#darkangel posting

[omgnotsokawaiidarkangel]

DarKAngel has descended from the dark gloomy skies yet again. And today seems to be going pretty well for this angel, I took voicebank wife away from @kangel-official and ever since then I've been feeling really happy, we're going on a date right now by the way, so yeah, bye losers! >:P

[blade-liger-4ever]

On the subject of "forced" couples in fiction:

I know this is a touchy subject, but some ships - or couples, if you prefer - aren't as "forced", "toxic", and "unhealthy" as most are quick to claim. That's not to say that all aren't; look no further than Hal Jordan x Carol Ferris, and the numerous breakups they've had, as an example. If they were genuinely healthy, they wouldn't be stuck in a revolving relationship like the writers have made them for over sixty years. And the reason they're so unhealthy is because of who they are as people: Carol is a workaholic pursuing her own career and maintaining her father's business, while Hal is juggling tons of responsibilities and longs for a woman he can have a family with to have some sense of stability and normalcy.

But in this post-modern world, I've seen the term "forced" applied to hundreds of couples that...weren't actually a bad idea. Heck, they were an actually great idea, but the problem lies in the execution.

Let me bring up my favorite of these pairings and explain 1 why I love them, and 2 how they could work.

Angel x X-23 (or DarkAngel, as I like calling them.)

All the haters, stop right now. Let me talk.

Just imagine, for one moment, these two characters outside of the mainstream comics with the age gap. Warren Worthington III, A.K.A. Angel, is heir to a large fortune and company. He probably had heard of or met Tony Stark every now and then at various charity events. He is handsome, a slightly above-average student, and has a head for handling the public and his inheritance. Could he be a massive flirt? Yes, but he was never anything but chivalrous in his dealing with women. He understood boundaries, understood that quite a few of his dates had emotional baggage, and never held/used it against them. He is a knight in shining armor, and as he flies above the world, he can see all the faults on Earth and, in spite of his background, resolves to make the world a better place.

And then we have Laura Kinney, A.K.A. X-23. A child assassin born into a branch of the Weapon X project, she was beaten and tortured into a weapon, though she never wanted that. The love and kindness she received, though it was hidden once she killed for the first time at age nine, eventually flowered and gave her the strength to choose not to kill a target. And while this resulted in an escape and murder of the Facility, and her mother's death at her own hands, Laura, knowing she had hundreds to thousands of innocent blood on her hands, still staggered up to fight the good fight and make amends for her actions.

Looking at these people, they're totally different. Warren is old money, while Laura is an orphan girl who never even knew what a family life looked like. Warren was above average by a bit, only truly excelling in fencing/swordsmanship, and Laura is a child prodigy who could collapse a government if her buyers wanted that. Warren knows social cues and how to navigate delicate interpersonal atmospheres, whereas Laura doesn't know how to start a simple introduction with one person. Warren was born to fly and soar above the world, yet he still dives down to save those caught in fires; meanwhile, Laura was born in a hellhole that taught her how to hunt, and now she uses the skills she was taught to track down evil and prevent it from happening to another innocent child.

They're polar opposites, and at first glance, you would assume they'd be incompatible.

However, these differences, when put together, would actually compliment each other.

Warren wants to do good in the world and has the means to do so, but lacks the hands on knowledge of how to accomplish such acts. Laura, who knows and has seen the scum of the Earth in person, can not only show him what he needs to do to improve the lives of bystanders, but can also learn what normalcy and love really is with him. And when needing to use words first, Warren can tactfully yet firmly set down some ground rules when dealing with the authorities or similar situations; likewise, Laura can in no uncertain terms state what enemies in dark alleyways can expect if they try anything stupid with her or Warren. Lastly, Warren acts as support and strike-and-retreat in a battle, whereas Laura can race through an entire room of highly trained combatants and lay them out flat/kill them. Their differing skill-sets for combat act as a yin-yang, allowing them to cover for each other and ensure the other is protected. And their personalities (when written properly as a Knight in Shining Armor and a recovering Emotionless Girl/Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb) would actually benefit each other: Warren can gently pull back the layers of pain and abuse that Laura's suffered and patch the wounds, while Laura can keep him grounded to the Earth and give him emotional strength when he's weighed down by his duties and worried by what he isn't bringing to the X-Men.

