Riya: The Obsessing

Riya's HTP/WoD sideblog

[parar0tted]

Okay this isn't anything massive but small pet peeve with a Thing I've noticed since the release of the latest audiolog

OCCAM'S NAME ISN'T OCCAM BLACKLAW.

HIS NAME IS OCCAM O'CONNELL

Occam is part of the extended Blacklaw family, yes, but that is NOT his surname. He even corrects Bilgewell when she tries to call him McConnell. His name is O'Connell.

I beg of y'all, please let the Irishman keep his Irish Surname.

[problemsynth]

DogHouse is here!

Dog house is a Werewolf the Apocalypse community zine with a collection of art and short stories that is free to download.

Drive link

Special thank you to everyone who participated.

@drop-of-venus

@pulchrasanguine

N. Walker (Bluesky)

@wizzsp (Bluesky)

@purpurea-lucensis

@geistverrse (Bluesky)

@stygianbluetentacles (Bluesky, Ao3)

@beanphomet

@eurydiceluv (Bluesky)

@crownedinmarigolds (Bluesky)

CraftyMirage (Bluesky, Tiktok)

D. May (DriveThruRPG)

[geistverrse]

Thank you so much for this opportunity! It's an honor to be featured amidst so many fantastic artists :D

Give this all your love!!!!

[riyatheobsessing]

CW: TERF dogwhistles

Anyone got an explanation as to why fucking piece of shit Tumblr is trying to push TERF shit on me when I'm trying to tag some HTP fanart?

This fucking site.

[peachystaqcignaq]

Happy pride month hunter the parenting nation. I have more planned for this month involving htp women so stay tuned.

[anonymouseratt]

the yearnings of a curly haired british girl - Grimal's suffering (aka my headcanon)

[riyatheobsessing]

Headcanon accepted.

[riyatheobsessing]

I've Worked Out Big-D's Real Name!

So, as I was trying to get to sleep last night, my mind wandered. And, as it sometimes does, it wandered to thinking about HTP. And then I had a thought....

We know that Big-D was in Norfolk, Virginia at some point. Well, as good as. We basically know that he was in the house of an uncertain amount of corpses on account of the Garg-O's horse soap.

We can surmise Anton was with him, because we know from Alfabusa's YouTube post that he's into wrestling and such and one of the rooms is all about combat sports.

This is supported by the Norfolk, Virginia prescription that Polydora lifted off Big-D. And, more importantly, an ID.

With this, we can make the reasonable assumption that Anton's full name is Anthony Sausage.

So, as I lay in bed, trying to get to sleep, I had the thought. "Big-D married and had a kid with someone called Sausage?" And then I remembered, according to patriarchy, most places have the woman take the man's name. If you think about that, Big-D's surname would have to be sausage, wouldn't it?

But even knowing that, where does that get you? "D" Sausage? And that's when it happened. As my eyes fluttered closed and Morpheus embraced me, I had a flash of inspiration!

Behold! Big-D's real name!

I regret nothing about how I'm choosing to spend my Sunday.

[riyatheobsessing]

I've just realised. If this were true, it would make Horse "Horse Sausage", which foreshadows the UK's 2013 horse meat scandal!

Name even more confirmed!

[valtsv]

[riyatheobsessing]

We need to get some of these for Horse.

[riyatheobsessing]

I've Worked Out Big-D's Real Name!

So, as I was trying to get to sleep last night, my mind wandered. And, as it sometimes does, it wandered to thinking about HTP. And then I had a thought....

We know that Big-D was in Norfolk, Virginia at some point. Well, as good as. We basically know that he was in the house of an uncertain amount of corpses on account of the Garg-O's horse soap.

We can surmise Anton was with him, because we know from Alfabusa's YouTube post that he's into wrestling and such and one of the rooms is all about combat sports.

This is supported by the Norfolk, Virginia prescription that Polydora lifted off Big-D. And, more importantly, an ID.

With this, we can make the reasonable assumption that Anton's full name is Anthony Sausage.

