a pre-made sugar sheet topper. Hope to share the photo of it later this year! Happy Baking 🙂

Rainbow Birthday Cake Recipe Back in London, I used to order the kids' birthday cakes from Hummingbird Bakery and M&S (

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10 Horror Films In Desperate Need Of A Blu Ray

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A few months back I watched a film from 1953 called The Maze. It was directed by William Cameron Menzies, the same man who did Invaders from Mars (1953) and a slew of other highly regarded silent and early sound films. The Blu from Kino Lorber is pristine. I had never seen a black and white film look so good, despite having seen what I thought were perfect prints and scans.

As for the film, a quiet vaguely Lovecraftian tale of longing, loss, and familial curses, I could foresee how it had been lost throughout cinema history. A film could be amazing, yet with a shoddy old print or transfer it becomes impossible to watch. Due to carelessness, we may have lost more masterpieces than we know. And that’s where Blu Ray comes in. Eventually, we’re going to get to the point where we can’t conceivably get better quality than this, right? And if Blu Ray is it, what will happen to the films that don’t make the upgrade? Will it be the same as VHS to DVD, where a library of movies are tethered to one outmoded media and hardware? The following films are in danger of being lost, let’s try to save ‘em.

Keep reading for a look at the 10 horror movies we most want released on Blu-ray as voted on by Chris Coffel, Kieran Fisher, Brad Gullickson, Meg Shields, Rob Hunter, and myself.

10. Anguish (1987)

Films with a “meta” element can be tough to pull off, and for every slice of brilliance (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2005) there’s a messy misfire (Last Action Hero, 1993). One of the more unappreciated examples is Bigas Luna‘s Anguish. There’s an argument to be made that its film within a film within a film structure amounts to nonsense, but what it lacks in vigorous logic it more than makes up for in style, tension, and creativity. Its various threads are captivating and suspenseful in their own way, and in today’s world the movie theater segment carries far more terrifying power than it once did. At its most basic it’s a Psycho (1960) riff about a man and his mother, but it succeeds far better as an eye-opening look at our own obsession with watching.” A new Blu-ray would sharpen the picture even further. – Rob Hunter

9. The Dentist (1996)

Going to the dentist is terrifying in and of itself. A psychotic dentist with a tendency to slaughter his patients with the very same surgical equipment we all fear is even scarier. But that was the genius concept behind Brian Yuzna’s riotous B movie that saw Corbin Bernsen as the eponymous tooth surgeon. The movie spawned a sequel that’s equally as entertaining as the first, and they both deserve all the upgrades. That’s a hint Scream Factory. – Kieran Fisher

8. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

There was nothing quite like going to the video store. Be it Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, or your local mom and pop shop browsing the seemingly endless shelves, staring at the alluring box art, was a film school for my generation. And no box art was more attention-grabbing as Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2. Which is why it’s even more disheartening that it is still orphaned on a barebones DVD. An “in title alone” sequel to Jamie Lee Curtis’ early 80s school slasher, Mary Lou takes on a supernatural twist attempting to capitalize on that either killer of dreams Freddy Krueger. The film is an instant cult classic with its bizarre incestuous plot lines and over the top deaths, but the film deserves to be remembered (and remastered) for its striking visuals, especially one of a swirling blackboard that becomes a swirling void. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 is how you do a sequel. – Jacob Trussell

7. April Fool’s Day (1986)

The 80’s were the heyday for the slasher sub-genre. Every major franchise released multiple titles and a bunch of imitators and cheap knockoffs got in on the action. While a majority of these films followed a similar template every now and then one would come along with a fresh new take, as was the case in 1986 with the Fred Walton-directed April Fool’s Day. This is a movie that is conventional until it’s not thanks to a final act that may catch some viewer’s off guard. Whether or not the film’s conclusion is one that works is a worthy debate, however, in a sea of slashers that are largely the same this film’s ending does make it stand out. Plus it features a stellar 80’s cast that includes Deborah Foreman, Griffin O’Neal, and Thomas Wilson. This is all to say that the film’s lack of Blu-ray release is a travesty that needs rectifying. – Chris Coffel

