#Nautical 40k

[jet-teeth]

Somewhat-stylized Jormungandr, plus bonus doodles & linework

[northwoodscarving]

"Fires Of The Bloody Reaver" is an original commissioned 24x36... 2ft by 3ft painting of Count Noctilus' ship from Warhammer: Dreadfleet, sailing the elven shore and burning every village along the way. This one took 2 months and over 60 hours of work. This isn't available, but commissions are open! Dm me to get started!

[jaimehwatson]

for the fic writer ask: 5 and 16!

5. What are your fanfic pet peeves? Do they have a huge effect on whether or not you decide to read something?

If it's formatted in a way that makes it difficult to read, or if it has a ton of typos (past the occasional few that can happen to anyone), I don't have much patience for it. I'll also probably drop anything in which the characters are acting like they've never heard of the concept of sex before.

16. Do you research for your fics? If so, how deep of a rabbit hole have you gone down by accident when researching?

I got into writing fic for Warhammer 40K when I had only read a few books out of an absolutely massive franchise, so I learned a lot of the lore through looking it up online. And this wasn't specifically for a fic, but a post about Ed's tattoos in OFMD the other day sent me down a rabbit hole about the history of tattoos and their symbolism in various subcultures and now @the-girl-with-the-algebra-book and I want to get nautical stars on our shoulders

Send me more fanfic asks!

[chilligyu]

hello friends! I know this is very atypical of me, even the notion of a dedicated schedule for writing terrifies me, but I recently uncovered a whole folder of drabbles that I had been working on for another group. and, good news, they were all basically finished! in light of that, I figured this schedule might actually be helpful. below is a detailed schedule including writing and moodboards, and might even be expanded upon as I continue to pilfer through some old wips!

I'll even add palettes and gifs if any music videos catch my eye!

everything should be posted at 11am EST everything after 9/10 will be posted at 9pm EST

word count and order is subject to change if there is no word count listed, it is a drabble and less than 1k

8/20: breathe - seungkwan [fluff]

8/22: underlying messages - jeonghan [fluff]

8/23: wandering eyes - vernon [fluff]

8/25: fireflies - wonwoo [angst]

8/27: commitment - joshua [fluff]

8/28: confessions - soonyoung [fluff]

8/30: sacrifice - joshua [angst]

9/2: lessons worth remembering - wonwoo [angst, 1k]

9/9: skin deep - junhui [angst, romance, 2k]

9/11: to the person I've never loved before - jihoon [fluff, romance, 5k]

9/12: with you, forever - soonyoung [fluff]

9/14: it's okay, I'm okay - minghao ft. junhui [angst]

9/16: the little things - mingyu [fluff]

9/18: never let me go - seokmin [angst]

9/19: the promises you made - joshua [drama, romance, angst, 5k]

9/19: when the neighbor's a real one - junhui [fluff]

9/21: sweetest desires - mingyu [fluff]

9/22: bittersweet - vernon [fluff, 1k]

9/23: unsent - wonwoo [angst]

9/24: competing with perfection - seungkwan [angst]

9/27: it’s only rain - jihoon [angst]

10/9: better left forgotten - jeonghan [angst]

10/11: where my heart resides - seokmin [fluff]

10/13: broken - mingyu [angst]

10/17: we interrupt this program... - chan [fluff]

TBD: coffee readings - chan [fluff, romance, 10k]

TBD: cursebound - jihoon [romance, ~8k]

TBD: turning pages - minghao [romance, drama, ~8k]

TBD: the last train home - seokmin [romance, drama, angst, ~2k]

TBD: an effort in futility - wonwoo [romance, fluff, drama, ~30k]

TBD: the love we endure - mingyu [romance, angst, ~40k]

TBD: in dreams they were nightmares [supernatural, thriller, mystery, romance, drama, angst, 100k+]

order is subject to change italic: story teaser/preview bold: moodboard series

8/21: classic aesthetics [cyberpunk]

8/24: classic aesthetics [film noir]

8/26: classic aesthetics [light academia]

8/29: classic aesthetics [royalcore]

8/31: classic aesthetics [cottagecore]

9/1: lessons worth remembering preview - wonwoo

9/3: classic aesthetics [romantic]

9/4: skin deep preview - junhui

9/5: classic aesthetics [dark academia]

9/7: classic aesthetics [punk]

9/9: to the person I've never loved before preview - jihoon

9/10: classic aesthetics [mafia]

9/13: classic aesthetics [nautical]

9/15: classic aesthetics [fantasy/elvencore]

9/17: classic aesthetics [dragoncore]

9/20: bittersweet preview - vernon

TBD: 1st coffee readings preview - chan

TBD: 2nd coffee readings preview - chan

TBD: monster moodboard series

TBD: 1st cursebound preview - jihoon

TBD: 2nd cursebound preview - jihoon

TBD: 3rd cursebound preview - jihoon

TBD: dream walker series

more to be announced...

any questions or want to be tagged in anything? reply to this post or dm me!

