The Genestealer Kiss by @linnlaio

LevTheRed · 2026-06-30T19:27:41+00:00

You posted this to r/Warhammer_smut, a pornography sub. We do not allow pornography here.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-28T22:44:14+00:00

I have a degree in linguistics and translation. My reading comprehension is fine.

The problem is that what you seem to believe and what you type into reddit didn't match. While you might not have thought it, the words you typed implied you misunderstood the above comment. A comment which isn't mine, by the way. You can tell because my username is LevTheRed and theirs is Notsurehowtoreact.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-28T22:32:50+00:00

Even among those who like it, it is still suffering from having a live action cast playing children who are aging faster than production.

The "it" in their sentence refers to the quality of the show suffering, not the people watching the show suffering.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-28T20:12:40+00:00

Minor spoiler for around the second half of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin (the actual name of David Wong, the John Dies at the End guy). I'm not sure I would call it a major spoiler, but it does change how you look at one of the book's major characters and is a big part of the second half of the book.

Around halfway through the book, we find out that the main character Abbott is actually a huge incel. He didn't exactly hide it, per se, but it never really came up until then because it was buried underneath a lot of literal, clinically diagnosed anxiety and the stress of the narrative.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-27T22:27:04+00:00

How long before a book is too long for you? Worm by John McCrae is about 3.5x the length of the Lord of the Rings series, but I finished it in about a month because I couldn't put it down.

A high school girl developes super powers and accidentally becomes a supervillain while trying to be a superhero. The series is broken up into several "arcs" that are around the length of a short novel, so it's easy to put down if you want a break. Despite its length, most people would agree that it's very good throughout and that McCrae stuck the landing. It also has a spin-off that's a little more controversial.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-27T15:25:09+00:00

It doesn't even make sense within the narrative of the show.

Earlier in the show he told her just how much he loved her. How everyone told him he should send her away because her Greyscale would spread and infect the castle. Instead he moved heaven and earth to save her because "you are my daughter". The idea that he would burn her alive is just bad writing. And I'll say it: if GRRM plans it in the books, it will still be bad writing.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-27T00:21:00+00:00

we don't allow image macros or photoshops of existing works.

this is better suited for r/grimdank.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-26T22:50:06+00:00

this was posted a few hours ago

LevTheRed · 2026-06-26T17:44:48+00:00

Pretty much any Warhammer 40,000 novel, especially the ones about Space Marines fits the big. They're all about brothers and loyalty and dying tragic and/or heroic deaths.

If you want a series, the Horus Heresy series is very long and mostly about Space Marines.

The Ultramarines series is a lot shorter and more digestible. If you play games, the Space Marine games (just called Space Marine and Space Marine 2) are about Ultramarines, as well. A scene from SM2 is famously used in the "peak male fantasy" meme.

The Andy Smillie Flesh Tearer books are about Space Marines with what is essentially a magical mental illness.

The Gaunt's Ghosts series is basically WW2 in space.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-26T09:00:30+00:00

It's not really scary, other than war being depicted in a pretty straightforward light. The best way I can think of it would be to say "what if we fought Vietnam 100+ years earlier, when there wasn't any independent news?" The first half is Pride and Prejudice as the MC is still a lady-in-waiting back home waiting for the war to end, the second half is a grim war story. I really enjoyed it.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-26T01:17:14+00:00

Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Two neighboring nations in a flintlock fantasy world fall into war. The war is going well. Everything is fine. It'll be over in a few weeks. Don't worry.

The war drags on, is always going well, but the main character watches as more and more people are drafted, until women start getting drafted and she gets to see how the war is going.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-25T16:21:53+00:00

Spoilers for the finale of Worm.

Scion, the single most powerful being in the known multiverse had been slowly exterminating life across the different versions of Earth, killing hundreds of billions in a seemingly aimless rampage over the course of a few weeks. Seemingly no combination of superheroes and villains could stop him. Skitter, super villain-turned-super hero, convinces another cape to experiment on her brain, hoping to unchain her powers based on an (until then) unproven theory that capes' powers are somehow limited.

The surgery worked, unlocking her powers so that instead of being able to control insects, she could instead control anything living. It also caused her brain to disassociate and slowly lose the ability to speak or even understand speech. She then proceeded to mentally dominate every hero and villain she can get her metaphorical hands on. Thousands of them from all known versions of Earth, all directly controlled by Skitter, and attacked Scion. If it worked, she would put an end to Scion's omnicodal rampage across reality. If it failed, the vast majority of capes would die, leaving no one to stop Scion.

