#bluebeard's bride

[rollforthings]

broke: calling them a DM because you learned it from DnD

woke: calling them a GM because it's a more neutral/universal ttrpg term

bespoke: using a different term each time, each from an obscure game, and refusing to elaborate when they ask you why you just called them 'Groundskeeper' or sth

#ttrpg #bluebeard's bride #indie ttrpg #gm #dnd

[goblincow]

Rascal News is well worth your money:

Well it's been a month. I waited and watched and thought ah you know if the lowest sub was less than $5 then maybe just maybe. But I did want to support because Rascal is setting a course for the direction TTRPGs as an arts industry can be steered in, whether I personally am on board or not (though my funds would certainly help).

Like I said, it's been a month, and they've now implemented pay-per-article if there's something you want to see or you can't justify $5 – which is a pretty smart move considering "paywall tho" is the thought terminating refrain in the twitter replies and one of Rascal's stated intents is to do more Real Important Journalism in an industry rife with corporate exploitation and abuses of power, which is the sort of news that needs both funding and low access to entry.

It's also worth saying that their articles are a good read.

"While there are still some crunchier elements to the final product (exemplifying what AP scholar Dr. Emily Friedman refers to as the medium’s “ambitious middle”), the subtle production details and the highly intentional performances in GUDIYA are a beacon of what is artistically possible for video-born actual plays."

"GUDIYA (the Hindi word for doll) overwhelmingly plays into the horror of not only its source material, but the horror of being both a woman and South Asian in the highly gendered and xenophobic world of the English Empire."

I've now signed up at $50 for the year, or £3.29 each month which is Really Quite Good, so for your consideration I wanted to share the article that made me commit (above) plus a couple of choice picks for tumblr:

#ttrpg #ttrpgs #ttrpg news #indie ttrpg #ttrpg design #ttrpg recs #ttrpg community #ttrpg stuff #tabletop #dungeons and dragons #roleplaying games #rpg #rpgs #indie rpg #indie tabletop #rascal news #frieren #chuck tingle #buckaroo #D&d #dnd #5e #bluebeard's bride #gudiya #actual play

[alicelufenia]

Hey Disco Elysium fans

I just discovered DETECT OR DIE

It's a tabletop rpg inspired by detective stories about memory. Direct inspirations are Blade Runner and of course Disco Elysium, but ALSO another ttrpg called Bluebeard's Bride. Which if you're not familiar with; the players play different parts of the psyche of the Bride, who needs to survive being imprisoned by Bluebeard. It's a psychological horror game where the fate of the Bride is dependent on how the players work together while having competing goals and compulsions.

PCs literally stands for Personality Components, c'mon how cool is that!

It wouldn't be a Disco-inspired game without sick-ass art for the playbooks.

Girl help the game literally ends with a FIGHT BETWEEN THE PLAYERS TO SEE WHO IS THE DOMINANT PERSONALITY WHAT

Detective fiction is about making sense of the world.

Science fiction is about making sense of the world.

Politics is about making sense of the world.

Yeah yeah I'm digging this design philosophy.

A Disco Elysium ttrpg, a detective game about the mystery of the self, a game where all the players play different parts of one character's brain.

If any of that appeals, then DETECT OR DIE may interest you. I dunno I'm literally going off what I've seen so far, but I WILL be checking this out myself.

#ttrpg #detective game #disco elysium #blade runner #bluebeard's bride #detect or die

[shade-without-color]

So I have been honoured to work for @inu-spiration on a Midokirin story that touched upon a genre that I have yet to try- Femmine Horror, in which the horror elements are focused on femme/AFAB experiences like for example: how we women perceive our bodies in the male gaze or the role of motherhood. (This is perhaps one of the many many examples I could make up), because I have been watching a lot of Bluebeard's Bride Tabletop Role-playing Game, hence me trying this idea

I will attach the creator Whitney's demonstration of playing this game in order to get the context of how I rolled with it

And I tell you that I am super squeamish about horror in general- but working on this story for the past 3 months has proved challenging for me, as the topics I write are super heavy but I am so proud of what is to come!

Quick trigger warnings: This excerpt contains gaslighting and violence against women. Please heed it with caution!

“Well yes…”, Midoriko clutched the chipped porcelain plate like a precious pearl in her hands, gazing at her lovely face “I am wedded to the master….”, she quickly stood her ground with little knowledge of that spectre in mind. The lovely lady, dressed in the most transparent  nightgown smiled a little, giving a coquettish gaze to her. “Oh….oh my dear….” She decided to grasp Midoriko tightly to the point that she cannot breathe. “Your master is of a beastly one…”, that the chipped porcelain plate broke into many shards, with one of them nearly piercing her foot, and her hands slowly growing into long talons. Midoriko shivered at the sight of her claws clawing over her shoulders, blood nearly oozing from her embrace, and the other hand plucking out the flowers from her hair, trying to blind her.

