Memorial
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post_self[NOTE: Contains spoilers for major developments in the Post-Self cycle. Don’t read if you haven’t read through Mitzvot and Selected Letters.]
Wherein Daisy notices something new at the side of a road.
( Spoilers below )The Scrolls of the Ancients: Chapter Forty-Two, Chapter Forty-Three and Chapter Forty-Four
Jun. 23rd, 2025 07:09 amIn it for the long-haul
Jun. 18th, 2025 10:51 pmskunkcetera posting in post_selfEarlier today, I came across this post on Tumblr of some fan art of Motes and felt compelled to write a tiny snippet to go with it.
It is important, Motes long maintained, that there must be some things that you are just plain not good at.
If you are going to be in this life for the long-haul — and she was most certainly in this life for the long-haul! — there would be plenty of things that she would have the chance to be good at. She was fairly good at painting, yes? And chalking up the streets outside the House on the hill, that house she shared with her Ma and Bee. She was a pretty good actor, of course, for she had her favorite roles to play in Au Lieu Du Rêve's productions. She was an amazing dreamer.
And there was plenty of things that she did not want to be good at. She did not want to be good at breaking hearts. She did not want to be good at growing up. She did not want to be good at being anything other than what she was.
But one thing she was decidedly, cheerfully, joyously terrible at was skateboarding.
She was in this life for the long-haul, and so perhaps she could practice long and hard to become good at skateboarding, and there were times when she might give this a halfhearted try for a month or two, but something about it just evaded her. She could go in a straight line, perhaps. She could sometimes make a turn, so long as it was to the right. She could drift to a stop or tumble into the grass and dandelions, but actually deliberately stepping off the board to come to a stop had led to the most skinned knees of all.
Better, she thought, to lay on her front on the board and push herself along with her paws, or perhaps lay on her back, tail hugged up to her front, as she scooted around down the driveway. Better to sit on her board at the edge of the sidewalk, feet planted in the gutter, talking to her friends. Better to rejoice in the incompleteness of it all, of holding out this one thing and saying, "One day, maybe I will be good at skateboarding. Maybe next year."
After all, she was in this life for the long-haul.
Fellowship of the King Book II Chapter Four: The Forging of the Ring, Part One
Jun. 16th, 2025 07:11 amThousand Shinji Chapter 20 (Ending Special): You Can (Not) Be Codex Compliant
Jun. 12th, 2025 09:09 pmleliel_12[Trigger Warning: Incestous undertones, weird sex, underage fanservice, ableist humor, adult and gross humor, and discussion of parental emotional abuse. Thankfully, the lore fails are only painful on an intellectual level, and this is the last one. Halle-freaking-lujah.]
[Spoilers for the end of the Horus Heresy novels and the Shakara: the Avenger comic series.]
[Image and video heavy]
[Link to das_sporking]
Leliel: Welcome back to Thousand Shinji where WE HAVE FINALLY REACHED THE LAST CHAPTER!!!!!
Emma: I can’t believe this thing only has 20 chapters, It feels like we’ve been doing this forever.
Shinobu: And holy shit did it scar us. Futaba is now psychic and probably forever tempted by the power of dark sorcery, a co-sporker had to become an Elder God just to contain the damage - and beyond the fourth wall, this fic got so awful one of the three people sporking it just freaking quit near the end.
Taion: And of course, Shinobu and I saw…things. [Shivers in permanent partial loss of sanity and total loss of innocence]
Futaba: Seriously though, while it started off as kind of funny-bad, as the fic went on, it fermented. Pretty much the few redeeming aspects became repetitive and lacking impact, while the bad got skeevy. Thankfully, there’s only a relatively small amount of it this time around, but from what Diego and Nocht tell me, the lore fail is going to be bad.
Nocht: And this is starting from the fact that Him On Terra, who was literally made in opposition to Chaos, was actively working from it. It gets worse from there.
Diego: [Angry fluttering of new wings] To say nothing of the Eva side, and how pretty much everything about it is absorbed by Warhammer in toto to fluff it up…and in so doing, breaks the themes of both beyond repair. [/plug for the spitefic]
[Spoilers for the end of the Horus Heresy novels and the Shakara: the Avenger comic series.]
[Image and video heavy]
[Link to das_sporking]
Leliel: Welcome back to Thousand Shinji where WE HAVE FINALLY REACHED THE LAST CHAPTER!!!!!
Emma: I can’t believe this thing only has 20 chapters, It feels like we’ve been doing this forever.
Shinobu: And holy shit did it scar us. Futaba is now psychic and probably forever tempted by the power of dark sorcery, a co-sporker had to become an Elder God just to contain the damage - and beyond the fourth wall, this fic got so awful one of the three people sporking it just freaking quit near the end.
Taion: And of course, Shinobu and I saw…things. [Shivers in permanent partial loss of sanity and total loss of innocence]
Futaba: Seriously though, while it started off as kind of funny-bad, as the fic went on, it fermented. Pretty much the few redeeming aspects became repetitive and lacking impact, while the bad got skeevy. Thankfully, there’s only a relatively small amount of it this time around, but from what Diego and Nocht tell me, the lore fail is going to be bad.
Nocht: And this is starting from the fact that Him On Terra, who was literally made in opposition to Chaos, was actively working from it. It gets worse from there.
Diego: [Angry fluttering of new wings] To say nothing of the Eva side, and how pretty much everything about it is absorbed by Warhammer in toto to fluff it up…and in so doing, breaks the themes of both beyond repair. [/plug for the spitefic]
