Femboys, Warhammer 40,000, Battleships, and whatever else crosses my mind
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MF be like "Leandros should have gone to a chaplain or libarian and handled his suspicions of Titus in-house", and you know what? I get that. There's precedent for it. I remember reading about this big incident at the end of the Great Crusade where space marines handled suspicions of heresy in-house. I don't quite remember the name. Something starting with an "H", I think.
In Messages For Dad, Vulkan has a son named Janan. Janan inherits two good things from his father: his mind and his immortality. He was also born incredibly prematurely (twenty-three weeks), and highly mutated due to the primarch DNA, needing to be constantly on painkillers that would kill a normal child his size. He has "entangled organs ingrown with bones", and a lot of other things. His regeneration also means that any surgery done to treat his condition doesn't work, since he just grows back.
He eventually decides to inter himself in a specially-designed dreadnought (which he designed himself), using fulgrite to halt his regeneration so the dreadnought can slowly disentangle his organs and rework his body so he's not in constant pain--all over the course of about ten thousand years. All this was stuff he came up with himself, too--he *definitely* inherited his father's brain.
Do you know who posted the suggestion about a Primarch- kid instead of being strong and like their fathers ending up horribly ill and fragile because the Primarchs do have kind of fucked DNA?
Because that gave me so many brainworms fr fr, just have been thinking for weeks of giving Bobby G a small spitfire of a kid that kicks ass despite the cards stacked against them and making their dad most likely turn prematurely grey with worry
The one that comes to mind is Callahan from @jaghatai-khock. He has some allergy and would get sick when around Lion.
I know there was someone discussing how screwed up primaech DNA would be when mixed with baselines, but I can not recall who.
Anyone else know?
You see, AO3 has this wonderful thing where, if you scroll down, below the list of tags to include, you can set a list of tags to exclude.
"i'm tired of seeing-" use your filters.
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don't like what you're seeing? use. your. filters.
Oh definitely. He worked 12-hour shifts in a factory growing up. He's made sure his personal spaces are places where he can just flop down anywhere. You could be in fully sealed power armor, but the minute you sit down on one of those sofas, you're going to be fast asleep and get the best rest you've gotten in years.
I headcannon Fulgrim to have an insanely comfortable room, with plush sofas and all that. Like if you make the mistake of sitting down in his quarters for even a few seconds you WILL fall asleep, that happened to several of his brothers repeatedly, they sat down on a sofa and emerged eight hours later like a cat from a weighted blanket.
ferrus especially hates it when that happens.
Yeah, so, it turns out things that are incredibly emotionally charged, such as war and mating rituals, generate a lot of art.
Actually, how are you aliens making art when you are so detached from things like that?
"Wait, humans have culture? Oh, sorry, no, I was just taken aback a bit. I don't mean to insult your species, you just all seem so constantly preoccupied with your warfare and mating rituals that it hadn't occurred to me that you would have time for the arts."
"Oh, no, we have plenty of art. Visual arts, sculpture, music, storytelling... And their combinations in all sorts of way. I actually play an instrument myself, and one of my favourite songs is based on an old folk tale. Would you like to hear it?"
"Absolutely! I was already astonished to only hear that human art exists at all, not to imagine that I could witness it!"
"Alright. So this is a song about a man who starts a war against his brother because they both want the same woman."
I have two separate armies using Codex: Space Marines, and you could tell them apart from a glance of the army lists, without even looking at the paintjobs (and ignoring divergent chapter units).
I will never understand why people put Space Marines as a "beginners faction". Literally no army allows you to collect 2000+ points worth of gamepieces that do not interact or synergize with each other. Not even talking about building a "competitive" list here, but just about having the pieces work together with the whole thing having base functionality.
Space Marines is literally the worst faction to start with as a new player. It's 10 different armies in a trenchcoat and they do not overlap as much as you'd think they do in what they use and how they use it; all while the game is balanced around assuming you know what you are doing here. This is also the main reason "generic space marine" win rates are usually so low. People get baited into what might possibly the the least beginner-friendly faction because SOMEHOW there persists the idea of them being the "starter army", and then they obviously get stomped.
