#tal tag

[saunteredserpent]

be me, lately:

✔️ confess to writing partner that I like him romantically after six months of doing not only said writing together, but also getting to know each other on a close and personal level

✔️ have said feelings both validated and reciprocated

✔️ spend last three days back and forth with said partner being disgustingly sappy (/pos) and in love

✔️ today reach the stage in newfound relationship of asking each other whether 'significant other' is a good label. get told yes, 'significant other' is perfect

✔️ also today, while at work, get told by supervisor that he thinks I'd be perfect to fill the role of another manager position that will be opening up, and that I should apply; if I am offered and take it, said role will include pay raise, pto, guaranteed hours, and other benefits

seriously. y'all,,,,,,

[spindrifters]

In regards to marg Remus having sad and complicated feels about growing up forcibly removed from his culture: zo how could you do this to me so close to the high holidays 😭

oh, diaspora, we’re really in it now

(but for real I think this is to varying degrees an all too common experience that just isn’t talked enough about in modern judaism. so like. you and me both. and I’m always down to get into the muck of it.)

[angomay]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

welcome to ur rawring 20s

[ID: A reaction image of Peridot’s crying face surrounded by many heart emojis. End ID]

WAHHHHH TY FRIEND WGHGAHA

[lbctal]

[estigmxs]

Las peores decisiones las tomamos estando tristes, pero las mejores, también.

El dolor siempre será necesario.

[blizardstar]

Me when Ashton Greymoore is denied honorable and meaningful self-sacrifice, and now must face the reality that they MUST keep living after it’s All Over

[megsdoodletag]

yes ok I have been asked about the updated codex let’s talk updated codex

So. Post Plague-Wars. Ultramar system. Guilliman and Yvraine have a strong alliance, and in completely and totally unrelated news have a daughter named Juno Vaeyncaria Guilliman.

MEANWHILE…

on the other side of the Imperium, the Emperor is given a Text-To-Speech Device. Now the original ITEHATTSD obviously happens prior to Plague Wars so while the basic framework is there (kitten exists, magnus is back, dorn and his Boy are there, etc.) it’s obviously a lil different. Through a series of convoluted events we don’t need to discuss at this point, Magnus accidentally pokes the timeline in a weird way and pops the dead primarchs back into existence. They remember everything just fine! They are just. no longer dead. and now in 42k.

This brings us to what I’m affectionately calling ‘2012 Avengers Tower Imperial Palace.’ All the known primarchs are active, though some are still running around 'lost-ish' in the warp. Most of the previously dead primarchs are ‘recovering’ in their former residencies alongside the TTS crew, seeing to what’s left of their legion and figuring out what the hell is going on with. whatever is happening in M42.

Horus in particular is in a weird spot. first, of all the returnees, he’s alone. Ferrus makes up with fulgrim pretty immediately, sang is permanently covered in various marines of his geneline, konrad’s having a Great Time Actually (we’ll get to that later). but nobody seems to like horus much, a position he’s never been in, and this includes his legion which is entirely under abaddon’s control and not going anywhere in the near future. so he does what any guy going through a midlife crisis does and gets himself a hobby.

See, two supposedly dead primarchs remain unaccounted for after Magnus’ spell, namely the two original Lost Primarchs. by logic this means they must still be alive, somewhere. everyone else is unbothered by this, as Malcador’s memory spell disallows any concentrated thought of the two, and even though the primarchs are aware they had more brothers, to their knowledge dad went out to meet with them and something Went Wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️ and then he came back and retired shortly thereafter. weird! oh well.

but horus was not just killed, he was Unmade. when he was reconstituted it was as though he was new, without the stain of chaos.

and free of malcador’s influence.

while ostensibly crashing on dad’s couch, Horus throws himself into finding out what he believes is the key to all of this, the thing that poisoned the imperium before even the Heresy, the original Deviation from the Plan: whatever actually happened to the two lost primarchs?

Ok it’s later now. Konrad Curze always believed in fate. He followed it dutifully into its darkest depths, to his own grisly death.

