A Robber Held Up A Well-dressed Man, Pointing His Gun And Yelling, “Give Me All Your Money!”

Often, I find with my ADHD, I'll be wanting to do something fun all day, like play that one game I've gotten fixated on. Yet, I'll never get the drive to actually do it, even if I go and try to force it, I'll stop 5 minutes later.

Until like an hour before I have to do something else really important, like go to class or go to work, or sleep. SUDDENLY, my brain is like, "Hey, d'you know what'd be fun?"

"Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum" God, I love that name so much.

Ya Ever See That Trope Where:

The big bad guy's plan to destroy the world turns out to be unfeasible but he's still gonna, like, blow up a city? Like his plan was to blow up a city and that would somehow blow up the world but that's somewhat not gonna happen. Now the protags still have to rush to save the city because the bbg is still gonna through with it. Possibly with a withdrawal of resources now that the world isn't at risk.

Been thinking of this ever since your "Save The World" Tropetalk. Especially how the audience will often go "Well, there is no way they'll go through with it" when the world is at stake.

It's a common final stage of bossfights! Our heroes enact a complex multistage collaborative plan to foil the villains' overarching scheme, but after that succeeds they still need to escape the exploding base or have one final fight on a crumbling catwalk or some similarly dramatic final encounter with their personal survival at stake. It can actually be narratively higher-stakes than the Saving The World part, because once our heroes have ensured the world is saved, the narrative doesn't need them to survive to the end, so it's technically possible for them to go out in a phyrric victory.

The crumbling of their machinations can lead to a Villainous Breakdown. When the villain's defeat leads to the base exploding as the final threat, that's a Load-Bearing Boss. When the villain actively chooses to initiate one last dangerous confrontation even though their overarching plans were foiled, that's Taking You With Me. A villain who wanted to rule the world but will now settle for destroying it might initiate a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.

Quoll

“We’re so divided as a nation, we’re so divided as a world, but the one thing that brings us together always is love and smiles and comedy and an outside family that makes you feel a part of it.”

— Andy Greene (The Office: The Untold Story of The Greatest Sitcoms of the 2000s)

this should not have gagged me as hard as it did

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Today's Seal Is: Some Kind Of Wuppy

I'm usually somewhat negative when it comes to writing, unfortunately. Up until I have to give constructive criticism to someone else, then I'm just like,

"A masterpiece, it could never be more perfect than it is now."

And I'm just like. Why brain? Why can't you be this positive with MY stuff?

Epic the Musical: Tournament Bracket!

Week 1: Match 4