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absolutebl · 10 months

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This Week In BL - Everyone is back with a will

July 2023 Wk 1

Being a highly subjective assessment of one tiny corner of the interwebs. Organized by which ones (in each category) I’m enjoying most.

Ongoing Series - Thai

Step By Step (Tues WeTV & Gaga) ep 11 of 12 -This was a proper ep 11 with everything coming to a head (pun intended). All the high risk reality of coming out in a conservative job environment. I like that they brought it back around to Up’s actor character. Still not sure how I feel about the side couple. Although it was meant to be heart wrenching, only the wig made me cry... Seriously just take all wigs away from Thailand on grounds of chronic abuse and misuse.

La Pluie (Sat iQIYI) ep 11 of 12 - This got a bit messy and heavy for me (you know I prefer my BL frivolous). Not sure how I feel about the “hearing soulmate thing” being violated as an established rule of the universe (via Lom) No, I do know. It feels disingenuous. Am I supposed to doubt my belief in everything including the show now? Is that the point? The character’s doubt true love, thus I doubt the narrative? I have to say that I think this show is betraying the courage of its convictions but also that it must do that to stay a BL. (Just imagine what this story would’ve been like in the hands of Japan. Soul destroying.) Ultimately La Pluie is going to end happily, but that doesn’t feel right (to ME who LOVES HEA). Bah. I don’t know where my head (or my heart) is at with this. Only next week will tell, I suppose.

Low Frequency (Sat YouTube?) ep 1 of 8 - Mon can see ghosts and he’s not happy about it. This was more horror to start than I expected (I’m not going to go into the long tradition of “gayness as monstrosity” you can read the flim crit on the subject if you’re interested) instead I’ll just say I tend to cast a jaundice eye on “my ghost boyfriend” as a trope for more reasons than “new meaning to kill the gay” trope. I mean there is a reason China loves both much, they do adore a dead homosexual... but this is Thailand and a pulp so... here we go! NO SINGING. Boy after my own heart, doesn’t date actors. Smart cookie. Although not smart enough to sniff a set-up a mile away. Lube huh? We never see that. It’s a very chaotic cut together first ep and I’m a bit confused but the relationship development, but it is more pulp than horror so I’m game...

Dinosaur Love (Sun iQIYI) ep 2 of 8? eps - Rak stood up for himself, good for him. Also I like how queer his friendship group is. This reminds me the most of My Engineer, but I like this lead couple better.

Be Mine SuperStar (Mon Viki) ep 1 of 12 - You know me, I don’t like stalker-fan types, wigs me out. BUT It’s nice to see First in a serious non-tsundere roll (although I didn’t get much off of him, his character is reading a bit flat). AND It is nice to watch Ja take the lead in a drama, he has a very likable screen presence and I know he can carry it. You know what else I likey? Bosston and the gorgeous 1 night yummy doctor he’s paired with. I suppose it’s a JaFirst piece but I didn’t expect high heat this fast and certainly not from Bosston. All in all? I’m not mad that this is now my Monday.

Be My Favorite (Fri YouTube) ep 7 of 12 - NO SINGING. Trash watch here.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

Tokyo in April is... AKA Shigatsu no Tokyo wa (Japan Thurs Gaga) ep 4 of 8 - This is one of those shows where I feel like I should save it for Friday, so I can watch it with more frivolous things, because it is so heavy - weighted by symbolism, emo yearning, and an odd kind of compassion. Ren’s backstory is SO SAD. How will they recover from that? Oh, it’s also great. Must you, Japan? Seriously?

Stay By My Side (Taiwan Fri Gaga) 1-2 of 10 eps - The premise is a little bit like Mr. Unlucky (a take on fated mates), but it’s very Taiwanese with all the trope’s: they’re roommates, enemies to lovers, baby is a clumsy bunny, paranormal (it even starts with crash into me = Taiwan’s favorite trope). Familiar faces too. Fun fun. (I like that the credit sequence is basically a micro boyfriends episode.) I like it, it feels almost 2015 or something. Weeeee.....

Stupid Genius (Vietnam Fri YouTube) ep 5 of 6 - They cute. It’s very sweet and very high school but low angst for all that. Also the reason the nerd has a crush on the jock is so charming. That is it, they’re charming! I am charmed.

Minato's Laundromat Season 2 AKA Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2 (Japan Thu ????) 1 of 12 eps - Less of a time jump than previously reported just 3 months. But I’m still annoyed no one has changed or evolved - same territory as ever. I do not like second seasons. I do not like blushing maiden tropes. I do not like manufactured drama. I am annoyed yet I LOVED season one so I am gritting my teeth. say it with me everybody... oh Japan, must you?

Tie The Not (Pinoy YouTube) ep 4 of 8 - The brothers are cute and it’s a little wistful and sad.