6. The Keep (1983)

Shouldn’t every Michael Mann movie be on blu-ray? The guy is a master stylist, and even his second and possibly weakest effort oozes style and craft. Shot by Alex Thomson (the eye behind Excalibur, Legend, Labyrinth, Leviathan, Alien 3), The Keep is a rich visual feast of inky blacks and mysterious light sources. To forever live in the purgatory of bargain basement standard definition is criminal. Mann tried his best to adapt F. Paul Wilson’s World War II supernatural saga, but as the budget ballooned above him, the studio lost all confidence in recouping their money. An epic 210 minutes was savagely stripped down to a paltry 96. No wonder the final plot is barely coherent. That being said, the film that is currently available is an essential addition to every cineastes library. From The Keep comes Manhunter, Heat, and all the rest. A new Blu-ray could be akin to an exorcism for Mann. Sit him in front of a microphone, and let him unleash a torrent of frustrations over the production. That would provide solid psychotherapy for Mann and quite an education for us. – Brad Gullickson

5. The Haunting of Julia (1977)

That The Haunting of Julia has never been released on DVD is a goddamn tragedy. Almost as much of a tragedy as the cold open of the film, which sees a choking child and a tracheotomy gone wrong. Also known as Full Circle, Julia sees a frazzled Mia Farrow haunted by loss, and possibly something more sinister. A psychological horror in the vein of The Changeling and The Innocents, Julia is eerie slow burn with an effective twist (and a badass soundtrack). Extant digital copies are unlicensed and subject to the ever-horrid pan and scan technique. If The Haunting of Julia isn’t rescued via blu-ray, it is at real risk of falling into obscurity. – Meg Shields

4. Mr. Frost (1990)

Jeff Goldblum has found a late-career surge with quirky performances in blockbuster movies, and as much as we love them it’s worth remembering that he used to deliver far more varied characters in smaller films. One of the best — and least seen — is this grim psychological thriller that casts Goldblum as a confirmed serial killer who just might be something worse. The film is a twisting mind-game between Frost and those around him including a detective and a psychiatrist (Kathy Baker), and his identity and abilities are constantly in question. It’s a methodically paced thriller with supernatural undertones, and I’d love to see it reach a wider audience… perhaps with a commentary by Goldblum as Frost? – Rob Hunter

3. Ghostwatch (1992)

People love to troll found footage films, and it’s easy to see why. Ridicule is natural when something becomes as popular, and as over saturated, as the format. But what far few remember is how absolutely blood curdling that first found footage film you see can be. Is it real or is it strictly fiction? The format blurs the storytelling lines. But imagine watching something like Ghostwatch before this storytelling device was widely used. Imagine how terrifying a story can become when you earnestly think you’re watching a documentary. And that’s exactly what Ghostwatch did. Originally aired on BBC as a Halloween special with national treasure Michael Parkinson as host, Ghostwatch purports itself as being a real investigation into a haunting of a family. With CC cameras and a live crew capturing the paranormal activity, the creatives blurred the lines even deeper by insinuating that the haunting isn’t just real, but could affect you by merely watching the broadcast. It was so terrifying to UK audiences that it caused mass hysteria, ala Orson Welles War of the Worlds, and resulted in the BBC banning future airings of the special. With an uptick in popularity thanks to the streaming service Shudder, Ghostwatch deserves the Blu ray treatment and a spot in your home library. – Jacob Trussell

2. Martin (1978)

The late great George A. Romero is best remembered for giving new life to the zombie genre. But in an ironic twist, his favourite of his own films is about vampires. Or is it? That’s the ghoulish gambit of 1978’s Martin: is the awkward teen an immortal blood-sucker or just a serial killer in the vein of Richard Chase? A creepy and often tender meditation on alienation, Martin is critically beloved and criminally under-seen. The film’s downbeat tone and more somber sensibility might have something to do with this, but the rights situation (more of a fiscal standoff, really) is the main culprit. Martin is a neglected, socially-relevant masterpiece; a Blu-ray is long overdue. – Meg Shields

1. The Hitcher (1986)

When I discovered that The Hitcher had yet to receive the Blu-ray treatment, I was even more baffled than that day in 2016 where I woke up to find that an actual turd had been elected the President of the United States of America. This movie gave us one of the best horror villains of all time in the form of Rutger Hauer as a murderous hitch-hiker who makes life hell for travelers. Such a simple concept, with such perfect execution (and executions). The movie is so good that Michael Bay even saw enough dollar signs to produce a terrible remake in the 2000’s, which has its own Blu-ray release. – Kieran Fisher

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The funnest stuff you might’ve missed from Week 2 of college football

Follow here as you watch the games.

