I played the first game of a Vampire the Masquerade tabletop rpg campaign tonight and my dudes, I am a lifelong lover of melodramatic Anne Rice vampires and I STILL couldn’t stop thinking about how much more accurate WWDITS is for how real life vampires would be.
Like the whole first game was introducing the politics of the city and the different clans and assembling our party coterie and getting our missions and learning who all the important people and backstories are and all I could think of was Lazlo’s line, “I became a vampire to suck and fuck forever,” not sit in boring ass local municipal government meetings WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT ALL THE VAMPIRE POLITICS IS.
Lazlo is so fucking valid for saying that seriously who the FUCK wants to be a vampire leader with responsibilities, just so you can be forced to micromanage bickering egos for ETERNITY??
I made an ancient Roman Centurion character who was woken from torpor by an archaeologist team, and the first thing she did was get the lead archaeologist to get her up to speed on the modern era and then IMMEDIATELY fuck off for an endless vacation in the Italian countryside with him while secretly promoting his career (by literally just… pointing out places where he should dig and explaining Ancient Roman stuff to him so he always has amazing new, accurate discoveries) and they are just living the LIFE in the countryside outside Rome before the campaign mission pulled all the characters to freezing-ass BOSTON of all places.
Thankfully, I designed the character to be humorous so she can actually say aloud things like, “And people wonder why I don’t give a shit about vampires or vampire politics? Why the fuck am I running errands for local bureaucrats when I could be in a villa on the Mediterranean having my professor boyfriend read Ovid to me under the moonlight, ffs!” Like out of game I’m stoked for the plot the DM has planned but in game I’m laughing at how ridiculous the world of vampires is to anyone with anything better to do with their immortality.
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My problem is that when I consume media I instantly want what the characters have. When I watched the adventure zone and other rpg tabletop podcasts I started playing dnd. Then I started writing. I watched JJBA when I was younger and created three Jojo parts for myself for no god damn reason. When I watched phantom of the opera I begun writing a script inspired by it and other things. Common occurrences such as this were common place in my brain and filed my time
And then I watch good omens, wwdits, and our flag means death, and I crave going out for adventure. I crave being able to love unconditionally, I crave the centuries long pining, I crave the freedom that comes with power. I want to soar in the sky yet sit and spend it with someone I love in a way that isn’t human, in a way that is just purely love and purely just to feel loved. It just makes me feel more and more lonely, and makes me want more than I can never get.
It’s abit cringe but what can you do?
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WIP ask game!
Rules are as follows: post the barebones plot of your wips and let people send you an ask with the title that intrigues them the most, then post a snippet/tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have wips. I was tagged by the excellent @nat-20s!
The Magnus Archives:
Focusing on the longfics and/or those that are in my immediate queue to write, as I have way too many half-finished drafts and plot bunnies to list them all!
The Story That I Am Writing Today: I'm taking this one out of the mix in case talking about it curses my motivation lol. But it's my 200th TMA story and I'm excited!
Castaways 22 - Piano: I have a lot of Castaways stories in the drafts but the next one up is Jon buys a piano.
WWDITS Fusion: Jon is a vampire, Martin is his familiar. Can I make it any more obvious?
Me and you and you and me: The Magnus Archives is an RPG distributed by Georgie Barker Ltd. and licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 4.0- (It's a D&D AU)
The Research Journal of Jonathan Sims, c. 1818: Jon is the Institute's first Archivist (or he will be when it opens later in the year) and Martin is an Institute Librarian from 2018 who crash-lands in his study via accidental time travel.
RQBB2020: I swear I still intend to finish this one. It was a plot bunny I was keeping in my back pocket to write for the Rusty Quill Big Bang in 2020, but I ended up not joining because I realized I wouldn't be able to finish on the deadline. Which, given that it's now two years later, was a pretty accurate assessment on my part. Anyway it's a S4 AU, gist of it is the Distortion starts messing with Jon and Martin's heads and sends them through various real-or-not-real worlds where they have a chance to get a happy ending - Archivist!Sasha AU, coffee shop AU, etc.
Oneshot Roulette: If you want to hear about those half-finished drafts and plot bunnies, send me "Misc." and I'll pick one to talk about!
Discworld:
(What's this? A non-tma fic from me??? I'm shocked too.)
The little wanderer and the rogue wizard: Several decades after Interesting Times, Twoflower returns to Ankh Morpork for one last visit. Essentially this story is a vessel to explore all the lingering, unresolved feelings that Twoflower and Rincewind's friendship always leaves me with.