Vian the series (Vietnam YouTube ) ep 10 of 12 - Boys argue. Boy gets hurt. Boy cooks apologies. Boys gaze yearningly at each other.

It’s airing but ...

House of Stars (Thai Mon iQIYI) 12 eps - I bounced at ep 3. Will binge if told it is worth it at end.

Stay (Pinoy YouTube) 7 eps - It’s mostly English & set in LA (shudder) so I’m not bothering.

Ever After (Pinoy YouTube) 12 eps - Spies reported that it's a real mess and not a hot one.

Stay With Me ... NO I WILL NOT! And you can’t make me.

Next Week Looks Like This:

Starting:

7/9 Hidden Agenda (Thai Sun GMMTV YouTube) 12 eps - JoonDunk are back. Zo, a college freshman whose never been in love, decides to change it by making the college’s star Nita as his gf. He approaches Joke, Nita’s ex, for dating advice. What he fails to realize is that Joke has had his eyes on him for a long time and uses this opportunity to approach Zo. We have all seen this a million times before, but Thailand never executed a successful formula it didn’t want to repeat a million times over. Welcome to Thai BL.

7/15 Laws of Attraction (Thai Sat ????) Stars the pair from To Sir With Love and with the same production team - cryptic description, but it seems to be Manner of Death esk. Up to and including being impossible to get hold of.

Still coming in July:

7/19 Wedding Plan (Thai Wed YouTube & iQIYI) - It's Mame and she's coming for our GL. She's such a misogynist IMAGINE what we will get with a GL? It's going to be absolute carnage. To crane your neck as you drive by the car wreck or not... that is the question. Me? I'm wallowing in the guts.

7/20 Jun & Jun (Korea Thu Viki) - From 2022 (TutorYim rumored to cameo) this office romance features 2, yes 2! Bls. Seme looks aggressive, we in classic yaoi territory. There is an idol involved. Past failed flirts. I am very excited about this one.

2023 forthcoming BL master post (see comments, some are inaccurate, NOT KEPT UPDATED)

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS

Ouch.

More ouch. (both Step By Step)

Love the suspenders, hate the tie. (La Pluie)

What? They are reposting My Ride to YT and I just found myself doing a rewatch.

(Last week.)

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eldritchamy · 2 months

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What the shit. Fighting a god in hand to hand combat as a gold dragon using immovable rods goes so fucking hard and it’s the backstory for a character that’s just in the main backstory???????? AMY???

You know how a lot of people, when making DND characters, make the mistake of having their level 1 PC have an elaborate backstory where they're super badass and already recognized as a hero?

When I made Ash I did the opposite. Her backstory is elaborate, yes, but in very mundane ways that inform her personality and how she perceives the world around her, and build up the logic of how she makes decisions.

I made everyone AROUND my PC a super powerful character who had done incredible things, and I gave Ash anxiety about it.

She feels, constantly, that she is inadequate by comparison. Her entire frame of reference is shaped by a bunch of women in her life that are outstandingly powerful, and she's just a quiet girl who makes leather goods and sells them for a living. She thinks of herself as the NPC in other people's more impressive lives.

Her mother, Lailah, is a nearly seven foot tall divine warrior created in Elysium to destroy Pit Fiends. She's an angel of lightning built like an MMA fighter, and she wields a weapon like piece of a lightning bolt (not stylized, I mean a real, glowing crackling arc of electricity that she holds like a staff and can be used like anything from a polearm to a spear to a whip, and when thrown it acts like a Lightning Bolt spell). She is built, both narratively and in game stats, to be an unkillable holy destroyer, capable of fighting MULTIPLE PIT FIENDS simultaneously, and winning. She's a CR 10+ magical creature (she's a homebrewed mix of Deva and Erinyes stat blocks with some unique flavor) with eighteen class levels, 16 in Zealot Barbarian and 2 in Fighter. She has a strength of 27 and a constitution of 25. She's designed to deal HUGE amounts of damage, tank unfathomable amounts in turn, NOT DROP WHEN SHE HITS ZERO HITPOINTS, and keep swinging until every devil in her way is a pile of dust, then use bonus action Second Wind to bring herself back above 0 so she doesn't incur the auto-death caveat on Zealot Barbarian's Rage Beyond Death ability. One of her attuned items is also the very simple uncommon item "Periapt of Wound Closure" which automatically stabilizes you at the start of your turn, thereby resetting the death saving throws she would theoretically have to make each time she gets hit below 0. Also, as an angel, she's innately immune to auto-death effects like Power Word Kill, which closes almost all loopholes that get around her build. She is UNSPEAKABLY badass. I ran a simulated round of combat with her once, and she could potentially one-shot a CR 15 Skittering Horror (228 HP) in a single turn. Her theoretical maximum damage output is like, 456 damage in a turn (granted this assumes all crits and rolling max damage).

