#robotslenderman

[felassan]

What kind of spirit do you think Felassan waz?

Swag

[nightingaletrash]

I wanted to tell you that my friend, who's only just entered endgame on DAtV, told me that if Assan died his character would be devastated.

Five minutes later he informed me that he'd chosen Davrin to lead the scouting team.

[forceofconviction]

🥺

WHAT IS THIS EMOTE FOR WHY ARE YOU SAD WHO DO I KILL

[argentis]

How long have you had your motorcycle license for now? What's it like having a bike VS a car? I imagine it makes shopping a bit of a pain - or do bikes have more storage on them than they appear?

1. I've had my learner motorcycle license for about 7 months now. I plan on going for my restricted after I hit 1000ks and do at least one Ride Forever course and/or one-on-one lesson to make sure I'm doing things correctly.

2. Motorcycle riding is a bit like riding a pushbike but no pedalling and the clutch is your Roman Empire.

I can't speak to personally owning or using a car since I have yet to get behind the wheel. Definitely better for all-weather use and there are different costs involved.

Vehicle registration (rego) for Despechá (Honda CB125F) is just over NZ$400 a year, compared to my dad's Ford Mondeo, which is a bit over NZ$100. This is due to the much higher ACC levy (about $300pa on mine, I pay more in GST than the actual license fee component of my rego) on motorcycles due to the increased risk of injury/death riding.

Fuel-wise, bike is far more economical. A full tank from empty would cost about NZ$30 (11L tank @ ~$2.70/L for 91 unleaded) at the current fuel prices and gets me about 700ks. Would be about $100 to fill the Mondeo for a roughly equivalent range.

Full coverage insurance costs for both vehicles is about the same at about $400pa.

Parking can be a lot cheaper for motorcycles (free dedicated on-street parking). Have to go out of your way for free on-street parking for cars in the city centre. Otherwise, paying at least $4 for an hour of parking.

Gear can be pricy too. Helmet is legally required, and gloves are the bare additional minimum for many, but ideally, you'd have a jacket and boots, and maybe pants. If not to avoid road rash, then to avoid hypothermia in winter. Though it's up to the individual and how much gear they want to wear.

You do get to use high occupany and some bus lanes if you ride here which can make some commutes quicker.

3. I've become a lot more mindful of how much I can carry on the bike. There isn't much stock storage on mine. Only enough space to store her toolkit and spare manual under the seat.

I don't use my bike for a lot of grocery shopping beyond picking up bread and milk so a backpack suffices. Planning on buying panniers and a tank bag but that's becoming less for shopping and more for future travel plans.

Some scooters do have a lot more storage under the seat or on the steering column. It depends on the model.

[althedasworld]

To flame or flock, the goat will fall.

THE WIKIPEDIA GODS HAVE DECIDED

GÄVLEBOCKEN IS DEAD!! 🦀🦀

[i-can-kazoo]

Always honored when a beloved blogger that I follow decides to follow me back. We are besties now and there is a high probability that I will try messaging you with a picture of a mushroom.

[roseate-felidae]

Don't know if this has been posted yet. But a development update has been released about Bloodlines 2 just half an hour ago.

It looks to have character customisation. Woo, no more new age haircut for an elder!

I like the graphics. It is being postponed in release to early 2025. Hopefully, that is a good thing.

Vampire the masquerade and the world of darkness belong to Paradox entertainment

@robotslenderman

[nightingaletrash]

can you imagine if Evie brought Kali to visit the Vykosoviches

Evie: hey guys, meet my new friend! She's a Ravnos too!

Natasya: oh god they're multiplying

The evening is then spent making Natasya second guess between Evie’s Chimerstry and Kali's sleight of hand, and then PENIS TO THE FACE

Evie and Kali are now hightailing it out of there Natasya is still trying to figure out if the dick is an illusion or if Evie struck a bargain with Sascha just to get a penis for this meeting.

