Quit Your Job, Join My Emo Band

Both a blog for the VTuber shenanigans of Ripley E. Claire, and a semi-self aware In-character blog for Ripley Claire the VTM5 character.

[ripleybipley]

So here we go:

My name is Ripley. I’m a vampire! I am both an amateur VTuber and I’m a character in a game of Vampire the Masquerade v5. The VTuber lore and story is a little bit different from the VTM5 story… think of them as two different Ripleyverses. Like a spiderverse, but it’s just me.

In my Vtuber life I’m a chill vampire living in some undisclosed location in the United States, when I stream I do so on my Twitch Channel and usually the faire there is old RPGs and survival games, minecraft-likes. Though I hope that in the future I’ll be able to play switch games or do art streams. I’m currently on hiatus due to unexpected IRL shenanigans. Some of my socials are also my OOC socials such as my Ko-Fi, where I take art commissions, and my discord.

It’s on Discord that my second verse takes place, the Vampire The Masquerade v5 game that I am a character in. In that universe I’m a fledgling Toreador living in LA six years post the events of VTM:Bloodlines (a game I hope I’ll get to stream one day in the Vtuberverse). In this setting the current prince of downtown LA is Maximillian Strauss, and LaCroix is to my knowledge dead. The protagonist of Bloodlines, in this setting a male toreador, is the sheriff, and somehow close friend and confidant… also boyfriend of moi. What can I say, it pays to be a player character. I have slowly (very slowly) been documenting the game of my origin in a manga I’ve drawn and written in the jankiest Japanese you’ve ever seen that didn’t just get spit out of google translate. Ironically as part of a roundabout way of training myself to be a bit more fluent in conversational Japanese* (my second language). It’s been a fun project, but I also feel like a horrid weeb working on it.

Many of the characters present in my VTMverse are also present in the VTubrerverse, though with alterations that cut out anything copywrited by WOD etc. I will ideally post some things about them sometime, and when I do I’ll link those posts here.

Vtuber related things will be tagged #RipleyVT and VTM related things will be tagged #RipleyV5

*a note: Because the manga is a language learning exercise, and my goal is to gain more understanding and knowledge, if you’re fluent in Japanese or are a native speaker and have critique on the grammar/vocab, feel free to shoot me a message or an ask, I’m down for being educated.

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[mxwhore]

i call this one “nobody likes you when youre 23”

[mxwhore]

uploaded this at 1 am thinking ‘oh no one is going to see this, whatever :)’ but reading your thoughts, your heartbreak and ultimately your hope made me feel like the world is one yknow what? We got this

[gumy-shark]

when you reblog a post because you think a specific mutual would enjoy it and then they reblog it from you

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i read the cutest reddit thread today where this 19 yo boy was “babysitting” his 15 yo little sister while his parents were away on vacation and she got this horrific period and needed to be taken to the ER.

and this sweet 19 yo boy was doing all he could to take care of her, giving her meds and water and then packing stuff up to go to the hospital once reddit was like “yeah if she’s soaking two tampons in an hour you should go” - but being only a little older than a child himself, he didn’t know what to pack, so he brought like three things, and one of them was SUNSCREEN.

lmao everyone on reddit was like “you’re a really good brother but sunscreen?? for the hospital??” lmao they are roasting him. also op’s sister changed his name in her phone to “spf” and their dad calls him “bananaboat” now. this guy is never living this down

(also his sister is ok and it turns out their family has some kind of genetic blood disorder)

[oysters-aint-for-me]

link to the thread on r/BestofRedditorUpdates

[oysters-aint-for-me]

the brother kind of reminds me of that post that’s been going around abt that abandoned five-week-old kitten that was taking care of a few two-week-old kittens that were somehow with him and he was just trying his best but he was so small

[oysters-aint-for-me]

[girlnextvore]

We where talking about how its more interesting if the embrace in vtm changes your relationship to intimacy and sex on this post so I had to make this real fast

I will fill this out soonish with one of my characters

[girlnextvore]

Decided to do Rosa because the gap is the BIGGEST for her for all categories out of all my vampires

[blackseafoam]

[blackseafoam]

Amerikan Jakal

[kt-katt]

character I came up with, ik it's not very original but I am happy to have tried

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Sleep Well, Photoshop illustration by Marcin Roczniak

[punishedsaints]

[catchymemes]

[anarchswild]

everyone's favorite three-legged panther via protean. I have been informed he does in fact have dark red fur rather than black.

[mythopoesia]

[historium]

A Lebanese woman in West Beirut celebrates her wedding during the 1996 Lebanon War

[catchymemes]

[ramblingpilgrim]

Tony Hawk is probably the best evidence that people would never recognize Clark Kent as Superman in real life.

[lescarnetsdehaku]

Wall have ears. They also love gossip and having your attention 🫶✨

[kaijuno]

Steve From “Blue’s Clues” Just Checked In On “The Kids He Raised” And Gave Them A Safe Space To Offload After Donald Trump’s Election Victory.

Interestingly, Steve doesn’t even speak in the 59-second video, but appears to give viewers a comforting presence as he enters the outdoors shot and “offers them” a hot drink.

And many of the comments thanked Steve for offering them this safe space, with one person writing: “As a trans man, I felt this to my core. I took the breath with you then started bawling. Thank you.”

“The man who is a staple of my childhood didn’t say a single word and it brought me to tears. Steve, thank you. I don’t know where we go from here,” somebody else wrote.

Another popular comment reads: “He didn’t say A WORD and said everything at the same time. This man should be guarded at all costs.”

“Neither of my dads checked in on me today. But you did Steve. Thank you,” one more acknowledged.

“So much responsibility on Steve’s hands to make sure we are okay. We need to make sure he’s doing okay too. I mean I’m not doing great, but he’s still looking after the kids he raised,” somebody else added.

While another concluded: “I bet you didn’t think you’d still be raising us all these years later, Steve, but thank you for still being here.”

[shitpostinguniverse]

[angstbotfic]

yes and

and 

[sic-semper-hominibus]

[rebel13lion39]