This is how the two could be great when written correctly, and why I love them so much.

Which leads me to another ship that has potential:

Moon Knight x Echo.

While I feel Marc Spector is best handled in the MCU, and that Layla is the best wife/lover he's ever had, Echo/Maya Lopez shares a trait with her that is something he desperately needs:

She's grounded and emotionally prioritizes Marc Spector more than his separate identities.

Now, while I'm not a big fan of Marc being ret-conned into being DID (I have no issue with a heroic DID person, I merely wish it were used with a new character instead of a previously established character), Marc does however juggle three separate lives: a rich boy, a cabby man, and the avatar of an Egyptian deity. That's not easy, and can lead someone to insanity. What Marc needs is a woman who is not going anywhere, who will stay with him come hell or high water, and who will reach out to him when he's desperately trying to drown himself in guilt and shame for things that were ultimately out of his control. Layla, as I have said before, continuously reaches out to Marc and keeps him on the ground and focuses on him both from a romantic and pragmatic standpoint. She won't let him spiral into madness from his circus act, she won't let him fall into despair without a fight, and she'll come back for him no matter what.

Echo possesses many of these traits because, like Layla, she has a background that isn't glamorous, and required her to be practical rather than a silly, upbeat girl who would get her head beat in if she wasn't careful. For this, while I personally love Marclayla best, I can respect and encourage Marc getting together with Maya because she can offer that same stable, grounding force as Layla. It also is why I don't like Tigra/Greer Grant-Nelson with Marc. She's a good woman, and wouldn't mistreat him, but until she became a mother, Tigra was far too flighty and unrestrained for him. When you're juggling so many things and suppressing trauma, you don't need a boyfriend/girlfriend who is a life of the party type. You need someone to ground you, and only lately has Tigra herself become grounded enough to provide that same security and safety to Marc.

Its not as articulate as it could be, or as I'd hoped, but I hope this post made sense and put things into perspective for y'all. "Forced couples" is a term that weighs me down, and I hope this at least made you think..

See you around.

[rayless-reblogs]

20 Book Challenge

I saw this challenge on a post by @theresebelivett. The idea is you pick 20 of your books to take with you to a desert island, but you can only pick one book per author and series. Here are two further guidelines I set myself: They have to be books I actually own, as if I really am gathering them up under my arms and heading to the island; and I'm defining "book" as a single volume -- so if I just so happen to have 100 novellas squashed between two covers, it still counts as one book.

We'll go alphabetically by author.

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. An old standby, a classic, I can jump into it at any point.

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca. Have only read it once, but loved it and I suspect I'll get more from it each time.

Clare B Dunkle: The Hollow Kingdom. If I can only take one book from this excellent and unusual goblin series that captivated me in the mid-2000s, it'd better be the first one.

William Goldman: The Princess Bride. This book had an outsize influence on my own writing. I can quote a lot of it, but I wouldn't want to be without it.

Shannon Hale: Book of a Thousand Days. I love the warmth and humility of its heroine Dashti. Plus, Shannon Hale very kindly wrote a personal response to a fan letter I sent her years and years ago, so her work always has a special place in my heart.

Georgette Heyer: Cotillion. I don't actually own my favorite Georgette novel, but the funny, awkward, and ultimately romantic Cotillion is definitely not a pitiful second-stringer.

Eva Ibbotson: A Countess Below Stairs. Countess was my introduction to Eva's adult romances, and she is the past master of warm, hardworking heroines who should really be annoying because they're way too good to be true, but somehow you just end up falling in love with them.

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth. I first read this when I was like eight, and even for an adult, its quirky humor and zingy wordplay hold up, no problem.

Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera. Can't leave without Erik, nope, the French potboiler has got to come. Perhaps I will spend my time on the island writing the inevitable crossover fanfic, The Phantom of the Tollbooth.

