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to be fair both are applicable to sex if you do it right (or wrong?) enough

the best relationships involve both types of cnc

there's two??

#dont ask me how im not interested in sex things enough to think abt that

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my takeaway from my first look at fo:nv is that I really really wish it had more colour. the entire game is just muted yellows and browns and I get that its thematic but god wheres the green. or even just a brighter yellow once in a while. please.

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no no the original poster had a point, being forklift certified makes us indescribably different and unmistakably Better than the rest

Who the fuck needs Tumblr anymore I'm just going to be looking at lamp posts from now on

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One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had. 

It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!

So if you didn’t know that…now you do

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When a Catgirlthing is suffering from Piscine Yearning, you can remove that debuff by giving her salmon, or another edible fish.

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Warhammer 40,000 as a universe is trying to do the impossible.

Warhammer 40,000 is, broadly, a grim satire of fascism. It takes the fascist's worldview, all the xenophobia, conspiracism, hypernationalism, and militarism, and amplifies it to a galactically ridiculous scale.

"The Imperium of Man has ruled for 10,000 years, warring endlessly against heretics, traitors, aberrant humans, and aliens galore, all of whom are so wildly different from humanity that peaceful coexistence will simply never be possible. The only emotion stronger than our hatred of them is their hatred of us. So, we war. We war and war and battle and slaughter until the end of days. We throw our sacred human form, untainted by mutation or the hideous sciences of our ancestors, against the barbarian hordes by the millions, most of us dying in the process. We revere and worship the warriors elevated by the hand of our divine god-emperor, the apotheosis of our glorious, eternal state. These warriors, reborn in the Emperor's image with His sacred eugenics, to become the ultimate fighting men. And yes, they are all men. We are never safe, while we must constantly be defending our borders from our enemies, we must also be ever-vigilant within. Anybody, from our comrades on the front lines to our commanders, tech-priests, preachers, or politicians, could be a traitor. Nobody can ever TRULY be trusted, and those who truly are heretics, must not only be destroyed, but erased. They, and all memory of them must be eradicated. One heretic can sign the death warrant of his entire world, and sometimes, for the preservation of the human race, billions must die."

Warhammer 40k presents a world where all of this(asterisk) is true (VERY BIG ASTERISK)

Through this lens, a lot of the more... questionable aspects make sense.

T'au Empire Mind Control: The T'au are how fascists view liberals. They CANNOT understand that an integrated, multicultural society could ever POSSIBLY work. They cannot FATHOM that different communities can just... agree to work together, it HAS TO BE the woke mind virus. "Can you believe these fucking idiots tried to NEGOTIATE with TYRANIDS???? These fucking losers tried to make PEACE WITH ANOTHER RACE??? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT"

Why the chaos gods are what they are: The followers of chaos represent everyone of the 'ingroup' the fascist hates. Because nothing, not even their sacred ingroup, is sacred to the fascist. The followers of chaos are the germans who resisted, the jewish antizionist, the rebel (Khorne), the intellectual (Tzeentch), the sick and disabled (Nurgle), and the queer (Slaanesh). "There is no reason ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY not those of our sacred ingroup, could object to our glorious genocide. And the runts of the litter must be eliminated to not be a drain on the rest"

And EVEN WITHIN 40k, a lot of this is bullshit.

The T'au mind control thing is provably bullshit because the Farsight Enclaves exist. A whole T'au society that exists free from the apparent mid control of the ethereals

The imperium feeds as much into the chaos gods as the traitors do. A stagnant, decaying empire (Nurgle), with an incomprehensibly vast and byzantine bureaucratic structure (Tzeentch), where a select few live appallingly lush and lavish lives of hedonism and pleasure, completely detached from the people they're supposed to govern (Slaanesh), all for the purpose of making ever more destructive and bloody war with everybody else (Khorne)

There is evidence of peaceful human coexistence with xenos empires during the Dark Age of Technology, including one humanity CREATED, and many inquisitors and rogue traders will GLADLY incorporate xenos into their retinues. Trade and coexistence with aliens DOES still happen in the imperium.

Hell, the parody of fascism is in the very MECHANICS OF THE WHOLE LORE. Fascists don't believe in "facts" or "truth", if they did, they wouldn't be fascists. Therefore, in 40k, "Everything is canon, nothing is true". This allows players to EITHER

Think critically and try to connect the dots to form their best guess as to what "canon" is

Or buy wholly into one side or another's propaganda

And one of those groups is going to find a "truth" they can accept and treat as fact a LOT more quickly than the other.

40k lays out in perfectly plain low gothic, all of the bullshit and hypocrisies of the Imperium. They'll let entire sectors die in the interests of preserving human life. The way the imperial guard are lauded as heroes but treated worse than the lasguns in their hands. The way that in order to become a space marine, one of humanity's great guardian angels, you must have everything that makes you human either beaten out of you or surgically removed. The priests who worship science and technology viewing scientific progress as the most abhorrent of heresies. The divine worship of a man who scoured entire worlds for the crime of worshipping him as a god.

