Hey all!!! Back again, back again!
I have been so so so busy recently!! I have had no time to do anything but schoolwork for the last week and a half/ two weeks... hence my not being here and this post being so small... It's a shame, I find that the more I do musical theater Constantly, I begin to miss this blog, and the joy of just Thinking. Constantly. Really Hard. About the most random, nerdy stuff.
There's just something intoxication about an idea bursting into my head like a supernova, creating worlds in my head, or taking other peoples, and creating new sides and elements of those worlds that even the creators haven't even begun to imagine... That and the search, the challenge of searching for the pieces to make what I've imagined come to life, come out of my head and into the world, where I can share those thoughts and concepts with the people around me...
It makes me wish and wonder if I could do something like this for a living... what one would major in, where they would work, what it would consist of... that's why recently I've been investigating LARPing. It seems like running a LARP, creating a world that other people come and live in, putting together all the pieces... I don't know, it's a possibility. (and it involves theater!!)
I really have a terrible habit of taking things that should really be no more than hobbies for any sane person, and trying to imagine and create a life with them :P But that's just the thing, I cant begin to imagine doing something I'm not passionate about. It just so happens that the things I'm passionate about are really not fiscally viable...
I also feel bad that my mind immediately goes to money when I think about the future... I can't help it, being raised by the people I have been, my mind immediately goes to money, and having a career that makes a lot of it. I wont go into specifics here, but yeah, happens all the time.
Which makes me come to the realization. I don't care. Or, rather, I cant... I feel so terrible saying it, but I just can't bring myself to care about fiscal responsibility, or having a career that will make me money. Maybe it's because I can't really comprehend money, it doesn't really exist!! But also because, as much as it's been beaten into my head that money is important, it's been even more beaten into my head that you Have to do what you love. That if you don't 'Wake up in the morning and love what you're doing, it's not worth doing'.
Which leads me, invariably, to trying (and failing) to find a career that would allow me to have both :P
So that's my little rant :) Hope you enjoyed it... and if you would care for a little dose of nerdyness, there's a bit after the break :)
(click on 'read more' over there)
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So, I'm thinking the angels are still being put in dry-dock for the time being... However! I may still get the models for the command group (the sanguinary guard, and the model for the chapter master HERE) and maybe a little squad of normal warriors, just because I love the scheme and the idea behind them... we'll see what happens.
I have, however, been thinking more about the Traitor Guard, now titled 'The Fifth Wind of Ascension'
heh, if you're wondering about the name... Back in the early nineties when Magic The Gathering was newly released, there was a card called 'Plague Wind'. The flavor text at the base of the card said 'The Fifth Wind of Ascension is Reaver, slaying the Unworthy.'
Since the Traitors were created by an ancient virus being released by a military mining operation, the card Plague Wind... yeah :)
The only new ideas I had were in regards to the paint scheme, I'm thinking black for the hard armor, probably gray for the cloth, with a black detail and borders, and glowing symbols picked out on the black armor to distinguish between the gods... the army as a whole will be Nurgle, but there will be tattoos and runes for each individual god... All of them will still have the symbol of Nurgle though.
I was also thinking about another conversion, I really like the sentinels
that the Imperial Guard use:
and I was trying to think of how I could use them. I was thinking that the unit they were closest to were the Fiends of Slaanesh, which would give me another close combat unit, but, more importantly, a fast fast unit in my army of slow Nurgle Daemons... the one problem is that the Fiends are close combat, while the sentinels posses only ranged weapons... a little searching turned up these beauties:
Wonderful close combat dread weapons! Heh, even a drill or two in there to fit with the mining theme!
So yeah, that's the extent so far! If you read this far, congrats!! I can't guarantee that I'll be here again any time soon... yay finals/ the show going up!
Hope to be back soon!!!
I have been so so so busy recently!! I have had no time to do anything but schoolwork for the last week and a half/ two weeks... hence my not being here and this post being so small... It's a shame, I find that the more I do musical theater Constantly, I begin to miss this blog, and the joy of just Thinking. Constantly. Really Hard. About the most random, nerdy stuff.
There's just something intoxication about an idea bursting into my head like a supernova, creating worlds in my head, or taking other peoples, and creating new sides and elements of those worlds that even the creators haven't even begun to imagine... That and the search, the challenge of searching for the pieces to make what I've imagined come to life, come out of my head and into the world, where I can share those thoughts and concepts with the people around me...
It makes me wish and wonder if I could do something like this for a living... what one would major in, where they would work, what it would consist of... that's why recently I've been investigating LARPing. It seems like running a LARP, creating a world that other people come and live in, putting together all the pieces... I don't know, it's a possibility. (and it involves theater!!)
I really have a terrible habit of taking things that should really be no more than hobbies for any sane person, and trying to imagine and create a life with them :P But that's just the thing, I cant begin to imagine doing something I'm not passionate about. It just so happens that the things I'm passionate about are really not fiscally viable...
I also feel bad that my mind immediately goes to money when I think about the future... I can't help it, being raised by the people I have been, my mind immediately goes to money, and having a career that makes a lot of it. I wont go into specifics here, but yeah, happens all the time.
Which makes me come to the realization. I don't care. Or, rather, I cant... I feel so terrible saying it, but I just can't bring myself to care about fiscal responsibility, or having a career that will make me money. Maybe it's because I can't really comprehend money, it doesn't really exist!! But also because, as much as it's been beaten into my head that money is important, it's been even more beaten into my head that you Have to do what you love. That if you don't 'Wake up in the morning and love what you're doing, it's not worth doing'.
Which leads me, invariably, to trying (and failing) to find a career that would allow me to have both :P
So that's my little rant :) Hope you enjoyed it... and if you would care for a little dose of nerdyness, there's a bit after the break :)
(click on 'read more' over there)
<-<-<--------
So, I'm thinking the angels are still being put in dry-dock for the time being... However! I may still get the models for the command group (the sanguinary guard, and the model for the chapter master HERE) and maybe a little squad of normal warriors, just because I love the scheme and the idea behind them... we'll see what happens.
I have, however, been thinking more about the Traitor Guard, now titled 'The Fifth Wind of Ascension'
heh, if you're wondering about the name... Back in the early nineties when Magic The Gathering was newly released, there was a card called 'Plague Wind'. The flavor text at the base of the card said 'The Fifth Wind of Ascension is Reaver, slaying the Unworthy.'
Since the Traitors were created by an ancient virus being released by a military mining operation, the card Plague Wind... yeah :)
The only new ideas I had were in regards to the paint scheme, I'm thinking black for the hard armor, probably gray for the cloth, with a black detail and borders, and glowing symbols picked out on the black armor to distinguish between the gods... the army as a whole will be Nurgle, but there will be tattoos and runes for each individual god... All of them will still have the symbol of Nurgle though.
I was also thinking about another conversion, I really like the sentinels
that the Imperial Guard use:
So yeah, that's the extent so far! If you read this far, congrats!! I can't guarantee that I'll be here again any time soon... yay finals/ the show going up!
Hope to be back soon!!!
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