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"you can't ship those characters they tried to kill each other!" sounds like someone can't appreciate the inherent eroticism of violence 🙄

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i want you carnally *shoves a knife into your abdomen*

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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

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3 components of worldbuilding:

1. The author’s kinks

2. The author’s power fantasy

3. The author’s political agenda

Plot and logic optional

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Oh no! They're hot!

A lazy sketch of what I imagine Lev and Ralkan look like. Maybe one day I can make something more detailed for them.

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"Primed to Fall" - The King & The Warmaster

Felt the urge to write a bonus scene that would take place between chapters seventeen and eighteen of "Primed to Fall".

It couldn't be included in the main story for reasons that will become evident upon reading. However it does have very minor implications near the end of the story, so I thought I would share it here.

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Chapter 17.5 / Bonus Scene - The King & The Warmaster.

“Why did you do it?!”

The flare of holo-light would be blinding to anyone possessing regular senses. As it was, Horus’ senses had long passed normalcy, even for the standards set by his family. The shift in warp-energies had been enough to inform him, without the screeching of the servitors, that he was being contacted. He was aware of his brother’s presence before psykic energy took hold of his communication systems. He feigned ignorance as he allowed Magnus to work his image onto the Vengeful Spirit. If it were anyone else, he might have refused them unless they went through the proper channels. However, he hadn’t heard from the Crimson King since before Prospero burned. If Magnus had found out about his part in that miscommunication, he would have arrived with an army, not a hologram. Which meant his brother had come to talk about something else. And, despite his own staggering breadth of knowledge, Horus couldn’t pin down what that might be. Somehow, he didn’t feel that this was the moment that Magnus would join him. Such a significant alliance deserved more than a hasty hacking of his ship through magical means.

Regardless of his curiosity, Horus didn’t so much as blink as an irate Magnus appeared on the holo-projector opposite his throne. His image was superior to the pallid ghosts the projector usually threw up, the depth and colours of his form almost true to the original so many light-years away. This was warpcraft placed in a more acceptable position, not a technological marvel.

“Well met, Brother,” Horus said pleasantly, despite Magnus clearly not being in the mood for niceties. His features were creased in a scowl and he wasn’t even bothering to obscure his warp-ravaged form.

“Why did you do it?!” Magnus growled again.

Horus raised an eyebrow at him. Magnus was livid, but once again, if this was about Prospero he’d have come with more than just words.

“You’re going to have to be more specific,” Horus told him calmly, “I have done a great many things of late that have angered a great many people.”

“Fulgrim!” Magnus declared.

Oh? That wasn’t the direction Horus thought this conversation was going. The only brother who should know anything about that exercise was that too-stubborn bull of the Tenth. If Magnus knew, then he must have spoken to Fulgrim or Ferrus. Considering Magnus wasn’t in the best standing with Terra right now, that likely meant the former. Which meant Magnus knew where Fulgrim was…

“What about him?” Horus asked, deciding to ease Magnus into revealing their errant brother’s location. There was no chance Fulgrim had made it back to Terra by now. It was easy to intercept his stolen craft and bring him to heel.

“Why?” demanded Magnus, rage undeterred by Horus’ nonchalant behaviour, “I have seen all that you’ve done to him and I want to know why.”

Seen? Fulgrim had tattled on Horus to Magnus then, allowed his brother into his memories perhaps. That would be only way by which Magnus could have seen it all. Horus had a more pressing question however.

“Why do you care?”

Magnus and Fulgrim had never been close. The two had likely met on less than a dozen instances. Fulgrim had voted for Magnus’ cause at Nikaea, likely won over by his oratory skills, but that decision had ultimately meant nothing. So what was it to Magnus that Fulgrim had been here for a while? Why did he care what happened?

“Because, despite my wealth of accumulated knowledge, I cannot understand why a Brother of mine would do that to his kin!” Magnus raged, “Because I would not see the galaxy following a man who sees his kin as toys for his personal pleasure, any more than I would follow one who sees his kin as ignorant tools!”

A flicker of annoyance crept into Horus’ thoughts. He was nothing like their Father and Magnus was treading on thin ice by even mentioning him on Horus’ ship. He could expel Magnus any time he wanted. Not yet though, for when he received no reply from Horus, Magnus continued with his ranting:

“So I ask you, why. What reason could you possibly have? What could justify your actions? He may have finally escaped your clutches but you have driven our Brother to Chaos and suicide!”

“Chaos?” Horus repeated, “How so?”

For a moment, Magnus’ anger faltered as he realised he had revealed something new to Horus.  However he appeared to double-down on his error as he proclaimed:

“Fulgrim is now in the service of the Dark Prince, who personally helped him escape. He is still a fledgling as far as the warp is concerned but I have seen how he changes, and so has my patron. He will be powerful. You have gift-wrapped the Dark Prince an incredibly potent psyker with the ability to enrapture the hearts of entire worlds.”