Each of the base marine detachments except for First Company is designed to be particularly fitting for one of the codex-compliant first founding chapters.
Anvil Siege Force: Imperial Fists
Stormlance Assault Force: White Scars
Ironstorm Spearhead: Iron Hands
Gladius Task Force: Ultramarines
Firestorm Assault Force: Salamanders
Vanguard Spearhead: Raven Guard
They are also pretty blatant about which chapter they correspond to. Anvil has an enhancement related to the chapter fleet, which seems like it comes out of the blue until you realize that the Imperial Fists have always had a pretty important and powerful fleet.
Ah classic GW, going out there proclaiming the "year of chaos" or whatever and then on the reveal show that has all established chaos legions primed they show off more new/refreshed models for some redundant cringe Space Marine offshoot than the actual chaos factions get.
In addition, they somehow imply to make Imperial Fists and Salamanders unique factions BEFORE Drukhari is even on the horizon for a Codex. Just what is up with that?
GW, what the hell?
Miku binder Kharn?
Photo by Cerberusxt on bluesky
There is a good chance that the skeleton in that picture is actually dead. The Imperium worships the "human form", and the skeleton is the most bare-bones representation of that form, hence why you see skeletons on a whole lot of shit in 40k (relic storm shields, for example). You can see another example of this where some Necrons were analyzing an Aquilla that was on a planet they conquered, and they found bone fragments mixed in with the metal (they thought they were impurities).
Some more fun 40k facts for Rogue Trader mutuals!
The average human lifespan in Warhammer 40k is roughly the same as it is right now. However, the wealthy people, those who are well-connected, and important/high ranking military officers have access to rejuvenation technology and augmentations that massively extend a person's life. The wealthiest people can live for centuries. As a Rogue Trader, your character will be 100% pressured to undergo these treatments for the stability of the region. Theodora is well over 300 years old at the start of the game.
The first Rogue Traders, those who were personally granted warrants of trade by the Emperor himself, were actually people he did not want around. They were people too wealthy/popular/inconvenient to kill, but people he did not want close to him as he built the foundations of the Imperium. For him, this was a win-win situation. If they did what they were told, they would go into unknown corners of the galaxy and bring them into the Emperor's fold. Or they died trying. Worst case scenario, they got corrupted (or at least power-hungry) and turned on the Emperor while in deep space, which game him perfect justification to kill them.
There have been other warrants of trade signed by Primarchs and other extremely important people for more practical reasons. But the original warrants signed by the Emperor were, as many things concerning the Emperor, kind of a shitty thing to do.
A lot of 40k's lore borrows heavily (steals) from Dune. Including a total ban on artificial intelligence and machines that do any complicated calculations. (it's not just illegal, it's heretical) Cogitators look like computers as we understand them, but their actual processors are often human brains. Servitors who have had their bodies mutilated even more than usual, their brain functions brute-forced programmed to do nothing but function as a computer.
Remember this skeleton on the main menu screen? That's a person, not a spooky decoration. (the Imperium is SUPER evil)
That being said, the Adeptus Mechanicus totally break this rule all the time.
But this rule isn't just because the Imperium is evil. Daemons can, and have, possessed machines of all kinds to cause countless deaths across history. Part of the reason all technology and maintenance is so heavily ritualized is because it HAS to be, in order to prevent demonic infestation. It's not just because everyone in 40k is completely ignorant of how things work.
Felt cute, might delete an army later.
Female Custodes by Elzunix
Yeah, my boys in purple had issues long before Slaanesh was in the equation. Slaanesh was just an enabler who was more open about enabling their obsessions.
I find it really funny when ppl are like “ohh nooo slaanesh corrupted the emperors children and Fulgrim and now they’re on drugs”
Like the emperors children pre heresy weren’t obsessed with high performance and being the best to an unhealthy degree and also happened to have an unethical apothecary who is the craziest person in the galaxy…
I’m sure noooooooobody over there was ever tweaking out of their fucking mind beating their chest in the mirror repeating “I am greatest i am the king of the world” while practicing sword skills to perfection for 72 hours straight without sleep
There totally wasn’t “the wolf of Wall Street in space” going on over there
let’s be so for real considering the circumstances
There totally isn’t a history of militaries obsessed with perfection, aesthetics and high achievement using copious amounts of uppers and stimulants during battle and being basically coked out of their minds…. The very thing warhammer is meat to satirize
Sure yeeeeah, it was aaaaalll Slaanesh….
