#really gets the brain thinking

[mekanikaltrifle]

Most horrifying way you can think of using the more ostensibly benign disciplines (animalism, presence, fortitude, celerity, etc.)

A few horrible little ways to use the less-combat-ready Disciplines you ask? Well... the predator's arsenal of the world's most duplicitous beasts would be always potentially deadly with enough cunning, right? Presence as a weapon could easily be used to charm everyone on a battlefield at exactly the wrong time-- mortals left in awe as a flame rips over the grounds, and they're too slow to react because of your majesty. Fear applied so strongly and so suddenly it puts the frail (or even not-so) at risk of a heart attack. The panic of the mark of Caine driving someone into the path of danger on a freeway or a busy parade, a fear effect causing a human stampede that kills indiscriminately... there are many ways to kill with emotion.

Animalism could slowly but surely empty an ecosystem in an area to cause business and ecological collapse, even just removing a predator or a prey animal by strong enough communicative will could have disastrous effects. And of course the sheer swarming of animals enough to massacre a gathering, the potential for a network of spies and scouts that continually feed into a stalking/hunting effort designed to pull some poor hapless bastard apart at the seams over years, never giving them peace. You could drive a man mad with enough rats.

Fortitude as a weapon could obviously stop a moving vehicle, could kill indiscriminately as a sufficiently powerful vampire becoming as like stone could simply plough through anything in their path. Be resilient enough and leap from a plane, and see how the mortals feel about that terminal velocity surging through them all as you land among them. Besides that I feel a well-trained Fortitude user could reflect bullets back at attackers (though as ever, indiscriminate). On top of that the fifth edition books as much as I do not follow them add the concept of Fortitude giving mental resistance as well... imagine the fear of a Terminator-like bastard who cannot be swayed, cannot be stopped, calmly walking towards you all night. He never tires. he never slows down, and he never feels the need to run, even if you fire at him or drive a car into him...

Celerity is both grace and speed, which I think is fascinating. Obviously as a mechanic you can always use it for extra turns but it also adds to your dice pool for attempts to land hits, and that I think is its most interesting potential: a vampire so fluid and graceful and quick they could sever single blood vessels mid-combat, or even simply damage individual nerves with the time it takes a man to realise what's happening. Blood loss happening so quickly, or agonising pain (certain nerves in the body produce incredibly strong sensory effects if they're damaged) out of seemingly nowhere. And of course, being so fast you don't even need to touch anyone; you pull the air out of a space, so that you suffocate a room of enemy mortals one by one. Speed so quick you can almost see someone's movement before they see it, and can move them from their position over and over and over, pulling more and more frustration from them as they fail to catch you or even see you... dementation who? :D

Auspex too could easily be a deadly weapon in the same way, given that higher levels unlock the ability to telepathically look into the minds of others, and astral project. Knowledge is power and imagine the things you could learn, the horrific little secrets you could levy against someone, all the while as you hear their body grow more and more tense and panicked-- and see their aura shift farther into agitation, confusion or terror. Death by a thousand cuts and all because you can see what they've done even if you weren't there. Touch a murder weapon and learn the face and voice of the killer, and then track him down through the aether. Watch his aura flare with recognition of facts only he and his victim should know, and writhe in an agony he never imagined he'd feel. Listen to the inside of his head, and tell him everything he desperately doesn't want to hear... and mean it.

I hope these fit what you were thinking and by all means do add your own ideas of how these 'benign' non-combat Disciplines could be truly horrifying, because I love seeing how nasty you can get with it-- especially if it's very, very canon. :D

(I actually have a couple Auspex-and-its-associated-clans thoughts I'll need to write up soon. stay tuned for that. :D)

[valtsv]

you should always be careful when you fall back asleep again after waking up because sometimes you will just have a pleasant little snooze but sometimes you'll get trapped in TIME PRISON. unfortunately there is no way to predict this.

[introspectivememories]

was it casual when i sat in your lap in public? was it casual when i said "recently my heart is crying because you're leaving"? was it casual when we decided how your last name would fit with mine? ("yuki tsunoda-gasly" / "no tsunoda, only gasly" / "yuki gasly?") was it casual when we sang adele's "someone like you" together at your going away party? was it casual when i knew it was you just by touching your ass? was it casual when i knew it was you by smell alone? was it casual when "will you miss me?" / "for 2-3 minutes maybe" / "i'll take that. even if it's just 2-3 minutes, i'll take that"? was it casual when that bus was completely empty and we still sat right next to each other, all the way in the back? was it casual when i picked you up multiple times so you could dunk a basketball? was it casual when i begged to come over to your house multiple time and then you finally let me and we cooked fried rice together? was it casual when we played christmas twister together and i said "your big eggplant is touching my ass"? was it casual when we were pressed up against each other on a scooter going two miles per hour? was it casual when-

[ineed-to-sleep]

Yeah I would like to have uhhhhh whatever the hell these two have got going on

[laniidae-passerine]

don’t get how you can watch iwtv and be a sincere diehard lestat hater. like the world’s biggest lestat hater is louis and that man can’t even commit to it for more than five minutes before literally hallucinating lestat wearing a wedding ring and talking pretty to him. this show is about louis and every road leads back to lestat for that man

[bonefall]

Anyway. Bi and Mspec Lesbians aren't a hotly "debated" topic or even new to queer culture, it's just the newest thing that bullies who REALLY want to be homophobic and even racist use to justify harassing gay people they don't like.

