#guess this is the apocalypse

[firbolgfriend]

Part 3.5

#mlp #my little pony #mlp infection au #mlp infected au #mlp horror #tw blood #tw body horror #?? #I guess #discord #twilight sparkle #rarity #rainbow dash #applejack #fluttershy #pinkie pie #pinkie sense would make her untouchable in an apocalypse bye #I forgot to add dialogue for aj don’t feel like fixing it #it’s 6am #sweet feather diet

[alienssstufff]

I love the way you draw Etho he's so squishy

thank you! Whwh honestly I don’t think I ever have or could draw him threatening I never saw him that way

Even in the Apocalypse au he isn’t

#ask stufff #stufffsart #last life apocalypse au #Etho #ethoslab #bdubs #(Is there once #(technically twice but we deleted that panel)) #he’s ‘chill’ at least early on I guess #forgive inconsistent hairstyles decided he doesn’t have the highlights when my hc of how he got those doesn’t exist here #found the lore doc and we back to building on it :] #left out a important detail in what his whole thing is in this au— another day #last life smp #last life #trafficblr #mcytblr

[somerandomdudelmao]

Explaining this comic to people is WILD.

Because first you've got to explain the Rise show, the first five minutes of the Rise movie, the fandom's angsty reactions to the movie (devastating fanfics exploring how Raph and Donnie died, Leo's guilt, Mikey's powers, Casey's headcanoned relationships with all of them), and how out of all the fan comics, one rose to be renowned for it's wacky shenanigans and fluff despite being set in the Bad Future.

And THEN you need to go into detail about how it may be fluffy, but there were 'Little Things'TM that we all the sudden started to notice. So by that point the clueless person you are educating on this is invested, and ya hit em with the ol' "Donnie DIES" explanation.

AND THEN you've gotta talk about how 'everything is falling apart'TM, and then Casey going back in time, missing his family, etc etc.

But WHOOPS now you have to explain memory spells and Hamato Ghost Possession and Donnie's pre-existing plans to cheat death for him being brought back to make sense.

So THEN you've gotta explain how much Raph missed not being a robot as you tearfully talk about Hot Soup.

And if course you need to talk about the twin sense and Leo's ninpo and Mikey's magic and all that before finally taking a breath to say "and that's all we've got so far".

And now there is a person who COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT TURTLES who is now forcibly invested in Cass's Apocalyptic Series.

(oh yeah after that you've gotta show said person ALL of Tap's animatics)

Like I said, explaining this comic to people is WILD.

YOU'RE SO DAMN RIGHT HAHA

Not gonna lie, one of my favorite things is reading reblogs/replies from people who are like "I showed this comic to my friend/sibling/important person outside of the fandom and documented their step-by-step descent into desperate confusion diluted with laughs and tears."

Good food. Interesting plot. 100% rate on Rotten tomatoes👍

#my mom: so...what is this about? #me: oh..well..these are four mutants and their human adopted son. In the apocalypse #My mom: Cute. I guess. What is the story? #Me: huuuuuuuuuhhhh...you gonna regret this question

[pluviatrix]

astarion origin playthrough going...well? / big man WHY are we announcing that we got ghaik'd in front of god and everybody. it was for the achievement i swear.

#astarion #bg3 #mj art #do i get to tag everyone cuz theyre here? #im gonna do that. #gale #wyll ravengard #karlach #halsin #minthara #lae'zel #shadowheart #BAM BOW TAG APOCALYPSE #in my astarion playthru EVERYONE was trying to get in his pants it was fucking hilarious. MIZORA. ive played two playthroughs before this #and mizora NEVER EVER came onto me....astarion has game. it may be pathetic soaking wet rabid animal game but its there. i guess.

[nos4ay2]

Holy shit I've finally got it.

Came home early from the Great Outback trip of '23. It's been waiting at the post office since the 12th.

I am legitimately so happy with it. Going forward I am gonna make tweaks to future volumes cause they're gone be chunky Bois but for this one Im happy to post the files now.

So I give you, a physical copy of Ep 1-3 of @somerandomdudelmao series. (Featuring a cover by @melancholic-rowen )

If any one has a recommendation on how to make the files available please let me know, would rather not go google docs. As soon as I have a good way I will post em up. Now to get back to working on Vol 2.