Seven people feels like a lot to tag but uhhhh let's see: @acemartinblackwood, @bibliocratic, @cuttoothed, @dathen, @organchordsandlightning, @radiosandrecordings, @somuchbetterthanthat
(I have no idea who's been tagged already, so if any of you have already done this and/or just don't have any wips you want to talk about, feel free to ignore!)
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obligatory intro post!
heya! im river. this is my tumblr!
about me
age: 29
orientation: queer/demi/arospec
gender: agender (ae/aem/aer or they/them)
neurotype: autistic/neurodivergent
disabilities: chronic anxiety, psychosis (mostly paranoia and derealization but also depersonalization and dissociation, also delusional), chronic gi issues, auditory processing issues, ptsd
ideology: leftist/ancom leaning
privileges: white, middle class upbringing
spirituality: buddhist witch, believe in a lot of weird bullshit (the line between this and psychosis is blurry sometimes)
relationship status: relationship anarchist
special interests: entomology (insects) + arachnids + isopods + myriapods, hyenas, lucid dreaming, writing, paleontology, diy dollhouses/miniatures, j-fashion (menhera, decora, spank kei, cult party kei, fairy kei, punk lolita, bittersweet lolita, gothic lolita, yami kawaii, yume kawaii, mori girl/boy, harajuku street fashion), candy gore art, farming rpgs (especially sos, ac, minecraft), personality quizzes, sanrio (cinnamoroll is fave), queer microlabels, ancient civilizations, techware fashion/art, furry art, cringe art, dreamcore, weirdcore, old web, AEW and pro wrestling, mycology (mushrooms), mandela effect and reality shifting stories, cyberpunk fic and art, diy fashion and decor, survival skills, mythology, etc (may add to later)
what I'll post besides special interests (tag list):
me: things that i vibe with
current events: news (you can block this)
feel good: positivity
art: art i like
humor tag: shitposts and memes
queer: queer stuff
gender: gender stuff
aro: arospec stuff
friends: cute animals and critters
important: psa and important info
life hack: self improvement, etc
mental health: tips, awareness, education, etc (will probably tag specifically too like bpd, psychosis, ptsd, adhd, anxiety)
sw: sex work stuff
m a: mutual aid
fashion: j-fashion as well as faecore and punk fashion
want: things i wish i could have (may or may not have shop links)
recovery: things pertaining to either alcohol, self-harm, ed, or bpd recovery
resources: resources i want to remember
my posts (formerly “river says things”): diaryposting, life updates, thoughts, etc *I will probably just say vent posts from now on. idk my name
may tag friends if something makes me think of you!
current tags for blocking purposes: ableism, racism, transphobia, queerphobia, whorephobia, current events (rn "roe v wade" for example), sexual assault, sex, rape culture, diet culture, gore, creepy crawlies (for insects et all), hate crime, unreality, police, police brutality, abuse, addiction, ed, relapse, substance (sometimes will talk about psychedelics), slut shaming, csa, pedophilia, food (for people with ed or for during Ramadan), anti-semitism, islamophobia, please note that as of 06.28.22 i have started tagging again so be cautious going backward!! also!!! let me know if i should add something!
fandoms in case relevant (in rough order of how high the interest is): sanrio, animal crossing, minecraft, junji ito, skyrim, our flag means death (ofmd), what we do in the shadows (wwdits), king of the hill (koth), trailer park boys (tpb), russian doll, beastars, kuragehime, everything everywhere all at once, hannibal, x files, buffy... will add more as they come to mind
feel free to send me asks! im not always good at responding so if i forget it's not personal!
Edit 05.09.23: I no longer support AI art. This has been true for a while but I haven't updated my intro. If you go back far enough you may find some art. When I first got into it I thought they used only free photo databases and only art that had entered public domain. I know this was naive now. I liked the hyperrealistic style renders that could generate character inspiration. I didn't know how much art was being stolen and how many styles were being replicated nonconsenually. Honestly when I got into it I was being very delusional. So it took me a while to accept that what was happening with AI art was happening. Using AI art tools for fun was not as completely harmless as it first appeared. I don't want to help that industry, but I do hope one day AI art could be different. Not a threat. Because the programming potential would not be a replacement of human art. AI programming is a special interest bc I think the field needs people who care about the ethics of how AI technology is used. I sometimes blog about AI art in reference to this interest in understanding the industry of AI as a whole and how it can be used for justified choices.
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