Bluejays are Very Loud

Embarrassment to the 40k fandom since 2024 The beetles of the forest mulch have more dignity and honour than you! This blog is a Choose Not To Warn experience.

[quietbluejay]

Masterpost of Book Readthroughs

30k:

Horus Rising False Gods Galaxy in Flames Flight of the Eisenstein Fulgrim A Thousand Sons Scars Vulkan Lives Betrayer Angels of Caliban Angel Exterminatus Wolfsbane Slaves to Darkness The Buried Dagger

The Solar War

40k:

Dark Imperium Lion Son of the Forest Talon of Horus

Edit: old pinned post here

[quietbluejay]

Happy Finally Violence Vortex Friday

(I just made it up now)

[edgar-allan-possum]

I almost forgot it's Finally Violence Friday.

[gravedirtandbriarthorns]

I saw a post about how weird it was an eldar cried watching some bonesingers work because wraithbone is supposed to ao mundane that literaly next to everything the asuryani have is made of it, and I know i just got here but like...

You think its weird an eldar--a member of a species of sense freaks whose emotional volatility is so extreme most of them choose to voluntarily repress themselves because the last time they let their collective hair down they made a demon goddess who makes the cenobites look vanilla and wants to eat their souls--was moved to tears after shifting her mind partially to the astral sea of raw emotion and magic to watch a group of master craftsmen who have studied and trained to do this for probably literal centuries sing entire additions to a planet-sized spaceship out of thin air and literal crystallized space magic?

It might be off base cause I just got here but I think it's well within the realm of possibility for an eldar to be moved to tears watching a peerless but otherwise mundane craftsman make a sculpture or weave a tapestry. I think in the right circumstances you could get an eldar to cry about rain sluicing off a window or a line of ants.

[pocketaimee]

Sang: Wh...why are you naked

[xteacupx]

Today after about a week of confusion and asking people in real life if they've noticed anything, I discovered that there is, in fact, not a bizarre 2026 trend of "Mr Beast Pregnancy Memes" and it is all in fact just a series of tumblr posts from one Ukranian who I've never met named Petro and my two chaos incarnate tumblr mutuals who are so fascinated by the world he is conjuring that they have both been drip-feeding it onto my otherwise relatively normal tumblr dashboard.

[unclefaust]

it's art

[aphel1on]

never stop being obnoxious about fictional character online. you will find like-minded people and it will literally save you

[normystical]

"this is my comfort character!" and they actively cause discomfort for everyone they interact with

[lime-bucket]

Tbh Trazyn adding Big E to his collection isn't a matter of "if" but a matter of "when"

[pocketaimee]

GW, I need them to reunite already. I imagine they will fight, but I need it in my soul.

[pocketaimee]

I know people have mixed feelings about A Reflection Crack'd by McNeill but I have never laughed so hard in my life.

[quietbluejay]

Okay so I promised @robot-roadtrip-rants my list of potential talk topics on 40k and TF so here they are - very very very vague and kinda incoherent sorry :p

bonus BG3 first: Shadowheart's arc and culture of life vs culture of death Lae'zel's arc and Truth

40k: The Master of Mankind and that which is built on dehumanization is doomed to fail Angel Exterminatus: the false dichotomy of Nietzsche vs fascism, the desire for absolution and Perturabo Needs Jesus For Real Betrayer, negative grace, ("you cannot get out of this pit by yourself"), sin in a world without God COMBO BONUS Sins of the Wreckers and Betrayer: denial of catharsis in a world without grace - compare and contrast (note: I will not be doing this one as I am not going to reread SOTW)

TF IDW: The Tragedy of IDW1 Optimus (not going to be rewritten because I reread some pivotal bits recently and they are. well. incoherent) "You Will Become The Means You Employ" and just a general talk on that theme in IDW2 something about the Windblade comics, truth and responsibility, build the city on a hill Empire of Stone and ending the cycle of violence

[quietbluejay]

semi successfully drew Laura now i wanna draw other characters

humanformers Windblade next?

maybe i could actually draw Renaissance Windblade...

[quietbluejay]

I Am Going To Lose It

(everyone on tumblr is being wrong about the encyclical)

saying the Pope declared holy war on AI is basically

COMPLETELY OPPOSITE THE ENTIRE THEME OF THE ENCYCLICAL AAAAAAAARGH

[quietbluejay]

okay I went onto reddit (big mistake, I know) HOWEVER it did give me the joy of this beautiful sentence

"can those downvoting stop engaging in ultramontanism"

O what a world we live in

[quietbluejay]

okay finished the encyclical

not entirely sure what I think about it. Obviously I do need to spend some time contemplating it.

Definitely ended up feeling more conflicted about it than I thought I would haha. Not that I think it's wrong, but...it's kind of really really broad for an encyclical? and long.