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💉 blood-showers Follow

okay. but has anyone ever tried drinking their own blood? like from when they were alive?

🍷 nvrdrnk-wine Follow

how the fuck are they gonna do that? go back in fucking time?

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no no like. before they turn they donate blood or something and have it stored in a blood bank, and then after they turn they break in and try it

⚰ let-me-in-let-me-in Follow

thats disgusting

🩸 fightmeorbiteme Follow

Friendly Reminder that taking blood from a blood bank is actually worse for humanity than feeding off humans directly.

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can we not bring up blood bank ethics for five fucking minutes we're talking about drinking your own human blood right now

🕷️ renfields-spider-collection Follow

wouldn't it turn into dead mans blood? cuz you die when u turn? it'd fucking poison you

🧛‍♀️ fromthekarnsteintomb Follow

no but it was drawn before you died

human-guy-steve-deactivated2020

oh my god. my friends gonna sire me in a few weeks. i should fucking try it

🦇 sleepalldaypartyallnight Follow

@human-guy-steve its been 3 months is there an update????

💀 hung3r Follow

he's been fucking destroyed...

🌙 thecollinscurse Follow

Well. There's your answer.

🧛‍♂️ vampire-guy-steve Follow

still here! just remade lol

anyway.

that was fucking disgusting

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Tbh I don't care about the Odyssey discourse but I saw one tweet where they're like "convenient that they would have a guy who goes on an Odyssey named Odysseus" it was my favorite tweet about the whole thing

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Truly, I’m disappointed in myself that it took me this long to do this (or maybe I’ve already done it and forgotten!) but here are the Fear Entities that I think each of the Princesses would be avatars of, knowingly or unknowingly:

Chapter 2 Girls

Beast: The Hunt. Obviously. No explanation needed.

Witch: Initially, I had her down as a Corruption avatar---she's all about nature, she's the product of a relationship that started out fine but went rotten, if you make her a more traditional witch (like me) you know she's all about mushrooms---but after thinking about it, she'd also be an amazing avatar of The Web. She's a scheming, manipulative little trickster, after all, and you know she's the type to think that spiders are adorable.

Prisoner: The Lonely is a contender, but there's really no better option for my best girl than The Buried. Chains are not dirt, that much is true, but there is something so distinctly Buried about becoming increasingly trapped in a prison so specifically designed for you... and, well, being a Buried avatar would definitely be one way of reclaiming her agency.

Damsel: The Stranger. I... don't exactly think I need to explain this one. We've all seen the Deconstructed sequence. (I do think it would be interesting if she didn't realize she was a Stranger avatar and freaks out when she discovers the truth, because feeding off of people's fear is the opposite of making them happy, though.)

Adversary: After careful consideration, I decided on The Desolation for her---but specifically, the part that deals with pain, not strictly fire. Is this because she gives me Jude vibes? Maybe, but it still works.

Tower: She was the hardest chapter 2 princess to figure out, but after much debate, I finally settled on the Entity who feels the most like her---namely, The Eye. Being able to sense the Narrator is very Eye-coded, and in terms of personality... hate to say it, but she could give Elias a run for his money.

Nightmare: Now, I could be boring and say "creepy doll=Stranger," but if I'm being honest, I don't want to repeat Entities until we get to our chapter 3s, and she feels way more Dark-coded in her whole "fear of the unknown" thing. Very monster-in-your-closet. (It could also be argued that she could literally be an avatar of anything due to her just... inspiring fear as her thing, but we gotta be specific here.)

Spectre: There is no vessel more Lonely-coded than our sweet ghost girl. And because of that, I want to give her a hug.

Razor: Slaughter. You could argue "Spiral" because Distortion=knife hands, but you cannot make a woman who is literally made of weapons anything but an avatar of The Slaughter.

Stranger: Ironically enough... The Spiral! Name aside, there's really nothing more Spiral than being everything and yet nothing at once and not knowing who or what you are, and I think this is only Entity that could feasibly suit them.

Chapter 3 Girls

Den: Also Hunt. Again, big kitty.

Thorn: Now, she was pretty difficult to figure out, but I think she also works as a Lonely avatar---or, hell, even an avatar of The Corruption because of all of her nature and decay stuff, but Lonely really fits her whole melancholy vibes and just wanting someone to be close to. Maybe she doesn't have the aesthetics, but she has the mood.

Cage: She could also be a Buried avatar, but in my opinion, The Web makes way more sense---everything from the fact that she believes she has no autonomy to the fact that her body can literally control chains that practically puppeteer TLQ feels incredibly Web-coded to me.

Happily Ever After: She is The Corruption at its most abstract---a relationship that at first seems nothing but loving and devoted, and yet when you look closer, you see that there is something deeply rotten at its core. The "toxic relationship" interpretation of The Corruption is something that's only alluded to in TMA canon, but I think HEA really does encapsulate it.

Eye of the Needle: This one is The Slaughter. It's not even about the pain anymore, it's just about wanting to fight.

Apotheosis: She is, without a doubt, an avatar of The Vast in every sense of the word. She's something that's truly too large to fully be encapsulated, too large to truly be fought or beaten. Also, big woman.

Moment of Clarity: I know, I know, ironic that there's all of these ghost princesses and I pick this weird puppet one as an avatar of The End, but her inevitability means that... well, she's really the only one who could be an End avatar. Except, of course, the Shifting Mound herself, though I'd argue that she's a more benevolent version of The Extinction. Also, gods are not avatars.

