Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

I did like the epilogue of Soul Wars revealing Archon's scheme was "keep Nagash & Sigmar from killing each other, and get them talking again so eventually they realise they need each other to survive"

So the God of Death's scheming vizier saves the world by sabotaging his own god's schemes, because at the end of the day Nagash & Sigmar are both squabbling toddlers with divine power.

Idk, maybe I just like "Necromancer saves the world, because losing the world would mess with all his plans" plots. The Johannes Cabal series does that very well.

Other highlights:
- birbdogs are good puppers
- birbhorsedogs are also good puppers
- The shy, bookish Stormcast Lord finally got his cute bonding VN-cutscene with Sigmar-senpai
- The plot hinging on a Goddess of Cats going wherever the heck she wants, even if you've just locked the door

Like, the books don't hit the point where I'd recommend them to people who aren't Warhammer nerds, but they're a lot of fun.

̶H̶e̶d̶o̶n̶i̶t̶e̶s̶ Heffalumps of Slaanesh

100% same energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQbXIRChns (melancholy/sad/ymmv but "mind your head" seems appropriate)

The Old Revolution is an amazing song for many reasons

But "To all of my architects, let me be traitor" is such a powerful line that sticks with me every time

I need to find a singleplayer game to entertain myself with that isn't action clicky/pad-intensive but isn't a 4X either

Disco Elysium is a bit too Sadman In Sadtown for me at the moment, but much as I love Total Warhammer 2, there's only so much Total Warring a body can take (..and still be this bad at it).

I should dive into Age of Wonders Planetfall a bit more. A lot of the new mechanics are really neat, but I guess it also feels very familiar in the "yep that's a 4X" kinda way

@colon_three morning

I slept bad too =_=

I hope headache goes away soon.

Also I did *not* expect Stormcast Eternals (read: Golden Reincarnated Space Knights) to be so catty to each other

There's like a whole chapter of Soul Wars with these towering golden god-infused warriors sniping at each other in the most petty ways, it's wild

And then Sigmar turns up, and istg

The main Stormcast has a full-on "Senpai remembered my name?! Uwu.." moment

This is probably because Sigmar exudes *maximum* Daddy Energy from the moment he enters the scene

Burly knights going "Mmm I know he said to stand.. B-But gosh I wanna kneel at his feet real bad tho"

And the air literally ripples around him with divine.. Uhhh.. Daddy-vibe?

(I'm gonna go with that, they don't make it entirely clear what's causing the ripple thing)

I mean, I'm not as hot for Odin as the Stormcast Eternals are (I'm not sure anyone could be)

but as a group they're way more entertainingly written than I expected. 🍿

I'm listening to Age of Sigmar books and

So far the two I've listened to are.. Not bad? (Court of the Blind King, Soul Wars)

Also wow the Black Library (publishing wing) narrators go *to the hilt* on character voices, jeez. They have 0 time for any impartial narrator voice nonsense! You do the voice or you do your best attempt at it anyway!!!

Which makes the rapid transition of perspective characters from

"I AM THE GREATEST GOD OF DEATH
THE REST OF THE GODS WILL SOON RECOGNISE MY GREATNESS
AND STOP PUTTING RATS IN MY PYRAMIDS"

to

"I'm an 8yr old girl who's a street urchin. I like cats!"

in the space of a chapter break just uh,

Yeah that's some impressive narration whiplash

@Moot@snouts.online 100 hours and haven't even hit 30% completion yet

why did you have to make me look..!

Morning nerds

Have some tea 🍵

(or not, you do you. but I'm having tea)

I think overcoming "my creativity must be productive, it must help others somehow" has been good for me

Like, I learn plenty about art from mini painting as much as I do from drawing/etc, and it's cross-applicable, but I still have an internal "it's not really valid tho" brainweasel.

It's also what my brain can focus on happily as well, and doesn't do in my wrists like drawing for the same amount of time can. Like, focus stuff is really annoying (doing more music! I'd like that not to be hugely effortful to get my brain to focus on. but it is :| ), but having something that isn't "ugh this is so much effort why" for my brain at all is something I'm grateful for.

Kinda wary of if I burn out on it, but I know myself well enough by now to know that won't be permanent.

If that happens, doubtless I'll bounce over to sewing or drawing or gamedev or something again for a bit, then bounce back to it in a year or two. 🤷 In the meantime, enjoy it.

In light of that, I should be less self-conscious about posting stuff here. So here's some playing with paints n skin tones on the Peak Conan Aesthetic gang from WarCry.