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versatilemess · 17 days

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As a fellow player in this chronicle I can confirm that Rhododaktulos (Rosie / Rose Fingered) is a nine willpower icon who can always be trusted to deliver a cutting comment (or a well placed stake) at its most effective moment, before returning to darning the city’s socks.

My fiancee's VTM (technically Vampire the Dark Ages) character:

Rhododaktulos: 'The World's Quietest Little Warrior Salubri'

Born in Moravia sometime before the 8th century, embraced in Constantinople 917.

(The Feathered Eye comes from being a former Tzimisce Ghoul, you know how it is)

#vtm tzimisce #vtm art #i love her your honor #character illustration #character design #vtm chronicle #vtm salubri

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versatilemess · 2 months

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This bloodline went through so much playtesting thanks specifically to my partner’s bullshit (affectionate)

I also played a lil meow meow from [REDACTED] — check out the book to see what bloodline you think is the most meow meowable 👀

Clan Estea

Clan Estea are the ultimate social parasites. While other clans claim to be close to the heartbeat of humanity, their affinities all pale in comparison. The Estea slip into social circles, families, and organisations with effortless grace, manipulating them all from within as they feed upon the kine that surround them. They do this because they must, for the curse of the Estea renders them entirely unable to gain sustenance from a mortal unless they have formed an emotional or physical connection with them. The discipline of Caritas facilitates this control by allowing them to manipulate the emotions of their victims in regards to the world around them. Making them want, hate, shun or even obsess over whatever they wish them to.

You can find the full write-up of Clan Estea and the discipline of Caritas in my book, Shrouded Legacies, a supplement for Vampire the Masquerade, 20th Anniversary Edition available on Storytellers Vault! It presents six new clans of vampires, each with their own unique signature discipline. These are to be used however the Storyteller wishes, whether new and interesting character options for your players, or as inscrutable antagonists to thwart their ambitions...

#vtm #vtm bloodlines #vampires #homebrew #vampire the masquerade

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versatilemess · 2 months

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Head Weasels

#mutuals #lil lads #ink #ghibli aesthetic #fantasy art

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versatilemess · 5 months

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My body and brain may have spent most of the year punking my health, but some pretty art managed to come out nonetheless ✨

#artists on tumblr #art vs artist #artvartist #artvstheartist #art vs artist 2023 #digital art #digital illustration #house of the dragon #rhaenyra x alicent #rhaenicent #annihilation 2018 #annihilation #the locked tomb #griddlehark #nonbinary artist #queer artist #disabled artist

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versatilemess · 5 months

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“There was once an Irish Man who sailed in search of better fortune, with naught but a light to accompany him across the seas.

But this story isn’t about him (well, sort of, in the weird ways of clinging resonances and contracts signed long ago) but instead his many great great greats granddaughter, and her dog, the Grim of Leith Walk.”

Meet Dearbhail, my changeling OC, and her dog, Bluebell! She’s only four days awakened and she’s already signed a fey contract (oops).

Dog studies below:

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versatilemess · 8 months

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The only remarkable thing about you, Miss Kingston, is that you can tell the time.

In focus: Aubree Kingston* (She/Her) | True Brujah | (Reluctant) Seneschal of the Court of Auld Reekie

*Character credit: my friend and fellow Auld Reekie Chronicle player, Judith.

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versatilemess · 8 months

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“When I was a baby / I was blessed by a stranger /In waters I didn’t understand / And now I’m infected / With disbelief and blasphemy / I’ll never have a holy land.”

— Ghost Quartet, Starchild

Lil study of Nova, my Baldur’s Gate (early access) Tav. They’re a Light Domain Cleric of Sêlune who’s navigating strange feelings and stranger people.

#bg3 fanart #bg3 #bg3 oc #bg3 tav #baldurs gate oc #baldurs gate tav #baldurs gate fanart #cleric #dnd #dnd character #tieflng #selune #artists on tumblr #versatile oc #ghost quartet #starchild #character illustration #dungeons and dragons

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versatilemess · 9 months

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“Feel the hurt / Holy child / Through the womb / Do you cry? / Say the word / Crawl to her / Like a worm / In the dirt.”

— Arcane Roots, Matter (Revel)

Lighting study w The Worst Boy (affectionate), Hollis, my Malkavian—they can fit so much autism inside them (also affectionate as I’m autistic too).

