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Many characters in Bloodlines will give you some grace and advice because you’re a baby, even if you are being a disrespectful asshole and while it is a decision partially made for gameplay and story convenience, it IS also important narratively.

You are a fledgling left without guidance and many older vampires like Nines and Therese will give you a break even if you test their patience, because you are an idiot baby and they have very likely been there themselves and likely lived because someone else offered them grace and didn’t make an example out of them. The decision to NOT exercise their power and influence, speaks of their own humanity.

Similarly, Mercurio becoming a trusted ally if you show him a shred of grace and humanity and Beckett going out of his way to find you before leaving to warn you about the sarcophagus (and even admitting he might be wrong), and Isaac choosing to warn you to not trust Lacroix regardless of your affiliation, are important showcases of the humanity you can find in WoD. Mercurio appreciates the smallest acts of kindness because he knows they are precious and rare. Beckett knows you’re still somewhat innocent and naive and thinks you deserve a chance to survive this mess. He has no reason to care about you other than that he just does, because there is still that goodness to him. And Isaac doesn’t want to see you perish as another pawn of Lacroix’s, because he appreciates the work you did in his barony and sees that you are capable of being more than what the prince has in mind for you.

You meet Samantha and you know there was love and humanity in your old life, no matter who you were. Someone cares and misses you, and that little scene is so well acted and melancholic, and human.

Heck, the freaking sleazy smut paddler warns you about the snuff tape and tells you it’s a truly messed up deal and not worth dying for. He doesn’t know you. He has no reason to care. But despite how he may come off and being less than a stellar person, he is still decent enough to warn you.

And you often have the option to be kind, yourself. You can help others for no reason. You can be kind to the homeless and to the sex workers, who are easy targets for predators, because many others won’t care about what becomes of them.

Your very first interaction after the opening scene, is to be greeted by a likely inebriated homeless man and if you show him that drop of kindness, he is grateful and polite, and man does it feel like a nice encounter after what you went through.

Finding those bits of humanity and kindness in WoD is so vital to writing good stories in that setting, imo. And power of friendship is OP as fuck in that setting because of how precious and rare it is to find.

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Broke: Vampires don't experience sexual attraction because they're not human. "Woke": Vampires don't experience sexual attraction because that drive is replaced with the drive for blood. Bespoke: Vampires can't differentiate between bloodlust and sexual desire.

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"___ cant be brujah! I mean, their clan is all about anarchy" tell me you never had to actually talk to a bunch of philosophy PhDs without telling me you never had to actually talk to a bunch of philosophy PhDs

"___ cant be brujah! I mean, their clan is all about anarchy"

PLEASE BABY GIRL PLEASE

GO PAST CLAN STEREOTYPES

THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY PRO ANARCHY

THEIR BEAST JUST DOESNT LIKE BEING CONTROLLED BUT THATS JUST THE BEAST

DONNOT LIMIT YOURSELF I BEG

HAVE FUN WITH THE CLANS DO NOT FALL FOR THE STEREOTYPES

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The world never recovered from “Your fave is problematic” and we can trace everything that’s happening to society to that blog.

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I didn't lose enough followers yet for being pro AI

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I think we need one of those popular read-along blogs to tackle The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the same way that's been done for Dracula and Moby-Dick. The number of folks around here who appear to be under the impression that reading a queer subtext into Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a subversion rather than being straightforwardly material to the plot is frankly embarrassing, and I'm assuming this is because nobody's actually read the damn thing.

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i need to press that man like a flower. get in the book boy

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watching WB keep resetting dc movies' universe every three years because they don't have a backbone to go full in with one iteration used to irk me but i've come to realize it's the most literal comics experience you can get on the big screen

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ChatGPT is a good tool, y'all just hate people that use it as a crutch.

It's not a crutch, and people who try to use it to make up for a lack of work ethic or talent are always gonna look for something to leech off of, thems the facts.

But I'm so sick and tired of people just saying, "ChatGPT Bad". No, ChatGPT is good, y'all are just mad at the wrong thing. I use ChatGPT all the time, but I use it as a tool, not a crutch.

What I DO use it for is generating stat blocks for dungeons and dragons and looking up fun facts and information on science I find interesting.

What I DON'T use for is generating plots for my stories or characters for them. I DON'T use it for creating descriptions or doing my work for me.

People who feel bad about using ChatGPT for x, y, or z cause people on this website are regurgitating garbage and saying literal nonsense to make you feel bad. Using ChatGPT for whatever you use it for is okay. Are there other websites you can go to for help on whatever it is you're doing? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but ChatGPT is a nice general tool that can help you with whatever you need in a giffy.

AI tools are here to stay; learn to live with them, and don't feel bad for using them.

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"I know this is AI but-" no buts. Admit that the evil bad scary AI slop made you feel an emotion and thus isn't inherently devoid of value as you claim. Go on. Laugh at the AI meme.

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I don't think I have to explain this one

favorite character: *smiles*

me: aw that’s my baby

favorite character: *kills several people*

me: aw that’s my homicidal baby

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LIE S

idk what VTM storyteller needs to hear this but you do not need to know every single piece of the game’s world building or history to run a good chronicle!

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please share for science reasosn

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ONE VYKOS-SIZED DUCK?! DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO SENSE FOR COMEDY

please share for science reasosn

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(that's from my main blog) so yeah, I'm struggling a bit right now but I'll be back with more hot takes shortly

I'm in that weird limbo where I don't know whether my brain is just in autism overload mode or in MS flare-up "I'm eating my own nervous system" mode

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you guys are so fucking stupidddd omg "rapists and pedophiles should be chemically castrated, this is a good thing" quick tell me about historical precedents of this idea and who or what ideology they are connected to......... 🤔

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Monster fucker this, monster fucker that. What if I want a monster RELATIONSHIP huh?! Monster HAND HOLDING, monster INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, monster COMFORTABLE SILENCE??