Hive fleet Panoptes consumes all who enter the jungle!
Cut off from the primary hivemind by unseen psionic blockers, a cluster of genestealers found themselves marooned on a massive jungle world. To survive among the hostile megafauna, they adapted camouflage. To thrive they integrated their genes with the local sapient reptilian life forms. To conquer, they could not call their fleet, but instead grew their own from the biomass of the planet.
Now Hivefleet Panoptes has set its many eyes on the skies. They must escape this psi-blocking atmosphere and rejoin the greater swarm.
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This display terrain was a mess to build. The foliage is now all over my apartment, and the little rippers were a real challenge for my printer. It was still fun, but I probably wouldn’t use these same techniques and materials in future projects.
Basing these bugs was also really cathartic. The rough jungle terrain gave me a lot of opportunities to get creative with the basing bits and diorama dirt. The resin swamp goo, saliva, and brain slime were frustrating when I just had a pen UV light, but getting a wall-plug light made it almost trivial and let me experiment more with mix-ins.
Overall I’m really happy with how this display turned out, and if I ever learn how to actually play this game I’ll probably enter this in Armies on Parade.
Following the Second Titan War, Percy and Hera rewarded Argus for his loyalty and bravery by surprising him with his own cabin. Since he doesn't have any children it just serves as a personal residence and office, but there's bunk beds in case that ever changes.
A large portrait of Hera hangs on one of the walls inside the cabin, and there are peacock and eyeball motifs incorporated throughout the design. The windows are one-way for extra privacy and the ceiling includes a large, enchanted skylight for stargazing. It also includes a section with useful equipment for monitoring camp security.
I made these little Panoptes Beast gold leafed wall hangers for Friday’s s h o pp drop! ( 2 pm PDT like always!) Cast in translucent urethane with reflective glass eyes!
“The Panoptes Beast is a pseudocorporeal spirit that takes the shape of a three eyed chimeric lion/dragon. Once summoned, the beast is tethered to an abode (or in this case a piece of jewelry) by careful pleading and appeasement. When planted, it will be your unblinking eye of security. Intruders will be met with loud, baleful yowls and a blast of psychic fire that disrupts the limbic system and renders the victim temporarily dazed. Panoptes Beasts aren’t terribly loud or chatty but are known to occasionally complain of boredom or comment on mundane aspects of the household. It has been found that exposing them to entertainment such as novelas, documentaries or audio books can alleviate this. The occasional gentle huff can signify approval of the provided entertainment.” #panoptesbeast #art #sculpture #monster #craft
"Anticlides, following Xanthos the Lydian, describes the gods' response to the first murder performed by one of their number: "When Hermes had killed Argos, the guardian of Io, at Zeus' behest, he was brought to trial. He was arraigned by Hera and the other gods, because he was the first god ever to be stained with death. Now when the gods were holding this trial, they were afraid of Zeus, for Hermes had acted on his orders. They wanted both to remove this stain from their presence, and to acquit the god of murder: agitated as they were, they threw their voting pebbles at Hermes, so that a pile of stones grew at his feet." (FGH 765 F 29; 140 F 19; Eust. 1809.38-43. The sources note that passers-by are required to throw an additional stone on the pile). Both ancient and modern readers treat the incident as aetiological in design: it can elucidate the term Hermaios lophos, a cairn of stones dedicated to Hermes (Schol ad. Od. 16.471), or might supply a fanciful origin for the practice of voting with pebbles at trials." Stoning and Sight: A Structural Equivalence in Greek Mythology by Deborah T. Steiner
I wonder what Hera felt when she was tossing the stone (and if she was aiming at Hermes' head)
Clive stop putting YOURSELF in situations. Clive you’re gonna get in trouble. Clive —
4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?
I actually have a Miraculous AU that I’ve been neglecting for months!
Clive is the Peacock holder.
[Exactly no one is surprised by that.]
Much of the plot still needs to be figured out, but here’s what I’m thinking at the moment: Hershel was the former guardian and passed the box onto Luke, erasing his own memory in the process. Having lost the only person who cared for and understood him, Clive, also known as Panoptes, decides to track down the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous to bring him back.
I might actually write it one day! 🧡🎩🧩
Clemmy bonus under the cut:
She cast a Lightning Dragon right as he finished his sentence which only further proved his point