Doing some research on Warhammer books and honestly? I totally agree with this. This would be such a smart way to get more people interested in Warhammer in general
Get a couple of popular romance writers and let them play in the universe. I would absolutely buy those books!
So as someone neck deep in the fanfic part of me wants this.
The other part wonders if GW is really ready to market its setting beyond the ages at which they do. We always joke about how they sanitise everything but most stuff is made through the lens of “could I sell this to a 10 year old” - at least that’s how it feels like now. I can’t imagine the GW shops with a rack of novels on top that the kids are not supposed to buy.
What I’d be scared of, if they attempted this, is a half-baked pie. Where they allow some romance but it ends up so PG-13 or even more subdued that it’s just… a nothing burger.
⚜ 𝖕𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌: Xavier Calcazar/Volenta Calcazar (OC)/Heinrix van Calox
⚜ 𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖘: Overall story rating - E. Overall tags - romance, disaster polycule, more tba. This chapter - smut, blowjob, cum swallowing, hair pulling, asphyxiation, Inquisition politics, arguing, more smut, PiV, creampie.
⚜ 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖞: Even the most powerful have their weaknesses. Volenta has more than a few of her own. One such weakness being her husband. Another - her love for toying with others. Her station permits it, but it doesn’t come without consequences, because Lady Inquisitor soon finds herself entangled with another man. And she doesn’t know just what events will unfold when the man she’s married to gets assigned to look over the Koronus Expanse.
In the 41st millennium, there’s only war. Be it on surfaces of planets, on the decks of spaceships or… in personal lives. And those battles are not easily won.
⚜ 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖞: Volenta does not hide from her husband what Heinrix has done, but without such knowledge the Interrogator is wracked with guilt and regret. He makes a decision to seek Volenta out and fix the mistake he has made, unaware that her mind is occupied with more pressing matters after her call with the Lords of Terra.
⚜ 𝖆/𝖓: Congratulations to this chapter (and me) for being the one that pushed my word count on AO3 through a milestone. As of now I have more than 500k words published with many more to come. I felt like this chapter is a good way to celebrate it as well, because I just love how it’s all coming together, slowly but surely. Enjoy♡
⚜ 𝖕𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌: Heinrix van Calox x Diana von Valancius
⚜ 𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖘: Canon-typical violence, interrogation, use of biomancy, religious imagery, arguing, jealousy, devotion, smut, PiV, rough sex, creampie, cunnilingus, vaginal fingering, fingerfucking, overstimulation (mild), squirting, fluff.
⚜ 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖞:Even after giving up his rosette, Heinrix finds it hard to shake the habits he formed over the decades while serving as the Inquisition’s agent. It reaches a boiling point when many errors of the crew accumulate to a point the Master of Whispers cannot ignore any longer. He decides to take action, only to be reminded by the one he devoted himself to, Diana, that demands of the dynasty are not the same as of the entire Imperium.
Few can match the glory of the Space Wolves, the fierce and proud sons of Leman Russ, bloodthirsty hunters from the world of Fenris. Ulfar set foot on the warpath many decades ago, and a trail of blood has stretched out behind him ever since. He enters every battle with a triumphant howl, for there is no fear of death for one whose saga will be reverently sung by his brothers in the Hall of the Great Wolf. His violent temper and boyish desire for glory and boasting have not been cooled by his years of fighting nor by his ordeal of being held captive in the Dark City of Commorragh. Having joined the Rogue Trader’s retinue, Ulfar has resumed the writing of his saga in the Koronus Expanse, and the enemies of Humanity tremble at the sound of his battle cry.
Throne, she has never been more wild, more beautiful, painted in his favourite hue.
@nadas-dirthalen recently finished their series of interludes between the end of Act 2 and the start of Act 3 for Heinrix and Heliora and the final chapter had me feral so I had to draw THEE scene <33
(Heliorix belongs to @nadas-dirthalen I just get to draw them sometimes!!)
She is, for a moment, a stranger. A figure out of history, or myth. So far from the regicide player who laughs unabashedly at all her many conniving triumphs, Heinrix’s higher faculties left in ribbons on the floor after an hour of enduring her little teases. This, he thinks, is the woman from Heliora’s stories: the one from another life she never quite betrays the details of.
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I am SO thrilled with this amazing piece from @vasiliquemort and how WELL they’ve captured Heliora!!! The stance, the expression—and especially the way she is backlit, rendering her face in such a way it is harder to remember her distinctive features, harder to pick her out in a lineup… >:) PERFECT crime lord energy, I am utterly in love!