CS Lewis: Till We Have Faces. Faces is my current answer for what my favorite book is, so I'm taking that, though it feels criminal to leave The Silver Chair behind.

LM Montgomery: The Blue Castle. As much as I love Anne and Emily, it came down to Blue Castle and A Tangled Web, and I'm a sucker for Valancy's romantic journey.

E Nesbit: Five Children and It. Probably the most classic Edwardian children's fantasy, though still a hard choice to make. Nesbit is another author who had a huge influence on me as a writer.

Robert C O'Brien: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. A childhood book I'm really sentimental about. I should re-read it.

Meredith Ann Pierce: The Darkangel. The first in the archaic lunar vampire trilogy. This will always be frustrating, only having the first in the series, but if I can only read the first, maybe I'll forget about how angry the third novel left me.

Sherwood Smith: Crown Duel. At one time, this swords-and-manners fantasy duet was one of my absolute favorite fandoms, and clever me has both books in one volume, so I don't have to choose.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl: Starflower. My favorite of the Tales of Goldstone Wood series. We'll have to test whether I can actually get sick of Eanrin.

JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings. I've never actually read it through as an adult and, look at that, I have a three-in-one volume. Cheating!

Vivian Vande Velde: Spellbound. I've read much of VVV's YA fantasy and liked a lot of it, but none more so than The Conjurer Princess and its fast-paced tale of revenge. The Spellbound edition includes the prequel and a bonus short story, so I'm good to go.

PG Wodehouse: The World of Mr Mulliner. There are some hilarious novels I'm leaving behind here, including all the Bertie Wooster stuff. But there are some absurdly fun Mulliner stories and this edition is like three hundred pages. That'll keep me happy for a long while on my island.

Jack Zipes (editor): Spells of Enchantment. This is an enormous compilation of western fairy tales. I've owned it since 2004 or so, and I've still never finished it. Now, on my island, I'll no longer have the excuse.

Tagging anyone else who feels like doing this!

[darkangel1791]

Another fic posted to AO3. I thought "Together" was my shortest fic, but word count says this one is! So here is a very short one. I'm going to continue posting to The Rise and Fall of a Coven, but I want to get as much up on AO3 as I can asap. I don't know why but NOW suddenly I'm worried that something will happen to it!

Also I have, and will, tag all of these types of posts with DarkAngel's VampChron Specs, if you want to make sure you see them. Because you do NOT want to get notified every time I post. My queue is set up for 25 times a day. Nobody needs that!

[mangimakesmodels]

Little WIP on a Dark Angels Legion Dreadwing Interemptor. Been a minute since I posted updates on this lot, but the work move forward. For the Lion, For Caliban!! #gw #warhammer40k #spacemarines #gamesworkshop #horusheresy #forgeworld #wargames #wargaming #warhammer #citadelminiatures #paintingwarhammer #minipainting #warhammer40000 #wip #diy #miniatures #reels #reelsinstagram #toys #spacewolves #imperialguard #bloodangels #sistersofbattle #eldar #darkangels #killteam #ageofsigmar #modeling #hobby #miniaturepainting  (at Planet Caliban) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqPgIwVOOXX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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CHARACTER SONGS TAG

Thank you for tagging me @itzsassha, @pinkydude and @spicyraeman. <3

♫ Game Rules: Choose one of your characters and list song(s) that fits them. (10 songs or less.. its up to you). Tagging: @nervouswizardcycle, @imaginarycyberpunk2023, @wraithsoutlaws, @miss--river, @wanderingaldecaldo, @dreamskug, @sammysilverdyne, @saevus-brutalis, @morganlefaye79, @gloryride, @nightcxty. Idk, if anyone of you received this already — it's not a must. I just lost track of all the various tag games going on here lately. Also no pressure!

