#4 Horror War

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[guestiguess]

[darlin-djarin]

i consider myself a man of religion (<- praying to god that the mandalorian season 4 gets cancelled)

[hawkofkrypton]

God Of WarRagnarok is…

Ultimately NOT the horror-esque apocalyptic story I was expecting.

And that’s actually pretty great.

Look… when I first saw THIS image back in 4, I was imagining all kinds of horror/lovecraftian stuff, like Jormungandr somehow materiliazing out of Atreus’s mouth while carrying his father’s corpse, the skies taking the color red, all kinds of giant beasts ravaging the land as satanic choirs blasted on the soundtrack. N stuff.

But what I got instead was a story about… many things. Choices, grief, trust, love, fate, family, trauma, consequences, redemption.

I got choked up multiple freaking times not because the world was ending, but because of the character’s reactions at the ends of theirs, for the better or worst. It’s just… man, outstanding fucking game.

“Atreus remains.”

[iwasateenagenosferatu]

Revenge of the Fifth

Grand Moff Tarkin and Lord Vader. "More Cushing for the pushing amiright guys?" - George Lucas.

For real tho I loveeee Peter Cushing 🥰

[mackerel6]

Random gory art.

I really miss classic fallout’s fleshy, gooey graphics

↓bloody stuff

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

“... I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t anymore.”

[eframschweigersskincells]

EVENING FOLKS!!! ITS ME AGAIN!!!

Rebellion have oh graciously announced a new VR game... AND ITS A ZOMBIE ARMY VR GAME!!!

That's right! You YES YOU, Get to slap a headset on your skull and split skulls right in front of your face!!

With a full range of weapons, gear and enemies to kill you get to take up arms once more and take on Hitler's army of the dead.

Are you ready?! Because I sure as shit am!!!!

No known release date yet but make sure to follow rebellions social medias as well as the Zombie Army accounts and me if you so choose!!

Go forth and make sure the dead stay dead!!!!

[nightpool]

thinking a lot about Perhaps The Stars and its depiction of war today. i feel like she really nailed that one. still not sure how i feel about the ending / overall arc of the back half of the book but the horrors of war really were truly there

[applecherry108]

Guess I’m starting a tag bc I cannot be stopped.

The AGONY of the faint leitmotif of “leaves on the vine” while iroh talks about how he owes Zuko 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[smilesrobotlover]

Rewatching Clone Wars and Rebels and I just gotta say it. Star Wars peaked with those shows. I love them so much

[aftergloom]

I would very much like to hear about ur dark side cult and am willing to trade the information given with random songs but they're in binary

I spent years in the rave scene listening to beepy clicky music that you can't really dance to so I'd probably be into that, ngl.

So the thing about the Bando Gora is that you can't talk about it without discussing a couple of characters, so I'll try to keep this fairly high-level, but some spoilers may follow for a couple of the Legends books. (And since we're getting a new new canon Dark Side cult with Darth Maul: Red, White, and Black in May, maybe we'll see some similarities. Canon likes to nod back to Legends once in a while, and I'm all for it.)

The Bando Gora appears in only a handful of places, namely Darth Maul: Lockdown, Darth Plagueis, a couple of comics, an RPG, and a videogame called Star Wars Bounty Hunter featuring Jango Fett.

It served as a terrorist organization and dark side cult that operated primarily in the outer rim, gaining power over a couple of decades before culminating in the death of its last High Priestess, a former Jedi and the lost padawan of Count Dooku, Komari Vosa -- one part femme fatale, one part pain in Sidious' ass, and the very same Komari Vosa that shows up in Darth Maul: Lockdown on Cog Hive Seven.

She was captured and indoctrinated into the Bando Gora following the battle at Galidraan along with twenty of her cohorts (whom she later killed while in captivity), and rose through the ranks rapidly to helm it as its leader.

She died in 32 BBY when a bounty was set on her head because the cult had amassed entirely too much power and Sidious was getting a little shifty about it. Jango Fett won the bounty along with the prestige of becoming the pattern for the Clone army, but it was Vosa's former Jedi Master (now Darth Tyranus) that snapped her neck, ending her life, and decapitating the cult. Vosa was completely relegated to Legends as of The Secrets of the Sith, but as the story goes, once Dooku snuffed her out, he took her curved lightsaber hilts and gave them to his sparkly new apprentice, Asajj Ventress.

As indoctrination goes, cult members were subjected to neurotoxin poisoning and tortured to open their minds to the Dark Side of the Force, the physical results of those rituals manifesting in glowing blue eyes, and blackened and mottled skin. "The Force shall free me" was taken to the letter, because Bando Gora Thrall emerged from the indoctrination process free of pain, free of fear, and relentless -- and without a will of their own. Thrall often wore Nemoidean skin masks --- possibly another aspect of the depersonalization process -- and Captains looked like this snazzy dude:

The cult had ties to the Hutts and Sebolto's drug cartel on Malastare, a notable tidbit because one of its last remaining ties to canon exists in one little scene where Obi-Wan Kenobi is offered Death Sticks -- the primary means of luring in new recruits to the cult by altering their minds, and reducing their resistance to indoctrination by creating a narcotic dependency with the "Death Sticks." As if calling them "Death Sticks" to begin with wasn't wildly enticing. /s

"You wanna buy some death sticks?""You don't want to sell me death sticks.""I don't wanna sell you death sticks.""You want to go home and rethink your life.""I wanna go home and rethink my life."

―Elan Sel'Sabagano and Obi-Wan Kenobi

Other points of interest (if you're considering a vacation) involve the spot where the Bando Gora set up shop -- a lovely little place in the inner rim in Bogden's orbit: Kohlma.

Named after Colma (in California), the burial moon was covered pole to pole in tombstones and suffered Bogden's frequent gravitational shifts. A lot of the early concept art lends itself to horror (hi I love it!), which is probably why, at the first mention of a "burial moon" in Darth Maul: Lockdown, I went absolutely feral and started collecting every tidbit I could get my hands on.

The Bando Gora had a citadel out there, which ultimately became Vosa's tomb, and the memorial moon was a fitting choice because the first members of the cult were said to be graverobbers, thieves, and assassins. 💀💀💀

Thank you for the ask. Revisiting this stuff right before Camp NaNoWriMo is always a good refresher for me, since I'll be journeying right back here on April 1st. 😊

[guillotineman]

[your-turn-to-role]

since i'm back in a vox machina headspace, at least for now, i'm looking back at all my old unpublished fic and, a) i may actually post some of these one shots i wasn't brave enough to originally

but more importantly b) for nano 2019 i wrote like 20-30k of a vm ava's demon au, didn't finish it, don't know if i will, but would people be interested in that if i polished it up a bit?

[howlingmadmoonwolf]

Leprechaun 4: In Space

"One small step for man. One giant leap of terror!"

[nerdie-faerie]

Got unreasonably hurt when a coworker said 'yeah you look like someone who watches sci-fi' before walking away like you right but what the fuck