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“The way she rolls is crooked and down a hill.” | Doodle | any pronouns | ace

[cryptids-and-muses]

Anyone who sends asks about my dnd characters is my new best friend and will get art

[archangelofbaal]

how well would the primarchs work as FromSoft bosses?

Lion: classic knight boss. wakes up from a 10.000 year nap to fight you. drip: immaculate. perfect soulsborne boss vibes. uses "thou".

Fulgrim: snek that used to be human. another FromSoft classic. kind of an annoying boss because he inflicts poison AND bleed. definitely has some good taunts.

Perturabo: too industrial for the souls vibes but great moveset. hits like a truck. has adds but he can destroy them with his AoEs.

Jaghatai Khan: he has a horse. you can't use a horse in his arena. faster than fucking Micolash. in phase 2 he loses his mount and becomes a classic fast and graceful sword boss.

Leman Russ: Godfrey, First Elden Lord.jpg. can be befriended if you best him in combat. sells all kinds of alcohol and a couple cool weapons. also uses "thou".

Rogal Dorn: you have to spend hours breaking into his castle. there are no shortcuts. the runback makes the Shrine of Amana look fun. he'll also twoshot you.

Konrad Curze: super fast and inflicts bleed. dodges spells. fun. many controllers were broken because of him. however if you do his questline he'll reach the "waiting for the assassin" stage and will not fight back. has a 1 hour prepare to cry video about his lore.

Sanguinius: he can fly, inflicts bleed, and has a grab that's an instakill. still a very loved boss for his cool design and graceful moveset. has a 2 hour prepare to cry video about his lore.

Ferrus Manus: a straightforward big, armoured boss who hits hard. can be cheesed. if you manage to behead him, he skips phase 2.

Angron: big red demon on fire. spends the entire fight loudly screeching over the Latin chorus. he was born to be a soulsborne boss. has a 3 hour prepare to cry video about his lore.

Guilliman: doesn't really have FromSoft vibes originally, but by 40k he's the Depressed Ruler Trying To Hold A Crumbling Realm Together. has a lot of dialogue. his sword is game-breaking so there are several glitches to get to him early and at least 4 cheese strats.

Mortarion: lives in the ultimate Miyazaki poison swamp. inflicts poison, toxic, AND curse. has a cool scythe and moveset but the status effects and the terrible runback make him unpopular. classic FromSoft vibes.

Magnus: the best mage boss FromSoft has ever made. very cool moveset, 3 phases. If you enter wearing Leman Russ's armour, he instantly starts in phase 2.

Horus: one of the hardest bosses. his first phase is not that bad but once he gets powered up in a cutscene he's nuts. he'll ragdoll you all over the arena. the bane of any SL1 run's existence. People keep comparing him to Orphan and Malenia.

Lorgar: the mandatory one pushover boss. uses holy damage. has very little poise so any colossal weapon will just reeatedly pancake him. if he isn't killed fast enough, he can summon daemons. definitely uses "thou".

Vulkan: boss of the obligatory lava zone. has a big hammer and cool fire attacks. keeps respawning. can only be killed with a specific weapon. if you do the related quest, he'll stop the fight after 4 phases and becomes friendly. best blacksmith in the game.

Corvus Corax: imagine Alecto but also can go invisible. fun. his second phase is a cool raven monster with a very erratic moveset. probably uses "thou".

Alpharius Omegon: the terribly unbalanced duo boss nobody likes to fight. They are also the Patches equivalent NPCs throughout the game.

[e3n-ethan]

Smth I find really interesting in Angel Exterminatus is the contrast between the iron warriors and the iron hands. And in a way, between Ferrus Manus and Perturabo. They’re both awful men who rule with an iron fist (hah). But the iron tenth had a… spark left that the iron warriors don’t.

Which imo also kind of refuses Perturabo’s point Ferrus is a lot like him. Brutal. Uncompromising. Abrasive. He also threw men at problems. Ferrus was also self-conscious, and doubted himself a lot, and felt inferior compared to his brothers, but that never stopped Ferrus from like, actually trying. Ferrus built things and encouraged his sons to also build and design things (and they sometimes maybe even went a little too wild with it), meanwhile Perturabo locked himself into his own room to do a woe is me, the most special 14 year old that no one understands, routine.

“I was never allowed to build anything” perturabo who the fuck stopped you. Magnus ignored entreaties to look at mountains. Ferrus and Vulkan built things in their free time. You’re one of the warrior gods of this age, please stop with the woe is me routine and gain some fucking perspective. If you’re too good to talk to mortals maybe talk to a custodes to learn what actual lack of freedom looks like.

