#{The Neapolitan Coven}

[zethsnex]

Okay enough it's enough, now you need to tell me more about the vampire au that you are creating.

Alrighty!

I guess I can share some stuff bout this crazy AU.

• Dream’s a Hunter (for anything and everything).

• SBI are a coven, Mumza’s the matriarch, Phil her right hand and Wil, Tommy and Techno are her ‘children’.

• Neapolitan trio are not blood related, they’re ‘blood brothers’ though (Mumza gave her blood to the three of them for their transformation).

• Scarification for SBI’s coven mark, oh yeah.

• Dream got a job from the town’s mayor to kill a monster that had been terrorizing the town, which the citizens started to call “Blood God”.

• Said “Blood God” turns out to be a vampire (we know it’s Techno, it’s obvious for us), and so when Dream encounters him, it stops being a hunt and starts a battle for their life’s.

• It ends as a tie, but the contract is still up and Dream searches for Techno again. This becomes a usual for both.

• It’s just by mere coincidence that they start to talk while they fight, starting with sarcastic comments, then the closest thing they can give as a “compliment” to each other’s skills, and ending up talking about anything in their mind during, and after their fights.

• Their fights turn from the purpose of killing to simple spars. They get to know more about the other.

• Dream decides it’s useless to pretend anymore and gets Techno to agree to leave the townsfolk alone. To prove the mayor the monster was gone, he brought a piece of clothing and some jewels from the vampire, covered in blood. The mayor accepted this as enough proof and gave the reward, dismissing him soon after.

• Dream got to meet the Mors Corvi (SBI’s coven’s name), Techno introduced him and prevented any kind of misunderstanding his family could have.

• They know Dream tried to kill Techno, and how it suddenly turned into friendly spars, they don’t know all the details, but they’re happy for Techno.

• Mumza offers a place for both of them to stay, remaining inside of her territory but just far enough to get privacy from the townsfolk.

• “Omg they were roommates.”

• Techno likes to get what he wants whenever he wants, so when that stops happening, he gets pissed and if it’s bad enough, he’ll go on a hunger strike.

• This only makes things annoying for Dream, who has to work with a stubborn vampire and the hunting instincts that go haywire for the lack of food.

• If a vampire goes long without food, they can get aggressive, but they’re mostly conscious of what’s happening and what are they doing. If it goes longer than a couple of days, the vampire will turn feral, nothing gets through them as the need to satisfy their hunger is the only thing that occupies their mind. If it goes longer than this, the vampire turns docile, no strength in their system as it tries to keep as much energy as possible, they’re very docile in these conditions and it’s hard for them to understand things that happen around them.

• Most of the times, Dream gets Techno to drop his tantrums and come back to his senses in the first stage, some other times Techno goes feral and Dream has to tie him up, it can be fun for him to do that (more if the vampire got pissy because he’d been wrong (Techno’s a brat, I don’t care bout ooc, this is such a crack AU JAJDJS)).

• There’s been a couple of times Techno has gone too long without food, some were because he didn’t want to eat and one time he couldn’t eat. All of those times, Dream had been able to help him go back to normal.

For the moment that’s what I’ve got planned, not really thinking of making this one an Ao3 work (already got too many), so it’ll stay as these notes with story and drawings.

If you guys want to ask these two questions, feel free to do it (SBI may answer too ☕️)

[hoursofreading]

i read so many great books this year!

for fiction, I loved Stephen King's Fairy Tale and Ann Patchett's Tom Lake. These were the first books I read by both authors. Cried reading The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. Honorary mention to Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson

I can't forget Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels (soo good it deserves a bullet point of its own). I feel this is my first "adult", contemporary novel

learned a lot about applied ethics from: strangers drowning by larissa macfarquahar, my gita by devdutt pattanaik, the universal christ by richard rohr

for nonfiction, I also read Nussbaum's Justice For Animals. Shout out to Katherine Rundell for introducing me to John Dunne's poetry in Super Infinite and Joanna Biggs for introducing me to Ferrante, Hurston, Eliot et all in her A Life of One's Own

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.3

752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. 1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I. 1568 – Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards. 1616 – Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. 1715 – A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. 1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government. 1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. 1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill. 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. 1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. 1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece. 1848 – The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire. 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49. 1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. 1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. 1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. 1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. 1921 – Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. 1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues. 1928 – The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days. 1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. 1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. 1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain. 1951 – The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole. 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1953 – Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. Amateur photographer Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first and only winning submission for the Pulitzer Prize for Photography to have been taken by a woman. 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement. 1968 – Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas. 1971 – Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989. 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister. 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). 1999 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War. 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. 2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people. 2007 – The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". 2015 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting. 2016 – Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings. 2023 – Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.

[museinfusion]

Marino: Stefan, I heard you snuck out of the coven last night

Stefan: [internally] PLAY DUMB.

Stefan: Who's Stefan?

Stefan: [internally] NOT THAT DUMB

[phantoids]

Hey so feeling a lil bored and I think I'm gonna do some dsmp writing requests!!

Send in an ask, give me a lil prompt of an au or smth (this can include asking for snippets of my own aus, which I will list).

