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#texas chainsaw massacre #friday the 13th #nightmare on elm street #halloween #bubba sawyer #jason voorhees #freddy krueger #micheal myers

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#dr1 #sakura oogami #aoi asahina #yasuhiro hagakure #junko enoshima #kiyotaka ishimaru #mondo oowada #chihiro fujisaki

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suppermariobroth

Promotional photograph of former Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln, taken in front of a Mario animatronic at E3 1997. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly (US), Issue 109, 1998

vivillon

#>former #oh noooooooo

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art-of-nighto

Reward for Soulkat, Kiki and Gina having fun in their bellydancing class :>

Support me on Patreon!

#cute art

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cyberneticpinkeye

SPOILERS FOR MYSTERY SKULLS ANIMATED: HELLBENT

Noticed a few peeps were taking a whack at dubbing this, so I figured I’d give it the old college try myself!

The bangin’ music belongs to Mystery Skulls, and the amazing animation belongs to @mysterybensmysteryblog and @artsyfeathersartsyblog!

#msa #msa lewis #msa arthur #video

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dawhitebag

amtrax

LANCE IS READY TO KICK SOME ARSE! I haven’t seen anybody do Lance yet, so here’s my take on Lance!

Also Hellbent is gorgeously animated and you are missing out if you haven’t seen it yet.

All them lovely characters belong to @mysterybensmysteryblog and @artsyfeathersartsyblog OBVIOUSLY

AUSTIN I’M FUCKING SOBBING

#msa #msa lance #video

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dawhitebag

keyblack-hl

You’re sorry? You’re SORRY?! You took everything from me! The love of my life! The life I LOVED! And look at what you’ve left me! Take a good, hard look! You’d better start praying hard, Arthur. Because if wrath is a sin, I’m dragging you all the way down to Hell with me.

I realized I hadn’t drawn angry Lewis in a while. And wherever there’s an angry Lew, there’s an unfortunate Arthur to match.

Somebody go catch that poor boy a break.

#msa #msa lewis #msa arthur

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alwaysunnyonmtv

Looking at this makes me so tired.

Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol

Yep

They just emailed me about this today and I’m ???? Where is the 100k+ going every time they do this? There’s been one major update that fanfiction has had for at least five years and they don’t demand money like that

thatgirlonstage

You people realize that, like, server space and shit costs money, right? You realize that they need money to pay graphic designers and coders and such BEFORE you get to see those updates on the website, right? You realize that ffnet runs ads on their site and that’s how they’re earning revenue while AO3 is completely ad-free, right? Lord help me I know very little about finances or how to run a website but Wikipedia does the exact same thing but they have a far more massive user base to pull from. Do you like AO3? Would you rather go back to only having ffnet? No? Then maybe don’t baselessly accuse them of scamming people. You don’t have to donate to them if you don’t want to, they’re not holding your account hostage if you don’t.

popkin16

They also post a very handy breakdown of where that money is going. IT’S NOT A SCAM. If you love ao3 and want it to exist, DONATE.

ifshehadwings

Oh. my god. The OTW, which runs AO3 is a non-profit organization, which comes with extremely strict rules about how money can be used. They are also one of the most transparent organizations I have ever had the pleasure of supporting.

Rather than just lazily suggesting/assuming that an organization is corrupt, you could do what I did just now and spend TWO FUCKING SECONDS ON THE AO3 HOMEPAGE TO FIND THE DETAILED BUDGET SO THAT YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY WHERE THE FUCK ALL THAT MONEY IS GOING.

And here is a budget update from this past week (10/10/18) with graphs and further explanations.

And the answer is, mainly, servers. To host all that glorious fanfic that we all love and depend upon so much. Like, I know capitalism is the worst, but it’s what we’ve got right now. And that being the case, STUFF FUCKING COSTS MONEY. Servers cost (a hell of a lot of) money. Domains and hosting cost money. Hell, even collecting donations costs money. Maintaining a website of the size and complexity of AO3 is not fucking free. In fact, it’s pretty damn expensive. And they ask us for donations every so often so that the archive will never be beholden to the whims of advertisers or investors.

In my bitter old fandom queen opinion, the OTW in general and AO3 specifically is the best damn thing fandom as a collective entity has ever done. It takes a massive amount of commitment and effort to continue to offer this invaluable service to all of us, and literally everyone who runs or contributes to this effort does so FOR FUCKING FREE. Because they love fandom and believe that the mission of OTW and AO3 is important enough to donate their time, energy, and talent to.

To see people so casually dismiss this massive labor of love as some corrupt cash grab offends me right down to my very soul. Like, how fucking dare you? How dare you sit there behind your monitor and throw these baseless accusations around? You clearly use and benefit from the service that AO3 provides, but you’re offended to hear that that service costs money to maintain? And what the fuck have you done for fandom lately, huh? Cause it sure as hell can’t hold a candle to what the OTW does every damn day. Like … fuck the fuck off with your smug, self-satisfied ignorance. Go get all your fic on ff.net if it’s so great then.

#ao3

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anywigwilldo

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

after a while i became convinced that the words were mocking me

Nothing happened.

I WAS PROMISED A BATTLE

*throws down gauntlet*

Edit: Went back. This is the best thing to happen to my dashboard ever.