So that's Ash's mom.

Aria is interesting. She was always strongly attuned to the forces of nature, and her magic grew quickly. Where Ash grew up with someone she knew would always be there to protect her from anything, Aria did NOT have that safety net, and spent her formative years learning to be more self-sufficient in terms of relying on her own power. So eventually she got sucked into an adventuring party consisting of herself (a tiefling Witch subclass with very strong druid flavor), a tiefling zealot barbarian, and a couple of elf twins who were an Arcana cleric and a Celestial Warlock. Sometime after they had made a name for themselves, they were tasked with stopping a suspected fledgling vampire who had been kidnapping girls and killing a bunch of people. When they arrived, they met Cass, who was very much NOT a new vampire. She was almost 150 years old and had been protecting women from abusers and overzealous debt collectors, and things had gotten a little messy with one or two of them, leading to a lot more attention than she normally got. They start off fighting Cass (Aria polymorphs herself into a dire wolf and lunges directly for the throat, which Cass found amusing and impressive) but realize in the banter that Cass wasn't the real problem, and she ends up being a sort of a lesson for the group in terms of whose word they trust and who they take jobs from (YES THE BACKSTORY'S BACKSTORY HAS NARRATIVE ARCS AND MORAL LESSONS THAT LEAD TO LONG TERM CHARACTER GROWTH OKAY I CAN'T HELP MYSELF). Cass, having a particular rapport with Aria, ends up joining their party as a dhampir Soulknife Rogue/Shadow Monk.

Yes, that's all backstory that I made up for an imaginary campaign that exists entirely as a set piece for Aria as one of Ash's story NPCs. This doesn't even touch on the fact that I liked Cass so much as a character that I gave HER an entire backstory of her own. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM.

Anyway the team only makes a bigger name for themselves for handling things that other groups can't. Eventually, they just happen to be in the Tenth District when the War of the Spark happens (major established event in the MTG canon), and I basically added some extra "scenes" to it that didn't violate existing canon so I could have that be the climax of their imaginary campaign. One of Aria's partners was a new planeswalker at the time and her spark got harvested by the Dreadhorde, specifically by the god eternal Bontu.

Gods in Magic The Gathering aren't honestly that special? They don't seem to have THAT much power, all things considered. Ravnica's gods are mostly powerful magical animals, and in the most recent Magic Story one of their gods (Anzrag the Quake Mole) was captured in an "evidence capsule" (basically Magic's version of a Pokeball). The most powerful god in MTG is probably the Ur Dragon honestly, unless you count the Eldrazi, but that's a whole other conversation since neither of those actually have the "God" creature type.

Anyway, Bontu was one of the gods of Amonket (basically a plane based on ancient Egypt), which had been conquered by an Elder Dragon planeswalker named Nichol Bolas. HE was the one who actually killed all but one of Amonket's gods, and then another planeswalker named Liliana Vess (extremely powerful necromancer) raised them as zombies for his army, because Bolas had a ton of complicated leverage over her (magical contract that he could invoke to kill her if she betrayed him). So Bontu was a god zombie.

Here's a reference:

Well, Aria was a level 18 Witch at this point since this was the climax of their campaign, so she had access to the Shapechange spell, a 9th level transmutation that lets you become any creature with a challenge rating equal or lower than your character level. And the best candidate for that was an Adult Gold Dragon (CR 17). So Aria goes full berserk and stands up on her dragon hind legs and picks a fight with a dead god that she's determined to make deader, and has a Godzilla vs King Ghidorah standoff with her.

So how do you fight a god that can suck your soul out and instantly kill you with a single touch? You don't let it touch you.

What Aria did was basically inspired by this gif of a Wildebeest trying to charge at a lion:

Or this:

And to be clear, yes, I'm saying Aria was the lion in that situation. She basically did a big dragon threat display to get Bontu's attention, and used the Gold Dragon's weakening breath to give Bontu disadvantage on Strength checks and saves. Bontu charged at her, and at the last second Aria dropped to the ground and then shot back up, clamped her teeth around the god's throat, and used her weight to throw Bontu around and knock her off balance, and her superior strength to grab her by the wrists and wrestled her to the ground so she couldn't get a grip on Aria. She had every part of the god that could have killed her pinned, and used the claws of her wings to pull Bontu's armor apart and tear at everything she could reach while thrashing her around. It was Fen, the Arcana cleric, who thought to use Immovable rods to pin Bontu down so that even if Aria lost her grip, Bontu wouldn't be able to immediately one-shot any of them. So Athena (barbarian) and Cass (rogue/monk) as the two martial classes were the ones who got close enough to handle that while Fen and her sister (Gwen) used whatever holy magic they could to help from a distance.

