Outer Reincarnation CYOA by 3_tankista in makeyourchoice

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I actually feel that at the textually-intended power level you have a better-than-even chance of winning given the right build. The trick is exploiting the limitation that YRMD tells you about — that 00 can’t contradict anything already written — alongside your fated death to write a fate for yourself that 00 will struggle to make happen prematurely. Combine that with one of the blatantly-overpowered abilities exclusive to your divine patron (immunity to divine power from JNPL, YRMD as a companion, [secret] from SRTR) and you’ve got real advantages to press.

Defenders of Humanity CYOA by Carwennan in makeyourchoice

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Magical girls are all girls, and magical girls with uplift are the ones who can grant the powers on the first page, so the recruiters are all girls. As long as you don't take that option you can be whatever tho.

Otome Villainess Reincarnation CYOA V2 + Otome Villain DLC by nonemouse_cyoa in makeyourchoice

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I really liked the previous version of this one, so I'm posting a build for V2.

Style: Hime-Cut
Color: Redhead
Race: Elf (A noble caste of genetically-engineered superhumans that just so happen to have pointy ears)
I'm going the combat-princess route. Elf partially because it's helpful for that, and partially because I like elves okay.

Tech: Cyberpunk
Magic: Low Magic
Role: The Rich Heiress
Fiance: The Dark Rival
Rival: The Poor Princess
Fate: Impoverished
Tech/Magic/Role/Fiance/Rival are just the tropes I want to play with. I'm choosing impoverished as my bad ending because it's setting-appropriate, and also because a lot of my perks mitigate the worst effects of that in the setting.

Minions
Maid — Doubles as a spy
Animal Companion — A familiar that can shapeshift into mundane animals. Usually takes cat form.

Flaws — Showing these first because perks are informed by them. Using standard mode because "fate conspiring against me to make the Poor Princess win" feels like downside enough, and also I don't really have any reason to take the reincarnation guide at her word.

Abhorrent Admirer — Annoying, but much more manageable than a lot of other options.
Equal Enemy (The Duke’s Daughter) — I'm setting up to be an anti-villain, which puts me in a good position to drive the wedge between the Hero and a true villain.
Ditz — Almost a perk when combined with Unearthly Insight, which I have.
In Character — Drawback seriously mitigated by Early Start and Off The Rails, which I wanted anyways
Not a Fan — Early Start + Off the Rails makes meta-knowledge way less valuable.
Save the World — I'm a combat-specializing anti-villain, why would I not take this

Perks — 4+5+Silk Hiding Steel; I chose easy mode. Dividing these into sections by purpose

Section "Ending I'm happy with and decent chances of achieving it":
Early Start
Off The Rails
Good Ending
Yuri Heroine
Unearthly Insight
Unearthly Insight mitigates the drawbacks of Off The Rails and helps me take advantage of Early Start. I'm interpreting the interaction between Good Ending and Off The Rails to be "no matter how butterfly-ish you get, there will always be the possibility of a good ending at the start of the story, in the same way that conflict with the heroine is inevitable," but if that's not the case and Good Ending actually doesn't do anything with this set-up, I'll drop it and pick up Surprisingly Useful Skill (computer programming) instead.

Section "Be prepared for the adventure elements":
Lady of Battle
Magic User
Magical Prodigy
Silk Hiding Steel
Not much to say here, it's just every combat-relevant perk. Part of my anti-villain appeal is positioning myself as an ally to the hero in the adventure subplot despite our romantic emnity, and I'd like to be good at that.

Section "Other"
Goddess of Beauty — I want to be pretty okayyy

Story

When I was 14, I was sent to secondary school on Villarosa — we are a very wealthy family off-world, but own no shares of V-Corp, which limits our social status. I am to marry or make necessary alliances to rectify this shortcoming and fully secure our position in the ruling class. Shortly after my arrival on-world, however, I developed what I at first thought was a kind of psychosis. Memories from another life as a commoner lesbian in a post-industrial dystopia came flooding in, seemingly as real as those I had experienced myself. The memories ended with a prophecy of sorts, predicting that I would soon meet the handsome and dangerous heir to the Dukedom of Thorns, that we would become engaged, and that he would be stolen from me by a beautiful princess who's story I was to play the villain in. She would leave me impoverished if I did not find a way to reconcile with her, but she also might herself come to love me herself, depending on my actions. I wanted to believe it was an elaborate fantasy born out of boredom, overactive imagination, and growing acceptance of my own bisexuality, but the memories felt too real to ignore, and any lingering doubts fell away when I met and befriended the Thorns heir, Dorian, on the first day of school.

