Razielim Baths

[razielim]

I have many thoughts about vampire baths, and they all stem from the fact that I’ve always interpreted the flooded area of the Razielim clan territory as a marble bathhouse, used prior to the genocide as a place to socialize, cavort, and otherwise relax while being oiled, scrubbed, fed, and serviced. Presumably, public bathhouses were common throughout the empire and there were several others even within Raziel’s territory, but no other in all of Nosgoth was quite so spacious and regal.

On the days when the oil would be completely replaced, typically in welcome after bloody campaigns along the border, only the top ranking generals and their lovers were to use the baths while the rest of the army celebrated in smaller bathhouses or the parade grounds.

The cavernous moonlit atrium, often a crowded, warm, and boisterous place, would feel spacious and soothingly cool during these times, echoing only soft shuddering gasps and the gentle rippling of oil against marble. The slick bathers and perilously slippery marble floors would gleam like glass in the reflected light of the moon.







In other news, interaction on DW is a lot more difficult to keep up with than I realized. It's a lot more like staying on top of my tumblr inbox than regular comment/reblog notifications, and boy oh boy do I have a history of letting poor anons languish in the inbox for entirely too long. I'm relieved to see I'm not alone, at least. I believe the law is "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging," so I've stopped making posts lol, but that's not a very sustainable solution if I still want to... actually use the site and... talk to people. I don't know how to solve the issue. Surely other people also have executive dysfunction and still manage to jot off replies once a week...

("Jot off (correspondence)" is a set phrase, right? I swear I've heard it multiple times, but googling brings up so dismally few results, it looks like I'm crazy. Am I thinking of some other phrase? "Dash off" exists, but I swear "jot off" does too.)

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[razielim]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I mean about patience! I have a finite amount of it and can apply it to the thing that really matters to me personally, and though I see other people do cool stuff I also want to do, there's not enough patience to sit and learn how to do it all. I would like to do more studies and mastercopies and learn about more ins and outs but I don't have the stamina to do both that AND the fantasy paintings I'm insane about, so I just have to content myself with watching others do the things I can't.