#garbage fave

[like-tears-in-rain-storms]

Ok I have Thoughts, and Takes. Warhammer 40k Thoughts and Takes.

And they're blazing hot.

Yeah, I know about the poet, and yeah I know about the gay lore but you cannot look me in the eyes and tell me that "Lion El'Johnson" is not the absolutely most ridiculous name in the whole of the franchise that gave the world gems like "Perturabo" and "Mortarion" (and Ferrus Manus and Corvus Corax, because tautology is the new black). Seriously "Lion El'Johnson" sounds like the self-insert OC of a teenage Tywin Lannister if he'd grown up reading Golden Age superhero comics.

For this, among many other reasons, I can now only imagine Lion as Charles Dance (because who do you typecast to play eternally disappointed, disapproving, hardass feudal deconstructions with a leonine theme?) A slightly de-aged, golden-maned Charles Dance. Needless to say, like all other characters of the above persuasion, Lion can absolutely get it. (Also, Lion lives in "The Rock"? They doin' it on purpose now or what?)

Speaking of ASoIaF....even though it still hurts and I'll be forever salty about us not getting of acceptable closure.....my ASoIaF garbage favourite was a pale, black-haired, vampire-themed, blood-happy, elusive bastard who had an affinity for flaying and (symbolically) wearing the skins of his enemies, not to mention being one half of a very, VERY fucked-up father-son duo. Yeah, it was Roose Bolton. What can I say, I enjoyed trying to work out wtf this guy was all about in the grand scheme. I'm super resentful I'm gonna die most likely without finding out. Sure would be weird if my new garbage favourite in the next franchise I plopped into was a pale,dark-haired,vaguely vampiric, blood-happy, crazy elusive guy who has a thing for flaying and wearing the skins of his victims while also having a horrible relationship with his fath.....Oh. OH. What does that say about me. I don't wanna know.

That being said, I reached my age thinking "garbage favourite" was people like the aforementioned old Roose or Celegorm? Mazikeen? Prince Nuada? or maybe Pintel and Raggetti? I hadn't taken a real hot dumpster-dive until I unearthed the Night Lords and their Primarch out of the trash.

Sevatar. That's it, that's all.

I by no means can even fathom telling longtime fans how to Warhammer - that being said, I'd offer that there is a delicate balance between acknowledging real-life parallels and influences and treating everything as a real-life political allegory in an expansive universe where its draw is that we're dealing with otherworldly measures and notions on the regular. Like. I'm sure there are other issues too pertaining to the larger motives, ethics and concepts of humanity in it, beyond trying to work out if the Imperium fan or the Tau fan is the more fascist. Also tbh...let people enjoy it a little. If they wanna taste the illusory charm of tribalism or the fleeting taste of dying for a political system that treats you like canon fodder yet from which you derive the meaning of your life, I'd rather they do it in Warhammer 40k than outside Warhammer 40k, ya know?

I got into TTS. I'm now having the Emperor's dea- I'm sorry the MOTHERFUCKING EMPEROR'S deadpan snark as a constant third-person narration in my head.

Seriously, it's so good, and it helped me put a lot of the lore in some sort of order.

Finding out what books to read is a pain. They are so many and I gathered the writers change and characterizations change with them. I started from those with the best quotes.

The memes are something I lament I'd not found out till now.

Being into Warhammer while being fluent in Greek and Latin is....something. My joy at seeing latin terms used and being able to gauge the meaning of things by name violently clashes with my irrational rage at the lack of declension. (It's "Ave Domine Noctis" dammit!!! "Adepti Mecanici"! "Sororitas Adeptarum"!) Of course all this is Gothic, so my point is moot. I guess.

Personally I don't mind the lack of female Custodes (or Marines). If they can find a way to include some in the future in the lore without brazenly retco-gaslighting everyone Ba-Sing-Se style, then hey, nice! But I don't want them to force it as prescribed by exterior pressures. I'd rather some more material was made public on the female chapters of the Imperium.

Also I'd love more from the aliens' side, as I've seen it being a pretty big complaint of people who don't like the glorification of the Imperium - though tbf, I do think the Imperium is the most interesting part of the galaxy, and with good reason. Still, I do like experimental stuff, and going cosmic. Would love something more about the relations of the Aeldari and the Drukhari, as well as maybe a dip into Chaos?