[nevertrustanoracle]

Went to a LotR marathon with @ryttu3k and @robotslenderman yesterday.

I now know what happens when you put a few hundred passionate LotR geeks in a room together for twelve and a half hours.

Best moments included:

1. Cheering and clapping every time a meme moment happened.

2. A murmur went through the audience, followed by laughter, then cheering and clapping when Aragorn kicked the helmet.

3. Cheering after “And Rohan will answer.”

4. “I am no man!” *loudest cheering so far*

[argentis]

12, 19

12. Talk about a new friend you made this year

Co-worker has been upgraded to friend after we bonded over fandom and pet shenanigans. Ended up singing "Still Alive" between orders a couple of weeks back. Gotta have silly moments, especially at this time of the year.

19. What’re you excited about for next year?

Going for my restricted motorcycle licence at some stage after February and working up to doing The Spite Ride on Despechá.

[relleytrots]

Tag Nine People You'd Like To Get To Know Better

FAVOURITE COLOUR(s): Dark, rich purples and reds. Greens: British racing, chartreuse. Bottle greens and browns. Black and white contrasts. Glasz eyes are the most beautiful on Earth. Love a check or tartan pattern. I paint all my miniatures in cold blue/bronze or warm purple/brass contrast unless physically prevented from doing so.

FAVOURITE FLAVOUR(s): Rock salt and woodsmoke and paprika in a thin batter. Rich thick curry sauce - warm and textured, not hot-like-burning. Whole milk and sour cream. Fresh carrots and tomatoes - just chomp those fuckers down. Sourdough and soft cheese. Tea with an undertone of citrus or an abundance of honey. Mulled apples. Dirty chai. And above all, peppermint.

FAVOURITE MUSIC: Tradgoth and post punk (basslines you can slink to), trip hop (take me somewhere far away), post rock soundscapes (the more elegiac the better), prog (but more the Pink Floyd pomp rock than wildly experimental stuff), anything Jim Jarmusch or Polly Jean Harvey ever touch, sad country and sleazy swamp rocks. Music for people who want to crawl into a swamp, cop off, and drown each other.

FAVOURITE MOVIE(s): Franklyn. Withnail & I. Only Lovers Left Alive. I detest busy plotting and spectacle and run on vibes. But also, because sometimes I'm From The Nineties And Also British, Guy Ritchie's entire oeuvre. Sin City has a nice vibe even though it's a nasty piece of work. Possession (1981) and Nosferatu (1979) - I'll watch Isabelle Adjani in anything. Or Eva Green. Give me pale, deathless, insane women.

FAVOURITE BOOK(s): UGH! Anything by Terry Pratchett. S T Gibson's vampire stories. Anything by Susanna Clarke. Earthsea. The first four books of Anno Dracula. Anything by Laura Shepherd-Robinson. Alis Hawkins' Oxford novels. Seth Dickenson's Masquerade and Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb. The Wolf Hall trilogy. Sherlock Holmes and weird post-Holmes stuff from Obverse. T. S. Eliot, William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, and a raft of contemporary Welsh poets - Cath Drake, Katherine Stansfield, Christopher Meredith. If I had a guilty pleasure, Black Library novels (John French, Matt Farrer and Aaron Dembksi-Bowden) would be it.

FAVOURITE SERIES(es): Doctor Who, Lock, Stock..., The Biederbeck Trilogy, What We Do In The Shadows, LA By Night, The Thick of It and... Taskmaster. Taskmaster is my religion. I like seeing the Bit all comics do get tested to destruction. And podcasts: Poorhammer, the 40K Badcast. I get my hobby chat fix from those.

LAST SONG: :Of The Wand And The Moon:, 'Hold My Hand'

LAST SERIES: The Thick of It (rewatch).