“And henceforth, I shall implore you to be submissive to him….”

God.

God.

God.

God.

Midoriko, quickly taking on her warrior position grabbed that large shard of that porcelain plate, stabbing that spectre, staining her wedding dress with her blood, which only disappeared into ash, floating away to the sky, to hear a creaking sound to see the servant staring at her blankly.

“Madam, madam, madam….I heard a loud scream from the corridors”

The young girl quickly curtsey to her, carrying fluffy towels and a clean bathrobe, only swallowing her to see her face and dress caked in blood- and Midoriko heaved a sigh of relief. “I am….” Midoriko tried to repress the trembling in her voice. “I…would like a bath right now….please” 

#inu-inspiration #bluebeard's bride #Fanfic: A strange Heir #writing #writers on tumblr #Midokirin #Midoriko #Kirinmaru #Kirimaru x Midoriko #inuyasha fanfiction #Inuyasha #feminine horror

[fool-errant]

So in my esoteric wanderings of game shops - I have acquired another odd gothic game. I'm trying to figure out how to run it - and who I can convince to play with me.

#bluebeard's bride

[vlad-temper-blog]

No Man Hills

No Man Hills is a PbtA game I've being working a lot. Really based in the Silent Hill series and the Bluebeard's Bride approach. And this drawing is my best way to describe how I wanted it to be

#PbtA #TTRPG #Powered By The Apocalypse #Silent Hill #Horror #Illustration #DigitalArt #Digital Art #No Man Hills #Bluebeard's Bride

[forsooth-verily]

I've discovered Bluebeard's Bride the ttrpg and I'm making it everyone's problem

#going to do 2 live games in october #but 100% want to try and do some love stream games #Bluebeard's bride #le barbe bleue #about brianne #*cackling* #my name is brianne #and I'll be your #ghoulish groundskeeper #say hello my subconscious sisters

[chronivore]

Bluebeard's Bride - Magpie Games | Bluebeard's Bride | DriveThruRPG

#Bluebeard's Bride #rpg

[child-of-hurin]

Part of what charms and compels me in Jeyne Poole's arc is her reaction to her predicament. All the female POVs in this book are dealing with a lot of gendered violence, and they all deal in different but dignified forms... Jeyne is not a POV character and she is absolutely not dignified lol. She cries and begs, she is utterly helpless. But unlike most women in this book who are utterly helpless, she survives. It's frustrating how fans refuse to celebrate that, simply because there is no glory in it.

#Sometimes I wonder if that's part of why fandom is so uncharitable towards her #like if she had some self-sacrificing sense of dignity maybe people would like her more... if she were resourceful or proud #boo! #she's perfect #i also think the absurd notion of arya 'mercy killing' her stems from this too? tbh #like - you think this woman is too pathetic to live? that even if she escaped bluebeard's castle her life is better over? #people will call grrm a grimdark author but this shit you see in fandom is 100000% more cruel than anything this man wrote #her pain is too real to her for games of honor to hold any meaning! she tears the veil she ruins the veneer #she has no noble bearing no honor no ambition no wolf no lover no knight she will not rise from this taller and wiser #none of the ways in which she'll change will be for the better and her pain will only reward her with more pain - the pain is worthless! #here is a child-bride suffering and nothing about that suffering can be made beautiful or meaningful- besides her escape #which theon instantly romanticizes.... what a moment #we flew! #i can't wait to read about her again #jeyne poole

[anony-geist]

Jonathan Harker and Doomed Bride imagery:

-Lenore (May 4th-5th): Directly referenced ('Denn die Todten reiten schnell') on the carriage ride on St. George's Eve, when evil surfaces. Jonathan, covered with flowers and a crucifix, rides with his own disguised Death all night to arrive at his octagonal room and bed, like Lenore who is supposedly led to her marriage bed, which is actually her tomb. Death and the maiden.

-Shahrazad (May 7th-8th): Jonathan, after engaging Dracula in telling him his history, says that his diary resembles the beginning of Arabian Nights. The story's heroine, Shahrazad, is the new bride of a cruel vizier who kills his own wives (on their wedding night). She distracts his wrath and delays her own doom by engaging him in storytelling. She is meant to be the next victim, once he is done with her.

An obvious parallel is May 8th, but that night it's Dracula who speaks. Jonathan is the one who normally tells stories every night, until dawn. “Why, there is the morning again!” Dracula says. Jonathan says that this nocturnal existence has been taking a toll on him.

One thing is for certain. Like her, Jonathan is next.

