Female custodes by cnmbwjx on twitter

Warhammer 40,000 as a universe is trying to do the impossible.

Warhammer 40,000 is, broadly, a grim satire of fascism. It takes the fascist's worldview, all the xenophobia, conspiracism, hypernationalism, and militarism, and amplifies it to a galactically ridiculous scale.

"The Imperium of Man has ruled for 10,000 years, warring endlessly against heretics, traitors, aberrant humans, and aliens galore, all of whom are so wildly different from humanity that peaceful coexistence will simply never be possible. The only emotion stronger than our hatred of them is their hatred of us. So, we war. We war and war and battle and slaughter until the end of days. We throw our sacred human form, untainted by mutation or the hideous sciences of our ancestors, against the barbarian hordes by the millions, most of us dying in the process. We revere and worship the warriors elevated by the hand of our divine god-emperor, the apotheosis of our glorious, eternal state. These warriors, reborn in the Emperor's image with His sacred eugenics, to become the ultimate fighting men. And yes, they are all men. We are never safe, while we must constantly be defending our borders from our enemies, we must also be ever-vigilant within. Anybody, from our comrades on the front lines to our commanders, tech-priests, preachers, or politicians, could be a traitor. Nobody can ever TRULY be trusted, and those who truly are heretics, must not only be destroyed, but erased. They, and all memory of them must be eradicated. One heretic can sign the death warrant of his entire world, and sometimes, for the preservation of the human race, billions must die."

Warhammer 40k presents a world where all of this(asterisk) is true (VERY BIG ASTERISK)

Through this lens, a lot of the more... questionable aspects make sense.

T'au Empire Mind Control: The T'au are how fascists view liberals. They CANNOT understand that an integrated, multicultural society could ever POSSIBLY work. They cannot FATHOM that different communities can just... agree to work together, it HAS TO BE the woke mind virus. "Can you believe these fucking idiots tried to NEGOTIATE with TYRANIDS???? These fucking losers tried to make PEACE WITH ANOTHER RACE??? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT"

Why the chaos gods are what they are: The followers of chaos represent everyone of the 'ingroup' the fascist hates. Because nothing, not even their sacred ingroup, is sacred to the fascist. The followers of chaos are the germans who resisted, the jewish antizionist, the rebel (Khorne), the intellectual (Tzeentch), the sick and disabled (Nurgle), and the queer (Slaanesh). "There is no reason ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY not those of our sacred ingroup, could object to our glorious genocide. And the runts of the litter must be eliminated to not be a drain on the rest"

And EVEN WITHIN 40k, a lot of this is bullshit.

The T'au mind control thing is provably bullshit because the Farsight Enclaves exist. A whole T'au society that exists free from the apparent mid control of the ethereals

The imperium feeds as much into the chaos gods as the traitors do. A stagnant, decaying empire (Nurgle), with an incomprehensibly vast and byzantine bureaucratic structure (Tzeentch), where a select few live appallingly lush and lavish lives of hedonism and pleasure, completely detached from the people they're supposed to govern (Slaanesh), all for the purpose of making ever more destructive and bloody war with everybody else (Khorne)

There is evidence of peaceful human coexistence with xenos empires during the Dark Age of Technology, including one humanity CREATED, and many inquisitors and rogue traders will GLADLY incorporate xenos into their retinues. Trade and coexistence with aliens DOES still happen in the imperium.

Hell, the parody of fascism is in the very MECHANICS OF THE WHOLE LORE. Fascists don't believe in "facts" or "truth", if they did, they wouldn't be fascists. Therefore, in 40k, "Everything is canon, nothing is true". This allows players to EITHER

Think critically and try to connect the dots to form their best guess as to what "canon" is

Or buy wholly into one side or another's propaganda

And one of those groups is going to find a "truth" they can accept and treat as fact a LOT more quickly than the other.

40k lays out in perfectly plain low gothic, all of the bullshit and hypocrisies of the Imperium. They'll let entire sectors die in the interests of preserving human life. The way the imperial guard are lauded as heroes but treated worse than the lasguns in their hands. The way that in order to become a space marine, one of humanity's great guardian angels, you must have everything that makes you human either beaten out of you or surgically removed. The priests who worship science and technology viewing scientific progress as the most abhorrent of heresies. The divine worship of a man who scoured entire worlds for the crime of worshipping him as a god.

