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The Sorrowful Truth

June of 2020

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energy

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Little miss gaslight gatekeep girlboss

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Boss: "Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We'll circle back..."

Me:

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i really think mage the ascension should be more popular with rp fans on this website especially vtm fans. i know it doesnt have a video game to get people into it like vtmb. i know it doesnt necessarily have to have the goth aesthetic that people like. and i know the source book is intimidating and huge and fuck off complicated and its a big barrier to entry i KNOW. but.

you can find a mage mechanic explanation for SO MANY things if you put your mage goggles on because mage was made with the goal of encompassing and putting mechanics to all of these narratives that sit to the left of possibility. which is what makes it so fuckin delicious to me. a lot of the factions of the game are rooted in societies, organisations, and loose associations of thought that held or still hold alternate beliefs about how the world works, because these are patterns of thinking that exist, and people could point to as explanations for why something unexplainable happened! there's a mage faction for people who believe in hermetic alchemy and a faction for people who believe in roko's basilisk, do you get what im saying

mage is sci fi and occult and steampunk and grunge and urban fantasy and horror and goth, if you want! you can play mage like a convoluted faction politics war game if you want. or like a grand questing adventure. or like a dark personal struggle. mages are anyone from an investment banker to an etsy witch to a televangelist to a marine biologist to a teen stoner or whoever. and this isn't a 'this is generic game ruleset that can adapt to anything' argument. there's a specific setting with extensive lore: its just that literally anyone can become a participant, as long as theyre weird enough in the head

the concept of paradigm, or 'how the universe functions/why your character believes impossible things are possible' is so fucking flexible and can create a million different characters, all with their own self imposed hard barriers. i dont believe mage is a good game for power gamers, because technically, yeah, sure, with the right spheres, a mage can do anything. but the fun is in looking into their brains and figuring out what they believe they can do, and what they believe they can't do. because belief is the hard limits of the system (that and being too obvious about breaking reality). and THEN because of how reality works, telling each character that theyre all right at the same time, so they can argue about it forever. it's delicious, its chaotic. someones hacking the matrix, someone else is reading goat entrails, someone else is doing a high ritual ceremony, someone else is tiktok reality shifting. all these people can be in the same party. take my hand. come play wizards with me

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There are problems to Jack Slash being boring and vacuous on purpose. Such as reading about boring and vacuous characters is boring. However there is one colossal shining star that makes it all worth it and that is in decades of Worm discourse I have never seen anyone sincerely argue that Jack Slash had a point. Joker and Homelander never had a point either but because they’re slightly better at bullshitting some people always buy into whatever baseless anprim shit they’re saying.

Any obviously deranged villain in any media who gets a chance to monologue will, without fail, convince some people that they have a point. Except Jack Slash. It is fundamentally clear that he is going off basically nothing. Thanks Wildbow for that at least

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No one ever talks about Victoria's most egregious crime: braiding wet hair

Why does she do this. Why. Victoria nooooo it's going to be so brittle you are going to have so much breakage and split ends

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my job in the comune will be to fuck your mom

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some terraria genderbent npcs

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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