It’s the second week of the college football season. Saturday’s TV schedule is not loaded, as it usually isn’t when college competes with the first week of the NFL.

But good and fun things will happen throughout the day anyway. You can follow along with every FBS score here, and in this post we’ll curate some of the day’s best stuff.

Well Nebraska, that’s one way to lose.

In a renewal of a kinda rivalry game, Colorado beat Nebraska, 33-28. After a QB battle throughout the offseason, Nebraska looked like it had found its man ... but it didn’t end well.

Nebraska freshman quarterback Adrian Martinez had a brilliant game, completing 15 of 20 passes for 187 yards, a touchdown, and an interception, and running 15 times for 117 yards and two more scores. (He also lost a fumble.) A Martinez injury late in the fourth quarter forced the Huskers to play walk-on backup Andrew Bunch[.]

Nebraska actually came pretty close to winning this game. It had forced a 3rd and 24, and the Buffs looked like they were on their last gasp outside of field goal range. But an untimely penalty gave Colorado new life, and on the very next play, this happened:

CORRECTION : Mais quelle passe de QB Steven Montez pour WR Laviska Shenault Jr ! Les Buffaloes repassent devant à 1:06 de la fin ! Quelle fin de match ! Nebraska 28, Colorado 33pic.twitter.com/gRMiOMdAnK

— TBP College Football (@thebluepennant) September 8, 2018

That was the go-ahead score, and while Bunch was able to get the Huskers to the red zone, an errant throw as time expired was it for Nebraska in Scott Frost’s debut.

The best pics from the day

Not bad, Trevor Lawrence. Not bad at all.

In the game in place of Kelly Bryant, Lawrence wasted little time getting Clemson on the scoreboard again.

scoutkennedy: Trevor Lawrence showing off that 5-Star talent as Tee Higgins makes a great catch and run for a 64 yard TD pass. ESPN College Football: Clemson at Texas A&M https://t.co/GvdRfM172N pic.twitter.com/TqNhz2eBXE

— FanSportsClips (@FanSportsClips) September 8, 2018

A tale of two sports indeed.

Same sport pic.twitter.com/ivmGYlJ0mL

— College Football by SB Nation (@SBNationCFB) September 8, 2018

At this juncture, here was the offensive situation: “We’re up to 338 combined yards between both teams. An FCS QB currently has more than that by himself against Ole Miss.”

At least it got better after this because Iowa led a 13-play, 83-yard, drive that actually ended with a touchdown. Miracles happen.

How’s Larry Fedora’s memory now?

UNC’s head coach said he had no memory of the last time his team lost to ECU (the Pirates hung 70 on the Heels). So to refresh his memory, ECU beat North Carolina again.

The Pirates shutout North Carolina in the second half and @ECUPiratesFB wins its third straight in the series. #AmericanFB pic.twitter.com/REZw3HEcWC

— American Football (@American_FB) September 8, 2018

Tennessee fans getting meta.

You see, it’s fans throwing fans.

It’s raining fans. pic.twitter.com/mxbPAWzOUE

— David Ubben (@davidubben) September 8, 2018

#Topical

I'm a sick Duck, my feathers don't pluck. pic.twitter.com/BavPjmLQCN

— The Oregon Duck (@TheOregonDuck) September 8, 2018

(if you’re unfamiliar with the reference).

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Kansas — yes, that Kansas — won a road game.

The Jayhawks had not done so since the year of our Lord, 2009.

Oh my God, Navy.

What a touchdown run here.

What ? Incroyable TD au sol de QB Malcolm Perry pour Navy face à Memphis. Plusieurs juke moves sur l'action. pic.twitter.com/evZATKyqNa

— TBP College Football (@thebluepennant) September 8, 2018

The turnover chain movement continues.

This is a new one.

Turnover Beads ❌ Turnover Throne ❌ Touchdown....Elmer's Glue Chain ✅ (@SHU__Football) pic.twitter.com/m96zd3oQnn

— Stadium (@WatchStadium) September 8, 2018

This ref in Georgia-South Carolina got rocked.

At least give my man half a tackle on the stat sheet.

Nobody wanted to sit by this guy at the William & Mary-Virginia Tech game.

Something this guy said? #Hokies pic.twitter.com/ohFbr2zYcP

— Justin Lemkul (@JustinLemkulVT) September 8, 2018

This good dog appeared at the same game.

