today's main character has the same effect on me as Adam Sandler in uncut gems where my brain's immune system scrambles on red alert to kill every behavior we have in common just in case. "please no please no I can't ever look up and realize I've become this"

and that's how mama likes it >:]

we're the ones sleeping with all the chasers

Also my headcanon is that she's Theodora's literal firstborn daughter and Theodora just dumped her on the Murderjungle Bugfuck planet in the Hatestar VII system like Heihachi dumping his kids in volcanos: to toughen her up for her life's REAL challenges.

This is the character portrait. I've come to understand lots of people pick this one but she literally looks just like me so it's more valid for me to pick her. I love her so much ;3;

So on the one hand she has learned not to actually -talk- about religion where Argenta or any representatives of the ecclesiarchy can hear her, but on the other hand her incandescent faith isn't easily corralled by hidebound Imperial orthodoxy. Dangerous 4 a commissar long term, GREAT for a RT.

So on the one hand she did eventually attend the schola progenium and become a commissar, and she is incredibly cunning, wise, and perceptive, but she also barely knows how to read and while her -intentions- are constantly noble & pure her knowledge of Emps before 10 yrs old was an old statue.

Born on a death world, Vic was scrawny and sickly and a girl and thus had no hope of space marine recruitment. Her life was changed forever when an Astra Militarum regiment was stranded on her world. Her knowledge of the world saved the regiment & the regiment's commissar adopted her.

Nearing the end of my 40k RT run & Victoria von Valancius is one of my fave custom characters. Heres a spread that communicates her vibe. "Dogmatic" doesn't mean I'll summarily execute you for knowing the word "warp"! I'll summarily execute you for other reasons or point u @ other, worse problems.

The very thought of potentially doing it makes me feel the kind of anticipatory shame and guilt nationalists seem to feel over the idea of treason; even if no harm is caused the very doing of it is evidence of a person who should definitely not be trusted and probably not go unpunished.

The idea of in effect telling on her, of airing her sins and our family dysfunctions that shamelessly and brutally as part of a greater project of disparaging my whole people for an audience of the vampires who spent centuries poisoning, brutalizing, and exploiting us feels categorically profane.

Going no contact with my own mom at 38 felt existentially bad. It was the right choice and all my Yankees were frustrated it took me so long to do it but that's the culture. Just because your daimyo deserved to be abandoned doesn't change the rules or make you NOT an honorless ronin.

You do not talk badly about blood & equivalent social bonds where outsiders can hear. Other hillbillies will judge and/or take advantage of you for it and outsiders will use everything you say to confirm their belief that you and yours are degenerate ungovernable slobs. Infinitely moreso for Mama.

Circling back to this because I remembered another reason Little Lord Vancelroy is NOT one of us: it's different from the Confucian or Roman versions but Hillbilly culture runs on filial piety. Matriarchal filial piety, specifically. His depiction of his mama is profoundly taboo & unacceptable.

it's not FOR us

epstein was the American rasputin

NO! my brain has a hard time not registering it as a comparative adjective re primness

okay so now I REALLY want to know what you think of octopus pie

I mean my username is a reference to Molly Millions but I don't think I would want to be in that world. Probably a tie between 2312 and Children of Time*. And Gideon the 9th but that's heavily fantasy

*Provided I get to be or meet the uplifted sentient animals and explore space obvs

Yeah exactly. I've come to believe that "stupidity" is an intersection of attitudes, beliefs, and feelings. I've met people with profoundly disabled wetware who were still curious and thoughtful & much much more of the opposite.

lost it at Yakub. although i guess if one black guy were going to hang out with all these vanilla demons it would be their (our... u_u) maker and father

yeah i felt a real gendered shame over that last data point especially. good solidarity ladies. love to see it