[asklordcaptaincastronova]

(At this point we actually get to the naval treaties and nope still not relevent to 40k but whatever I guess)

(Once more everything is ooc

Part 2: The Entente gang successfully cuts their naval budgets but only if everyone else does it, ships types get official definitions, and nothing bad will ever happen again

Well, WW1 is over, the Entente won, but already the victorious powers are looking side eye at each other. Italy’s cheesed off they didn’t get as much as they wanted out of the rotting Hapsburg zombie empire, let alone Anatolia, Britan’s going to have to make the hard choice whether they want to still be best friends with Japan or attempt to cozy up to America. America is trying to go back to their previous foreign policy of Europe, Africa, and West Asia don’t exist. France Is.

Everyone begins authorizing naval buildups, because it’s armsrace time. Japan order 16 new capital ships, Britain 12, and the US... 50 though congress balks because exorbitant military spending is not something America does.

Yet.

This is all going to be very, very expensive, and only Japan and America aren’t broke, and congress absolutely does not want to spend money on 50 battleships.

So in the time honored tradition, a conference is held, except for once, it’s in America. The only other nations who can even build capital ships are Spain, Germany, and the USSR, who are not invited because nobody cares/spain is broke for non ww1 related reasons, The Versailles Treaty, and they aren’t real and don’t exist/the soviet shipbuilding industry is so bad they’re mostly trying to keep the fleet afloat let alone build new ships of any sort.

Cue the Washington Naval conference... (Yes I know two of these flags are inaccurate but whatcanyedo?)

🇺🇸: “The way to disarm is to disarm”

🇯🇵🇫🇷🇮🇹🇬🇧: ...

Cue the arguing. The Americans have cracked the japanese codes (this will be a running theme for most of the 20th century) so they know exactly what japan’s sticking points are and want to get as much as possible out of it as they view Japan as the only nation here they actually need to worry about.

🇺🇸: So... how about ten years of nobody building any new capital ships, and you stop building the ones you have under construction

🇬🇧: Ok fine, people will be pissed but we can’t afford it

🇯🇵: Can we keep the Mutsu? She was paid for by donations from school children

🇺🇸🇬🇧: Sure, as long as we can each keep one of ours under construction

🇯🇵: Ok

🇫🇷🇮🇹: We’re too broke to argue

...

🇺🇸: Ok now how about we limit how many tons our navy can be, and establish ratios of each others navy to each other

🇯🇵🇫🇷🇮🇹🇬🇧: ... what

🇺🇸: America and Britain can have 525,000 tones of capital ships, then japan can have 315,000 tons, and Italy and France can have 175,800 tons each.

🇺🇸: Also battleships really shouldn’t weigh more than 35,000 tons either, nor should they fire shells of more than 16″ caliber

🇬🇧: well... ok. Again, people will be pissed but we can’t afford it. Also our tests for putting ludicrous guns on battlecruiser hulls in WW1 ended badly

🇫🇷: This is a terrible idea, we deserve 350,000 tons

🇺🇸: let us have this and we’ll give you concessions later down in this tumblr post

🇫🇷: ok

🇮🇹: Huzzah, we shall be a naval power on par with the french, our greatness in the nautical arena is recognized at last

🇫🇷: No, that’s also a terrible idea

🇬🇧: Do you really think italy will ever have that kind of ship building capacity? Let them have this

🇫🇷: lol ok

🇯🇵: This is very bad, we need at least 7:10 ratio against the Americans if we are to defeat both their fleets in sequence. But we can go down to 60% minimum but it will make the navy *pissed* (This will have repercussions later)

...

🇺🇸:  So if our capital ships follow these ratios, the number of tons of cruiser should follow the same-

🇬🇧🇫🇷:  Absofuckinglutly not.

🇺🇸: wait you two are agreeing on something

🇬🇧🇫🇷: We’re doing this imperialism thing, we have to maintain our authority across most of the world. We should have more cruisers than you, your only colonies are the Philippines, Hawaii and a bunch of sparesly populated islands. You should have less than us, and Japan has even fewer colonies than you do so they should get absolutely less.

