I want more out of life than this!

knowing what we know about the rise of the Thalmor and the Leyawiin-Elsweyr Conflict and the eventual invasion of Morrowind by Black Marsh, i do not think Martin would have had a good time as Emperor.

Jauffre even implies that the Elder Council wants an Emperor to take the heat off their handling of the Oblivion Crisis. like. there are so many implications that Martin's going to be Fucking Miserable. he would find that he doesn't have the power to help people as much as he thinks he does. no decision he could make would save everyone.

i think it would fucking kill him, if not literally than emotionally.

becoming a martyr and ascending to godhood pretty much means he can go out doing a universal good for the world and live with the knowledge that he's done something meaningful with his life. that he existed with purpose. that he's a Good Person.

See, by all means her dialogue was written to get on you, the player’s nerves. I don’t know if this was different for anyone else, but for most of my playthroughs she calls me a bitch. When I tell her I know where Kent Alan Ryan is, she says “Goes to show you don’t have to be popular or care what you look like to be a cool girl!” Clearly, she was written to be Annoying Girl, The Character.

But when you think of the context, she’s a ghoul desperately trying to find her dormitor. Put yourself in those shoes for a second- you’re a ghoul, and you haven’t seen your dormitor in a LONG time. Obviously, you are blood bonded to him, so you feel a connection to him and feel you’re special to him. Surely, you think, he wouldn’t just go off and disappear without telling you, right? So a million different possibilities run through your head. What if he’s lost somewhere? What if he’s in trouble? What if he abandoned you on purpose- no, surely not. And so, you ask every single vampire you know for any sort of clue. But now, because of that, the vampires you know didn’t like how loud you were asking, and passed off the task of your execution to some fledgling. All because you wanted to find the dormitor you’re literally blood bonded to.

And sure, maybe the way Patty asked you about Kent could’ve been nicer- but obviously a ghoul going through withdrawal isn’t going to be a perfect angel. In fact, one piece of Patty’s dialogue stands out to me… she is scared she’s going to age. Now, you may laugh and think this is her being superficial, but we don’t know how long she’s been a ghoul. And who’s to say a Toreador ghoul is unfounded in her fears in looking too old for her dormitor to care about her anymore? A lot of the time, ghouls are treated like disposable tools in VTM. This IS the world of darkness, after all.

So, you have a few choices here. You can do the standard thing of luring Patty to the back of the club to kill her, and you still get your exp and rep from the Anarchs in LA. You can be particularly cruel, tell Patty you saw Kent in the Santa Monica blood bank, and leave her to get drained dry by Vandal to fill the blood bags there.

Or you can make what to me feels like the most interesting decision… you can be merciful and tell her you saw Kent in San Diego, and Patty will make her way there to get lost. And then, what happens to Patty from there? We don’t know. She will never see Kent Alan Ryan again; you later see his ashes in Grout’s mansion. Patty will never get her fix again, and now you have probably gotten her lost in a place she isn’t familiar with, STILL going through withdrawal. No matter what you do, the future doesn’t look good for Patty. Such is the fate of most ghouls!

Maybe, just maybe, she finally found a Toreador in San Diego that took pity on her and became her new dormitor. Who knows?

This is a terrifying norm I’ve been seeing in fandom recently, with a lot of people asking for photo ID’s to enter a server or for 18+ commissions or to follow a private Twitter account. While I understand the sentiment and realize that there’s an issue of minors trying to get into adult spaces, this is an incredibly dangerous practice that needs to stop.

I have seen this popping up more and more in the past year and frankly, I’m sick of sitting back and watching it become a social norm. Not to mention, there is a huge difference between a company with a team of lawyers and legal statements with the intention to protect your information and giving this to a random person online.

Here is an article from IAPP discussing more in depth the current difficulties for age verification online.  Thanks to @murmurkins for digging around to find this!

Here is also some resources for Discord specifically on how to moderate and run a server that has 18+ channels and designating a server as 18+. Discord also notes that if you are locked out of 18+ channels, you can appeal this by sending a picture of yourself and either a photo ID or your Discord tag. Again, while not a perfect solution, this is their last resort, not the intial requirement. It’s dangerous to do, and Discord recognizes this, which is why they have a system to protect your information AND they require that all third-party individuals have a privacy policy telling individuals how they will protect others’ information. 

If anyone wants to respond to this post with more information on other websites, feel free! The biggest issue I have seen with this is on Discord, so that is where my information is focused.

The notion that women didn't meaningfully work outside of the home before the 60s is weird and sexist, but it is also classist as fuck.

Women have always been in the workplace. Women often worked jobs that were extremely dangerous, where they were horrifically taken advantage of – not only because they were women, but also because an awful lot of them were factory workers. The image that people have of women in the early 1900s happily staying home to nurture children is a fiction that only makes sense if you completely forget about the existence of poor people.