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The dog’s name is Bean. It belongs to a Hokie cheerleader.

Eastern Michigan is the first MAC team to RAISE THE JOLLY ROGER

During the offseason, MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher did a thing ...

“I have provided a MAC Jolly Roger flag to each institution have asked they after each victory, home or away, that the flag be run up the flag pole and remain there until the next game.” - Commissioner Steinbrecher #FlyTheFlag #MACtion pic.twitter.com/J7gvvk8OCy

— #MACtion (@MACSports) July 24, 2018

... and after Eastern Michigan beat Purdue, they get the honors of raising the flag first.

This Houston player had a tremendous flop, or something.

94 wasn't ready pic.twitter.com/uWD54niLeo

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 8, 2018

This Division III game featuring Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. had some horticultural maintenance issues.

Gotta turn the sprinklers off, folks.

This is happening. #d3fb pic.twitter.com/WPvVEZ2jp3

— D3football.com (@d3football) September 8, 2018

Maybe the best game of the day was played by ...

Georgia Tech and USF!

They played a fun one in Tampa with nine lead changed, 87 points, and 1,124 total yards of offense. QB Blake Barnett — previously of Bama and Arizona State — sealed the deal with this touchdown showing off his legs.

Barnett went 21-31 for 202 yards through the air. He added 91 yards on 16 carries on the ground.

Florida State honored Burt Reynolds in an awesome way.

They parked the car from Smokey And The Bandit right outside the stadium.

You’ll be missed, Buddy. pic.twitter.com/aQyNOyqNDk

— FSU Football (@FSUFootball) September 8, 2018

The Colorado Buffaloes ran this smooth trick play — a reverse toss-back pass to the QB, which became a 28-yard throw down the left sideline.

TRICK PLAY ALERT pic.twitter.com/oW7sQBi8U9

— TBP College Football (@thebluepennant) September 8, 2018

A Ball State fan created a very self-aware shirt.

Meet Joe Migas. He's a Ball State alum, but a Notre Dame fan. Migas created the idea for the "Catholics vs. "C" Students" t-shirt after throwing back a few drinks with some friends on a Thursday night. The shirts have been a hot commodity at the Notre Dame vs. Ball State tailgate pic.twitter.com/rLIO71eiOY

— Jack Williams (@jackgwilliams) September 8, 2018

Listen, it’s always better to tease yourself before somebody else teases you.

Here is a bug on a camera lens at the Drake-Montana game.

breaking news: giant insects have taken over mount sentinel prayers up pic.twitter.com/KOOkxAIN3e

— Ric Sanchez (@rcsanchez93) September 8, 2018

Clemson showed up to College Station in style to play Texas A&M.

As they say in Aggieland: Howdy.

Clemson showed up in College Station wearing cowboy hats (via @ClemsonFB) pic.twitter.com/RCihIHbotU

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 7, 2018

Oklahoma’s Marquise “Hollywood Brown” ruined multiple UCLA defenders’ afternoons on this 58-yard catch-and-run touchdown from Kyler Murray:

treydaubert: Kyler Murray hits Marquise Brown for TD Fox College Football: UCLA at Oklahoma https://t.co/wHYyB8Bl76 pic.twitter.com/107mMzflq6

— FanSportsClips (@FanSportsClips) September 8, 2018

I urge you to look at this Duke punter’s mustache mouthguard.

Mouth guard of the year goes to Duke’s punter. #forthebrand @RedditCFB pic.twitter.com/bz0PIJMXAr

— Jacob Schauf (@jacobschauf) September 8, 2018

This isn’t really “fun,” but it is weird: Liberty’s punter got ejected for a vicious targeting hit against Army.

This was mega-targeting:

Russell Westbrook, Trae Young, and Buddy Hield appeared at UCLA-Oklahoma in Norman, repping their various alma maters.

Here’s Westbrook milling around:

Russell Westbrook reppin @UCLAFootball in Norman #FOXFieldPass pic.twitter.com/2YsN6Ttbr8

— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) September 8, 2018

High-five, Kansas State kicker!

Blake Lynch #KStateFB pic.twitter.com/JSvdWtYFrj

— K-State Football (@KStateFB) September 8, 2018

College GameDay included a Make-a-Wish recipient, Owen Gray, serving as the show’s guest picker.

He picked home team Texas A&M to beat Clemson and then likened Lee Corso his “crazy uncle.”

