"Will it sting?"

Art for Chapter 1 of my new zosan fic 'Because It's You'

here on ao3

wednesday wip? 💃🕺🕺🕺💃💃💃💃🕺💃🕺🕺🕺💃🕺🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺🕺

no wipwed today, because i’m hoping to have a full chapter for you within the week 🙏💪

I don't know if it's a bug or intentional, but rapid fire weapons are really bad for stagger in AC6 because for some reason their low Cumulative Stagger rating causes the stagger to fall off faster in addition to causing less persistent stagger to begin with. So if you keep sustained fire up, the stagger from your older bullets will fall off in between shots, causing the target to not actually gain more stagger. I have experienced more than a few moments where my target began regenerating stagger while I was shooting them with the minigun because the stagger of the bullets that hit them 3 seconds ago has already worn off, despite taking constant fire.

Conversely, weapons with high Cumulative Stagger rating both cause more stagger per hit AND the stagger lasts longer, so single shot or low capacity weapons aren't even hindered by having to reload or overheating because the stagger they inflict reliably sticks throughout their downtime.

It creates this weird situation where the game just. Kind of lies to you by saying that rapid fire/automatic weapons are good for applying stagger and preventing enemies from recovering when that is just not what happens. I expect you can somewhat compensate for this by using dual trigger builds with two automatic weapons to double that stagger build before the Cumulative falloff, but it's still a bizarre issue that makes full auto weapons just markedly worse than single shot and burst weapons. Once I switched from the minigun to the Zimmerman shotgun, fights that gave me trouble were a cakewalk, and enemies consistently staggered, whereas the minigun had me tearing my hair out as enemies hovered at like 90% stagger while I unloaded on them.

If you're having trouble with full auto weapons, just try out a grenade launcher or shotgun and see if things get better.

Having never played rdr1, switching from Arthur to John was hard and it took me about 100hours just to get used to him and another 100 to grow fond of him. But now he is my special boy just like Arthur. 🧡

Here's a reminder that Frank does not have adhd or dyslexia like most demigods, so he was stuck on the Argo II with at least five to six other teenagers with adhd at all times. I wonder what that was like for him...

so you’re telling me katsuki fell down in a river and izuku reached a hand out, izuku almost fell down in the rain and katsuki caught him in his arms and held him. is that what you’re telling me. and katsuki though izuku was looking down on him and izuku was thinking katsuki couldn’t keep up. and katsuki thought he was better than izuku and izuku spent his whole life chasing after katsuki. and

I have no idea why nobody points out that Bakugou was the one who outed Izuku as involved with the All for One and One for All conflict in front of All for One’s spy.  

Always imagining bashir and garak's politically tense trophy-husband-4-trophy-husband wedding to end all weddings bc knowing Richard Bashit he probably invited himself in expecting his son to get married to some human woman but NO hes slow dancing to Vic Fontaine's rendition of The Spy Who Loved Me with this elderly reptile bloke (probably wearing an outfit involving white fur and gold lamé (this is my vision ok shut up)) and when julian passive-agressively introduces them Garak is grinning and staring straight at him without blinking as he offers his hand and is all like Charmed, I'm Sure 🙂 and its enough to make anyone shit themselves. During their speeches Sisko and Miles are desperatly trying to find anecdotes about the happy couple that don't involve their war crimes or medical malpractice. Mila is watching everything from afar like the queen at a football match. Kirayoshi is crying incessantly throughout. A merry time is had by few.

My MC had flirted with everyone differently in a run.

Ash (clueless)

Rin (bold)

Santana (shy)

Skylar (tsundere)

It was pretty cool how it still felt natural despite all four being so different from one another. I could even go into detail about the how and why of it all, but I don't want to write a whole essay.

Anyway, we got chapter 6.

Good god, my MC felt like a little rabbit at the cafe. Felt like they were seated between two dragons (very strong Ash & Rin poly vibes between them, I must say), whilst a tiger (Skylar was target locked and ready to launch) sat across. But then Santana's reaction was just... I felt sooooo bad for them! T.T Seeing their self-esteem basically crumble right in front of us made me go and play a Santana exclusive run just to give them a boost.

Time to wait for the next update now though, will likely spend it with a few more run throughs.

😂 It is pretty tense. Ash and Rin are prepared to put aside their differences to drive Skylar away 🤭 Santana is smart enough to not really get involved in this battle of the giants, I suppose 😆

In actuality, Santana’s thought is more like, “So, an heir of one of the biggest criminal families in the city, a very loyal and devoted enforcer, and a famous superhero who also happens to be the child of the mayor, all vie for MC’s affection. There’s no way I’d be able to win. Not even a shot.”

And then they just sulk and mourn their bad luck in just everything 😭

me ascending listening to the kid icarus uprising ost

Bakugo Katsuki.

I want to bully him.

there are already roughly a million posts like this already circulating, but man. just. sometimes you really do have to step away from something you're working on and come back to it later.

creative buds, please. please. no one is worse at taking my advice than i am, believe me, but seriously, if you've been feeling down or frustrated or stumped with something you've been working on lately, take this as your sign to maybe take a little break. a week, a month, whatever. you've been looking at it too long, you've read it too many times, you've erased that same line so many times you've lost count - you need to come back to it with a rested brain and fresh eyes.

however rough it feels to you now, i promise, promise, promise that it'll feel so much better after a little distance. <3

A slip of the tongue…it was 💥

detail shot from my latest art piece!

on a somewhat related note, I think "He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western" by Roderick McGillis should be required reading for every cowboy enthusiast. The book is primarily concerned with 1940s B-westerns, but I think the insights apply to other westerns as well.

Like, uh, there's an entire chapter dedicated to analyzing guns as fetish objects. McGillis breaks down how guns are symbols of manhood, control, desire, repression, etc... it's phenomenal genre study.

Anyways-- lately, I've thinking a lot about the gun fetish chapter and the inherent homoeroticism of gunslinger rivalries. so... mantimer fanart!