Reblogging again because my followers need to see this. To be clear, rebog, go to your actual blog, then click the picture.

penandpage

aight

OH MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT

thornsword

DO IT

20053

WOW IT REALLY IS SOMETHING FREAKING GOOD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT

warp6

Okay, if this is a rickroll I swear to…

warp6

1) It was not a rickroll

2) It was super awesome!

3) No jumpscare or anything designed to freak you out, so doesn’t need an unreality warning (YMMV, of course).

Suspicious but curious. Curiosity wins!

attention all writers following me- try this or you will lament.

viperbranium

EVERYONE TRY THIS (you gotta go to your on blog to click on it!)

boopifer

OK THIS IS THE COOLEST

weebleswrites

I’m reblogging this to save it because it is actually really fun!

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#dr1 #makoto naegi #kyoko kirigiri #sayaka maizono #leon kuwata #byakuya togami #toko fukawa #hifumi yamada #celestia ludenberg

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500 of you already !! Although this number isn’t exactly huge, it really means a lot to see how people enjoy my art. So in return, I’ll spoil you a tad !! It’s not much but I hope I can offer more in the future ♥

Rules

Must be following @venusitas
New & old followers are allowed !!
Reblogs & likes count to enter.
You can reblog as many times as you want.
No giveaway blogs.
If you unfollow after the giveway ends,you won’t be able to participate in any future raffle.

Prizes

First place : Full colored portrait — 1 winner.
Second place: Simple shadow waist-up — 2 winners.
Third place: Colored sketch full body — 3 winners.

Limitations

Only one character per picture.
Can be canon or original character(s).
SFW only — Can be suggestive, but within the limits.

End date: October 24, 2018

Good luck & have fun !!

#art giveaway

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wesschneider

Terror Tracks: Music in Horror TTRPGs

GIF by diascordium

This is a rework of an article I wrote in 2013. I’ve added some sources, but others might be a bit dated. Additional scores and suggestions welcome!

You can also hear the gist of this preamble in the recording of “Something at Work in the Soul: Horror in RPGs” from Orcacon 2018

Silence: Ambiance’s Weak Spot

I won’t run horror tabletop RPGs without background music. They need it.

More so than other games with their looping tracks from The Lord of the Rings or Conan, horror games absolutely require background music.

Is that strange? In a genre filled with innocents creeping across creaky floorboards and screams piercing still nights, is it weird to use music to fill every breath-holding moment?

If you’re making a movie, maybe (and even then only maybe). In the TTRPG game you’re running, though, absolutely not.

In any horror game, a absolute goal of your work as a GM is to build an appropriately creepy ambiance or atmosphere. To do so, you’ll use your story, lurid descriptions, whispered conversations, dimmed lights, a whole bag of spooky tricks. But in all of it, your greatest enemy is silence.

That’s because, once a pause hits, once you’re not forwarding the plot, once a player’s not speaking in character, like a mist, the ambiance starts dissipating. Too quickly, the players realize they’re not on rain-slick parapets fleeing the hungry night, they’re in your game room. They remember they’re just playing, they might even realize they’re tense, and in that situation they might do what most humans do when they’re tense: try to break that tension.

Gamers do this with Monty Python jokes.

Monty Python jokes KILL AMBIANCE DEAD.

Horror Behind Your Words

So what to do? Never slow the game’s momentum. Never look up a rule. Never use the restroom. Never break the session. Lock all the doors. Run the game until either its over or you are.

Or, give yourself some backup.

Low, subtle, constant, appropriately creepy music provides a steady drumbeat of atmospheric agreement to your story.

While you’re describing the indescribable, it’s an ominous pulse, nodding along, seconding every terror you reveal.

Even better, though, in the pauses, it’s still there. It’s the dread that lingers even when you’re not building it, it fills the space and holds the atmosphere, helping to keep players in the moment when you can’t.

There are a thousand tricks you can play once you’ve incorporated music into your game—volume, looping, manipulating attention, Pavlovian responses, avoiding recognition—but that’s a discussion for another time. With appropriate selections, the score to your game can do as much to create a memorable experience as your storytelling itself. But, your music has to work for you.

Dread Accompaniment: Horror Music Playlists

Not all horror is alike. The world-destroying marches of Godzilla’s score would never work if you subbed them in behind the visuals of Ringu. Hellraiser’s score works for Hellraiser, The Thing’s score works for The Thing, and trying to swap them would be a mess. The music has to encourage the atmosphere you’re trying to create. If it doesn’t, it might actively work against your story.

As the director on Pathfinder’s Carrion Crown Adventure Path, I wrote several forewords that included my suggestions for music that reinforced the themes of those adventures and that highlighted a specific horror genre or general concept. (The associated films also make damn fine viewing if you’re looking for a specific vein of inspiration.) For ease of reference, I’ve expanded on those playlists here, each with suggested artists, albums, and (where possible) links to help emphasize certain ominous moods. Obviously, these playlists are not all-inclusive; just some of my favorites that have worked well for me in the past.

Use these next time you’re looking for something to enhance the atmosphere of your most sinister TTRPG games, those sessions when you really want to leave your players dangling from the edges of their seats.