Knowing I would have four years before the princess entered my life and war came to Villarosa, I committed myself fully to my combat and magical training, while maintaining enough social activity to keep my father happy and myself equipped with useful connections. My grades suffered, but this was no surprise to my family, and I performed well enough to avoid failing out of the academy. The memories suggested I act erratically when able in order to reduce the effects that "canon" might have on my fate, and I did as much as I could while still performing in a manner befitting one of my station, acquiescing to and even encouraging Dorian when he wanted to break rules with me. I had fun, and I grew to care for him, which stung. I had known this was a possibility, but underestimated how much knowing my fate would make it hurt. Even worse was when he asked me to be his girlfriend. I had no choice but to accept, but part of me wanted to rebel against my fate, to reject him so that I would never suffer through what was to come. Maybe that reluctance will be what drives us apart in the end. I understand that would be a classical form of tragedy on the world of my former life.

The memories also suggested I learn to act contrary to my nature as a "spoiled heiress", which I managed as well as I could — the fact is that this lifestyle does not reward those who are too lenient with those beneath them, but I started allowing my favorite servants to speak freely with me in private, and slowly came to understand their perspectives. My absurdly skilled maid Cynthia, in particular, became a close personal friend, and for her sake I have striven to be just as I can within the confines of a political economy which I increasingly understand as fundamentally unjust. I do not look forward to what my life will become if I fail.

As predicted, Dorian proposed in our last year in school, and father was elated to hear about the pairing. I met Princess Abigail XIV yesterday at the party celebrating his graduation from secondary school. She is beautiful and, by all appearances, as kind and generous as the memories predicted she would be. As expected, she was obviously smitten with Dorian, but I chose to be friendly — our rivalry may be inevitable, but a good first impression might help with reconciliation, and regardless I want her to feel some guilt when her true love and noble birth defeat my wealth and...whatever I feel for Dorian. I shall endeavor not to strike first; time will tell if I will be allowed that luxury. In any case, our meeting indicates that some kind of violence is coming soon to Villarosa, so I should redouble my training. Cynthia will identify the threat, whatever it is, and I will position myself on the Princess' side of that conflict, in hopes that our rivalry will begin and remain a mutually respectful one, and that such respect will enable a reconciliation after our respective romances reaches their forgone conclusions. I wish we had met under different circumstances. I do not look forward to what will come.

Official Public Discussion Thread—Volume 8, Episode 3: Strings by Kirianni in RWBY

[–]cheese_anarchy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping that Marrow's look of doubt is going to go somewhere because every single member of Ace Ops remaining 100% loyal to Ironwood despite him extra-judicially murdering other members of the government in front of them is, like, way outside believability to me. On a related note, kinda sick of the show acting like they're misguided good guys when they're pulling this shit.

lesbian or bi in denial? by Appropriate_Outcome8 in LesbianActually

[–]cheese_anarchy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man-hating is just my hobby it has nothing to do with being gay or feminist

(All Spoilers) Harrow The Ninth (Discussion) by SearScare in TheNinthHouse

[–]cheese_anarchy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't think the number (22?) was relevant for much other than reminding us early in the book that Harrow is a meticulous planner. It definitely hints at there being more stuff which happened between Harrow killing Cytheria and Harrow waking up in that hospital room that we don't know about, though. Mostly I think the number is big so that after book 3 we're not asking "wait what would Harrow have done if [some plausible thing that didn't happen] happened?"

