My brain: wow, there are a lot of detailed, nuanced conversations about Deviant the Renegades and queerness to be had, particularly in regards to dysphoria, and- 

Also my brain: Trans woman who went ‘sure the predatory military industrial complex is using the promise of free transition to experiment on the most vulnerable, but on the other hand I asked if I could have rocket tits and they didn’t say no.’

Hey! I make a little horror/dark comedy story podcast called "Gather 'Round the Trashfires" about my Deviant: the Renegades chronicle that's been going on for 3 years now. I have the logs saved, so I started from the very beginning. I have 8 episodes out so far and I publish weekly. A group of young adult strangers find they’re victims of the same secret project on the water system that gave them both fantastic powers and horrifying consequences. What’s worse, the hospital they ended up in isn’t what it seems, either. They must band together to protect themselves and their loved ones, seek vengeance, and expose those responsible. And maybe, hopefully, learn to live with each other along the way. It's also available on most podcast platforms including: Spotify Apple Podcasts Youtube

lets all be REAL clear here avery was banned because a TERF harrassment campaign was successful, the ex post facto excuse of "death threats" was and i cannot stress this enough a transparent attempt from a corperate management system to Hide and Deflect from the fact that there was, is, and it seems will Remain, a HUGE gaping flaw in their moderation. an Excuse from a CEO who knows that, if he admits there IS a problem, then he and his company are Legally On The Hook for YEARS of discrimination.

please spread this so that it can actually be funny instead of just 1 person voting

jkr actively funds and lobbies for her hate groups and against my country's independence movement with the money she gets from dumb fucks who don't think their dollars count. if you're going to be a moral jellyfish at least simp for a dead bigot.

message to all leftists: understand that landlords are bad because they are extorting you in exchange for a basic necessity of survival, not because they are "lazy" or "don't have real jobs"

guy who is definitely not about to fall into a surprise midday nap with an aftermath worse than a hangover: it seems like a really good idea to lay in bed and get cozy under the blanket as part of my plan not to fall asleep. I do not know why.

Father Emir, the Malkavian has a lot of experience in this department.

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On top of the Yankees field cat there was a praying mantis on top of the nationals players hat tonight. Huge night in baseball

Alright people. I need your help. Enrollment for Skype a scientist this semester has been -fine- but we can do better. We have so many scientists who want to speak with classrooms! Will you tell a teacher you know about our program 🥺 please?

Send them to skypeascientist.com/sign-up

Hi again

It's time for a new pinned post. I'm Bek Andrew Evans (he/they). I'm a freelance TTRPG and LARP writer, illustrator, graphic designer, and as of today - podcaster. Here's the first episode of my Deviant: the Renegades story podcast:

If you don't use Spotify, it's available on most platforms. I'm a transmasc queer disabled guy from the Deep South(TM), US. I like making horror art and writing in particular, a lot of it inspired from life experiences.

My traditionally published titles include M20: Sorcerer and Proteus Novas Compendium for Trinity Continuum: Aberrant. Community Content:

They Came to Get You, Barbra! - Cover, illustrator

self-Awakened: A Conversation with an Orphan - cover

Interview with the Aberrant - illustrator

Thoughts and Prayers (A Deviant: the Renegades Novella) - author, illustrator, cover, layout

Dissecting Deviant - author, illustrator, cover, layout

FIXED Deviant: the Renegades Templates (For Publishing Software) - layout Indie TTRPG:

Silly Names and Spandex! - writer, cover, layout

The Unseelie Saga - illustrator

My full portfolio is on my ArtStation and my main print shop is on InPRNT.

I take writing and illustration commissions, and you can support me on Patreon. You can also subscribe to my linktree for updates.

The Trashfires are Released!

I've released my Deviant: the Renegades Story Podcast! You can find them at most major podcasting platforms and several minor ones, including it’s official webpage here: https://redcircle.com/shows/59e19bc6-91d4-4cdc-9684-8759f87afaba and

https://open.spotify.com/show/0XEoO47x7q6dRlkKrAhKhR?si=796bed02d6564cfe

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gather-round-the-trashfires/id1730255738

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXfHF97wzI5K2l1Gwab5ONLl9Lawomfzf

Please note this is a podcast that handles mature themes! Be mindful of the content warnings. 

Bek Andrew Evans, a TTRPG and LARP writer, recounts stories from the table. The main focus is on his years-long Deviant: the Renegades chronicle and his cohort's (mis)adventures. His delivery style has been described as similar to classic Twilight Zone narration.

A group of young adult strangers find they’re victims of the same secret project on the water system that gave them both fantastic powers and horrifying consequences. What’s worse, the hospital they ended up in isn’t what it seems, either. They must band together to protect themselves and their loved ones, seek vengeance, and expose those responsible. And maybe, hopefully, learn to live with each other along the way.

There are so many videos to go through, if any of my followers have seen my work on a WoD video, THEY DID NOT GET PERMISSION OR CONTACT ME. If any of y'all see my work in a World of Darkness video, please notify me, it would be greatly appreciated! If you represent PDX, you are on notice to be incredibly sure you have not used my work in promotional content without express or contractural permission.