Now CASS had a problem, because she's a DEX based martial class, not a strength based one. She needed a boost to be able to get this job done. So she drank some of Bontu's blood from one of the wounds Aria had left on her arm to give herself a burst of strength. Except. She had to get real close to do that. And Bontu managed to get a loose grip on her, and tried to suck out her soul.

The magic that makes Cass what she is is very old and very powerful. It binds her soul to her body in a much stronger way than any living creature, fusing the two together to prevent her from dying (i.e. by having her soul separated from her body; Cass can recover from almost any conceivable physical injury as long as there's life energy, in the form of blood, for the magic that keeps her alive to feed on and maintain the seal between her body and her soul). BECAUSE SHE WAS FEEDING ON THE BLOOD OF A GOD AT THE TIME, the magic holding her together basically fought against the magic that was trying to rip her soul out, and it had enough fuel to hold on until Aria's thrashing forced Bontu to let go. So Cass survived the Elderspell thanks to a very weird and unrepeatable set of circumstances (which allows something narratively impressive and legendary to happen without being gamebreakingly overpowered and violating the established rules of the world).

Because of how her magic draws energy from other things, though, there was a side effect: she also accidentally took in one of the planeswalker sparks that Bontu had harvested. So when Cass had healed enough for her soul to no longer be dislocated, her spark activated and she became a Planeswalker. (I imagine a soul is connected to a body mostly through the nervous system, because that's how a brain holds consciousness in it, so a "dislocated" soul is like something glued to every nerve ending in your body being pulled on with an enormous amount of force, trying to sever that connection; imagine trying to pull yourself off the ground when every nerve ending in your body is superglued to the floor by something akin to the Strong Nuclear Force. It SUCKED.)

The team ended up being forced to retreat because of Cass' injuries, so Aria didn't actually manage to kill Bontu personally (or die trying, which in her grief-rage she was fully open to). Right about this time, my bottle scene ends and Magic canon comes back into play: Liliana betrays Bolas and turns the Dreadhorde against him, and Bontu ends up being the one who bites him and rips out HIS spark. Due to the enormous rush of energy of consuming all of Bolas' stolen Planeswalker sparks (tl;dr he was trying to become a god), and with the added bit of lore that it was Aria's team that heavily injured Bontu just prior to this, Bontu exploded in the process.

This resulted in Ravnica playing a game of telephone in the chaotic aftermath of the War. Aria fought a god. She's still alive and that god is dead. Rumors spread and now Aria is misremembered as the one who killed Bontu. Half the plane thinks of her as the "god killer." All she wanted was to avenge her lover or die trying.

Neither outcome happened, and now she's credited with the very thing she sees as her greatest failure. And that trauma has haunted her ever since.

#so my backstory has a backstory with its own backstory #this is a normal and healthy way to approach storytelling I think.#so anyway Ash is surrounded by badass women and doesn't recognize her own potential #because her entire frame of reference is the most outrageous statistical outliers #Ash #Aria #Lailah #Cass #eldritch OCs #Uneiverse #I have one character whose backstory goes back over 6000 years have I ever mentioned that #y'all don't even KNOW the shit that lives in my brain #also I invented god from scratch so TECHNICALLY I made backstory for the universe itself and it goes back billions of years #when I say that I don't mean I made up A GOD from scratch. I mean I reinvented the CONCEPT of what 'god' even means.#and built a universe around that concept #I also have some cool thoughts about the nature of time and fate that I haven't talked about yet #the inside of my brain is a very interesting place. try not to get lost. the exits are not clearly marked.#what if I gave my characters *T R A U M A*#anyway I'm glad you thought this sounded cool enough to ask about. I hope you feel the same about the rest of the story someday.

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kentuckycaverats · 5 months

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last edinburgh by night session was a doozy!!

tl;dr the coterie wrecked mitra's sire and del's going to turbo hell for slapping a nun

session starts with the coterie waking up from a dream within a dream, having been freshly played by mitra's (ravnos) sire, gabriel

mitra wakes up from the dream within the dream to gabriel looming over him in a moving van and detailing how he's gonna strip away all of mitra's humanity. gabriel says he's going to make mitra watch while he: tortures and eats all his touchstones; decapitates delores (lasombra); stakes sami (brujah) and hands him over to the prince; and starves del until she hunger frenzies before feeding tara to her

mitra has presence 5/majesty now and gaslight gatekeep girlbosses his way into making gabriel think they're still dreaming while the rest of the coterie catches up

mitra's usually our designated driver but after him it's del, and she did not give a Fuck about the masquerade or mortal casualties or taking stains during this car chase. delores had to get up on the roof of the moving car and use her shadow arms to push mortals out of the way

during combat gabriel started to fear frenzy, but he has animalism 5/drawing out the beast and transferred it to del, who attacked the nearest person to her: delores

delores is tanky as hell and just scruffed del like a feral kitten. i got a messy crit on del's willpower roll so she stopped fighting BUT her beast was still sulking. st said as soon as the heat of the moment was over del needed to slap delores like she meant it

shoutout to delphine for being the only coterie member to frenzy and attack another coterie member!! twice!!

