#I need Vulkan to give me a hug and tell me everything will be okay

[tagedeszorns]

A fortnight ago I lost my geek buddy.

We were on the same wavelength about many things. Could talk forever about history, alternate history, Star Wars, TTRPG or comics. We read the same books (even if we didn't like them equally - which made for even more great conversation), watched the same movies and were equally infatuated with Clone Wars. We could walk for hours through the woods and fields and talk without getting bored.

It was the best "finishing each other's sandwiches" situation.

Also and especially with Warhammer.

They got me into the hobby, showed me how to paint my wolves wonderfully fox-red fur, and even if we didn't always have the same taste when it came to Legions and Primarchs (the Space Wolves/Thousand Sons faultline went right through us), we could easily agree that the Alpha Legion was super cool and Dark Angels were annoying. And we could spend days designing alternative universes.

And now I have no one to text in the middle of the night that I'm just terribly happy about how lovingly ADB describes Lorgar in "Betrayer". That I read that great Lucius short story and laughed so hard. That I have a different opinion about Salamanders.

I miss that. Very much.

I'm still drawing. I still read. I still watch YouTube lore videos.

But ....