Juuuuust a thought 🫣
All I’m saying is all slaanesh did was spice things up
Vorgh auxiliary for T'au.
So this is a little design exercise I did with my brother that I found fun and would love to hear warhammer fans thoughts:
GW decides every armies getting 2 new kits next year.
They say they aren't updating any, all of these kits are going to be entirely new per army, not models we've ever seen before (so you can't say necron pariah or an updated nightbringer, we've seen those)
What would you want them to add? To your or other armies.
Different type of evil, anyways.
(this one has rational discussions about why you should worship the Dark Gods with actual arguments and not just dogma)
Evil Emperor and Erda by Ruslan Korovkin
Even treating "erotic/sexual art or writing" as something separate from pornography (which is pretty reasonable, in my opinion),
more people need to give themselves permission to write and draw pornography.
more people need to give themselves permission to write and draw pornography
As much as I love Sanguinius, I think Leman is at the top because of how he grows over the Heresy. He's not just a primarch, a demigod of war and a symbol of the Imperium. He's a man. A human person. He makes mistakes, he has regrets, he's not perfect. He's just Leman.
Experiment part 1:
Which primarch is the best*? Loyalist version
Let me know how you define 'best' in this case. For Imperial science
"likes mean nothing on tumblr" you're sending me a little heart. that's not nothing it's your heart. look here's one for you <3
If I ever write a book, it's going to be half mad social ranting and half epic anime battles.
Do I draw battleship Bismarck as a hot anime girl because Germans traditionally use feminine pronouns for their ships and I don't care what Nazis say?
Or do I draw Bismarck as a hot anime boy so I can draw toxic yaoi between him and French battleship Richelieu?
The necron is in Twice Dead King (and she only really gets an offhand mention, so all we know about her is that she transitioned some time after biotransferrence).
Trans rights in the Imperium are definitely something stratified, though. I'd expect that gender-affirming surgery in the Imperium is about as difficult to access as any other type of surgery (due to most of the population living on hiveworlds in slums that are comparable in density to Kowloon), but those that do have access have access to things beyond what anyone on earth could ever hope to receive. But nobody would go around thinking trans people are heretics or mutants or whatever.
TIL that there's a canon trans Drukhari Wych Succubus. Like actually stated that she used to be male, but after reaching this rank she transitioned into being a female Drukhari and seems to be totally cool with it.
Slay.
They're Dark Angels. Being gay is a given.
TIL that there's a canon trans Drukhari Wych Succubus. Like actually stated that she used to be male, but after reaching this rank she transitioned into being a female Drukhari and seems to be totally cool with it.
Slay.
I'm fairly sure this is actually a pretty common thing for Eldar in general (dark or otherwise). For certain gendered roles (such as Wyches or Aspect Warriors), an Eldar taking up one of those roles will transition to the gender of that role (so all Dire Avengers are male, all Banshees are female, etc).
TIL that there's a canon trans Drukhari Wych Succubus. Like actually stated that she used to be male, but after reaching this rank she transitioned into being a female Drukhari and seems to be totally cool with it.
Slay.
pros of growing out my hair: i genuinely like how my hair looks now compared to to the absolute boringnes of short hair cons of growing out my hair: it gets in my face.... and lately it also regularly enters my mouth :(
Sang/Fulgrim?
You have my attention.
me: 'okay lets work on that sang/fulgrim thing' my brain: 'no. we are going to think about the trazyn/clonegrim victorian vampire au' me: 'okay… so lets work on that?' my brain: 'NO! we are ONLY thinking about them having freaky vampire sex in trazyn's secluded manor'
Literally just my alternate Horus Heresy setting.
Come back, I have to tell you the plot of a fic I’ll never write and get you excited about it so we can all be disappointed with me later
That's just an incentive to make comments like that.
