#lords of terra

[season-of-hope]

(Turns up volume)

Blessed are the fornicants

May we bend down to be their whores

Blessed are the rich

May we labor, deliver them more

Blessed are the envious

Bless the slothful,

The Wrathful,

The vain

Blessed are the gluttonous

May they feast us to famine and war

New beginning, new word And the word was death And the word was without light The new beatitude: Good luck, you're on your own

[wh40kartwork]

Once Upon A Time In The Imperial Palace

by Mick19988

[gatheringbones]

[“After just a couple of semesters as an English major and philosophy minor at Hunter College, Audre felt she knew which fiction was worth respecting. Even though the subtitle described her as a fan, and she called herself a sci-fi “addict” by the end of the piece, she also alluded to her own discerning tastes. She knew how to judge the “character studies” and “emotional integrity” and “artistry” that truly good science fiction authors demonstrated. She called Ray Bradbury a “master craftsman” for his “dexterity” in seriously portraying the imagined perspectives of people living on Mars. She called August Derleth a “master of all fantasy fiction.” All of this before her critique, decades later, of the master’s tools and the master’s house.

For Audre, it was important that good science fiction and fantasy get the science right. As she pointed out, even children know the basics of science. Sci-fi authors cannot irresponsibly portray humans walking on the moon, breathing without any special apparatus. In this piece our young Audre, with the hopeful comradery of a fellow fan, suggests that Seventeen readers start with the collections she calls “excellent,” especially Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and Derleth’s edited anthologies The Outer Reaches, The Other Side of the Moon, and Beyond Time and Space.

Audre thought the rise in science fiction’s profile was timely, and timeless. “The unconquerable drive that will always urge man to scan the future and to seek knowledge of what he knows not, is ageless,” she wrote. But the timing of this piece in her life is also telling. The future-oriented work she was reading and writing about may also have reflected her own desire to move into a new stage of life or, in her words, a “preoccupation with things to come and with the better world of tomorrow.” She empathized with a society, especially people in her own generation, who felt “caught in a world very little of our own making.” At the same time, she saw science fiction as an important form of worldmaking, noting that what science fiction depicts will eventually come into being. “Fifty years before the submarine was invented, Jules Verne equipped his fabulous Nautilus with forerunners of present-day submarine equipment,” she pointed out.

And if nineteen-year-old Audre were to make a world, what world would she make? Her own future had a lot in common with the other side of the moon. She had no idea what was going to happen. But she knew she wanted something different. Remember, this was the high school poet who wrote: Strange other lands do call me With alien songs I heed …”]

alexis pauline gumbs, from survival is a promise: the eternal life of audre lorde, 2024

[generaleferri]

The ramparts of Mount Erebus (colorized), Herbert Ponting

West Gate of Moria, J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't really know what this post is supposed to mean. I just felt I had to share this sort of epiphany.

[purplebutwarhammer]

Warhammer lore being so open ended at times, despite being a little frustrating leaves a lot fun options to just make stuff up.

I could say that Mercutian was right and Sevatar did survive, him and Rushal are acting as renegade marines following the plan of dividing and attacking the imperium with their purpose being ‘justice, judgment, and punishment���, they’re also somewhat guided by Sevatars powers since they aren’t killing him anymore.

I could take it even further and say that (with no evidence whatsoever) those two where also part of the group that scoured the Nostramo Sector after the heresy.

(I know it’s believed to have been the Ashen Claws but they could both easily be mistaken for Raven Guard/or have hitched a ride with the group)

[weaseldale]

One empty area within my own arknights theories is how exactly the ancients/elders came to be on terra in the first place. They clearly aren't native, per sarkaz accounts (who are native to the planet). But a ship from talos-II with 'life' in it after all that was left is rubble and ruins... That could be something. The implication here that the doctor was directly involved and is doing stuff behind priestess' back... I neeeeeeeed more

[fort-new-dawn]

The Twink Lord and the Butch Farm Girl (who tolerates each other's existence)

Gave Blaze some of his drip back. Despite Sunrise's face... she likes it

[lonelysa1lor]

Evil Magic Plant Woman vs A different evil guy who has a plant based curse

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, Peter Jackson)

06/07/2024

[pensieri-inlacrime]

Le vibes che amo 💍🧙🏼‍♀️

[veinsfullofstars]

“What’s a pretty knight like you doin’ on a pretty night like this?” “… Stars, you are insufferable, rat.”

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Daroach & Dark Meta Knight floating at an angle over a star-dappled sunset sky. The thief drifts up from the gold light of dusk with a cocky grin and sultry gaze, and the knight hovers above him against a violet backdrop of stars, his wings spread wide and rimmed in both sunlight and starlight, his hand on Daroach’s chin, his eyes on his mouth. END ID.)

Y'know. I had a very different vibe in mind when I started this piece. Then I threw on a gradient map and was like “Oh wait this kinda slaps actually,” so now it’s way more sentimental than I meant it to be. Still like how it turned out, though - drawing these two helps during this current bout of Very Bad Brain Time™.

Started 12/13/23, finished 12/16/23, updated for color correction 11/02/24. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 12/16/23.

[yaka-arrow]

Sometimes, when your mama tells you that a hand sign means rock on, and that you should use it whenever you do something really cool, she might just have a private joke she ain't sharin' with you just yet. :)

[izunias-meme-hole]

[gatheringbones]

judy grahn, from another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds, 1984

[wh40kgallery]

Solar Council

by Lewis Jones

[kieran-0]

Raldoron, the first chapter master of the blood angels facing the commander of the night lords at the siege of terra