Thanks eternally to @infernaldaydreams for using some of the money from her latest round of commissions to gift this to me—it has truly revived my spirits in ways I’ve sorely needed these past two months. Creatives supporting creatives is how fandom stays alive and vibrant, and I am truly so glad to have such an amazing and thoughtful friend. 💛
This Dopamine Week, I’d like to focus on a character that is criminally underrepresented in fanfic and fanart - Calligos Winterscale. In particular, I would like to call out the absolutely magnificent, magical, and marvelous duo of @nadas-dirthalen and @infernaldaydreams for sharing in both art and literature the love story of Castilla von Valancius and Calligos Winterscale.
Haven’t heard of Castilla von Valancius? Please, please, please check out @infernaldaydreams ’s tumblr to see their absolutely glorious glamazon of a Rogue Trader. Arms for days. Pink hair (!). Immaculate gold face plate that makes her look like a Valkyrie out of some Frank Frazetta painting. A stunning creature from a stunning mind!
And then once you’ve got that image in your mind, join me in reading @nadas-dirthalen’s series, “I Know the Swtars and You By Name.” That’s about 20,000 words of what I know will be excellent prose. I’ve been dying to sink my teeth into it. One of the things that I love most about their writing is how easy it is to read. I don’t mean it in an elementary school type of way - no, their writing flows; its easy like a river running downstream.
My last little shout out to these two comes from the mad respect I have for author-artist duos. To be trusted with someone else’s OC is a magical thing. Whether the artist friend picks up the brush first, or the writer surprises with a gift, there’s something so unbelievably kind in lending your complimentary skill to bring someone else’s vision to life. It hammers home the beauty of fandom and the friends we make along the way - thank you both for being inspiring!
Now it’s mostly relevant to Idira and psyker OCs but still.
I do not wish to speak about the hours I spent trying to find out the names for any of the weird little psyker greeble tubes/rigs. If you know any others I’ve missed, please add on and share!
I’ve been calling the head tubes “neural shunts” but I don’t remember where I picked that up as a phrase. It gets the point across though.
Oooh, I like that. I know neural inhibitors are a thing, but I think those are more likely augments than tubes.
I like the fancier ones that Primaris psykers wear sometimes and I definitely believe my girl wore one to her Magnae Accessio.
sharing a bit of excerpts from Witchbringer - there’s a scene where more failsafe installed in her before sending her to the frontline. they also acted as a way to nullify incoming psychic forces or an attack as well. so it both preventing psyker to explode or get exploded by another psychic attack.
there’s more designs of psyker collar in 40k Darktide too, gotta love the design in that game
another tool in psyker disposal that i really love to the point i need to incorporate is Psy Focus - this is from Dark Heresy 2E
Despite all the current life bullshit, I managed another chapter of “This is the way the world ends”. This chapter hurt to write, because it’s straight from the memory vaults. I hope it will land with my fellow angst lovers - and at the very end, finally, some comfort. Really excited to start writing some nicer stuff happening to them for the next chapters.
TAGS: Angst, Break Up, Weddings, Masturbation, Post-Break Up, Emotional Hurt, Arranged Marriage, Miscommunication, Infidelity, Heinrix van Calox Has a Bad Time, Hurt/Comfort but we’re not at the comfort part yet, Eventual Smut
⚜ 𝖕𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌: Volenta Calcazar (OC)/Diana von Valancius (OC)
⚜ 𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖘: Story rating - E. OC x OC, smut, wlw, face sitting, face riding, cunnilingus, sexual asphyxiation, vaginal fingering, tribbing, fluff.
⚜ 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖞: Volenta has time to be on her own, alone and, truthfully, bored. That’s why she decides to reach out to the illustrious rogue trader - Diana von Valancius. The Lady Inquisitor doesn’t have further motives besides having company for the evening, but things turn rather interesting when both women are in the same room.
⚜ 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖙: 13,107 (I told myself this one will be short, btw) | AO3
⚜ 𝖆/𝖓: With only a handful of days to spare I actually am managing to post this. First I posted mlm (BG3, read here), now it’s turn for the wlw. And what’s better than writing part two to Come Ruin and Rapture. I thought it’s going to be short, not a lot of worldbuilding this time. Oh how wrong I was. Diana, as always, belongs to the wonderful @misscoet, who gracefully allows me to put her rogue trader in ✨situations✨ And as always - enjoy! Happy Pride♡