-Bluebeard's Bride (May 7th+May 12+May 15): Not directly referenced in the novel, however, Jonathan bears a strong resemblance to Bluebeard's new bride being warned by her lord husband to never open a forbidden room in his mansion. She disobeys and enters it. She finds the corpses of his old brides, like trophies, which he had killed. She, again, is meant to be next.

Jonathan gets warned three times and indeed disobeys, opens the room, and finds (un)dead women who the Count once loved. We find out he is to be the fourth eternally entrapped victim in their company.

Two of these stories feature a powerful noble with a brand new wife he intends to kill, like his previous ones. In both stories she delays her fate by being diplomatic and playing along for survival. Two have the theme of execution on their wedding bed. As intimate as a bite on the throat on their final night.

#dracula daily #jonathan harker #and yet Mina is the reincarnated wife... #let the bride kill her predator #bluebeard #lenore #one thousand and one nights #dracula spoilers

[mayakern]

last week i played bluebeard’s bride with my wife and some of their friends! it was my first time playing this sort of game where we all communally control a single character but it was a lot of fun. this is the bride we made.

#bluebeard’s bride #ttrpg #fat art #artists on tumblr #art #maya draws things #oc

[pesky--dust]

Honestly, to this day I'm incredibly amused by the fact that Will is called Hannibal's husband, bride, and wife, and he is most outraged by being called Hannibal's murder husband.

I understand that he was called a bride and wife in private, and the text about murder husbands was published in the media, so he has every right to be outraged about the slander, but it's still so funny.

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #murder husbands #freddie lounds #tattle crime #bedelia du maurier #the bride of frankenstein #bluebeard's wife #hannibal shitpost #lol #pesky--dust thoughts

[bookcub]

You might like The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi if. . .

you love fairy tales

are deeply fascinated by the story of Bluebeard

enjoy descriptive prose and extended metaphors

like engaging with complicated and toxic relationships

adore stories about stories

want a soft magic system

are not turned off by homoerotic and horrifying friendships between teen girls

want to read more Gothic modern fiction

need more women who are villains

#roshani chokshi #the last tale of the flower bride #my book reviews #booklr #book reviews #bluebeard

[decidedly-not-heterosexual]

Thinking about Hannibal and the Bluebeard parallels... No matter how much you love a monster you can't change their nature. No matter how much a monster loves you they'll always choose survival. Don't go into the basement. Don't see what you can't unsee. The only way out is death.

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannigram #RAAAAAAAAAAh #anyway there's that line about him and bedelia being the bride of frankenstein #THEY'RE THE BRIDE OF BLUEBEARD #thinking of catherine breillat's bluebeard which is... a phenomenal movie #anyway i love fairytale i love horror i literally cannot write anything else rn #my posts #wes.txt

[kingsmoot]

this is so crazy

#liveblog tag #adwd liveblog tag #thramsay tag #when you are so DESPERATELY hopelessly insecure in your own sense of self. in your own right to existence. #in your own position at your father's castle. that you turn your second bluebeard's bride into a phantom of proof of your father's love #ROOSE THIS IS YOUR FAULT BTW. JESUS CHRIST

[immediatebreakfast]

“Do you wish me to stay so long?” I asked, for my heart grew cold at the thought.

“I desire it much; nay, I will take no refusal. When your master, employer, what you will, engaged that someone should come on his behalf, it was understood that my needs only were to be consulted. I have not stinted. Is it not so?”

The Count is very shamelessly self-centered and he doesn't try to hide it from Jonathan. I desire you to stay, so you can consult my needs. I am sparing no thought about yours. And it also lights some of his declarations and actions later about his ownership of Jonathan.

It's the how Dracula way he expresses his own selfishness, and how he even leaves a hint of "decision" in his words so Jonathan begins to doubt himself again.

Jonathan has all the themes, and traits of a gothic heroine. He has survived so far because of his manners, and his gentle will by playing the part of "servant/employee/guest" that Dracula forces him to play.

However, since Jonathan's survival is tied to his themes as a gothic heroine, then Dracula is his foil, the gothic male villain. Who is characterized as an aggresive masculine figure who threats the gothic heroine with physical danger, mental danger, or sexual violation.

Dracula, as gothic male villain in the context of Jonathan being a gothic heroine, plays with Jonathan's safety in what we could call the "first act" of their relationship. It's the test, the challenge, the horrors that the gothic male villain submits the gothic heroine through the narrative, and if she remains standing after this first act.

Then, the "second act" comes, which is the cruel fascination, and possession that the gothic male villain now feels for the gothic heroine now that she has "proven" herself. Of course these feelings could be taken as either genuine, or malicious depending on your gothic male villain.

And with Dracula, it's probably the second option now that he has trapped Jonathan for another month.

#These questions are so fun #Jonathan 🤝 bluebeard's bride 🤝 Jane Eyre 🤝 Christine ''this fucker won't leave me alone'' #dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #count dracula #literature