And then he came back! He never saw anything about that! He figures that, having lived out his fate to its completion, he’s now free of it entirely. Oh he still has visions, but he’s much more lax in interpreting them, and thinks himself above their dictates besides. So. He still likes flensing people and thinks fear makes a fine method of control and hes still got…issues…but he’s not quite as stuck and he's having a wonderful time about it. and he’s also hanging around the palace bc he’s also got very little contact with his legion, which is either scattered or under Sevatar and/or whichever NL prophet we're on now.

So he gets roped into fucking around in emps’ restricted history section with horus! yippee!

The two actually work really well as a buddy-cop kinda pair, with horus slowly repairing his relationships where he can while konrad trails him and learns how to be alive outside of the narrow scope of his futuresight. Magnus inevitably sticks his nose into things and gets to work undoing the mind-block on the rest of them. Alpharius gets involved because it turns out one of the lost legions might actually still exist. and even lion and leman join the hunt cause honestly they're really curious at this point.

Eventually the uncles drag their niece and her friends into the whole ordeal, in part because she happens to have a particularly strong psychic presence that attracts lost and dead marine souls in the warp. Like a cooler, named character version of the Legion of the Damned. Usefull when trying to gain accurate historical info.

oh yeah and emps gets off the throne at some point. he’s not bothering with the Mystery Gang because he’s too busy being one half of a political deadlock with guilliman, where it’s very clear gman does not actually trust him to lead the imperium anymore and is essentially running his own show off-leash from ultramar, but neither of them are remotely willing to like, discuss this. in any way. so instead they’re just stuck awkwardly across from each other, guilliman never offering control of the imperium back to his father and emps never reaching to take the regent position from him and i think if he stopped to think about it this is bc emps would be. a little nervous about resuming full command back from guilliman. because he’s not sure guilliman would give it to him. and he’s not sure he’s in a position to handle that. again. but emps is allergic to being emotionally competent so his brain skates over that thought, unable to confront it directly with any introspection, and instead he just. doesnt mention it! and guilliman doesnt mention it and emps sits in the wreckage of the dream he accidentally set on fire himself while his son methodically does the work to put it out and they won’t look at each other and its fine its all. fine.

and that’s the Updated Codex! 👍🏻 feel free to ask more

thanks to @wolf_feathers12 for the chance to give my ted talk, and tagging @thisuserissilly for lore posts (tm)

[palayeroyales]

PALAYE ROYALE ♰ DEAD TO ME ↪ Was it all in my head? Wasn't meant to be Thought I'd love you 'til death Now you're dead to me

[immult]

rewatching the last episode and. they're trying to kill me with this one actually.

THEY'RE SO WORRIED ABOUT HER AND SHE'S SO GLAD. that's right ashton don't you fucking BELIEVE it when imogen said she's alright with sacrificing herself for the cause. she might be willing but she is SCARED of dying!! look at her relief!!!!!

[flownwrong]

Star Trek: Discovery / Mirrors (5x05)

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

DAS FINSTERE TAL 2014・dir. Andreas Prochaska

[saunteredserpent]

does he know. how much I adore him.

[spindrifters]

Important brain food:

In honor of mwpp in shorts, I feel like James could easily convince Remus and Peter to start wearing those convertible zip off shorts/pants.

... oops that was not a question

the question is: how long would it take Sirius to burn or vanish or otherwise dispose of said shortpants?

NOT THE CONVERTIBLE SHORTS

and it's the 70s so I bet they have the kind that snap

peter genuinely likes them, or at least doesn't dislike them enough to go against james's influence. remus doesn't have a sense of fashion anyway but he can appreciate the practicality here.

it lasts two days, tal. he vanishes every pair in secret except for the last, then waits for the others to arrive at the dorm so they can all watch him burn them to a little pile of ash in front of their very eyes, as god and merlin intended.

[angomay]

Zero escape for fandom ask!!!

Favorite character: siggy da sigma

Least favorite character: eric

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): hrm… seven x lotus, alice x clover, junpei x akane (sort of), and i don’t really ship it but i see the appeal of junpei x snake. can’t really think of anything else

Character I find most attractive: mira

Character I would marry: phi

Character I would be best friends with: luna

A random thought: does snake is gay?

