#Like one on one and THE LAST TIME VULKAN WAS EVER SEEN was fighting the beast

[adeptus-orkraticus]

OK OK OK LISTEN TO ME GITZ

Someone has definitely had this line of thought before but I am very sleep deprived and wanna write a long ass post about something.

I reblogged a piece of art of what was described as a demi-krork and in the tags I put this:

And upon some more reading I think it is very possible that this is what “The Beast“ was or, more likely, just “The Beast of Beasts” was a Krork..

For those that don’t know, The Beast was the name given to the Warbosses that led the largest WAAAGH! the galaxy has ever seen and the biggest threat to the Imperium besides the Horus Heresy. The Beast of Beasts was the biggest of these Warbosses, standing at least 10 meters tall. The Beasts were also supposedly very intelligent with at least one of them being able to fluently speak Gothic. Now of course this could just be down to Orks in general getting smarter when more and more of them are together, which naturally the largest WAAAGH! ever which included nearly every Ork in the galaxy is bound to do. However this also seems very Krorky.

Krorks were the proto-orks who were possibly made by the Old Ones near the end of the war in heaven against the Necrontyr and the C’tan. Krorks are told to have been smarter, bigger and more technologically advanced than the Orks of the 41st millenium. On top of this the Krorks also had the Orks ability to believe so hard that what they believe becomes true. We have an example of a Krork in the current state of the Galaxy in the form of something owned by everyones favourite kleptomaniacal Egyptian robo-boy Trazyn the Infinite. Trazyn has in his enourmous collection a 12-foot-tall Krork that is wearing a power armour more advanced than that of an Astartes.

The novels do however classify the Beast as “Prime Orks“ but the description of a Prime Ork is incredibly similar to that of  Krork. Smarter, better tek, psychic power and, of course, L A R G E. Lexicanum also only says that the six Lesser Beasts were Prime-Orks, however, I have not been able to verify their source since I do not own a copy of the Novel The Beast Must Die.

Also yeah someone in the comments of the post I reblogged did call it a Prime-Ork.

For the reasons of the Beast of Beasts being both smart and being at least 10 foot tall, I believe that he was a Krork. How he stayed alive for literal millenia, I have no clue but Trazyn still has his Krork ten millenia after the war of the beast so hell, why not?

#warhammer #warhammer 40K #warhammer 40000 #orks #WAAAGH! #da meanest and da greenest #Oh yeah one more thing. One of the beasts fought with Vulkan #Like one on one and THE LAST TIME VULKAN WAS EVER SEEN was fighting the beast #He rugby tackled the beast and they both fell down into the power generator of a gargant #Vulkan then managed to harness the WAAAGH! energy of the generator and with one last attack BLEW THE THING UP obliterating both of them #Like I obviously love the Orks the most but Vulkan and the Salamanders are a close second #maybe I just like green #But yeah the thing I said about writing a story with this idea still stands because 1. more orks is good #2. the war of the beast was in the 32nd millenium and the galaxy has obviously changed so much since then #my only issue is that it would prolly have to include Rowboat Grillingman and i have an irrational hatred of ultramarines #long post

[luwupercal]

I don’t know about you guys but whenever I make a warhammer oc I usually make them as a joke. And then accidentally give them hopes, flaws, and ambitions and accidentally turn them into a full fledged character. You know that one catgirl oc that I told you about a year ago? She’s now got a backstory and everything, she owns a rogue trader ship and has an adopted son (And also has a plan to destroy the inquisition but that’s too far into her lore to describe in a simple ask)

So I have a question for you. Do you usually make your ocs as a silly little joke or not? And do you have any tips for oc creation (since you’re like, a really cool writer)?

