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this cat from the Dark Ages: Vampire rulebook gets me every time

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this coiled, regal purple flask, when held to your eye, shows a view of the stars inside that looks familiar. except, the constellations look different, slightly-off in shape and looking mostly reversed, implying the view is from another point in the universe, and a small part of you gets the feeling it’s looking right at the planet you’re on from a forlornly long distance.

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THIS. THIS. THIS. SO REAL!!!! andi has come a long way since they remembered everything that was done to them. ae’ve met a lot of other people who survived the room, though, and gotten to learn how to feel everything the technocracy meant to deny them all forever, from love to courage to joy of living :)

DON’T FORGET YOU’RE HERE FOREVER !

ft. my ex-voider who’s seen the inside of room 101 more times than any sane person should <3

the quote used is from 1984, where mta pulled room 101 as a concept from:

“Do not imagine that you will save yourself, however completely you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is ever spared. And even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still you would never escape from us. What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

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I ❤️ grotesque depictions of desire

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[ butchfemme carmilla ] “Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”

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Mage the Ascension

Ok hypothetical revamp of the Technocracy into a form that makes more sense and is less from the fever dream of Timothy McVeigh

New World Order - based on what H Bush was actually talking about isn’t the Big Brother mind control spies of the United Nations. It is instead the Syndicate + political control. Dividing corporate power from political power into rival conventions is silly. The neoliberal NWO represents the power of international megacorporations and controls politics and media through money.

Iteration X - the MiB and surveillance aspects of canon-NWO get moved here. Information Science + Intelligence & Surveillance. Data collection and statisticians all in one. They contain a rebellious Cult of the Computer that wants a hyper intelligent AI setting policy instead of NWO corporate interests

Progenitors - largely stay the same

Void Engineers - largely the same, leaning into their late Revised Era identity as the military armada defending Earth from Umbral threats, rather than being primarily explorers

And then a fifth Convention I need to name that is doing the pure physics, material chemistry, and hard tech development. If the Cult of the Computer rebels against the corporate NWO, they’re likely to be allied as they’re screaming over advancing the time table on alternate energy and being ignored over NWO fossil fuel investment.

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Can you imagine how pissed the Techocracy must have been at themselves after they caused the Dimensional Anomaly? I have to imagine that one of the conversations went like this:

New World Order: What the FUCK did you DO?!

Void Ennegineer: What did we do? THE FUCK DID YOU DO

NWO: WE were containing a MAYJOR HEMOPHAGIC ENTITY threat to reality!

VE: Oh, a Vampire huh? Well guess what GENIUS? Your dumbass orbital sun death laser cracked open the vaults to HELL

NWO:...

NWO: The what.

VE: YEAH. Now we got Demons just, out there now. What are they doing? HELL IF I KNOW.

NWO: Well thanks to your Spirit Nuke stunt, we can't contact Managment AT ALL.

VE: ...

VE: You what?

NWO: YEAH. All contact with everyone in the Horizon Contructs? Gone. Can't find them, can't detect them, zero communication.

VE: ...

NWO: ...

VE: We'll contain the Demons if you get the PR team to cover up management being gone

NWO: Deal. Let us never speak of this again.

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In Mage the Ascension one of the most interesting conflicts for me is between the Technocratic conventions of the Syndicate and the NWO. To quickly summarize both, the Syndicate are the money wizards who provide the funding and materials for the other conventions to use, they control economics and the private sector. The NWO meanwhile charged itself with controlling culture, human thought, psychology and the development of new ideas.

They hate eachother, and seeing the ways their conflict plays out is so so so fun.

If you asked the Syndicate, the NWO is a bloated convention that needs to be reorganized, split apart between its disparate elements and have its authority redistributed and refocused. The Syndicate book makes it clear that they see themselves as essential, they are constantly playing up their own value, their own necessity to the whole union, and phrasing the actions of the NWO as an attack on their territory. But in doing so, they belie an anxiety undercutting everything, their convention is only useful so long as they are providing a service. It behooves them then to monopolize that service, the production of funding, Prime energy, and material goods, even at the expense of other conventions. They even admit that their applications of Primal Utility aren't the only possible ones, but they refuse to engage with those because they would fall under other conventions territory and thus lose their monopoly.

The NWO on the other hand don't even fight on the same level. Small aside, the NWO book is one of the best pieces of in universe propaganda and psychological manipulation written in all of Mage the Ascension, befitting the House of Mind. The NWO do not acknowledge the conflict between them and the Syndicate as a conflict, they only point out the Syndicates repeated failings and screw ups. The NWO doesn't need to fight the Syndicate, all they need to do is control the battlefield, control how people think about the conflict in the first place. They never mention their necessity to the Union, they don't state it directly but instead continuously imply it repeatedly, it's not a question, it's not something that could be replaced. It's a fact, and you agree with it.

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DON’T FORGET YOU’RE HERE FOREVER !

ft. my ex-voider who’s seen the inside of room 101 more times than any sane person should <3

the quote used is from 1984, where mta pulled room 101 as a concept from:

“Do not imagine that you will save yourself, however completely you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is ever spared. And even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still you would never escape from us. What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

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transferatu......

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Darina (Dori) daughter of cacophony My sweet vtm girl Camarilla Radio worker

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My vampire Ao letting Eris [her toxic vampire situationship of ~20 years] to undress her.

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hi hello vtm fandom. please tell me all about the blood bonds that your ocs are/were in

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vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

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when was ur kindred embraced, and why were they embraced? :3

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messy eater