🇯🇵: Which we absolutely do not accept

🇺🇸: well I guess that idea’s screwed uh, how about we limit the size of cruisers to 10,000 tons and no bigger than 8″ guns?

🇯🇵🇫🇷🇮🇹🇬🇧: That’s a much better idea

...

🇬🇧: While we’re here, submarines are evil and immoral and we should ban them

🇫🇷: fuck off

🇺🇸: Yeah no france can use that concession card from above here

...

🇺🇸: So we also had in mind aircraft carrier limits, similar to the capital ship restrictions above, but all existing aircraft carriers are hereby exempt. Also you can convert 2 capital ships to carriers for free.

🇬🇧🇯🇵: Oh sweet

🇫🇷: ok

...

🇺🇸: Lastly, since 4 of us have a bunch of pacific islands, we should regulate ho those are fortified

🇮🇹: I’ll just leave then

🇬🇧: Singapore must be turned into an impregnable bastion, but other than that who cares?

🇺🇸: we reserve the right to fortify Hawaii and the Philippines but don’t care about the rest

🇫🇷: I can’t afford it anyway

🇯🇵: I really like this idea, because it will make my future imperialist ambitions much easier

...

🇺🇸: excellent, now Britain, Japan, we’re all in excess of these limits so let’s start scrapping ships! Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen!

This actually was honored until the mid 30s, and sparked off the “how can we do this under 10,000 tons” that leads to so many odd cruisers built in the 20s and 30s. It also caused the Japanese military to decide to begin pushing the country towards fascism.

Next time, the first London Naval Treaty

@particularcustodian

[rushingheadlong]

As of December 2020, only Reader-insert fics are being cross-posted to tumblr. Please see my AO3 for additional non-Reader fics or check the #my fic tag for my monthly AO3 round-up posts.

♪ Requests: CLOSED ♫ General tag: #my fic ♪ Short imagines: #my hc ♫ My AO3: RushingHeadlong ♪ Updated: December 22, 2020

Almost Make Believe

♪ 18+, smut, Brian May/F!Reader, semi-public sex ~2.6k words ♪ When you saw Brian’s performance at the Big Mama Club you thought nothing could ever top being front-and-center to him rocking out in a tight black tank top… and then you run into him a bar after the show, and your night goes from great to amazing.

Together With You

♪ 18+, smut, Brian May/F!Reader, cockwarming, ~1.9k words ♪ You spend an intimate morning keeping Brian company as he works.

Make My Life Worthwhile

♪ Fluff, Female Reader, ~3.1k ♪ You always know to expect a few surprises at any Queen party. You just weren’t expecting a surprise like this. **Halloqueen Event gift**

Prompt: Sex under the stars 

♪ Light Smut, Female Reader, ~500 ♪ No kinks, just soft and gentle sex

Take Me Home Tonight 

♪ Smut, Female Reader, ~4.6k ♪ You’re not expecting Brian May, of all people, to walk into your record shop late one evening, but when he asks you to go home with him you’re certainly not going to pass on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have all your fantasies fulfilled.  ♪  Dirty talk, oral (m&f receiving), fingering, a bit of size kink

I Love Your Mind (But Give Me Your Body) 

♪ Smut, Female Reader, ~3.4k ♪ The moment you lay eyes on your substitute math tutor you know that you’re in for a world of fun. He just might need a little encouragement to realize it too.  ♪ Height kink, semi-public sex, shy!70s!Brian

Teasin’ Around With Me 

♪ Smut, Female Reader, ~3.7k ♪ Brian’s hands are paying the price after the first rehearsal following some time off. You know a trick or two to help him out, but it turns out that Brian has other plans on his mind.  ♪ Hand kink, fingering, teasing & orgasm denial

Prompt: Angry sex with Bri

♪ Smut, Female Reader, ~1k ♪ Angry sex (consent is explicitly given)

Just Excitation 

♪ Smut, Female Reader, ~3.6k ♪ You’ve always had a thing for Brian’s hands (and his arms, and his fingers, and-). But wanting his hands wrapped around your neck is certainly a new one, even for you.  ♪ Choking, breathplay, semi-public sex, minor D/s and minor facefucking

Wrap Those Arms Around Me 

♪ Smut, Female Reader, ~2.3k ♪ Brian knows that whenever he wears tank tops you want to jump his bones. This time, though, he’s going to make you wait for it. ♪ Arm/hand kink, dirty talk, slight D/s, orgasm denial

Our Love Will Keep You Warm

♪ Fluff, Unspecified Reader, ~3k ♪ On the day of a Queen music video shoot, you find a few ways to take care of Brian and show him just how much you love him.