Anyways the aus of mine you can ask about:

ccc!au, basically character content creator, modern dsmp au where the events are all the same except it's 1. a modern au and 2. they're all content creators at some point and have access to social media. they all drop merch at dream's funeral. This is a crack au.

smash or pass au, where quackity is the onceler, dream has the hots for him still, quackity/dream/wilbur was once a thing but now they're bitter exes and wilbur takes joy in terrorising dream. Also quackbur happens at one point as well as the onceler reveal. It's also a crack au.

clue #1, a murder mystery powers au where wilbur is dead, techno is a retired detective, ranboo is an annoying ghost and clingyduo are investigating wilbur's death. you can have a couple snippets from chapter 1 since this is an unreleased multichap fic au.

silence and the sun, a canon-divergent au inspired by the dead don't dream. dream and tommy are brothers, tommy has a bad time being revived over and over (he's also selectively mute), and shit gets out of hand. My personal contender for the dream worsening olympics.

pig house au, basically an owl house au where techno is a wild witch known across the isles, ranboo is the human who's stumbled into his life, discduo is just belos and hunter, aimsey and tubbo are ranboos besties at magic school, wilbur is techno's estranged brother from the emperor's coven and phil shows up at techno's door one day with an injured kid who may or may not be grimmwalker.

communal dad au, in which phil adopted three kids who are also actors, none of them know about the others and therefore when he comes on the set they all work at to audition for the dad of their three characters, some funny stuff happens. like Neapolitan bros realising they're all actually brothers, and everyone on set joking about how phil is secretly their dad.

universal tommy au, in which tommy is a multiversal traveller, goes by theseus and wears a boar mask, and ends up stuck in a universe with regular multiversal and timeline traffic, including an ex-traveller wilbur who set up lmanberg, sometime after doomsday should have happened, to accommodate travellers. I don't have much for this but I like the concept.

and the final au: iceborne au, based on monster hunter, in which tommy is the new rising hunter in the fifth fleet of the research commission, dream is a bitch who wants to wipe out the ecosystems by using other monsters because he's a bitch but it's okay he has a giant ice dragon pet, and they're all having a time trying to fix the ecosystem.

[zinasketch]

This my favorite fruit coven member so far, sweet strawberry! Hope you all like her! 🌜🍓💖 . . . #illustration #pastelaesthetic #pastelgoth #witch #witchesofinstagram #neapolitan #originalcharacter #characterdesign #illustrationartists #kunst #zeichnung #creepycute #creepycuteart https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNvYVaj2aO/?igshid=oahfjt1ipqo8

[sciatu]

BANCONOTE EMESSE DAL BANCO DI SICILIA

Quando nel 1848 la Sicilia insorse contro il re di Napoli, le Casse di Corte con sede a Messina e Palermo (Banche reali alle dipendenze del Banco di Napoli) si separarono dalla banca centrale napoletana diventano un grosso polo bancario siciliano che restò tale anche dopo che i borboni domarono la ribellione siciliana. Allora, il nome di questa nuova banca era sintomatico del disprezzo del re borbonico per la Sicilia, visto che la nuova banca si chiamò Banco Regio dei Reali Domini al di là del Faro. Infatti era proibito citare nei documenti governativi borbonici il nome Sicilia, cercando cosi di negarne l’importanza, negandone il nome Con l’arrivo dei piemontesi, il banco cambiò nome diventando Banco di Sicilia. La fortuna del nuovo polo bancario ebbe varie vicissitudini fine a quando nel 1876 non ne diventò direttore Emanuele Notarbartolo, Marchese di San Giovanni. Benché figlio di nobili e nipote di principi, Notarbartolo era tornato in Sicilia con Garibaldi e ne condivideva le idee. Da sindaco di Palermo si era mostrato un fervente moralizzatore degli uffici pubblici delle dogane e divenuto Direttore del Banco riuscì a salvarlo dalla bancarotta. Il Banco presto crebbe in importanza diventando la cassa di risparmio degli agricoltori siciliani, aumentando i suoi giri d’affari e presto aprendo agenzie anche fuori Italia. Notarbartolo però, per sviluppare il Banco in un modo pulito, finì con il dar fastidio a quelle congreghe di potere occulti che guidavano gli affari dell’isola e che erano i progenitori dell’attuale mafia. Prima rapito dalla mafia, poi diffamato, attaccato ed isolato politicamente dovette dimettersi e andarsene in pensione per finire poi ucciso a coltellate in treno da due mafiosi. Notarbartolo fu quindi la prima vittima illustre di una mafia che, finita l’epoca dei Principi, ne stava prendendo il posto dopo che con loro, aveva iniziato a imparare come usare la forza e le armi oscure della violenza.

