Aug. 9th, 2023

ghoulmouse: ([TTRPGs] Exalted)
Back from Gencon, it was fun. I have a TON of work to catch up on though and I am exhausted. I feel like I am generally not as excited about tabletop as I used to be but I still like seeing all my friends and wandering around (I did buy a couple RPG books anyway). A lot of the seminars and such that used to be free were inexplicably now paid, though, and sometimes were actually kind of comically expensive (sorry I'm not paying $34 to go to a lecture on how to make better DnD villains), so I didn't go to nearly as many events as I usually do.

The big thing was the d20 Burlesque show, which we go to every year, and it was fantastic as always, but this year they had a performer dressed as Lady Dimitrescu who lactated blood into a wine glass and drank it, which was extra special. Sometimes the sheer imagination of horny queer women brings a tear to my eye. There was also a Link routine with a retro costume that was, hilariously, almost game-accurate to A Link To The Past, where Link is clearly not wearing pants and is only questionably wearing underwear (here's a good example, I think we need to go back to this Link design honestly).

The stage manager was a person from the local kink scene whom I have ghosted several times though, so. You know, there's that residual guilt. (I keep showing up to meetups every few months and then not responding to anything in between because I'm bad at things).

Thee number of cool dice available has increased dramatically but they are almost all sold in polyhedral sets these days, which is quite frustrating for those of us who do not really play DnD (it's been almost a decade since the last time for me), but I did manage to find an appropriate d10 set for my current Exalted character (Lan Thousand-Thoughts, a sloth-totem Lunar, whom I love).
ghoulmouse: ([Nier:A] Mutually Assured)
Title: FAILED TO CONNECT / WITH / MY LOVER
Fandom: NieR:Automata
Characters: 2B/9S
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.5k words
Summary: Upgrade Request FROM: No. 2 Type B REGARDING: [redacted]. Status: APPROVED.
Notes: !!! GARGANTUAN spoilers for the latter half of Nier Automata in this one !!! For Nonconathon 2023, which has finally revealed and I'm out of Convention Hell so I can crosspost it, lol. Basically I have never stopped thinking about the fact that YoRHa androids have a unique emotion called "battle fever" that they experience when committing acts of violence, which was based on human love and sexuality. 2B exorcises her many feelings via erotic violence on 9S's deactivated corpse. Noncon, robogore/guro, something sort of existentially between necrophilia and somnophilia, extremely blurred lines between sex and brutality. The title is from the weapon story on 2B's heavy blade Virtuous Treaty, which I've always thought was probably about the two of them.

All androids had that lust for violence in them, but it really was different when you met the right person. )