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I fucking love Kill Six Billion Demons. Fucking adore it.

So, short version, the multiverse is controlled by seven ultrapowerful mortals turned gods, the Demiurges. The REAL gods are all dead, and were found dead by the only warrior mightier than the Seven, King Zoss. Who all this time has bene seeking a successor, despite being dead.

He picks a sorority sister from California. Allison Ruth.

Cue comedy, horror, and awesome. Often at the same time.

Pros:

--MASSIVE female-centric cast with tons of women's rights, women's wrongs, and everything in between. Main characters lean towards the ladies. Demiurges are 3/7 ladies (insomuch as Gog-Agog has gender, she's at least been a girl for the story's time) and all fascinating character-wise. The word "King" is used in a gender neutral way. Angels are called out for insisting to have no gender but defaulting to masculine pronouns for their entire race, even ones it makes uncomfortable. And so on.

--Sexism being a major plot point without overpowering the story--essentially, Allison is the First Woman that Zoss has tried to have as successor, the prophecy was translated in such a way people ASSUME the successor must be male, and it's well into the fourth book to take even all the leads to accept no, Zoss really picked her.

--Great art evolution by the end of the first "book." It's never BAD, but it gets more and more awe-inspiring. By the sixth and current, the artist admits they're a bit addicted to Complex Character Design

--Really good ruminations on fate, omnipotence, will, strength, enlightenment, and more Big Concepts. And a Diogenes Expy named Meti who was the greatest sword fighter in the multiverse...and hates swords. And fighting. And everything else.

--Mottom is literally all three Hecate Sisters in one person and her backstory is so messed up and explains her perfectly I love it

--The god who created humanity, considered to the the Top Disciple of the Big Creator of All...is a stupid, childish brat known as the Master of Want (aka aspiration, greed, and self sufficiency). She is the greatest disciple BECAUSE she is never content and always pushing for something greater than what she currently is. She is therefore also the God of Self Improvement. Her name is Aesma and I love her.

--Maya. Dear EVERYTHING Maya once we learn her whole deal.

Cons

--Early art maybe not for everyone. Still VERY good, just maybe not for everyone.

--I know everyone and their grandma is going to woobify Incubus somehow. He's that type

--If gore is not your thing...you're not going to like later chapters, and even early ones have a good amount

--Forums fought for over a year thanks to the words of an omnipotent character on the nature of the universe. Ah. Careful.

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Me when I first started reading ksbd: Omg the art is so good and these characters designs rule and the environment is so cool!

Me after reading ksbd: To live is to look at the invincible, uncaring blackness that is the universe, and push headlong into your own annihilation despite it. To look at a 100% chance of your life meaning nothing, and your death leaving the world untouched, and living anyway.

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average us republican bill: The 'Powerful Angel Blessed Love Peace And Smiling Babies Bill' provides 1 trillion dollars in funding for death camps and makes it a felony offense to cast satanic curses on soccer moms. voted in by every republican and john fetterman

average us democratic bill: The 'Affordable Sensible Moderation And Financing Bill' gives multinational corporations a 3% tax cut for buying carbon credits from tesla and allows the Senate Budget Analysis Comittee to convene biyearly on whether shutting orphan crushing plants could reduce the deficit. fails in the senate because joe manchin refuses to vote for it

average us bipartisan bill: The 'Security of Our Defensive Homeland Safety and Securtiy Act' gives the president a big red button that kills a hundred brown people at random every time it's pressed. if you complain about the button the FBI come to your house. passes the senate 99-0

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you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you, or something like that

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Need me a RWBY/Arcane crossover fic where post-v8 Robyn and co. get dropped into Zaun during the first act of Arcane s1 and become the weird aunts to Vander’s kids. Dunno why, I just think it’d be funny.

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If I had a dollar when a queer mecha gauntlet brawler

with a dead mom and a dad who kinda sorta teeny tiny bit forced her into the protector role, but she still absolutely adores her younger sister

(said sister tried unaliving herself at some point)

falls in love with a dark-haired beauty

(the beauty is like a princess among her people)

but then the beauty leaves

and the brawler goes through a depression arc

but after that she reunites with her sister and found family

and then they find each other

and never let go again

...I'd have 2 dollars. Which isn't a lot. I need more.

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SHE’S ALIVE!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL! THE AIRSHIP AT THE END!!! THE GLITCHY END CREDITS!! THE AIR VENTS!!! THE GLITCH! CAITLYN’S SMIRK AT THE END!!!