Dear Friend, We’ll Carry On

♪ Light angst and H/C, eventual smut, Trans Male Reader, ~9.5k words ♪  You’ve known Brian since the early days of Queen, but when he comes to New Haven on his solo tour you haven’t seen him in years. You’re both different people now but, as the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same…

One Hundred and Thirty-Six

♪ H/C, Unspecified Reader, alcoholism, ~900 words ♪  You are 136 days sober - and there are two bottles of wine on the counter in front of you

Concept: Soft, Cozy Moments With Brian

♪ Fluff, Unspecified Reader, ~400 words

Take My Breath Away

♪ Kink & smut, Unspecified Reader, ~20k ♪ Brian has a thing for drawing sex out for as long as possible, but it’s harder to do that when breathplay is involved… at least until you come up with a bit of an unorthodox solution: corsets. ♪ Sub!Bri, corsets, breathplay, kink exploration & negotiation

Prompt: Brian in a tight corset 

♪ Kink but no smut, Unspecified Reader, ~750 ♪ Breathplay, corsets, sub!Bri

Prompt: Jewelry shopping for Brian 

♪ Fluff, Unspecified Reader, ~800

Prompt: Being friends with Brian 

♪ Fluff, Non-Romantic, Male Reader, ~800

Prompt: Brian taking care of Reader 

♪ Fluff, Unspecified Reader, ~600

Oh, You’re Good For Me 

♪ Kink but no smut, Male or Unspecified Reader, ~1.5k ♪ Brian comes to you to be tied up and to submit.  ♪ D/s (sub!Bri), rope bondage

Make It Up (As You Go Along)

♪ H/C, Male Reader, ~2.2k ♪  Freddie’s birthday is quickly approaching… and so is yours. The only problem is that Freddie doesn’t know that, and you don’t particularly want to tell him.

Very, Very Frightening

♪ Fluff, Trans Male Reader, ~2.9k ♪ You’re not a fan of power outages, but Freddie is there to remind you that you don’t have to face it alone.

It’s (Not) So Easy 

♪ H/C, Male Reader, ~2.6k ♪ 5 times you and Freddie hid your relationship and 1 time you didn’t

So Much Ado 

♪ H/C and Fluff, Trans Male Reader, ~3.1k ♪ Freddie wants to buy a cat, but some things are more important than that.

One Year of Love 

♪ Fluff, Trans Male Reader, ~5.5k ♪ Your first anniversary with Freddie is quickly approaching, and you know that you don’t have the money to spoil him with the lavish sorts of gifts that he deserves. But with a little help from a friend, you realize that you don’t need to buy his love and you instead set about creating an evening that the two of you will never forget. **ANatF Event gift**

Concept: Dating Roger in 1974

♪ Fluff, Female Reader, ~700 words **STL Event gift**

Got Me In A Mood

♪ Light smut and h/c, Female Reader, ~5.3k ♪ You and Roger are friends, who just happen to occasionally sleep together. It’s just a bit of fun, nothing serious… until you realize that you’ve gone and fallen in love with him. **TGIC Event gift**

Prompt: Roger confesses his love to his long-term friend 

♪ Fluff, Female Reader, ~1k

You Could Know Me 

♪ H/C, Gen, Non-Binary Reader, ~2.8k ♪ You knew that coming out as non-binary wouldn’t always be smooth sailing, but you weren’t expecting to face rejection at every turn. Luckily your dad, Roger Taylor, is there to support you no matter what.

Prompt:  Picking out a Christmas tree with John

♪ Fluff, Unspecified Reader, ~600

Still Come Back to You 

♪ Fluff, Male Reader, ~1k ♪ John returns home late after wrapping up the latest Queen tour, and he’s missed you just as much as you’ve missed him.

Baked With Love

♪ Gen, fluff, vague modern Queen AU, ~1.2k ♪ No matter how famous they get, Queen has one birthday tradition that they refuse to give up.

Lockdown Blues

♪ Gen, H/C, vague modern & early Queen AU, ~2k words ♪ Freddie has made it his mission to keep everyone’s spirits up while they’re stuck at home. He doesn’t think the others have noticed - but they have, and they’re ready to remind him that they have his back too.

Prompt: Brian May & Tony Iommi

♪ Gen, fluff, current era, ~400 words

And I Get Afraid

♪ H/C, Gen, early Queen, ~4.5k ♪ Queen has come to a standstill as they try to get their debut album released, and John seems to be the only one left who isn’t optimistic about their chances for success. Now with his graduation quickly approaching, he finds himself struggling to decide between sticking by the band- and his friends- or leaving this sinking ship while he can still make something of his future.