“Fulgrim is not a psyker,” Horus stated, even as his mind turned at this revelation. Why had no one told him of this development? The Lord of Excess had enough of their servants crawling around his fleet. Why had Fulgrim’s new-sworn loyalty not been relayed to him? If Fulgrim now had the personal attention of one of the four, and as he was the Champion of Chaos in its entirety, this seemed like pertinent information Horus should know.

“He will be,” Magnus said firmly, “And after all you’ve done to him, he will never take your side against our Father. In fact, you have created a wild card that could jeopardise anything any of us try to put in motion.”

Horus doubted that Fulgrim would be much of an inconvenience for a while yet. However the warning was duly noted, however accusingly it was given.  Still, he had further questions.

“Any of us? Surely, if he’s going to be so great a mind, you’ll have him on whatever sorcerer world you’re trying to put together.”

“He won’t come,” Magnus stated, his scowl deepening, “Thanks to you, he won’t listen to reason anymore. You’ve hurt him so deeply; he chases after his own death instead.”

Horus noted that this anger didn’t seem to be entirely directed at him.  Some of it seemed to be distinctly internal. Magnus wanted Fulgrim on his sorcerer’s world, but it appeared he’d already been rejected. And now Magnus was childishly blaming that rejection on him. This was a waste of his time…

“So you come before me,” Horus concluded, “Angry that I used our Brother to the point he won’t let himself be used by you?”

“I would not have used him!” Magnus exclaimed, “Do not compare me to the likes of you! I would have nurtured his talent, helped him grow. You are naught but a narcissistic predator who revels in the-“

“Do you have anything else constructive to add?” Horus interrupted him, deciding there was much he would rather be doing that listen to his brother’s temper tantrum.

“- could have created something brilliant. But your actions have-“

“Clearly not.” Horus sighed.  He rapped the control panel beside his throne with one long claw. Around the room, barriers designed to deny intrusion from the warp flared to life with a sickly array of greenish sigils. Magnus’ image stuttered once, twice, then disappeared entirely. It clearly took a moment for the sorcerer to realise he had been ejected for Horus felt his presence remain for a few more minutes before retreating entirely.

A shame, really. To lose Fulgrim’s potential location. However, it had only been a few days, he couldn’t have got far.

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I'm glad you like it! :D You can absolutely draw him with a choker and yes, you may link this in Fulgrims next chapter! Also; supporting your second pair of boobs is just as important as supporting your first! Thus the second bra☝️

Fulgrims "awakened" daemon form in the "Primed to Fall" AU, by the incredible @dashofstarlight! I hope ya'll like it! The rest of my notes and rambelings will be under the cut!

---- I have so much to say about this- In regards to the picture itself. I somehow managed to spend 7 hours on this. The design for this mainly came from @dashofstarlight 's drawing of it, aswell as their fantastic writing in Chapter 17 of their fanfiction "Primed to Fall". I changed some aspects to better suit my art style and personal interpretation tho. I had and still have mild problems with the shoulderpats I added. (The shoulders seemed too blank, but then the design didnt sadisfy me? So I just gave up and kept them there 😭) The wings almost broke me :) Slight tangent about PtF cause AAAAAAA. I started reading PtF while it was in its early chapters, I stuck with it ever since and am so incredibly excited for what is yet to come! It's so well written, the characters are interpreted so well, its so emotinally charged and I could go on a rant about it for hours. But at the end of the day all I can say is that if you havent checked it out yet you definitly should! Here's the link to it! @dashofstarlight I am so incredibly glad I stumbled upon your fic. Keep up the amazing work and take care of yourself! I hope you like the little art I made! <3

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Fulgrims "awakened" daemon form in the "Primed to Fall" AU, by the incredible @dashofstarlight! I hope ya'll like it! The rest of my notes and rambelings will be under the cut!

---- I have so much to say about this- In regards to the picture itself. I somehow managed to spend 7 hours on this. The design for this mainly came from @dashofstarlight 's drawing of it, aswell as their fantastic writing in Chapter 17 of their fanfiction "Primed to Fall". I changed some aspects to better suit my art style and personal interpretation tho. I had and still have mild problems with the shoulderpats I added. (The shoulders seemed too blank, but then the design didnt sadisfy me? So I just gave up and kept them there 😭) The wings almost broke me :) Slight tangent about PtF cause AAAAAAA. I started reading PtF while it was in its early chapters, I stuck with it ever since and am so incredibly excited for what is yet to come! It's so well written, the characters are interpreted so well, its so emotinally charged and I could go on a rant about it for hours. But at the end of the day all I can say is that if you havent checked it out yet you definitly should! Here's the link to it! @dashofstarlight I am so incredibly glad I stumbled upon your fic. Keep up the amazing work and take care of yourself! I hope you like the little art I made! <3

