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Im glad I saved this before deactivating my twitter and losing my discord where I had posted it

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patreon.comHow To Salvage An Imperium | Ela BambustThere’s two kinds of people reading this article, I suppose. The first are fans of Warhammer 40.000, its factions, its expansive lore, its s

On a similar vein as my thread yesterday 👇 I've had a similar idea to this myself! I'd probably do it a bit differently, I'd put a bit more grunge in even the newer, less fascist factions, while still keeping the old imperium as the shittest. But yeah, 40k needs humans that aren't fascists.

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Michael Kupperman

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This line I saw someone say reminded me of a whole load of thoughts I have about Space Marines and gender, so I'm gonna use it to go on a tangent. Space Marines, and 40k in general, are in a weird place thematically.

I guess if I have a singular point, it's that including previously unexplored identities in fiction is good and cool, but that it pays to be aware of how we do it.

"Because of a medical technicality, these violently masculine nazi supersoldiers are queer and so aren't fascist role models" might not be an ideal way to do it. This isn't what the quoted person at the top was saying, btw, or at least I don't think so. But I have seen that argument more than once

It does make me worry about 40k as a thing as it goes further into the mainstream, given that it's getting an Amazon show and everything. As it strives to (uncontroversially) include more people, and to be more appealing and marketable, it risks becoming a strange fash-washing exercise.

(there's a potential whole tangent here about how GW has never been particularly good at balancing the satirical or thematic elements of 40k, and have only become worse at it over the decades, but that's a whole other kettle of fish)

People (justifiably) want to see themselves reflected in communities, and you end up with conflicting incentives. The economic incentive to not make the marines too fascist. The anti-fascist incentive to push out the things fascists find admirable. The community incentive to be included.

I don't have a singular point here, 40k just has a strange cultural position that's hard to balance. It's a 2000AD-style grimdark fascist satire that became a mass-market product and a community space. Other stuff in that position, like Marvel or D&D, doesn't have that overriding thematic edge.

So am I saying that GW shouldn't have women space marines and stuff? Not at all. That could be done really well. It's an awesome chance to explore these themes, and also play with feminist and queer themes as women are shoved into the sausage machine of constructed violent masculinity.

But there's another problem here, and it's one I find more complicated and difficult to navigate. In the age of fandom and franchises, 40k is also a community space - the fictional setting as well as the hobby itself. It can't exist as a pure satire, less so than ever. So we're in a weird spot.

The problem is that we're now fighting in the diegetic space, and that's the space fascists like, because they're idiots. Fascists don't get that 40k is satire, or at the very least they don't care. But if we're willing to paint the intensely gendered marines as genderless, maybe we don't either?

A common point I see added here is "well it's making a point about fascism: the imperium doesn't care about gender as long as it can use you" And this just isn't true! The aesthetics and philosophy of the Imperium are steeped in Roman and Nazi iconography, they're patriarchal from the ground up.

There's a common discourse pattern with 40k: a fascist chud says something faschy, progressives counter that by citing lore which both disproves the fascist idiot's point and also reasserts the mastery and knowledge of weird queers (positive) over fascist tourists who just wanna start culture wars.

This brings me to the quote at the top! It's a gotcha I've seen brought up quite a lot when fascists talk about how there can't be women marines, or how space marines should be admirable men that we all want to be. They're thick. But using this lore point as a comeback is a double-edged sword.

This all has a big thematic punch. The Imperium created a master race in line with the vision of historical fascists: obedient, violent, cruel, and overwhelmingly male. Their maleness is patriarchal, their inability to even have sex is patriarchal - medicalised rejection of the culturally feminine

youtu.beCharlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great DictatorYouTube video by Charlie Chaplin

The Space Marines are "machine men with machine minds and machine hearts", or at least that's what they're produced to be. Whether they actually are is where a lot of the fun storytelling comes in, and where 40k has tons of space to be creative and expand itself thematically.

Are space marines genderless? The lore says yes. But mostly its no. They do not lack gender in practice; they're intensely gendered in their presentation. They are big and chiselled, they have loud, deep voices, they are styled on historical male warriors, they call each other "brother".

My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them: 1. Star Wars: Saga Edition 2. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3. D&D 4. Call of Cthulu 5. Savage Worlds

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I got inspired and made something beautiful. The Sneer. He's 3D printable, so might use him as part of a Turnip28 force or something.

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kickstarter.comIl Fantasma del Giallo: The Phantom of the YellowBecome disgraced actors trapped in a sequence of brutal Neo-Noir murder-mysteries in this cinematic, reality-bending TTRPG.

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I got inspired and made something beautiful. The Sneer. He's 3D printable, so might use him as part of a Turnip28 force or something.

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Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

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I got inspired and made something beautiful. The Sneer. He's 3D printable, so might use him as part of a Turnip28 force or something.

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Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Some in progress shots I thought to take! May put him up on my Patreon soon.

This is a huge problem in the digital sculpt sphere and it baffles me that so many creators just don't seem to care how practical or well designed a model is for actual painting and use.

Delaney King (In Yellow)@delaneyking.bsky.social

Just because a model looks cool on screen does not mean it will make a good miniature. And you can see this all through the Nolzurs mini range. I get those models looked cools as fuck on a monitor, but they are hot garbage to paint.

I deliberately tend to sculpt in a very oldhammer style for stuff intended for printing, partly because I like it, partly because it takes paint super well *and* is easy and reliable to print. Some kickstarters, especially for those super detailed chaos models (pick any), are just having a laugh.

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boxd.itA ★★★★½ diary entry for The House with Laughing Windows (1976)

Damn fine film, better than I remembered it being even. boxd.it/gR4ls9

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Greetings all. I have put this off for some time now but I am struggling to pay an enormous printing debt to my current printers. Therefore I am asking for all your help. If you've ever enjoyed my games, please consider donating so I can continue to make them. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-neonr...

Sculpted a frog wizard guy for an online pal. I will add a little silly bum to anything I can, this is my vow.

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If you want this little guy to print for yourself, you can have him! I put him up on my Patreon for $1 patrons and up. www.patreon.com/HardyRoachGa...

Just (re)watched...

Good film. Similar vibes to A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (though not quite as good).

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On a Discworld kick again lately -- it's good comfort reading -- and it does mystify me somewhat that the majority of adaptations of the material have opted for live action over animation. 3D or 2D, Discworld is just so well suited to animation.

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If unions didn't work employers wouldn't pull this shit to stop them

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The IWGB is arguing that the 'moles' or 'information providers' were provided time off in lieu by HR as a "sweetener" for surveilling the union discord. Emails are shown that indicate a HR rep at Rockstar allowed someone to claim back the hour they spent combing through the Discord for info.

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