Also massive thanks to Cass and Rowen for allowing me to do this with thier amazing works.

#cass apocalypse series #cass apocalyptic series #rottmnt #tmnt #i am unreasonably proud of how i got this to look. #augh so happy #shipping could have been better #cass fanart tag #guess its more of a fan formating but theres not a tag for that lol

[gray-thistleclan]

as warmup ive been drawing some gtc cats as humans!! (mostly cherrystar)

#i don't know how to design outfits IM WINGING ITT #i'm so out of practice #tf do i tag this #also in this human au they;re in the post apocalypse #i guess instead of only black-stoneclan collapsing its all of society #i don't know how it works don't ask me

[awakenedsalamander]

Thinking about how vampirism in the World of Darkness isn’t just dehumanizing in the sense that it makes you a literal monster but also how the Embrace quite directly rips away some of the most meaningful parts of someone’s identity to make room for the Beast.

Like, the obvious examples here are Garou and mages, given that the former, when Embraced, become the aptly-named Abominations, who lose their connection to Gaia and the Umbra and find themselves forcibly aligned with the Wyrm, the force that they view as the most horrific and destructive thing in the world; and the latter have their Avatar, their connection to magic and possibility and understanding, utterly annihilated— their one guiding light extinguished and replace with an entity that is (except for probably in the case of widderslainte) more vicious and cruel than even the most harrowing Avatar.

It’s telling that the Embrace is thus reflective of something each group considers to be one of the worst fates imaginable: dancing the Black Spiral and undergoing Gilgul, respectively.

But that’s a lot of jargon and doesn’t really hit if you don’t know the details of those game lines— the haunting part is that the basic idea remains the same even for mortals.

I mean, it’s true that everyone, mortal or otherwise, has some degree of intrusive urges toward malicious behavior, but the Beast is just so much worse than that. To be Embraced is to straightforwardly die, to lose the essence that keeps you alive, and have it brought back in this twisted form— from now on, to live is to kill and the Beast will never let you forget it.

Sure, vampires still retain their old interests and passions. I’m personally not keen on the interpretation of Kindred as inherently not having things like empathy, creativity, or grief. I think they still feel compassion and curiosity and tranquility and love and all that… but always, lurking behind them, is the Beast.

And maybe I’m just being a self-serious edge-boi but that’s such an unnerving thought. To still care about the people around you, but never without something whispering about how much you need— deserve— their loyalty, their service, their deaths.

#wod #world of darkness #mage the ascension #werewolf the apocalypse #vampire the masquerade #vtm #cw existential horror #I guess existential horror anyway #I don’t know what else you call it #a really bad time

[rhinocio]

we have fun here

#@ the alliance mis ENCANTAS deja de ser tan CÓMICO #ROTTMNT #disaster twins #cass apocalypse series #TMNT #cassphael #peepaw multiverse #leonardo #donatello #raphael #michelangelo #cassandra jones #casspocalypse #rhinociart #save rottmnt #unpause rottmnt #guess who discovered alcohol markers

[turtleblogatlast]

There’s a very sad lack of Señor Hueso & Leo bonding fics out there and I will never stop craving them. Big love to Reluctant Uncle Boneman and his Annoying But Unfortunately Endearing Not Nephew.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt senor hueso #rottmnt leo #notable that Leo canonically keeps going to Hueso for help like #man how would that have gone in the apocalypse #leo keeping a brave enough face in front of his fam #then he goes to Hueso all ‘hey boneman you know how you’ve seen me at rock bottom? well gUESS AGAIN’ #I think it would be a while yet before the guilt leo feels comes out in front of his family #but it wouldn’t surprise me if he let Hueso in on some of that beforehand #and hueso will call leo an idiot but he’d stay with him as that mask breaks enough for a few tears to leak through the cracks

[hermigeddon]

“so are we heading down to the winchester?”