delores staked gabriel, mitra lied to the new sheriff's face when he showed up to investigate our numerous masquerade breaches, del got to break all of gabriel's bones

del slapped the shit out of delores and neither of them was happy about it. delores asked delphine if they were cool after 😭

and then del found out that her sabbat ghoul bio parents who she hasn't spoken to in 13 years spraypainted "JIHAO. ARROGANT, UNGRATEFUL BOY. WE ARE COMING FOR YOU" across the front of the bookshop where she lives

(jihao is her deadname)

#ALSO tara's back from vienna!! but she and del havent gotten to talk yet #and it's. a Problem that gabriel knew they're together. he's not supposed to know #and if he knows the prince may also know. which is the bigger problem #del #vtm

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ryttu3k · 9 months

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So how exactly does Night Road calculate successful rolls? I had 3 dots in both wits and awareness yet screwed up throwing the knife into the plane. I should mention that I was Ministry and it did mention a floodlight hitting me so I’m wondering if the weakness kicked in.

Ooh yeah, if you were playing Ministry, the floodlight might have messed you up. But yeah, each roll has a difficulty - easy, medium, hard, or very hard - and what those numbers are can vary depending on what level you're on. Here's the calculator!

For instance, you can do each set of three missions in any order, right? But each time you complete a mission, it raises the difficulty. So let's say you do D'Espine, the Biosphere, then Reremouse, in that order. The difficulties for easy/medium/hard/very hard would be 3/4/5/6 for D'Espine, since you've completed three missions, but 5/6/7/8 for Reremouse, since you've now done five. However, if you do the Reremouse mission first, you get the lower difficulty set of 3/4/5/6, so the hardest rolls will only require a 6 instead of 8.

There are definitely modifiers. Relationships are a big one, having a high Camarilla score makes it easier to work with Lettow. Weapons, too - you can get two grades of weaponry from Elena, and another item in the DLC that improves it even more, and they can add a point to your Combat/Firearms skill. And some are clan-related - bright light for a Minister or technology for a Lasombra, say, could add in a negative modifier. Brujah trigger Messy Crits more easily, Gangrel get stronger penalties to Humanity when dealing with mortals.

I just checked the plane scene specifically (it's another one of the freely-accessible ones, here), and you do lose a point on a plane stat when the floodlight hits if you're a Minister, so that could explain why you missed there! That's honestly one reason why I love Night Road - Kyle thought of basically everything.

#vampire the masquerade #vtmnr #vtm night road

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aresmarked · 9 months

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(Clears throat) Villain?! Haha, I’m honored to be remembered out of the blue. At the time of this ask, the full version hasn’t dropped yet, so I’m probably going to mention it after it drops later. But actually, I really should read more card stories. I didn’t realize Shizuku and Mafuyu shared so many Moments in them? Do you have a list of some for me to read or watch? As for Mizuki and Mafuyu, yes!! There are plenty of ways they can have Mafuyu start on that topic, so I’m curious about which they’ll take, especially now. Would this period of living with Kanade allow her to Feel Again? I find it fascinating how she retained the desire to help others as a nurse despite not understanding why. I’d love to see some domestic or at least day to day interactions between them actually.

Mafuyu is already significantly more emotive, just based on the last few events and her talk with her mother, I imagine there will be a bit more 'unification' in her behaviour, or at the very least, a better ability to recognise 'oh this is how I feel about this'. Cause as you say, it's not like she didn't stop caring, it was that she so suppressed her own desires that she couldn't recognise if she was doing something 'because she cared about it' or because 'this is what a good girl is supposed to do'. honestly some of the most satisfying moments is seeing actions on her part that she doesn't even realise she's doing cause she likes it.

And just speaking from an 'objective' point: people who've suffered abuse, and are taken to a safe place away from that? That's always going to be a huge shift. Especially kids/teens. It can be startling, how dramatic an effect having a stable place can be, but you see it a lot.

Gonna be messy (i'll try to order em in the rough 'timeline' of the game) since I don't have vid links, but these are more or less the Shizumafu interactions we've had so far in cards:

Shizuku's init 3 card, which establishes the fact they're at the same club and share a link through 'troubles from how people perceive them'

Mafuyu's Moon Rabbit card, not a huge deepdive but it does give the sense of how they talk to each other.

