100 FOLLOWERS WHAT?!?!?
Well, you know what that mean........
DRAW THIS IN YOUR STYLE TIME YIPPEEE
Rayfrog edition because I know that 95% are in fact Rayfrog shippers and followed me for Rayfrog
El rules are El simple
No tracing
You could change the pose! Just make sure that Rayman is holding the cage and in love
Tag #Rayfrog100 in your post so I can see it! Tag me as well :D
There will be three winners
1st: Full body, fully shaded drawing of one/two characters
2nd: Full body, mostly shaded drawing of one character
3rd: Half body, flat color of one character
Everyone else will get a silly sketch :D
Deadline is February 29th
(Btw I'm hosting the same thing on my Insta, but there will be different winners don't worry)
The og image and me yapping will be under the cut:
Wow. 100 followers. That is stunning considering the fact that I started actively posting back in July.
(It normally takes me a whole year to get 50)
I like to say thank you all for like my silly art involving silly guys. You're likes and reblogs mean the world to me :D
So to celebrate, enjoy Rayfrog irl
Yes, I bought both of them for the sole reason to make them kiss. I have my priorities in check.
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The End and the Death: Part 3
The story begins 6 years ago when I was bothering my little brother one night. I had spent the night at my parents’ house over the summer (he was home from college) and he was just trying to get some play time in Warframe. In an effort to get rid of me, and he told me to read Horus Rising, and to only come back if I got bored.
I did not. In fact, that night I read the entirety of the first book and spent the next morning begging for the next. I’ve written extensively over the years about my experience with Warhammer (if you click the tag “Djem reads Warhammer” you can track my rollercoaster over the years) but the thing that I have been waiting for since I first started was the end. The End - and the Death.
You see, I am a unicorn. I have, despite my years both on the internet and in nerd fandom, not actually ever encountered details of 40k. Part of this is because Games Workshop, and Black Library by extension, are both utterly terrible at marketing. They seem to approach Warhammer with a “if you know, you know, if you don’t, may God be with you” approach that means that unless you actively go hunting for information (and if you are careful to avoid fandom circles and not read the afterwords of novels) it’s actually remarkably easy to spend the last 6 or so years having absolutely no clue what the hell happened at the Siege of Terra—or after it. (For context, I have both played the Space Marine game and owned the Roboute Returned model for basically the past 6 years and I neither knew Roboute was dead or that he had come back, because neither mentions either. Yeah, I know.)
Before 3 days ago, I knew the following information only:
1. The Imperium survived
2. The Emperor, if not alive, was at least known and venerated as a god
3. Space Marines were still a thing, albeit organized differently
4. The Primarchs, at least the loyal ones, were known in the future (if not still physically present)
5. Xenos and man still fought
6. Chaos still had a grip on the galaxy
7. Horus lost
And that was about it. I didn’t know what happened to the primarchs after Horus was defeated (who survived, who died etc). I didn’t know what happened to the Emperor. I didn’t know how the Imperium came to be reorganized (although I did possess enough ability to discern, via context clues, that Roboute was at least responsible for the Codex and probably the reorganization of Legions into Chapters). I didn’t know what happened to many of the characters I had come to love and hate after the war was over. I knew virtually nothing. I didn’t even know if certain dead characters were actually dead.
As of 3:00 pm on Saturday, following the completion of EaTD3, I knew the following:
1. The Imperium survived
2. The Emperor “lived” to be venerated as a god
3. Space Marines were still a thing, albeit organized differently
4. The Primarchs, at least the loyal ones, were known in the future (if not still physically present)
5. Xenos and man still fought
6. Chaos still had a grip on the galaxy
7. Horus lost
If you are noticing a particular sameness to the lists, it’s because End and the Death volume 3 told us nothing. In fact, it told us less than nothing, because at least nothing would be something. But EaTD3 was 400 pages of walking and a fight, and it ended so abruptly I didn’t even have time to realize it was over.
I realize, to many, that because, other than lore implications, EaTD3 had to only serve to answer canon questions which have been evolving for the past 30 years, the novel simply ending when Horus died is hardly an issue. Most people know what happens next, they’ve been immersed in the lore, they may have even already read what happens to most of the characters. I realize that I am a unicorn. But regardless of knowing or not knowing, this book was a book. It wasn’t a lore guide or a codex. It was a novel, and it was a novel that was the capstone of, if not the entire Heresy, then at the very least the Siege. The fact that it was written by the man who started the series, the man who made me fall in love with Warhammer, meant that, perhaps, I expected something more. I expected a novel, an ending to the characters and stories that I had loved for the past 6 years, not an abrupt closing to a story that remains unfinished. This is the end of the Heresy, and while for most characters the story doesn’t end here, we needed closure. Catharsis. We needed a denouement.
The fundamental approach I think was flawed. The story should have been written as though no one knew what was happening, as the ending of a story, not a list of lore points that wrap up one era to introduce a new one. We needed to look at characters that mattered, if not in the Heresy as a whole, at least in the Siege, and we needed to end their stories. We needed to look at characters who have been important since the beginning, and make sure that their stories continued to matter until the end.
EaTD3 gave us none of that. Oh, it was beautifully written of course. Dan Abnett is nothing if not a wordsmith, and as usual his books are a pleasure to read. His grasp of language and his ability to turn a phrase or coin a term are second to none, but this book, for perhaps the first time, left me wanting more.
EaTD2 was an emotional rollercoaster. I think I cried at least every two chapters—even recounting certain moments later had me tearing up with the grief and loss and sacrifice and heroism. But it ended as abruptly as this one dead—Sanguinius dead on the floor.
I think that is what got me most about this book—the lack of feeling. For a man who can make me tear up over the emergence of a tank from the mists on Calth, I was expecting a deep wellspring of emotion regarding, well, almost everything, but instead, I was left feeling hollow. Dorn retrieves the skull of Ferrus Manus, and we don’t even see it. He just pops it into a grocery bag and hands it off to a random Blood Angel and that’s it. The Emperor’s near death is mostly ignored, with the focus less on the man himself and more on figuring out how to rig up a makeshift pallet. Sanguinius’ body is an afterthought left to his sons, and Garviel Loken is killed in a GOT style death that makes you wonder if Abnett had simply run out of steam. This novel was, in short, a couple of fun easter eggs on a series of lore points long known and oft debated, and was, in the end, nothing more.
What follows is a list of my particular issues, not in any particular order: (hyperlinked bc tumblr gets mad at me when I write too much)
Sanguinius
Right Scene, Wrong Person
Waste of Time or Too New?
Needed More (+ weird things)
Garviel Loken
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