OH HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRAY 💖💖💖 i hope it’s a lovely day 🥰

HEHE THANK YOU FRIEND :D I HOPE U HAVE A LOVELY DAY TOO !!!!!!

Another life. Ophelia and Tatyana. Anyways I started crying--

@tatyanafederovna replied to your post “tell me abt your ocs :/”:

i wanna hear about yours first

​flips thru my rolodex to choose one,

in honor of his game maybe returning, meet the wraith! he's a half-warforged clockwork sorcerer who uhhhh did some very evil things for some very evil people, and then when things went tits up (an explosion was involved) they decided he would be a perfect test subject for their prototypical arcane-powered mechanical prosthetics.

except those may be powered by people's souls? (which i may have entirely lifted from skyrim tbh) so now he's. very very haunted. and on the run from them. and now vampires have happened to him!

ur turn now!!

what’s it like to be so right all the time 😎🫵

my ass is so fat (full of good opinions) and meat so huge (also full of good opinions) it makes it hard for me to live my life

kind and compassionate bisexual men get BEHIND me these bitches don't deserve you

shoutout to @tatyanafederovna @envergothash @faarkas @arborstone @janewayintersection and @tieflingkisser for mentioning that wyll should be added to this bc you're so right

yeah I'm aussie. don't feel too bad about living in northen europe though! Down here we got the yara-mara-yha-who which is like a vampire but like- worse in every way. because every species that reaches Aus just gets Worse of course ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ anyway I'll just get out my uv torch if he somehow makes it in

oh no i hope this damp and cloudy climate doesn't facilitate any vampires because my window is always open so nighttime visitors can give me the sucky sucky

i did have to ask my australian girlfriend @tatyanafederovna about that the FUCK that is and she gave me the word yowie and it kind of sounds kind of vaguely like an aswang? aswang are also horrible and so much more horrifying and sad than a classic dracula.. gotta love pacific mythology

The faces of Barovia (Reupated)

@tatyanafederovna replied to your post “@tatyanafederovna replied to your post “tell me...”:

i have so many to pick from but i shall introduce you to my starpact warlock ikrie. she's a mephistopheles tiefling born to human parents who are horrified by her appearance, so she grows up on the streets an urchin. at some point she starts having nightmares of her future patron (hadar) who is determined to bind her to the same agreement made by her ancestors a long time ago. she's eventually worn down by horrific visions and relents, making the pact. she spends most of her life in service to her patron, aiding heralds of hadar and star spawn alike in preventing the death of the dying star. she does a lot of evil things. kills a lot of people. pretends to be people of different faiths in order to lead others to their demise. that sort of thing. but now she wants to break her pact and try to redeem herself. that's where she's at currently in the campaign she's in (grim hollow).

​WAIT NO I LOVE THIS?? i would like to hold her gently in my hands pls, also starlock warlock????? THAT'S SO COOL?????? I'm wishing her the best for her redemption arc!! are y'all also playing in the grim hollow universe or just using the mechanics? 👀👀

just some tatyana & strahdyana thoughts from me and my gf @tatyanafederovna​

narratively tatyana has to embrace the monster the vampire because that represents breaking away from the oppressive gender roles that have been placed upon her

there’s smth beautiful about not being the delicate princess and embracing volatility and violence and i think in the choice between strahd and sergei it can be read as a choice between mother and monster. even though strahd is a liar his form of feral and self destructive love feels more genuine than the fairytale love sergei seems to impose onto tatyana (ignoring the preconceived notions strahd seems to have for her for a moment because this narrative isn’t just about him just as dracula isn’t just about the vampire it’s about mina murray)

sergei to me represents traditional life and societal norms and acceptability and i think its why i rebel against him as a character and his ending so much whereas strahd represents hidden desires and the otherness and pushing against those boundaries / the transgressions of social norms (like exploring sexuality) which is what the monster is supposed to represent

i say mother versus monster because traditional societal norms expect women to be mothers and be pure and nurturing and caring which ties into compulsory heterosexuality and how it affects even straight women it’s just this very strict assumption that romantically and emotionally women are only supposed to be oriented towards men and reproduction rather than themselves because that would be monstrous or whorish for lack of a better word and then motherhood is associated with a gentle maternity and everything that isn’t violence

it’s the madonna-whore duality. women were either pure and virtuous like a madonna or corrupt and sexually available like a whore and the duality suggests that women cant be both at the same time

it’s why i adore yellowjackets because as teenagers going into womanhood instead of motherhood they’re thrust into monster-hood to survive the wilderness and there is something to be said about violence and rage and hunger being natural (woman is wolf)

and that’s why i also think ladies loved 1930s dracula so much it was sensuality and terror all in one. we see this a lot w/ post bram stoker dracula which is far more romanticized and shows a world where the monstrous (whore) side is allowed love. with bela lugosi!dracula it was like this vampire (monster) is a man who will love me for my feminine sensibilities but also my feminine violence and feminine fury

acceptance from a monster feels like recognition and love from a hero feels like expectation