—— I wanted to do it for all three of my boys at first but I realized while doing Ryder's, this is going to be a bit more special concerning songs. His entire story is somehow accompanied by various songs that I don't have for my other pixel boys (yet), so I'll just stick with him instead:

Ryder von Scharfenberg

First, the playlist (extra created for this post). It is full of Dark Rave/Wave/Techno, Industrial etc. because it's what he is and defines through. FYI: There's also lots of German lyrics. If you're interested in a translation, you'd need to drop it into a translator – I thought about adding them but this srsly got out of hand here with the length of that post.

More behind the cut. If it really interests you why I've chosen these songs. Once again it got out of hand.

I.

– Techno ist unsere Welt – The Boy The G – Nyntändo-Schock – Welle:Erdball -> represent mostly Ryder's teens. When he started to discover Techno for himself, still a boy wanting to have fun (therefore the Nyntändo-Schock song bc it sounds fun). 'Geht lieber mal arbeiten, da tut da was vernünftiges ja Arbeiten Warum Wir sind jung Wir ham noch dit ganze Leben zum Arbeiten Techno ist unsere Welt' – Techno is unsere Welt The lyrics basically say that he's too young to think about working, he's got the whole life to go to work and techno is his world for now. Sadly he could never live it out like other youngsters with his family being so strict.

II.

– Corporate Supremacy – NN – Eiszeit – Eisbrecher – Gehorsam – Nachtmahr -> Ryder was doomed to be a Corpo ruled by his superior called father who of course wanted that his son should step into his shoes one day and lead a Corporate business. He had to be obedient all his life, Ry even tried to make it up to him but failed all the time. 'Corporate Supremacy' represents his father, who is a thread, abusive and cold hearted. Ryder fears him like no one else. Ryder was never allowed who he wanted to be as long as he was with his toxic family. Everything he liked was 'unworthy' or 'underclass' in their eyes. He thinks he doesn't belong into the Corpo world, has completely other interests but isn't allowed anything of it. As stubborn teen he does it nontheless but learns it the hard way when his father finally breaks him, taking almost every joy from him. 'Darf ich sein, sowie ich bin? Nein, das darfst du nicht Darf ich suchen nach dem Sinn? Nein, das darfst du nicht Die Kälte zieht in alle Knochen Und die Glieder werden schwer Sie haben mir mein Herz gebrochen Es schlägt, doch es lebt nicht mehr' — Eiszeit One day he understands his life can't go on like this and he needs to be his own master. Take control, break out of the machinery he was born into to be able to have his own life. He didn't want to be another automatic submissive human having constantly to work a 40h+ job he hated. He know it would end him if he didn't do somethign against it. 'Sie wollen dass man sein Mensch sein aufgibt Seine Autonomie für ein Gehaltscheck Ein goldenen Stern. Ein größeren Fernseher Der einzige Weg Mensch zu bleiben Der einzige Weg frei zu sein ist zu rebellieren Sie werden versuchen dich zu brechen Jede nur mögliche Taktik zu nutzen um dich fügsam zu machen Gehorsam Unterwürfig Du musst dein eigener Herr sein Koste es was es wolle Es ist besser als Mensch zu sterben Als Sinnloses Rädchen in Maschinarie zu leben' — Gehorsam

III.

– Darkangel – VNV Nation – Kingdom – VNV Nation – Mann gegen Mann – Rammstein -> These songs represent the change in his life and the time he needs finding his true self after years of obedience from his superior and dealing onward with his depression. Ry got away from his old life, ready to live like he wants now but he's struggling not knowing what to do and where to start. He desperately needs to clear his mind first to find a purpose in his new given opportunity. 'I'm in this mood because of scorn, I'm in a mood for total war, to the darkened skies once more and ever onward, I'd only come here seeking peace, I'd only come here seeking me' — Darkangel Once he's content with changing into the person he wants to be, he also eventually knows what he wants to do: Make Night City a better place, free the people from the Corporate supremacy where it is possible. It is why he became a merc. He strongly believes that Night City is not fully lost. It just needs the right people to work on it. He knows it's wishful thinking hoping to see Night City back to what it should have originally been: Richard Night's original vision of it: Coronado City – you've got to hold onto hopes and dreams, so he does. 'And I believe that we'll conceive To make in hell for us a heaven. A brave new world. A promised land. […] I'll leave no walls, no stone unturned. Every tower must be razed To the dust from which it came.' — Kingdom And for Rammstein's 'Mann gegen Mann'? It simply represents his sexulity he is finally able to live out openly. 'Wenn sich an mir ein Weib verirrt, Dann ist die helle Welt verwirrt. Mann gegen Mann. Meine Haut gehört den Herren. Mann gegen Mann. Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern.'

