Finally back up to 2000 points fully painted for the first time since the end of 9th edition. Glad to finally have all the stuff I had lined up for my Trans-Hyperian Alliance done, now I can finally shift all my focus to Battletech.
WIP of one of my lady Leagues of Votann, a Hearthkyn Warrior. The colors are in the Trans-Hyperian Alliance, which happens to feature my favorite color.
read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/49909543
by cicia3
"What are you suggesting, exactly?" said Bones. His fingers had taken to stroking Jim's wrist around the lace, and although Jim tried desperately to evade him, Bones's kindness had never been more steely. Jim could have died from it.
"I have reason to believe," Spock said, as Jim tried to push himself backward and at the same time just hoped that Bones' fingers would slip under the laces and touch his burned skin, "that the ritual in question resembles more closely a fertility ritual."
"My God. The Hyperians weren't planning to eat Jim--they were planning to eat him that other way."
"Shut up Bones, shut up!" shouted Jim.
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When a king is in need, his knights rush in.
Words: 5121, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: M/M
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock, James T. Kirk/Spock, James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock
Additional Tags: Threesome - M/M/M, Fuck Or Die, Ritual Sex, Sex Pollen, Semi-Public Sex, Porn with Feelings, Idiots in Love, Pining, Intense, Crying During Sex, Devotion, Bittersweet, Jim Kirk has issues, Dubious Consent but only in Jim's mind, Intimacy, Mind Meld
read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/49909543
Did you hear about the black hole leaving a trail of new stars behind it? Tumblr won't let me send a link, but it should be the most recent news story on Hubblesite. Anyways, it got me wondering how something like that would be mythologized in SC, what the theological or superstitious explanations would be - or who'd pointedly ignore it for being inconvenient to doctrine
ooooooOOOOOOOOOH. So first of all: that’s dope I love space. Thank you for bringing it to my attention :D
I’ll come at this first of all from the perspective of our own de facto chief priestess of the rebellion (Lux), who with her mix of Ashtivan and Cosmonist (and Atennui by marriage) influences would probably see it as a reminder that creation is inherent in destruction and vice versa. Ashtivan thought tended to see their versions of the Cosmic Lovers (Orellistia and Levinoxia, called Sungtivsish and Nàntivesh in their languages) as more of a yin-yang, inseparable and interwoven, and they also thought of Levinoxia as a Mother rather than a maiden, so I imagine they’d be likely to mythologize new stars born in the wake of a black hole as her children, to be adopted into the shared colony by Orellistia and the rest of the goddesses.
The school of Cosmonism most likely to deny this outright is hard-line Hyperian-era Licentiati doctrine, which IS heavily invested in a matter/void duality. I could see local independent Destigravitationist leaders portraying it as a miraculous triumph of one over the other, even taking personal credit for it, but the Licentiati and the Empress are understood as regarding them as all a little kooky. They support the regime so the Licentiati have to put up with them but every time a destgravitationist reports some weird thing she saw en route to her third faith healing session in Ovaiakon as a miracle/sign of impending cataclysm they sigh heavily and draft another mass letter to local temples about the importance of religious unity (which is always code for “get with the program”).
Old-time pre-Hyperian popular Cosmonism was less of a monolith because unlike the Ashtivans its various groups weren’t (aren’t) in communication with one another so they don’t develop these broad popular consenses (is that a word? “Consensuses” can’t be it) but I immediately imagine them devising something VERY cute out of the common scriptural folklore that Luca, the goddess of light, is Levinoxia’s favorite daughter who she’s constantly doting on and spoiling and being a pushover for. “Can we get a star here sennami please 🥺 ???” “Oh…alright…💕” Before the Praeceptorate had as much means for mass communication with their faithful, mythological concepts of the goddesses tended to be very humanizing and often funny, especially among spacefarers’ traditions—sort of like how medieval miracle plays had comedic tropes about Mary and Joseph or different saints that they’d often come back to.
So that’s an inexhaustive list of Cosmonist/Cosmonist-adjacent interpretations off the top of my head. There would probably be many more tbh!
Finished painting another squad of Hearthguard for my Trans-Hyperian Alliance. After a number of games I found that my army could really use some more staying power and some high AP 2 damage shots so I built these, and another squad I got lined up.
me and jasper spent literally hours going down the rabbit hole about some definitely not a cult called hyperianism and it’s literally so funny it’s just instagram sigma male manifestation disguised with super intelligent sounding babble (i.e an extremely basic understanding of quantum mechanics, teleological evolution and freud’s “shadow self”) and then right at the very end of their website just when you’re starting to think maybe this isn’t that crazy. they hit you with the talk about “entities”