#the caster curse

[wandererxiv]

"I think I'll write Yurah as a non-caster." @notleriff: makes me a cute caster outfit

[ratatatastic]

"That was a great opening pitch ceremony before the game today! Matthew Tkachuk from the Panthers, Jayson Tatum from the Celtics, threw out the first pitch today. Two St. Louis Champions!" "—Thought they went to high school together, they rode the bus to school together, they won Championships in the same year. That's pretty amazing!" "Well Tatum's one-uped him, he's got a gold medal too. From the Olympics." "Yeah, that's true... So I went downstairs today to go say, 'Hi,' to Keith Tkachuk, obviously, and Matthew. I have this picture of Keith and I, and Matthew when he was 5 years old in front of my locker. So we reincarnated the picture today." "Oh, did you?" "Yeah, it was pretty funny—except for Matthew was a little too tall to stand on the chair this time, and Keith has gained a few pounds as he said. But still one of the greatest people—I think—that will ever be around this city—right there, that guy, Keith Tkachuk. There's his son, Matthew, right there. What a great family! I always say the star of their family is Mrs. Tkachuk. Chantal is, obviously the mom, and she is the star of the show—"

los angeles dodgers @ st louis cardinals | 8.18.24

[extrabonesforreallycheap]

HOW IS IT ALWAYS C

[evionart]

Stardew Valley Curse AU

Been playing with an AU based on my recent modded SDV experience and wanted to work on Gaius's design.

-The curse is tied to the family farmland - It's a 'Blessing of the Land' from the forest spirits that improves plant growth and health, and bestows the 'land's keeper' with great strength and endurance. Unfortunately how this manifests is not appreciated by humans.

-Gaius's grandfather also dealt with the Curse in his youth - His version gave him features like a bear - massive paws, furry ears and shaggy hair everywhere. Lewis was one of his close friends during that time, which is why the grandfather sends Gaius to him for help.

-Gaius had to leave his apartment with a large duffel bag full of whatever clothes he could salvage. Unfortunately most of his pants don't fit anymore due to his hind quarters having bulked up to accommodate a digitigrade type posture.

-He threw on the biggest, bulkiest clothes he could find, but the horns make even a hoodie incredibly awkward to wear. He managed to shove his hooves into some boots and stuffed the extra space around them with rolled up socks, but he has to shuffle to avoid them falling off while walking. Stairs are his ultimate nemesis in this outfit. Getting on and off the bus was an ordeal.

-Lewis briefed Robin on the situation prior to their meeting, but Robin can't help staring at the poor guy, though she tries to hide it. For one - he's so BIG. He easily towers over the other villagers. And two, those ears and that tail keep twitching and moving, seemingly unintentionally, and it's distracting.

Gaius definitely notices the weird looks he gets and is struggling with feeling self-conscious about it all. Despite any previous warnings about their 'strange new neighbor,' first meetings with many of the villagers are tense.

[miniaturethingdestiny-blog]

So this post is just me Limbus Company X Werewolf the Apocalypse headcanons on what tribes and auspace each of the 12 sinners would be if they're garous and what they war form would look like.

Take Heathcliff as an example. To start He's obviosity a Ahroun, I picture that he's currently a Ronin though he was adopted into a sliver fang family as a orphaned kinfolk. Infract he's treated surprisingly well by Mr. Earnshaw the head of said family, better then his biological son Hindley. Unfortunately Mr. Earnshaw died long before he can witness Heathcliff's first change and Heathcliff ran away shortly after said first change.

Heathcliff's war from would obviosity be modeled after the van helsing were wolf. Just different fur color and scars across his body.

The there's Rodion is defiantly a Black Fury Philodox or maybe Ahroun, Like even in canon Rodion has a strong sense of justice (alongside the desire to prove that she's special ) that will drive her to acts of extreme acts of violence if she deems it necessary (a prime example of that would be the murder of a tax collector in her backstory), so she would fit right in with the Furies and I suspect that she would really enjoy raising her renown stat.

Rodion's war form actually looks like the wolf design from the early draft of Cursed. Seriously, the resemblance is uncanny.

Finally Don Quixote, who despite acting like a caricature of a Galliard of some unconfirmed tribe (she tends to go on a tangent when asked about her tribe) she's actually a Theurge for uh spoiler reason I'll say that much. Don has a extremely idealistic view of being a garou of being valiant heroes and protectors of Gaia and this belief tends to color here perception of other garous and possibly how she view reality which leads her to act in ways that some might describe as dangerously naive. (please note this is pre canto 7 don whose quite literally a completely different charter to post canto 7 Don)

Don's war form is inspired by released version of Cursed. She would insist it's as fearsome as any other crinos but between, the forms relatively demutive size and her instance on Dedicating her "Steed" (worn out running shoes) Rocinante on her form pants a different picture…

[animal-appreciation]

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[rainybraindays]

Genevieve in the books literally doesn't even realize shes dark, shes like "damn the 3 most important people in my life died AND i got struck by lightning" meanwhile Movie Genevieve goes dark, becomes like cartoonishly evil immediately, her hairs fucked, her makeups fucked, and she murders her Ethan.