An unpopular opinion: i like VLR sorry gaymerz

My canon OTP: junpei x akane? i guess? i love dissecting their relationship i just don’t really ship them

Non-canon OTP: i don’t think about too many ze ships but i’ll say seven x lotus because i think it’s funny and sweet

Most badass character: SNAKE. HOLY SHIT

Pairing I am not a fan of: don’t hate them but i’m not a fan of any carlos pairings, he’s just too much of an aromantic king to me. HOWEVER junpei x akane x (queerplatonic) carlos is so real and funny and true the vibes in there are CRAZY

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): reading about eric’s development made me sad because he’s such a cool character in concept and yet. in game he’s just. like that

Favorite friendship: siggy & phido… also junpei and clover, i really liked their sections together in 999

[ask game]

[lbctal]

[caeslxys]

Something I think is extremely interesting thematically when it comes to connecting what Downfall and the ideas it tackled to the overarching narrative of campaign three is that the things Downfall made a point to showcase of Aeor—Cassida, Hallis, the visual of an aeormaton proposing to her partner, the specific and intentional decision to shed light on a far from insignificant amount of the population being civilians or refugees—is that it plays in perfect parallel across from what is happening (and, really, has been happening) to the ruidusborn on Exandria in present.

Bear with me for a moment. Aeor is ultimately a city that was collectively punished for the decisions of its leadership. We could (and, judging by the amount of discourse around this particular topic already, probably will) argue about what the Gods’ motivation for all of this was—whether it be that they could not, in the end, bear to kill their siblings or that they were terrified at the prospect of mortality—for me it is a very healthy dose of both—but for this I am much more interested in the latter. They were scared. That, really, is the driving force behind both this arc and their role in c3 as a whole.

Why I point this out is: It is far more interesting to me, especially as we go back to Bells Hells this week, to dissect the Gods and their decisions not purely on sympathetic motivation alone but as beings in the highest seat of power in the highest social class in Exandria.

So, having established that the Gods (in relation to mortals) are more a higher social class than anything we could compare to our real life understanding of divinity and that Aeor was eviscerated largely because of their fear—what is the difference between those innocents in Aeor caught in the trappings of their autocratic government leadership and a divine war on the ground, and those of the ruidusborn being manipulated both by Ludinus and by the very thing that inspired such visceral fear in the Gods to start with. I would argue very little.

I think of Cassida, doing what she genuinely thought was right and good and would save people, her son, and the object of her worship—and how that did not matter enough to any of them to spare her because of the fear they held at the very concept of mortality. I think of Liliana and Imogen, one of which we know begged for the gods to help her or send her a sign for years on years, and how every single one of their largest struggles could have been avoided had the gods loved them, their supposed children, as much as they feared what they could be. I think of how the thing that did save Imogen, in the end, was a woman who herself existed in direct defiance of the gods will. I think of that young boy, sixteen years old, that Laudna exalted on Ruidus.

I think it’s completely fair to judge Aeor’s overall society as deeply corrupt—it was!—but its leadership and police force are not a reflection of every one of its citizens. Similarly, it is fair to judge the Ruby Vanguard as corrupt—it is!—but its multiple heads of leadership and even the god-eater further are not a reflection of every one of its members.

Notably, and what I think the Hells will latch onto, this did not matter to the Gods. It did not matter that Cassida was trying to help. She was still too much of a risk. Will it matter, what Imogen does? Will it matter, if that young boy is in the blast radius when they decide to take no further chances?

I’ve seen a lot of people say that the Hells will side with the gods and I don’t think I agree. Especially as Imogen has been scolded and villainized over and over for daring to try and save her mother—who herself has been seen by some as an irredeemable evil in spite of her drive being the exact same—her family—but when it’s the Gods it’s justified? When it’s the Gods, it’s sympathetic? Too sympathetic to criticize further than “they’re family”?

I obviously do not think the Gods should die or be eaten or what have you, and I certainly don’t agree with Ludinus (though I find him much more compelling than just a variation of hubris wizard), but when talking about the Gods in Aeor and in present it isn’t really at all about their motivation or their family. It can’t be. Too many people, including our active protagonists, lives have been effected for it to be as cut and dry as “they’re family”. These are your children. They are your family, too.