When in 1848 Sicily rose up against the King of Naples, the Court Coffers based in Messina and Palermo (Royal Banks employed by Banco di Napoli) separated from the central Neapolitan bank and became a large Sicilian banking center that remained so even after the Bourbons tamed the Sicilian rebellion. Then, the name of this new bank was symptomatic of the contempt of the Bourbon king for Sicily, given that the new bank was called Banco Regio dei Reali Domini beyond the Faro. In fact it was forbidden to mention the name Sicilia in the Bourbon government documents, thus trying to deny its importance, denying its name. With the arrival of the Piedmontese, the bank changed its name to Banco di Sicilia. The fortune of the new banking center had various vicissitudes until when in 1876 Emanuele Notarbartolo, Marquis of San Giovanni, became its director. Although the son of nobles and grandchild of princes, Notarbartolo returned to Sicily with Garibaldi and shared his ideas. As mayor of Palermo he had shown himself to be a fervent moralizer of the public customs offices and having become the Bank's Director he managed to save it from bankruptcy. The Banco soon grew in importance by becoming the savings bank of Sicilian farmers, increasing its turnover and soon opening agencies also outside Italy. Notarbartolo, however, to develop the Banco in a clean way, ended up giving nuisance to those occult covens of power that led the island's affairs and were the progenitors of the current mafia. First kidnapped by the Mafia, then defamed, attacked and politically isolated, he had to resign and retire to end up stabbed in the train by two mafia killers. Notarbartolo was therefore the first illustrious victim of a mafia who, after the era of the Princes, was taking its place after having started to learn with them how to use the force and the dark weapons of violence.

[thedarkangelpuppet]

Headcanons: Poetree,Billdip and Stomco

 Poetree:

- The Beast always meant to keep Wirt and that he become the new lantern-bearer. Adelaide, Enoch and the Queen of clouds were in on the plan.

It, however, did not matter what happens to Beatrice or Greg. as Greg could have stayed in Pottsville or in Cloudcity or as a servant of Adelaide.

Adelaide also refered to a child servant just ONE which would be Greg. since Wirt was to be given to the beast.

- Wirt wants to study Architecture

- Beast once had a coven Adelaide and Auntie Whispers are the only ones left

- Beast is the jealous type. If he ever meets Sara or when he meets Sara he must resist the want to murder her

-  In some universes Beast sufferes from Lima syndrome while Wirt from Stockholm syndrome (not the main one im writing (Interdimensional Affairs AU))

- Wirt only starts speaking in Poetry when depressed or stressed

- Beast sings Wirt to sleep or tells him stories

- Beasts antlers can sprout flowers when flustered they also bother him alot when sleeping luckily he doesn´t need to sleep

- The Beast can speak in multiple voices and languages.

- Beast can get stuck between trees and Wirt can’t help but laugh but he always ends up helping him out

Billdip:

- Bill used to be a slave. (seeing as how Isosceles triangles were described in Flatland: a romance between dimensions)

-  Bill got his powers from Xolotl/Axolotl 

- Bill suffers from Mania

- Bill is a  compulsive Liar and hides the fact that he does have feelings (Axolotl Poem says he's sad, Bill has been acting happy alot and he can get mad)

- Dippers habits include: biting  and clicking of pens, Eating his own shirt  and never using bookmarks making him lose the pages he was on

- Dipper calls Bill William or Billy sometimes. William in serious situations and Billy when teasing

- Dipper got used to triangle Bill and despite everyone being disgusted he can kiss Bill in that form on the Eyemouth.

-Dipper got so used to Bill´s natural form that he prefers it over any other form Bill takes.

- Bill always likes to spoil movies or books. It annoys Dipper.

- Bill likes to hide in Dippers hat

- Dipper and Bill leave little notes to each other in their own codes. 

- Bill loves puns

Stomco:

- Marco is the little spoon, Tom is in the middle since he feels protected and Star is a big spoon.

- they're soulmates see the whole star, moon sun theory

- Star sometimes buys matching dresses for herself and Marco.

- Tom always calls Star and then immediately Marco when asking something on the phone. Double Opinion

- While walking they like to hold hands. Star in the middle grabbing one hand of Toms and one of Marcos.

- Stars favorite Ice cream combo ends up being Neapolitan seeing as it reminds her of them

- Marco sometimes steals Stars clothes when she's not looking just how Star steals Marcos hoodie. They end up wearing them all day saying nothing

- Star, Tom, and Marco all use each others makeup through tom only uses the eyeliner

- Marco is the one doing most of the housework as the other two are royals and are not used to doing housework. Plus Marco likes everything in a system.

- they have movie nights

- They listen to Love Sentence during their morning routines. Using the toothbrushes as microphones

-  They noticed that someone (Star) kicks off all the blankets off the bed

- Marco always cuddles with Star or Tom in bed. Whoever was there first.

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

40K factions and you

Space Marines:

Your favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla, but occasionally you might try some Neapolitan, if you’re feeling dangerous. You’re faction’s lore is designed from the ground up to accept your self-inserts, and the models are some of the easiest to paint in the entire range. None of this matters because no matter how unique you think your super-cool “realistic marines who use real tactics maaaaan” are they’ll always come out looking like a slight variation of the ones below

8th edition has finally allowed you to feel a tiny sliver of the unbalanced and over-costed hell other factions have been stuck in for years, but unlike them, daddy GW is more than willing to spend a little extra on his bulky good bois so they still get all the coolest gear and lore. Like vanilla, small children love them, but they grow out of both eventually. 

edit: it was only a matter of time before GW stamped its foot down and made the inevitable decision that its favorite kid needs to be busted again. Then again in all fairness they toned down their overpoweredness from “godlike” to merely “demi-godlike” 

Imperial Guard:

