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[prophcassandra]

Mmmm, overly horny descriptions of what drinking blood is like. My favorite genre of VtM book sidebars Velvety, that's a good word

[prophcassandra]

V6 really is keeping the tradition of odd numbered editions being the gritty personal horror ones and the even numbered editions being the weird, experimental, gay ones (compliment)

V1: ahh being a vampire is terrible, I need to find a cure! All of the prim and proper vampires don't want me, I can only rely on myself to overcome this curse

V2: being a vampire fucks actually let’s team up with Samuel Haight and that Ravnos elder pretending to be Caine and blow up a Baali methuselah inside a volcano

Revised: Being a vampire is an intense struggle with your inner Beast, you have to cling to those scraps of humanity you still have, even when the monsters around you are trying to strip it away.

V20: Me and my Sabbat Pack all follow different versions of the Path of Lilith, we have hella vampire sex and practice forbidden blood magick, and there’s a weird guy with shark teeth telling us about a cool club in the underworld

V5: Being a vampire means being hurt, first by your sire who killed you and turned you into a monster, and then by the elders who expect you to bear the brunt of their burdens, including the bigoted hunters who consider your very existence a crime. I fear the apocalypse is upon us

V6: Last night I punched a hole in a hunter's ass cheek, lifted him up with one hand, and shotgunned him like a can of beer. The entire thing was recorded by a ring doorbell camera but everyone thought the online video was AI. Anyways I'm slightly more monstrous now but I'm going to balance it out by having a very emo outburst at the club later.

[lilaposting]

the vtm v6 packets are so ass

[feyd-rautha-apologist]

I think it's really funny how Mage the Ascension has to struggle with the whole having to fit in the same universe as all the other WoD games thing at times. Like they really said "All of reality is fake and based purely on what society thinks is real. Except for vampires, those factually exist"

[moon-chanter]

World of darkness fan wrapped

you made 76 vampires and used 1 of them in an actual game

you thought about joining a mage the ascension game six times this year but still don't understand wtf paradox does

you avoided joining a wta game because there was a white guy who was a little too excited about get of fenris

you drew two (2) doodles of your headcanon beckett fursona

you shitposted about sebastian lacroix twice

you went to a larp that turned into an orgy once

you got into an argument with someone who thinks the technocracy are the good guys

you got into an argument with someone who thinks the traditions are the good guys

you got into an argument with someone who thinks the camarilla are the good guys

you got into an argument with someone who thinks the anarchs are the good guys

you got into an argument with someone who thinks the sabbat are the good guys

you got into an argument with someone who thinks the garou are the good guys

you got into an argument with someone who thinks pentex are the good guys and drank 4 hard ciders while wondering how the hell someone came to that conclusion

you got into a heated debate about vampire sex 69 times

you forgot about changeling the dreaming, wraith the oblivion, and mummy the resurrection again

[prophcassandra]

I think one of the biggest traps that White Wolf writers fall into is marketing the World of Darkness as "Gothic Punk" but misunderstanding the difference between Gothic Punk and Grimdark. There are superficial similarities between these two world building styles, but in the important details they couldn't be more different Gothic Punk means three primary things. The world is like ours but has its worst problems, like crime, overpopulation, pollution, etc, all played up from how they are in reality. The world, despite its darkness, had a great deal of beauty to be seen within the darkness: that's the "Gothic" aspect. Finally, there is hope in the setting for change, and a chance to fight back against the powers that be and change things for the better, even if it's a long shot, and hard as hell, the chance for hope is there: that's the "punk" aspect. Grimdark is where the world is hopeless. There's no chance for things to ever get better, and the best you can do is try to prevent them from falling apart as fast, and maybe creating a future for some small group if you play your cards right. Grimdark can be fun too, but things in a Grimdark setting are even more fucked up than in Gothic Punk. The fun of the setting comes from the whole "rage against the dying of the light" mood, where you know things are going to shit fast, but you plan to go down fighting The distinction between these two moods is what separates the World of Darkness from something like 40k. Gothic Punk is a world where a dumb Brujah neonate can get lucky and kill the founder of the Camarilla, or, if you've played bloodlines, where a dumb neonate with luck and a lot of help can dust the Prince of LA and a Tzimisce elder. It's the world where the Garou maybe have a shot at taking down Pentex, even if it's a hard one. Where the Traditions can score major victories against the Technocracy every now and then, and hold their own. There are some writers at White Wolf who just don't understand this. And most of the dumb choices that are made in the Metaplot, especially in recent books, can be traced back to this.

[oladyagnil]

existing as a vtm fan in 2025 is crazyyyy

[maxmuldoon]

It's so funny to me that after all these years White Wolf is still shocked by the fact that people want to fuck vampires.

"Vampires don't fuck." [fans ignored that]

"Vampires can fuck, but it's all vitae, it's all blood, every fluid is blood—yes, every fluid! And their bodies are cold and icky and gross. Ha-ha! How do you like that?" [fans are into it]

"Fuck's wrong with you people. This is a Christian server. Vampires can't fuck unless they have high Humanity." [fans ignored that]

And now in v6 vampires who lean "Monstrous" can't enjoy sex. Just let vampires fuck, fellas. Or spice it up a little. What if only low-Humanity vampires can fuck? All I'm saying is that you can't win the war against vampire-fuckers.