#secret life spoilers #i guess this would be like a modern zombie apocalypse au? sort of? #zombie cleo #smallishbeans #grian #etho slab #etho #mcyt #secret life smp #emblemart

[doodlesdreaming]

Darksiderstober 2023

“Birds”

Prompts by @proxis-shattered-expectations

#darksiders #darksiderstober 2023 #inktober #art prompt #darksiders death #grim reaper #4 horsemen #four horsemen of the apocalypse #horses #crow #illustration #digital art #video games #fanart #my art #artists on tumblr #yeah I know this isn’t a proper inktober doodle #but I wanna do my own thing this year #take the prompts and let creativity flow #also can any one guess the reference? X3

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Joel meeting Ellie: *slams her into a wall & threatens to shoot her*

Joel five minutes later: *kills a man w/ his bare hands for threatening to shoot her*

#the military guy: *points a gun at ellie* #joel: HEY >:/ ONLY I CAN DO THAT #this show's gonna be fun i can tell #cant wait for them to be such a borderline unhealthy co-dependent father-daughter duo <3 #theyre already getting there #im sooooo not normal about them already and they only interacted for like. ten minutes so far #the show is so good and everyone's acting is on point #the last of us #my only issue is that THEY TOOK AWAY THE FUCKING SPORES. #THE THING THAT MADE THE LAST OF US UNIQUE FROM OTHER ZOMBIE APOCALYPSES #ohhh noooo they have tendrils in their mouths oh so scaryyyy #WHERE THE FUCK #ARE MY SPORES???? #what's gonna be the big threat about the bloaters now huh? i guess there's no inherent threat of existing in heavily infected areas huh??? #i guess we dont get a scene of ellie breathing in spores and joel being Not Happy about it hmmm??? #'auogh oh nooo we dont want to occasionally obscure our actors facessss noooo' #COWARDS. THE LOT OF THEM. #it would have added to the show actually. it would have been sick as fuck. so unsettling. so immersive. #gonna die mad about it tbh #like sure the visuals are gonna be cool and the cordyceps concept still rips #but the infection spreading just by biting... thats so painfully normal. thats just another zombie show #its still an amazing adaptation and im obsessed but :/ cmon man #if there was One Thing to get right. the spores wouldve been it #PLUS IT WOULDVE LOOKED SO AWESOME. THEY COULDVE DONE SO MUCH W IT

[itz-rona220]

uh ;;--;;

good mornin /afternoon/night yall ;--;

just wanted to throw this here

ITS BABY CASEY !

edit: ITS BABY OF BABY OWL !! /ref

It took me more than I expected ;;;;--;;;;

(without the lighting or idk wut is that-)

ref from this post by @tapakah0

i love this outfit sm ;;;;-;;;; btw !

thats all for today hope u like it ;-;!!

#my art lol #rottmnt #save rottmnt #small artist #future rottmnt au #casey junior #cass' apocolypse au #casey jr #cass apocalypse series #cass apocalyptic series #save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the tmnt #tmnt #thats all i guess #? #idk #chibi

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Yo, people, it genuinely didn't occur to me that people wouldn't know what Bliztø, Fizz, and Barbie's forehead marks are.

Guys, they're imps. In hell. They have a mark on their forehead that won't come off (to the point that not even scar tissue or make-up will cover it, Fizz hides his with a hat and Barbie puts tape on her's)

It's the mark of the beast. You know, the mark that indicates that you are one of Satan's chosen?

It's literally a goat skull with horns. Which is how Satan is depicted in this canon (yeah, Lucy and Satan are different people in this lore)

Anyway, that's super interesting to me cause Helluva Boss focuses a lot on classism and the class hierarchy of hell and uhhhhhhhhhh... This very much flips the script for Blitzø and Fizz in that regard.

"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads"

As you read above, the mark of the beast doesn't give a fuck about class systems. It's just kinda permanently branded onto you, either on your right hand or your forehead. So, even though Bliztø isn't a blue blood, he has no fame or fortune, he was born at the bottom of the social hierarchy, ect, he's still capable of being important/doing important things.

For example:

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

Yeah, so, basically Bliztø, Barbie and Fizz have an immense amount of power as they are the only ones capable of doing any kind of business, at all, at the end of the world. Aka, the antichrist is born? Well, guess what. The entire economy of hell falls and suddenly a handful of imps are the ones in control of EVERYTHING.

I just think this is neat because it balances the power dynamics with Stolas and Lust.