You’re a big “history fan”. You’ve seen Enemy at the Gates, watched some history channel shows about Nazi wonder weapons, and make 54 karma post on r/history_memes recycling debunked Eastern Front jokes. Only your intelligent eye is able to conflate this factions obvious Metal Slug levels of cartoonish design and tactics with realism, and you make sure to remind everyone else of said realism by comparing your tabletop exploits to your military experience in the reserves. Everyone used to like you back when the faction was actually made up of underdogs and under appreciated, but the Guant’s Ghosts references have gotten kinda stale, and no one appreciates the brass balls of these Starship Trooper knockoffs now that 8th edition supports and rewards the very same mindless horde tactics the Guard used to be mocked for in Lore. Despite having some of the most tried and true designs in the game, as well as an incredible amount of options, you will quickly find how limiting the only “realistic” army is in terms of customization and paint schemes, as anything but camo, grey, or tan looks goofy and reveals how silly this faction actually is. 

edit: If your army consists of wrapping 30 guardsmen around basilisks I recommend you take a short fall down a long flight of stairs. Fuck you, Evan.

Eldar:

You’re a real shooter. You know what you like and you stick with it, cause lets face it, it takes a lot of loyalty to stick with these arrogant pricks. Their designs are unique but dated, their lore is a uneven mishmash of 40k grimdark schmultz Tolkien telephone, and Oliver Twist-esque whipping bois for whenever GW writers need to remind us how cool Space Marines are. But none of that matters because you know the truth: Eldar can kick tons of ass on the board, and look good doing it, as their unique designs lends them to all sorts of brilliant color combinations

And unlike other armies their rare design updates improve on their aesthetic while keeping their 40k-ness, something that is becoming increasingly rare in this era of Tacticool marines and Fantasy-creep. Just don’t expect to be taken seriously by anyone but the old-heads.

Edit: Leave it to the whipping bois to be outshined in their own event and get a single model update. Thanks GW, very cool. 

Dark Eldar

You are one of two people: a meta hopping smooth brain who only jumped ship once these guys got one of the best updates in 40k history, or a true intellectual who understood their hidden merit all along. Other faction players like to make fun of you for being edgy, when in reality you know that the Dark Eldar are just a bunch of sociopathic theater kids. They, like you, know how fucked from top to bottom this universe is, and instead of getting depressed they exclaimed “how can we be the best cartoon villains we can be?”. Despite having a relatively bare army list, the fact that these d-bags come in 3 flavors of crazy in a single army offers a ton of variety: the mustache twirling villainy of the Kabals, the crazy bloodstained snuff-stars of the Wych cults, and the BDSM horror show of the Covens. All three offer substantial benefits and drawbacks and must be played carefully in order t- 

Who am I kidding? You’re just gonna stuff  a bunch of Kabal warriors into Venoms and zoom around the map, aren’t you? Enjoy that speed, because your abysmal save stats wont protect you anything more than a furiously thrown walnut. At least your corpses will look rad clad in some of the grimest armor and gear in the game. 

edit: no longer anywhere near as dominent as they were in the earlier years of 8th, but they still look slick as hell and play great. 

Orks

Your IQ randomly jumps from 20 to 200 throughout the day. There is no predicting this, no planning around this, no stopping this. You’re best bet is just to go along with it, and that’s why you play Orks. Orks are roudy good-time buddies who love slapstick slaughter, not having thoughts, and occasionally pulling of cunning plans that human savants would struggle to comprehend. Orks seem to be the only faction that know what joy is, which is why you as a player spread it to everyone else. Yes, the memes and screaming can be a bit much to others sometimes, but like with any other mentally handicapped child  everyone around just grits their teeth through your bad episodes if it means not upsetting your unique sensibilities. And considering that this army’s aesthetic revolves around cobbled together nonsense, you have a lot of uniqueness to give. Orks are easily the most creative faction in the game when it comes to conversions. Nothing is too goofy, too dumb, or too silly to scrap together. As for performance on the tabletop? Go ham. This is an army that rewards merry bullshit and randomness. Remember, you didn’t pick Orks to win, you picked them to have fun. 

edit: So are Orks actually getting anything or what? GW’s plans for this faction is as chaotic as the minds of the ADHD scrambled minds who play them

Necrons

You have a very specific taste in... funky weird-science space Egyptians. Seriously, these guys are practically a completely different army to what they were a decade ago. Gone are the terminator references and eldritch lore nonsense, and here to stay is senility and glyphs. You lie to yourself, saying that you’re not really sure why you chose Necrons, but I know the truth: you chose them because they used to be busted. They used to be unfair. They used to be able to take out top-tier tanks with their version of pea shooters and come back after every turn. So overwhelmed were you by their dazzeling stats and bullshit cheese your brain’s wiring fried and the erratic firing of billions of flayed neurons made you think Necrons had cool lore and interesting models. But now they’ve been nerfed to hell, and you’re no longer stuck in that lasting state of sensory overload. Like a drunk snapping awake with a hangover you come to the painful reality: Necrons are kind of dull. So like me, you put them away in a shoebox forever, leaving their fragile sculpts to slowly fall apart.

Edit: FUCK WHERE IS THE SHOEBOX WHERE DID I LEAVE IT OH GOD OH OH NO OH FUCK THEY’RE ALL BROKEN MAYBE I CAN PUT THEM BACK TOGETHER BEFORE 9th EDITION LAUNCHES I’M SO SORRY FOR WHAT I DID TO YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER I NEED YOU, I NEED MY BOOOOOOOOYS!!!