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when you think about it combining thousands of supersoldiers literally incapable of fear with a strictly atheist, rational regime was a colossally stupid decision, and not for the reasons you're thinking of

y'know those cheesy old horror movies where the protagonists are spectacularly stupid? like, they find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather and go, "haha lets read from this WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG" and twenty minutes later they're being chased by demon minotaurs or something. and the whole time you're screaming "NO YOU FUCKING MORONS WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT WAIT WHY ARE YOU GETTING UNDRESSED NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO HAVE SEX" and then the demon minotaurs kill them while they're having loud passionate sex because god forbid horny teenagers should ever have fun. ok so hear me out, astartes and primarchs in the pre-heresy are the same as the dumbass teenagers, except for the sex-having part (i think they T-pose at each other instead)

think about it. THEY KNOW NO FEAR. they're missing one of the key instincts we possess for recognizing dangerous situations. most people who find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather are gonna be, y'know, spooped spooked. they won't want anything to do with it. the more anxious/scared will straight up leave. but astartes literally can't get spooked! they might burn the book for being xenos filth or something but beyond that there's nothing to balance out natural curiosity and/or lust for war trophies.

and this combines really badly with the imperium's rationalism! see, even if you don't fear the spoopy book, superstition/religion/fairy tales/etc. still provide a powerful incentive to stay away from it. you're gonna look at it and go, wow, that book looks satanic, messing with it might summon demon minotaurs, i should stay away. but the imperium actively discourages that line of thought! there's no way the spoopy book can do any harm, it's just a spoopy looking book! in fact, you SHOULD read the spoopy book just to demonstrate how not-superstitious you are!

yeah so this is why fulgrim walks into a creepy temple full of ritual snake orgy and thinks, hmm that snazzy sword the snake guys are obsessively fucking around would make a nice trophy. or why it never occurs to magnus that making deals with the fair folk might be dangerous territory.

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Unironically? This entire debacle always reminds me of sex-ed and the idea that not teaching teens about sex will somehow prevent them from exploring their sexuality.

It will not. Teens will learn about sex, but if you dont teach them how to do it safely and what consequences unprotected sex has they will get themselves into bad situations. Also: sex-ed is fantastic to help protect kids from SA and catch predators, bc kids will be able to name what happened and why it was wrong. Same goes for manipulating and grooming someone to have sex with them. If you are less educated about it you are more likely to not recognise it and therefore become a victim of it.

See how that can be reflected on onto the entire warp debacle? Which is funny, because while the Emperor is so strung up about "religion bad, grrr" he uses the same exact fanatisim, which religious institutions use to push purity culture down our throats, but as you said he literally gives zero incentive as to why it would possibly be bad. Its the equivilant of telling a child "why? because i said so!" The primarchs were always going to be confronted with the warp, whether through their own curiosity or the intervention of the chaos gods. They make stupid decisions, because why would they know any better?

Trying to save your legion? Boom; accidentally sold your soul and now youre fucked. This isnt helped by the fact that everyone around Magnus basically pulled a „You’re so mature for your age“, Why would he not believe that he could keep up with something like Tzeentch?

Lorgar doesnt understand the chaos gods, he just had a "falling out" with the Emperor. Theres now a planetsized hole for a relgious authority figure to step into. and why would he want to believe that they have bad intentions?

Fulgrim arguably has the least business with warp fuckery. How would he see that he was being manipulated by a talking sword?! When he didnt even know that that was possibly a thing?

Maybe if SOMEONE had explained chaos and told the primarchs „if you are ever subjected to something derived from chaos, come to me, i will help you, you are not weak for being unable to deal with this, some things are simply out of your league“, then maybe ppl like Perturabo wouldve searched out HELP upon realising that they are glancing into the darkest pit of chaos on the mfing daily!

Keeping chaos from the primarchs never protected them, it only ever made it easier for the gods to take advantage of them. Literally all Emps needed to do was implement a chaos-ed class and teach the kids about chaos contraceptives, all wouldve been fine and dandy!

