I Use Them All The Time, Though.

Whispered: volume

Said softly: tone

I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.

Don't worry, Dante will be the best older brother any Astartes could ask for for a long time.

Well that sucks

Also, there's nothing wrong with projecting in your interpretations of a character. There's a lot of gaps in even the most thoroughly-written characters, and alternate character interpretations are what makes literary analysis worth doing. With all the parts of ourselves we already see written into characters we love, it's only natural that we fill in the gaps with other parts of ourselves.

I'll admit I disagree with a lot of how you interpret Fulgrim, but most of where my own interpretation differs from yours is from how I am projecting on him.

????????? Dude I’m not trying to “own” you or whatever the fuck your Twitter brain thinks I’m trying to do. You clearly love Fulgrim as a character, but you also have a weird sense of projection on him. If you only love Slaanesh Fulgrim, you might not love *Fulgrim,* just the drugs he’s on.

Okay. Okay. Let me put it this way.

I love Fulgrim. At all points. But i am tired. Tireddddd. Of people acting like staying with the imperium would have been ‘better’ for him. It would have been bad. There was already toxic perfectionism happening in his brain under the imperium.

I can also post more about pre heresy Fulgrim, but there’s just… less material to work with there, since his fall starts pretty early on in the heresy

I barely write, but when I do AI is nowhere to be found.

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

Abolish Tesla.

It's a case of something I've actually seen in myself, where they're so set in their ways and beliefs that the idea of "someone", as in, a distant unknown figure, would disagree with them. Sure, they might know a person who does, but that's a *That Person* thing, they only do it because they're "weird". They see something they like, and to them of *course* it agrees with them, because to them, it has no reason not to.

They're like the Emperor. They're so sure that they're right that they can't comprehend some "sane, informed, and reasonable" person disagreeing with them.

So apparently on twitter there's a whole thing going on where anti-woke Warhammer fans performatively stormed out by declaring that they were going to play the horror-themed WWI wargame Trench Crusade instead, only to be mass-banned from its discord because the moderators didn't want a bunch of paleocon trolls stinking up the place.

The thing that blows my mind isn't just that they thought the thoroughly subversive Trench Crusade was positive Christian rep, but that they thought Warhammer 40,000 was. The setting where the messiah is explicitly dead and rotting and was an anti-religion crusader in life. Meanwhile Warhammer Fantasy's Sigmar is much more Thor than Jesus. A lot of conservative evangelicals and tradcaths seem to fall into liking straight up pagan gods if they have a sufficiently macho and traditionalist (western European) aesthetic.

Honestly, this is beyond media illiteracy, it's just straight-up blindness. Obliviousness beyond even the people who think Robocop and Starship Troopers are gung-ho pro-American action movies. Now I'm left to wonder how many fans of the Blasphemous game series are passionate reactionary Christians who get the happy feelings from the aesthetics and totally ignore the story and themes.

Still, I am glad to have learned about Trench Crusade through this, looks like a cool game. Aesthetic and themes kind of remind me of the Trench Foot/Countrycide mod for Doom (which, granted, started off as a Warhammer 40K mod...).

Something monat-based would be pretty cool.

Saw some people suggesting Tau as an antagonist faction for one of the Titus Space Marine games.

It would not happen for various reasons, but most importantly is that I don't think the average gamer would tolerate their player-character getting bisected by a rail-rifle from across the map, geneseed and blood splattered upon stone, Repeatedly.

...

We need a new Fire Warrior game where you can bisect Marines (Loyalist or Chaos) with all manner of Tau weapons.

Superiority complex?

No, it's actually quite simple.

Also here is this as my final contribution to fandom for today.

I mean, the idea that future archeologists would look purely at bone structure to identify gender, when they almost certainly would a) have more methods available and b) know that transgender people are a thing, was pretty silly.

future archaeologists will know you were (not) a boy

So you're telling me that the unit designed to kill big models is good at killing big models?

Preposterous!

It’s killed both the Lion and Mortarion