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Captain Pioneer

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there's bound to be a bunch of in universe porn of Cain, right? like commissars alone are fertile ground for any kind of punishment scenario, probably a lot of domming, whips, torture, etc. and then you have tall, handsome, heroic Cain on recruitment posters all over the sector, who is also a character in several tv shows, not to mention whatever homegrown stuff gets made within the ranks of the people he's served with...

like, at some point in his career (I would bet on the 597th being the first to have someone actually get caught with it) he is bound to have had to confiscate something featuring someone who looks suspiciously like himself, or has his name. I'm sure he finds it embarrassing af much like his tv shows & statues & so on, but like. does Amberley keep an archive of whatever she can find running around? purely for research purposes of course, to keep track of his popularity (and tease him, nothing else). who in his circle of acquaintances know of this? who has actually seen/read something? does Jurgen keep a carefully curated personal collection on his dataslate? much to consider

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Self-loathing hero who keeps trying to sacrifice themselves for the Greater Good in order to prove their worth, but always accidentally survives in a way that makes them look really badass, and now their friends are trying to hold an intervention about their alleged death wish, which is technically accurate, but they all have completely the wrong idea about the particular kind of death wish involved.

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cain and jurgen the straightest dudes in all the imperium~💖

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questions for fic writers

a collection of questions i, as a writer, would love to be asked !!!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

9. How do you find new fic to read?

10. How do you decide what to write?

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer?

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

18. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

19. If you wrote a spin-off of [insert fic], what would it involve?

20. If you wrote a prequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in [insert fic], what would it be?

22. Who is your favorite character in [insert fic] and why?

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

24. Are there any easter eggs in [insert fic], and if so, what are they?

25. What other websites or resources do you use most often when you write?

26. Would you rather write a fic that had no dialogue or one that was only dialogue?

27. How long did it take to write [insert fic]? Describe the process.

28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?

29. What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [insert fic]? Explain your choices if you want!

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?

32. What’s your ideal fic length to read?

33. If you write chaptered fics, what’s your ideal chapter length to write? Is it different from your ideal chapter length to read?

34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?

35. What aspects of your writing are completely unlike your real life?

36. Do you visualize what you read/write?

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

38. Did any of your fics get surprisingly popular (whatever that means to you)? Which ones? Why do you think they were so successful?

39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?

40. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

43. If you take/write prompts: what’s your favorite prompt fic that you’ve written?

44. If you take/write prompts: do you prefer dialogue or scenario/narrative prompts?

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?

46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?

47. If [insert fic] was a pair of shoes, what kind would it be? Describe the shoes.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

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do you ever tell people you’ll be going to sleep but then you don’t and you have to not do anything noticable online for the sake of it seeming as if you didn’t lie to them

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One day Commander Shepard made me love women with a military background

So here we are

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Ciaphas Cain. Do not mistake his righteous concern with fear, for he has none! Yes, obviously 😃

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Can someone smarter than me write an essay on the neorevivalism of the Mary Sue.

I only entered fandom at the tail end of “Mary Sue bad” like two decades ago, and never really understood the problem. Internalised misogyny. Ship and let ship and all that.

But I'm starting to understand it now that the concept of fandom etiquette is unravelling at the seams, and what was once a faux pas no longer seems to be.

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Men of Tanith, do you want to live forever?

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An Eldar and an Ork from Warhammer 40k

been getting into Warhammer 40k a bit recently playing Dawn of War, was in the mood to recreate this meme but with an Ork and an Eldar.

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His weird little drip is so funny to imagine I need to make it as incomprehensible as possible. Wish there were more books like the Cain novels.

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For the Glory of the Imperium! I’ve finished an artwork of my Rogue Trader Esther I started a few months ago! It even feels weird parting with it after all this time.

Context: She's a Commissar with Illustrious Glory triumph which is a background as an Imperial propaganda posters legend. So I've been wondering for the longest time how those posters could look considering W40k aesthetics. I imagine clear and blunt wartime posters pushed in the direction of nearly religious imagery with fervent detailing but still looking like something that was painted.

Also I dusted off my calligraphy skills for this one, so every bit of text here is hand-lettered over a span of a few nights because clearly only through pointless toil and solemn misery can I capture the spirit of 40k💀 Consider me contractually obliged to bring attention to it every time I post because I spent so much time doing it lol. I could be your autoquill equipped servoskull anytime

PS: I'll try to put together a process video sometime soon!

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The future lord of Ultramar.

"Ultramar" was derived from an ancient phrase meaning "beyond the sea of night."

Inspired by Job's "Napoleon at Brienne"

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So im looking around at the official Warham merch site and the more I look, thr more baffled I get by how fucking weird some of the design choices are.

Tell me this isnt the fucking funniest shirt you have seen in a while? Im considering getting it because its soooo ugly: