#Black Sun Empire

[circleofbirds]

#now listening: electronic #drum and bass #neurofunk #prolix #black sun empire #dc breaks #now listening #Bandcamp

[exceptthekitchensink]

Black Sun Empire - Eraser

#youtube #Black Sun Empire #BSE #drum and bass #electronic music #instrumental #neurofunk #sometimes also my other jam

[da-ill-spot]

October 6-8 | DOOMTOWN LV

Downtown Las Vegas, NV | Tix

#DOOMTOWN #Las Vegas #Nevada #music festivals #shows #events #concerts #Mala #bass music #B-Side Los Angeles #NFBN #Daisy Chain #EPROM #Ed Rush #Black Sun Empire #DMVU #drum n bass #dubstep #riddim #Chemistry MC #Ternion Sound #Kahn & Neek #Hamdi #Bianca Oblivion #The Librarian #Osyris #WHYS #Blacklab #Liquid Giraffe #Kimothy Leary

[thetaizuru]

(Black Sun Empire)

#SoundCloud #music #Black Sun Empire #soundcloud

[ash-and-starlight]

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#alright re: last reblog #first of all zuko is a massive bitch and i love him so much #second u know he was just like there is One person in the world that katara wants to murder more than me so let’s do that #so she can let it out And spare my ass <3 #tHIRD ppl it’s not really surprising that zuzu is pro murder like #boy was supposed to inherit an imperialist empire and keep up an imperialist war #idk if ozai was the only one able to get the throne without going to battle once but iroh and lu ten were generals. led armies. #zuko was Fully prepared to take on that role too (see: the fateful war meeting) #he’s been raised with the yeah murder is a thing that you’ll have to do mindset #like he’s not a killer but he Would do it if the circumstances called for it #(sokka parallel btw) #does it make sense? #also like #he fully says that if he wasn’t such a firm believer in destiny he Could and Would have killed ozai on the day of the black sun #he says it to his face #this would be a fun au actually lmao like. the gaang bursting into the room and there’s just zuko there #next to ozai’s lightning fried corpse #like hello 🧍🏻‍♂️👋🏼 zuko here 😬🔥 #and has to convince everyone he’s good and friendly now this is not an evil plan 🫶🏼 #last thing but this reminds me #WHERE is that post that was like #sokka finds out zuko could have ended the war the day of the black sun but didn’t and just throttles him #<333 #if you read all this ty i’m sorry i’m kissing u #send post

[labyrinthhofmymind]

they’re everywhere.

#remus lupin #james potter #regulus black #sirius black #jegulus #wolfstar #starchaser #stars #sun #moon #marauders #i can’t do anything without thinking about the marauders #they consumer every part of my life #ifykyk #they’re my roman empire

[ofliterarynature]

SEPTEMBER 2023 WRAP UP

[ loved liked ok no thanks (reread) book club* DNF ]

The Anomaly | Not the Witch You Wed | A Pale Light In the Black | (My Volcano)* | Klara and the Sun | Our Hideous Progeny | (A Gathering of Shadows) | A Dangerous Collaboration | Empire of Sand | (A Darker Shade of Magic) | Scattered Showers | A Treacherous Curse | Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz | The Hanged Man | Magic Below Stairs | The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy | The City & The City | The Splinter in the Sky

* * * * *

Magic Below Stairs was a charming middle-grade spin off to the Cecelia & Kate series, I had a good time and would be more than happy to read more books in this world!

The Hanged Man was the second in the Tarot Sequence, and still great! Not perfect, but the characters are so fun and the plots are extremely intense, I loved reading this. The haunted ship was scarier than the actual haunted ship horror book I just read.

Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz…bad. You took this amazing set up and look what you did with it! You made it generic and boring and feeling outdated. Justice for the centuries-old, animated, sentient, sorcerous, gender-fluid puppet who deserved better (to be the main character, to start)

(Veronica Speedwell is of course, fun as always. I have unfortunately now hit the books with longer hold times and am very D: about it)

Scattered Showers was a very heartwarming collection! Perfectly (and maybe, best) suited for fans of the author’s novels. Perhaps a little one-note, but a good read. I love the cover design a lot :D

This is the first time I’ve reread the Shades of Magic books since I finished the series in 2018. I loved them dearly. But my tastes shifted dramatically between then and now… ADSOM is ok. A decently solid fantasy novel, but not one that’s delivering what I want these days. A Gathering of Shadows, however, is a hot mess. I already did some yelling about it but there’s really not a plot, the storyline seems forced, and as asexualbookbird put it, it’s really just Book 3: The Prequel. I don’t know if reading it for the first time would be better? Mostly I was bored and irritated and would have loved to quit.