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versatilemess · 10 months

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“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

— 📚Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer // 🎞 Annihilation, Alex Garland (2018)

Trying to read more fiction and the Autism and Queerness and Transcendent nature of these books truly has me in a chokehold. Like there’s something so liberating in The Weird, the eco and the body horror, the undefinable, The transcendent nature of area x ugh

#annihilation #jeff vandermeer #the southern reach trilogy #scifi #horror #annihilation 2018 #alex garland #area x #scifiart #scene study #illustration #digital art #queer artist #haunted #versatilefanart #southern reach

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versatilemess · 11 months

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I’ve got a cold but fuck it, meet the artist time y’all 🌺

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versatilemess · 1 year

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Clack. ‘Camilla, I mean it.’

Pause. ‘I meant it too. You used to say it to me.’

‘We are one flesh.’

Clack. ‘I am your end.’

— Nona the Ninth, Taz Muir.

The sketching begins for another TLT constellation piece to go alongside March’s Gideon x Harrow!

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versatilemess · 1 year

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Portrait inspired by a fic written by a friend. A story in which my resident Malkavian Hollis walks into a Dream hosted by their long waiting and long suffering Kiyasid/Changeling/??? Caradoc:

But you did make me wait. Centuries.

C: “You’re Morgan’s, aren’t you?”

H: “I — How do you know?”

A careless flick of his wrist.

C: “Asking the wrong questions runs in the blood.” He tilts his head again, to the other side. “I wonder — do you dance as well as she?”

H: “Listen.” They say, hand opening and closing into a fist beside them. “I don’t understand exactly what is happening right now, but what do you want?”

C: “There you go,” He uncrosses his arms, spreads his hands supplicant up to the ceiling. “The wrong question. I am not the wanting party — you are.”

🎬 Process video below

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versatilemess · 1 year

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“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it”

— Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

I’ve been chipping away at this piece for four months now, with the first concept posted on my page way back in November!

The constellation has only continued to grow, perhaps one is in order for each house? ✨

Check below for individual close ups and lineart!

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versatilemess · 1 year

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“You're not waiting for her resurrection; you've made yourself her mausoleum.”

— Harrow the Ninth, Taz Muir.

Repainting and reorganising two old pieces into this new one: have a wip!

#tltposting #tlt fanart #tlt series #tlt #tlt spoilers #versatilefanart #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow fanart #gideon the ninth #gideon x harrow #gideon nav #gideon fanart #art wip #the locked tomb #galaxy #we do bones motherfucker #ninth house

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versatilemess · 1 year

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Decided to sketch profiles of all my VtM OCs to have them in the same place. Below is some deets and vibes (clockwise from top left):

🔎 Hollis (They/Them): Malkavian (11th Gen, 1 y/o)

- “Listen to the night breaking” (Under Milk Woods, Dylan Thomas)

- Auld Reekie: Modern Nights

🎬 Heru (She/Her): The Ministry (8th Gen, 100y/o)

- “I’m nothing like you, I’m a fucking star!” (X, Ti West)

- Auld Reekie: Modern Nights

🔭 Azrael (He/Him): Salubri (6th Gen, 450 y/o)

- “I admit, I desire, occasionally, some backtalk from the mute sky” (Black Rook in Rainy Weather, Sylvia Plath)

- Oops! All Salubri: Dark Ages

🌼 Fainche (She/They): Ahrimane (7th Gen, 300+ y/o??? — they lost count)

- “The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees — to learn something by being nothing.” (Entering the Kingdom, Mary Oliver)

- The Last of the Hyperboreans: Dark Ages

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versatilemess · 1 year

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“My core vibrates in an opium haze

Yet you think we’re the same

The skyline falls as I try to make sense of it all”

— Good Looking, Suki Waterhouse

My first piece of 2023 and my biggest painting yet! Split the piece below if you want to zoom in on each of them 💚🖤

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versatilemess · 1 year

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“I'm a snake, you're a snake, just like a spitting image / Fate, how's it taste? It's your own medicine / Make no mistakes, got 2020 vision /If I see your face, don't think I'm forgiving”

— Snakes, PVRIS & MIYAVI, Arcane Soundtrack.

🎨: VtM OC Hollis (They/Them) of Clan Malkavian. Nickname: The Martyr.

📚Lore Drop: A former detective who survived being “disposed of” by Camarilla ghouls for discovering vampires, Hollis was found and brought back by a Malkavian nearby. They’ve spent their unlife learning that justice is rarely to be found in those institutions claiming to uphold it.

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