IV.

– Let Me Out – LOCO13 – Berzerker – KARAH, Wanton – Don't You Know Who I Am – Wanton –> These three songs represent how Ryder feels inside. That beast, — his constant anger — that knocks at the door, ready to take over seeking for bloodlust. 'Let Me Out' is the daily knock-knock that says: "Hey, I'm here, don't you ignore me. Let me out. Let me kill. Let me kill them all." Ryder is dealing with this constant pounding almost 24/7. It never let's him alone, since it first showed up in 2070. There's times he is able to completely ignore it, especially with distractions, but these are rare. He got used to live with it though but lately it seems to get stronger than ever (2078). 'Berzerker' is similar to Let me Out but harder and faster, so it can be seen as when Ryder is already figting but still remains in control. It gets wilder in between when he's ging into a killstreak, slowly losing control with the beast now taking over. 'Don't You Know Who I Am' is Ryder turning into his total unstoppable berserk mode killing streak — you better stay away from him. The ragefull screams represent his anger going roar while the sound of blades can be seen as he's slicing his mantis blades through everything and everyone in a total blind rage.

V.

– Because I'm Drunk Babe – Nico Moreno – Panzerfaust schießen – Phosgore – Berlin – Balazs Fedelin – Raving With The Devil – Jamie McLellan – Deutschland braucht Bewegung – Noisuf-X -> Just wanna dance with Ryder (or imagine him raving to it)? Try these sick beats. Ryder loves himself some extra hard beats with a certain uniquness in them. But that is not the main reason — Raving is his way of finding freedom for at least a while. Those hard beats overshadow the Beast's constant pounding, so he won't hear it for the time being. It's also his way of venting off the usual anger he can control.

VI.

– Rot V1.0 – [:SITD:] – Call The Ships To Port – Covenant – Vergessen – Klanglos -> These songs make Ryder always a bit melancholy and thoughtful. Some great lyrics along together with certain parts of powerful beats combined with beautiful moving melodies that just got set right for giving him goosbumps all over. 'A second of reflection Can take you to the moon The slightest hesitation Can bring you down in flames A single spark of passion Can change a man forever A moment in a lifetime Is all it takes to break him' — Call The Ships To Port 'Jeder Fortschritt, den wir Menschen machen Beruht im Grunde nur auf einer Sache Der Angst vor dem Tod Der Angst davor, wieder in der Leere zu verschwinden Aus der wir einst gekommen sind Du bist einzig und allein das Produkt einer Angst vergessen zu werden Auch du hast Angst allein gelassen und vergessen zu werden Vergessen Allein gelassen und vergessen' — Vergessen most moving parts for Ryder: Rot V1.0 (2:20–3:05 and 3:15–4:15) Call The Ships To Port (1:20–2:15) Vergessen (3:20–5.00)

VII.

– Just Can't Get Enough – Depeche Mode – World In My Eyes – Depeche Mode -> Songs when he feels good and is together with the one(s) he loves. Both songs apply to both; Vijay and Thyjs, since VIjay was once his love interest and Thyjs is now his current now. I'm sorry there isn't more 'lore' about his relation ships yet – it is stuff I'm still thinking about. But Ryder is a very romantic type of guy and with Thyjs he may have found the right man by his side who is capable to handle this hot headed fidgety black sheep of his, because Thyjs is the calm center of a storm. 'And when it rains You're shining down for me And I just can't get enough And I just can't get enough Just like a rainbow You know you set me free' — Just Can't Get Enough 'I'll take you to the highest mountain To the depths of the deepest sea And we won't need a map, believe me Now let my body do the moving And let my hands do the soothing Let me show you the world in my eyes' — World In My Eyes

Now, that got long again. These are just bits, details and pieces of his backstory. I've written more in separate special posts dealing with certain years of his life. You can find them via my tag system. Still on writing 2071-present, tho. If you made it until here, you must love either Ryder or me.

