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[vanhelsingapologist]

seasons don’t fear the reaper.

[mistelf]

ismarks

[thatsfwaccount]

Curse of Strahd shipping talk: Victor Vallakovich x Stella Watcher

If you want, you can suggest me any ship between two canon NPCs character (no party characters or OCs) and I will do a basic ranking of them. You can join me as well and tell me what you think of them, I would love to hear your opinion ^.^

If you already suggested them, through tags or other means, don't worry, I plan on making your suggestions too ^^

DISCLAIMER: This is just my opinion, please be respectful and remember that we are all different and that we all have different opinions, thank you so much <3

PLEASE READ: Due to the recent changes in Tumblr's guideline and how reblogs work, I can't see your reblogs if you do them from other accounts, so if you want to suggest a pair, please either comment under this post or reblog the original with your suggestions, thank you so much.

And after the m/m post and the f/f post is time to talk about a f/m ship with Victor and Stella. This one in particular was suggested through a reblog by @thedarkpowers . Thank you for suggesting, I promise you I saw the post and I will come and do the rest too (also, if you don't want me to tag you, please let me know so I also know for future posts like this, thank you ^.^ )

SPOILER WARNING FOR THE CURSE OF STRAHD CAMPAIGN!

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Ship: Victor Vallakovich x Stella Watcher;

Why they are shipped: There are so many parallels that could be drawn between the two of them that makes shipping them really understandable. This time let's start with the obvious part: they share the same Tarokka. They are both fated allies for the campaign, and if you draw their card you, as a DM, can choose between which one of the two you can give your players. This already make them really similar, then you come to who they are: teenagers/young adults, children of the two most important families in Vallaki, both living shut in their families home (one forced - Stella - one by their choice - Victor), both with parents that neglect them, both with the desire to leave Vallaki and their respective families the first chance they get (Stella not wanting to have anything to do with them after she gets cured of her madness, Victor with his failed teleportation circle) and then there is the cat thing. It's well known that Victor likes to summon cat skeleton, and then Stella in her madness believes she is a cat herself. They clearly have a lot of things in common or thematic parallels that make the two of them really similar;

What kind of dynamic they can have: arranged marriages/strangers to enemies to lovers. It does make sense, doesn't it? Both the children of the welathiest families in Vallaki, and with personalities opposites to one another. Victor is not the easiest to have around and Stella has quiet a strong personality - which can be inferred after she gets cured of her madness - and are unthrostworthy of the people in their own city and families. They clearly have no interest or way to bond with one another, but in a different universe I can see Lady Watcher wanting her daughter to marry the son of the bourgemaster to bring more prestige to the family, and neither of them wanting that, but being forced by their families. It's a perfect trope for them to follow, it makes more sense for them rather than other eventual pairings, I feel like;

What kind of story suit them more: Hurt with comfort/eventual happy ending. It is really difficult but due to their age and their desire to leave and have a better future, I think they, more than other couples, can achieve a happy ending. By learning from one another and learn of each others strength and weaknesses, they can find a common ground and be happy, maybe by leaving their previous situation behind and find a brighter future beyond the Mists. But also due to the fact that this is Barovia, there will be plenty of angst beforehand that might make so that people looking at their story are not really sure if they will achieve this happy ending or not;

My ranking of them as a ship: 3/5. Perfect middle of the road. I can see it, I can totally get it, the parallels are perfect, they can work with one another so so much. In my personal opinion, I prefer to imagine them as just friends. They were presented as each others' future spouses do to the plans of their families, while they only knew of each others in passing and hated each others for their different personalities, then they were forced to spend time with one another, got to knew the person behind that first appearance and end up maybe not falling in love but for sure forming a strong bond. This is a pair I would have never thought about but that I'm happy I got to think of, I was certain my ranking would have been lower - also due to the fact that in my campaing my players never met Stella so I have barely an idea about her personality - but the more I think of their potential the more I undestand and I agree with those that see this pair, which is why I like doing this ranking, they let me see stuff from different perspectives.

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Suggest me a CoS pair and tell me why you ship them, I would love to hear your stories and your headcanons <3

[shrimpari]

Rahadin saved

[themightypuella]

I’ve been thinking about this poor man…

[arcanepursuit]

I made a example of a animated ych of strahd... and everyone is just saying they want to punch him :c why would you punch him? look at his face, he's harmless :c. The other examples these are 25 bucks if anyone is interested just hit me up in dms!

[samoftheswamp]

Castle Ravenloft addition to the NPC cards let’s gooooo

Pidlwick you will always be famous to me

You guys should read “Hop-Frog” by Edgar Allen Poe, it goes hard. It’s not really related to Pidlwick but it reminded me of him/someone else

Ireena and Ismark

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[hnk-art]

I have no excuses because today I needed to be put in the horny jail. Redrawing the "I wonder what I taste like" meme, but I went too far and I ended up drawing those just for the sake of the meme. I wanted to save the individual files somwhere. Now I'm going in the horny jail with the hornier drawing that tumblr won't like.

Khal Corvara is @xyanmajor's character, and I'm really sorry for taking him hostage with silly doodles and drawings. Thank you for letting me draw your character.

Meme that was intended as working as a gif, but I'm not feeling like making a gif right now, so I'm saving it under the cut OTL :