Tau

You will forever be hated by the community unfairly. You are accuse being anime - and this is true - yet the Eldar get away with being copied wholesale from 80′s space anime and no one seems to notice. You are made fun of for your bad melee, despite having one of the most comprehensively designed niches in an otherwise sloppy game and dominating with nearly every edition. You are made fun of for your lore, despite being largely separate from the cliches and story traps that everyone else has fallen into. You are hated because you are different; hated because you are Asian. 

Tau are an anomaly in 40k: a completely new faction that wasn’t directly ripped off of some other franchise and with an aesthetic that is wholly their own. I won’t be making fun of them because they get enough of that, and you don’t deserve it. Just know this dirty secret: Tau outsell almost every other xenos faction, and despite the supposedly unanimous hate are probably one of the strongest factions in terms of play-style and modelling in the franchise. 

Edit: The tau are grittier than ever, happy now? They still do the same thing they have always done anyways.

Chaos

Unlike the DE you actually are edgy. You worship satan, you throw rocks at homeless people, you start fires because your dad doesn’t spank you enough. Chaos are the closest things that this cluster fuck of a universe can get to being the main villains. Their lore is at once intricate and stupid, both childish and metal as hell. You play chaos because getting your fingers pricked by the models’ spikes is the closest you can come to feeling anything anymore. Just like the chaos lore you love to hype yourself up, to puff your chest and revel in the darkness inside, but when confronted you tend to fold like wet tissue paper. You’ve stopped playing public games with these guys, because the other players don’t understand you and abuse the meta and make fun of your painting skills and  everything is so unfair and don’t you think that chaos marines should get buffs for their points cost, fuck?

Edit: The new models are slick and more power-metal minivan than ever, though the rules are still abysmal despite GW desperately wanting everyone to takes these guys seriously for once. 

Sisters of Battle

GW writers and designers hates Catholics and they hate women, so naturally they hate Sister of Battl. They also hate you for playing them. Because of this SoB are a monument to neglected potential. They have one of the best female armor designs in fiction, great lore, and an interesting playstyle that relies on faith/determination based feats of strength and valor... but GW hate Catholics and women, so SoB get shafted everywhere all the time. More often than not you will be disappointed reading about their exploits as they continually get unfairly slaughtered, corrupted into the horny service of the pervert god, or used as receptacles for blood-based paint when the writer’s favorite faction needs to fight demons. With no plastic models in sight for over a decade everyone began to come to the slow and dreadful realization that GW was looking to Squat our favorite estrogen warriors, until a new revamp was announced. Unfortunately the beta rules look as lackluster as ever, but that’s fine, because as a SoB fan you have learned to expect that GW hates you, Catholics, and women. 

Edit: GW found God and got woke because now they love women and Jesus’ one true Church, but let it be known that reformation doesn’t occur overnight, as the SOB’s faces still betray GW’s lingering discomfort in the female form:

Their rules are fun, and if every codex was designed like it 40k might actually be a fun game

Tyranids

nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom no- and that’s it that’s the Tyranids. I don’t know anything about them besides that, and neither do you, cause that’s their lore. Yes they have cool models, but next to no reliable updates. I’ll pray for you.  

Edit: it really looks like GW has just completely forgotten about you poor souls huh? The Night King, a character who is closely associated with the totally-not-reconned-Tyranid-invasion, comes back and not one word about you guys. They don’t even actively hate you like, say, they hate the Eldar. It’s just... apathy. 

Grey Knights

HAHA AHAHAHAHA HA HA UHAHAHA HAHAAHAHAAHAH HAHA ha ha Ah......... he. hehahaaaAHAHAHAHA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

edit: I hope you all realize that Grey Knights are far too specialized in fighting the permanently under performing forces of chaos to be 40ks “elite among elite.”  You and your entire faction has been made completely obsolescent by the Custodes. The rough times will continue, say hi to the Squats in heaven will you?

Custodes

You are either insufferably full of yourself or a fine practitioner of the model making craft. Most likely though you are neither, and you picked them because you only need gold and red paint to make them look good. Custodes are the space marine’s space marines, and they’re better than you and everyone else. period. At least in lore. On the table their incredible individual stats and elite status are reflected in points cost, so for most large games you will be fielding what amounts to any other faction’s skirmishing army. Unfortunately, since 40k is a stat-sheet battler that favors raw bulk of rolls and stats over the quality of them, you’d be hard-pressed to do well in any serious game. However, for the luminous of mind, the small size is a blessing in disguise since you don’t need to buy and paint as many units as the other armies, and no matter how hard the guard player trashes you his 50 unpainted manlets will never look as good as your 15 gloriously crafted golden Chads. Stick to smaller games, and the individual strength of each model will make up for the glaring absence caused by their loss.

Ironically enough despite being an elite faction from a relatively obscure part of 40k lore, these attributes make Custodes the perfect casual player’s faction. It is my personal theory that if GW didn’t grossly inflate their prices to such a high degree everyone would have a Custodes army. 

Oh yeah, Henry Cavil plays these guys, because of course he does. 