Losing My Way

♪ H/C, angst, gen, early Queen, ~4.5k ♪ Brian is burning himself out trying to stay on top of all of his responsibilities. He knows it’s only a matter of time until something gives, and he knows that something will probably be his thesis - but that doesn’t make his failure any easier to stomach. **Companion to And I Get Afraid**

The Hazier Days

♪ Fluff, Gen, early Queen, ~1.6k ♪ It’s too hot for embarrassment as Brian finally caves to the summer heat.

Prompt: Freddie loses the week’s earnings from the stall

♪ H/C and Fluff, Gen, slighty Christmas themed, ~1k

Car Song 

♪ H/C and Fluff, Gen, BoRhap references, ~500 ♪ Roger and John tease Brian about his song “Driven By You” while working on Made in Heaven

Haul Away, You Rolling Queens

♪ AU (Nautical & Mermaid), H/C, Angst with a happy ending, Gen, ~40k ♪ It was Freddie who told them stories of the Kingdom of Rhye, an ancient mer kingdom that once ruled the seven seas before disappearing a thousand years ago. According to Brian it was just a myth, but Freddie was always certain that it was real and waiting to be discovered - but he never found proof of it before he fell sick, and vanished suddenly without a trace.

Now, 25 years later, Roger stumbles across a new clue that could lead them to Rhye - one with unexplained ties to their lost friend. But convincing Brian and John to take a leap of faith and join him in one final adventure is only the first hurdle. If they want to weather the rough seas ahead, they’ll have to not only sail into the unknown but finally face the unanswered questions and lingering grief left from Freddie’s disappearance.

Take a Picture (It’ll Last Longer)

♪ Jimercury, Modern/Everyone Lives AU, fluff, ~800 words ♪ If Jim was still alive and still with Freddie he would absolutely have an instagram account where he mostly posts photos of their cats and the garden.

Wanna Be Beside You Now

♪ Jimercury, fluff and smut, phone sex, ~800 words ♪ Jim receives a call one night when Freddie is away.

Love in the Shape of Things

♪ Maycury, Modern AU & early Queen, H/C and fluff, ~63k ♪  They’re both searching for their place in the world, but it takes a new flat and a housewarming gift gone awry for Freddie and Brian’s friendship to slowly turn into something deeper. And through long evenings of commiseration and camaraderie, their feelings for each other continue to grow - until one misunderstanding threatens to tear everything apart.

Buttons

♪ Maycury, early Queen, pining, ~700 words ♪ A moment of tenderness before a show leaves Brian yearning.

Take This Message

♪ Two Maycury fics, one AU & H/C, one fluff, ~500 words each ♪ Two short Maycury fics inspired by the Calling All Girls music video. In the first, Freddie with the help of Brian has to propose the video idea to Roger. The second is a short AU based on the video itself.

Love Him From Where You Are

♪ Maylor, H/C, pining, early Queen, some vague allusions to sex, ~7.2k ♪  Five times Roger was sure that Brian didn’t love him, and one time he knew that he did.

The Fire You Ignite

♪ Maylor, 18+, sub!Brian, bondage, gags, temperature play, orgasm denial, ~3k ♪  Roger takes his time playing with Brian.

Trust Issues

♪ H/C, Maylor, ~500 words ♪ Roger borrows the Red Special when Brian isn’t there, and Brian freaks out.

Thrill Me, Chill Me, Fulfill Me

♪ Poly!Queen, 18+, vague modern AU, crossdressing/corset kink, ~1.7k ♪  The boys plan an evening of dressing up and watching Rocky Horror Picture Show, but the effort that Brian puts into his outfit takes the others by surprise.

I’ll Put A Spell On You

♪ Dealor, 18+, crossdressing, slight D/s (sub!John), ~5.9k ♪ John is tired of always getting teased for wearing “boring” costumes, so he decides to spice things up this year - and when Roger makes sure to show his appreciation for John’s costume choice, they both end up having a good time.

Alone Time

♪ 18+, smut, Brian May solo, masturbation & toys, ~1.1k ♪ Brian always tells himself that he’s going to take his time with this... but he never does.

