What, you mean like an adventures of young Igori sort of thing? Her running around like a prepubescent murder-puppy with a bunch of friendly mutants, helping her exasperated creator in his strictly PG adventures in the Eye of Terror? Like the Babysitter’s Club, only with daemons?
Absolutely no one would be interested in something so ridiculous and I would never pitch such a thing regardless of what you may have heard. Or not heard. Because there’s nothing to hear.
Absolutely nothing.
You heard it here, folks! Igori’s Day Out, coming to stores near you. Or, maybe you didn’t hear it here. Maybe you didn’t hear it at all.
So, uh, what’s the current vibe about this? How’s everyone feeling?
I’m with a lot of people I’ve heard being conflicted about this. On one hand, sounds cool. And I like the potential of writing about kids, who are likely going to be “ordinary people” characters instead of yet another Space Marine, Imperial Guard, or Inquisitor protagonist. And characters who aren’t yet more cookie-cutter grizzled white men! On the other hand, if they drop all the political commentary/satire in favor of writing Good Guys vs. Bad Guys sanitized-for-children stories, things are going to get awkward in a few years when kids who got into the series through this start reading the adult books and interacting with the fandom, a fair chunk on whom are actual real-life neo-Nazis. So I’m hoping they’re in line with the Animorphs level of really fucked up and not holding back on commentary on moral gray areas and war and actually possessing of good content, rather than the kind of children’s book that assumes children are idiots or prep people reading them to assume the Imperium are Good Guys without any nuance or caveats and everything they believe is 100% reliable narration.
Just Because I Can, Doesn’t Mean I Should, But I Will
I want to try making a request thread for funny and yet terrible concepts. Bonus points if 40K and anime are mentioned, preferably together. What’s a concept you want to see but deep down, don’t want to because you fear the gods?
Something uncomplicated, SFW and hopefully funny. References would be helpful too! I’m very slow, though.
– art by Hydra’s Lair, for the ‘Caliban – Death World RPG‘
“We’re not so different, you and I, Leman. As you can see, I too have goofy looking wolf helms among my warriors.” – The Lion attempting to bond with his boyfriend.
Listen this man managed to turn half his legion on his still living primarch, you don’t do that without being absolutely stunning
luther is literally the most attractive person in the entire dark angels legion, no lie. like, luther, warm and caring knight who practically drips nobility and honor and who loves and values all his brothers in arms vs lion ‘i punched a dude’s head off for disagreeing with me one time and also am a terminally secretive cold fish with poor people skills’ el’jonson?
even chaos luther could and did Get It, legit.
me: How hot can I get away with making 40k-era Luther, who’s been tortued and crazy for the last 10k years but is now busy with a cunning scheme?
me, one second later: I am answerable to no one but myself. Gosh he’s a grizzled sort of hot and gosh he’s a guy who still cares about his people and is going to set things right.
Man, I’ve been really happy with my writing lately. Not incidentally, I have been writing a lot of far out-there comedy and parody. No worrying about canon or continuity and painstakingly justifying how my writing plausibly fits into or diverges from it, not worrying about inconvenient logistics, just whatever the hell I want to write. So I get gems like Gabriel Seth: magical girl, the great American roadtrip fic, let’s do The Parent Trap, the Mulan pastiche, the one where the Lion and Curze get addicted to soap operas. I certainly have more serious action, drama, or smut stories I want to finish as always, but those have just been fun.
Heh, one of them I can post whenever I get around to it, because it is the most unabashed of crack comedy and already on my computer (known as Gabriel Seth: magical girl). The other is part of a whole series of shorts I started back when I first read Devastatiof Baal, which would require me to finish all the little bits I want to get to so is much more questionable, however much as I privately adore what I have so far (including such chapter titles as: Dante talks to a spooky ghost (but not either of the spooky ghosts you might expect), Dante and Rob hug it out, a teenger tries to get laid, two nerds fall in love over the course of a twenty minute acquaintance, Gabriel Seth: comic relief, just because Gabriel Seth did it doesn’t mean you’re allowed to, this is why Astorath is never home).
Dante: hello Seth
Seth: snark
Dante: you must wonder why I have called you here
Seth: snark
Dante: I actually have a honorable surprise for you
Seth: snark
Dante: here have this priceless artifact, friend
Seth: *crying* snark
where i review the hit novel by guy haley (many awards) while off my tits
so like
the thing about the emperor is that he is not appreciated enough in the other horus heresy books. like for example, you take the outcast dead. this book happens on terra but the emperor is kinda absent as a definite presence, yknow? also, there is something to be said about master of mankind in that prominently features the emperor of mankind while giving him no sodding personality whatsoever apart from whatever any given character thought of him
but here, in wolfsbane the emperor is brought down to human dimensions even for a moment!!! that is all we were asking for all this time. the master of mankind is not an alien, is not a god, he is the MASTER of MANKIND and thus…. human!!
guy haley captures the emperor as a human and at the same time as the emperor. THEREFORE. this book does something no other horse heresy book has done! successfully!!
Now I gotta tell you. I like me a leman russ. i like him a lot. but, i liked him even more in this book. He was a walking duality, the warmest and yet the coldest primarch. the savage, and the mastermind. the primarch and the jarl. that is in fact what this entire book is about. DUALITY. the duality of man. the duality of ideology. the duality of life itself, written in our very DNA with its spiral helixes.
this is what russ is. handsome. and powerful. and a very reckless boi indeed. but in all chaos there is calculation, and such it is in russ. he is just very good. and smart. but he is also very stupid. it’s good? i love it.
belisarius cawl is a tiny baby who needs to be protected and also placed in very strangely erotic scenes with magos domina ladies that are 10 times his size. seriously, what was up with that? kinky much??? mr haley?????!!! he definitely has the look of a man that strides through life like it owes him cash
mythology and the future blend almost seamlessly together even though indeed the viking terminology is egregious. however it is also interestingly lampshaded.
the scenes where we go to the underworld are really cool. the most awesome part is where russ gets beaten up by a small, withered old lady. three times in a row. yeah. that happened. and it was glorious
the duality continues!! we meet horus lupercal and he is beautiful! the warmaster in all his horrible glory. he is tall dark and handsome. and he commands the reader’s attention as much as the average dweller’s of the 30k universe. finally, horus steps forth, and in him there is the worst duality of all, man versus god. because horus is a man. but he is also a god. those two sides are intermittently in conflict with each other. what’s interesting here is that they are also intermittently in agreement. horus is fighting to retain his own will, but what his own will is, is probably more corrupt than anyone initially imagined.
because the thing about horus is that he has always been perceived at the innocent victim of a terrible ruse. but
but
it is not so. the truth of the matter is that horus wanted to fall. horus was always the corrupt one. he simply needed the right push to act on it. horus was corrupted the moment erebus showed some primordial leg.and this book proves it.
constantin valdor is a gold plated condensed pile of sass and i love him with all my heart
malcador is a sweetie and also a douchebag, of course.
bjorn is also a huge babe.
the rest of the primarchs are solid and good. i even briefly liked rogal dorn but then i got over it.
summing up
amazing book. go read. seriously. the heresy is almost over and y’all need to be caught up by the end cos i will liveblog it and ruin it for all of you
because by fate even the gods are cast down 