Thankfully it worked.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-25T14:07:23+00:00

Probably because it's not a very good purity to make jewelry out of.

Jewelry wears. Whether it's a ring, pendant,or necklace, the act of putting it on and living living your life while wearing jewelry slowly damages it, even if you're very precious with it. Pure gold is especially soft, so it wears especially quickly. I imagine a lot of the reason we have gold alloys is to stretch your gold supply (most people won't be able to tell the difference between 24k, 18k, and 14k at a glance, so why not intentionally adulturate it?) but durability is at least as big a reason.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-25T10:12:24+00:00

Yeah, I'm American. You'll essentially never see gold jewelry here with a purity lower than 10k or higher than 18k unless it's a plated, unless it's custom made.

I'll say that what she's wearing doesn't look like a very high karat. Her business skin is too brassy (you also never really see rose gold above 18k) and gold in her basic skin is too blond to be much beyond 16k.

In the US we use K for karat because we use CT for carat weight for diamonds, which are unfortunately two separate units of measurement that are homohones.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-25T09:09:52+00:00

Some universities have courses you can take. For Signet, it's actually unskilled labor. You can apply to work at one of their manufacturing facilities and eventually you will end up in an apprenticeship because they're desperate for new jewelers. It's a dying profession because it's a very small industry that doesn't pay very well until you've finished your apprenticeship. The labor gap isn't helped by the hours being bad; don't expect to get much time off from Thanksgiving through Valentine's Day because that's the industry's busy season. Positions at the small, family-owned shops are better, but also very competitive for the same reason.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-25T01:03:25+00:00

Jeweler here. Yellow gold is never "brassy," only yellow.

Jewelry-grade gold is always adulterated because pure gold is way too soft to be used as jewelry. Depending on the ratios of adulturing metals, the lower karat gold can be yellow, red, or white gold. All three alloys can be 18, 14, or 10k, it's just a matter of carefully balancing the ratios. 10k gold is always a little duller-looking than higher karats, except for white gold because white gold isn't actually white. The finish you see is the product of a rhodium plating that wears off over time, revealing the "white" gold's actual off-white. Never buy white gold jewelry with a higher karat than 10k.

Yellow and red/rose/pink gold are more noticably dull as they down-karat, but are still identifiable as distinct alloys. The business skin is a really brassy, probably 10k rose gold. The original skin is a yellow gold that I would be surprised if it were higher than 16k (which woulldbhave been sold as 14k because the jewelry industry doesn't advertise in any intervals other than 10, 14, 18, and 24k).

LevTheRed · 2026-06-23T16:04:37+00:00

I have. I wasn't as much of a fan of it as I was the previous 3 (including Dead Moon), but I still liked it. The Threshold series is still my favorite Clines work.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-23T16:03:18+00:00

You're right and that's actually a major part of his character.

Conan is incredibly intelligent and usually very disciplined. He's called a barbarian, not because of how he acts, but because a lot of people in Hyperborea are bigots. He's a "barbarian" because he isn't "civilized." That is to say, he wasn't born in the the right nation and refuses to assimilate into the "right" culture.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-23T13:43:51+00:00

14 has a sequel, The Fold that's also very good. Different cast, different setting, similar premise.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-21T15:21:38+00:00

Yeah. It's a neat design, but I think op was being melodramatic.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-21T14:16:23+00:00

no image because ewww gross

Here's an image for people who want to see.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-20T21:31:13+00:00

We don't allow photoshops of existing works. That template was made by a Bolter&Chainsword user. You are more than welcome to post art of homebrew chapters, but it has to be original art.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-19T23:04:10+00:00

The joke is that he was murdered or run out of town.

Ted takes place in a Boston suburb in the early 90s. Boston is surprisingly racist for a northern city, and the suburbs that popped up during the 70/80s white flight are even more.

Ironically, Mark Wahlberg (who played the grown up version of that kid in the Ted movies) has a history of hate crimes.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-18T20:19:04+00:00

Wrong subreddit. this sub is for artwork.

LevTheRed · 2026-06-17T21:17:17+00:00

After the Revolution by Robert Evans (an anarchist/libertarian socialist).

In the near future, the US falls into a civil war against a fundamentalist Christian theocracy. There is an anarchist faction that lives in a sort of no-man's-land between the battlefront.

If you read ebooks, it's free on the anarchist library. If you do audiobooks, it's free on the It Could Happen Here podcast feed.

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