It's the thinnest possible veneer of progressive language wrapped around TERF and reactionary rhetoric so that they can feel righteous for forming an angry mob against vulnerable targets. If you're gullible enough to fall for the newest wave of bigotry within the queer community, and turn on your allies because they're "confusing" or "invading your spaces," the SAME way they turned on bi/pan labels, trans people, xenogenders, neopronouns, and aroace people before this, then get lost.

[ohposhers]

Floyd but hes sponsored by mountain dew frost bite after i accidentally defaulted to my non-troll style while drawing him

i was originally going to do all of brozone in different mtn dew palette pinups for funzies but i lost steam so you guys get the shitpost i made when i was trying to decide on palettes instead

[ryssbelle]

Brozone reunion concepts for this little thing based on this ask

As stated in the ask idk fully how this moment would go, this concept was mostly building off the premise presented within the ask :D

Bonus:

[fisherrprince]

Instead of writing a fanfic like a normal person this oneshot turned into two separate, contextless things,

[littleplantfreak]

been thinking about ur fav assisting you with the hand job you’re giving him. Either you’re not used to giving one or maybe their cock is big enough that your hand can’t wrap around fully, but regardless it has them putting their hand over yours and showing you how they like it. They’re dribbling over both your hands with pre and really all you have to do is watch while they use your hand to get themselves off atp

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[anewp0tat0]

i lied i had like atleast one more weston thought to expell from my brain, before i miss this boat entirely. we're heading to green lands woooo

[lightnersdream]

i've been thinking about exactly why people portraying one of the other crew members successfully killing Jimmy as a "for what you did to Anya" kind of thing rubs me the wrong way a bit and it's because like..... this is just another form of taking agency away from Anya, in a way. it's kind of framing her as some meek, shivery woman-thing who's entirely at the mercy of the men around her, either to hurt her or save her.

(i understand these are mostly for wish fulfillment on the audience's behalf because everyone would like to see Jimmy pay for his crimes. whether or not this is the intention of the person writing it isn't really relevant, characterization happens with or without intent. i feel like it misses the point by portraying it as an 'ideal ending'.)

because... Anya is a capable person. she takes things into her own hands when she can. it was partially(?) her idea to get into the cargo,

(before he interrupts her.. remember when she interrupted Curly in the dead pixel segment?)

it was her idea to get the code scanner from the cockpit,

it was her idea to get the medication from behind the foam.

(the chance to do these things herself is not given to her.)

she'd been keeping Curly alive for months in a critical state somehow, her psych evaluations at the start are only so useless because Jimmy refuses to take it/her seriously and Curly is obviously biased when he puts it into his own hands. he's known him a long time, like he said. "I'll just put good for that one."

there's not a lot of material to work with because of how the game is framed, but it's there. we are working with two very biased perspectives and neither one lends Anya what she deserves

there's significant changes in how she speaks post- and pre- crash, and depending on who she happens to be talking to. i recommend re-reading her dialogue, because the difference is drastic

she acts the way she does around Jimmy because he has tangibly done horrible things to her, is actively hostile, and physically could not escape him by any means. she can't take away Curly's agency herself, in my eyes. you have to remember that Especially in the post-crash segments of the game, it's entirely from Jimmy's POV, and he obviously does not (and has never) thought very highly of her or treated her with a shred of respect

i've seen a general idea that she can't bear to hurt other people for any reason, but that doesn't really track to me. this is the real point of the post by the way

it seems based on the parts where she says she struggles to give Curly medication. "It just hurts him so much, I can't stand the noise." "It makes me nauseous."

it's not really the same thing as, say, hurting someone in self defense

this sounds like she did want the gun itself. this never felt worded like someone who would refuse to, at very least, threaten Jimmy with a gun, with violence. if she had been given the agency to make that decision on her own. she wasn't though

she still tries to reclaim some of it even as she's denied it

by the end she's still trying to keep that gun out of his hands

i think some people overly soften her, for similar reasons the game itself is trying to comment on. she's not a tender victim who couldn't cause pain to another out of the softness of her soul, she's a person who's had every last bit of agency ripped from her repeatedly until she couldn't take it anymore. that's the point. that's why framing her that way, "needing" someone to save her, is odd to me

she didn't need Curly to save her, she needed him to take responsibility

she didn't want to escalate things, but she's not an idiot. self defense was absolutely on her mind

but who knows im just saying shit *smiles serenely*

[salamispots]

honse (kinda forgot about posting this here haha)

[slavhew]

i reread this scene and i could just. picture it. so vividly.

[medicalunprofessional]

never change, man !