#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-

[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

[ropes3amthoughts]

This is such a mess but do you guys get my vision

[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:

[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

[salamispots]

honse (kinda forgot about posting this here haha)

[slavhew]

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

[fryday]

it's the way "you're not gonna want your dinner" was 110% an offscreen interaction. dan's voice went super quiet (only directed to phil, not for the mic to pick up). his light disappointment/admonishment/fondness was totally genuine, not played up, and was obviously addressing something they've been through a thousand times before (but again, this was neither explained nor exaggerated - it wasn't delivered for the audience's sake). and then phil's immediate, unbothered "i am" while staring blankly into space before he looked at the camera and turned it into the disappointed grandma joke (@manchesterau pointed this out!). we witnessed a full, offscreen, completely domestic moment between them and how blessed are we

[medicalunprofessional]

never change, man !

[lovesickeros]

zhongli and neuvillette fighting over their reader 🤭🤭

scary dog privilege wherever you go, draconic courting gestures that would scare any regular person, they send each other deadly glares the moment you turn away,

stealing your clothes to just get a whiff of your scent, marking their territory all over your house - making it a battlefield basically, neuvillette (in my hc) is cooler and zhongli is warm so the cuddles are always so comfy ☺️😍,

they give you anything you want - you don't even have to lift a finger, they make you travel between the nations a lot though 😒 sooo clingyyy, extra gentle in their dragon forms as to not squish you, don't even get me started on the size difference 😍😍

just a little thought 🤭☺️

- 🐈‍⬛

Neuvi being colder is so real and canon. I see him as being colder + a lot more lithe, kinda lanky with smaller but sharper canines versus Zhongli who's warmer and a bit shorter then Neuvi + bulkier with bigger but not as sharp canines.

They've also got very different habits – Zhongli is very prideful not just of himself but his nation. He'll personally give your a tour and purposely drag it out as long as he can. Complimenting Liyue is basically complimenting him, checkmate Neuvi. Especially if he convinces you to try on some local Liyue fashion. Harmless and just a nice gift to anyone else but Neuvi sees it for what it is (since your wearing something from Liyue, technically wearing something of his. He loves his technicalities when it comes to staking a claim over you). Adds salt to the wound by touching you in totally innocent ways like to adjust you towards something he wants to show you or accidently brushing against you when he takes the bags of spoils he's practically drowning you in but really he's just making sure his scent sticks. He's just a sweet, nice gentleman with absolutely no ulterior motives trust.

Neuvillette does love Fontaine, but his habits are more about himself then the nation. He'll take you around if you ask or if the idea strikes him, but you'll probably stay around the making city area or the opera house specifically. He enjoys more personal time with just you and him then anything else. He values the immaterial to the material. Zhongli spoils you with gifts, but Neuvi tries to offer quality time irregardless of physical gifts (though he still gives them just not to the extent of Zhongli). He'll take you to see different operas if that's to your fancy, or leverage a bit of his authority to maybe see a few films since those seem to be hitting off in Fontaine recently. Bet that creaky old archon doesn't have those huh. He feels awkward if you want to watch a trial, but he'll reluctantly agree because. well. it's you. just don't wave or anything he's trying to work and he just Really wants to see you smile at him like that again and it makes him lose his train of thought. gets custom clothes designed by Chiori to replace your clothes from Liyue because they smell of Zhongli and it makes him sulky + he likes to match.

G-d forbid these two are in the same room as you because it's a war of attrition at that point. Constant accidental brush of the hand against your shoulder or elbow but it's just them trying to get rid of the others scent. they are side eyeing each other behind your back while being all smiles whenever your looking. If it's hot and you lean into Neuvi more he's practically GLOWING. not even smug he's just absolutely smitten and happy to be of service. immediately takes off his gloves and presses his hands to your face asking if your okay and if you want to go back with him. if it's cold out and you seek out Zhongli more hes smug as hell beneath the calm veneer. Offers you his coat and stay as physically close to you as he can under the pretense of being worried you'll catch a cold if he doesn't warm you up.

don't even get me started on your house either because you probably have tons of gifts from both of them accumulated everywhere. if Neuvi sees you use a tea set from Zhongli suddenly he had a fantastic gift idea he thought you'd like. he even got some tea included with it so why don't you let him make you some? Zhongli sees you using a goblet Neuvi gave you (totally a coincidence it's similar to his) and suddenly you have 27 square cups in your cabinets that you have no idea where they came from. if the goblet is mysteriously missing oh well. who knows :]

[popfizzles]

do you guys see my vision