Mafuyu's Mirage of Light card, in which Shizuku hits a crit perception roll and is the first to note both Mafuyu feeling unwell and wondering if it's from working too hard.

First round of birthday cards, I love when people give those little handmade things, and also go past surface level to offer praise. Esp important in the context of these two.

Mafuyu's card from Tie a Ribbon, when we've got Mafuyu becoming a little more aware of how home feels compared to other parts of her life, she's feeling a little strange and Shizuku once again rolls a crit perception. This is a fun one for me.

Maf's 2nd Anni card, good on so many counts just as a Mafuyu-centric event and her seeing and feeling the difference between her and multiple other folk. I know I'm focusing on SzMf, but you need Shizuku and Emu to triangulate Mafuyu's emotional state, and the latter was a real MVP with Rui this event for that purpose.

Shizuku's 2nd Anni card was just plain amusing and heartwarming. Bit of Hinomori sibling cuteness, with them appreciating each other's shows, and some fun with showing just how much Shizuku talks to Mafuyu about Shiho.

Second round of bday cards, Maf's not in Shizuku's story aside from the end comments, though it's interesting to me how again, like her Tie a Ribbon card she's reflecting again on the relationship of siblings. That's another post though. Mafuyu's bday story has a bit more, and then some, with this girl gradually having her friend circle open up.

Draw Your Bow. Man. Maaan. This event fed me on so many levels, but fundamentally it's about Shizuku being another person Mafuyu gets warmth from. They did something they don't usually do with card stories here, where all of them are linked and providing a sort of epilogue. Very fuzzy. But especially the second parts of their respective card stories.

Now Mafuyu's Immiscible Discord card, distinctly does not have Shizuku show up. However it's worth highlighting on the note that Mafuyu thinks to herself she's glad her mother didn't stop her from going to club activities, which, hoof. aside from that being in the realm of possibility, and a fear for Mafuyu... well it would've been interesting seeing Mafuyu try to quit and break down over it. Honestly, I wonder if the writers were planning to have that too but it got cut due to the Everything going on with Maf in the following events. But who knows, maybe it'll be coming up again.

Pandaemonium event... them just getting to hang out, Airi looking at Shizuku and just being 'ah, thinking about Asahina-san again'. this really was an event for the second years (sans Ena, poor Ena), they got to have fun here.

#project sekai #anonymous #asahina mafuyu #hinomori shizuku #shizumafu #for my own sake too when i have to ref their speech styles LMAO

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malaloba · 1 year

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VtM tonight

The session started with @biomechanicaltomato saying she had several options for us tonight after we make our rouse checks. EVERYONE fails so two of us, Zane and Dys go hunting.

Zane immediate rolls a messy crit, kills a guy in a trailer park and gets spotted by a child on the way out. Inanna, with an ST's mastery of drama, decides that now is the time for Dys to make their hunt roll. When she mentioned that Dys was also hunting in the trailer park, I, with all my hubris, go "Maximum comedy, lets go!" Bestial failure.

Dys gets spotted causing a breach, rolls a second bestial failure to escape and gets shot with a shotgun. Now at 4 hunger, they manage to make it home and try to eat a blood bag which doesnt do anything. Thankfully, they were able to feed from the coterie ghoul without frenzying but now we owe a big favor to someone for the cleanup

Russel sat at home sipping his blood bag and is now the adult of the group as seen in this art

The coterie decided that the night was cancelled. Zane loses a humanity for having broken one of his convictions by killing a human. Inanna slowly rips up her notes for tonight in the background. Average anarch game tbh.

#vtm shenanigans #anarch chronicle does wonderful things for our st's health im sure

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crystalelemental · 6 months

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Oh right. Grids.

Roxie and Piers are fine. For their main damage type, they get exactly what they're after. Ryuki's also getting exactly what he's after, it's just a shame his tools are so heavily locked to on-type. Oh well.

I think I got confused filling out Penny's grid. Remove that second sync node, and put those points into Satisfied Snicker; it fits. Alternatively, if you can drop Team Sharp Entry because she doesn't need full crit support, you can aim for Revenge Boost 4 and Team Fist Bump 3 for some passive recovery over time.

Elaine's grid is messy. Almost everything truly good in her kit lives in her grid, and this naturally forces some hard decisions. At baseline, she buffs both defenses and debuffs both offenses. If you drop the debuffs, she can pick up buffing both offenses for allies instead, but still can't afford Slippery 1. This node feels like a trap. For stall components, she can afford Syncho Healing only by offloading the offense debuffs, which isn't great. Team Pinpoint Entry and Status Immunity may as well not even exist. If you get her to 5/5, getting both defensive buffs alongside Safety Net, the Recover M on trainer move, and extra roll of an interference, you can create an excellent defensive support that packs what smarter people than I calculated to be 54% odds of an AoE flinch on Swift. Have fun.