[thethems]

Been a long time since we dumped quotes from our WoD group. These quotes encompass in character, out of character, and the WoD fictives present in many systems we know:

- "The octopus, being an octopus, does not respond in words. Instead, it stares at him for a few moments, before plopping back into the water."

- "Mixing editions to make being a werewolf suck wooooo"

- "We don't want to hear from the Catholic Tzimisce"

- "I assure you Mr The Wolf, eating that burgerman is not a heroic victory over the wyrm and has, in fact, just given you a magic prion disease"

- "Fucked up worm thing wants O'Tolley's FUUUUCK THAT"

- "You know sometimes your Red Talon friend just plops across your lap and you just have to accept this is your life now..."

- "I am a being born of the wyrm and even I think that's wyrm tainted!"

- "we must imagine Absimiliard hitting the griddy"

- "We love our murderous queers! Hell yeah! Do another hate crime, they!"

- "WARRIOR OF GAIA, CUDDLE ME!"

- "HELP MY DOMITOR IS FORCING ME TO GO TO SCHOOL!"

- "WHEN YOU'RE A SUPERNATURALLY UGLY LESBIAN VAMPIRE STUCK IN YOUR HOME NEARLY 24/7, EVENTUALLY YOU'RE GONNA PLAY NEW VEGAS"

- "A ghoul, yes! Someone trustworthy!"

- "SHE'S CUTE AND I SAY THIS AS A HUNTER!"

- "Save me, cute gangrel women!"

- "The snack that bites back (ghouls!)"

- "Remember, give your ghoul plenty of hugs so it thinks that you love it"

- "There's nothing straight about that Nossie"

- "This has to be a disheveled mage twink!"

- "I'm gonna be straight-up with you: What's a fomor?"

- "A female presenting glock on two legs"

- "I am going to do the funny GM thing and ask are you sure you want to open the door?"

- "Wait, Harry's a mage?" "Yeah, Harry's a mage... EVERYONE HERE IS A MAGE!"

- "He had a tapeworm that told him to commit crimes!" "Isn't that just the fomori experience?"

- "Yeah you're so cute when you're on drugs" "WHAT"

[teminx]

Jumps on this meme so very late

[teminx]

Piper 🩸 ♥️ 🩸

[srune]

Vampire: the Masquerade is one of the most "newbie friendly" systems out there, and despite all her problems, I don't think we appreciate that enough.

"Ooooh I can't play because I don't know the lore!" Good. You weren't supposed to know the lore. There's a lore reason for why you don't know the lore. Now, I'm going to erase everything you are, turn you into a vampire, and we're gonna go through the horrors together just like god intended.

[quasi-normalcy]

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.

Young people don't like having their futures stolen away to make a handful of nazi pederasts richer than god.

[ivy-michaels]

There's a phenomenon I've noticed which, for lack of a better term, I have christened "The Swanson Effect," which is when a character who is supposed to be mildly villainous–a jerk, if you will–becomes so beloved that fans, and more importantly the writers, start characterizing him (and it is always a man) in ways that run entirely counter to his actual role in the narrative.

As the name suggests, the prototypical example is Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation, who started off as a parody of a very real kind of guy, who is actively hostile to his local government and so gets elected to try and sabotage it from the inside. Swanson starts the show as a very direct parody of anti-government tea party types. Unfortunately, he's played by Nick Offerman, one of the most charismatic character actors of his generation, so he eventually gets softened and sanded down to 'vaguely, harmelessly libertarian.'

Anyway this is what i think of when people say 'J. Jonah Jameson would be a trans ally' because J. Jonah Jameson is essentially a personification of The New York Post, of which the Daily Bugle is a thinly-veiled expy.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

in the ideal world being a veteran gets you 10 more years or something

[sunshineandsparkl3s]

yes let's give these vets with PTSD an extra ten years cause why not

[innerchildabortionclinic]

^me accidentally defending a child molester because I respect the troops so much

[nedlittle]

if i were a respected british actor with any principles at all i would simply not agree to a project whose earnings will have material consequences for trans people but maybe i'm built differently

[nedlittle]

another one bites the dust

[boomvagynamite]

List of other people who also suck for this reason:

Bill Nighy

Hugh Laurie

James McAvoy

John Lithgow

Katherine Parkinson

Keira Knightley

Kit Harrington

Leo Woodall

Mackenzie Crook

Mathew MacFadyen

Matt Berry

Nick Frost

Paul Whitehouse

Peter Serafinowicz

Riz Ahmed

Shirley Bassey

Simon Armitage

Simon Pegg

Stephen Fry

Stephen Mangan

Warwick Davis

[traycakes]

'Black Mirror' director turns down offer to work on 'Harry Potter' series: "Absolutely fucking not"

Black Mirror director Ally Pankiw rejected an opportunity to work on HBO's Harry Potter series because of J.K. Rowling's views on gender. 

"It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia"

[quasi-normalcy]

What pisses me off are all the hypocrites who say that their views "do not align with JK Rowling's" but then work to give her money to destroy trans people anyway. Worse than useless "allies"

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I love when people are like "oh you think you're such a good person huh" when you never said or implied that because it tells you a lot about how they perceive themselves

Conservatives do this a lot

[innerchildabortionclinic]

This is so funny