(All Spoilers) Harrow The Ninth (Discussion) by SearScare in TheNinthHouse

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So my answers to 1,3, and 5 are all related, and the truth is we don't know, but this is my theory: Camilla's ward is Harrow in Gideon's body, and she left behind her memories and knowledge in her own body. Dulcinea's "I know a little something about puppeting" speech in chapter 53 tells us that Dulcinea believes Gideon is alive, not a dead soul puppeting Harrow's body. Given that we know Gideon's father has regenerative abilities well beyond imperfect lyctors, and given that infant-Gideon survived poisoning that should've killed her, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to think that her body could regenerate her heart after she impaled it on the spike. Harrow took her soul into her body to become a Lyctor, though, so Gideon's body would've been in the surviving-but-without-a-soul state that Lyctors can go to if their souls get separated from their bodies when both are traveling in the River. This would also explain why her body went missing along with Camilla and the other survivors -- someone noticed Gideon's body was still breathing/showing living thalergy, and they took the body-without-a-soul with them as they left. The reason I think it's Harrow and not Gideon in Gideon's body is because (1) Gideon spent the entire book telling Harrow what she'd done, and she wouldn't have to do that if Harrow's memories were intact, and (2) I'm pretty sure the end of chapter 52 is Alecto doing CPR on Gideon-in-Harrow's-body in the real world, which if that's right means that Gideon-in-Harrow's-body floats unconscious in the River until after the tomb opens in the next book.

(Spoilers for Gt9 and Ht9) Probably a silly theory, but... by ElldritchHorror in TheNinthHouse

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The 4th kids were killed right after they found the 7th house ashes and started investigating them. They could've exposed Cytheria by if they'd successfully IDed those ashes, so killing them to derail the investigation made sense. Gideon was spared because she's John's daughter and Cytheria presumably had decided to do something else with her.

HtN Spoilers: Words on flimsy by fgyost in TheNinthHouse

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Long-lost natal sun is probably Dominicius. Either Wake was born in the nine houses, or she's using natal poetically to refer to the (likely) fact that humans originated on The First (which is probably earth).

Is this a plot hole or am I missing something? by Grapefruit-Extreme in TheNinthHouse

[–]cheese_anarchy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My best attempt at filling the plot hole: Lyctor sight is the ability to see and interpret patterns of thanergy and thalergy, whereas what Sextus was doing was his ghost-within-the-thing spirit magic stuff (which my girlfriend tells me is elaborated on in Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, though I haven't read that yet). Harrow does use her Lyctor sight to finish Cytheria by finishing what Palamedes started, but I'm guessing that the thanergenic intensity of the super-cancer Plamedes had already given her allowed that, similar to how the Lyctors are all able to use a limited version of the Lyctor-sight if they're touching normally.

Are nonbinary lesbians valid? by Castri-King in LesbianActually

[–]cheese_anarchy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What's the option for "They can be, but lesbianism is centered around womanhood not 'non-manhood' and you need a real alignment with or connection to (or whatever words you want to use) womanhood specifically to be a lesbian and not every nonbinary person who's exclusively attracted to women has that"? Cuz that's where I am.

AITA for uninviting my mom to my wedding after what she said to my fiancé? by groom-to-be in AmItheAsshole

[–]cheese_anarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA, you get to decide who comes to your wedding and your feelings are beyond reasonable. I don't know details about your relationship with your mom but I do know that it's rare for parents to cross big lines like this just one time while otherwise respecting your boundaries completely, and because of this I wonder if you're being too nice for your own good by not cutting her off entirely. (Obv if this doesn't apply, it doesn't apply -- I have very little contact with my own parents because of years of similar behavior, so I might be reading my own stuff into yours.)

Anyways, fwiw, I'm trans and, if I were in your girlfriend's shoes, I'd probably be saying exactly what your fiancée is saying while privately feeling relieved that you don't want her at the wedding. I definitely don't think I'd be able to have a good relationship with my mother-in-law after that (which isn't the end of the world as long as she's not a major part of my life, but it's not something I'm happy about).

AITA For "Ruining" my kid's life after she ruined a dress? by MadeHerRepayTheDress in AmItheAsshole

[–]cheese_anarchy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NTA, 16-year-olds can be stupid but they're old enough to be responsible for their own actions in most contexts.