I cannot believe they made a regular, Normal type Eevee a Tech damage pair, and then gave it motherfucking Cakewalk, justifying it with Trip Up. Fuck you guys, holy shit. But also that's hilarious. Eve's focus is Unfortuitous Swift. Whatever else she may be trying to sell you, it is a lie. She focuses on those debuffs, her evasion as needed, if you want to go sync you can, otherwise invest in the defensive boosts on TM, Fail Forward, and Gobsmack. I just think the fact they actually tried to make her a Tech sync nuker is goddamned hilarious. I am absolutely making the effort. This is Naomi tier. Speaking of, actually: a major problem with these NPC trainer classes tends to be frailty. Eve has...decent defenses for a Tech 3*. She's bulkier than Naomi by a good mile, and bulkier than Helena too, which is good because Helena isn't very good at not dying. With defense buffs and evasion on her side, this kid legitimately feels halfway competent.

Elio and Selene! They get what they want perfectly. I kinda love how their grids are mirror images. There's a Support-based set somewhere in here, amidst the Agile Entry, MPR on healing move, Safety Tether, and offense debuff. Legitimately think Selene's better at it; Elio needs even more energy for Aggravation to make Stop Hitting Yourself work and no defensive boosting, while Selene is very good against Sp Atk stages. If you get both and are thinking of caking one, Selene seems the better choice.

Lodge Gladion is a failure because of the sudden meta shift. I'm so mad on his behalf. The grid isn't even bad, but like come on.

#sync grid analysis

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unaplays · 7 months

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✨ Diluc Pyro DPS Build ✨

🔥 I still remember when I first started playing Genshin, I really wanted Diluc. I wanted him so bad I spent all my primogems on the standard banner hoping I’d get him because my friend told me I could get him there. Well, I didn’t know he was a non-limited 5* character!

🔥 Fast forward to one year later, he finally came home when I was pulling for Nilou. Back then I already had Wolf's Gravestone (WGS) before he even came. Now my WGS has met its rightful owner! I immediately was set to build him right away, I even bought him his skin cuz he’s a king and he deserves all the thing in the world hihi. Here’s my Diluc build as for the moment!

🔥 Disclaimer: This build is not perfect and by no means should be treated as a rigid rule. I just share what I have tested in game and what I know works for me. So always do your own research and take my guide with that note in mind!

Artifact Set

🔥 Just like many other pyro dps, Diluc can easily benefit from having 4 pc Crimson Witch of Flames, especially because Diluc's skill comes in 3, hence he can maximize the 3 stacks on the 4 pc bonus.

🔥 But if you don't have a good 4 pc Crimson laying around, he can do a mix of 2 pyro and 2 atk% artifacts. He can even use the 2 pc EM too because pyro dps usually plays in a reaction team like vaporize or melt so it's important to get them some EM.

4 pc Crimson Witch of Flames

2 pc Crimson Witch of Flames + 2 pc atk% (Gladiator/Shimenawa/Vermilion/Echoes)

2 pc Crimson Witch of Flames + 2 pc EM (Wanderer/FoLP)

2 pc atk% + 2 pc atk%

🔥 A little tip since Crimson Witch is literally available on the crafting table, it might be wiser if you just farm another artifact set (like Emblem, or Deepwood) and turn the ones with bad rolls into Crimson instead of farming at Zhou because the other artifact, Lavawalker, is pretty much trash.

Artifact stats: atk% sands, pyro damage bonus goblet, crit circlet

Ratio to follow: 1:3 crit ratio with >60% crit rate at least, 75 EM, 120% ER, and >2.000 atk

Team Composition

Vaporize team

🔥 Diluc does so well in reaction team instead of mono pyro. So you can choose either to play vaporize or melt. I don't recommend playing overload as it gets messy and when you burst with Diluc, having enemies scattered all over the place will be a dps lost.

🔥 You can change Zhongli with other buffer units like Kazuha, or even Diona or Layla. Not only they provide shield for survivability, but Diona can provide EM if you have her at C6 and Layla can help apply cryo off field to help Diluc trigger melt.

Weapon Choice

🔥 As an atk-scaling dps, Diluc will need a lot of atk, which I recommend to be at 2.000 at least. That's my standard for all atk-scaling dps. He can also use weapons which gives buff for burst damage since his burst does hit pretty good damage.

Wolf's Gravestone

Serpent Spine

Akuoumaru

Prototype Archaic

Luxurious Sea-Lord (event exclusive weapon)

Talent Priority

🔥 I recommend getting all 3 of his talents up as he has decent damage multiplier for all 3 of them. He's still worth to be triple crowned as well if you want. My priority would be: skill - burst - basic attack.

