#Horde Culture

[illyanarasputinfan]

Zombie Queen of New Genosha

X-Men: Empyre #4 (2020) Marvel

X-Men: Empyre #3 (2020) Marvel

X-Men: Empyre #4 (2020) Marvel

After nearly being consumed by the combined dark power of the World Tree Root, the Tri-Crown of the Chaos Godhead, and the Eye of Alak-Rah, transforming into the Zombie Queen of New Genosha, and battling a twelve-story-high alien plant monster single-handedly...

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

Hate (affectionate) how it's made so clear from the very beginning of part 1 just how loved Paul is by his family and household. Both his parents, Duncan, Gurney, Thufir, even Dr Yueh all clearly care so deeply for this kid, and we're shown that time and time again.

Cut to the end of part two, and almost every one of those people is gone. The only ones who remain are a weird, came-back-wrong version of Jessica, and Gurney who has gone from mentor to worshipper. Paul goes from someone deeply loved and valued for who he is by a small but caring group of people - to someone followed and worshipped and feared by thousands. They're obsessed with him in a way, as a leader and "messiah", but nobody loves him.

The only one remaining who loves him for who he is is Chani, who leaves him because in the end that love isn't enough to bring who he is back.

[pratchettquotes]

The last ninja was upright, but only just; Hamish had run his wheelchair over his foot. Mr. Saveloy patted the taxman's arm. "Excuse me," he said. "I find I often have to intervene at this stage."

He padded over to the surviving man, who was looking around wildly. Six swords had become interlaced around his next as though he'd taken part in a rather energetic folk dance.

"Good morning," said Mr. Saveloy. "I should just point out that the Ghengiz here is, despite appearances, a remarkably honest man. He finds it hard to understand empty bravura. May I venture to suggest therefore that you refrain from phrases like 'I would rather die than betray my emperor' or 'Go ahead and do your worst' unless you really, really mean them. Should you wish for mercy, a simple hand signal will suffice. I strongly advise you not to nod."

Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

[redacted-coiner]

Heresypunk

[PT: Heresypunk]

Heresypunk, a subculture/punk term referring to the acceptance of any and all spiritual and religious practices. No matter one’s personal religion even if pre-established or new, anyone can be Heresypunk.

the belief that all religions and spiritual practices can coexist

acceptance of both pre-established religions as well as neoreligons.

acceptance of those who are not religious but are spiritual.

acceptance of “contradictory” spiritual/religious practices

acceptance of those who practice multiple religions.

acceptance of those who make their own religious/spiritual practices.

against the harm and pain that religion has caused for victims of it, and to be there for those who are hurt.

against force of religious practices and against the misuse of religious foundations for profit.

against the use of religion to justify bigotry (ie: “being gay is a sin”)

Note: This post does not support people who are bigoted towards those who may be, Queer, Alterhuman, Neurodivergent, Disabled, POC, etc. this isn’t for you, fuck you.

(I tried to make a flag couldn’t think of one, if anyone got any ideas feel free!)

[Tag] @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @imoga-pride (technically not one but eh @blankqueer )

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[ecultured]

d.byrne, t.head.

[merriclo]

i love the idea that Wild is a big brother to basically all of the kids in his Hyrule. it’s such a good heacanon that i never see utilized.

[cinematicwasteland]

[flippingfrogg]

Post Season 5 Hordak, my beloved…. New design to get back unto the swing of things since the semester is over. I love post season 5 Hordak because he has the chance to be happy :)

[blueiscoool]

Massive horde of Celtic gold coins stolen from German museum

Thieves who broke into a southern German museum and stole hundreds of ancient gold coins got in and out in nine minutes without raising the alarm, officials said, in a further sign that the heist was the work of organised criminals.

Police have launched an international hunt for the thieves and their loot, consisting of 483 Celtic coins and a lump of unworked gold that were discovered during an archaeological dig near the present-day town of Manching in 1999.

Guido Limmer, the deputy head of Bavaria's State Criminal Police Office, described how at 1:17 am on Tuesday (local time) cables were cut at a telecoms hub about one kilometre from the Celtic and Roman Museum in Manchning, knocking out communications networks in the region.

Security systems at the museum recorded that a door was pried open at 1:26 am and then how the thieves left again at 1:35 am, Limmer said.

It was in those nine minutes that the culprits must have smashed open a display cabinet and scooped out the treasure.

Limmer said there were “parallels” between the heist in Manching and the theft of priceless jewels in Dresden and a large gold coin in Berlin in recent years. Both have been blamed on a Berlin-based crime family.