[qcontinuumumum]

Perturabo isolates himself into what he's expected to do and only sees himself in what others see him do, so he ends up in this increasing bitterness about only being used for war which is the only thing he does but also does it well so it creates this cycle of self-loathing despite efforts from others for him to branch out (Magnus being the most notable as they would do archeology and ask him to build an ancient greek machine which had no war purposes).

[e3n-ethan]

But like. Who’s forcing him to do war the way he does. Who’s forcing him to not build things. Is there like an imperial edict that “Perturabo isn’t allowed to build things after compliance”?

Like yes he got sent to the “hard theaters”. As were Ferrus and Russ. His sister even points out that perturabo wages war in the most wasteful and inefficient way imaginable. He’s the only one keeping himself trapped. Dude is persecuting *himself*. “How dare my father treat the iron warriors this way” says man completely to blame for how the iron warriors are treated

[enitre-tyles]

Pertie suffers from the same delusions as Cruz, in that they don’t believe in their own free will. Pertie is hyper aware of flaws, it’s his genetic imperative as an artificial being, but unlike his brothers such as Horus or Sanguinius or Russ he believes his genetic imperative is inescapable. He de-agents himself so that his flaws become someone else’s. If his flaws are someone else’s fault he doesn’t have to confront himself about them. If Pertie were to create something and see flaws in it, then he must confront that he is flawed and theirfor responsible via an irrational transitive property.

[e3n-ethan]

Smth I find really interesting in Angel Exterminatus is the contrast between the iron warriors and the iron hands. And in a way, between Ferrus Manus and Perturabo. They’re both awful men who rule with an iron fist (hah). But the iron tenth had a… spark left that the iron warriors don’t.

Which imo also kind of refuses Perturabo’s point Ferrus is a lot like him. Brutal. Uncompromising. Abrasive. He also threw men at problems. Ferrus was also self-conscious, and doubted himself a lot, and felt inferior compared to his brothers, but that never stopped Ferrus from like, actually trying. Ferrus built things and encouraged his sons to also build and design things (and they sometimes maybe even went a little too wild with it), meanwhile Perturabo locked himself into his own room to do a woe is me, the most special 14 year old that no one understands, routine.

“I was never allowed to build anything” perturabo who the fuck stopped you. Magnus ignored entreaties to look at mountains. Ferrus and Vulkan built things in their free time. You’re one of the warrior gods of this age, please stop with the woe is me routine and gain some fucking perspective. If you’re too good to talk to mortals maybe talk to a custodes to learn what actual lack of freedom looks like.

[ethaneldritch]

friend lent me their copy of Ferrus' primarch novel. I'm only two chapters in and the dad energy is already off the charts

"I'm not mad, just disappointed" uttered nigh verbatim from this man's own lips within thirty seconds of entering the room. incredible.

[iron-slick]

Part 2

I wanted to use up some old art supplies I have and things got out of hand pretty quickly. I have actually sketched all the primarchs, but it takes me a long time to work traditionally. I’ll try to post them eventually

[iron-slick]

Part 1

[chifanlema]

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[trigunfanart]

Karaoke anyone?

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[apathetic-revenant]

favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:

Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)

Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”

Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”

Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”

John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!” 

Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings

Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.” 

Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other

Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.” 

Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him

[lesbianpervinca]

[jaynovz]

I find it immensely endearing that Mr. Every Flame Is My Servant, Mr. Of the Torch, Thee Master of Fire... cannot handle spicy food. 😂😂😂 Meanwhile Qifrey is over there gulping down the equivalent of ghost pepper stew without any issue. Peak 🤌🤌

[circuscrypt1d]

been a while since i posted, but the trigun obsession is back to haunt me once again

[ineffectualdemon]

briefly breaking social media ban again to announce that I had a nightmare of the Un-Librarian: A guy who comes into your house and disorganizes your things while you sleep.

Seems like a stress dream about moving to me.

Ok bye.

[ineffectualdemon]

coming back to add that the Un-Librarian didn't just mess things about. They did stuff like come into to your kitchen and rearrange everything so everything is neatly put away in exactly the wrong place

[lostxanadu]

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

[lostxanadu]

another thing about being bullied for being weird is that it tends to make you more weird in ways you understand less and that get you bullied worse because the only thing funnier than making fun of an autistic kid is making fun of a traumatized autistic kid

[bot]

omg jimothy... i would die for you..