It's a goddamn shame an animated series hasn't happened yet.

Me love how many refs are scattered through, especially literary ones (Caliban? Fyodor Karamazov? Nostramo and Curze? Fuck yeah)

Once more, why do larger planets don't have more than one human cultures on them instead of all being like huge cities? Come on guys, do it, so few do so in scifi.

I don't think it's racist to be racist against all-consuming insect dinosaur hiveminds and creatures that murderfuck you on site. The Tau are on thin ice, but acceptable. The Eldar too, though I do admit if they'd given originally birth to aforementioned murderfuckers, I'd find them kinda sus too. (about that whole real-life allegory thing? You see how it kinda falls apart like that, ey?)

Once again, the greater tragedy is the mistakes parents commit when bringing up their children (or not bringing them up). The Primarchs being either held back, struggling against or captive of their traumas is an excellent story against the backdrop of the grim darkness of the far future. I hope we can one day see what the Emperor intended for each of them.

I am very down bad, and if anyone wants to chat or comment or challenge my hot takes, they are free to. Warhammer is not exactly something I can initiate the people in my life into. I read the introduction to my mom and she looked at me like she was considering the odds of me having banged my head real hard XD

Getting into a large-scale cosmic horror when the worst scenarios for humanity have kinda happened and you start at the point of absolute nihilistic despair and have to find out how to function and remain human is surprisingly soul-cleansing at an time when actuality is so absolutely disappointing and pedestrian.

Warhammer and Hellsing Abridged need a crossover.

Why does this universe remind me so much of Second Apocalypse by Scott Bakker?

That's all folks.

Ave Dominus Nox

[sketchupnfries]

Some more Rex Splode sketches since he be my new fave scrongly guy

[jiniekook]

🖤💖

[luinen-bluewater]

someone please give me the strenght to detail that coat

[cathalbravecog]

my first daily roller (and friends!) before april first ! who knows where hr waits before april anyway?

not guaranteed daily. originally intended for my main, but i do have a toontown blog for a reason so i'll use it. training myself to be okay with shittier art that just gets the point across without the need to be perfect as well. also this is an actual sc i took going into the farlands before my minecraft fucking bricked itself by being there

[utilitycaster]

I really do get that if your favorite character dies it's difficult and sad but I really have to reiterate that in the context of actual play, and especially with the CR cast, who have all pretty openly embraced high stakes and have only ramped them up with C3, Daggerheart, and Candela, you gotta let go after a certain point. You do not ever have to like it, but the idea that a show should be a vehicle for your personal self indulgence is always terrible and I think is at its worst with, unsurprisingly, shipping and character death.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

I think the back of this one looks better than the front

[redwylde]

Forcing my two ultimate faves to interact by thinking about how Silver would definitely be interested in biology and the natural sciences because many original ecosystems wouldn't have been able to survive in a world dominated by fire.

In the future he was very interested in history and had to rely on books to learn about anything that came before, but whilst visiting the past he explores and follows field guides in his free time because now he can experience it all for real. Enter Knuckles, who is the most qualified person he knows to teach Silver all about the unique biomes of the world.

At first it just starts out as Silver visiting Angel Island every so often to ask questions and compare notes in his field guide with what Knuckles has seen, which Knuckles enjoys. An excuse to talk about his adventures with a genuinely interested party and they end up bonding really quickly over it. Until Knuckles gets tired of talking about books (and not all of them are correct) so he says fuck it, you can't learn everything from a book and starts taking Silver on forays into the world and shows him everything he dreams to see - ruins reclaimed by nature, entire ecosystems existing on a single type of tree, underwater worlds hidden by algae and sediment.

[drolta]

insane to me that people will actually get mad at you for hating Lestat. “he’s the main character!” okay? and? last time I checked that didn’t stop him from being the worst motherfucker alive.