“Whether there's a link we can't say,” he added. “Only this much: we are in touch with colleagues to investigate all possible angles.”

Bavaria’s minister of science and arts, Markus Blume, said evidence pointed to the work of professionals.

“It’s clear that you don’t simply march into a museum and take this treasure with you,” he told public broadcaster BR. “It’s highly secured and as such there’s a suspicion that we’re rather dealing with a case of organised crime.”

Officials acknowledged, however, that there was no guard at the museum overnight.

An alarm system was deemed to provide sufficient security, said Rupert Gebhard, who heads the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection in Munich.

Gebhard said the hoard was of great value both for the local community in Manching and for archaeologists across Europe.

The bowl-shaped coins, dating back to about 100 BC, were made from Bohemian river gold and show how the Celtic settlement at Manching had links across Europe, he said.

Gebhard estimated the value of the treasure at about 1.6 million euros (NZ$2.67 million).

“The archaeologists hope that the coins remain in their original state and reappear again at some point," he said, adding that they are well documented and would be hard to sell.

“The worst option, the melting down, would mean a total loss for us,” he said, noting that the material value of the gold itself would only run to about 250,000 euros at current market prices.

Gebhard said the size of the trove suggested it might have been “the war chest of a tribal chief.” It was found inside a sack buried beneath building foundations, and was the biggest such discovery made during regular archaeological excavations in Germany in the 20th century.

Limmer, the deputy police chief, said Interpol and Europol have already been alerted to the coins' theft and a 20-strong special investigations unit, codenamed ‘Oppidum’ after the Latin term for a Celtic settlement, has been established to track down the culprits.

[tovaicas]

anyways my friends activated my conlang brain and I've made smth insane as usual

red is influences, blue is Elezen-family languages, green is like a mix bc I see the Alliance cities as having a trade language (that critically is limited to them).

I see Duskwight as a separate language from Black Shroud Elezen (but sharing a lot - easy enough to learn for those speakers). Coerthan and all its derivatives are a whole different language under the Elezen umbrella and isn't mutually intelligible with BSE. Because they split so early, they probably don't share much more than root words and etymologies; within the same family so not difficult to learn for other speakers of Elezen languages, but very distinctly different.

(also I'm not listing them but the branches extend to include other diaspora Elezen languages)

[bonefall]

do you have anything planned for zelda? the little kittypet that joins darktails group

Unfortunately, Zelda is being axxed, along with Max and Loki.

I cannot fit in more random characters who vanish after this arc when I'm trying to give screentime to cats who need it. Heathertail is going to connect with Darktail as a possible half sibling, Breezepelt is getting an actual redemption arc, there are 6 original members of the Kin, the majority of the group is ex-DF trainees, SkyClan...

I'm not even going to try and shove in the random kittypets the Kin were able to recruit from... somewhere. Canon AVoS is really disorganized and I have to prune somewhere, and I'm starting with the 12 canonical Kin-related characters that completely vanish after this arc.

HOWEVER

Most of Zelda's roles as Violetshine's friend are going to be absorbed by Dragonfly, who she is going to end up in a relationship with along with Tree. So there is a bright side to this.

[dustandthings]

Another piece in my little goblin horde.

Its a little jar filled with gem and crystal fragments and yes, it does make a very satisfying rattle when shook.

[anarcho-smarmyism]

skin care/anti aging tiktokers must be starting to get to me,I'm having a recurring nightmare where someone forces me to get botox even though I think I look fine

[aniseandspearmint]

Quick PSA for people new to Tumblr, no one cares if you reblog a thing more than once.

Even aside from the usual week day meme posts (flat fuck Friday, out of touch Tuesday, etc), if you like a thing and reblog it, then run across the same post weeks/months/years later it is 100% okay to reblog it again.

[just-miru]

i'm once again being normal about the back chorus in laplace's angel (hurt people? hurt people!)

[skymagpie]

Horde-side at least, alot of people dislike Mists of Pandaria due to its black and white morality as well as usage of racist writing cliches.

That's why I said that this is based on reddit and tumblr, where some are from reddit if I didn't have the tumblr data.

Also this is World of Warcraft, the game is absolutely littered with racist writing cliches, I would go as far to say that the game is based on a foundation of racist writing cliches and Blizzard is currently trying to somewhat mend them, but they cannot escape that foundation that was set up for them 20 and even 10 years ago. It's sad, but you will find the racism in every expac in some degree.

Always remembering this post whenever Blizzard and WoW's racism is brought up, when someone was "Blizzard has potent orientalism that is 10 years behind everyone else's" and yeah, pretty much.