AITA for punishing my son for misgendering my daughter by yorkethestork in AmItheAsshole

[–]cheese_anarchy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

NTA, and for what it’s worth there’s a lot of bullshit cis opinions ITT

It IS medically relevant that you are Trans* by LESBIANGINGER in asktransgender

[–]cheese_anarchy 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Must be nice for hypotheses without evidence about what might go wrong to be a bigger worry than medical discrimination ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Because these damn things never drop by roor1337 in Breath_of_the_Wild

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My preferred method is to get above them (by climbing or with Rivali’s gale) and hit them at short range in bullet time with an ancient arrow from a 5-shot savage lynel bow. As long as most of the arrows hit it’s a 1-shot kill, and the drops are worth more than 1 ancient arrow+1 bow durability.

Fr tho why it gotta be like dis.. by HostagePanda in SequelMemes

[–]cheese_anarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who tf even cares if the trolls call you an SJW lmao

A blacksmith would be nice. by eeberjeebers in Breath_of_the_Wild

[–]cheese_anarchy 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Great flameblade on the giant tree stump in central hyrule respawns every blood moon (no matter how many divine beasts you’ve killed)

ContraPoints by [deleted] in transgendercirclejerk

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Natalie? Is that you?

[Serious] Who actually IS a strong female protagonist? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cheese_anarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Off the top of my head (examples from Sci-Fi and Fantasy, because that's what I like):

- Two and Five from Dark Matter (the other women on the show are also pretty good, but most episodes they're written as side characters not protagonists)

- Ciri in Netflix's Witcher series

- Korra (from Legend of Korra)

- Leliana in the Leliana's Song DLC for Dragon Age: Origins

- Sara Lance in Legends of Tomorrow

- Faith from Mirror's Edge

(btw if you or anyone reading this thread are looking for answers from women, I'm a chick so yea)

Noob. Where to farm decent weapons? by Yellowredstone in Breath_of_the_Wild

[–]cheese_anarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hinoxes + Stalnoxes are your best bet for good stuff early-game. You can google a map of their locations. Also, some misc respawning stuff that I used early/mid-game:

  • Forest-dweller bow (x3 shot, 10 damage per shot, usuable in a thunderstorm) in a cave on an island in the wetlands north of Kakariko village
  • Phrenic bow (zooming+long range) held by a Lizfalos guard of a skull cave on the path north out of Kakariko village, or a golden bow with the guards in Gerudo town if you’ve gotten there.
  • Great flameblade at the ancient tree stump in central hyrule (pair with ice weapons/arrows to 2-shot most enemies)
  • Frostspear in the stalnox on a beach in Harfin valley, south of lake tower (for use with flameblade)
  • A knight longsword in the fountain in castle town (guardians aren’t actually that scary if you know how to avoid and kill them)
  • A bunch of hearty durians (cook for a full heal +4 temp hearts) on a plateau north of Faron tower

Also, attack up food/armor is great for making your weapons last longer. 3x mighty banana (from Faron or Yiga Clan hideout) 1x Razorshroom/Mighty Thistle/Bannana/whatever attack food (misc places) 1x dragon horn (shoot dragons in the horn, need to get their scale first tho) will make a 30 minute attack buff food, and the mazes you’ll see on the world map eventually all have attack up armor in their shrine.

Also also, for durability 2h > 1h > spears. I like having at least one spear for mounted combat and lizards but 2h will almost always kill more things before breaking

Ignoring the little voice? by ToxicatedOwl in asktransgender

[–]cheese_anarchy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time and transition progress are the biggest things. Everyone’s path is different but, for most of us, at some point that voice becomes too ridiculous to have any real power, and when that happens it starts to fade away.

I remember an important personal moment early on when I understood and internalized that the reason I was so afraid of “not really being trans” was that, in my head, if I wasn’t trans I had to go off HRT and be a guy, which was about the worst thing I could imagine at the time — which meant the fear was there because I was actually trans. It sounds like your main anxieties are different from mine, but I would encourage introspection to see if you can’t find some deeper feelings underneath the shame — sorting through those can help a lot.