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Werewolves and Time Travelers

@folkloric-love / folkloric-love.tumblr.com

askbox is always open! ask me about my fandoms! currently into darkest dungeon, dungeons and dragons, curse of strahd, baldur's gate 3, vox machina, and lies of p. mostly reblogs about horror, werewolves, folklore, mythology, and writing references, along with various fandom nonsense icon credit - @cynthplop
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me when i meet the person who created webp files

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bogleech

It was google by the way, they thought it would be such a good file type it would replace the need for all other image files, that's why anything they own or partner with tries to force it on us though no art programs can even work with it.

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sarroora

THANK YOU FOR THIS!

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Seeker not for love, but for desire

I've made this aesthetic collage of the Strahd von Zarovich, after my DM and I wrote a rough draft psychoanalysis thesis of his character and oh lord- This once-a-man has gone down in a spiral of his own tragedy so deep, so his story is almost the saddest comedy with good balance of time, tragedy and man's absolute lack of faith in “if I talk through my mouth with people, about what I feel, they might understand or at least can help me.” I’m delighted by the rottenness of this warrior-warlock-conqueror-vampire brain

Also, in my plan there are to make collages of the players chars and Ireena as well %) But I already tearing up between so much work it’s almost a disaster haha

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I've been yelling about my current campaign with friends, one of which is a native Russian speaker, who told me that 'Vasilka' can be used as a diminutive form of 'Vasilisa'. I don't know if the writers of the module did that on purpose or not, but it amuses me to think that the Abbot does lean into the doting father role just enough that he calls her by a diminutive, which is very cute and adds a small humanizing element to his character, I think. Also, I enjoy the fact that this gives me yet another little thread of fairy tale inspiration that I can weave into Vasilka's character themes, which is the Slavic folktale of Vasilisa the Beautiful.

A naïve young woman who stops waiting around to be rescued, and instead takes her destiny into her own hands, is deeply appealing to me and very thematically appropriate for Vasilka, who has been confined to the Abbey her entire life. If not for the party's intervention, she would still be there, staring over the battlements, and wondering what sort of world lies just beyond the Abbey's fortified walls.

I'm not sure exactly how much I'll be able to weave these themes into her narrative, but rest assured I'm ruminating on them all the same!

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"When women integrate this aspect of the Yaga, they change from accepting without question... every everything that comes their way. To gain a little distance from the sweet blessing of the too-good mother, a woman gradually learns to not just look, but to squint and to peer, and then, more and more, to suffer no fools."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., Women Who Run With the Wolves, pp. 110

- Illustration by Ivan Bilibin

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caincm-art

This is my quick fanart to “The Black Book” indie game. Its very good! If you like strategy, card games and by any chance interested in Slavic mythology - you should definetely check it out!

This is the main Character - Vasilisa, who had to became a witch to save her loved one from Hell. and she has a big Black Book, and an army of Imps =)

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if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

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loonarmuunar

Robot disabilities. Robot who charges slowly and loses power incredibly fast and is always tired. Robot with malfunctioning lenses and can’t process visual information properly. Robot that can’t process anything too large and at a fast rate or else they’ll shut down. Robot with limbs screwed on too loose/just can’t attach correctly, so if they’re not careful they fall out. Robot disabilities,,,

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