Cider

she/xe | 23 y.o. | current in South Korea | pfp by @spookebee, banner by @saradika-graphics

[casuallycryptidcider]

My name is Cider on here, and this is my sideblog for all things vampire and TTRPG related!

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[casuallycryptidcider]

Career as the tremere optometrist must make bank

[prophcassandra]

Pipe dream for V6 When 1st edition VtM was released, the default assumed Sect was the Anarchs. The Camarilla were meant to be the stuck up, snooty vampires who didn't want you. The nickname Ivory Tower was made for a reason. It was assumed you were some random Embrace done without permission, just some fanged rabble the "proper" vampires didn't want, and the Anarchs were the only one that could take you. When the Sabbat made an appearance, they were intended to mainly just be monsters who would attack you openly as opposed to sneering at you and throwing you out of their building. 2nd edition came and started to assume that the Camarilla would be the default option though still included a lot of content for the Anarchs. More emphasis on personal and political horror and the grinding oppression of the Ivory Tower is very good for wearing down your morals and making you incapable of trusting anyone. 3rd edition pretty much exclusively assumed the Camarilla as the default mode of playing, in line with Revised's very gritty, street level approach to VtM V20 is pretty much Sect-agnostic and included material for any of them including the Sabbat, but there's still an undertone of the Camarilla being the "default" way to play the game, with Anarchs and Sabbat and even the Black Hand being further fleshed out in splat books. V5 came back and we're back to assuming the Camarilla is the default Sect. They're even more oppressive and horrible now to the point that it's hard to distinguish them from the Sabbat except that they wear nicer clothes but... I digress V6 coming in a couple weeks, at least in playtests, and I'm going to make a wish now. Trying to manifest. Let''s see the Sabbat as the default Sect. All the political horror of the modern Camarilla, all the anger and animalistic degeneration of the Anarchs, and with a heavy dose of nihilism and apocalyptic ideology. The new default assumed start is a shovelhead grabbed off the street and thrown into a Pack with a handful of other neonates, given marching orders by the local Bishop, and have to balance the threat of their own superiors with dodging hunters and Camarilla Hounds, while watching their own Humanity slip away. Since it seems likely V6 is keeping the hunger dice mechanic, making every vampire into a hair trigger psychopath constantly on the edge of snapping and frenzying, I think a Sabbat default makes the most sense. Constantly Frenzying and having messy criticals doesn't fit the prim and proper Camarilla vibe much, but it fits the Sabbat great. You want a gritty game about losing your humanity and morals and feeling hunted by the enemy? The Sabbat will give you that! V6, Sabbat Edition, let's see it!

[vladimirsangel]

Cole for @casuallycreativecider!

[bloodfeudsart]

next portrait: @casuallycryptidcider’s tremere, florence! <3 she was wonderful to draw, thank you for requesting her!

[dantes-heaven-666]

Eye makeup tutorials ✨

[crownedinmarigolds]

Lattie Ditzler Artfight Revenge against @casuallycryptidcider!! Thank you for the Sylvie sticker omg! I hope I've drawn your Nos justice, I love her look!!

My Artfight if you're interested!

[tag-the-vtm-oc-who]

Tag the vtm oc who should be a walking masquerade violation but who somehow isn't

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[casuallycryptidcider]

so low on energy rn

that accidental 1 hr walk in the humidity & heat did it for me today

[crownedinmarigolds]

Lattie Ditzler Artfight Revenge against @casuallycryptidcider!! Thank you for the Sylvie sticker omg! I hope I've drawn your Nos justice, I love her look!!

My Artfight if you're interested!

[heavensickness]

obsessed. also makes sense when you remember than butterflies drink blood

[dearorpheus]

[girlnextvore]

Kitten, Mommy may have had a blood hunt called against her by the prince. No cuddles tonight

[tag-the-vtm-oc-who]

tag the vtm OC who is a Volgirre

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[castleofravens]

sigh what if i made my vtm character arospec 🤔 or aroace 🤔

[crescentrum]

hecata mass attack for @hollowedknell, @syrenssong, @casuallycreativecider, @demienjoyer, joyou5 & strawb3rry-cak3 on artfight!

[starloving-186]

ask game!

making an ask game purely out of boredom

if you had to dye your hair, what colour would you pick?

in an emergency, who would you call?

favourite scent and why?

who is a role model in your life, real or fictional?

three people you wish you could meet?

would you rather be permanently moving/on the road, or live in the same place for your whole life?

describe a dream you had recently

favourite accessory you own?

how would you survive an apocalypse or at least attempt to?

dream pet?

song you listened to in childhood?

how do you show affection (this can be platonic or romantic)?

favourite film?

piece of media that left a lasting impact on you?

any “paranormal” or unexplainable experiences?

favourite type of chocolate?

drink of choice?

a compliment you’ve received?

best gift you’ve gotten?

dream car?

describe a nightmare you’ve had?

favourite time of day/night?

a hobby you tried but didn’t stick with?

movie or tv show you want to watch?

dream room?

share one outlook you have on life?

a favourite lyric?

favourite way to spend time alone?

share an adventure you went on?

what are your opinions on the person asking?

[sappymix1]

Sappy do you remember what the bad take about Frankenstein and Mary Shelley was please spill

found the post. to be fair to them. not the most egregious thing said on this post, but they did endorse the rest of it so.

ignoring "horny frat boys" being an insane way to describe percy, byron, and polidori, not to mention poor fucking claire lmao. theres a pervasive issue of people really wanting mary shelley's life and career to be a story of a woman being greatly underestimated and silenced by her (male) peers but persevering nonetheless and this idea is generally pushed in popular culture and by some ill informed biographers to the point that it is just no longer reflective of her actual experiences. i think people forget a lot that mary shelley existed in radical circles that, while not devoid of misogyny, had moved past the idea that women shouldn't have opinions and be writing and have lives outside of their relationships with men and who certainly were not discouraging her from pursuing a career in writing. she was deeply admired for being the daughter of wollstonecraft and godwin and then as a writer in her own right, and i think its sad that this idea that she was discouraged from pursuing writing by the men in her life, especially by her husband, is so pervasive because one of the most interesting things about her social group to me is the creative relationships built among them. people joke a lot that percy shelley is just remembered as the wife of the author of frankenstien as a diss on him but everything he is on record saying about her work implies that he would be fucking honored. they had a deep creative partnership and mutual admiration for one another's work that was much stronger than even their romantic relationship and its deeply frustrating how that is often disregarded and put down because people are so fixated on this stereotype of how they think 19th century women should exist that they dont let themselves engage with what her life was actually like.

also i dont even fucking like polidori but why are we acting like he didn't as part of this competition LITERALLY invent the modern vampire. like hello.

[sappymix1]

this post has been popping up in my notes again and yet still nobody seems to have noticed that i accidentally referred to percy shelley as mary shelley’s wife

[glorfys-glorioushair]

I'm so glad someone brought this up! After taking a course of the Romantic period, it's so clear to see how much Percy Shelley appreciated and adored Mary and her work.

Also, this poor take clearly has never read any of Percy Shelley's work. Dude was a radical through and through. He called out Wordsworth for turning away from his early more radical thinking. Also, Percy's "Mask of Anarchy" is amazing and speaks on non-violent resistance. But at the end of the day he would still be happy to have been referred to as Mary Shelley's wife, because his radical mind would likely be obsessed with the concept.

Another thing too, Byron and the Shelleys were good friends and writing pals. If you want to talk about rivalries and contentions in the Romantic period, talk about Byron and Keats. They did not like each other's backgrounds and writings, which granted, does make sense. They were not the same lol