Isn't it lovely to see the city rising up from across the East River (Straight)?
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THE SKY IS FALLING! is a sci-fi/fantasy TTRPG about dealing with the effects of late stage capitalism and magical climate collapse.
I turn my face into the wind and it cuts my cheeks with shards of rain. The new-growth smell of spring has been washed away by the clouds which feed it and there is nothing left to taste but thick humidity. A train clambers its way into the station on sinewy limbs, its jagged teeth gnashing, and long forked tongue flicking spittle at those in a rush who stand too close to the edge of the platform.
The station is built into a shallow ravine, open to the sky and terribly overgrown. Fairy, devil, and animal alike all have to dodge the sheet of rain falling from the awning like a screen, promising sticky discomfort if one isn’t quick enough.
Of the forty odd people boarding at this stop, ten of them get away unscathed, another ten see their shoulders soaked, and the other twenty think they’re safe until they take their bags off their shoulders and see its contents have become mournfully waterlogged.
I go in with the thin, muddy puddles on the floor and make my home under people’s boots. This is the quiet town hall, the city-wide coffee house, the flesh and steel procession between lives. I can’t exactly commune with my constituents as they are accustomed to, so instead I listen in as they speak with their hovering history.
In the distance the earth and the sky shake like glass, brittle and prone to breaking against the dissonance of too many realities stacked on top of each other. Incidents like these are all too common as of late, so nobody raises their heads to investigate the quake, nor flinches away from the teeth rattling sound.
Miles away, a tear widens and swallows the intersection of Gunset and 7th. 23 people vanish, along with the front facing apartments of two walk-ups, 30 square feet of concrete, asphalt, and earth, 4 buggies, 2 trees, a squirrel, countless insects, a stray dog, and the rain caught in the area as it fell. After the sickening second of reprieve, rain falls again on the stricken faces of those left behind and a small pond grows in the crater below.
This is not the first chunk ripped out of this city, but it is the largest yet. The most undeniable. Indisputable evidence that the Resonance is real, and can reach everywhere. Even here. The train scrambles down the track and over the bridge into the center of a city with MAGIC so deep it swallows the smell of the rain. The Riverstrip is a paragon of a place where I both thrive and choke as they live on within me.
It is a colony built on bodies. Life filters through it like a sieve.
I run through its little hills where its rivers used to be, soak into its bricks, bake into its bread, smear claims with paint over every surface. I am the warp and they are the weft, and we weave these streets and avenues together.
im gonna blow my shit clean off fuck you mean define that no i cant i cant define anything right i cant use words right i can only move them in ways that make people understand me, ithink. no please don't ever ask me the definition of anything ever please go look it up please. you probably have a device on you. and if you don't? well im probably gonna fuck everything up because I CAN'T SAY THINGS RIGHT. I CAN'T WORD THE THINGS I REALLY REALLY WANT TO SAY IN A WAY THAT 1) LOOKS RIGHT AND 2) IS UNDERSTANDABLE. YOU can understand me right now, yeah? probably. but just wait until it comes to one of my special interests and wow. there go my words! on the floor and i'm tripping on them. yep. i can't yap about my favourite things because I CAN'T FUCKING SAY IT. I CAN'T TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THAT COOL STUFF I HAVE THE WORDS FOR IT BUT NONE OF THEM WORK AND ALSO I. i don't.
i don't fucking know anymore man i fucking hate explaining shit ESPECIALLY if its about something i like thats like. asking a saltwater fish to go live in freshwater. see there I DID IT AGAIN FUCKASS ANALOGY BARELY WORKS CANT DO FIGURATING LANGUAGE FOR SHITTTTT.
whatever whatever. tl;dr i can't say shit right n its pissing me off and making me genuinely mad. oh also that reminds me i hate summing shit up bc. YOURE MISSING OUT ON THE DETAILS AND I DONT WANT YOU TO MISS THOSE CAUSE THEYRE IMPORTANT I CANT SUMMARISE FOR SHIT IT HURTS ME. TO SEE SO MANY DETAILS LOST. BECAUSE YOU NEED THEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN!!!!!!! NO I CANT TELL YOU A COOL CHEM JOKE YOU WOULDNT GET IT AND EXPLAINING IT WOULD MAKE IT WORSE BECAUSE OF!!!!! REASONS ABOVE LOOK!!! THATS WHY!!!!! UIHEGFUGEOGWU IDK WHY THIS HAPPENS IDK IDK
i am. so close man SO!!! CLOSE!!!! whatever i need to be here i'll just go do shit i guess
I wonder if part of the reason why I would make a rant post and then dropped that rant post (usually criticism) is bc the fandom are so insufferable in expressing their hate and CRITICISMS (yes even criticisms they’re insufferable) and we’re speaking MULTIPLE TIMES THIS KEEPS HAPPENING that even one measly annoyance to a good criticism makes me want to punch a wall so that I don’t want to be as miserable and annoying as them (there are other reasons like my rage got stopped, I don’t feel like posting it, it was technically vent and expressing my sadness is cringe af, looking back at my old criticism is cringe, part of it being that my blog is for artistic stuff and positive vibes toxic positivity? Perhaps but also it’s what this blog is meant to be more about and I still like what I do)
I did thought of a side blog about this but I fear it might make me worse so I decided against it
Returning to Khorne after years away I’ve finished my mandated rereading of Angron: The Red Angel and starting my nth rereading of Betrayer and I think I’ve nailed down (heh) exactly why I like Khorne collectively, daemons, legion, and mortals all rather than just certain parts like how I like the Death Guard but hate Nurgle. I believe Khorne best clearly communicates one of the bigger themes about Chaos, self destruction.
