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Skull with Veil (2024 / oil on canvas) - Fabrice Grimard

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Formal dress, 1897-1898, Wien Museum. Organza, cotton, silk satin, taffeta, faille

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the franken monster. angel

for my lit class :)

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went to my best friend’s house last night and saw a little plushie dog and plushie cat that had been sewn together down the middle into a two-headed chimera. I said, “did you do that?” she said, “yes, I saved them.”

turns out at her old job when the last two plushies hadn’t sold and became deadstock, her boss told her to cut them up and throw them out. so she cut them each in half, preserved their heads, and then rebuilt them together.

cannot stop thinking about the way these little plushies were approached with the instinct of a Vampire or some sort of ancient god. “Let me save you [turn you into a monster].”

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Rahadin is one of my favorite NPCs ever.

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Let's take a break from one horrible man (Douglas) and talk about another horrible man (Strahd), this time - the female version of him. SheStrahd campaign poster for @curseofthebloodcountess's and @troubledtimeinravenloft's campaign, starring Her Grace herself, three party members, and Kolyan siblings. Boi, this one almost cost me my sanity.

More info about commissions here, more details in close-ups under the cut

You can only guess how long it took us to set up the whole flower thing.

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Some Curse of Strahd NPC art I've been hoarding!

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Rudolph van Richten - (1489 DE)

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barovian edition do you love the color of the sky

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Milivoj ended up being important to our campaign, so I ended up coming up with a fun new outfit for him!

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what if there was a repressed blond man in love with a dark-haired maniac

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I have private brain rot about Modern!Blood Countess/Real Housewives. Here are some thoughts/images I have to live with that I need to inflict on people:

Ez driving and living in a van. Bonus points for her picking up Theo and the Vallikicule on her way home from dress rehearsals for Rictavio's Carnival of Wonders

Lucian trying to teach Theo to drive his mini van and shoving the responsibility on Listerine when they make fun

Izek Strazni in his cop cruiser and uniform. He looks so stupid, y'all.

Fiona trying to recommend a good divorce lawyer to Lydia. It's a queer-coded af suggestion and very unreciprocated, but Lydia still takes the card and swears she'll consider it

Nikolai Wachter breaking in to the Vallaki hospital or county courthouse to find Elizaveta's medical records, trying to find out what they listed her cause of death. Karl is along for the shits and giggles.

Victor being offered a full ride to Immol University but having to "settle for" Vallaki Community College because his parents don't want him out of their sight after the bullshit that happened with Stella

Tam has hobo vibes. He's not a hobo - he's a homeowner with some land outside of town - but he comes into the city a couple times a month for supplies and people are weird about it. To be fair, Tam's probably also weird about it.

Rictavio has fangirls. No one is happy about it, but especially not Rictavio.

Where do the cars and mass-produced goods come from? Who knows!

The druids are eco-terrorists who are rumored to be part of the Cult of Mother Night. Some of them are more integrated into society, but they're still like... extremist hippies who want you to sign this pamphlet to protect the environment

Krezk is romanticized by sourdough starter tradwife wannabes. Real Krezkites don't know they're being celebrated on TikTok.

Vallaki Pride Events go hard. Vallaki Halloween trunk or treats. Vallaki holiday parties that last for dayyyys. You get what I mean.

God. Just all of modern Vallaki, tbh. I should get back to that fic.

Rahadin with a smartwatch. The only number he has saved in it is Strahd's. He still receives ill-timed calls from the brides, his baby mama, and his boyfriend, who just called to say hi. (Goddammit Cordy.)

Strahd has regular Zoom meetings with her top agents - the brides, Vasili, Rahadin - but someone always has hella lag and Rahadin's choir keeps getting picked up on the mic.

Vasili puts Lysandra up in a gorgeous penthouse apartment with a lot of windows. She wears a lot of designer brands to impress the in-laws, but otherwise lives in lululemon athleisure wear, trying to stay current enough that Vasili doesn't notice that she's slowly (compared to humans. Compared to him? Rapidly) aging.

Marigold facetimes with Cordy, but he's really bad at the camera so she usually ends up staring at the ceiling or the garden while they catch up

Ivan and Escher are rival influencers. Superfans have noticed little things that suggest they may be more than rivals, but Strahd/Escher shippers accuse them of reading too much into things. It's a scandal brewing in a small sphere of Barovia, so Strahd kind of ignores it. What she doesn't ignore is when Escher tries to include too much info about her or her court in his "little videos"

Kehrani is in the army and she kicks ass, but that's not new

Theo's entire bedroom being covered in statues of saints, live-laugh-love signs, and Rictavio fangirl posters.

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I do not think Theo is geniuely every going to say that he kidnapped her, in her mind she went willingly with him and especially after what happened she won't she won't breath a word of it

Underrated moment in Saturday's game:

The players know that Lucian and Ez are exes. When asked if he knew Ez (who it is implied spent the night with him), Lucian said, "Yes. This isn't about me. You almost drowned in Ravenloft, Theo." in his most disappointed dad voice and the issue was dropped. Never mind the exes thing, you wanna talk about your monster hunting days, Lucian? No?

Like father like daughter. Questionable dating histories, lies by omission, and doing dangerous shit in the name of the Morning Lord. He has no leg to stand on, but he'll be damned if he doesn't pull off the "I'm not mad I'm just disappointed" act like a pro.

Can't wait for him to find out Izek kidnapped her (if he ever finds out) in Vallakovich Manor. Like father, like daughter.

Screaming.

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T is for Tiger

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