#mithingthepoint

[pyrrhiccomedy]

A prophetic moodboard, for our Vampire: The Masquerade campaign.

Building a base of power:

No one in the city can be trusted. No one’s goals are your goals. No one loves what you love. The coterie can rely on no one except - possibly, pathetically - each other. And yet you must choose allies, if you want to accomplish anything at all. Allies whose motives you’ve only half-glimpsed, who won’t give you time to read the contract before demanding that you sign it, because those allies have their own ambitions, and they don’t have time to waste on you. Recklessness is the path to power. Be timid, and remain obscure. Wager everything. Race the consequences, and pray they break on those you leave behind.

[spectral-musette]

Your historical AUs are amazing and I love your art! I especially love the Obitine Napoleonic era one--where do you think Anakin and Padme and Qui-Gon are in that version?

Thank you! <3<3 The historical AUs are fun, no?

So I didn’t quite work out the Napoleonic Wars AU into a fully coherent storyline, but here’s some more snippets.

Anakin is in the Royal Navy, the Captain of the frigate Twilight, with Rex as his First Lieutenant.

(tbh the Twilight shouldn’t be anything more than a sloop but sloops only rate a Commander and I think I put the epaulet on the wrong damn shoulder for that so Post Captain it is?)

Qui-Gon is a retired army surgeon (he probably met and adopted Anakin during one of his campaigns… Spain? North Africa?). He has a medical practice in the country. He keeps bees, grows roses, and goes for long walks in the woods with his dog.

Padme is titled, wealthy, and political (as per usual). In this era her Cause is probably ending the slave trade and abolition in the colonies? (Presumably her marriage to Anakin may still be a Secret because of their class differences, but once he’s a decorated war hero they might be able to be public about it.) But sometimes she takes a break to visit her father-in-law so they can worry about their boy together.

(idk they’re picking flowers or gathering herbs or something)

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Tonight we had a special noir session in our tabletop RPG. Every time the players did a noir thing, like shadow a perp back to their house, or go to bed with the tragic ingenue, I gave them a Bon Mot point. Bon Mot points could be redeemed in the final climactic shootout for John Woo-style bullet time, where they got 5 bonus dice to spend on any action they could complete while diving through the air.

[the-tzimisce]

mithingthepoint replied to your post: anyway, how about that Elric dad

Puuuuuuuuuuurredictable indeed

he cares!! about his family! but he cares about some goddamn magic shit more

[the-tzimisce]

mithingthepoint replied to your post: who wants to come to my house and hug me

I do! I’ll come tomorrow morfternoon if that’s okay!

that would be lovely~

[the-tzimisce]

mithingthepoint replied to your post “ok what disgusting porn can I write in like…300 words or less”

Seath shows Gwyn what jizz looks like when it's not on fire.

that’s

so disgusting

[welkikitty]

B X Y?

B: Any of your stories inspired by personalexperience?Not entire fics, but portions of them. For instance, in “Middle Ground” where Pascal sustains a wound and requires treatment, I wrote the procedure and suffering from personal experience. I got bit by a brown recluse spider at work and the resulting wound was the worst ever. OMG. It was so gross, I can’t even...and I swear that sucker hurt more than childbirth. I am not even kidding.

My knowledge of horses has been handy with Zexen Knight stories and mechanics with writing Artie in my Lunar tales. So...while those aren’t particular experiences but general knowledge, I guess that counts?

X: A character you enjoy making suffer.Welkin, from Valkyria Chronicles. I really kind of tortured him in the story I wrote for that game. Also to a lesser extent, Hubert from Tales of Graces...but that is more through embarrassment than anguish.

Y: A character you want to protect.Hmm...any of the child characters I write I’m pretty protective of, but in terms of non-original characters...probably Louis from Suikoden III. I beat up on him badly enough off camera in my stories, so I let him play the hero/good guy on screen a lot.

[the-tzimisce]

mithingthepoint replied to your post:these knights…take themselves so fucking...

I see you’ve met Miklotov.

I <3 Miklotov

they all take themselves so seriously though like even the music is so pompous it’s more like an invocation of the concept of pompous