i DO make ocs as jokes yes so often so so often. Tara and Kraut memorably, half of Tara's origin is me joking about konrad curze having an arsene lupin/jean valjean/pontiac bandit to his inspector whatever/javert/guy from b99 like a thief that always escaped him, and then Kraut sprung into life named "Benicephalous Sauerkraut" bc i was riffing on what avg space marine names sounded like to me (tbf i was reading the horus heresy series, i know space marines have less surnames now). a lot also just started as a concept i found neat (fuckass, liyan, tavius, theseus, to some extent ves and sa'ran) (liyan in particular i had the idea for already but he metastasized as an attempt to scare @/horuslupercal with vulkan coming very near a guillyvraine fanchild unknowingly LOL), and a subset of concept i just found neat is characters ive made or co-created to give a primarch a relationship or a friend at some point because i guess thats a genre now (think viren, gwynne, iason originally though hes changed, tara to some extent also). funky times LOVE ocs but YES 

also I DIDNT FINISH THIS ASK BC I STARTED ANSWERING BC I LOV MY OCS BUT THANK U SO MUCH im just doing my best writing wise akjndslkjfndslkfjdnslfkdns my biggest tips for ocs and writing in general is to (1) always make your favourite characters if you’re gonna be the only one writing this story. dnd campaigns, big productions whatever it doesn’t matter but you need to make all the characters you make in anything you make yourself live Rent free in your brain, or at the very least facilitate another one living rent free in your head. (2) SPITE is the 3rd most important thing a writer can have, 1st is DETERMINATION and 2nd is A SENSE OF HUMOR even if it’s dad jokes. and (3) the best and easiest and most reliable way to get inspiration for anything storywise, plots, characters, endings, beginnings, whatever, is to hear about another story, or about someones life story, or about whatever, really vaguely, and then respond to that. the vagueness is super important because you want to avoid copying anything directly but if its something like “in this tv show you haven’t seen someone puts an entire revolution on another one’s shoulders!” or smth like that, you can play around with that vague gist and use to to shape your wildest desires. a good way of doing this is to traipse around tvtropes without ever going into a specific work’s own page, just looking around tropes and trope examples without looking at anything in specific. written down it sounds VERY like, legally and morally dubious but i hope that i get across that it’s just taking a really vague concept and responding to it, be it by doing it Your Own Way or by directly fighting against it or whatever it is. its like speedrunning letting things marinade in your own head basically. never be afraid of patchwork ever because referencing is fine as long as you don’t trace. (4) ok one last tip: learn to love varied people so you can make varied ocs. see the charm points in a grandma and then give her a sword. see the charm point in a sweaty weird awkward person and make them a hero and a pwoerful wizard. you will not be able to make all of your characters iconic and that’s normal and fine you don’t have to, but let your creativity run wild and constantly take in weird and wacky ideas from real life and from other fiction and u will get the turbo brainy

ALSO learn to analyze stories because analyzing stories will make it easier for you to make your own writing better ALSO learn to accept that your stories to you will be mediocre ALSO look at a LOT of bad stuff like a LOT of bad stories because looking at bad stories and at people doing shit that’s worse than what youre doing is both an ego booster and a powerful motivator ALSO give yourself space and free time, abandon your projects, return to them, do whatever you want, never tie yourself to any creative endeavour ALSO seriously give yourself free time most writers are economically comfortable because humans create better in their downtime the more downtime you have the better you create so let yourself relax let it all flood through you and once you’re ready the words will erupt out of you like a waterfall ALSO i cannot emphasize enough how much shouting about how something is bad, or shouting about how something is good, and elaborating as to why as much as possible, will help you. write essays and tag me in them this is an open request to everybody write a dissertation become a music reviewer be super critical of everything including your own work and it WILL help your brain i promise this to youuuuu. uhhh what else. OH YEAH THERE IS NEVER ANY STORY TOO DUMB TO MAKE A LITTLE SERIOUS OR TOO SERIOUS TO MAKE A LITTLE DUMB. include bits of humor and bits of seriousness in everything and if possible jump into writing w the foreknowledge that you will make this both dumb and serious

ALSO the biggest and most important writing tip of all time:

your writing is going to be mediocre. there is no way to avoid this. embrace your writing always leaving you wanting. just put it up. writing 300 mediocre things will make you a better writer than writing 1 excellentincredible thing. just write it i believe in you

That is all my writing tips i think . godspeed

#ask #yestheantichrist #long post

[limeent]

Tamar Braxton is letting it all hang out for the new issue of VULKAN magazine.

In this issue, Braxton talks about the Black Lives Matter Movement, touring with 90s girl group Xscape, her last album “Bluebird of Happiness” and much more.