Like how did this translation even make sense to the people doing the movie, excuse me?? Their love is like the cornerstone of everything?? How very dare you

[bucket-hat-benjamin]

Guess who has *poses and does jazzy hands* a new Strahd party member! Yayzers!

And! She’s the only person in the entire party with good charisma. She is also, by pure chance, an awful and chronic liar who Shiv is *sure* is werewolf (she is, in fact, not. At all. Just a half elf here.) (<- this was bc I rolled an insight check for myself to decide what Shiv would assume abt her, (I rolled a nat 1) and we were, tbf, in the middle of a forest, having just passed by the worlds most haunted castle. Gee, I wonder what that castle and these crows are about. )

Dnd was sadly cancelled this week and the next bc of exams 😔. but the DM must sleep

[jin-zixun]

ALSO actually after SMS claims all the credit for cursing Jin Zixun and Wei Wuxian is getting after him because he died for what he sees as a stupid reason... JGY comes to SMS's defense and is like "don't feel sorry for yourself we were going to kill you anyway" so like... what would have been the net gain of him lying about not being behind the curse if he just... basically admits they wanted WWX dead for other reasons anyway

[ratatatastic]

"the fighting has calmed down" (brady approaches menacingly) "it has started again;;;"

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

Castoria wouldn't hate being in Twisted-Wonderland, but she wouldn't like it either.

She wouldn't hate it because she doesn't have to deal with any 'child of prophecy' nonsense, nor be tasked with some grand destiny that ends with her sacrificing herself for the world. She can, for once, just be a normal girl living a rather normal life, like going to school with peers her own age.

However, she wouldn't like it because she's surrounded by people who are willing to use or take advantage of her at any given opportunity. Who see her as amusing at best or someone they can use and manipulate for their own gain at worst. She's still forced to take responsibility that she doesn't want, like looking after grim, resolving school problems, or taking care of overblots. Her Fae eyes also don't help her negative feelings because she can see other people's intent and thoughts, so she actively tries not to approach or befriend her classmates (that goes double for any fae students).

What I'm trying to say is that while Twisted-Wonderland isn't anywhere near as horrific as Fae Britain was, there are still too many negative aspects that Castoria simply wouldn't find herself being comfortable there.

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

is a low level skadi useful for esports

[tfseeds]

Sometimes the first draft sketches just don't work out. Was trying to work on a good before-and-after reference for Gaius's curse in a Stardew Valley setting, but I was struggling with the poses and it just ended up feeling too stiff.

So, tossing it as-is up here and will try again some other time. I just wish it didn't feel like wasting four hours!

[pretentiousactress]

crazy that my last two dnd sessions were so drama filled despite so many shit rolls i can't stop thinking about them LMAO

tyranny was just a boss fight the whole session but we got a TPK and there was so much DRAMA in the struggle along with one of our party decided to go perma dead in order to kill the boss on its last leg. We just have to find our last remaining npc friend but we're getting a beach episode next session (that we've been requesting for after we deal with that boss LOL) to have a small break from the horrors

in strahd there was SO MUCH and so much backfired on my ass i cry. I said the pretty pastry lady could help us with trying to help the blighted man. I helped him be able to speak a little more but even more so allowed it so that others could touch him again (WHICH I REALIZED LATER I SHOULDNT HAVE)

learned also that strahd picked my girlie to have as a bride to remove the mist which made her nearly throw up

pretty lady was shady as hell manipulating us but i also made the dm regret giving me the wand of secrets hehehehe

learned the horrors of the village of the night, learned that the pastries are PEOPLE PASTRIES AND THE LADY REALLY WANTED TO MAKE BLIGHTED MAN INTO A PASTRY

now we're gonna die by pretty lady's hands and it's my fault for just trying to be kind to a suffering man wtf

MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL???? MY HAND GOT BITTEN OFF BY A CREATURE???????? i cast light on my hand to see in the dark since it was evening and something weird was moving around, the thing didn't like it and i did a dex save to see if it hurt trying to break the light and i ROLLED A 1 SO IT BIT OFF MY HAND that was so fucked up i'll never recover from this tomfoolery

so much drama and action and fear back to back has me way too over excited it's hard to chill tf out LMAO i'm hoping tuesdays fun day will help break that up since it's just all shenanigans anyways

and at least there will be the beach episode too to break things up but we'll see what level of tomfoolery that will involve since dm actually developed some ideas for it LOL

[gbhbl]

EP Review: Bile Caster – Writhing Between Birth and Death (Cursed Monk Records / Masochist Records / Eggy Tapes)

One of the most substantial EPs of the year from a doom and sludge perspective, Bile Caster force their thick sound down the throats of anyone brave enough to press play on this release.

Formed in August 2019, Bile Caster are a 3-piece sludge/doom band based in Leicester, England. Since putting out a demo and a split release, Bile Caster have become a staple in the UKs heavy underground scene and now, on October 4th, 2024, they will release their debut EP. Called ‘Writhing Between Birth and Death’, this three-track EP will be released on CD and digital by Cursed Monk Records,…

[rainybraindays]

The fact that Genevieve and Ethan Carter can't even be together in death rips my fucking heart out. And its because he wanted to save her!! These two kept dooming themselves to save the other, and now they're apart forever!! Genevieves left wandering and depressed, while hes rotting in that fucking moat and I'm so fucking sad about it. They deserve better