when you think about it combining thousands of supersoldiers literally incapable of fear with a strictly atheist, rational regime was a colossally stupid decision, and not for the reasons you're thinking of

y'know those cheesy old horror movies where the protagonists are spectacularly stupid? like, they find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather and go, "haha lets read from this WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG" and twenty minutes later they're being chased by demon minotaurs or something. and the whole time you're screaming "NO YOU FUCKING MORONS WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT WAIT WHY ARE YOU GETTING UNDRESSED NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO HAVE SEX" and then the demon minotaurs kill them while they're having loud passionate sex because god forbid horny teenagers should ever have fun. ok so hear me out, astartes and primarchs in the pre-heresy are the same as the dumbass teenagers, except for the sex-having part (i think they T-pose at each other instead)

think about it. THEY KNOW NO FEAR. they're missing one of the key instincts we possess for recognizing dangerous situations. most people who find a spoopy book bound in suspicious leather are gonna be, y'know, spooped spooked. they won't want anything to do with it. the more anxious/scared will straight up leave. but astartes literally can't get spooked! they might burn the book for being xenos filth or something but beyond that there's nothing to balance out natural curiosity and/or lust for war trophies.

and this combines really badly with the imperium's rationalism! see, even if you don't fear the spoopy book, superstition/religion/fairy tales/etc. still provide a powerful incentive to stay away from it. you're gonna look at it and go, wow, that book looks satanic, messing with it might summon demon minotaurs, i should stay away. but the imperium actively discourages that line of thought! there's no way the spoopy book can do any harm, it's just a spoopy looking book! in fact, you SHOULD read the spoopy book just to demonstrate how not-superstitious you are!

yeah so this is why fulgrim walks into a creepy temple full of ritual snake orgy and thinks, hmm that snazzy sword the snake guys are obsessively fucking around would make a nice trophy. or why it never occurs to magnus that making deals with the fair folk might be dangerous territory.

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I find the drama around incest in media funny as hell, cause lets be real for a second here. People are only ever bothered by it once you bring queer people into the conversation.

Game of Thrones and now House of the Dragon are both series that very explicitly show incest. And at this point GoT is pop-culture, its not niche. The broad majority of people understand that G.R.R.M. is in-fact not telling people to go fuck their blood relatives, who would have thought!

But gods beware you insinuate that Aegon the Conqueror, a man who fucked TWO of his sisters and married them, also would’ve gone at it with one of his brothers. Then you are a disgusting pervert and dunno what you are talking about.

This shit gets infinitely more ridiculous in a fandom like 40k, where pseudo-incest is the least of the in-Verse problems! Dont mind the murder and racism, but we start having problems once you insinuate that the horrendously queercoded demigods, who didn’t meet until they were full grown adults and are basically tube babies, could potentially be or should be lovers. People act like the queer subtext in the writing surrounding Fulgrim and Ferrus is nonexistent, meanwhile its no short of the author chucking a brick at the readers head screaming “THEY ARE IN LOVE!”.

And you bet your ass that if there were female primarchs the same people who scream about the “woke mop” coming to ruin 40k, would be the first to ship primarchs. The hypocrisy is actually astounding!

Eyyy, I got my first anti reaction on here! I feel like it's a badge of honor lol. Also this person called me a 40k tourist? Funny. I've had a Tyranid army since 4th edition, an army that's definitely over 7k points by now. But sure, just cause I think the Bros who are written with some heavy homoerotic undertones should kiss, it means I'm a tourist. Ah well, what do you expect! I'm just glad the 40k fandom as a whole has generally been more welcoming of taboo material. Which, when most of your named characters are genetically related in some way, it's bound to happen.

Anyways, if anyone here is bothered by taboo material, specifically fictional incest, feel free to block me and move on! I haven't exactly been shy about it here or over on my ao3. Do whatever you need to do, just don't be a dick about it. (also if anyone ever wants to talk to me about Fulgrim and Ferrus please shoot me an ask. They have me in a chokehold.)

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There is something inexplicable tragic and realistic about EP1 of HOTD.

Aemma dies to keep tradition alive. To keep a man in power. She dies because people rather have her dead than accept her daughter as heir to the throne and she dies through the choice of a man. But not only one man, no; the man she loved more than anything. Her husband.

She practically gets killed for it and while this happens outside men are celebrating and fighting. Joyfully bashing eachothers heads in to celebrate the new heir.

The cuts between the two scenarios in the series make that all the more clear. She gets killed by patriarchy. By men - for men. To stay in power. And while she looses her life outside men are killing eachother for sport. Fun. Entertainment.

I havent fully watched HOTD yet, but am already familiar with its story and even in EP1 we see what patriarchy does to Alicent. The whole series has such a tragic theme of women loosing themselves through the tradition they are forced to live in its almost hard to watch..

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Look at what I‘ve been told on Reddit:

Right, because we all know that Reddit is the site for that, but I suppose it‘s very reddit etiquette like to be as rude as you can for no apparent reason.

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So I just watched Multiverse of Madness and can we all just applaude the costume designers and animators for this movie? Cause holy shit!

Even if the story would’ve been shit I still would’ve enjoyed it, Wongs costume in particular. Don’t even get me started on Wandas and Stephens outfit mesmerizing! The special effects? Bloody incredible!