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from SATURNINE, by Dan Abnett: "I have it now, thought Hari. I wish I didn't. I would give anything not to have had this experience, and not to be here. There is no truth here, no story, no words. There's nothing to take from this of any worth, and all my high-minded ambitions to come along and brave the dangers in order to capture something valuable were bullshit. There is nothing here to cherish. Nothing here to learn. War is noise, sensory overload, pain, terror, horror. That's it. It's an inarticulate obscenity. It can't be communicated, and even if it could be, it shouldn't be."

wonder what they meant by this

from BETRAYER by Aaron Dembski-Bowden: "Argel Tal looked back to the preparations as he continued. 'We are the Legiones Astartes. We choose who lives and who dies in this galaxy. It is the way of things.' 'This is murder,' said Khârn. 'Not war. Murder.' 'Just because we are soldiers in a warzone, it is no less murder if we slaughter unarmed civilians. The context is irrelevant. But I will"

from GALAXY IN FLAMES, by Graham McNeill: "'Look to what we leave behind us! So many memorials to our slaughters! Look to the Lupercal's Court, where we house the bloody weapons of war in bright halls and wonder at their cruel beauty as they hang waiting for their time to come again. We look at these weapons as curios, but we forget the actuality of the lives these savage instruments took. The dead cannot speak to us, they cannot plead with us to seek peace while the remembrance of them fades and they are forgotten."

from THE FIRST HERETIC, by Aaron Dembski-Bowden: "'Why were we born to be warriors?' Lorgar asked, apropos of nothing. 'Finally,' Magnus laughed, 'we reach the reason you summoned me to Colchis. Why are we warriors? A fine question, with a simple answer. We are warriors because that is what the Emperor, beloved by all, required in the galaxy's reclamation.' 'Of course. But this is the greatest age in mankind's history, and instead of philosophers and visionaries... it is led by warriors. There's something poisonous in that, Mag-nus. Something rotten. It is not right.'"

from THE END AND THE DEATH VOL. III, by Dan Abnett: "Horus is silent for a moment. 'I will kill you, Loken,' he says quietly. He rolls Worldbreaker slowly in his palm. 'I will do it without hesitation if you do not cease with this provocation. I would rather you lived.' 'And I would rather live,' answers Loken. 'But I am of the Legiones Astartes, born for war. I never thought I'd live this long.' Horus pauses, then nods ruefully. 'Nor I,' he replies. 'The warrior's lot. We were made to do so much and expect so little. Bright glory, not long lives.' He manages a sad smile."

Been a while since I last shared a Horus Heresy Warhammer novel snippet! so instead I thought I'd post several :-)

I do sometimes wonder if the only thing learned from Iraq was that congressional voting records can be used against you in political ads forever

please take shelter 🙏

tails got trolled face

ngl my face for the past 20 mins

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there really is something immensely clarifying about realizing that "death cult" is not an ironic or jokey term

hey we're doing an operation called Based Epic Chad. lol. everybody will think this is awesome. we will never end up like Mussolini

photo of a tiny puppy passed out inelegantly on an expansive floor

a pioneer of telling on oneself

Hailey started Horus Rising 😈😈😈

reaches.....we should hang out when weather gets nicer & Outdoors is an option

I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!

and the cyst on my chest is thankfully harmless/not cancer! 🙌 time to tattoo a little face on it like I'm Nux in Fury Road

ICE Arrests Beloved Fighting Game Community Member Ludovic His family has been working non-stop, even the face of the grief of losing a family member, to bring him home before the government can deport him.

A beloved member of the FGC in Baltimore has been detained by ICE. @adashtra.bsky.social talked to the friends and family trying to bring him home. aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-...

Guess who's getting on T BLOCKERS because her body makes too much of it and it's causing skin issues

cake which reads "Happy Birtboy"

yesss!!

call me a bleeding heart but i do not think the state should have the power to invalidate trans people’s identities and effectively imprison them. if you can’t legally drive in KANSAS how the hell are you meant to get anywhere

introduce us, abelard

(oh my GOD this took me back, I remember that racist italian)

my washing machine incident a few weeks ago (fried the whole breaker by turning the timer knob slightly wrong)

mozart's Dies Irae began playing in my head as i read this

unironically my favorite multiplayer design framework

Angel Country In an alternate early 1900s, a xenobiologist hunts down her former research partner after he steals her life’s work before his greed reshapes the w...

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-... Digging myself out of the snow with exciting news!!! Cover reveal for ANGEL COUNTRY, my upcoming cosmic horror/alternate history revenge story. Please check it out and pre order here! I am so excited to introduce you all to Ada’s heavenly host of horrors.

the secret to game design is that as much as players may claim otherwise they all love choosing one out of three things

time to fix this god damn country

fujo nation

"ugh the composition would actually look so much better if I cropped it" - me midway through every painting assignment, stepping back from the canvas for the first time in 12 hours

that's not to say things are hopeless! hacker and speedrunning communities have been taking apart games for literal decades now. they are god's bravest soldiers.