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Piazza dei martiri

There are 4 lions. Lion dying consecrated to fallen defending the short lived Parthenopean Republic in 1799. Lion pierced by a sword consecrated to fallen during Carbonari Revolution of 1820 Lion lying down consecrated to fallen during revolution of 1848 Lion striding on foot consecrated to fallen during successful Garibaldin revolt of 1860. Written near the 4th lion are the words To the glorious memory of the Neapolitan citizens who died in the struggles or scaffold revindicated for the people with solemn and eternal covenant the freedom to proclaim  the plebiscite of October 21st 1860 The City Hall Consecration.

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Events 5.3

752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. 1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I. 1568 – Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards. 1616 – Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. 1715 – A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. 1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government. 1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. 1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill. 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. 1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. 1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece. 1848 – The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire. 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49. 1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. 1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. 1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. 1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. 1921 – Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. 1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues. 1928 – The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days. 1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. 1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. 1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain. 1951 – The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole. 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement. 1968 – Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas. 1971 – Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989. 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister. 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). 1999 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War. 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. 2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people. 2007 – The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". 2015 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting. 2016 – Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.

[museinfusion]

The Vampires

Muses

Stefan Grande; Vampire, Advisor, Fashion Designer [Fandomless, Harry Potter]

Antonio Abbandonato; Vampire, Guard [Fandomless, Harry Potter]

Demyan Volkov; Vampire, Coven Leader [Fandomless]

Dagrun Arnesdatter; Vampire, Coven Leader [Fandomless]

Relevant Muses

Valente Lansacosta; Vampire, Coven Leader

The leader of the Venetian coven. Stefan is Valente’s right hand, closest friend and oftimes lover. He and Demyan were close friends in their youth but time has strained their relationship to a tense alliance.

Estella Sinclair; Vampire, Coven Leader

Valente’s third wife and Stefan’s best friend. Estella has a lot of power and responsibility having taken her place leading the Venetian coven with Valente, however Stefan makes very sure that she regularly lets loose and gets into a little trouble. She bonded with Antonio when she was first turned and there is some tension between the two, though Antonio would never dare make a move.

NPCs

Basilio and Benedetto Lansacosta

Valente Lansacosta’s younger brothers. Twins with a nasty streak a mile wide and a grudge against their older brother due to their father’s preference for Valente that led to their leaving the Venetian coven for Rome instead.

Marino Grande

The leader of the Neapolitan Coven, Marino is - in Valente’s words - the only person who can out-Stefan Stefan. There are reasons Stefan is eighth in line and Marino has fathered all seven of them - plus one more after Stefan.

Celestina Nicchi

Celestina is Stefan’s dearly beloved mamma and one of few people who he will behave himself for, - though she is something of a wild spirit herself and definitely where Stefan got his adventurous side from, having travelled the world both before and after settling in Naples with Marino and raising Stefan. She and Stefan frequently meet up on their travels to catch up and exchange stories.

Narciso Grande

At only 16, Narciso is the newest addition to the line of Grande heirs and is right in the middle of his teenage rebellious phase. He has no real problems at home but insisted on leaving anyway, but didn’t last too long on his own and has ended up taking residence with the Venetian coven.

Amato Grande

As the eldest of Marino’s children, Amato is first in line to take over the coven of Naples and so spends much of his time by his father’s side, learning by example how to rule properly and fairly. He has much of Marino’s natural charm and wit, but is far more reserved and down-to-earth. In fact, he doesn’t quite realise how charming he is, and will often come off as flirting without intending to.

Leo Sapienti

Leo Sapienti is the oldest resident of the catacombs, having died there long before the coven took up residency. The first son of a nobleman, he was groomed for most of his life to take over the title, only to be tricked by a jealous younger brother - he was led into the catacombs as part of a supposed “game” only to be locked in, left alone until starvation took him. He is, in short, a poltergeist and whilst spending his time alone in a rage, he has somewhat calmed down since he found company in the vampires, his anger settling into something of a mischievous streak instead.

Anastasiy “Anya” Ilyich Naumov

Anya and met Stefan when he was passing through Russia on his travels and the two clicked immediately, despite being something of opposites. Anastasiy was wary when Stefan revealed his vampirism, but decided he was worth the risk, and the two had a home together for almost a decade before Stefan was discovered by the locals. The two fled in different directions, intending to meet up later, but Anastasy never showed. Stefan assumes he is dead, when in actuality he was inducted into the Moscow coven - intending to simply turn and follow Stefan to Venice. After centuries under Demyan’s abusive rule, he has developed Selective Mutism.

Cesarina and Giulia Abbandonato

Antonio’s wife and daughter that he was forced to leave behind when he was turned. He secretly went back and turned Giulia, but as this broke the rules of the coven he had to give her up for execution. He believes them both dead, but Valente took pity on the innocent child and instead sent her to Naples, where she still resides under Marino’s care.

Cédric LaRoque

Cédric LaRoque was the son of a naval captain and wanted nothing more than to be like his father. At only 17, he was just starting out his service aboard his father’s ship, when they were attacked by pirates. Cédric was taken prisoner and unwillingly began a new life as a criminal. He saw no way out until the crew made the mistake of attacking a ship with three particular passengers who would put up more than enough of a fight.