So that’s pretty much my Diluc build. Feel free to ask me questions if you have any through my ask box or just leave comment on this post and I’ll respond right away!

Don’t forget to check out my other builds here!

#genshin impact #genshin #diluc #genshin builds #builds #diluc builds

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artthemasquerade · 1 year

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Nicolaus Messy Crit King

In the 1920s Berlin campaign I'm in, my Caitiff, Nicolaus has had the most messy crits in the whole game so we've crowned him the messy crit king, which has had him get into some tricky situations at times. Recently the coterie had messed up sneaking into an apartment of the victim of a murder done by a Kindred and as a result got the police called on them, and Nicolaus punched one of the cops out intending to knock them out. Unfortunately I rolled a messy crit and he punched that cop so hard that they ended up in a coma! Poor Nicolaus has spent days thinking that he might have killed the man, so he isn't feeling great atm.

#vampire the masquerade #VTM Berlin Fugue #Vampire the Masquerade Berlin by Night #VTM #vtm art #vtm fanart #caitiff #Nicolaus Everhart VTM #Fanart #Blood #my art #ink painting #ink painting fanart #ink painting art

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maramahan · 6 months

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Today’s VtM game can be best summarized as “My humanity is at 3 and the dice have decided to make that everybody’s problem. pls send help.”

Literally. One of the other characters tried to check if I was okay — and the dice made me flip out and low-key threaten them to assert dominance

Then I was driving in the car and the character in the passenger seat asked me to slow down— but the dice decided I need to slam on the brakes just to spite her

The new guy character has started wondering if maybe the risk outweighs the benefit of having me around on the team, and it’s hard to blame him —

Almost every roll I made was either a messy crit or a bestial failure, which translates to my character being an unstable half-feral mess of a vampire only barely held together by blind rage and duct tape.

#just me rambling #ttrpg stuff #doesn’t help that I’m playing Clan Brujah — who are known for being hotheads to begin with #AND I’m a blood leech who can only drink blood from other vampires #AND ALSO my punch skill is Yes #so when I lose my cool I become a Danger to everyone else around me #which. Gosh. It’s led to some fun drama but ALSO PLS SEND HELP

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blood-bound · 1 year

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3, 19 and 31 for mark and porphyria!! 👀👀👀

YAY Porphyria my beloved who can do no wrong and YAY Mark my messy failure wet dog of a man who does wrong every night . . . .

3. Do they have any bad habits?

Hmm Mark has habits but any bad habits kind of Died when he did... he used to stay up waaaaayyy too late (hence his eternal horrible dark circles) and drink wayyyy too much coffee. He would be bad about eating well (hes the kind of guy to call a stack of saltine crackers dinner). Of coures now he doesn't sleep in the same way, coffee has no effect, and he only drinks blood. He has a bad habit of rolling too many bestial crits and failure and thus getting fixated on Knowing Something Specific No Matter What

Porphyria is a little hasty in her decision making sometimes, but I wouldn't really call that a bad habit... she's pretty responsible. I suppose she also would be the type to stay up way too late reading haha but she's been so busy and why read novels when you can do magic now?

19. Do they like to stargaze? Mark - nah I'd say not, Detroit doesn't have a great night sky and its just not really his vibe. He likes Earth and History. When he was alive he was in his office at night mostly, researching/writing. Now that he's only awake at night he's a busy dude.

Porphyria definitely has spent a long time looking at the stars, she has a very active imagination and is always thinking about the future, plus since its 1850 the sky is way better esp on the trail. Actually last session the cabal spent time looking at the sky and speculating on how many stars there are.

31. Do they have a comfort item?

Sooo Mark has a few objects he's pretty attached to, such as a coin with unknown magical properties, but I would say the closest thing to a comfort item, his nice car that he spent many years saving up for as a student, got STOLEN by an ASSHOLE kindred. He's SOOOO salty and SO sad about it. I'M SORRY MARK.... OH WAIT duh his comfort item is now his glasses. He's a kindred with heightened senses, he doesn't need his glasses at all, but they kind of represent that he's still Him and not some total monster.

If Mark ever goes evil or becomes a lot more ruthless he's gonna abandon them, I do not want him to become that way but its very possible so if it does happen I'll be Excited to change the vibe.

Porphyria, yes as well! She got a handmade scarf from her mentor Roseanna that she also uses to help her focus when casting magic and she would be so sad if she lost it now, she already kinda did in a stupid poker game that SHE ALMOST WON but cmon Porphy you were up against a master fate mage so idk what u expected. Thankfully the fate mage got a talking to from her mentor and gave it back.

#mark vtm oc #porphyria mage oc #THANK YOUUU AS ALWAYSSS

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