TEMPEST.

"Such tempered rage. I see it so easily, mon-keigh." Marazhai breathes, a biting rasp. "Or perhaps it is jealousy. Nnnh-" He chuckles behind the inquisitor's back, an awful talon raised with nails inked in dried blood. When he closes the claw, a grin. "A delightful thing."

[leona-florianova]

[irreverentarchon]

The halls of the shrine world Ossuran housed the dead in the millions beneath its maw. Outside of its city-states and the small, living populations of man, Ossuran's surface is barren and fungal from centuries of industry and pollution wept by the billions of dead that have been shipped here with the death's-head seal of Vorhast. Built up of cathedrals and pilgrim's roads sacred to the Imperial Cult, survivors of Ossuran's terrible habitats find themselves quickly subsumed beneath spires and buttresses and the industry of consumption. It was the dead that built the family's thrown, and as a young girl, Belanor was deeply familiar with the guts of the monstrous cathedral-city under which her family's throne sat. The Ossein style is thus in the colours of the dead, and Ossuran's deep palette: black, brown, silver. Ceremonial and noble vestments and augmetics are fitted with accents of blood-red, white, and gold.

character introspection for belanor, rogue trader oc

[deadstarblack]

Your Job is Not in Danger, Artists

Why AI accusations miss the point—and how authored work proves itself through choices a machine can't fake.

couldn't ignore it anymore

[deadstarblack]

i am checks timer 16 ? hours in to slaving away for this bitch

[deadstarblack]

c'est moi qui tiens cette laisse. cela fait de moi ton maître. maintenant, mon chien bien-aimé, ouvre la marche. bsky

[irreverentarchon]

belanor, rogue trader oc

[iyzlime]

the unfinished

[rdehed24]

[irreverentarchon]

maréchal fressange, for @deadstarblack

[deadstarblack]

fressange — bsky.

[deadstarblack]

Sylvain de Chalais—chef d'état-major du maréchal Fressange. visual dev pour Achevé

[deadstarblack]

the romans determined sex by voice, skeleton, and temperament. the talmud had four categories for bodies we only have two words for.

then the enlightenment needed to deny women the vote and two thousand years of medicine got replaced by a checkbox at birth.

companion piece to the homosexual essay. this one's personal.

There Was One Sex for Two Thousand Years

A Writer's Guide to Sex, Gender, and Bodies Before the Modern Binary

[deadstarblack]

maréchal sosthène fressange🌹

[deadstarblack]

the homosexual was invented in 1869

the homosexual as an identity category was invented in 1869. by a german doctor trying to decriminalize sodomy.

before that there were acts, not identities. the greeks thought male-male love was spiritually superior to heterosexual desire. the romans only cared if you topped. georgian officers had "particular friendships" everyone recognized and no one named.

none of them were closeted. none of them were repressed. the framework didn't exist yet.

new essay tracing the full line from plato's symposium to the aids crisis. why "there were always gay people" is projecting backwards. what writers get wrong about historical sexuality. how to fix it.

this one took a while. i think it matters.

The Homosexual Was Invented in 1869

From Plato's Symposium to the AIDS crisis: why your period drama keeps getting sexuality wrong, and how to fix it.

[deadstarblack]

two short kings who spent fifteen years trying to kill each other and accidentally invented the modern world

back on my napoleonic bullshit

[irreverentarchon]

why are all of the dumb bitches treating day 1 alpha of a game like it's the final product, does the alpha play test come with a free lobotomy for anyone who launches it or something

[irreverentarchon]