Thank you for taking your time! <3

[chryzuree]

OMGGGG someone rbed my darkangel trilogy post where i got rlly pissed abt ravenna & started agreeing w me in the tags IM!!!!!

[velvetbunniie-archive]

i was hoping somebody would’ve at least posted a review on tumblr for the darkangel trilogy, but i’m alone in this. building from the ground up and sobbing the entire time.

[secretlyatargaryen]

There was a post I read on this website a while ago about The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce. The post was making the rounds and was fairly popular, I think, and touted the book as an example of an actually good YA vampire/enemies to lovers romance, but I can’t for the life of me find the post.

Anyway, I just finished the book, and I have thoughts.

Trying to find the post online, I found a few articles that talked about the book being problematic~ for its dated romance, and like, okay, I can kind of see that. Aeriel’s goal throughout most of the book is to kill the Darkangel but she also keeps thinking about how she doesn’t want to because he’s ~so beautiful~, but it doesn’t really feel like she’s romanticizing him, necessarily, or romanticizing a bad relationship, because she doesn’t really have a relationship with him. For most of the book, they barely interact, and she thinks about how he’s pretty but also evil, and her desire throughout the book is mostly to save the souls of his “wives”, women whose blood and souls he has stolen who are now undead wraiths (Hi, Bram Stoker). By the way, this book is beautifully written and wonderfully creepy, even if it took me a bit to get used to all the extryme fantysy spellying - the darkangel is not a vampire, but a vampyre - and the 80s science fantasy worldbuilding. But I’m into it.

The story feels less like a vampire romance novel, though, and more like a fairytale, having more in common with Beauty and the Beast or the various enchanted husband tales than with Twilight. Aerial does say she “loves” the darkangel at the end of the book, but that’s after he’s at her mercy and she gets to choose whether to end his life or turn him back into the boy he was before he was turned into a vampire by the witch who kidnapped him as a child. By that time, Aerial is no longer enthralled by his glamor, and has already defeated the darkangel and saved the souls of his wives. The “love” feels less like romance, and more like compassion for someone who she recognizes was also a victim. I think it does move into romance later on (there are two more books in the series), but Aerial never puts up with abuse from him while thinking she can change him or that things will get better. The idea that he can be saved is teased throughout the series - and advertised on the back cover snippet - but there’s never a “oh he’s not that bad” moment.

In fact, a criticism I saw when I was trying to find that tumblr post, which I agree with, is that it’s hard to believe in the darkangel’s “spark of goodness” that is advertised in the cover snippet. Before he’s turned back at the end of the book, he doesn’t seem good at all. He kidnaps Aerial and insults her, feels only contempt for the women he’s turned into wraiths, tortures small animals for fun, and wants to subjugate the world, which he can only do once he finds his fourteenth wife. The “spark of good” seems to be based on the fact that we learn that he was once a human boy, which doesn’t actually make him good. It just makes us feel sorry for him. Oh, also, he has bad dreams, which is a hint that he is tormented by what he has been turned into. Which again, doesn’t make him good, but it does make him a victim in some respects. I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, remarks Hamlet, were it not that I have bad dreams. Also the witch who kidnapped him when he was six is described as his “mother and lover” which...yeah. Even if we take this metaphorically, it’s. Something.

