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Final build for my warlord, Domina Livia Gamma-Decima of Forge World Konor.

In addition to the stormcast mask, I added some fun gubbins, cables, and such and deliberately altered the profile with the exhaust wings and an extra pauldron over her volkite blaster arm. Shooting for "balanced asymmetry" as a design philosophy.

The pile of skulls and couple helmets around the base continue that philosophy as well as limiting the amount of Martian Ironearth I have to use :V

The rock she's standing on probably qualifies her as "modeling for DISadvantage" by making her a couple millimeters taller and therefore easier to shoot, but I don't care, she's the warlord, she needs to stand out as much as possible. Hence all the rest of the conversions. And she's going to get my best effort at painting, all wet pallete and sable brushes.

Will update when she's painted.

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Final build for my warlord, Domina Livia Gamma-Decima of Forge World Konor.

In addition to the stormcast mask, I added some fun gubbins, cables, and such and deliberately altered the profile with the exhaust wings and an extra pauldron over her volkite blaster arm. Shooting for "balanced asymmetry" as a design philosophy.

The pile of skulls and couple helmets around the base continue that philosophy as well as limiting the amount of Martian Ironearth I have to use :V

The rock she's standing on probably qualifies her as "modeling for DISadvantage" by making her a couple millimeters taller and therefore easier to shoot, but I don't care, she's the warlord, she needs to stand out as much as possible. Hence all the rest of the conversions. And she's going to get my best effort at painting, all wet pallete and sable brushes.

Will update when she's painted.

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Tech-Priest Domina and Warlord of my Admech army, Livia Gamma-Decima, is taking shape

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Yesterday I accomplished the bare minimum of tasks, and today I finally picked up the minus I ordered despite it being a rather cold day and feeling rather crummy. At this rate, I'll be as productive as like 0.3 adult human beings by summer.

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Had a very odd dream, much more involved than most of mine are. There was your pretty typical 'adjacent magical world' situation going on, with mages and their quasi-magical underlings/servants/hangers-on living in these whole spaces tucked away in hiding, think the goblin market and Bethmoora from Hellboy 2 merged with Diagon Alley from the since-disgraced shitbag author's boy wizard series and London Below from the other since-disgraced shitbag author's Neverwhere. It was all very grim gaslamp fantasyesque, right down to the fashion sense.

My own perspective was a kinda socially outcast oddball but tolerated wizard type, think Gandalf in the Shire specifically, but dressed more like a middle-class mid-Victorian who's fallen on rough times and his garb has become somewhat threadbare. I had apparently made it my mission to find other outcasts in bad or servile situations and escort them to marginally better circumstances in the mundane world, but egress was controlled by three heavy locked doors and fumbling with the two, then four, then eight keys needed to open them all in turn allowed for plenty of opportunity for people to come along and question the validity of what I was doing or try to re-capture my wards. Since I existed in this kinda nebulous place where I was tolerated as something of an escape valve but some of the worst exploitative types resented me, sometimes they'd realize I'd liberated one of 'their' people or if they already knew about it they'd have a change of heart and come for us before we could fully escape.

There was a particular confrontation at the doors wherein somebody cast a horrible vortex spell, which i was able to counter while holding onto my charge and preventing them from being drawn in. Very old-school 40k vortex grenade but a spell. Somebody else hit us with a watery variant on said spell and we were sucked into some weird watery realm, dragged down by these giant hands (also made of water) to a weird area that was basically a series of sandbars full of 'castaways' and the bones of those who'd died there without escaping, surrounded by a sphere of air holding back all the water. I remember being more annoyed by this than anything, and needed a few minutes to bust out but did eventually bust out and bring all the 'castaways' with me.

Anyhow it was so vivid and so odd and so structured for one of my dreams that I figured I'd better write it down somewhere before it entirely slipped my mind. Might do something with it, but probably not. But writing it down also helps me cement it in my own head, so here we go.

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I watched "Prey" (2022) and "Nope" (also 2022) tonight, and both were pretty damn good.

Watched Nope first, and went in expecting to like it pretty well- I enjoyed Get Out and Us, so I expect good things from Jordan Peele. He didn't disappoint- while not as good as Get Out (his best so far imo), it outdid Us, which was a smidge too muddled. Nope, on the other hand, had a pretty strong premise and themes and stuck to them exceptionally well, with basically everything serving the narrative whole to make a damn near flawless film. It has things to say about observation and its absence, what is and isn't recorded for posterity by the literal and metaphorical historical camera. Wll almost certainly go back and watch it again at some point with more of a mind to Analysis and will have more cogent things to say then. Standout performance from Daniel Kaluuya, with honorable mentions to Keke Palmer and Michael Wincott as the protagonist's sister and an eccentric cinematographer, respectively. The monster was very eerie, the atmosphere was tense, and the high desert California setting was both suitably isolated and deeply melancholy, probably moreso for me specifically who grew up like, 50 miles southeast of Vasquez rocks.

Then I saw Prey, and I was pleasantly surprised. Like, I really don't expect much from Predator movies besides 'cool but horrible alien big game hunter kills lots of people', but this one gave me far more than I could've hoped for in terms of characters, acting, etc. Bonus points for all the colonizers AND the great white alien hunter getting theirs in a very satisfying manner. Standout performance from Amber Midthunder, who I had seen before in Legion a few years back and noted she was one of the better actors in that, too. Fingers crossed she gets more good work, because as a native woman in Hollywood there's like, basically zero chance she'll get the huge career and wads of cash she deserves. I don't think it's as worthy of deep analysis as Nope, but it's beautifully shot, the dog lives, the protagonist gets the recognition she deserves, and the death count is like, maybe four Comanche (her friends and brother, motivates her to kill the damn predator) versus like two dozen French Canadians, who are killed off entirely to showcase how lethal the predator is and also because fuck those guys they did a buffalo cull and they deserved it. In other words, maybe an odd thing to say about a period horror sci-fi movie, but, you know, feel-good film of the year.

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Kataphron breachers. I ended up liking these guys a lot more than I expected, having painted them. I still think they'd look even better with a more dreadnought inspired housing for the servitors, but they have a certain hideous cyber-zombie body horror charm.

Might add a couple of transfers later but I might not- they hardly seem to need them.

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Made burritos tonight. Then ate too many of them. Made myself sick. Not for the first time. Not even for the dozenth time. And while it's not a flattering assessment of my intellect, it's not the last time, either. Barring errant trucks and such at any rate.

Burritos are delicious. I am full of burritos. But if I eat too many, they undergo a hideous transubstantiation. Until I am full, instead, of regret. So, so much regret.

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[sniles sneetly]

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Chaos Marine Infractors

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Flawless Blades

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Lord Kakophonist

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Lord Exultant

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Noise Marines

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Dear brain,

The body you inhabit is white-passing and more or less matches your gender identity of "idk, dude." Your sexual orientation is mostly straight. You don't even have any weird kinks. There is no societal expectation, much less legitimate reason, to consider yourself and your desires as monstrous. Please focus your efforts elsewhere.

Wearily yours,

-Jake

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Half dozen things I should be doing but I'm tired and sad and sore and it's cold and icy out. So I'll try to go tomorrow; today's a wash.