#The Forerunner

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Eugène Trigoulet - The Forerunner, 1894.

[ramurami]

Such a pretty fucking gun/ornament

[snarltoothed]

quite excited to read this edition of the Herland Trilogy! ofc there was a short biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman before this foreward, but I thought you gyns might appreciate this bit about The Forerunner especially

(sorry for the somewhat poor quality image that you need to zoom to read + my finger lol)

[thelvadams]

Halo • Season 2 Episode 8 ‘Halo’

It is awake because you are here. You are here because it is awake. What is it? It's been down there all this time, waiting to meet you. In the dark.

[ur-haruspis]

GYRE 11 // INSTALLATION 07 // ZETA HALO

At the command of the Didact, who rarely commanded his wife about anything, those processed by the Composer, those who remained on the fog-shrouded wheel, along with the remains of all the other Flood victims and the deactivated Graveminds—of which ten had already formed—and the last of the functioning monitors keeping perpetual watch—all on the wheel and the wheel itself were sent through a portal for one last time, never to be used in that same way again. It was known as Installation 07. It has become a sacred tomb for millions, though some may still live. I do not know.

[nynehells]

he can have 2 guns (Forerunner exotic sidearm) as a treat.

[billfinarts]

Halo Sketches :D

[in-a-nutcase]

The Spur “Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”  ― Samuel Johnson

[zilentis]

a Forerunner Builder, Inspiration-From-The-Domain, and her little Huragok; Far Too Dense.

The Forerunner is less impressive, but I’m still happy with her (she looks like a Forerunner). What I was really focusing my effort on, was the cute Engineer, I really really wanted one and I’m so proud of him. Almost entirely sculpted from Greenstuff

[borealtwilight]

It was at this moment, he knew...

....he fucked up

[kainisticinstincts]

It's so insane to me that it's canon lore in Halo, the prestigious military sci-fi shooter about a green supersoldier gunning down alien religious fanatics, that Humanity used to have a hyper-advanced interstellar empire 100,000 years ago that got nuked into being Neanderthals by aliens because humanity had the favor of basically gods and the aliens didn't. That's wild to me.

Not only that but the reason master chief is so insanely lucky is because it's implied he has been bred across 100 thousand years to be especially lucky by an alien librarian of life who felt bad for humanity.

Not only that but the flood, the space zombies from the games, are also revealed to basically be the corpses of murdered gods shambling forward out of their own hatred and spite towards all life that not only infect you spiritually but also on a mental and even spiritual level and are so insane they even infect the fabric of space and time and subvert the laws of physics.

Like that's wild. How do you go from a semi-hard sci-fi setting with religious undertones to fucking ancient human space empires and murdered zombie gods that infect the flesh of the universe. it actually goes surprisingly hard. Like I'd watch the hell out of a sci-fi animated series in the style of arcane with this idea.

[fictionandtheatre]

Found myself thinking, “man why are there so many Star Trek A/B/O stories?” and then I was like....wait a minute.

[unsc-offical]

is it true that they put the mamsnrhbr chehfde in the soder?

DEY PUB DA MAMSNRABER CHIFED INT A SODRE

[ab-rinart]

Promethean variant B1 Battle Droid

[scalpel-mom-mori]

There's still some time before our departure, we can rest here for now. The most memorable of my diving experience? Probably the time we came across a rip current. The strength of a ripcurrent is like many invisible hands, I tried to move toward the light of the coast, but my body was dragged back down over and over again… Looking back on it, it was a real thrill. But this time, there's no need to worry. I've already checked on the current and tides for today, it should be quite nice. So, take it easy and enjoy your vacation, Commandant. In the case that you do encounter some unforseen circumstances, I'll protect you. We haven't been to the seaside in a long time, it'll make for an interesting training environment

-- Happy activation day, Lee

7/23/2023