It’s not secret that Braxton recently filed for divorce from estranged husband Vincent Herbert. During her sit-down with the publication, Braxton also offers up some advice for those who may be feeling “stuck” in a relationship.

We live in a time where social injustices are being spoken about more than ever; with the Black Lives Matter movement to the recent events where football players are taking a knee at football games; do you fear that Logan may grow up in a time where social injustices are at an all-time high? If so, how do you prepare and educate him on what may come?

I am scared out of my whit because he is 4 and I look at him like a baby but in my mind, I know that I am raising a black, successful man. These are things that I am instilling in him. With that being said, I have to be honest with him while realizing that he is 4 years old because don’t want to scare the daylights out of him. I think that with my honesty and with him being able to trust me, he will be all right. For example, it was really hard for me to leave him yesterday because we are now starting the tour and I knew that I wasn’t going to have a lot of time but rather than to leave him in the hotel all day I make it a point to sit him down and be open and honest with him. “Listen, Logan, mommy has to go to work and the only reason why you aren’t going is because of X, Y, Z, but I will be back” and I am always back on the day that I told him I will be back. This way, he knows that I’m not ever going to lie to him and I am always going to keep it straightforward. That is the relationship that I have to keep with him.

When he gets older I am going to sit him down and tell him “you are a black man you have to be very careful, be respectful, be mindful and at the end of the day things will hopefully go your way but there is something called racism in this world and some people don’t look at people like you as an individual. I don’t care what color you are or what religious background you have but some people don’t think like us. Be you, be mindful, and be respectful at all times then hope for the best. People will notice.”

Have you experienced racial inequality within your career and how did you, as a black woman, overcome that?

I don’t know if it is about being black… I think it’s about the genre of music. I feel like r&b does not get the recognition that it deserves. I didn’t see the AMA’s on Sunday but I was a little offended – I can name at least 3 r&b singers that could have, should have, including myself, been on that stage and ripped it to pieces. Now, I love Christina Aguilera and have lots of respect for her, however, she had to sing the entire tribute? What about the r&b people? Are r&b singers ever recognized at shows like the AMA’s? Or why is it not televised at the Grammys? R&B is the core of music and where music is today and while you can say pop is great we are still singing chords, we are still singing hooks… For me, I don’t look at it as a race thing I look at it more about of how my music is classified. It’s a little looked down on, not as appreciated.

Now that you have released your final album and are touring in The Great Xscape tour, what’s next?

There are a lot of things going on behind the scenes and not necessarily in front of the camera. Television is something that I fell in love with and for me, it is the most satisfying. I love to give other people opportunities, hear other people’s stories. I love to interview people, find out their background, find out what makes them excited about life. That is what makes me excited about getting up in the morning and going to work. I’m still doing the Braxtons and Tamar and Vince is wrapping up but I do have two other shows in production. I’m not saying that I’m never going to do another album but as for right now, this feels right and until I have something else to say I am not going to do another one and I have Bluebird of Happiness to thank for that. It’s about finding your wings, being 40 and taking risks and jumping into my destiny.

What do you want to be remembered for?

Personally, I want my legacy to be known as the girl that never gave up on herself, the girl that seen herself as enough, and the girl who always kept trying. That has been my message from day one because although you may get hurt once and awhile as long as you don’t give up, you will win. Tamar is a winner.

You’ve been extremely vocal about the ups and downs of your relationship, especially in your latest album Bluebird of Happiness – what advice would you give to young girls who may be in a similar situation?

Make sure your situation is the issue. You can’t be in a situation because of a fight, you don’t want anyone else to have him, you’re so deeply in love with him but he doesn’t love you back or you aren’t being treated the way you want or the way you deserve to be treated. You have to respect and love yourself first before somebody else can love and respect you as well. Don’t forget that the things you put out there are the things you will get back – if you put positivity out, you will get positivity. If you put negativity out, you will get negativity. That’s it, that’s all I got.

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Tamar Braxton for VULKAN Magazine Tamar Braxton is letting it all hang out for the new issue of VULKAN magazine. In this issue, Braxton talks about the Black Lives Matter Movement, touring with 90s girl group Xscape, her last album "Bluebird of Happiness" and much more.