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Sinking my Teeth into Vampyr
Somehow I never linked this on Patreon. I'm pretty sure I had the preview in my pinned post on Twitter for months and didn't realize it was the full thing.Anyway, here is my first full video essay, a thing I wanted to do over a year ago but never got around to. Also the twitter profile I give at the end was obseleted in a week or so. It's now @̶_̶e̶s̶t̶r̶u̶s̶f̶l̶a̶s̶k̶ @FakeEstrusFlask You can always find me on Mastodon, ...
Back on the Hell Site
I'm currently @_Bibleblackbelt, and we'll see how long it lasts. As usual, you can always find me on Mastodon @Estrusflask@mastodon.socialhttps://twitter.com/_Bibleblackbelt/status/1188634174888071168
I'm finally doing that thing I said I'd do
While I'd been writing critical essays of varying quality that you're all probably familiar with (otherwise why would you be paying me?) semiconsistently for a few months until my dad ended up in the hospital, I'm finally getting around to doing that thing I said I'd do when I first started and doing a video essay.This shit is harder than I could have expected, even to do basically nothing in this intro. I appreciate what better p...
The Politics of Metal Gear Rising: Revengence, or, “It’s easy to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps when you’re invincible”
<figure></figure>“[Armstrong’s] motivations kind of had me sighing. I don’t think Platinum was looking to get political with Rising however obviously it’s terrible when Armstrong says he wants the elimination of the poor and to propel the rich, although I’m going to hope that the writers weren’t trying to say that limited federal government is also just as bad, since, well, it’s not.”This is the statement that had me turn off a vi...
Ordo Dracul - The Mystery of Life (VtR2e homebrew)
While I've already posted a lot of short fiction pieces ('vignettes' as I call them) from Tumblr, I've also done a lot of homebrew, making new stuff for roleplaying games, mostly Chronicles of Darkness (previously new World of Darkness). Obviously to make use of these you'll need to [cough cough] "buy" the relevant books, in this case Vampire: the Requiem second edition.First up is a Mystery I made for Requiem 2e that ...
Synth and Bullets (Vignette)
This is another vignette from Tumblr. This time it's got two inspirations: The first is Hotline Miami, with it's techno soundtrack and visceral violence, the second is Changeling: The Lost, a roleplaying game about people kidnapped by faeries who managed to escape, but come back to the real world changed in ways that normal mortals can't even see. The animal mask aesthetic of Hotline Miami fits well with the way Changelings become war...
On Your Feet, Private (Vignette)
This next piece of short fiction is from 2011, and looks like it was originally posted on my Blogspot first. It's inspired by Geist: The Sin-eaters, a roleplaying game set in the then-World of Darkness (now Chronicles of Darkness, and set to finally get a second edition). In Geist, the player characters make a bargain to become permanently possessed by a powerful ghost and in exchange they become unkillable badasses, though usually with a ver...
Broken Hearted (Vignette)
Much like Ghost in the Machine, this is another post originally from Tumblr. Actually, it might originally be from Blogspot. Either way, it's at least six years old and was very obviously inspired by Katawa Shoujo. I had wanted to write something depressing, I think. It was around the same time as Ghost in the Machine, which was posted the month after this one (December and September 2012 respectively). This one's boring and cishet, thoug...
Ghost in the Machine (Vignette)
This is something that's probably a decade old at this point, but it was on Tumblr, and since Tumblr is deciding to kill Tumblr, I'm bringing it over here. It's just a little piece of short fiction I wrote. I'd actually completely forgotten about it until I went back to check on Tumblr, which I probably should have done before my homebrew of updating BDSM wizards got deleted.I'm sure some of you will appreciate this little lov...
Assassin's Screed
The world is going to shit, and it has been for a
Work is Bad, Actually
What is work? What work needs to be done? Who gets to work, and more importantly who gets to not work? And are anarchists just layabouts who want to avoid work?These are questions I ask having just been kicked off of SNAP for failing to meet the 30 hour work requirements. 30 hours of mandatory labour need to be done if I want the pittance the government agrees to pay me. Of course, they’ll likely pay me even less than I was previously getting i...
Shot // Chaser
Strange how Jack doesn't enforce the rules evenly despite claiming to.Strange how trans folks seem to have felt the brunt of this purge of twitter accounts that have ban evaded...(I'm already back, by the way, though I keep getting chastized for doing things like following people or liking posts, because apparently using Twitter is bot behavior)
Liberalism and the Magic Circle [script]
Opening: Here's an idea: Are politics just a game? And if they are... maybe it's time for us to stop following the rules.Part I: The Magic CircleTo help us understand games, we'll turn to Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga, specifically to his 1938 book Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element In Culture—or as Huizinga himself said it should be called, the Study of the Play Element of Culture, though that's a d...
M̶e̶s̶s̶ m̶a̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ i̶s̶ (̶t̶e̶m̶p̶o̶r̶a̶r̶i̶l̶y̶?̶)̶ o̶n̶ h̶o̶l̶d̶ Lord Help Me &c.
̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶h̶I̶'̶l̶l̶ p̶r̶o̶b̶a̶b̶l̶y̶ m̶a̶k̶e̶ a̶n̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ a̶c̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶ s̶o̶o̶n̶,̶ b̶u̶t̶ I̶'̶m̶ g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶o̶ g̶i̶v̶e̶ i̶t̶ a̶ d̶a̶y̶ o̶r̶ t̶w̶o̶ a̶n̶d̶ t̶r̶y̶ t̶o̶ w̶o̶r̶k̶ o̶n̶ a̶n̶ a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶ p̶r̶o̶j̶e̶c̶t̶.That didn't last long, I'm back. @EstrusFlask
