#Kyme

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[2ndaryprotocol]

Spike Lee’s sharp and scathing ‘School Daze’ stormed theaters this week 35 years ago. 🎓🏫🎭

“𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚜.”

[ninamodaffari]

Older commission done for @calyxofawildflower a while ago of their lovely character for their Dishonored RPG, Romana Kyme, a former member of the Oracular Order.

[two-reflections]

Me to Nick Kyme

[ladymirdan]

I'm listening to audiobooks while I paint and spoiler for Knights of Macragge:

Im at the scene where Prabian dies, last time it fucked me up for like 3 weeks. Not sure of this is a good idea a second time...

[boardgametoday]

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Black Library and Warhammer Heroes Series 4

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Black Library and Warhammer Heroes Series 4 #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #killteam

It’s an intriguing light week for next week’s Games Workshop pre-orders with multiple releases from Black Library being the highlight. Creed: Ashes of Cadia picks up decades since the Fall of Cadia. Ursula Creed heads to the shattered remains of the Cadian homeworld, a broken hellscape of deadly secrets. The book by Jude Reid will be available as a regular hardback, eBook, and audiobook formats…

[voicelesshatred]

.:OOC「 So I kinda ducked into a neat little RP via Second Life and... may have solidified a Nice Guy™ persona for Caim by accident.

[boricuacherry-blog]

Born in Harlem in 1946, Barry Hankerson - Aaliyah's uncle - grew up Catholic and served as an altar boy. He majored in sociology at Central State University in Ohio and played safety on the football team; he later tried but failed to go pro. Tall, thin, and wiry, Hankerson had an intense demeanor and an afro worthy of Shaft that made him seem bigger and more formidable than his actual size. In college, he joined the seventies campus radicals, and after graduating, he went to work as a community organizer. Eventually, he became an assistant to Coleman Young, the first black mayor of Detroit, and there he met and began dating a Motown legend - Gladys Knight.

They married in 1974, then starred in the 1976 movie Pipe Dreams. Hankerson and Knight portrayed a couple struggling to save their marriage in an Alaskan town during construction of the pipeline. The movie, which Hankerson co-produced, flopped, leaving the couple $140,000 in debt, and their marriage ended acrimoniously in 1979, according to Jet magazine.

The magazine ran another cover story that March, headlined, 'Court Records Tell What Really Broke Up the Marriage of Gladys Knight,' and it painted a more troubling portrait of Hankerson.

'The battle behind closed doors now has erupted into Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, where records show that bitter struggles over Ms. Knight's business relationship with her background singers and relatives - the Pips - started dissolving their marriage.' Jet reported in a five-page article, 'In his deposition, Hankerson denies beating Ms. Knight, trying to strangle her, shoving her into a closet, and threatening to kill her...He also says he did not try to commit suicide by drinking a household disinfectant.'

A woman would go on to win a $5.8 million judgment against Hankerson, claiming he falsely accused her of having AIDS and blew up her car. Kyme Dang claims that she warned Hankerson that if the settlement wasn't paid, she would execute the $5.8 million judgment she won after accusing him of harassing and stalking her after she dumped him in 2006.

According to Dang's 2007 lawsuit, Hankerson went so far as to buy and rename the salon she worked for as a hairstylist, take to the internet to accuse her of AIDS and blow up her car in front of the Oceanside home she shared with her family. She claimed in her lawsuit that Hankerson's private investigator was outside watching when the car exploded and 'had the incident reported to the local police in such a manner as to deflect attention away from Hankerson as having involvement in the incident.' She had also received threatening calls.

[ahzek]

What the hell is going on with The Iron Kingdom by Nick Kyme?

I know that 40k novels often struggle with consistency, but the sheer illogical happenings in this book are driving me crazy, so I decided to write some of this down before my head explodes.

Spoilers below this point. Also a lot of ranting.

1) How in hell did the most undiplomatic idiot get command of the battle group sent on a diplomatic mission??

- they want resupply from this world

- they want to establish a supply hub

- and all they bring in return is the dead heir to the local monarchy

- to a Knight world, which are notorious for their focus on their own sovereignty.

How the fuck do you get the idea "You know what? This is gonna go swimmingly, I'll just send some ships ahead so they can start collecting resources a few days early."

Getting there took 5 *years*, why would you care about a few days and antagonise the local governess before even establishing communications?

2) Who made this unstable, impulsive despot queen of this world??

Imperial tithe collectors trample a few fields and antagonise the locals? - doesn't do anything.

Fleet master establishes communication? - Just exchange half a dozen sentences, just hinting at all the problems, but not really talking anything through.

Find that your dead daughters skin has just *slightly stretched* after being dead for over 5 years despite statis field? - Immediately lose it and give orders to assassinate an ambassadorial delegation of several dozen imperials (itself pretty much a declaration of war) including a General, a Silent Sister and a damn Custodes??? A literal companion of the emperor, mythical being and all that?

(And her brother, who fought along these people for years, is just ok with this besides some slight protests?)

