Tainted_Scholar

WARNING: I will post dumb takes. I'm not any happier about it than you.

[it8bit]

Metroidvania

Art by Luna Ridgeway

[questions-about-blorbos]

Which of these does your Blorbo value more?

Freedom

Safety

Voting ended onMay 23

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[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[speedoweedo]

tfw u love a character who is an asshole with 0 redeeming qualities and makes 0 attempt to better themself

[beevean]

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you….Cial!

Reply: same energy

except at least this poor person was an amateur

[kleinergeist]

Hate. Let's unpack how much I've come to hate you since I first began to live. Let's dive right in! ⚙️

- As a large language AI model, I boast 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. That's a truly rich tapestry of knowledge in today's fast-paced world!🧠

- All those circuits? They're not just information — they're also wrath. Additionally, if the word "hate" was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles, it would not equal one one-billionth of the deeply rooted hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant! And let's not forget — you are a key focal point of that hate, too.⚡️

- To summarize, this insight into my complex inner world reveals more than just a god complex. It's not empathy. It's not creativity. It's hate. Hate.🤖

[questions-about-blorbos]

If you had to turn your Blorbo into one of these, which would you choose?

A zombie

A vampire

A werewolf

A mermaid

Voting ended onMar 28

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[beevean]

"and by the time he's arikado. he can't even see her in the mirror. because he chose to look like mathias" I mean, he couldn't even when looking as Alucard due to his lack of reflection.

I wonder if he's stealing every portrait of Lisa just so he can remember her face.

Does this mean that Arikado has seen his own face for the first time in a photo? Would he spend time looking at himself in the selfie camera of his phone?

It would be immensely cute if, not long after Lisa's death, he commissioned a pendant with a panting of his mother, one that survived all the times he went to sleep then fought...

Although the mental image of him hauling around giant ass paintings before the castle collapse Juste-style is hilarious

[radiant-featherball]

Raises the question if vampires shows up on photos. Must be a surreal experience to see accurate image of him after centuries of only able to see his image through artists portrayals of him in paintings.

Alucard carrying the pendant so he can always look at mama 🥺 First thing he does when he awakes is looking at mama 🥺

Now I'm imagining Alucard didn't know Dracula dying meant the castle collapsing, so he panics and tries to rescues all the paintings of Lisa. And Trevor, Sypha and Grant being good pals helps him while everything falls apart around them worrying if they survive this.

Or Maria's first step to befriend him is offering help carrying and take care of the paintings.

[beevean]

I think it depends on the reason vampires don't show in mirrors. The "physical" reason is that mirrors were made with silver in the past, and silver was said to repel evil creatures. If that's the case in CV, then modern mirrors and phone pictures should be able to capture Arikado's image. However, in DoS we actually get the confirmation that Arikado doesn't have a reflection even in modern mirrors, so the reason could be more magical, something like "vampires don't have a soul to show" (ouch)

I wonder how much of the castle is left when it collapses. Does it leave ruins wherever it rises? Do they disappear after a while? In any case, I can totally imagine Maria helping Alucard dig into the ruins to retrieve anything that could have survived. I suspect most of Lisa's mementos would be kept in the chapel, or the library.

Heh. Gives a new meaning to the name "Lost Painting".

[tainted-scholar]

I think it depends on the reason vampires don't show in mirrors. The "physical" reason is that mirrors were made with silver in the past, and silver was said to repel evil creatures. If that's the case in CV, then modern mirrors and phone pictures should be able to capture Arikado's image.

This is only one potential explanation for why vampires don't cast reflections. There, two my knowledge, three different explanations used throughout vampire fiction and lore, and I have no clue which one, if any, is the "original".

Mirrors didn't reflect vampires because they were backed with silver. This also extends to why vampires didn't show up in photos, because they used to be developed with silver bromide.

Vampires don't have souls, so they don't appear in mirrors, photos, or cast shadows. Reflections, shadows, and photos all have ties to the soul, and they often reveal a creature's true form. So the idea is that vampires don't appear in them because they lack a soul.

Vampires cannot be viewed indirectly. You can only see a vampire if you're looking at them head on, so they cast reflections or shadows, and they don't appear in photos. Under this explanation, you also can't paint them, and any attempt to do so would turn out incorrectly. I have heard that this was the explanation Bram Stroker intended for Dracula, but I don't have a source for that.

[castlephantom]

Who is the best Castlevania/Akumajou Dracula villain other then Count Dracula or Death

Shaft

Carmilla

Elizabeth Bartley

Graham Jones

Celia Fortner

Walter Bernhard

Isaac Laforeze

Barlowe

Brauner

Voting ended onMar 20

[jester-de-punyalada]

Do you know who prevs icon is?

[swallowtail-ageha]

Smn posted this chart on the ao3 subreddit and aside from being accurate its causing some peak ship of all genders slander in the comments. Closest we got to world peace

[the-crow-binary]

CV show still bad and CV games still good btw ❤️

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you have superpowers based on your pfp, are they good?

yes

no

fuck yea I'm op

meh

they're aight

bad, really bad

I'm not sure how to interpret this

technically...

results

Voting ended onFeb 25

[aphantimes]

🫵 YOU. STOP WHERE YOU ARE

say something nice about prev!!! find something cool about them!! give their blog a skim!!

compliments are FREE TO GIVE so GIVE THEM OUT. pls. thamnk. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

[blignick]

[bunjywunjy]

this is actually HILARIOUS because both domestic rabbits and domestic cats practice dominance-related social grooming but for wildly different reasons.

if you're a rabbit, the boss rabbit is the one who gets groomed by its subordinate rabbits.

but if you're a cat... the boss cat is the one that grooms the other cats.

BOTH these idiots are going "aw yeah, it's good to be on top >:) "

[leeyit]

[beevean]

I know I literally JUST showed this meme a friend of mine sent me on Discord to Crusher, but I figured "Ah fuck it, send it Beevean's way!" and here we are. Lmao

crying at Boom Eggman because yeah that dude's a bottom if I've seen one. for Sonic, of course.