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[knightfisherr]

I love ghostnichi so much. Haunting the narrative and also himself

[beanieman]

The amnesia thing is completely wild once you work out the timing of it. I always assumed he got Kanna to do it but as funny as that is, no, she's accounted for the whole time. Which lends a bit of a 'hang on guys lemme see what he's gone and done now' to her asking the group to let her go find him while they do attractions. He just saw the AI bank from the ruined corridor, got a plank, ran so fast his beanie came off, smashed it, and then went to his room and hit himself. Absolutely buckwild.

My favorite thing about Shin is the more you talk about him and work out his plans, the less he seems like a cackling villain and the more he seems like a loser (affectionate) .

[tweek-koffee]

I love each and every one of my followers

[kaaramel]

Your short post on Warmains made them really click! Is there any chance you could sum up the other three types (or, well, two, Chuubo's explains Strategist pretty well) bc the nobilis wiki is SPARSE and rpg. net is BYZANTINE and it's been driving me up the wall.

yes, absolutely!!

the Deceivers believe they're in it to save the unfortunate people who are trapped and inexorably entangled with reality, framing it like they're pitying the poor suckers who believe they need noses and hands and gravity and air and all this "existing" business. all of that is a cage, in their minds, keeping us all trapped in a world of suffering, locked away from the "true thing" that would make it better. they're very charismatic, and they act like they sincerely think they're being compassionate, but you can see me putting down all these weaselly qualifiers, because the deceiver philosophy professes to love us creational mortals dearly, but doesn't love any part of us that we would recognize as ourselves; not our bodies, or our minds, or the things we value as ideals, nothing. which is a pretty shitty kind of love.

every deceiver has a particular trick that represents the unique crack in the way they perceive the "lie" of reality; they've got a hook they can tug on and manipulate that lie in a localized way. it's summarized in a pseudo-Estate, the title of which traditionally includes their name to emphasize how it's personal and not naturally-arising. they can apply the properties of their pState to whoever and whatever they want. i usually think of pStates like "Those Who Listen to Coriander Hasp" and "The Adoration of Phasael Mery-Harumaph" as the most stereotypical, the ones that can create instant disciples, but there's a good spread of variety.

(mechanically, warmains have a pseudo-estate as well, described with a single word (pain, void, loss, etc) which they mostly use to administer their test. they summon and control their pState directly.)

some fraction of deceivers grew up human, or at least creational, and became excrucians when they spontaneously perceived something wrong in their perception of the world; referred to as a breakthrough. a first person account of this process exists in the novel Fable of the Swan. the causality is a bit jumbled - it's not clear if the person becomes a new excrucian, or if they do a thing that fits the right template and an existing-but-formless concept from the Not latches onto them and takes over, or if they were an excrucian all along and just needed to realize it.

(sidenote, strategists often derive from humans, etc., in a superficially similar process, but their first hint that something is wrong is when reality begins to violently reject them and they start repeatedly dying and resurrecting. being a strategist sucks.)

mimics are the type we have the fewest examples of and know the least about. they're made of dead Imperators that the excrucians have put back together and resurrected for their own purposes. they make excellent double-agents because they're still capable of doing everything an Imperator can, miracles and enNoblement and such. the mimic-making process isn't perfect and the cracks are filled in with dread and horrible secrets of the void, like incredibly cursed kintsugi. if the mimic is ever revealed for what they are, the blasphemy inside them lashes out at everyone around and starts turning heads inside out or gushing poisonous swampwater or whatever.

[mwritesink]

Just want to thank you profusely for the hypothetical crossovers of Pathologic with Exalted and Changeling the Lost (and also Fe3H but that has a large enough fandom). I haven't seen SVSSS but maybe I should given the others. I would like to in return present to you the idea of a Princess Tutu crossover given the themes of being written and being actors.

Aww thank you so much! this was a great message to wake up to!!

Main issue with SVSSS is that you’ll have to find a translation to read it in English, which can mean some things are lost in translation. but the basic story is that a webnovel reader, gets sucked into the world of the novel he’s reading and takes the place of the plot’s Scum Villain, so he goes around trying to fix what he sees as plot holes and also get away without meeting the original Scum Villain’s fate. 

I admit I don’t know a lot about princess tutu, and what I do know is through gif sets, but! That’s where the duck gets turned into a girl and it’s an out of left field reinterpretation of The Swan Princess, right? and there’s a Herr Drosselmayer character? Can definitely see something that from the PoV of the Pathologic Talons and Tragedians where they have names and lives and backstories for their acts and merging that with the Princess Tutu folks in an interesting way.

[bibliophilea]

Second Year of Podficcing!

Bibliophileap Reads turns two today! I didn’t do nearly as many podfics this year as last year, and I’m going to be pretty busy this year as well, so we’ll see how this goes! Here are the podfics I’ve done this year!