Actually hang on lemme derail the flow of this post and talk more about the emperor. The Emperor is the chief hypocrite in an empire of hypocrites. "I AM NOT A GOD" says the 10-foot-tall gleaming golden immortal psychic god-man, "NOW GO FORTH MY ANGELS ON YOUR GLORIOUS CRUSADE TO BRING SCIENCE AND REASON, and by science and reason I mean doing exactly what I say without question and turning a blind eye to fundamental truths of the universe, TO THIS BENIGHTED GALAXY"

The problem is that parodying fascism is impossible. Fascism is already so inherently, fundamentally ridiculous a worldview, for all the reasons explained above, that distinguishing sincerity from irony is nigh impossible.

If you, an antifascist, read The Turner Diaries, you will probably assume it's satire. The book ends with Earth as an irradiated hellsacpe where few can survive and nothing about its resulting culture is explained. But nope! This is fascist propaganda! It was written by actual neo-nazis who committed actual hate crimes! It is an enthusiastic YAAAAAAAAAY APOCALYPTIC WARFARE!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAY GENOCIDE!!!!!!!! At least all the black people are gone! Hell, when Rogue One came out, Lucasfilm got all sort of shit flung at them for portraying the evil space nazis... as the bad guys... which they always were.

This is why both we, the fandom, and Games Workshop as a company, are DIRECTLY pushing SO HARD against the fascists in the space, and must push harder. 40K IS NOT FOR THEM. And no amount of clever writing or obvious parody will ever convince them otherwise. It does not matter how unfathomably stupid you make fascism look to people with functioning brains, fascists will gobble that shit up. You cannot make fascism look worse than it is, and you cannot make it stupid enough to convince fascists its stupid.

The problem isn't that Games Workshop isn't doing a good enough job writing the imperium as bad (although they aren't), the problem is that it will never be an adequate mockery to make the fascists feel unwelcome. It's not a bad parody of fascism, fascism is just beyond parody.

Arch-Mortule The Mutant - My character from my first proper long run on Caves of Qud, ended up crushing and murdering quite a few puritanist templars, but I feel like it could have been...a lot more....Maybe next time. Based on random chimeric mutations I got, as well as most of the kit I got during the run. Turns out, having a lot of arms with axes is quite deadly! Who knew Great game, would recommend.

Not aware, but can see the similarity, the aesthetic is fun, but ya, based on mostly true thing for warhammer scalies XD

The Great Scalies of Necromunda! Another picture on my personal take on the giant lizard people of 40k universe, ones of human origins. Fun thing, need more minis of them I only own four, I need more.

Because, people who complain about politics being pushed, are the ones usually pushing politics and also ones who don't make their own game, they come into game someone else made and then complain about it? Like, they cry about leaving for years, but when you ask em to make something themselves, they either cry, throw insults or throw A.I. slop

My only point in the female custodies thing

Why don't those who want this thing make their own IP ?

or do you need to be parasites on something successful because you don't want the actual fans to enjoy their stuff without your politics in it.

The Great Scalies of Necromunda! Another picture on my personal take on the giant lizard people of 40k universe, ones of human origins. Fun thing, need more minis of them I only own four, I need more.

Main enemy faction- Transcendent Technocracy of Devonia, domain of the Archon of Progress

The Greater Cave Lizard - Larger, stronger and scarier creatures found in the deep caves, peculiar remains of some old civilization perhaps?

New paint on old lead -- Some fantastic Rogue Trader era metal space marines by theangrygriffin (Instagram, Reddit, website)

Brother Hamilton (1987)

C100 Space Marine (1986 -- predating the publication of Rogue Trader)

Brother Fielding with shuriken catapult (1988)

Female Warrior Gabs (1987)

Brother Gorshin with needle gun (1988)

Artificier Armour (ca 1990, with modified backpack)

Brother Slater with bolter and sensor (1987)

Liber Xenos: Orks - Orktober 2023 Update

Merry Orktober!

The previous release of Liber Xenos: Orks updated the rules for Horus Heresy 2.0 but for the most part kept the Orks’ profiles from previous editions. Now the army list has been given a thorough rework to address issues with power levels.

The Xenos: Orks faction for Quartermaster has also been updated!

Roboute is the autistic sub with very weird and specific fantasies with like 30 pages of lore and Yvraine is his ADHD dom who needs a slideshow, a training video, and a notebook to remember all that shit

Im kind of mad that the old Aeldari artwork goes so fucking hard and what we got now is just polished conventionally attractive ladies.