Injured in the crossfire, Cédric begged for his life and Stefan was given permission to turn him - on the condition that he would care for the boy. Two such sudden changes of pace had an effect on Cédric and to this day he is an anxious individual, but over the centuries has adjusted to life in the shadows. He lost an eye to the hunter, Friedhelm, after approximately a century.

Anacletus

Anacletus is considered the eldest vampire in existence. He is one of the children of the creator Elijah’s own fledglings and heralded by many as a power that cannot be rivalled. By some good fortune, he has avoided the eventual descent into madness that many of the elders of their kind succumb to and served as coven leader to the globe’s largest coven in Egypt until the age of Enlightenment. As covens spread and territory wars began invoking among their kind, Anaclectus constructed a council of all coven leaders to harness some form of control over the growing numbers and mediate the powers that each possessed. Many warring covens will be pulled before him if they threaten to expose their kind to humanity and discussions will be held to try and resolve the issue. Additionally, if any issues come to light that may threaten their kind on a mass scale, he will summon the leaders for talks on how to address it.

Zhen Demyanovich

Zhen was admired by Demyan in the early 16th Century for his unique skills as a prized torturer who accompanied a visiting Chinese dignitary. After observing an especially horrific display performed by the man, Demyan decided to recruit him as one of his own coven. Both possessing the sadistic pleasures of watching another desperately try to clutch to their last breath of life, they soon became close. Zhen performs duties similar to that of an advisor, ensuring Demyan remains informed about important issues and people, whilst also acting as head of the little entourage their leader surrounds himself with. He is highly intelligent and charming, a perfect rival to Stefan who explicitly illustrates his hatred for him.

Nikolai Demyanovich Volkov

Demyan’s son and future ruler of the Moscow coven, Demyan was born a human and kept away from the coven by his mother until Demyan’s eventual death. There was an issue of who would take over the coven after him and Nikolai’s mother brought him forward as a candidate and after some time he was accepted into the role, being turned Anacletus. Many were wary of letting Demyan’s son rule, expecting a carbon copy of the tyrant, but - whilst he did apparently inherit his father’s flare for the lavish and extravagant - Nikolai turned out to be a good, fair ruler, putting an end to Demyan’s cruel habits such as torturing humans and keeping them as edible pets, as well as re-establishing a group of advisors.

Friedhelm Ruth

An unusual and highly unexpected member of the Neapolitan coven - Friedhelm was originally a vampire hunter and had made a good career for himself, working for over a decade throughout Germany, Italy and his home country of Switzerland. His career came to a sudden end when a mission of his turned sour. He manage to injure and nearly captured Cédric - a fledgling of Stefan’s - but was himself caught and hauled off to Naples to be kept an eye on.

At first he held nothing but distaste for his new lodgings and made several unsuccessful escape attempts before resigning himself to his imprisonment. Marino made many attempts to talk to him, to explain that vampires only did what they had to in order to survive - most of the time, anyway. It took over a decade and much stubbornness on both sides, but a friendship gradually formed, and in turn a relationship and, eventually, Friedhelm agreed to let Marino turn him and become a member of the coven.

Since then many a rumour has spread between hunters of what could have happened for one of their kind to join their sworn enemies, and this has resulted in Marino’s favour - most hunters now give Naples a wide berth, for fear that they might meet the same fate.

Nonno

One of the elders of the Venetian coven, “Nonno” - whose real name has somehow been lost to time - stands out in more ways that one. Firstly, he doesn’t feed as often as he should, resulting in a shrivelled appearance much of the time (though he surprises many by being rather handsome when he does finally get around to hunting) and secondly, by being much more approachable than any of the other elders.

In life, Nonno was a kind, clever, genuine man, meeting and befriending Valente’s father, Vittorio in Rome and, upon discovering his dark secret, simply shrugged, placing their friendship first. Eventually he began to age and die and was offered a place in the coven and accepted, becoming a part of the council, eventually introducing Vittori to his eventual wife, Elisabetta.

He is one of few people Valente trusted Estella with in her early fledgling years, and he quickly gained her trust too as an uncle or grandfather figure, somebody who had no ulterior motives towards her. He does have a cheeky side and, when he can be bothered to feed, is actually something of a playboy, happy to let Estella’s handmaidens flock around him.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.3

752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. 1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I. 1616 – Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. 1715 – A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. 1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government. 1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. 1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill. 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. 1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. 1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece. 1848 – The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire. 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49. 1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. 1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. 1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. 1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. 1921 – Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. 1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues. 1928 – The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days. 1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. 1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. 1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain. 1951 – The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole. 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement. 1971 – Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989. 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister. 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). 1999 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War. 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. 2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2007 – The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". 2015 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting. 2016 – Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.