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when i was a kid, every collection of books—large or small, public or private—had at least one small grubby volume called “fifty japanese fairy tales” “african folk tales” “who’s a-knockin at my door and other scary stories” “haunting mysteries of the sea” “golden threads: slavic fairy stories” “the unabridged grimm’s fairy tales,” and that book would contain at least one short story bizarre and haunting enough to permanently rewire your brain. and babey i was a fucking bloodhound hunting them down

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Lil heretic :)

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I love how excited she was for Blake to see Yang. Like mood fr 😆

She even noticed Blake was the one to run by Yang in the woods!

If you haven’t yet please go watch her full reaction! Would love to see her continue watching the show

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Mayors should be required by law to wear a top hat and a sash that says “mayor” at all times

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Something that I think Warhammer 40,000 storytellers miss sometimes is the sheer scale of their setting. I mean, don't get me wrong - I love the big, dramatic clashes, the characters you can buy in mini form and their convoluted, interwoven lore, the dramatic combats against unstoppable foes across a thousand ruined worlds. But that's the top of the setting, as it were - the most powerful beings in the universe, all fighting for supremacy. And at ground level, the level of the ordinary person, are so many other stories.

Did you know that a Lunar-class void cruiser has a crew of 95,000? Nearly a hundred thousand people, aboard a spaceship five kilometers long. A city, flying through outer space to wage war. Many of those people are proper trained soldiers, fresh from some academy or veterans of long, grueling campaigns, and many more are pressed into service, begrudgingly laying their lives at their Emperor's feet. But, unless the ship is currently actively involved in a really bloody campaign, most of those people were born aboard that ship. Most of their parents were born aboard it. And their grandparents. And their great-grandparents. Lineages stretching back centuries, so far that the original soldier who came aboard has been forgotten. A lot of those people probably know, on some level, that they're aboard a ship flying through space - but a lot of them probably don't, and I guarantee you almost none of them understand what that means. This ship is their world. To look out the window means madness so often that they avoid it - not that windows are readily available anyway. Most of them probably barely even understand that they're fighting. All they know is that when the readouts on their analog instruments display like so, when they hurry to obey the blared orders through the klaxon, the Emperor is pleased with them. They were born into that world. When they were children they did smaller tasks the adults couldn't. Their entire existence was winding metal corridors, laid out according to some archaic design, any logic that might dictate their layout long since degraded after millennia of ignorant maintenance, lit only by emergency lights that have long since become the default. They learned how to read an angle readout or how to relay an order perfectly the way another child might learn history or math. When they grew up, their service was flawless, born of pride and ignorance, and when they grew old and died, their legacy was remembered until it was forgotten. Many were killed in battle, but who cares? They gave their lives to the Emperor - a name whose meaning they don't understand, but whose importance they believe in wholeheartedly, all but synonymous with the commanding officers up above.

Sometimes, the klaxons sound a specific command, and every person on board who understands what it means feels a deep, awful dread as they run to their battle stations. They don't know what a warp jump is. They don't understand they're going from one place to another by the fastest way available. All they know is that, for a time, the ship dips into hell. The corridors go wrong. Things and people might not be where or what they were before. Daemons stalk the halls, and must be killed by any who can hold a lasgun. The overcrowded berths, the little nooks that families find for themselves - they are not private anymore. They are not safe. Things drift through the shift that do not care about the laws of physics, but that delight in killing and torturing human beings. Vast energies shake the ship and tear parts of it away - their home, their world, their existence, the biggest thing they can imagine, assaulted by something bigger. Is it the Emperor's punishment for failure? Is this what battle is? What's going on? They don't know, and no one who does can be bothered to tell them. The dread of those who have seen this before is even worse, because they don't know how long it will be. It might be just a few hours. It might be days, or weeks, or months, or years, or decades. It might be centuries, as the captain of the ship goes hunting daemons deep in the warp - the officers live that long, after all, and have little care for those who don't. There will be people born in hell, who spend their entire lives fighting from the day they can stand, and who die in hell, as old age and need catch up to them and they curl up in a corner to perish. To them, it isn't even hell. It's just the world. The world is death and pain and cruelty, an infinite metal box through which monsters stalk, and sometimes you must run to a battle station and do as you're ordered to do. And sometimes, as they reach forty or fifty or even a ripe old sixty, the ship drops out of the Warp, and, for the final years of their life, they are granted a life of relatively safe service better than anything they ever hoped to dream of.

Those are the kinds of stories I want to see more of. Super-soldiers fighting each other is cool, yes, but I want to see this universe explored. I want stories from the perspective of those that keep the Imperium going, or the aeldar, or the tyranids, or anyone, really. There's just so much potential in this setting. It deserves it.

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original image by Kinofabino on twitter, who's great

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Warhammer players scrolling eBay:

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When your Gue’vesa ally starts praying to the T’au’va:

When the T’au’va manifests as a minor warp deity:

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Faith

by Mick19988

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Trench Crusade warband concept art

Sapeur

Chasseur

Voltigeur

Garde Palatin

Pieton