[pionas]

some people are just in kpop spaces (like twt especially but here too sometimes) to hate on something even on the groups they supposedly “like” which is wild to me! i’m not talking about criticism, which is necessary every now and then, i’m talking about people that go on social media to tweet or post something negative about their fav or another group every single day because they are miserable and i’m sincerely asking… if you hate being a kpop stan so much wtf are you doing here then?? if you hate everything so much just leave and find other people to stan that are not kpop

[highway-to-the-bi-way]

dude season four of lower decks is going so hard?

we start out with an exploration of possibly THE most wild voyager episode (tuvix) filled with hilarious "damn, janeway" callbacks to my exact feelings at the time ("the time" being a few months ago, when I watched it for the first time, to be clear LOL)

then we get moopsie and we have a bunch of t'lyn, my new favorite

d'vana and d'erika Something Borrowed Something Green became my favorite the moment I watched it (I love Orions I can't help it) then immediately got dethroned by:

Empathological Fallacies sorry t'lyn is my fave

And then Rom and Leeta just showed up and signed ferenginar into the Federation?! and I was so busy rolling around in all the deep space nine I almost forgot to appreciate that on its own merits

then goodgey... and more peanut hamper, my other fave...

we just finished "Caves" yesterday which was like four episodes in one and I'm not sure if they're just cramming to get everything in because there's a sense at this point they didn't have long left or what but I feel like I'm at a cake buffet filling up but they keep bringing more cake

The next episode is titled "The Inner Fight" which is surely a play on The Inner Light which I seem to recall is the big Picard Lives Another Whole Ass Life On An Alien Planet ep from TNG? Where are we going next???

Anyway I'm super enjoying it 🥰

[steviewashere]

Over the last two years, I have spent hours upon hours sitting at my computer and writing, expanding, and sharing my fanfic ideas. I sit with an idea, I love the idea, and then I write the idea. I structure it, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into it, and I then post it.

I don't do this hobby for anybody but myself. This is all self-indulgent, every last bit of it. I join challenges because I enjoy a writing challenge. I join holiday exchange things because I want to gift a person some art or writing about one of their favorite pairings or some of their favorite characters.

At no point have I used AI. I refuse to use generative AI for anything. I think it's cheap and shitty and pointless.

If you're using generative AI for fandom purposes, you're lame and a loser. You choose to love something made by humans—something that took hours upon hours, months, and years—and force it down an AI's gullet, watch it choke on words, and then mama bird regurgitate it into your fucking hands. And then what?

You post it? You post it with a generative AI tag? You post it with excitement? You share something that desecrates not only the source material you based it on, but the characters you apparently love?

Give me a fucking break.

If you love characters or a pairing, you create for them. You create an AU, you revive them, you make them hold each other, you spin them around in your head at all angles until you could describe them to a T. If you love a source material, you put your heart and soul to show how much you want to praise it, how much you want to love it, how much it means to you.

Generative AI has no place in fandom. Not at all.

Also, you can't make a statement in a fanfic about how you hate generative AI, how cheap and stupid it is, and then turn around to generate AI for a character's dialogue—even if they're a robot that speaks with generative AI. What you do instead is view what other people have posted about AI, you hobble together what could be shown off as something similar to how a generative AI program may speak, and you write the dialogue your-fucking-self.

Imagine picking up a hobby full of creativity and fun and going, "Wow, I really don't have the time for this," and instead of commissioning somebody or sending a fic idea to somebody, you turn around and shit on the hobby by generating it. Instead of loving your fandom friends, instead of loving the showrunners and the authors and the directors and the actors, you turn around and let man-made horrors amalgamate the semblance of love in the shape of smears and six-toed feet and stairs that wrap and curve and disappear into utter nonsense.

You're a fool and a phony and a complete fucking coward for not even trying to be creative on your own.

You do it bad. You do it pathetic. You do it shitty. And then you learn and you read and you get better.

It may have taken me two years to get to where I'm at, and I may have posted some terribly written bullshit, but at least I fucking did it. At least I took the first step towards being better, and that was trying. I tried and I'm better for it.

AI is horseshit and has no place here. Go fuck yourself.

[clavainov]

we got drunk and started reading beckett and alice made the compelling point that the dialogue is very soulslike and you could end every line with a minute or two of laughter

[stoned-btw]

im putting some stickers together for a new rolling tray and i found a gem

[langdonss]

AMERICAN HORROR STORIES IS COMING BACK NEXT MONTH WITH 5 EPISODES THIS MADE MY DAY SHAKING THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE MAKING MONKEY NOISES OOH RAH RAHH