Princess & The Dragon: Spiral. Just... Spiral. I cannot stress enough how much this vessel is an avatar of The Spiral. Her chapter is too mindfucky for her to be anything but.

The Wild (Networked & Wounded): Oh god, is this one hard to categorize... I'd say Corruption for both versions, since as much as I love The Wild, there's no denying that she is a corrupted version of what Once Was.

The Grey (Burned & Drowned): Desolation for Burned, obviously, and for Drowned... well, ironically enough, I believe that drowning is actually part of The Buried. So, uh, yeah, Buried for her.

The Fury: Flesh, she's Flesh, moving on.

The Wraith: Yeah, she's The Web. You could argue that she's also The End, but... Web.

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Because I can, here's what Fear Entities I think the Voices in Slay the Princess would follow:

Hero: None of them! He's avatar-less! I'll even go further and say that he's like Georgie! There's no point in giving our best boy fear powers, because I sincerely doubt he'd use them!

Hunted: Now, I didn't want to say The Hunt, but... well, we've seen the Den update. He's definitely what happens when someone who's marked by The Hunt becomes an avatar of it.

Opportunist: They're a Web avatar, but they're really, really, really bad at being a Web avatar. In true Oppy fashion.

Skeptic: The Eye. Do I really need to explain?

Smitten: Look, even before Happily Ever After, I would've said Corruption, so that just confirmed it for me. The Corruption is the Entity that's about love that grows sour, love that grows obsessive, love that becomes destructive, and... yeah. Also, I really think he'd be cool as an avatar who literally gets lovesick.

Stubborn: Weirdly enough, The Flesh! The fact that he can make us keep fighting even after our bones are broken and organs are ruptured feels very Flesh to me, and it feels fitting to give that Entity to the biggest and toughest Voice.

Broken: He's an avatar of The Vast---specifically, the part of The Vast where you just lay down and accept that you're an insignificant speck in a cold, gigantic, uncaring universe. He's also probably the only Vast avatar that isn't a ball of sheer chaos.

Paranoid: I initially debated The Eye for him, but really, The Spiral is way more fitting for our skittish little nervous wreck. He's a spiraling mess, and we love him for it.

Cold: Lonely. In the Lukas way.

Cheated: Honestly, given the fact that he goes through a lot of pain and grief, The Desolation. It's another victim-turned-avatar situation, I think.

Contrarian: Am I going to say "The Stranger" simply because everyone draws him as a jester, and because that's the name of the chapter he's in? Yes. Will I deny that it's completely fitting? No.

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When you’re staring down a nightmarish creature so terrifying that it can literally stop your heart in fear, but the sound of your mind voluntarily operating your autonomic nervous system is lowkey fire

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trope i really like is self-loathing characters desperate for the catharsis of punishment for frankly rather selfish reasons who r also obsessed with repeatedly pressing others into hating them and hurting them as essentially a method of self harm. yes baby continue making it worse for urself and everybody around u instead of doing an actually productive and effective journey of improvement and redemption

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Decided to say fuck it & make a Chargestep playlist, take my opinions with a grain of salt cause i am very biased. 🤣

Links to the playlist on YouTube & Spotify.

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heartbreak incident

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i want to once again wax poetic about how the best thing about Fallen Hero is how the game's attention to detail wrt stats, variables, etc. works together with the unreliable narration, such that my Sidestep can be a ruthless manipulator while still having moments of vulnerability in relationships that don't feel forced or OOC

for example:

i wanted to do a run where Cyrus is fully aware of Ortega's feelings for him but lets their relationship languish in the "it's complicated" limbo with no intention to follow through. when i replayed Rebirth to establish this, i also decided to have him hug Ortega at the hospital even though i usually avoid that option for fear of making Cyrus seem too genuinely emotional, too soon

but instead i got this absolutely perfect flavor text:

the narration being so cold and detached even when he's being physically affectionate. justifying it by calling it payback. the tell that he's actually hugging Ortega pretty tightly, to be hurting his ribs. like, seriously, chef's kiss

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The lyrics of the song "I know those eyes/This man is dead" are so so Chargestep coded I'm gonna throw up ahh

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quick babey damien drawing that got turned into something a bit more

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WE'RE SO BACK‼️‼️

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Passed out candy as the long quiet. Made a couple of kids cry.

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One of my favorite lil lonelyeyes takes is that I fully believe they get divorced via full legal process. Every. Single. Time. Every little scrap of paperwork meticulously filled out, every possible opportunity to scream at each other in a courtroom. Divorce attorneys simultaneously rich and traumatized. It’s chock full of misery and loneliness and the feeling of being judged. It’s the worst, most bureaucratic foreplay ever to exist. And I find it delightful.

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thinkin’ about Her

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>SD_ASSET_NO; #CB - 213655489-07 >ASSET_TYPE; INFILTRATION UNIT >HANDLER; DR SIEPEN DIRECTOR SIEPEN >DESIGNATION; = [ROOK]

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"Can I kiss you?" she asks as if she had read your mind and set out to prove your prejudice.  "You didn't use to ask." If she had, would you have said yes or run for the hills?  "I was a bit of a pendeja back then," she admits, "I'm trying to be a better woman these days." 

Once again on my never-ending quest to bring these two to some rocky beach for silly photos. The weather never really cooperates with me when I do try. ^^;; This time was no different, beautiful day but windy as fuck. I'm a bit shocked neither of them toppled into the ocean, but I did managed some quick fun snaps in the end. I do love taking pictures near the waterfront~ <3