#anarchs

[oyyokat]

vampire dump !!! i’m a lot more active on twitter, so here’s a dump of all the art i’ve done of my / friends vampires ( + our coterie)

[sagethesprout]

[animal crossing x vtmb part 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALO]

meet..”Bun”nette Voerman and “Hare”ese Voerman, Maxi”Avian” Strauss and the lovely Velvet “Fawn”lour (or Velvet Vel”Doe”?? idk lol)

Strauss has 2 versions! He is an eagle or an ostrich! “Strausstrich” lol.

[loveanddeathrock]

Why the Camarilla is pro-Internet (or should be)

The entire idea that the Camarilla wouldn't use social media to gain more power is just absurd to me. "They don't understand the technology cos they're old." Yeah, there are real people like that who still fucking delegate. Actually that's the entire point of bureaucracy, no one is good at everything so the point of any organization is to make up for the weaknesses of different individuals through group effort. We live in an era where people don't share values, views, beliefs, where people will actively stay in their own little bubbles and that's all facilitated by the mass availability of social media and how content is curated. Every single major faction in the world of darkness would be stumbling over themselves to use that to their advantage, whether it's Pentex, the Technocracy, the Nine Traditions, the Seelie and Unseelie or the fucking Camarilla. The Camarilla are all about subtle manipulations from the shadows, that's like their whole thing in contrast to the Sabbat who just use force. So yeah I really hate that entire argument that the Elders would be against the usage of the internet because of Witch Hunters. Like if anything Social Media could protect the Masquerade and allow Kindred to trick the Kine even if masquerade breaches occur. "Oh obviously this video of a nosferatu tearing through a crowd is a Russian psyop." "That shapeshifting gangrel is actual a neat series of special effects from a new movie that's in production." The only conflict between the Anarchs and Camarilla would be how the internet and social media should be used not if. Because both groups would obviously agree that it should be used. Hell even the Sabbat would agree, what a better way to find new meals then to use the internet?

[artbyblastweave]

Playing VTM bloodlines, which, for context, constitutes my greatest direct interaction with this franchise to date. The Anarchs are extremely interesting characters to me in how they've all adopted various stripes of leftist-humanist-ideologies despite extending the vast majority of human people no moral consideration whatsoever- these are principles that they intend to apply, generously, to a group of maybe 1000 well-connected kindred and nobody else. Their bar is literally surrounded by homeless people in every direction. I'm aware that this hypocrisy is the entire point of the exercise, that it's about how Vampirism inevitably stunts your ability to understand mortals as people, but it's nonetheless fascinating that I come out of every interaction with these guys thinking that they suck so much worse than any of the vamps who're more unapologetically monstrous about it without any ideological pretensions.

[idlethr]

Jesus Ramirez, the de facto leader of East LA

[vampirlux]

jeanette and therese voerman stickers that will hopefully soon be part of a bigger vtmb sticker sheet !

[relleytrots]

On the Appeal of an Anarch Game

So the appeal in an Anarch game, really, is in Leftist Infighting SImulator, thank you @silkenred for the perfect strapline.

If you've ever been part of a group with progressive politics, you'll understand. Spats between people who read theory and people who don't. Spats between people who read different theorists and have different interpretations. Spats between people who think engaging with the system as it is and mitigating the worst of it is necessary, and purity police who say the masters' tools will never destroy the masters' house. Everyone constantly looking for a reason to knock each other down - she's an abuser, he's a cryptofascist, and if push comes to shove you can just shout about liberals and get everybody turnt.

Progressive communities are a crab bucket: a bunch of people justifiably angry about their circumstances who can't agree on what to do about them and usually on a hair trigger because survival under late capitalism is exhausting. The only thing that unites these people is dissatisfaction with the way things are.

That's how you give the Anarchs depth. You look at how progressive groups behave, and you understand why, and you add the Beast to that and suddenly the tendency fights have teeth. It doesn't work when they've been written by people who don't get it, who haven't been part of that progressive political cycle. Too many writers are pastiching the behaviour without understanding the genuine impulse to change and the genuine fear of making things worse and the root-and-branch pain that drives that behaviour in the first place.

It doesn't help that the Free State just sort of happens and doesn't have centuries deep metaplot/backstory roots like the Sect War does. The tragedy there is that old-school White Wolf did write an absolutely perfect history of the Anarchs, complete with multiple, genuine efforts to enforce solidarity and comradeship on a movement and get it pointed in one coherent direction. The problem is, they did it for the wrong sect!

The Code of Milan and the Purchase Pact and the political ascension of the Panders are fucking perfect elements of an organised Anarch sect's history, but they're what the Sabbat has going on and the Anarchs have centuries of not existing. If I could retcon one thing that would be it: the history of the Sabbat would become the history of the Anarch sect and the Sabbat would be this dark mysterious other thing that refused to lie down and become part of history.