3) Speaking of the Custodes, why does such an interesting character established in a previous book (part of the diplomatic corps of Custodes, but not really that good at it, but working on it) who fits this situation perfectly, get nothing more that one scene where he is reading a bit and another where he just dies instantly to some Knights?

Where is the awe-inspriring influence of these legendary warriors on normal humans?

Where is his diplomatic skill and authority, why does he just let the undiplomaitic idiots fuck everything up?

What did Andy do to Nick, that he just slaughters his characters such as Vychellan just like that?

4) What kind of idiot selected this Kingsward, protector of the queen?

He finally finds the renegade he has been hunting for *years* by walking into a trap and turning it around, defeats him and then just... leaves? Because he got word of the war the Queen started?

He's right there, just finish this guy, you need at least an hour to get back to the Palace anyway, what does it matter? But no, gotta let him live, to he can get back later and cause problems, I guess. At least give him a miraculous escape, not "enemy turned around at the last moment, because he's an idiot."

5) Then we have some usual inconsistencies turned up the maximum with the primarchs equerry Messinius not just being completely aware of the situation just days into the conflict, but *actually there*?? During a time of exceptionally difficult warp travel??? How the hell do you justify that? Did he secretly sell his soul to the dark gods, or something?

There's more with the Iron Veil being unrealistic and the strength of the Kamidarian atomic weapons not making sense, but maybe that's just the physicist in me being pedantic (and fairly common in 40k, so whatever).

But sentences like "The Imperiums ressources are not inexhaustible" just hurt when reading because, yes, for a single world like yours they pretty much are and you should know that...

That's it, ranting over (for now).

Haven't finished the boom yet and seriously thinking about not finishing it at all, which would be a first for me.

Really enjoyed the Dawn of Fore series so far (although Wolftime was a bit weary), but this book has me pulling out hair..

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

WOTN: Sepulturum by Nick Kyme (Black Library)

A Dark and Twisted Tale in Sepulturum Sepulturum is one of the more recent additions to Warhammer Horror, part of the Black Library collection. It’s a chilling tale involving monsters, men, and other elements that make this game and universe so enticing. Morgravia Sanctus has headed to Blackgheist hoping to piece together her missing memories. Ideally, before whoever is hunting her finally…

[dzelonis]

Shadows of Treachery - Horus Heresy #22

Links uz grāmatas Goodreads lapu Manas pārdomas Ierindota The Horus Heresy sērijā ar kārtas numuru #22, Shadows of Treachery interesantā veidā iekļauj sevī stāstus, kuri norisinās vēl pavisam īsi pēc fakta, kad Horus atklāj visiem, kam rūp, savu nodevību. Kā arī krājumu noslēdzošā novele krietni labāk tematiski iederētos iepriekšējā krājumā šajā sērijā Primarchs, ka gandrīz ir vēlēšanās aplūkot…

[two-reflections]

I keep trying to think up excuses to make Tu'shan and Dante kiss. Then I remember The Burden of Angels is canon.

[ladymirdan]

It’s here! The Cato Sicarius Omnibus!

Now is the peak time to learn more about the glorious Ultramarine Captain, his omnibus gets released today! Overall good choices of stories, it follows the progression of his charachter very well.. In my opinion, the only thing that is missing is (ironically) the story “Knight of Talassar″, but I guess they wanted to make this a Nick Kyme exclusive so that makes sense. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-SE/knight-of-talassar-cato-sicarius-omnibus-pb-eng-2023 or as e-book if that is what you prefer:

https://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/ebook-knight-of-talassar-the-cato-sicarius-omnibus-eng-2023.html

[boardgametoday]

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Arks of Omen: Vashtorr arrives with Wrath of the Soul Forge King and more!

Games Workshop Pre-Order Preview: Arks of Omen: Vashtorr arrives with Wrath of the Soul Forge King and more! #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #warhammercommunity #horusheresy #lotr #middleearth

[yorksnapshots]

In the Churchyard of St. Andrews, Newton Kyme, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

[tagedeszorns]

Lord of Excess was a big letdown for me. But it made me realize one very surprising thing: McNeill isn't such a bad EC-author! There are far worse ones out there!

At least Graham had two shining moments of brilliance in Crimson King (immediately dropped the ball afterwards, but, hey, babysteps!).

So, let me forget about McCormick. He gave me hope with a really good short story and a good first half of a novel. But now, with this second half of the novel riddled with logical inconsistencies, holes in the story big enough to drive a landraider through without scratching the paint and the endless same-same of "betrayal-idiocy-depravity", I need him to walk away from anything EC as briskly as possible. Let my poor guys bask in the fading glory of Reynolds and the few things Kyme, Wraight and St.Martin wrote. Maybe someday some author will come along to carry Josh's torch further! But not today.

At the moment it's fanfiction and fanart for me.

(Pic of Lucius just because I want to. And because McCormick didn't let me keep any good chars. He destroyed them all. To shreds, you say?)