“I’ll Be Here”, by haikujitsu (1 Oct 2017)

“Again”, by scrollingdown (04 Nov 2017)

“For Want of a Life”, by anthropwashere (13 Jul 2018)

And two songs:

Excerpt from “A Walking Song”, by J.R.R. Tolkien (09 Mar 2018)

“Here Comes a Thought”, by Rebecca Sugar (02 Jun 2018)

I think I’ve learned a bit since last year. Also, I’ve just downloaded Ardour because I’m going to be a sound designer for a podcast (!!!), and I’m going to be a foley (and potentially other sound/art things) for another project (!!!) currently in the works! So even if I don’t post much here this year, I will learn a lot, and what I learn can and will be applied to podficcing here!

[bibliophileaudio]

Again by scrollingdown Summary: Over and over, they prep the dissection.

"For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible." ~ Christian Cota

Thank you, @scrollingdown, for letting me podfic your story! And thank you, @darknessandterrorandkittens, for listening to this first! To everyone: thank you for giving my reading of "Again" a chance! Even if you don't like my reading of this story, please go check it out yourself! I love how different each scenario presented is, even though they all begin so similarly. I hope I did this story justice.

And thank you, shortlifelongroad, for letting me borrow your Blue Snowball USB microphone and making the crispness of this audio possible!

Music composed by bibliophileap:  Something Strange, Yet Calm

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[spoonie-ritsu]

Hey a friend and me also happen to have a Blood Psycho AU so can we get the deets on yours bc holy shit it looks amazing heck.

N I C E you have no idea how happy it makes me to see these two things I love also being loved by other people!!

I try to keep things organized and tag posts to make finding things a little easier. I tag posts with “bloodborne au” for this one, and I also use “AUs” for general au-related stuff. But this post holds the most info, it’s basically quick descriptions of some characters, things like weaponry, fighting style, character traits, etc.

AND because I’ve been playing lots of Dark Souls lately (not Bloodborne but I love the lore of both) I’ve got lots of ideas floating around, I will list some here!! (Under the cut because my nerdy ramblings can be long ;w; )

- I mentioned this in this lil oneshot thing, but Ritsu and Mob are new to Yharnam, they went there in search of a cure for Mob. They had heard of the healing blood they used and how even the deadliest of diseases could be cured. Mob had been sick since he was young, preventing him from living life to the fullest, and Ritsu was desperate to help his brother when everyone else had given up on him. Of course, this inevitably led to Mob becoming even more sick in the long run, but this time with a disease that tainted his blood and threatened to transform him into a beast. Naturally, Ritsu was outraged with the Healing Church and their lies. Ritsu joined the hunt for his brother, to search for a cure himself. Mob follows along as a healer, he doesn’t like fighting (though he could show mercy to suffering creatures if he had to)

- Speaking of Ritsu, he begins to fall into madness in his pursuit of the forbidden knowledge that the scholars of Byrgenwerth hid away. He really did believe that “knowledge is power”, and that he could save his brother by discovering the Truth. Of course, being human, he was doomed from the start, and never had any hope of being able to grasp the knowledge of the Great Ones (my poor son why am I so mean to him-)

- Ritsu and Takenaka don’t get along well at all for a while because of Ritsu’s studies. Takenaka has the equivalent of around 40-50 Insight, and he can see more of the Truth than Ritsu can. Ritsu envies him for it, and thinks he must be lucky to have such knowledge. Takenaka absolutely hates it, hates the Great Ones and hates the scholars that practically worship them, so anyone thinking he’s “blessed” for having so much Insight really get on his nerves.

- Shou is Touichirou’s son, who is king of the Vilebloods. Shou of course hates it all and the idea of immortality sounds really dumb so he ran away. Except now he’s in Yharnam during the hunt and there’s nobody around and he didn’t really have a plan of what to do next. So obviously he decided to make the best out of a bad situation and grabbed whatever he could and just went off killing things to relieve some stress and have a good ol time. Eventually he comes across the Squad, he attacks because everyone else is crazy, so they must be, too. But turns out they’re not, they’re pretty alright, he apologizes (kind of) and tags around with them.

- Teru has no idea that Shou is Touichirou’s son. He really finds the idea of being an immortal nobleman... Really Cool. His parents were pretty high up in the Healing Church so he was a spoiled rich kid but his parents were never around and he kind of hated them for it. He wanted to become a hunter literally just so he could stick it to his parents and prove he was worth something. And ironically, being the son of influential members of the church was exactly why he thought he should be worth something at all. Encountering Mob, with all his power and gentle optimism despite being a “nobody”, changed his mind. Still, when he learned about Vilebloods, those feelings of inadequacy came back. He feels like he always has something to prove, and is very competitive because of that. He and Shou will actually get into their own little fights over who gets to land the final blow on a powerful enemy. They’re... passive-aggressive rivals.

- I have decided. I have decided against better judgement that Dimple is, in fact, Patches the Spider. It’s just... weirdly fitting, what with the fact he feeds half-truths to Ritsu to trick him into doing things for his own interest. That doesn’t last long lol but Mob, being the merciful soul he is, spares that nasty spider boy on the condition he leaves Ritsu alone. Ritsu would kill him without hesitation anyways, so that’s an easy thing to agree to.