[transgenderer]

discoursedrome replied to your photo “loook at this fucking “circumnavigation” yacht racing route (red...”

technically correct, the best kind of correct

the technical definition used in yacht racing is

Yacht racing therefore defines a world circumnavigation to be a passage of at least 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) in length which crosses the equator, crosses every meridian and finishes in the same port as it starts

this IS a good definition (cuz 40k km (megameters?) is the circumference of the earth) but also implies that sailing between the equator and the north pole 4 times is a “circumnavigation”

[mattkenzie]

So with me hearing rumours going on about Wizards of the Coast going to give Dungeons & Dragons a nautical theme in there next campaign/sourcebook, I thought I’d like to chime in and what I would like to see and maybe what I would like to be add in this book (and try to add a Players and a DM’s perspective).

New Playable Races: I would like to start off with the new races that piqued my interest and that is the Tortle race being in ‘The Tortle Package’ from the DM’s Guild, I for one would like them to be in an official book and not on a PDF. I sometimes find it intriguing to see Water Genasi (Prince of the Apocalypse) and Triton (Volo’s Guide to Monsters)... I think it’s high time to see some Sea Elves (Unearthed Arcana) and Merfolk (Planeshift: Ixalan) added into the equation after all if everything is related to the sea.

Ships and Submarines: Seeing how Unearthed Arcana had an idea of giving us stats for boats (would this be a prelude to Spelljammer?) So I thought... sure everyone wants to own a pirate ship... I would like to own a submarine! and another idea I have is Armour Classes for the front, side and back of the boat (an idea that I had from Warhammer 40K).

New Locations: You know it’s cool to have a ship or a submarine to sail neighbouring countries (and trade routes) but what about exploring unknown and uncharted lands? I for one would like to see underwater cities (like Atlantis) and that floating island? (It’s a giant turtle with a castle on it’s back!) and maybe throw in a huge city built on a huge cluster of ships tied together in one big man made island.

Sailor/Pirate Background in more detail: Another thing which I had admired in Unearthed Arcana is the Sailor Background with added detail because if you are ALL sailors, ALL of you can drive the boat BUT what about the other roles on the boat. You have a your Captain/First Mate (both with Persuasion and Intimidation), Cook (Cooking Utensils), Bosun (Carpenters Tools) Quartermaster (Nature), Surgeon (Medicine) and many more... Mostly because of Critical Role where the Mighty Nein stole a pirate ship then later developed skills on board on The Mist Take The Mistake which seems right to me after all you are on this boat for a while so you need to pull your weight and earn your keep.

Another thing which might be a long shot and that is being marooned/shipwrecked or lucky (or unlucky enough) to meet a tribe of the island pretty cool idea to throw in some Hawaiian/Polynesian/Moai tribal cultures in the mix (yes even those Neutral Evil canibals).

[derelictpixies-creatorium]

I built this guy ages ago, I can't even remember if there was supposed to be an army to go with it. But its one of my favourite conversions I've made. I'd love to feel motivated enough to build an army around the concept. Always loved the idea of a deep sea/nautical themed army. But I've really hit a wall with the hobby and I think I've been trying to scramble over it for a while and throwing random projects at it. So I now find myself wondering if I should sell this guy on to someone who will give it they've it deserves... or hold on and hope one day I feel inspired. . . . #40k  #warhammer40k #inq28 #horusheresy #warhammer #kitbash #kitbashingwarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #paintingwarhammer #blanchitsu #grimdark #grimedark #grimdoinks #derelictpixie #instagood #art #artistsoninstagram #spacemarines #contemptor https://www.instagram.com/p/CRHL9aIn8ye/?utm_medium=tumblr

[randomishnickname]

Girijasu WIPs - Progress list

So here’s the stories that currently ghost through my head and that I hope to get to start/work on/finish in the next couple of months:

The Twenty-Ninth Shot (mostly Giriko POV, ~ 40K): My main, canon-compliant slow burn story. I’m 11 chapters in, the three next chapters have a clear outline, and afterwards it’s the screaming void. I didn’t expect to land where I did, so let’s see where the story takes me! I think there are at least 6-7 further chapters to come.

a yet unnamed Western AU (Giriko POV, probably ~ 15K): We’re in Wyoming at the beginning of the winter - local asshole Giriko teams up with trigger-fast jerk Justin for a bountyhunt. I woke up with this idea in my head one morning, and have been working on it since then. Goal is a more minimalistic, quicker style, to restrain myself from putting in too much details; still I have done waaay too much research, especially on cowboy slang and gear. I currently have a beginning, one self-indulgent H/C scene, a vague idea on how it ends and a lot of gaps to fill in on the way.

another PWP called Obedience (Justin POV, ~ 3K): I tried to think of a sexy situation, and it almost immediately degenerated into a very goofy piece, with more emphasis on dialogue than on sex. Only notes and dialogue is written yet, but at least I know what happens.