So, as I lay in bed, trying to get to sleep, I had the thought. "Big-D married and had a kid with someone called Sausage?" And then I remembered, according to patriarchy, most places have the woman take the man's name. If you think about that, Big-D's surname would have to be sausage, wouldn't it?

But even knowing that, where does that get you? "D" Sausage? And that's when it happened. As my eyes fluttered closed and Morpheus embraced me, I had a flash of inspiration!

Behold! Big-D's real name!

I regret nothing about how I'm choosing to spend my Sunday.

[generalshadowmc]

OK OK, I know that everyone is rejoicing over Occam coming in clutch (rock on ya solar flare flexing bastard) but that took a massive backseat to me compared to how badly Door put his foot in it without even realising.

Let’s just recap real quick:

Kevin says there’s an infiltrator for the Camarilla in the Arcanum. The family assume it’s a ghoul. We find out that Palmer and Blair (who are part of Pentex) are colleagues with the local Tremere and thereby the local Camarilla. Blair also happens to be a Coalition representative for the Arcanum… which almost inarguably makes HER the Regent’s mole, and by extension Palmer.

Door, having seen the crazy shit ongoing at O’Tolley’s, correctly deduces Blair is a servant of the Wyrm. Without even realising what that actually means.

Blair and Palmer now know that Door, and potentially the rest of the family for all they know, are onto them. And they now know the faces of said family.

This will almost certainly be fed back to the Regent… and potentially further up the chain.

All this time, D kept his family ignorant of the full breadth of the vampiric world, and one errant comment related to the garou’s struggles (which D admits he is much less educated on and may very well be totally unaware of the Triat)… has now put them closer to being targets for a blood hunt than anything else so far.

Kevin and Chapman are basically the only people who have any possible sway now to prevent them from being caught squarely in the Camarilla’s crosshairs. Ooooohhhhhh Caine help us.

[riyatheobsessing]

Being on Pentex and Co's radar might actually even be worse than just being bloodhunted by the vampires. At least - short of a Tzimisce attack, which is fairly unlikely - they'll probably just kill you and possibly paint you all over the walls. The things Pentex has will destroy your very spirit.

[crinosg]

One thing I was not expecting from the new Hunter the Parenting episode was an appearance by the Union.

Which, if you don't know, isn't from Hunter the Reckoning, its from Hunter the Vigil, from the New World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness, which is kind of like the New 52 version of the World of Darkness (It was originally called the New World of Darkness and meant to be a full on reboot of the World of Darkness, but then they just brought back the old World of Darkness for their 5th edition, so they just renamed the New World of Darkness Chronicles of Darkness I don't know its a whole thing).

Point is, the Union is a Hunter group from Hunter the Vigil, and its pretty much what it is here: A bunch of working class joe's organizing together to protect their neighborhoods from monsters, The Vigil version is a lot less informal than the one presented here, But Reckoning seems to take a far less charitable view of larger hunter orgs than Vigil does.

But still, an interesting development, its pretty clear we're veering away from established canon here. We're in uncharted waters now friends.

[riyatheobsessing]

Ooh, I didn't know that. That is interesting. They've always, from what I remember hearing, been playing a bit loosely with "canon", though; they pull ideas from various editions, rather than binding themselves exclusively to one set like the originals or 20th, 5e, etc.

I had suspected they might be pulling from Chronicles; Big-D's story about the fae made me think a lot more of their nature in Changeling: The Lost rather than The Dreaming...Though I know fairly little about CtD.

Also, ooooooof. Chronicles being the New 52 of WoD. Savage.

[ogrepoppenangleaksofficial]

why did none of the family suggest negotiating with the werewolves for Markus?

[riyatheobsessing]

Also, they're werewolves?

Quite possibly the most calm, restrained and patient Garou in the whole country just pasted Fatigue, maimed Git, and demontrated willingness to easily kill them all barely even trying.

That's what you get with an exceptionally reasonable Garou. Negotiation was very unlikely to ever work.

[riyatheobsessing]

I Have a Hot Take About TTS Fans

HTP fans who can't let go of TTS are a plague on HTP and its fandom. I get that OP make references and stuff, but why, why, why, do these people have to insist on seeing everything through a TTS lens and referring to the characters as if they're just TTS characters in a moustache?

