Apparently, Jago Sevatarion's unofficial remembrancer. Warhammer 40k, scifi, fantasy.Movies as always.
Getting into gifmaking. Currently starting an one-person crusade to make Tanith Lee a household name.
An Info Announcement for anyone interested/following me
I've really been finding gifmaking unexpectedly soothing at a time when I've lost touch with my creativity - I've not picked up a pencil or a brush in too long, and for a year now I've been unable to write. I feel I have lost both my confidence and my inspiration and it has been very hard, because these have been times when I needed both the solace and the escapism it provided me. I don't know when I'll be able to return to my writing and art, much less when I'll be ready to share them again. Through making gifs I finally found a small way to be creative doing something that demands attention and repetition, which is what I'm craving to soothe myself right now. And through that I've rediscovered my love for movies which is a hobby I had neglected recently.
Turns out you notice many things when gifing scenes, and appreciate cinematography and visual narrative, even dialogue, much more. It's been a new and exciting way to engage with cinema in a transformative way. So I'm taking this opportunity to produce some gifsets of a few of the movies I love and which I've not seen much material circulating online about, in the hopes that
1. someone looking for it like I used to do will find it and be merry,
2. I can engage in a little personal commentary/criticism through the visual without the need for long essays,
3. people will get to know about less well-known films and might find something they like there, and
4. at last I can contribute something a little more substantial to a space and, hopefully, people who have made me very happy with their own work in the past and have been so cool all this time.
I will take advantage of the recent renewed interest in movie-sharing to gif some movies I love very much (my main interests are nicely-costumed and atmosphere'd historicals, old-timey European cinema(eg. Vláčil, Visconti and Żuławski,etc)and films with preternaturally attractive cinematography and/or protagonists). Many of them is rare to find rare to find gifs online if, and since I'm doing this for fun, though too broad in my movie tastes, I'll start from my favourite movies and I'll go from there, depending on my mood. I might do some Greek movies eventually too - and if anyone has any movie suggestions to make, I'm always game to look them up.
That being said, I'll keep posting about Wh40k, and I intend to gif a lot more of TTS since I'm rewatching it right now (have I become the TTS gifset blog yet in vernacular 😂) and I might even try doing Hunter: The Parenting as I got into it and it's amazing too and a worthy spiritual companion to TTS. And I do intend to post more quotes and passages from my favourite books, especially since I'm on a scifi/fantasy kick recently (let's not forget the Tanith Lee crusade!)
I can't guarantee strict adherence to any sort of rules, since this is an uncertain period for me and I'm going through some personal stuff; this is just to inform people what they're in for with this blog, in case it's not to their tastes or, conversely,in case it is.
You can find my gifs under the tags my gifsets and my gifs.
My movie gifsets in particular will be tagged as my edits, movieedits and filmedits.
The TTS ones are under the #if the emperor had a text to speech device and under all related Warhammer 40k tags.
Book-related stuff is under quotes and books, as well as under author names or genres.
Thank you very much for the support all this time. Hope you enjoy!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Category: F/M
Fandoms: Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Warhammer 40.000
Relationships: Mita Ashyn/Zso Sahaal, Mita Ashyn & Zso Sahaal
Characters: Mita Ashyn, Zso Sahaal
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, graphic depictions of injuries, VIIIth Legion | Night Lords (Warhammer 40.000), Psykers (Warhammer 40.000), Slow Burn, not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (soul-deep codependancy), tags to be added as story progresses, updates twice a week, Medical Procedures, You ever get so unwell about a pairing you go and write Volume 2? Yeah that's me, Amputation, autocannibalism, Self-Harm
Herodotus on the birth, childhood, and ascent to the throne of Cyrus the Great of Persia (from Encyclopaedia Iranica)
"Time before kingship. The historical past takes on clearer outline beginning with the figure of Cyrus the Great. With him the Persians too are introduced into world history. Like the Mede Deioces, Cyrus appears as the founding king, “with whom their history really commences” (Bichler, 2000b, p. 256). At least two traditions are discernible, which conflict with one another. In Herodotus, knowledge of Cyrus’s genealogy comes through only marginally, when his father Cambyses and his grandfather Cyrus [the First] are mentioned (1.111.5). Cyrus’s connection with the house of the Achaemenids, as suggested in the propaganda conceived by Darius I, is hardly recognizable in the Histories (Rollinger, 1998 [1999], pp. 189-99). While this information of Herodotus provides Cyrus’s lineage more historical depth and also the solidity of a royal pedigree, the appearance of Cyrus in the Histories is essentially based on another tradition. This is connected with the broadly sketched childhood story of Cyrus (see generally Van der Veen, 1996, pp. 23-52), which not only shows striking similarities with the old Oriental storytelling tradition (Lewis, 1980; Binder, 1964) but is also based on the concept of a new king destined by divine Providence to step out of the mists of history without showing a royal genealogy. This element is clearly brought out in Herodotus’s report, which particularly emphasizes the comparably low rank of Cambyses, Cyrus’s father (1.107.2).