But the book doesn’t really need you to believe that the vampire is good, because at the end his behavior is chalked up to him being enchanted by the witch. Once he’s no longer a vampire he doesn’t seem at all interested in breaking the wings off bats, so there’s that. He also feels really, really guilty about murdering thirteen women. So I don’t know if we’re supposed to think that he deserved to be saved because he had good in him, or if he deserved to be saved because he was enchanted and he totally didn’t mean all that stuff he did as a vampire, or vampyre. I’m not sure if there’s a difference, which the book also seems interested in addressing, so I do want to see how the next two books deal with the fallout. It’s just kind of a disappointment that I was promised a story about a character changing from evil to good and what it ended up being was “it was all magic, actually.” The darkangel, while a powerful figure for most of the book, ends up the character with the least amount of agency, narrative-wise. But that might not actually be a bad thing, if you’re looking for a story with an empowered heroine.

This book also shares some similarities with Deathless, which I probably would have enjoyed more if it weren’t as beloved on tumblr by the weaponized femininity crowd years ago. I still cringe at remembering Cersei stans using that “you are a demon like me and do not care if other girls have suffered” quote as a feminist beacon for “dark romance”. In contrast, Aerial cares about the darkangel’s pitiful, horrible wives and there’s a fabulous scene where they get to tell him off, after Aerial poisons him on her wedding night to him.

Swiftly, silently, they fleeted from the shadows, the folds of the bed-curtains, the seams of the walls. The icarus’ hand went suddenly limp; Aerial saw him start. She slipped free of him as the wraiths surrounded him, stood ringed about him, keeping him from Aerial. The vampyre cried at the sight of them, threw up his arms as if to ward them away.

“What are you doing here, my wives?” he cried. “You are so hideous to look at. Keep off!”

The wraiths drifted in a slow circle around him. “We will not keep off,” they said. “You have chosen us, and we are yours.” 

Damn. 

I’ve ordered the other two books in the series, but the third one is coming tomorrow, before the second one gets here. That’s what you get with free shipping, I guess.

[ordo-scriptus]

Nowt pretty, tonight. Sat down with the intention to start batch painting the Dark Angels. Couldn't bring myself to splash black over a dozen models, though, so just got a second Marine to the dirty, post-wash, pre-fancy-parts stage. Like as not I'll be getting a lot of Angels up to this stage, and whenever I can't stand the batches, I can spend an evening doing finishing touches like skin and gold and highlights. #paintingwarhammer #warhammercommunity #gamesworkshop #warhammer30k #horusheresy #horusheresy2point0 #darkangels30k #darkangels #legionveteransquad #legionesastartes #spacemarines #hobbystreak #hobbystreakday465 (at Wakefield) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGq2gxtXU_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thessclexa]

hey, it's the anon looking for a fic. Thank you so much for posting my ask! It is the fic "I am Heda". I'm so happy!!!!

Yay, awesome! Thanks for everyone’s help! @darkangel-452 @syngularitysyn @visualecho94

[omgnotsokawaiidarkangel]

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darkangel. and kangel ! ☆♡ - talks with KAngel.

I'll probably add more after sometime.

[yarrowseed]

[myrsinemezzo]

Ok. So now I’m curious. Please tell me about a time where you thought “there is no way there is fic for this one extraordinarily specific thing” and THEN THERE WAS!!

(Mine was finding ao3 fic for the 1982 sci-fi/fantasy trilogy The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce)

[darkangeltales]

5 posts! \o/

[mangimakesmodels]

So this is the first of many Corswain posts. I really wanted this model to have a dynamic pose and base. I also wanted a helmet on & off option. I used a chop saw to cut the Lion Forgeworld base apart and get the bits that would allow me to show Corswain wading through a gaggle of Night Lords. I also incorporated some of his models terrain in the back of the base. The Master Lazarus head worked perfectly after a few minor adjustments for the Corswain we see in the siege of Terra Books #gw #warhammer40k #spacemarines #gamesworkshop #horusheresy #forgeworld #wargames #wargaming #warhammer #citadelminiatures #paintingwarhammer #minipainting #warhammer40000 #wip #diy #miniatures #reels #reelsinstagram #toys #spacewolves #imperialguard #bloodangels #sistersofbattle #deathguard #darkangels #killteam #ageofsigmar #modeling #hobby #miniaturepainting (at Planet Caliban) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqStmfzOgg5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=