Somebody help me out, was there hype for Empire of Sand? Because I feel like there was, and I was so let down. The world building was beautiful, but it felt like absolutely nothing happened for the entire middle of the book? And the romantic elements weren’t enough to tempt me, I’d have loved this if it had gone full political intrigue instead.

I’m not a Frankenstein person, but I had a great time with Our Hideous Progeny! I’m a sucker for historical fiction with smart female characters, even if I wanted to strangle a lot of the men, lol. I might have zoned out a bit during the denser paleontological bits, but I look forward to future work by the author.

Klara and the Sun is another one I don’t quite understand the love for, it just wasn’t for me.

My Volcano. YES. IT IS BACK AGAIN. FOR BOOKCLUB AGAIN EVEN. This is such a complicated book that only two of us managed to finish it for book club when we first read it last year. Now that we have some new recruits we decided to try it again (no luck alas). BUT I am still not over it, check out my tag for more yelling. Right now I’m trying to convince the group to *not* do a third read next year and maybe try one of the author’s other books (and the author followed me back on Twitter! I got irrationally excited lol)

I was a bit nervous going into A Pale Light in the Black, having had some flops from the person who rec’d this previously, but it was so fun! ‘Space Coast Guard’ is not a thing that would immediately leap to mind as something I’d be interested in, but this goes *hard* on the found family vibes and spends just as much time on the characters’ emotions as it does on the plot, in addition to being super queer! The plot is a little clunky being split in two different directions with the investigation and the military games, but I still had such a good time (and speaking from the future, book 2 does improve on that!)

When will I learn my lesson about contemporary romance? Regardless of the fact that the plot for Not the Witch You Wed could have been ripped from one of the many many Teen Wolf fics I’ve read and enjoyed, we did *not* get along. Sigh.

I’m not sure what I was expecting from The Anomaly, but I think it was something more? Probably because it was a translation? Idk, I don’t find the “are we just a simulation” discussion particularly compelling (and My Volcano deals with related topics in more interesting ways), and the rest couldn’t hold me. Really wish I’d DNF’d this one, but I pushed though in hope.

The actual DNF’s -

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy I wanted to like. I enjoy quirky world building, but it felt like a contemporary romance masquerading as a fantasy - accompanied by all those pesky cr tropes that annoy me. Most of the characters were irritating me as well, and I didn’t want to forgive Hart, even if I understand why he was being so awful, so I decided to quit before I worked myself up too far.

The City & The City had a cool concept, but after 25% I still wasn’t interested. I’d maybe try something else from Mieville, but this wasn’t for me.

The Splinter in the Sky is a book that probably looked fantastic as an outline. But when it came to filling it out and connecting the dots, well…it was lacking a lot. Readable, maybe not worth the effort, but I’d give the author another try on a future work.

#sliding in at the last minute so this isn’t technically a full month late lmao #book log #wrap up 2023 #books #booklr #bookblr #2023 #bec posts #magic below stairs #Caroline stevermer #Cecelia and Kate #tarot sequence #veronica speedwell #scattered showers #empire of sand #shades of Magic #our hideous progeny #Klara and the sun #my volcano #a pale light in the black #NeoG #the anomaly #not the witch you Wed

[bloodmaarked]

➸ reading list

just added:

prophet, helen macdonald + sin blanché

our share of night, mariana enriquez

the sun and the void, gabriela romero-lacruz

a greek love: a novel of cuba, zoé valdés

the thursday murder club, richard osman

black england: a forgotten georgian history, gretchen gerzina

black people in the british empire, peter fryer

the end of men, christina sweeney-baird

the actor, chris macdonald

the black queen, jumata emill

#prophet #helen macdonald #sin blanche #our share of night #mariana enriquez #the sun and the void #gabriela romero lacruz #a greek love #zoe valdez #the thursday murder club #richard osman #black england #gretchen gerzina #black people in the british empire #peter fryer #the end of men #christina sweeney baird #the actor #chris macdonald #the black queen #jumata emill #reading list #tbr #booklr #bookblr #bookworm

[lemurchick]

pretty sure people who love Black sails will enjoy RRR a lot.

two hot men taking on the British empire? Check

he’s a god or demigod or whatever the fuck he is? Check

love, intimacy, betrayals and trust? Check

crazy tension between two leads? Check, though RRR is not a queer story canonically (thanks ao3 for always delivering)

(not that great on female representation though)

also, Black sails would be even better with some obligatory musical numbers.