The decisive event of Cyrus’s presentation is surrounded in the childhood story with legendary occurrences (concerning Herodotus’s sources on this subject, cf. Accame, 1982; Sancisi-Weerdenburg, 1994; Rollinger, 2000b, pp. 100 f.). There are three stages leading Cyrus on the way to the throne. To begin with, two dreams of the Median king Astyages point to future events and to Cyrus’s reign over Asia (1.107.1, 108.1). Both dreams are essential for Herodotus’s historical picture. While the first dream brings about the marriage of Astyages’ daughter Mandana with the Persian Cambyses, a fairly insignificant protagonist, the second dream leads to the decision to kill the child of this marriage (Bichler, 1985b; see also Pelling, 1996). Through Cyrus’s birth Persians and Medes became dynastically related. This was already anticipated by the oracle presented to Croesus, telling him to watch out when a mule (hēmíonos) first ascended the throne of the Medes (1.55.2, 91.5-6), a construct which is probably due to Herodotus’s creative power (Erbse, 1992). The task of eliminating the child Cyrus was given to the Mede Harpagus, but he did not carry it out and initiated a grave complication in the following events by handing over the little boy to the cowherd Mithradates with the instruction to abandon him in the wilderness (1.109 f.). His wife Kyno, whose name Herodotus equates with the Median word spaka—a key point for the conclusion that Median was a distinct language (Schmitt, 2003)—had just had a miscarriage; and she persuaded her husband to raise the child (Burkert, 1972, p. 125; Fehling, 1989, pp. 110 f.). Thus the plan of the tyrant Astyages was doomed to failure, and Cyrus grew up well cared for.
The second stage in the future king’s ascent was young Cyrus’s role in a game with his companions, who elected him as their king. The young lad proved himself as a sovereign, not only by organizing a royal household with various tasks, but also by treating disobedience with severe punishments, one of the victims of which was the son of the Mede Artembares (1.114). Through his father’s complaint, the matter came to the ears of Astyages, who had the young king led to him and recognized him as his grandson, whom he had presumed to be dead. This led to the punishment of Harpagus, whose son was served to him at a feast (in the manner of Atreus’s punishment of his brother in Greek tradition). It also led to a fatal mistake of the Magi (1.117-19), who considered the danger as averted, Cyrus having been elected as king in a childish game and the oracle having been realized (1.120).
The final stage shows Cyrus’s bid for the throne with the energetic help of Harpagus, who was seeking vengeance. Cyrus offered the Persians freedom from the Median yoke (1.126.5), as well as certainty of guidance by divine Tyche (1.126.6). Finally, Astyages was defeated by his grandson, and as a result the Persians rose to become the rulers of the empire of the Medes (1.128 f.). The sovereignty of the Medes over Asia is described by Herodotus in imperial dimensions. Only a few passages show that there are also other political entities to account for. Herodotus indeed only mentions one specific border of this “Imperium,” one which at the same time divided upper from lower Asia—the Halys River (Rollinger, 2003). With his victory over Astyages, Cyrus had risen to be the ruler of this empire and hence also the lord over upper Asia. But this was merely the beginning of a mighty phase of expansion, which brought this king to the fore as the first person to rule over all Asia (Wiesehöfer, 1987). These conquests are described by Herodotus in three separate sections."
From the article of Robert Rollinger "Herodotus iv. Cyrus according to Herodotus", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XII, Fasc. 3, pp. 260-262, available on the net on:
HERODOTUS iv. CYRUS ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS Time before kingship. The historical past takes on clearer outline beginning with the figure of C
Did I tell you about my fantastic Secret Sanguinala gift by actualkoschei?
Go read it, it hits both Sigismund/Sevatar and Sigismund/Dorn ends of preHeresy smut and has delicious, delicious characterization (and smut, of course). Mind the tags, and go and enjoy.
I am so endlessly grateful for such a well-written offering, it's just so vivid. Thanks!
So this is a gift for @cheshirecodeless because on GOD the minis cost an arm and a leg. References were both his existing minis, smooshed together how they appealed to my sensibilities.
I learnt how to make wigs for this so technically? His hair is fully styleable. Also! the only wire is a central bit to keep his head from flopping over (because the wig is VERY heavy....350m pearl floss...)
Also braiding, beading, embroidery....