'Vamily Spotlight': WoD Brand Team is Taking Art Without Permission

Recently, I was informed by a friend that some work of mine had shown up in the World of Darkness’ official ‘Vamily Spotlight’ section of their latest video. In this they talk about the gameplay reveal of Bloodlines 2 and generally drum up hype for it, which is largely what you expect from company channels when they’ve a new product out. 

There’s a problem with this: I was never informed, or asked. No consent was given to use that work, or any others.

Through some excellent efforts by friends I also found that my work was in two other videos, with the earliest being well over a year ago-- totalling three, and they were up on both Twitch and YouTube.

Now, you’ll note that I’m a professional artist with two separate art degrees and well over a decade and a half of training. I’ve also a basic understanding of copyright and fair use. 

The Vamily Spotlights are little to do with the review and news section of the video and therefore do not really have bearing on the main point of the video. To this end, I’d assume they’re there as a draw to viewers, maybe to see if their or their friends’ work has turned up in these official videos. And nominally that’s a valid tactic for engagement, if you have permission to use these pieces of work.

They do not however have permission, and certainly not from me. 

As of writing, (5th of February 2024) I’ve issued a DMCA request for all three of the videos my work shows up in on both Twitch and YouTube, and takedowns are pending but I would urge people in the WoD tag here on Tumblr to check the available videos for themselves, if they are as concerned as I am. The screenshots of art in the videos they use to spotlight seem to come from Tumblr, as well as whole TikTok videos and other social media posts. If this makes the rounds elsewhere, do check your stuff wherever you are, WoD fans. 

As the videos are also present on the Twitch VOD platform, this means they are actively charging money using our work without permission. I am unsure if their YouTube channel is monetised. Notably, on their 

If they use your work for their spotlights, they are making advertisements and revenue off of your work without any reimbursement or prior consent. 

I don’t know if other artists were asked, but I definitely wasn’t, and by now we all know the issues with ‘exposure’ and how that does not keep artists fed or housed. 

And Paradox Interactive, having artists, they should know that you do not take for free from any of us-- at any level of influence or professionalism. The WoD community is not a free for all for companies to pick and choose free art to use like a bowl of cute little multicoloured sweets, it’s a bunch of creative, inspired and crafty people who come together across any edition of the many worlds in the setting to create as is our fair right to do so. Without being taken for granted, and without being cynically harvested for ‘content’. How vampiric. 

Additionally I would like to note that all of my World of Darkness fanworks are based on legacy books; Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition, Mage the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition and Hunter: the Reckoning First Edition most often, though there are appearances from others. You’ll note that not one of these books is the territory of Paradox Interactive or their World of Darkness brand management team-- looks to me like they’ve simply trawled the tag without reading what they’re looking at, which means they certainly didn’t take the time to ask permission to use these works. Not only were these actions tantamount to theft, it was also not even their fanart to begin with. And once again, they’d have known this had they contacted me at all, which they did not. It’s a failure on their part on several levels and not only do I want the videos taken down, I think the community is sorely owed an apology for this frivolous theft of art under the banner of ‘community content’. I didn’t opt in to having my work taken, and it should not have been assumed that it was okay to take my work just because it’s using a tag they also use!

I want everyone to know I have had zero benefit from their use of my work-- no money, no notes and no dialogue. This does not help artists. This does not help the community.

I’m willing to talk about this should anyone want to ask, but this is a gross abuse of artists and creatives’ rights for the sole purpose of gain by the World of Darkness brand team, and I expected better. I know I personally deserve an apology for this at the very least, as well as the WoD team to commit to actually contacting artists and sourcing permission in future-- and to set up an opt-in or out system for whether people want to be featured. I know I don’t, and I never asked to be. My work’s lovely, and they’re right to have said so. But it’s not for Paradox, and it’s not for Outstar or any of the other Brand team.  

It’s for me, and people here on Tumblr who like it. 

I’m disappointed, in PDX and in the WoD Brand team, because they should know far better than this. 

Chapter Preview: The Way Things Are

Hello, Kinfolks!

We need your help.

The time has come for us to begin working with cultural consultants to ensure this game is the best it can possibly be. To make it happen, a preview of W:tE is going live on Ko-fi for you to read. This chapter is available in a raw rough draft to those who subscribe to me on the Fostern tier. All proceeds will directly fund cultural consulting for Werewolf: the Essentials!

Subscribers on the Fostern tier and above will have access to the preview chapter. With about an hour of reading, anyone completely new to Werewolf and the World of Darkness should have enough of a mental image of the game to start coming up with character concepts. If you already own a full copy of the corebook, you can even start running games.

Our first initial consultant is Thais Afonso, who is excited to partner with us to review our comic script. Ultimately, we want to continue working with them, but I also hope to hire Live Oak Consulting to lend a local Indigenous perspective to our writing on the game. Subscribing on Ko-Fi will help us accomplish just that!

This first chapter includes a preamble covering changes to the game aesthetic to one that is timeless; a linear presentation of Garou society in the Age of Heroes, their factions, the tribes, and their history. This is considered a keystone chapter that will set the tone for this and every successive book to come in the series, and with about an hour of reading, anyone completely new to Werewolf and the World of Darkness should have enough of a mental image of the game to be able to start coming up with character concepts.