#black sails #rrr #the sun never sets on the english empire #until it does :3

[exceptthekitchensink]

Black Sun Empire - Extraction

#youtube #BSE #Black Sun Empire #dnb #drum and bass #electronic music #instrumental #sometimes my jam when I remember it #neurofunk

[komododad1]

By the late 1960s, the Imperial Japanese Army was in the midst of a large-scale modernization effort to catch up with its primary adversaries and competitors. While retaining the older Type 92 helmet, this soldier wears the new Type 25 fatigues and carries the new Type 24 rifle.

The IJA's modernization efforts would soon receive a trial by fire throughout the 1960s and 70s as Japan contended with a number of internal conflicts throughout its sphere of influence, such as in Tibet, Xinjiang, Indonesia, Malaya, Burma, and other locales across Asia.

#alternate history #alt history #furry #furry art #furries #KD's art #Black Sun #Japan #Empire of Japan

[thetaizuru]

(STUDIO)

#SoundCloud #music #STUDIO #Blackout Music #blackout #black sun empire #gen.ii #soundcloud

[kariachi]

Okay, it’s Odaiba Day, if there is any day I am going to get a partner line together for Chosen Devin AUs it is today damnit...

So, the Aberamon line, kinda sorta. An Aberamon line.

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Erynmon

Stage: Baby/Baby I

Type: Seed

Attribute: Data

Description: A small brown orbular digimon with three large, round violet, petal-like wings coming from it’s top, the wings droop down, hiding much of the center from view and dragging on the ground, can use wings to float and twirl in the air and on breezes, has two large solid yellow eyes

Attacks: Sepal Swat (bats at opponents with it’s wings)

Hegrekmon

Stage: In-Training/Baby II

Type: Fairy

Attribute:Data

Description: A small, ovular, white creature that appears to be formed from smooth, shiny stone, with a jagged crater-esque mouth, two large pastel-blue eyes, and three small round feet

Attacks: Dizzy Dance (disorients enemies by circling them at high speeds)

Aberamon (Sun)

Stage: Rookie/Child

Type: Holy Beast

Attribute: Vaccine

Description: A mid-sized creature with a flat, almost square body, upper portions covered in what appears to be long, flowing, light brown ‘Pele’s hair’, skin is a very pale yellow, possesses four thick spider-like legs, one at each corner, ending in one large claw each, head is large, round, and attached directly to the body between the front-most pair of legs, possesses four large eyes- right pair green and left pair violet, mouth is large on the head and full of sharp teeth, two small black horns rest on the top of the head

Attacks: Shard Shell (tackles opponent with full force)

Dididirumon (Sun)

Stage: Champion/Adult

Type: Holy Beast

Attribute: Vaccine

Description: A large creature reminiscent of a flat-backed millipede, possesses no legs, segments all extend into solid fin-like forms, back and fins dark brown, head and underbelly very pale yellow, no antennae but does possess a pair of black antlers with two tines, mouthless head with four angular eyes- right pair green and left pair violet, segments edged in electrum, ‘swims’ through water and air does not touch ground under normal circumstances

Attacks: Solar Tribute (generates ball of fire between antlers and fires at opponents), Coils (entangles and squeezes opponent)

Oppoimon

Stage: Ultimate/Perfect

Type: Mythical Dragon

Attribute: Vaccine

Description: A massive, flat creature reminiscent of annelids with a lizard-like head, a dozen pairs of dark grey metallic claws line the sides of the body, possesses two large forelimbs similar to those of a mantis in the same color as the claws, tail ends in an screw of the same, head has a metallic dark grey skull helmet, mouth has two rows of sharp teeth, four angular yellow eyes, jagged ochor-red stripe under each eye, down each forelimb, and on either side of the ‘spine’ down the back, primary color is a shiny grey-green, typically terrestrial

Attacks: Striking Ambush (strikes out at enemies with forelimbs), Pressure Quake (causes the ground to shake violently and geysers to erupt under the enemy)