#i saw a theory that it was a brand from lust and i was like ??? #and then it occurred to me that not everyone had to read the book of revelations by age 8 and knows all the signs of the apocalypse #so #uhhhhh. yeah. i guess that isn't obvious to everyone else huh? i mean its why Blitzø Barbie and Fizz are double the height #of all the other imps. and why the cowboy dude called Bliztø 'superior' to Millie and Moxie #helluva boss #blitzo #fizzeroli #barbie wire

[heybluez]

one of my silliest moments of 2023 was when i sat down to explain the cas au to my roommate and then opened the panel of donnie dying to show them and just openly started sobbing like was fully inconsolable. like sitting in our pitch black living room at 1 am and i am just weeping.

anyway here’s to more incredible rottmnt art and stories in 2024 let’s keep it goinnnnnn

#cas au #cass apocalyptic series #rottmnt #this video is so funny to me bc like i turn the camera and u can’t even see my roommate #also doxxing my face on here i guess LMAO #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #cass apocalypse au #save rottmnt #unpause rottmnt

[inficetegodwottery]

So. Werewolf 5th Edition.

Werewolf 5th edition sucks. A lot.

Edit- I made some errors in my initial edit of this post that were fuelled entirely by being underinformed and almost insensible with anger, disappointment, and anxiety.

Some very informative responses have been made that I intend to incorporate into a much better and less rambling post with those updates and corrections. I'll probably delete this one soon as I type that one together, so folks only see the updated version.

Sorry for any mistakes I made on this old version, again, I was in an extremely poor place mentally and thoroughly dispirited by the total butchering of what was supposed to be a less shitty and mean-spirited version of a setting I care deeply for despite its foundational flaws and 30+ year history of exactly this thing happening.

I'm still very, very angry. But it's important to be angry and correct. This post was not made by someone informed of all the facts, and I intend to correct that.

Paradox Interactive has made the brave decision to reboot the controversial Werewolf the Apocalypse setting entirely rather than try and fix it, and have somehow done a worse job than the games studio that released an RPG book titled an ethnic slur.

It's taken me almost a month since this came out to be anywhere near mentally prepared enough to even collect my thoughts on it.

Man, it is rare to see an edition of ANYTHING that pisses off old players, new players, players who want to keep the lore the same, players who want to change the lore, conservative players, radical players, and even powergamers.

How do you set out with the intention of making an infamously dated and poorly researched/outreached setting LESS uncomfortable and racist from a modern perspective.... and end up with something EVEN MORE racist and uncomfortable, but also suffocatingly tonedeaf, insincere, and deeply sinister and corporate in its erasure of existing issues rather than addressing them whatsoever.

We made the Get of Fenris irredeemably evil because some of them in the past were nazis and also nazis like Germanic mythology, so the viking werewolves are all nazis now.

Okay, I understand why you did that from a modern political perspective even if its kind of heavy hand-

The Native American werewolf tribes have been removed entirely and replaced with American Murican werewolf tribes. Renaming and rewriting them to be more respectful was just too much work! Now they're more inclusive. :)

The Irish werewolf tribe is now the Nature Werewolves tribe, like every other tribe of Werewolves also is, but also stripped completely of celtic origins.

The Red Talons are openly genocidal ecofascist malthusians and somehow NOT IRREDEEMABLY EVIL like the Get of Fenris are.

Also the feminist all women werewolves are no longer all women or even feminist. AND ALSO SOME OF THEM ARE SOCIAL DARWINISTS AND THATS SUPPOSED TO BE A GOOD THING!?!

Also we entirely dropped the themes about how forcing children to be a part of a war they barely understand while also lying to them about the crimes their ancestors committed that led to the current crisis is fucked up and evil.

Now its actually awesome to be a child soldier born into a repressive apocalyptic death cult with a siege mentality and everything is cool about that actually, you're the Good Guys, and no amount of covered-up historic genocides or internal/external bigotry will ever change that! :)

Also we solved the way people were uncomfortable with the idea that werewolf society is transitioning messily from being horrible ableist assholes that discriminated for centuries against those they view as deformed, disabled, or sexual deviants to new generations that don't care about that stuff, by removing disabled werewolves entirely! Problem solved! No more discomfort or moral conundrums! We are the liberal-est!

