The neglected secondborn daughter of Lord-Captain Dominica Baltazar, Camina grew up used to the finer things in life. All the luxuries of wealth and power with none of the responsibilites. Then, within a year of each other, her mother was kidnapped by Drukhari and her older brother Gideon was lost on the far side of the Cicatrix Maledictum that had suddenly torn the galaxy, and the Baltazar protectorate of the Lion's Head Nebula, in half. The realm she inherited is plagued by rebellions and on the verge of collapse. And now there's also Hive Fleet Leviathan.
Camina is by no means stupid, but her mother hadn't bothered to teach her... anything really. She is a fervent reader and well-versed in the history and culture of the Imperium, but barely knows how to fire a lasgun, let alone fight a war on two fronts.
ADRIC VAN VALL, Seneschal to the Rogue Trader
Guilliaume Van Vall was the glue that kept the Baltazar realm together during the sudden disappearance of two Lord-Captains. His son Adric never wanted to take his place and Guilliaume never forced him to. Adric instead chose to become a field medic and his father used his connections with the realm's well-to-do to have his son trained with the sisters Hospitaller of the shrine world of Saint's Manger, one of only a handful of men in the history of the Adepta Sororitas to have the honour. When he dragged his father's mutitlated corpse out from under a dead screamer-killer, he know the worst had come. His father never found a successor. It went to him.
Adric's time with the sisters taught him pious devotion to the Emperor, but it also taught him mercy and compassion. To the rest of the Imperium, weakness.
F-11D SEGALA, Magos Biologis
Segala began her training under one magos Varnak. When Varnak died, Segala devoted her life to the study and eradication of the thing that killed him: Tyranids. Her hunger to learn about them grew very literal, and she secretly implanted herself with an illegally acquired omophagea, the organ that allowed Space Marines to gather information from the flesh of creatures they ate. When they learned what she had done, the upper ranks of the mechanicum banished her from Mars.
She has been hiding in the Baltazar realm ever since, slowly gathering dirt on Mars's upper eschelons so that she may extort her way back to the red planet.
Iron Ravens third captain LARISSA MORROW
The Imperial Truth states that women are incapable of becoming Space Marines. Morrow is a living violation of that Truth. She would have been shot through the head as soon as she was unthawed on the Zar Quaesitor, were it not for captain Farren of the nascent Iron Ravens chapter taking her in as his lieutenant. When he was entombed in a dreadnought, Morrow took his place as captain. She is a skilled and competent leader, known for being able to pull victory together from whatever table scraps her fractured and disorganized chapter could muster.
When one lives as a fact that contradicts The Truth, it breeds a certain baseline level of hatred. Morrow has adapted, but a century of humiliation by imperials of all ranks wears down the spirit.
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So I saw some people remarking that they didn't understand why "liberals" are focusing on the disaster of the Reflecting Pool paint job, and ok so when you see stuff like that, I need you to remember we are dealing with a wannabe strongman. Anything that makes him look ineffectual, wasteful, and incredibly stupid-- you get that between your teeth and you don't let go. Especially *especially* when it involves laughing at him.
Also... it is funny. Except for the poor ducks, it's funny. Man lost a war to algae. His "American Flag Blue" is green and slimy and the paint is peeling off, and all before his big 4th of July show that no musicians want to play. It's funny. Point and laugh. That is fighting fascism, actually.
Like, this is the same guy who is trying to hide that a judge made him take his name off the Kennedy Centre by hiding the building with a great big tarp to obscure where his name used to be.
Any public slight, no matter now petty, no matter now little it matters to everyone else, gets under his skin like those screwworms he accidentally let Musk reintroduce to Texas (causing the government to call a state of emergency as it's trashing their beef industry).
Mocking the Reflecting Pool is Springtime for Hitler.
Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.
That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.
But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.
And that's why we're riding that fucker so hard. This is what's under the power fantasy. Deep down, he's just pathetic. And that's what Mel Brooks understood with Springtime for Hitler. You don't fight the Nazis by making them big bad scary evil guys. You fight the Nazis (when actual weapons aren't a present option) by making them a laughingstock. There is no way to derive a power fantasy from being the object of derision.
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It's genuinely quite funny that the leftist, communist, anti-imperialist, America-Never-Has-And-Never-Will-Do-Anything-Cool-Or-Good crowd are the ones who accept that the Moon Landings happened while the 1776BALDEAGLEFREEDOMGODGUNSCOMMUNISMWILLNEVERWINMAGAMURICAAAAAAAAAAA types bend over backwards to deny that the greatest propaganda victory in American history never happened and was all fake.
AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH AND CAN DO ANYTHING. Except that. We didn't do that.
when a man and a woman in a piece of fiction get to keep having a delightful friendship dynamic instead of losing all their interesting traits to become the 580000th het couple ever
still thinking about this. ESPECIALLY IN KIDS MOVIES. not saying that kids can't deal with romance but like! the priority when you're a kid should be building strong friendships. a Serious Negotiated Romance is HUGE!!!! yet SO MANY kids movies focus heavily on that being the Ideal End Goal For Girl And Boy Best Friends and I don't super love that
growing up in Canada (and as far as I know this is also generally how it's used in Europe) we treated "lego" as a collective like "rice" or "water". every time I hear someone say they're "playing with legos" it sounds like "eating a bowl of rices".
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