“(Corso) is like my crazy uncle.” - @MakeAWish participant Owen to @KirkHerbstreit pic.twitter.com/ufK8Hd41Tz

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 8, 2018

Also at GameDay, these two Aggie signs ethered Texas.

Mr. Herman ... I don’t feel so good pic.twitter.com/1CahBYax7E

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 8, 2018

Never miss an opportunity to troll Texas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/GlxnfeaLsi

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 8, 2018

On Friday night, TCU-SMU became a Slip N Slide after lots of rain.

The Horned Frogs wound up winning in a romp, but not before this utterly doomed punt attempt ...

Not quite the WKU punter effort from last season but close from TCU here leading to the safety pic.twitter.com/Rhch9ad1KV

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) September 8, 2018

... and whatever you’d consider this absurdity:

These fans enjoyed the elements, at least:

People are sliding down the SMU endzone hill like a slip-n-slide. pic.twitter.com/x2266KpBpj

— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) September 8, 2018

SMU brought out a turnover chalice.

SMU celebrating with a turnover chalice. next play TCU gets a turnover and scores lmao pic.twitter.com/B8wqlwRH5U

— nick (@nick_pants) September 8, 2018

This post will be updated as more fun stuff occurs, which it always does.

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The tenth card in the FrostSpark Collection was revealed by Santosvella. The 2-cost item in the red Strength attribute gives +2/+0 and has a special Summon ability: The wielder deals 2 damage to itself and another creature. The card art is amazing and the premium version of the card will hopefully see a cool red-orange glow-effect around the sword.

If you play the Sword on a creature with 2 health or less, the special ability will kill your creature. This would not be particularly helpful to gain the +2/+0 and is obviously not the intended use of the card ;). However, a creature with Last Gasp might give you some additional effect that you might prefer to get. Usually, you want your creature to survive to deal the damge, so you might want to run Sword of Inferno in a deck with creatures with 3 health or more. Ideally, these would come with Slay or Drain effects to benefit from the 2 damage being dealt to another creature.

Another awesome use for Sword of Inferno is to put it on creatures with Ward that benefit from the Ward being broken, e.g. Daggerfall Mage, Breton Conjurer or Iliac Sorcerer.

If you equip a Breakthrough creature with the Sword, you might even land a single point of Breakthrough damage when hitting a creature with 1 health. Why am I mentioning this? Because Crusader fans just got a cool new synergy.

But before we look at synergy, let’s run this new card through the various phases of the game, using Quadrant Theory.

Quadrant Theory

Opening

As with every item, you need to have a creature on the board to be able to play it. With a cost of 2, Sword of Inferno is perfectly playable during Opening, but you should be careful to not kill your own creatures and have enough 1/3’s or 2/3’s in your deck to benefit from the +2/+0 burst and the 2 damage removal option. The ward synergy with Daggerfall Mage or Breton Conjurer give you the benefit of their Ward being broken, a 2-damage removal option and with a Wardcrafter or Lesser Ward in hand you can do some really powerful plays during the game opening.

Note, also, that the item would allow you to remove an opponent’s creature that is hidden in the Shadowlane. Good bye, Graystone Ravager and Bog Lurcher…

Parity

At Parity, Sword of the Inferno can help remove one smaller creature, while the +2/+0-boosted creature can trade favourably into another. If the Sword leave you with a 2-for-1 trade and retain another higher value creature undamaged, then you have just made a good play and helped to stay at Parity or potentially got on the road to be winning the game.

Winning

When winning, the +2/+0 gives additional burst and the removal is also an interesting option to avoid more trades and keep board control. In this phase the card is not a monster, but can help for a good cost to deal more damage over the final 2-3 turns.

Losing

When you need a turnaround, your opponent will have some bigger threats or multiple smaller threats on the board. In the second case, the Sword can help in removing and trading against two creatures. In the first case, you might not be able to get a 2:1 trade as the 2 damage will likely not be enough to kill that bigger threat. However, with some synergy to Ice Storm (or other lane removal) or Breton Conjurer, you might find some good value even in this phase of the game. Not to forget the option to use this card on a Drain creature to regain some life while damaging another creature and giving you better trade option.

Summary

You will definitely want to experiment with this very versatile card in the upcoming season and it will likely see consistent play over the longer term. It has value in all quadrants and can swing the game in your favour during Opening. It might become a staple in Battlemage decks that are running Daggerfall Mage and Breton Conjurer. Let’s look for more synergies for the Sword of the Inferno to find some other decks it might be considered for.