LAST MOVIE: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (comfort rewatch, I've been poorly)

CURRENTLY READING: Viriconium by M. John Harrison.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: nothing

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: ideating a festive V5 one-off and new chronicles for next year, but otherwise taking it easy (I've been really poorly)

TAGGED BY: @silkenred

TAGGING: @heywizards @biomechanicaltomato @gwenynen-bach @gingerbeer-queer @robotslenderman

[themarginalthinker]

working myself up to starting chapter 4. this little snippet of conversation popped into my head in the shower and I figure I might as well indulge to re-flex my writing muscles.

'the cellar' refers to a character/set piece mentioned in the Nosferatu Clan book.

this also happens to make reference to @robotslenderman 's nos fic 'Radio Silence', though only canon WoD character's names are mentioned and it's not necessary that you read that story, this is just a fun reference.

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"-so that's when it all went to shit. 2004, man, crazy fucking year for us."

"Well, it's New York," Charlie says with a small shrug. "Big city, bigger problems."

"We still have plenty of problems for being two smaller cities," Blue hums from across the room, eye still focused intently on whatever he was scrolling through on the monitor.

"Rafin's lucky the clan's still got any fucking trust in him. His childe is lucky to be alive from what I hear," Tweak says.

Charlie tilts her head. "What happened?"

"Buncha shit. Had to evacuate the NYC warren because SI found an in, she apparently broke into the fucking NSA to make sure the Breach was cauterized-"

"Fat lotta good it did in the end," Blue grumbles from his seat.

"I mean, we're still here," Charlie points out.

"Object lessons," Tweak shrugs. "Oh, and something about a Lasombra?"

Now Blue looks over for real, drawing back from the screen to look at them properly. "That's just a rumor."

"It's not."

"It is. I have never seen proof it's not."

"Well obviously, because it's not like they'd show up on camera or recording."

Blue sneers at Tweak and glances at Charlie. "Just know that even the best of us can get bad or misinterpreted information, 'kay?"

"Yes, I know what reddit is."

"Hey-" Tweak snips indignantly, but Blue is already smiling.

"When the troll gets trolled, it's time to leave."

"It's fucking true!" Tweak cries, throwing his arms out, looking between the two. When neither Charlie nor Blue seem to be biting, it's clear he makes a quick calculation in his mind, and decides the satisfaction will be worth the price of what must be some pretty interesting information. He crosses his arms and leans back against the desk.

"I got it from the Cellar."

Almost immediately, Blue's back is straightening and he's glaring at Tweak. "No you didn't."

"Yes, I did."

Blue stands up, abandoning his own work for the moment.

"You did not get the rumor that the DC Elysium has a literal shadow Prince who is a Lasombra from the fucking Cellar."

"The Cellar...like, someone selling this info?" Charlie asks, looking between the two of them.

Blue glances at her and makes a frustrated noise. "No, not 'seller', cellar, as in, another word for basement. It's this...network, as far as I know, because I refuse to believe it's just one fucking person, of Nos who gather really, really buried secrets, like, more than what we usually do. And Tweak wouldn't be engaging in either of those anyway, because he does not have fucking access to the Cellar."

Blue says the last part with an irritated pointedness. Tweak just smiles wide.

"You wish I didn't have access."

"Because you don't! No one does! The Cellar has to contact you!"

[ryttu3k]

You ever think about Kindred that get too acclimated to their abilities, to the point it starts making things difficult in small ways? Like a Ravnos who forgets the heavily locked door to a room in their haven is just an illusion covering a normal one, or a Nosferatu that reflexively goes invisible at the slightest sound. Idk, it’s fun to think about how the things they rely on can be a bit of a problem.

Ooh, this is actually a mechanic! There's a set of derangements that are linked to excessive discipline use, including the Obfuscate one you mentioned!

"Compulsive Invisibility: Commonly associated with Obfuscate, the vampire has been so attuned to invisibility that it costs Willpower for him to turn his powers off."

@robotslenderman has an OC with that one, which is awkward since she's a courier... and turns her car invisible too XD She's so fun.

