#masquerade divinity

[eschercaine]

As much as I wanted to laugh at this scene because the lady Furina was speaking with buys her excuse without even questioning it, I can’t.

Furina has spent 500 years to pretend she was the Archon in order to save Fontaine from the prophecy. She has to shoulder that burden alone and can’t confide in anyone about it because if she slips – just a little bit – they are doomed. And everything she had worked for will be for nothing.

She already has reached her limit but is still keeping it together for the sake of her people.

All in all, she deserves a good rest and therapy.

[godfistgonnalive]

basketball divinity

[iravaid]

Bear the albatross round your neck - Diviner Bureaucrat ending, where MalkLaCroix is alone and saddled with the consequences of his actions

[lazareneblessing]

Well, can you see me? I cannot see you

Everything I thought I knew has fallen out of view

In this blindness I'm condemned to

[ladyeroway]

Because I have been practicing with a new sketching style I wanted to see if it would translate into a full painting. So I chose Adrianna, because I like to paint her once a year because she was the RPG character that got me into attempting art again.  This is by far the best piece of her I have ever done. 

2021 version under the cut

[the-travelling-witch]

Hii hope you're having a good day/night! Just passing by to ask if I could be added to you Genshin and the Modern AU taglist! Your writing is really good 💕

sure thing!! the genshin tag list is automatically also the modern au tag list, so don’t be confused if you’re only tagged in that <3

also thank you very much, it means a lot!! and yes, i actually am having a great day, cheers to that ^^

i hope you’re having a great one yourself!!

[candyredmusings]

      It is a mesmerizing liquid isn't it? The color, the bouquet, the form. 

               When I was a kid, I used to wait for the snap of the rat trap. It would trickle out of the animal's face and ooze just far enough to coagulate around the cheese... a poetic death.

[ttrpg-in-the-tags]

TTRPG players, what’s your favorite small mistake, misunderstanding or general shenanigan your character has gotten into recently? Was it their own fault or did it just happen to them?

[oldblackpeacoat]

music is as close as we, as people, can get to immortality. i know this.

[ace--of--swords]

Chamber rules

If youre good, you get to touch the horns. Also, you get to be called good. And get your favorite snack.

[naladraws]

6 characters, 5 streams, 5 days in a row 😤✨

here’s a compilation of some of my favorite moments 😌 Apologies in advance for the emotional whiplash in this reel 🫣😈🩸✨

Streams: @DNDJordanLea, @FriendsRollDice, @stellalunaTV, @exquisitecttrpg, and @Goingcritrpg (twitter handles)

[the-illustrative-interloper]

✨Disguise Self✨

Needless to say Cadence’s player earned an inspiration for this incredibly in-character response while imitating Shan. She didn’t even HESITATE.

[monay-monn]

god so much rot on trying to figure out what Monay and Mammon's "titles" would be...

On one hand their old titles "anomally" and "double" encapsulate their origin; Monay being an anomaly because she's the only one to ever gain a consciousness and be able to acess her previous saves while Mammon being her double, a being made after she tried to split herself after loneliness got the better of her.

But also but also their recent titles "ego" and "id" really encapsulates how their saves are played; Monay the ego: save file more focused on progressing through the story and less on the lewdity of everything (hence why she accidentally got the angel tf). Mammon the id, complete opposite of Monay's playthrough, more focused on working with lewd jobs, prostiting oneself, having wreckless fun and not having to think about purity or virginities.

BUT NOW I WANNA CHANGE IT AND GO FOR POSSIBLY THEIR 'STORY/NARRATIVE' ROLES.

thinking....

Monay the False Saintess + Mammon the False Prophet

Mainly due to their saves being very temple focused... and them being... not very "pure" is very interesting to me even if their grace is always maxxed.

[iravaid]

Diviner Bureaucrat ending kind of vibe, love loses <3

[freelancerwizard]

going insane and sad abt Furina again

[gunkreads]

Y'know, I do like Divine Cities and The Masquerade for a lot of the same reasons... I think so far the key difference between the two is that Divine Cities was a lot more physically kinetic in its action. Everything is positional and earnestly involved with the strengths and limitations of the perspective characters' bodies. It's about subverting power by physically operating outside of it, e.g., "nothing is off limits if you can do it".

Divine Cities is a question of whether the will and the body can beat the machine; The Masquerade seems to be a question of whether the will and the mind can beat the machine ("the machine" being the grand schemes of the antagonists).

Both series are far too thoroughly written to be accurately simplified like this, of course, but the general contrast sticks, I think: subverting power by exercising physical autonomy vs. subverting power by exercising mental autonomy. On that front, both authors (spoilers) play with disability really well.

I don't think there's a particularly crazy link between the two, but there's enough of one that I think a fan of one should read the other.