There's just something so unbelievably fucked up and suspicious about erasing entire minorities from a fictional universe because they were handled poorly in the first edition, rather than talking to writers and outreach specialists FROM the real world equivalents to those minorities to try and rewrite them.

Don't worry, we removed the group the setting was bigoted against! Problem solved! Just remove the minority!

I've written my own post on why the Metis/Crinos-born should be renamed and probably rewritten, but as a severely disabled individual with multiple hereditary disabilities that severely impact my QoL, outright removing disabled characters in a work of fiction because the prejudice other characters showed them in-universe made people uncomfortable makes me want to tear out someone's throat with my teeth.

Sure, completely remove my ability to play disabled a character fighting back against prejudice and bigotry, rather than rewrite the most uncomfortable aspects of YOUR FUCKING PORTRAYAL OF THOSE CHARACTERS to make it more clear who the sympathetic one is supposed to be.

It's just so unbelievably cowardly and whinging and wretched.

So fuck it, I guess!

Fuck the deeply applicable themes of being born into a well-intentioned but deeply flawed and bigoted society, and trying to create the better world your parents always told you your ancestors fought for, while dealing with the fact that your world is built on mass graves those ancestors helped fill.

Fuck a game that deals with intergenerational trauma and the ethical hellscape that is a highly religious society devoted to the very same ideals it often violates just to win fights against the enemies it created through its own arrogance and prejudice.

Fuck a game that lets you play someone born different, born strange and sickly, bouncing constantly between people who pity you and people who view you as subhuman, before finally finding the people, the family who love and accept and fight alongside you for a world that has never accepted you, but WILL FUCKING KNOW YOUR NAME.

That's not relevant to the real world at all!

There are no kids born in deeply flawed and hypocritical societies, who grew up on stories of the glorious future their society would create, forced then to reconcile the hopeful dreams of a better world with the comprehensive list of horrific things done in the name of that future.

There are no children born confused and alone in their navigation of the maze that is past atrocities, ethnic conflicts, religious prejudice and dogma, or modern propaganda attempting to erase the histories of all of those things.

There are no disabled teens who spent their lives believing they didn't belong in the world, kept going only by the connections they forged with other outsiders and people who fought back against the kind of wretched bigotry that suffocates children to death, who found homes and families they could trust outside the pissant communities they were born into.

Apparently those people don't need a game! They don't need to explore those feelings!

Just throw some more nazis in, so we can pretend we care about social issues or understand the redeeming threads of a deeply flawed gameline, ostensibly so we market it to leftist youngsters, but while we also erase the entire point of a game WHICH IS ALL ABOUT BEING PUNKASS YOUNGSTERS DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIND THE REDEEMING THREADS OF A DEEPLY FLAWED AND PREJUDICED SOCIETY THAT CONSTRAINS THEM, FINDING A WAY TO REBEL AGAINST BOTH THE EVILS OF THE RACIST BASTARDS WHO RAISED THEM AND THE POMPOUS SHITHEADS WHO WANT TO DESTROY THE WORLD OUT OF GREED.

No! We want a squeaky clean, sterile white game that AmericanTM parents can be proud of their kids for playing! A marketable game, that advertisers will gladly pay Revenue to put their products in! Play the good guys, everyone! You're the good guys! Be a big werewolf UwU!

Don't worry about historical atrocities or the flaws of the society that raised you! That's Pentex propaganda!

Fighting bad guys means you can't do anything bad yourself! The Emperor told me so! Deus Gaia Vult!

A hollow, performative, offensive jizzstain that should've been scrapped in its crib. I have no idea how this edition got past a quality assurance team.

Hell I have no idea how it got past a legal team, given the number of real peoples' likenesses they used without permission.

Devoid of artistic integrity or merit.

#werewolf the apocalypse #W5 #wta #owod #world of darkness #I'm just so tired man #putting most of this under a TLDR so I don't flashbang people with tabletop rpg drama #I genuinely thought the new writers would be better at this stuff than the old White Wolf #Nope. #turns out they're just as bad #I shouldn't have expected anything more from them after the V5 Chechnya bullshit #but I guess I just had the dumb notion of hoping they'd gotten better #how the fuck do you do worse than a company that wrote a sourcebook about the Holocaust???!?