Rumalmon (Moon)

Stage: Mega/Ultimate

Type: God Dragon

Attribute: Vaccine

Description: A large Osmosian-shaped creature with a dark grey-green hide, forelimbs are massive in comparison to the body ending in heavy, skeletal hands half the size of the torso, skeletal tail is twice as long proportionally as an Osmosian tail, possesses four large pairs of eyes- four violet running down the belly and four green running down the back, head is eyeless, canine teeth are doubled as compared to an Osmosian, skeletal portions are bright yellow-orange, possesses seven four-tined electrum antlers, one electrum chain is wrapped around the base of each antler and wraps loosely around the body and limbs, can locomote quadrupedally, bipedally, and through floating

Attacks: Holy Sabre (stabs and/or slashes as enemies with claws), Calling (releases blinding light from eyes that radiates through area, damages ‘unholy’ opponents), Nightburst (unleashes a barrage of energy blasts onto opponents)

#fakemon #fun fact: most osmosian empire holy digis come in two variants- sun & moon #and have heterochromia #due to the elevation of such things in savar #the powers are generally changed (fire vs energy | darkness vs light | etc) #just as the colors are though #so a bit different from having like a black variant or something #was oppomon inspired by a critter from my babo'verse? why yes yes it was #for the second year in a row i make a fakemon for odaiba day

[faunusrights]

any jungle/DnB recs?

anon this question is so good but also holy shit this is such a hard question to answer. like. where are you in regards to knowing shit abt fuck. are we talking yr new to this or you want some 90s classics from beyond the veil. gateway drug or designer shit. liquid dnb or neurofunk. dubstep or breakcore. what am i reccing here.

that said listen to calyx

#ask #but seriously there's so many things going on here #i like black sun empire and concord dawn #i like mid 10s netsky and SPY #i like burial and vacant and sorrow #SO many.

[mrsalenko]

there’s quite a few fav songs of mine that i didn’t realize are only popular in australia, or that they were an australian band in the first place because accents are harder to hear when people are singing anyway.

#black fingernails red wine comes to mine #that i only remembered existed today #and walking on a dream by empire of the sun

[thestuffedalligator]

The goblin looked at the orc. The orc looked at the goblin. They both looked down at the crumpled shape of the Overlord, His Unholy Majesty, in his obsidian armor.

His final spasms had been mesmerizingly acrobatic. The fall down the steps leading up to his iron throne had pretzelled his body quite impressively, both arms folded behind his back and one leg bent at a jaunty angle.

The goblin looked at the orc. The orc looked at the goblin.

"Shit," said the goblin.

"Shit," said the orc.

"We're likely to get blamed for this," the goblin said. She walked over to the head of the glittering mangled heap and started pulling the helmet off.

"It's not our fault," the orc said. "It's hard to help someone choking when they wear two-hundred pounds of spiked armor at all times."

"Yeah, well," the goblin grunted. The helmet came free, and the bald head of the Overlord bounced on the stone with a hollow, coconut noise. "You know how it is in this bloody country - thieves get their heads cut off so they can't think about thieving, and all that." She fished in the Overlord's mouth with a finger and pulled out the obstructing olive on the end of her claw.

She popped it into her mouth and chewed. "What do you reckon they do for a regicide?" she said.

"We should run," the orc said. She had started bouncing her leg. "I hear that there's some places in the Alliance where they just kill you and let you stay dead. That's got to be nicer than what'll happen if we stay here."

The goblin started to nod - and then her gaze fell on the helmet.

It looked like a pineapple designed by a deranged blacksmith. It was all thorns and spikes and hard edges, as though the maker had been very determined to not let pigeons roost on it. The only bits that weren't solid iron were eyeholes. Nobody had ever seen the Overlord's face.

She held up the helmet and squinted from it to the orc. One of the thorns had been bent badly in the fall.

Nobody had ever seen the Overlord's face...

"Right," she muttered. "Right. Could work - or."

The orc had a sudden vision of the immediate future. "No," she said.

"I mean you're about his height-"

"No."

"It would just be for a-"

"Absolutely not."

"Just hear me out," the goblin said. "Outside of this room are two-thousand men and orcs and goblins who are absolutely gonzo about this man, and there's a whole country of them outside of the castle, and at any moment someone's going to walk in that door and see one dead tit in black armor and two unbelievably dead idiots next to him.