[missn11]

Stealing this from another fandom, but my talented friend! Let's play Fic authors self rec! Reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to other writers if you like. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

@badass-at-cuddling oh this is fun :D thank you for sending this ask :D

Hmmm... oh this is hard to break down my fics into a top five XD

So in no particular order, here are my top five fave fics I've ever written, I've picked fics that are finished to make it easier for me to choose from, but again I really enjoy most of my fics so its hard for me to choose between all my babies XD

All she'll have is divinity and the void https://archiveofourown.org/works/41238993 This was my first fanfic for Devilman and one I'm still proud of too. The idea just got a hold of me for days before I finally wrote it, I've always feel that both the Devilman series and the fandom really have a bad habit of treating Miki like a holy saint rather than as a flawed human being and not really letting her be angry(honestly Miki being allowed to be angry is a theme in my devilman fics so far XDDD) and also I love exploring the affects of going through time loop after time loop would have on characters like Miki who has to relieve her death over and over again.

2. Better to wither away or be beckoned to war? https://archiveofourown.org/works/34106080/chapters/84849817 This was a emotionally rough fic for me to write but I'm proud of getting it done and I had fun exploring the idea that the beckoning and the withering were one in the same since they both have the same temporary cure, and also love writing LaCroix making even more awful choices out of desperation to keep his life before he realises he is wrong.

3. Hindsight is a Bitch https://archiveofourown.org/works/25990186 I just really got into the idea of Damsel looking back at her relationship with Nines and seeing all the messed up things he had done(in the fic's AU ofc) and again you can see most of my fave fic are fic where I do deep character and relationship studies XD

4. Drawn in by a Kuei-jin and a Prince https://archiveofourown.org/works/23437015 Ahh my first LaCroix/Nines/Ming Xiao fic the one I really wrote for myself XD I do really enjoy writing Nines' POV and his bite backs to LaCroix and Ming Xiao and ofc the femdomness of it all XD

5. Movie Night https://archiveofourown.org/works/22886368 and here's another LaCroix/Nines/Ming Xiao fic I wrote out of pure self-indulgence, sometimes its just nice to write fics where the characters are just having a nice movie night and just being cute together. :3

Phew that was hard to choose from and honestly in the future if I do this again and I write more fics I'm sure this top five will shift around XD

now as for who I'll taggg... @akirenhell, @soggy-devilman, @ryttu3k, @robotslenderman, @iravaid, @lower-east-side and @badass-at-cuddling :D

[hubakon1368]

#let vampires be inhuman gdi #if I wanted to write people with human morals I’d just write people #my favourite thing about vampires is how being required to hurt people to get by #changes your morals #blue/orange morality as a concept is WOEFULLY underdone #LET THEM BE VAMPIRES!

Preserving @robotslenderman's tags.

i want peoples hot takes idc what the media is give me your hot takes i beg of you

[roseate-felidae]

Scottish Wildcats from British wildlife centre

These are last years adolescents, hard to take good photos with the bars in the way. They came out for a feeding/talk. They were eating chicken chicks. There was four in one enclosure.

There were younger kittens in an adjacent enclosure. one kitten was brave enough to approach an adolescent close to the bars. The kittens came out after the feeding talk. the bars were at a bad angle and appear harsher in the photos.

Overall I was super happy to see living Scottish wildcats (I had seen many taxidermy specimens). it had been my dream for a long time. The photos aren't terrible and I saw kittens!!! I was interested to hear they can take down Muntjacs (one was recorded to take down a roe deer). These are not what Domestic cats are descended from (that is the African wildcat, Felis lybica). But they did remind me of little tabby cats and can hybridise. They used to native to all of the British isles. But now have small strongholds in Scotland. The kittens from here are released in programs when they are old enough. They are critically endangered. Threatened by hybridisation with free roaming domestics, habitat loss and were once prosecuted.

@mekanikaltrifle @robotslenderman @amber-tortoiseshell @lepurcinus @felinefractious finally got round to uploading my camera photos of the Scottish wildcats! not the best photos due to bars but I'm happy. also kittens!!!!