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how tf do we do anything productive when there are several dozen feds just.... hanging outside our workplace. Milling about. Blankly staring at the lake with ar-15s, just diss'd out and seemingly as confused as to why they are here as we are.

Very much this mood tbh:

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gotta say the only thing that sucks harder than missing a demo/protest bc of work is having your job clogged up by patrons complaining about said protest/demo and just having to swallow that bile and press forward with the transaction.

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still alive just trying to stay offline bc news as per usual is frying my brain and so attempting to perserve sanity while trying to figure my irl situation has left me prickly at best ;-;

hope yall are doing okay out there

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!!!!! My lad!!! Oh my god T-T

Big challenges

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might be nice to have a pal, you know? a bud.

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Just watched. Adult swim yaoi hits different

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“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

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Man it’s crowded in here

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You get 1, 8 and 10!

What are their physical signs of being undead/otherwise supernatural (if any)?

Depends on his hunger, without blush of life Anatol looks... really bad. He's been hovering at humanity 5 for a few decades so he's got all the greatest hits-- deathly pale/waxy skin, dark veins that stand out more than they should, sunken eyes, ect. If he's over two dots of hunger he has a bad habit of leaving his fangs out, especially if he's around other vamps/potential snaccs.

He, as well as Roman, have a very light wood grain pattern scarified into their skin. Only visible in bright light/sunlight in Roman's case, and most people who notice assume it's an elaborate body tattoo. Otherwise Anatol is pretty boring compared to other Tzim bc unless he is with clanmates/those he know well he doesn't get too creative with his presentation.

With blush activated he looks anemic, but otherwise healthy.

8. What annoys them the most about other vampires? How about specific clans or sects (specify)?

What annoys Anatol in general? He finds fears regarding blood bonding overblown/counterproductive/a product of an ego in need of interrogation. In his mind, it's a fact of undead life. Your spirit is now your body, and both body and spirit are malleable. Freaking out about it not only does nothing to prepare you for thralling/being thralled, but actively works against your chances of making it out of the arrangement soundly. So he often agrees that, yes, you need to be mindful/cautious about vitae and the kindred that offer it. But blind fear/abstinence often just feeds into the toxic power dynamics and arguably makes them worse.

Obviously this is an attitude he keeps to himself, or maybe dole out to a new ghoul/fledgling if they ask/he likes them. Now that he's out of the Sabbat and in the Cam his attitude is slightly less controversial... but not by much. Bc he's not pro blood-bond for structure reasons he's pro blood-bond bc he assumes its a fact of unlife and stopping it from happening is Sisyphsian at best.

As for specific clans? I guess easy answer is Ventrue, since in his mind they are as synonymous with the Cam as the Tremere. So he usually writes most Ventrue he meets as unquestioning bootlicks/paranoid landholders who don't even have the decency to not take themselves so seriously.

He likes poking fun at the Tremere, but doesn't really have any deep seated prejudices about them that aren't also shared by the Ventrue. Also Tremere have the bonus of fiddling/experimenting with shit so at the very least they're doing something with their bullshit structure that isn't just sitting around pretending you're better than everyone.

This is verging on spoiler territory so leaving it under the cut:

Unlike the above, Anatol's grievances with the Lasombra are less based on passing impressions and more rooted in a belief that the clan sold out the Sabbat (and specifically threw the tzim under the bus) in order to curl up at the Cam's feet. Sure, his pack more or less did the same thing but at least they were honest with themselves about why (our shit got rocked and we would prefer to keep our unlives intact, thank you). Also... Roman may or may not be flirting with some Lasombra who may or may not be offering to embrace him. So they also are stealing ghoulsbands/embraces from him now, too.

10. Which discipline would they like to earn? Why?

So my answer is less what he would like to learn and more of what he's choosing to learn instead of the one thing Mihal asked him to do.

Right now he's Mr. Stubborn Man in refusing to learn blood sorcery. Why won't he learn it? Because he's bad at it and it's embarrassing. He has gone out of his way and learned Celerity/Fortitude/Turn Into Croc just to put off learning the blood nerd shit.

Recently this has resulted in some real consequences-- his grandsire is now dead because he had the Sheriff do a blood test instead of just learning the very basic ritual that would have let him do it himself. So obviously, the jig is up after all this time. He is now bugging the local Giovanni about learning Oblivion. :)

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that being said I'm gonna try to be on here/write up posts here more regularly. I know prob only like 2 people read these but hell I need some structure in my creative/goof pursuits.

I may not be making a ton of WIP progress but I've helped get our v5 game back out of torpor, which is where the lions share of my creative energy is going. Also learned how to better use Obsidian/syncing in my continued effort to abandon the google word processing suite 🙏

In other news: The fledglings are slowly catching on to Anatol's whole Garden deal. One has already sworn off the Cam and is flirting with a local branch of the church of Caine, and a second who got a glimpse of some of the blossom schlacta (but passed out and immediately assumed it was a fever dream) is on the verge of rediscovering/fucking off and swearing off vamp society entirely. Needless to say I'm overwhelmingly proud of my very, very terrible boy. :D

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my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

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I may not be making a ton of WIP progress but I've helped get our v5 game back out of torpor, which is where the lions share of my creative energy is going. Also learned how to better use Obsidian/syncing in my continued effort to abandon the google word processing suite 🙏

In other news: The fledglings are slowly catching on to Anatol's whole Garden deal. One has already sworn off the Cam and is flirting with a local branch of the church of Caine, and a second who got a glimpse of some of the blossom schlacta (but passed out and immediately assumed it was a fever dream) is on the verge of rediscovering/fucking off and swearing off vamp society entirely. Needless to say I'm overwhelmingly proud of my very, very terrible boy. :D

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