It's Never Sunny in Doskvol, It's a Blades in the Dark blog

This is a blog centered around a tabletop game, Blades in the Dark. Gathering references and inspiration via tumblr.

[idc0o]

Somehow being a person does not come naturally to me

[eternally-conflicted]

I’m going to get a lot of mileage out of this image I fear

[the-quasar-hero]

Come, you simply must meet my associates! This woman right here is a delightful pervert of sorts, and this fellow here, he’s some kind of a fucking idiot.

[blorbo-posting]

[lizdoart]

dream tiger,,,,,, she has bewitched me,,,,,,

[anxeious]

playing hard to want

[goth-queen]

[only-tiktoks]

[blattaro-moved]

[mybigfatgaylife]

The new Hellraiser movie looks great

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

Trio for Harmonica, Rubber Duck, and Belt in D Minor

[vaspider]

The children of the night, what beautiful music they make…

[sonofshu]

upstairs neighbor behavior

[kwacpe]

[skull-bearer]

I love how all the comments at once as completely accurate but still cannot encapsulate what the fuck is going on here.

[duckbunny]

fun fact about character development by the way. you can make them develop worse.

[duckbunny]

like I mean this very seriously as writing advice. the character should experience events and make decisions that make them different at the end of the story. they should be changed. they do not have to be improved.

they can get worse. they can make decisions of an increasingly terrible nature. they can stop taking risks on kindness. they can discover how much they can get away with. they can find religion, or abandon it, with negative effects on their moral creed. the character has to develop. the character does not have to grow.

[mamoru]

yes I DO live under a rock and her name is the Moon and she is always smiling but she teaches me nothing

[luna-azzurra]

The most interesting thing about your character is not their wound. It's what they built on top of the wound to survive it.

The wound is backstory. The structure they built on top , the habits, the walls, the jokes they make to change the subject, the way they leave before they can be left, that's character. So don't show me the wound. Show me the architecture.

The reader will figure out what's underneath. That's the part that makes them feel clever. Let them have it.

[cassili]

[mutant-distraction]

Bronze ink brush rest in the shape of a mantis, Edo period, Japan, c. 1800, by Murata Seimin (R, 1761-1837), a legendary Japanese metal caster and sculptor who achieved immense fame during the late Edo period.

Credit: Jaded in Japan

[cryptic-forge]

this thing has been rolling around on my desk since summer & i have painted it four or five times to try and get it right. finally succeeded, and here they are.

the bases the chest joints connect to are glued to the hourglass with epoxy, but otherwise the doll? sculpture? is strung with elastic, and i can take it apart like a regular bjd. as you can see, the moon & sun sides can either face in the same or separate directions.

the idea for the sculpt is legit just my brain getting stuck on the expression "hourglass waist" and immediately conjuring up this rpg boss.

[herpsandbirds]

Star-eyed Tree Frog (Ghatixalus asterops), family Rhacophoridae, endemic to the Western Ghats of India

photograph by Hadlee Renjith

[truckstophottie]

Let’s get this straight

Southern Gothic: Abandoned Churches, cryptic gospel signs, don’t go near the marshes, elusive and overly religious people that are probably Up To Something but everyone is too afraid to ask what

Midwestern Gothic: Something Lives In The Corn, broken down trucks, gravel roads that lead nowhere, empty gas stations placed between tiny towns with only one attendant who makes too much eye contact but never speaks

Southwestern Gothic: Animal skulls hung from posts, shacks miles into the barren desert that still look lived in but nobody is ever seen around, They Watch From The Mountains, shapeshifting creatures hiding in the brush

[originalcrime]

dead wife who was MEAN and slept without a TOP SHEET and only went to the beach when it was OVERCAST to SCOWL at the waves

[wlw-whump]

I'm a BIG fan of low ranking characters suddenly thrust into a position of authority they're unprepared for. a young princess, too far down the line of succession to merit any training, forced onto the throne when her whole family dies in one attack. a lowly technician on a team who finds themself the defacto leader when a mission goes wrong and every single person above them is captured or killed. a group of strangers comes together for survival, and the only person with any assertiveness gets assigned a leadership role, even though they have no special skills. do these characters rise to the challenge and lead their respective groups to victory? do they crash and burn under the pressure so hard no one ever trusts them again? do they massively restructure their whole society because any system that puts them in charge can't be doing things right?