Actually hang on lemme derail the flow of this post and talk more about the emperor. The Emperor is the chief hypocrite in an empire of hypocrites. "I AM NOT A GOD" says the 10-foot-tall gleaming golden immortal psychic god-man, "NOW GO FORTH MY ANGELS ON YOUR GLORIOUS CRUSADE TO BRING SCIENCE AND REASON, and by science and reason I mean doing exactly what I say without question and turning a blind eye to fundamental truths of the universe, TO THIS BENIGHTED GALAXY"

The problem is that parodying fascism is impossible. Fascism is already so inherently, fundamentally ridiculous a worldview, for all the reasons explained above, that distinguishing sincerity from irony is nigh impossible.

If you, an antifascist, read The Turner Diaries, you will probably assume it's satire. The book ends with Earth as an irradiated hellsacpe where few can survive and nothing about its resulting culture is explained. But nope! This is fascist propaganda! It was written by actual neo-nazis who committed actual hate crimes! It is an enthusiastic YAAAAAAAAAY APOCALYPTIC WARFARE!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAY GENOCIDE!!!!!!!! At least all the black people are gone! Hell, when Rogue One came out, Lucasfilm got all sort of shit flung at them for portraying the evil space nazis... as the bad guys... which they always were.

This is why both we, the fandom, and Games Workshop as a company, are DIRECTLY pushing SO HARD against the fascists in the space, and must push harder. 40K IS NOT FOR THEM. And no amount of clever writing or obvious parody will ever convince them otherwise. It does not matter how unfathomably stupid you make fascism look to people with functioning brains, fascists will gobble that shit up. You cannot make fascism look worse than it is, and you cannot make it stupid enough to convince fascists its stupid.

The problem isn't that Games Workshop isn't doing a good enough job writing the imperium as bad (although they aren't), the problem is that it will never be an adequate mockery to make the fascists feel unwelcome. It's not a bad parody of fascism, fascism is just beyond parody.

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This girl is literally a 100/10

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she can have a tau too

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here's something stupid: the catcatfish

some quick facts:

they're nocturnal and tend to roam around while awake.

they have keen senses of smell and hearing, but terrible eyesight. despite this, they also have a tapetum lucidum, making their pupils "glow" in the dark.

their fur is short, dense, and oily to waterproof them.

they prefer a diet of mostly meat and are attracted to strong-smelling food like fish, cheese, and anything fermented.

the elongated dewclaw on each front paw is sharp, flexible, and nonretractable. it injects a venom that causes respiratory failure and cardiac arrest in prey and, in extreme doses, humans. veterenarians typically remove the dewclaw venom glands during the neuter/spay procedure.

they grow to an average of 1m and 23kg (3ft and 50lb) but can reach up to double that length and triple the weight!

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what if we went to the bottom of the ocean and found that it was just made of flesh. like all of it was flesh and we just didnt know bc theres a bunch of rocks usually on top.

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so recently there's been this big new beastie thats all the rage among the hive fleets and Of Course, I wanna try it too

it's called the Norn Emissary, and is a fancy beafte that's probably the biggest plastic kit Tyranids can buy right now. On the tabletop, it's specialty is holding an objective: at the start of the game you choose one point for it and it gets a defensive buff while it stands there.

also when it released there were a bunch of anons calling it mommy in my inbox

I can see where they were coming from.

unfortunately! I have one big gripe with the emissary: it's a single-pose kit, and all the files I could find online at the time were 3dscans of that same model. no variation or personality at all!

being that this is a creachur that's supposed to embody the Pinnacle of its hive fleet, to be the best of the significant traits of that fleet... well this just wouldn't do

so i started looking at other models I'd had downloaded, considering which I could mash together to make a monster

then I saw her.

the DEATH_CEREBORE free model made by user StrokeMyUnicornsUnihorn.

shes PERFECT.

a cerebore is a Tyranid creature entirely from lore - there has never been model, stats, or even art for the monster so there's really nothing else like it. a completely unique silhouette, solidly built with extremely thick armour plates...

there's only one flaw. for me to proxy something as my emissary, it needs to be close enough in general shape to be recognizable and there's one distinct difference between the two.

the emissary is bipedal, and the cerebore hexapedal.

this is the point wherein, for my prior digital kitbashing adventures, I would've gone to one of my 3dmodelling friends and begged them to help. alas, they were indisposed. I was on my own.

it was a difficult six hour fight in Blender to wiggle and bend her into the shape I needed her to be, and I scaled her up to 113% size to get just that extra bit of height so she'd stand shoulder to shoulder with a standard emissary.

now, after 22hours of printing, I have her front and back halves in physical plastic, and her four arms and base are well on their way

behold! my beautiful creation!

warrior and measuring tape to help with a sense of scale

she's so

THICK AND CHONKY

can't WAIT to get some paint on her!!!

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Norn Emissaries 

[...] are immense and towering Tyranid warrior organisms that act as the express will of a Norn Queen upon a battlefield. Being the living representation of the fleet's traits and strengths, the Norn Emissary of Hive Fleet Karkinos is a behemoth of monstrous resilience that cannot be defeated with anything short of apocalyptic force.

Taking after the distinctive trait of fleet Karkinos wherein the metals on consumed planets are harvested to be utilized in alloyed carapaces, the Norn Emissary can metabolize metals it consumes on the battlefield and immediately implement them into its abnormally thick carapace...

#hobbying #warhammer40k #hive fleet lore inspired by the iron-footed snail