I want this:

This is the sexiest shit I've seen in ages. I get why Roboute has a secret Aeldari boyfriend.

Lyrane should put Skitti through a wash cycle and make Kat watch.

bioweapon deactivated :(

LIZARD-BOSS BOYZ MOB

This mob is rather peculiar, for it’s lead by a big strong, green thing, that is not quite an ork. Clad in ork made power armour, with both skill and might to match, this creature, supposedly “relative of the legendary brain boys” (though only the mad runt herd would even believe that) lead bands of ork into battle versus most peculiar and fun of foes. Just don’t mind that both the boss..and their weird pet grot lizard are rather potent weirdboys…

For 320 Points

1 Slanni Big Boss wearing mega armor, armed with power klaw (ripper  fist) and kustom shoota (rattle gun)

AND

1 Mek wearing ‘Eavy armor, armed with kustom rifle (fussion rifle) and choopa (blade)

AND

1 Slanni Shaman armed wearing primitive armor, armed with hand weapon and slugga (blaster pistol) 

AND

3 Ork nobz wearing ‘eavy armor, armed with slugga and choopa or shoota (pick one)

PLUS

1 Extra ork nob for 13 points each, wearing ‘eavy armor, armed with slugga and choopa or shoota (pick one)

As a joke, I have made one, but because I was me, it's a female space wolf marine, she is a monster fucker on a ship owned by an inquisitor...who is bothered because she tries to make friends with ssyleth....

OK, so, I am clearly biased because I'm not actively following Rogue Trader-specific tags and whatnot, all I see is what my follows post or reblog so there's a person-specific filter on each post that reaches my dash, but--

Everyone simps for Marzipan the Dark Elf. Everyone wants to fuck either of the Inquisition's Blowjob Brothers. Everyone likes the Eldar Ranger wife.

I've yet to see a single image of Ulfar's ass and I can't tell if it's because I follow people who specifically aren't into bears and other types of hard-masculine men, because his Cop-Flavored Space Wolf Vibes are that rancid, or because he does something else in the game that causes him to end up being such an unlikeable dick (derogatory) that nobody bothers to draw him. Which is a goddamn achievement and a half in 40K because you can pick up the soggiest white bread of a loyalist Marine character/chapter, bet five bucks that there is at least one person swooning over them and casually walk away 10$ richer.

"Why won't you play the game yourself--" because my free time is split unevenly between Warframe, drawing my own little mans, dealing with depressive episodes and a sudden craving for a 6/10 jank-as-fuck RPG that I know well enough by now to kind of just casually blitz through in maybe 20-ish hours, which led me to reinstall Might & Magic X of all things. Also, RT is apparently still buggy and I'm not paying 60$ to do post-launch QA for Owlcat, either the game goes on a big sale or they patch it to a decent level.

Space Wolf not being weird horny xenophile that fucks anything that moves when in the mood is a crime! A crime I tell you!

OK, so, I am clearly biased because I'm not actively following Rogue Trader-specific tags and whatnot, all I see is what my follows post or reblog so there's a person-specific filter on each post that reaches my dash, but--

Everyone simps for Marzipan the Dark Elf. Everyone wants to fuck either of the Inquisition's Blowjob Brothers. Everyone likes the Eldar Ranger wife.

I've yet to see a single image of Ulfar's ass and I can't tell if it's because I follow people who specifically aren't into bears and other types of hard-masculine men, because his Cop-Flavored Space Wolf Vibes are that rancid, or because he does something else in the game that causes him to end up being such an unlikeable dick (derogatory) that nobody bothers to draw him. Which is a goddamn achievement and a half in 40K because you can pick up the soggiest white bread of a loyalist Marine character/chapter, bet five bucks that there is at least one person swooning over them and casually walk away 10$ richer.

"Why won't you play the game yourself--" because my free time is split unevenly between Warframe, drawing my own little mans, dealing with depressive episodes and a sudden craving for a 6/10 jank-as-fuck RPG that I know well enough by now to kind of just casually blitz through in maybe 20-ish hours, which led me to reinstall Might & Magic X of all things. Also, RT is apparently still buggy and I'm not paying 60$ to do post-launch QA for Owlcat, either the game goes on a big sale or they patch it to a decent level.