All My Haters Become Aligators When I Activate My Gatorinator.

I've always loved how she gets a boss theme [Alert Sign, IIRC] when she does her transformation sequence. Just needs a giant health bar and "Kuroyukihime, Queen of Blades" on the screen to complete the thing.

public service announcement: kuroyukihime is incredibly cool

that is all

a stained glass living room design by Harris Armstrong

This is a slow fandom zone

None of that "Oh no they bomb-dropped all the episodes in a week 1 month ago, I'm late!" "The tag hasn't been active all week is the fandom dead?" "I only got a hundred shares the first hour no one cares about my art"

Slow down

Take a deep breath and slow down

Fandom is YOU. And me and everyone. If we doodle stick figures for a show that ended 30 years ago we aren't "late" or "doing too little", we're playing dolls in our own time and having fun with works of art that mean a lot to us

You can literally watch and engage with something that aired in 2004 as if it aired yesterday

If the tag hasn't been active for 14 months guess what? If YOU post there, it isn't dead. Literally you can talk about anything you want whenever you want there is no weird law against watching things that people aren't actively talk about

Let's be deranged about stories together

One thing I really like is how much of the Horus Heresy Design language - itself built to be a reasonable origin of the old 40k designs - ended up echoed in these new ECs. The Flawless Blades, for example, are clearly carrying the same design of sword as the Palatine Blades. The Palatines are a new-for-30k unit built around the EC's long-textual obsession with martial excellence and how many of their (40k) characters were masterful duellists. Entire unit of rapier-armed space marines who are individually a match in melee for most other chapter Centurions. Expensive, hard to use, but gorgeous models. Now, they're in 40k, with thousands of years of warp marinade. The old 40k Noise Marines were more electric-guitars-with-guns. Heresy made vaguely guitarish Sonic Cannon for them instead - the the 'body' at the back with twiddlyknobs, a long 'neck' leading to a head that opens up into a grille/emitter. Now in 40k the same cannons have been mutated back towards the Death Guitar look, with perhaps a hint of bagpipe. Love it.

Now that the hype over the initial reveal is over time to post some thoughts.

First off....Holy Slaanesh the models look amazing. All the Slaanesh bits look great. I do get that there is not alot of body horror that tends to go along with Slaanesh but to allow us our own model line combined with Warhammer going more mainstream I get it.

Lucius...just wow.... Like the new Ahriman, Kharn and Typhus he got quite the glow up.

The new lords. Gonna grab a few of them for assorted kitbashed. The Kakophonic one is personally my fav of the pair.

The new noise marines. THINGS SHALL GET LOUD NOW!!! Love the new design. It is interesting to note that at this time noise marines are the only cult troop that is not battle line.

Pour one out for the pure demon players. The reveal that Slaaneshi demons are in the codex pretty much makes the squatting of the Daemon codex rumor a sure thing. I am always sad to see a codex disappear esp one like the demon codex where they still are a major player in the lore.

The flawless blades. I was writing for my homebrew a version of them. To have models fit my headcannon is quite nice. And they look pretty good.

I am sad like most other EC players that the sonic dreadnaught is still missing. Or even an upgrade to the hellbrute. A small missed opportunity.

Despite the full list of what we keep from the CSM dex not yet available I am a little more at ease due to our new battle line. Our version of melee and bolter Legionaries still work perfect as counts as from the core CSM codex which still doesn't invalidate my current WiP jump lord conversion. Or my good luck forgfiend(so far only maulerfiend is confirmed) Fluffy. Or the traitor guard force I am planning to represent the Archite Palatines. Having 2 books to play from depending on my mood is always a good thing.

Overall I am quite excited for what we got. I was concerned our launch was gonna be just Lucius and noise marines.

Empire powerscaling is hilarious because they canonically cannot survive 1 twink believing in the fundamental goodness of his cyberwizard father, of course any other galactic power in fiction is going to body them

The trick I hit on was to always contribute. Always ask questions. Offer opinions. Clarify acronyms.

Surprisingly quickly I stopped getting invited to meetings I didn't need to be in.

Pokémon Human Character Tournament: THE FINAL SHOWDOWN

look, it's easy, okay? High Fantasy has An Hero whose Destiny is Sword, and Low Fantasy has Some Schmoe whose Job is Sword.

I'm reminded that a good chunk of the Unseen University's purpose is to stop Wizards getting good at magic, because that tends to result in city-levelling magical duels and holes in the fabric of reality.

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

I'm hyperventilating

3D remake coming 2025