a yet unnamed Pirates AU (Justin POV, at least ~30K I guess): I saw a nice sketch by @doodlingclown​ and a story formed in my mind and gained epic proportions in a matter of minutes. Basically, Giriko is a pirate on Arachne’s ship, and Justin is an Anglican priest who gets involved in very complicated and deadly pirate conspiracies. I plan to involve a lot of the Soul Eater cast here. I’ve outlined 4-5 chapters without starting the actual writing yet, because I need to research first - I know next to nothing about english pirate slang and nautical terms (gonna watch Black Sails for inspiration!). This is gonna be a looong story and I’m already looking forward to writing it!

Further plot bunnies that may or may not get written someday:

@blackstar​‘s Arachne <-> Maka roleswap AU (Arachne POV, ~5K) in which Arachne is a prodigious DWMA student and Giriko her teenage dirtbag partner: I could bring in the entirety of the “evil” Soul Eater cast as DWMA teachers and students, which sounds fun.

modern AU with lumberjack Giriko and that annoying blond truck driver who comes to collect the logs

modern AU based on this prompt by @another-story​: “Person A is an international spy. And Person B is a random civilian that was used as a hostage, and is now being dragged around with them on their mission. They’re so lost. They just wanted a bagel this morning, man-“ (spy Justin, civilian douchebag Giriko)

That’s it! You’re welcome to send me related material for inspiration ^^

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What if 40k dreadnoughts but they are inspired by those wacky 1800s dive suits

(None of whatever I'm about to queue up is remotely canon, I'm just having fun with design ideas!)

[thevelonaut]

The Right Stuff.

Reader, I took a train. A student I’d worked with at college told me, at graduation last week, that his legs had been pretty shonked after a tour from The Hook to Amsterdam. He said he was covering 50k a day for 5 days, and that’d been plenty. I didn’t ask his gearing, but I know he was riding something nuts like a 48 x 18 when last I saw his rig. I’d loaded my own Rig a couple days before, and taken it for a yeager round the block. Not unwieldy; the gear felt okay, but it’s true that the 5 or 6% climbs about West Norwood did give me cause for uncertainty - it’s clear 80-miles to Dover from here, and I did not want to be locked up on some 11% gradient hammering my legs, my teeth locked up in a shitball self-hatred, and a curse heard around the world.

The first day / West Norwood → Cannon St → Dover → France

I cycled up to Cannon St on the same day that the Prudential-Ride-London-hubris-fest was heading back into the city (or, at least, the 100-mile maniacs who were done and dusted by 12.30pm were..) and found it quiet and nutso-simple. Two hours later I’m at the Dover seaport, eyeing the monstrous climbs over the North Downs and the clifftop roads that would, most likely, have devoured all my goodwill before I even left the continent.

So the train was a smart idea. So was the ferry. Even though it is, essentially, a motorway service station that happens to float, I was first on (a cyclist’s real advantage) and first off. This meant I bagged a seat at the front of the sea lounge, sat with my espresso and watched the white, sunlit cliffs in the late afternoon. The weather was breezy, nice, the sea calm. Other passengers seem to be Dutch or Belgian, since the boat was heading to Dunkirk and not Calais; this is some 25 miles further East, and thus a half-hour closer to the flatter end of continental Europe. It’s hard not to lament the end of the UK’s involvement in the EU as you pass over the short water; the channel feels very small indeed, and it’s almost impossible not to think of how close the potential for invasion has always been in the history of our small islands. We land in Dunkirk at 8pm, and I hoon it off the ramp. A man and his son, about thirteen, are on their Joe Waugh supertouristes. I pass them, and the man says he’s never seen a fixed tourer before; me neither, I say, although I do see a fella in Ypres five days later, churning it on a piece of retro steel. It’s not the worst plan. The ride into Dunkirk town is about 20k from the ferry port, a mainly uninspiring clumber through the industrial architecture and chimneytops of its massive port, through the old town and past its 19th century villas, and out to the campsite on the eastern side of the town. The bike works, cruises right nice; as expected, the only ballache is stop-starting, and this grates a little when you’re all loaded up. My right knee is a bit grumbly; I think I hurt the ligaments a while back, and it’s recurring when I train or ride harder. I also recognise I have a total bias toward my right leg; I always start on that side, I trackstand on that side, and I push harder there when I’m tired. Someone told me that backpedalling on a turbo is an excellent way of redressing this bias, but that’s not something I’m about to do.

The second day / Dunkirk → Gent

The next day, I feel good. The weather is drizzly but the sun comes out at midday. I bollock it along the sea roads, get lost because I’ve no map, and trace a line toward Ostend because that makes the most sense. When I get there, I realise there’s an ace network of canal paths and back-roads to help you get.. well, anywhere in Belgium. I haphazardly find my way to Brugges at 2pm, and eat bread and houmous on the drunkards’ benches, under a Napoleonic canopy, watching the assembled hordes of Italian, American and Chinese tourists be guided around the - admittedly beautiful - streets. Because my bags (a couple of 13l bags front and back, and a stuff sack under my saddle) are SO well-packed, I can barely carry anything extra in them. This means any and all food must be consumed on the spot. This means I eat every last spot of houmous. With a spoon. The Italians eye my with horror, My beard is a righteous ginger, tahini and chickpea flavoured wind-breaker. Indeed, I could perhaps store spare food here. I chuckle as I strap my shoes back on, and head along the Gent-Brugges canal. Now THAT is the way to travel.

This is the bike touring dream; long, straight and perfect asphalt, the canal cuts across 40k of Belgian farmland and occasional towns. I fly. There’s a wind coming out of the North East, which makes my life supreme (although I will of course be cursing it all the way back later in the week) and I get lost only once.

How? Because I WAS STUPID AND I LEFT THE CANAL PATH.

Why? BECAUSE IT SEEMED TOO EASY.

But why is easy a problem? IT ISN’T. BUT IT IS.

That’s the paradigm shift I deal with every day. If something is easy, then I shouldn’t be doing it. I know, I know; what a dipshit I am. When I started using the word velonaut to describe my adventures, that was always a reference to the early aviators, or the pioneers of Jules Verne, of Chuck Yeagerness, of the Mercury projects. Tom Wolfe, submariners, polarnauts et al. Jam-packed with self-righteousness and hubris, the Mallorian concept of doing a thing because it is there. Or Kennedy’s doing a thing because it is hard. Why climb Ventoux? Why ride to the Pyrenees? Why ride a fixed all winter? Why tour on a fixed? Why no carbon? Why does your knee hurt? Why not eat in a cafe or a restaurant? Why not take a hotel or a gites? Why the romance of motion, of tents and a can of Jupiler on a patch of grass? When will this stop?

All good questions.

But anyways, I got lost, got found, called HC from a backwater bus stop (below) and she navigated me to a social enterprise campsite nearby. The camp was run by a non-profit, started by socialists and communists who’d fought in the Belgian resistance during the second world war, and now professed a message of peace and equality in all things. It was one of my all-time favourite campings. And it was less than a tenner. The Belgian hardcase asked where my fancy gears were when looking at the Rig. One gear, I said. Old style, he said. He grunted approval and told me about the history of communism in Belgium, told me Duvel “isn’t a strong beer” and then walked by later on, as I was pished-up and lost in a stupor watching massive campsite spiders prey on the mosquitoes they’d caught. I was leathered. I’d had two bottles.

The third day / Gent → Brussels

More canals. More bridges. More sheep.

More farm roads. A hideous set of spaghetti-coiled A-roads, overpasses, gyratories and weird airport roads. I came upon Brussels from the North after about 80k of riding. It wasn’t necessarily hard work, but constant; hills became a bit more frequent, and the airport near which my destination lay never seemed to come any closer. All of a sudden, by the use of the sun, some immense triangulation of my position, and about ten wrong roads, I was outside the house where I’d be staying. It lay some 210k from where I’d left the day before, along a cobbled road near a military base. A strange, quiet part of a big city, with the only punctuation to the peace coming from intermittent jet engines. It’s where HC’s brother is living this summer. He and his wife greet me, squeeze me, feed me, leave me alone to start the rehabilitation process toward smelling nice. Merino wool wears the salty medals of effort, cycle shorts can only maintain about 130k before smelling like a dog farm. I got in a shower and eeked with the cold on my legs, the warm on my sunburned neck, and the satisfaction one can only feel when they got to where they’re heading. That’s what I think I mean by the nautics of the velo.

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Nautical titan? Sure! Quick sketch based on some "artist idea ping-pong" with @/nestermister on twitter

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Colored version! That's one big fish-bug.

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Another style of custom dreadnought, based on the Deredeo. As I've mentioned in the past, they already have these boat hull shapes and such going on, so it's perfect for this sort of nonsense

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More funky dread - this is actually one of the first sketches I'd started with the idea, I might make more variations later In the meantime, please look at the style of mechanical joints of this dive suit it's INSANE: