#grimnoir

[opperata]

i really like the idea of grimnoire being a city that has a bunch of fantasy creatures but they’re integrated into normal society and it’s all cool

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

Playing More detective Grimnoire Tangled Tower

[that-choir-girl]

Character Intro to my book!

Face claim: Millie Bobby Brown

Character’s full name: Melanie Elizabeth Grace Howard

Nicknames: Melly, The Clairvoyant, Southern Belle (by her friend Josh)

Age: 17/18

Birthday: October 31, 2008

Gender: Female

Scars: Emotional & physical after being attacked by a vampire

Race: Human/Angel/Clairvoyant

Nationality: American

Religion: Not directly specified/Most likely Anglican or Southern Baptist, but respects other religions

Other beliefs: The supernatural

Parents: Richard & Shelly Howard (nee Monroe)

Siblings: Elias Malachai Earl Howard “Eli”, Kathryn Nadine Renee “Katie” Howard, & Sienna Shelly Lynn Howard

Pets: A black cat named Jasper

Besties: Madisyn James, Durante Knightley, Lacey Douglas, Sophie Lefevre, Joshua Nolan, Amanda-Joy “A.J.” Chambers, Brayden “Brady” Ingraham

S.O/Crush: Dante Knightley

Enemies: Celina Reynolds, Lillith & Morana Grimnoire, & Damien Darkblood

Occupation: Student

Residency: Savannah, Georgia

Born in: Charleston, South Carolina

Prized possessions: The Monroe family heirloom, a moonstone necklace that’s been passed down for centuries

Accent: Southern

Zodiac sign: Scorpio

[thefirstknife]

Can I ask which grimnoire you got? I’m struggling to find which volume it is

The pyhsical grimoires? Or the new Into the Light grimoire cards?

[horatiovonbecker]

Pardon, I forgot to specify one of the components that makes the trend really oddly specific: The aliens are distributing superpowers as part of a secret plot to eat the people they give superpowers to.

That seems like it should be a classic twist in some genre, probably Tokusatsu (though @tyrantisterror knows those a lot more than I do, and claims it isn't), and I don't know of anything before Psyren (2007-2010) that had the alien power-granter try to eat the heroes or the planet, at least in a 'final boss' sort of way rather than a 'your cursed sword burns your life when you draw it' sort of way.

Which is really weird, because aside from Psyren (reveal was probably in 2010, but appears to have been planned much earlier), there's Mass Effect (2007-2012, the twist may or may not have been planned before the third installment), Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011), Grimnoir Chronicles (2011-2014, and according to the author it was an independent evolution), and Kill la Kill (2013-2014). Oh, and Worm (2011-2013).

And those are some huge names in popular fiction. Psyren and Grimnoir are the most obscure, and the latter was on the Hugo shortlist. Which is why it's baffling that this trend would be reinvented so many times in such a short period, and without a clear instigator.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency (1988-1989) does have something related, with its reveal that the vampires from Part I were unknowing participants in a vampire pyramid scheme (remotely feeding blood to the beings that made the vampirization masks), as do Chrono Trigger (1995) which has an ancient planet-eating and gene-splicing monster that may or may not have been responsible for human evolution, and Final Fantasy VII (1997), with the long-dead world-eating space monster whose psychoactive blood keeps being used as supersoldier steroids. (Edit: I forgot to mention Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996), with the long-dead world-eating space monster being used as cloning materials for the giant cyborg mechas.)

But, like, it's weird that it would take ten years to mix those concepts, right? Making the secret world-eating alien be giving out superpowers on purpose, rather than the shady labs with access to its corpse?

Anyway.

Hey, do *you* have any idea why "superpowers are secretly distributed by a monster from space" seems to have been reinvented at least four times from 2007 to 2014? I've heard some hints that it might be rooted in Final Fantasy 7, Chrono Trigger, or even JJBA: Battle Tendency, but it's such an oddly specific thing.

I don't actually think it's oddly specific, I think it's a local minima for writers, which comes from a kind of can-kicking.

The problem with "random superpowers" is that it doesn't really make that much sense when you think about it at all, especially when those powers have a lot of very human-centric elements to them and aren't really grounded in any kind of understanding of the world.

So you're a writer, and you're thinking to yourself "well shit, none of this makes sense, it's all a little wonky from a setting perspective, why would powers work like this". And you can just bite the bullet and say "I don't know man, they just do", or you can think of some kind of handwave.

And I would submit that "aliens did it" has a lot of things going for it: these are inscrutable aliens with unknown motives and no morality, so we don't need to (and usually cannot) probe any further, they have the veneer of science and credibility that e.g. "a wizard did it" does not, and so these aliens can work however the settings needs them to work. They're an outcome pump, basically, and they're the closest convenient one. They're an excuse for weird, outside-context things to happen, and for readers to not probe any deeper. They seem legit enough, if you don't look too close. They can stand in for something pretty easily: pretty common for the aliens to be doing this for vague entertainment reasons, or colonialism, or this is some kind of pollutant effect or whatever, or superweapon testing. And again, specifically in the case of superpowers, there's a veneer of science on the whole thing, since aliens might exist, maybe. There's a lot of superhero stuff that has the same scientific veneer to it, so they match well together.

I guess I am, at heart, a believer in paths-of-least-resistance when it comes to writing, reinvention and convergence on solutions, and "aliens grant superpowers" seems to me like a solution to a problem that people would keep reinventing even if there were no prior works, and since there are prior works, you're also getting a lot of influence bleeding in, making the choice for "aliens grant superpowers" a lot easier. Audiences are familiar, they won't balk.

[thebookhavenblog]

Warbound: Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia

📚 Genre: Urban Fantasy / Alternate History⭐️ Rating: 4.5/5 Hello, friends! Welcome back to The Book Haven, where I, casmith76—a husband, dad to a preteen daughter who’s pilfering my bookshelves, a toddler who thinks pages are gourmet snacks, and soon-to-be father of three—share my insatiable passion for stories that yank me out of the daily grind. I’m a fantasy addict at heart, but I’ll chase a…

[niigata-division]

Ding Dong Happy Valentine's Day! Not one, not two, but three gifts for Mr. Lyall Shiba have appeared!

Opening up the first gift revealed to be...

...A grimnoire styled journal.

Opening the second gift revealed to be...

...Gothic onyx cross earrings.

Opening the third and final gift revealed to be...

...A series of provocative nun cosplay photos.

With these gift came a letter.

'Happy Valentine's Day, babe!

Hope you're having fun today, schnookums! I can't wait to see you and Kaoru soon and I was just too excited so I sent my gifts early, hope you like them!

- Joey.

P.S. Thanks for the nun costume you nympho, I got your 'gift', you trying to give me a fucking heart attack?? (ー`´ー)'

Happy Valentine's Day! 💗

Lyall smirked as he gazed at the provocative photos of his boyfriend dressed in a slutty nun costume. The sight of this made the homicide detective’s pants grow tighter. Joey wanted to tease him, didn’t he? How bold of his boyfriend to do that to him all of people. Joey should've known better. It seems like he didn’t remember his lesson from the last time he did that. Naughty boy. Lyall was gonna make sure he wouldn't be walking anytime soon. 

Standing up, Lyall made his way to the door not even bothering to grab a jacket. The cold barely did anything to him with all the heat he was already feeling. A perverted smile on his face as he imagined all the things he could “punish” Joey with. It was like Christmas came early to him. Was it cruel? Perhaps but the sight of Joey begging for release was all too good for Lyall. Just before he was about to leave his home Lyall turned to his empty living room and spoke out. 

“Kaoru dear, I know you’ll be watching. I’ll make sure it’ll be a show worth watching.” 

[blastikmusik]

sunny side down 670

Chelsea Wolfe - Unseen World Taba Chake - Walk With Me Camp Saint Helene - Anniversary The Dharma Chain - Somewhere tenbin O - Blind Love (Studio Session '23) Marissa Nadler - Under an old umbrella Sam Evian - Rollin' In Grimnoir - Need Me Lunar Vacation - Daytime (Live on AdultSwim 2018) Grandaddy - Long as I'm Not the One Palace - Bleach please take care of me - i wish i never met you awfulangel - i was her friend STRFKR - Under Water / In Air Empty Roads - I Couldn't Carry On Ha Vay - Moon Girl Kamikaze Kay - he kept on running Dionnysuss - See You Dance

[francisnyx]

*directs you to the Interactive Fiction DataBase* IFDB can help. Here’s some starter recommendations. Try Grimnoir if you want to explore a town. Check out games by Brendan Patrick Hennessy or Porpentine.

Thank you! I will check it out!!!!

[opperata]

umbrella, sender lets receiver under their umbrella.

          priscilla wishes she’d checked the weather that morning.     though grimnoire usually had cloudy weather and humid skies,   rain wasn’t always a guarantee.     she’d just finished a performance at a local club nearby,   and though she could tell she was getting drenched from the rain,   she was at least grateful she was wearing a coat.

          though suddenly—the rain stops.     priscilla can still hear it hit the ground and she can see it ripple through the puddles of the street ahead.     she looks up to see an umbrella,   and then beside her to see the man holding it.     he seemed vaguely familiar somehow…   though not in a personal way.     regardless,   she’s quick to thank him.

          “   oh!     thank you,   ”          priscilla’s posture relaxes a bit knowing she’s been sheltered from the rain.          she lets out a nervous laugh,          “   this is making me realize i should check the weather more often…   “

﹙♡﹚　PROMPT.

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

I'm playing the sequel to Detective Grimnoire immediately because the game charmed me so.

[molarcupcake]

reblogging with some of my favorites (mostly because i want to document them here). These are all really good, relatively short, and story-centered. You don't have to learn any text adventure basics to get through these, and they can all be played free on ur browser.

Bring Me a Head! by Chandler Groover

Pageant by Autumn Chen

1 4 the $ by Charm Cochran

Howling Dogs by Porpentine (yes, the author of Serious Weakness)

GrimNoir by ProP

Hunting Unicorn by Chandler Groover

If you think you're done with point-and-click and are ready to try some larger parser games, these are my favorites which take around four hours to a day to complete:

Studio by Charm Cochran

Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short

Toby's Nose by Chandler Groover

Vespers by Jason Devlin

"there aren't any real weird stories anymore" "i don't know what to read" "my pc is too shit for video games" "i can't afford to read/watch/consume (blank)" go on ifdb. go on there. go to ifdb dot org. weve got interactive short stories weve got large puzzle games weve got delicious writing for zero moneys whatsoever. ifdb thats eye eff dee bee dot org for interactive fiction

[twinegardening]

Grimnoir by ProP

It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague Solene in rainy Steel City as they take on a series of cases involving monsters, people, and that which falls between. Grimnoir is a hypertext mystery game featuring seven main cases, multiple endings, and an inordinate amount of whiskey. An internet connection and speakers are recommended for the best experience, but not required. The game is not recommended for young children.

[lightthewaybackhome]

Oooh! Thank you @saxifrage-wreath for the tag. I never pass up a chance to talk about books.

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (will be my favorite book until I die. Typically this becomes shorthand for the Silmarillion, the Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings which I'm starting to see as one unit.)

Watership Down by Richard Adams (I can never get enough of this story about rabbits who bond during an adventure, find a home, defend it, and live happily ever after.)

The Exorcist (Just like love is a choice not a feeling, so is faith.)

All Band of Brothers books (I collect these and they're my favorite.)

3000 Degrees (Firefighters on the radio with each other as they die. Here is a tiny bit of my soul, feel free to destroy it.)

The Sharpe's Rifles Series by Bernard Cornwell.

The Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Coriea (Just plain fun.)

Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie (My second favorite author.)

With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge

The Book of the Dun Cow (READ IT!)

The Valley of Vision (My favorite book of poetry)

The Last Unicorn (Utterly beautiful. Every single word.)

Consider yourself tagged if you too love to talk about books!

Tagged by @mademoiseli to share a number of books that are dear to me. (thank you, friend!) So here we go:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

the Redwall series by Brian Jacques (I couldn’t get enough of these books as a kid, like I lived and breathed them)

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Histories by Herodotus of Halicarnassus

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (first of the classics I ever read)

the works of James Herriot (I’ve got an omnibus edition so that counts as one)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (I read this while studying the USSR in high school modern history)

the Gaunt’s Ghosts series by Dan Abnett (quite possibly the best military sci-fi I’ve read)

the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling (there, I’ve said it. Reading them gives me this weird like coming home sort of feeling)

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

the Boggart books by Susan Cooper

Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (her other books are great, but these two are just so special to me)

the Thrawn Trilogy of Star Wars books by Timothy Zahn

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

the Jeeves books by P.G. Wodehouse

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Optionally tagging @lightthewaybackhome @audreythevaliant @zelzahdarkcloak @accidental-spice @teabooksandsweets @the-old-fashioned-girl @hollers-and-holmes @thatfriendlyanon @dimsilver @raspberryzingaaa anyone else who wants to share :)

[thebookhavenblog]

Spellbound: Book II of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia

📚 Genre: Urban Fantasy / Alternate History⭐️ Rating: 4.5/5 Hello, friends! Welcome back to The Book Haven, where I, casmith76—a husband, dad to a preteen daughter who’s raiding my bookshelf, a toddler who thinks novels are teething toys, and soon-to-be father of three—share my unquenchable thirst for stories that snatch me from the whirlwind of family life. I’m a fantasy junkie through and…

[asks-n-trolls]

Lovrio, do you know how to roller skate?

“Um... Y-YEAH DUH PRETTY GOOD AT IT!

Just dont see me skating around cus I dont want other people to feel bad y’know?”