"Or." She tossed the helmet up like a basketball to the orc, who fumbled and tried to find somewhere to hold it that wasn't a knife's edge. "We chuck him out the window now, walk out the door in the armor, and ditch the armor as soon as nobody sees us."

The orc had started bouncing her leg again. "They'll know something's up the second I walk out of the room."

"No worries," said the goblin. "Leave that to me."

---

It had been a very strange year for the Empire.

Change had rolled across the land as slow and inevitable as a glacier. Roads and bridges carved the gray, blasted wildlands, and a number of social reforms had made the country a place where you could be miserable, yes, but miserable in comfort and safety, and that was an improvement.

Barely anyone got boiled alive in molten metal, and even if the disgusted sun never rose to light the Empire, at least you had a roof over your head to protect yourself from the acid rain.

"Your empire flourishes, Your Unholy Majesty," the magician said over her wine glass. She looked down from the tower's balcony over the gleaming stone battlements. Some work had been done to line the castle and surrounding city with sizzling, crackling alchemical lights at night. The whole thing glowed like something dangerously radioactive.

The suit of armor waved a languid, glittering gauntlet over to the goblin, who bowed.

"His Abominable Gloriousness Thanks You," the goblin recited. "The Prosperity Of His Empire Can Only Be Achieved Through The Prosperity Of His People."

"If I may be so bold, I am quite pleased that you had chosen to take my counsel under consideration," said the magician. "We have accomplished many things together."

Another wave. Another bow. "The Overlord, May His Presence Swallow The Sun And Stars, Thanks You As Well."

"It was quite gratifying to see you change your mind, after so many centuries of denial." The wine was swirled. "Tell me, what was it that finally gave you cause to listen to me?"

There was the slightest hesitation. The goblin's eyes flicked to the armor, then to the magician. She puffed out her chest. "Do you question the wisdom of His Austere Lugubriousness?" she asked.

The magician looked at the goblin. She looked at the armor. She tipped her head back and drank the wine too quickly.

She looked back at the armor. "I know you're the orc, you moron," she said.

The room went deathly still. An alchemical light fizzled.

The orc pulled off the helmet, sending long, untied hair down tangling, and said: "How could you possibly-"

"Because you're both idiots!" the magician said. The goblin jumped. The orc jumped with a noise like a dropped stove. "What kind of a plan was this?! If it wasn't for me, you would have been turned into fertilizer months ago."

She closed her eyes. She took a long, dramatic breath. She set the wine glass down on the balcony rail.

"How did the Overlord die?" she asked when she seemed like she had gotten a hold over herself.

"Choked on an olive," said the goblin.

"Threw his body out the window," said the orc.

"You don't have to mention the window," said the goblin.

"Right," said the orc. "Sorry."

The magician looked out over the city, hand curled thoughtfully under her nose. "Who knows about this?"

"Just us. And, uh. You. Apparently."

"And why did you accept my counsel?"

The orc blinked. "Sorry?"

"Why did you accept my counsel?" the magician repeated.

"Well," the orc said. "Well - you seemed like you had good ideas-"

"Great ideas!" the goblin said with an edge of desperation. "Don't know why the old bastard didn't listen to you!"

"Right - right," said the orc. "And when we figured we were stuck doing this - well, it just made sense, really."

The magician seemed to absorb this. She nodded. "All right," she said, striding between the two and grabbing the crystal decanter.

"Um," said the orc. "Sorry. What happens now?"

"What happens is that you two will continue to serve as Overlord," said the magician. "You will continue to take my counsel. We will continue to reform this bloody country, and gods willing, we will turn it into the crown jewel of the world by next Midwinter."

The orc looked at the goblin. The goblin looked at the orc.

"Really?" the goblin asked.

"Oh yes," said the magician. "I've worked hard to be counsel to the Overlord, and I have no reason to stop now. And besides-"

She looked the orc up and down with a deliberate slowness, poring over every microscopic detail, eyes tracing over every jagged line, and grinned like a panther.

"You look much better in the armor than he ever did," she said. Dark robes swirled like a becleavaged thundercloud, and she strode out through the high iron doors, decanter in hand.

The goblin looked at the orc. The orc looked at the goblin.

"Shit," said the goblin.

"Shit," said the orc.

#short story #fantasy writing #narrativia #10k