It feels really....Dismissive of the work that goes into HTP to treat it like it's just a proxy for TTS. Even the characters that were adapted from TTS are just not the same characters, because of all the development they've had, personality differences, and, well, the fact that the writers clearly treat the setting like it matters and not just like it's a convenient cover to do more TTS. Because it's not.

I just think people should get over TTS being gone and take HTP as HTP. It's frustrating seeing people who can only enage with it by analysing to see what they think is a character from or reference to TTS.

Let the past die.

Also the powerscalers, gooooooodddds, can we banish the powerscalers to the umbral depths?

And the performative horniness on Reddit for literally any woman who appears in it, can we get rid of that too? It's insufferable! Let women be on screen without some desperate sweaty guy drooling over her!

[lowereastnowhere]

I've been going back through some of my old World of Darkness books and man, if you started with Vampire the Masquerade and branched out to other games' lore, it's accidentally a hilarious parable on just how self-centered and dense the Cainites actually are.

[lowereastnowhere]

Vampires: Woe is me, for the sins upon my soul! How can I survive vampire politics like this, let alone if big daddy vampire comes back and eats us all?!

Mages & Werewolves: Reality is literally falling apart and we probably can't stop it

Vampires in oWoD are functionally the dude sobbing that his house is on fire as an extinction-sized asteroid enters the Earth's atmosphere.

[lowereastnowhere]

[riyatheobsessing]

This is a line I've been wondering about. Maimed many of us? He already mentioned Fatigue, so we can assume he's not talking about him there. We know Git lost a hand, but that's only one person. So....Who else?

If you expand the definition of maimed a little to include not having the use of a body part rather than just losing it entirely, I'd be surprised if Grimal isn't paralysed after being twatted through a wall by a Garou. But if not her, who? The others were shot full of ceramic, but seemed in one piece, assuming nobody caught a big piece in the eye.

Although, thinking about it, the maiming here could be more metaphorical than literal? Hmmm.

[riyatheobsessing]

This is such a fun dynamic. I really hope that we get to see a lot more of Occam from now on. More old man yaoi, please.

[noelcheww]

New Hunter The Parenting, and more Blair :D

Getting me out of an art slump.

I love you customer service PMC.

[riyatheobsessing]

I fucking love Blair.

[riyatheobsessing]

The Hunter Data Isn't Destroyed.

Now, call me an obsessive, but I was thinking about Chapter 5 again earlier, and decided to look at a particular detail.

Look at where the floppy disc is. Then look at the bullet.

It didn't hit!

The data was on top of the palm of her hand, in poor Git's hand. The bullet destroyed her wrist joint - that's the opposite end of the hand. It seems to me like her wrist and hand were the most damaged there; even her thumb is intact, or at least enough to still be attached to her palm. The hunter data wasn't hit; rather than being destroyed, it seems more likely it was just flung away by her hand violently coming apart.

In other words, it's still in play.

Also, Git is totally dead, right? Like....Big bit of pipe stuck through your chest, just slightly north of your heart? Not super survivable before you have a hand ripped off.

[riyatheobsessing]

Okay, there is absolutely no way the hunter data was destroyed! Come on! It's like having someone die by falling into a dark hole. No body, no proof. They only found the label? Of a whole floppy disc?

Even if you ignore that the animation looks like the floppy was nowhere near the point of impact, if it was destroyed, there should be fragments. I've used floppy discs - gods, I'm old - and when they break, they should have the casing around it, at least a few pieces. Not to mention the floppy part itself.

And all of this is basically ignoring the ghoul! Which brings me to my next point, which is....Who would have been in a good enough condition after the attack to have collected the hunter data? Grimal is paralysed from the waist down if she's lucky, Git is maimed, Elise and Harry are, last we heard, shot full of ceramic, Spit is probably still suffering from the Delirium, Occam can't be a ghoul when he has solar sorcery...

So that leaves Amanda, Doctor Waters, Brok and Remold. Shortlist for ghoul candidates? I don't know if these options seem right to me...