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Tags

Muse Tags

{Stefan} / ic: Stefan

{Antonio} / ic: Antonio

{Demyan} / ic: Demyan

{Dagrun} / ic: Dagrun

{Marcus} / ic: Marcus

{Robyn} / ic: Robyn

{Dayaram} / ic: Dayaram

{Cedric} / ic: Cedric

{Tiwlip} / ic: Tiwlip

{Androkakios} / ic: Androkakios

{Jules} / ic: Jules

{Kay} / ic: Kay

{Alleyne} / ic: Alleyne

{Parker} / ic: Parker

{Bonnie} / ic: Bonnie

{Alphonse} / ic: Alphonse

{Ash} / ic: Ash

{Sean} / ic: Sean

{Shiori} / ic: Shiori

{Zak} / ic: Zak

{Shion} / ic: Shion

{Pyrrhus} / ic: Pyrrhus

{Kike} / ic: Kike

{Dùghlas} / ic: Dùghlas

{Veronica} / ic: Veronica

Partner Tags

{Estella} @eveofsin​

{Valente} @eveofsin​

{Nina} @iindulgere​

{Gemina} @ofstrangevariety​

{Damien} @antiquexbeast​ / @whatelsehaditodo-butloveyou

{Alois} @papillonfrxgile​ / @motylheir

{Aleistor} @cxgedbeasts​

{Wade} @youbettermerc​

{Robert} @wartsetal​

{Joseph} @goodnightxjoseph

{Rei}

NPC Tags

{The Venetian Coven}

{The Roman Coven}

{The Neapolitan Coven}

{The Moscow Coven}

{Edwin}

{Jack}

{The Wolf Pack}

Misc Tags

ic

ooc

answers

anonymous

incorrect vampire quotes

mun’s voice

{Music}

{Aesthetic Board}

{Headcanon}

[museinfusion]

Stefan Grande

Full name: Stefan Grande Date of birth: 21st of June, 1449 Apparent age: 24 Gender: Male Sexuality: Demiromantic Pansexual (Polyamorous) Race: Vampire Eyes: Warm brown Hair colour: Dark brunet Hair style: Shoulder-length, perfect Body type: Slender but toned, 6′2″/187cm tall Clothes: Stefan knows he looks good in anything, so in the everyday he goes for function over fashion - that is, something easy to take off - with a plain shirt, trousers and maybe a jacket. He also has an affinity for leather boots. For more formal events he goes all-out, making sure he’s at the height of fashion and all eyes are on him. Personality: Stefan has never truly had to work a day in his life, and it shows in his carefree attitude to everything. He appears immature with crude humour and what seems to be a complete lack of ability to take any situation seriously. His libido is as insatiable as his thirst for blood and he is never above propositioning any person who catches his eye. He does have a softer side that only shows with those closest to him - namely, Valente and Estella - who he loves and defends fiercely and would go to the ends of the earth for. History: A purebred vampire, the world has been his oyster from the moment he was born, in Naples in 1449. He grew up in the lap of luxury but quickly grew restless, taking to travelling Europe until meeting Valente Lansacosta. He was immediately infatuated with the powerful vampire, taking to follow him and gradually wearing him down until he was permitted to join the coven. He has rarely left Valente’s side, taking a place as his closest friend and right-hand man over the centuries. His role in the coven is that of an advisor; his main focus being keeping everybody up to date with modern trends - namely music and fashion. He has his own fashion line called By Name, By Nature; it’s very exclusive and commission-only. Abilities: Retractable fangs, pheromones, heightened senses, increased agility, superhuman strength Weakness: Garlic, crucifix, wooden stake, fire, sunlight, sand, a pretty face

Verses

General - untagged

Stefan is ninth in line to the Neapolitan coven, and advisor to the Venetian coven, he spends half of his time in Venice and half of it travelling, never letting his business and his pleasures go unmixed.

#v; most unfortunate circumstances

Tragedy has struck Naples in the form of an unexpected swarm of vampire hunters, leaving Stefan and his only remaining sibling, Narciso, to band together and rebuild from the ashes, as well as figure out what - or perhaps, who - led to the attack.

#v; in russia with love

A mutual dislike between Stefan and Valente’s second wife, Leandra, has led to Stefan taking some time away from Venice and his travels have led him to a town on the outskirts of Moscow. He has fallen deeply in love and found a home with a young man by the name of Anastasiy Ilyich Naumov. What could possibly go wrong?

#v; the three musketeers of slytherin (Harry Potter)

Stefan Grande is a young pureblood wizard, sorted into Slytherin and determined to have as much fun as the magical death trap of a school that is Hogwarts can provide, along with his partners in crime, Valente Lansacosta and Estella Sinclair.

#v; potions poisons and powders (Harry Potter)

Right on the border of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley is Potions, Poisons and Powders, selling some of the finest hand-brewed potions money can buy. Stefan is the resident herbology expert and always happy to help a customer find the right ingredients, whilst Estella brews their potions and Valente manages the business. And you might get something special if you use the back door and know exactly what to ask for.

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IF THEY HAD A KID; Stefan and Gemina (just because of how uncomfortable he was in that thread)

send me a pair name and I’ll tell you what I think it would be like if they had a child.

Name: Natale “Natalino” “Nino” Grande

Gender: Male

General Appearance: Tall, dark fluffy hair, medium brown eyes

Personality: Fairly quiet and down to earth, naturally charismatic but doesn’t really go out of his way to use this like Stefan does

Special Talents: General vampire powers; increased strength, speed and senses

Who they like better: Gemina - Stefan is the “fun parent” but isn’t very good at the caretaking parts

Who they take after more: Gemina

Personal Head canon: Nino is sort of an open secret - to openly acknowledge that a Grande had a child with a rogue would cause chaos, but most people in the Neapolitan and Venetian covens do know

Face Claim: Matthew Daddario