Historical Context

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[prince-ashitaka]

Lets create a house where yelling means we’re having fun. When you hear a door slam you know it was accidentally pulled with too much strength, not slammed out of anger. When there is silence, it is Contentment, not another passive aggressive fight. The dog is no longer barking to protect, he simply just wants the cats to play with him. Let’s create a safe, warm environment that makes you feel like you can breathe, not hold your breath. Let’s stomp on the eggshells we use to tip toe on. Together we will make this house into a home. And welcome all with open arms into this kind and loving space.

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@ominous-signs do these count?

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damn...

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[prophcassandra]

White Wolf seemed continually shocked that, no matter how many times times they wrote “vampires have no sex drive” or “the vampire sex drive is re-wired to center on feeding as a replacement for sex” across the first two editions of VtM, most players or writers just ignored them because the amount of players that want vampire smut is pretty much always going to be higher than those that want to subvert expectations around sex and intimacy with vampires.

So then in Revised they changed approach from saying “vampires have no sex drive” to “well if you have sex as a vampire it’s actually really icky.” They added details like vampires having all their bodily fluids replaced by blood and were not shy about saying "yes that means you cum blood and all sex is period sex." They were trying to gross out the fandom and make people stop playing horny vampires, but were again, shocked when players either ignored this, or were into it. Then when they finally acted like they had acquiesced to fans and made an honest to gods VtM smut novel it was filled with incest, necrophilia, and more SA than a late-stage L. Ron Hubbard book.

Yet they still were baffled by the amount of vampire smut being produced, realizing that, if anything, they had only encouraged the player base. Then when V20 came out they were line "fine, fuck you, vampires can have sex now and it's normal, the Blush makes all your bodily fluids normal and stuff, you win." Dark Ages V20 even leaned into this and is I think the only VtM gameline that took what I would describe as a "normal" attitude towards romance, sex, and intimacy within a TTRPG. For a moment, I thought maybe they'd finally gotten over themselves. Aaaaaand then V5 came out and we got Bloodstained Love and had to experience the lovely drama around the "Here's how much Humanity you need to fuck" rules and the "Bleed is always good and you should always strive for it" lines they put in. So like, any thoughts on V6? What weird drama is VtM going to get into around portrayals of sex and romance at the table? I wonder what strange and unique controversy they'll give us this time

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Tump dies tonight while giving his speech in the hot hot sun. Like to charge, reblog to cast