Synergies

Ward

Iliac Sorcerer

Assassin’s Ritual

Daggerfall Mage

Breton Conjurer

Any creature with Ward will be protected from the 2 damage. In Warrior, you can play Iliac Sorcerer on turn one, play the Sword of the Inferno on him, and swing with 6/1 on turn two.

In Dagoth or Battlemage, you can use it on Daggerfall Mage or Breton Conjurer and leverage other creatures or supports to regain the Ward.

In Dagoth, there is a huge opportunity to equip a (Slay!) creature with Assassin’s Ritual and kill a large threat hiding in the Shadowlane. Great value!

Crusader’s Assault

Crusader’s Assault is a great card to draw two cards. If you have 5 magicka, you can play Crusader’s Assault and then Sword of the Inferno on the same creature to remove a 1-health creature this will draw two cards. You can then swing into another creature to draw another two cards. You can use Forsworn Looter as tutor for the item and Silent Pilgrim to tutor a Crusader’s Assault.

Drain

Ebonheart Oracle

Apex Wolf

Nightshadow

Drain synergy gives the Sword of the Inferno a great ability to regain life in the same turn it is played. You would need a higher health drain creature like Apex Wolf, Undying Dragon, Ebonheart Oracle or Nightshadow to allow the drain creature to survive. Particularly Ebonheart Oracle will be a cool target for Sword of Inferno before it swings – it becomes a 5/5, deals 2 damage to a creature, 2 damage to itself and can swing for 5: this makes for a life gain of 18 (thanks to Of_Moon_And_Stars for pointing this out).

Slay

Merchant’s Camel

Falkreath Defiler

The Black Dragon

Brotherhood Slayed

Lucien Lachance

Child of Hircine

In a Warrior deck with Falkreath Defiler, Sword of Inferno can do absolutely broken things on turn 5, assuming your Indoril Masterminds or Merchants Camels were able to get a Frost Giant, an Iron Atronach, a Gortwog gro-Nagorm, an Aspect of Hircine or something equally fun into your discard pile, by then.

Lucien Lachance is a Friend of Sword of the Inferno, and putting them into the hands of Night Talon Lord or Blood Magic Lord will give them some good times as well.

In Archer, Dagoth or Hlaalu, there are also great cards with synergy: Astrid, Brotherhood Slayer, Pahmar-raht Renegade, Naryu Virian, Torval Extortionist, Black Dragon, Child of Hircine, Wild Fire Dragon to name a few.

Flaggelation Creatures

Fletcherfly Golem

Fearless Northlander

Fighters Guild Hall

Frost Troll

Brassilisk

Raging Horker

Gridstlehide Dreugh

Another interesting option is to equip Sword of the Inferno to Flaggelation creatures. When taking damage, Flaggelation creatures grow in power or trigger a special effect. Good examples are Fletcherfly Golem or Fearless Northlander in Strength or Frost Troll and a health-boosted Brassilisk in Endurance. The card draw effect of Gristlehide Dreugh might make him an option for inclusion in such “self-ping” or flaggelation decks.

Last Gasp

The Last Gasp effect of several creatures can be triggered by the item as well. However, unless the Cruel Firebloom / Balmora Spymaster combo, the positive +2/+0 effect of Sword of the Inferno is lost, when the creature dies. Some Warrior decks might like the 5 health gained by Restless Templar, and the Sword of Inferno could be a nice trigger for this on the same turn to survive one turn longer. Otherwise, I am not convinced that the Sword of the Inferno is the most cost effective way to trigger a Last Gasp effect, as you can usually trade into something.

Summary

Definitely a great card for midrange Battlemage, due to the Ward-synergy. It can have cool uses in Warrior, Crusader and might become a stable in Slay decks. It will be very interesting to see the Sword of the Inferno in the meta tonight…

FrostSpark #10 - A look at uses and synergies of Sword of the Inferno on tesl.blog. It is an extremely versatile card!What do you think about Crusader's Assault + Sword for a draw of 4 cards? #teslegends The tenth card in the FrostSpark Collection was revealed by Santosvella. The 2-cost item in the red Strength attribute gives +2/+0 and has a special Summon ability: The wielder deals 2 damage to itself and another creature.

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