Exhibit A. Angron. A popular statement I tend to see is that Angron and the World Eaters were a second pick to the golden child, Sanguinius. I call bullshit on this idea. EVERYBODY wanted Sanguinius because he was the perfect son of the Emperor and it would be that much more empowering if chaos managed to corrupt him, but people throw out Khorne specifically because it’s a perfect fit for the blood guy to get the vampire. And that’s fair, but Angron is the perfect embodiment of hatred. Hatred for his enemies, hatred for the Emperor, hatred for himself and his sons. Nuceria took what could have been the emotional anchor for the primarchs and the legions, maybe even humanity, and shattered it. All that is left is an elemental hatred for everything, which of course inherited by his sons.
Exhibit B. The 12th legion. Pre and Mid-heresy, I would say the strongest part about the World Eaters is their bonds to each other in brotherhood. They bind themselves to each other during training duels and also use it as a way to build rapport with other legions. All while they having an implant stabbing their brains if they’re not actively killing something; which they willingly had implanted so they could build a rapport with their dad. This did not work. Of course Post-heresy cohesion took a massive hit after being relatively held together until a certain somebody got a hold of a flamer during Skalathrax. Khârn the Betrayer. Nowadays there’s nothing left of bonds and brotherhood. Just blood.
Exhibit C. Khorne himself. I would say there’s certain levels to the amount of duplicity in being in a chaos cult. There’s being a follower of the literal god of lies, and then it’s down from there. Not that there aren’t individuals who follow Khorne that lie, that’s just a natural part of being in a chaos warband, but I do believe Khorne simply doesn’t have the room to lie about what he brings, and takes, from the table. Khorne is so hilariously transparent in what he needs from you, that he just tells you upfront what you have to give. Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the skull throne. All you need to give is control. The World Eaters are goaded from battle to battle, the Red Angel at the tip of the spear, no longer burdened by things like discipline and thought. Bloodshed for the sake of shedding blood. Every single instinct you have will be screaming for murder to a point that it’s physically painful. But ultimately, this is what you wanted. Strength.
TLDR: When it comes to following Khorne, there’s a point where it’s just your own fault, right? Like there’s an amount of manipulation that can go into following chaos, but Khorne is just so obvious that there has to be a point where you look at all that’s happening and go, “I could go back, but this will probably be fine for my well being.”
Anyway I just needed to put thoughts down going into Betrayer again. ARRRGABLRVRB I NEED TO KI-
I'm having REALLY mixed feelings on gen6 right now.
Before I get into rant mode, I just wanna make it clear that this isn't a gen4 purist rant, I love all mlp gens, past and present - even if they aren't perfect. Hot take, but I really enjoyed gen5! However, I'm not too pleased with how they seem to be handling this new one.
Obviously, it's too soon to really know what the show will be like, but from the teasers its clear that this show relies HEAVILY on gen4, which I think will be its downfall.
Before the new teaser content we got yesterday was released, I really had hoped that there would be an updated & new storyline, just with the same characters we know and love.
I know a lot of fans weren't happy to see Hasbro reusing characters but I thought that if the story was fresh, the objective was changed, the characters were given new traits and the series took place in new locations, than that would be perfectly fine.
Well...Unfortunately, this seems not to be the case. For those who have yet to seem it, here is the new promotional material Hasbro released the other day:
So, it seems that Hasbro will be 'continuing', in a way, the continuity from gen4 but just in an alternative new universe like Marvel's "What If?" series.
To be honest, I'm pretty upset about this. I feel that it was already rather lazy to reuse gen4's main case but now they aren't even bothering to create a new general storyline. And she's already a princess?
The fact that she is the Princess of Friendship would surely imply that the elements of harmony will exist in this universe so it's even more crazy for them to remove part of the fundamental cast (Honestly and Generosity).
It's just very disheartening to see them rely so heavily on gen6 instead of creating new characters and new stories for the next generation to love. This reliance on gen4 is what brought about gen5's downfall in the first place as they simply couldn't create a story disconnected from the past gen.
In my opinion, if they hadn't connected gen5 to gen4, bronies would've hated it a lot less - especially since most of the hate came from seeing the way the new series handled the old characters.
Using gen4 as a crutch just kills creativity. Hasbro is starting to act like Disney, where they refuse to create new media and just rely on past hits. And the new media they do make is just unimaginative replicas because they are afraid to differentiate from the formulas of the past. The movie 'Wish', for example, is just a Frankenstein's monster of old tropes and references to past movies put together into a soulless creation that fail to realise why those tropes were once loved.
Anyways, just wanted to get that off my chest. I know this series isn't out yet, so I shouldn't just too harshly, these are just my fears at the moment.
Getting Psychoanalyzed By Teenagers & RAADS-R by SnapCube fan-made Unified English Braille Transcript. Because I can :3
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