Fullwalk-around video because he's SO detailed that I'd have to take one million photos to do him justice:
(starting a new tag chain bc the last one was long)
FAVOURITE COLOUR: Some shade of muted green or blue. But mainly I love any sea palette colours
LAST SONG: It's A Sin - Pet Shop Boys
CURRENTLY READING: Mainly fics rn but the last book I read was Lee Mack's 2012 autobiography
CURRENTLY WATCHING: rewatching Absolutely Fabulous and various seasons of the og Waterloo Road
CURRENTLY CRAVING: Grilled cheese and 7up
No pressure tags (probably tagged most of you before in one like this but oh well): @maryshelleysgrave @agood-omen @angrymantheater @cinnitoast63 @bingus-bing-bong @speedyowl152 @s-h-a-s-e @vampiric-decay @apoloniaspiegelgold
thank you for tagging me, ro <3 !!! and here are my answers ↴
FAVOURITE COLOUR: bright lime greens, hot salmon pinks, and baby blues :)
LAST SONG: "solo tu" by highland (nightcore version lmao)
CURRENTLY READING: my own fanfics as i edit them ha ha, but book-wise probably "wave me goodbye" by jacqueline wilson
CURRENTLY WATCHING: i was in the middle of rewatching "the birdcage" earlier before i got distracted... i'll get back to it tomorrow probably. also, i'm rewatching "bottom" for the hundredth time :D
CURRENTLY CRAVING: i just ate, so i'm kinda full, but maybe a cup of cloudy lemonade. yeah that sounds nice :P
and now for my tags: @plaudiusplants, @datasoong47, @shakibone, @pheonixed, @bonnietylerkilledmygrandma, @bluesakura007, @gunn-hinge, @cats-coding-on-my-keeb, @stellarwormy, @urgentkettle, @gallamy, @cyanbyte, @leathercircuits, and anyone else who feels like it >:D
YAYAYAYAY I GOT TAGGED thank you!!!!💗 Im a little late tho lol💔 my answers ^-^ :
FAVOURITE COLOUR: green and yellow!!
LAST SONG: STRFKR - Bury Us Alive
CURRENTLY READING: J.R.R.Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring (cause i finished the movies and want more of my beloved little hobbits)
CURRENTLY WATCHING: Cloud Atlas and.... Wilfred(2011)....
CURRENTLY CRAVING: crab flavoured chips..😩
Im tagging those who i dont see in the above post!! sorry if youve already been tagged before :p 🫶 @menhera-melody @cocopoprocks @daria-a-random-artist-81 @miss-arcadia hmm thats it i think :p anyone else who wants to join is welcome!!
CURRENTLY READING: Probably going over my own writing, because despite my interests, I don’t like reading much…I still need to finish the Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide, though
CURRENTLY WATCHING: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (really love this series so far!)
CURRENTLY CRAVING: Nattō 👅👅👅👅
MUTUALS I’M TOO SCARED TO TAG ANY OF YOU SO IF YOU SEE THIS AND WANT TO DO IT PLEASE DO
FAVORITE COLOR: Green, specifically dark yellow-y green, like a slightly less saturated version of Willow in the Wind Essie nail polish
LAST SONG: FIRE4FUN by Jhariah
CURRENTLY READING: It by Stephen King, various fanfics, my own writing, trying to get through So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish but it isn't going well for me ngl
CURRENTLY WATCHING: Andor, although I'll be starting Star Trek: Voyager soon
CURRENTLY CRAVING: Sprite
@aleielle-of-roshar @dredgen-dumbass @cyrilthejellyfish @stormandsparks Hi
FAVORITE COLOUR: mint green (at the moment, but my old room did used to be bright mint green it was great)
LAST SONG: Hex by Dance with the Dead
CURRENTLY READING: Grimm Reality (still) the 50th Eighth Doctor Adventure
CURRENTLY WATCHING: a Ray Narvaez Jr playthrough of 'Placid Plastic Duck Simulator' :)
CURRENTLY CRAVING: hhhhhh dunno actually I've been pretty indulgent today, maybe more ginger beer
tagging uuhhh sorry for the notif in advance, obviously no obligations @ladyalisette @zeldadiarist @mkkk-ong @149panda149 @shalkapilled @princessfaeron
The Longest Distance Between Two Places - NinaMadou - Warhammer 40.000 [Archive of Our Own]
“When I heard you were alive,” Sigismund says quietly, his voice sounding strangely scratched, like a stone blade trying to remember how to be tender, “I felt rage. Then I felt curiosity. And finally, I felt relief.” He answers Sevatar's suspicious, hostile gaze and his unasked question without hesitation. “A remnant. An old one. One I knew before.” He pauses. Again, that strange, alien attempt at softness. “One I had desired once."
Teen And Up Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
M/M
Complete Work
Or, come get your serving of a new experimental Sevatar/Sigismund iteration.
Think I'll be updating this post for the next few days, no reason to clog everyone with separate posts.
Anyways, today it's Goretober, subject is "cannibalism" (mind the tw) and here is some Atramentar action, because I love those guys (all of their 17 sentences in canon).
October 2025 Pieces (Kinktober/Goretober) - Chapter 4 - NinaMadou - Warhammer 40.000 [Archive of Our Own]
