Feminism & 40k

Autistic, pan, mostly Cis, He/Him

[inkary]

OPEN FOR BIZZNESS!!!!! (still)

deets in the pinned post if you are interested, dm if there are any other questions etc etc. You give coin = i give art, that's the gist.

[rabidchilde]

[rabidchilde]

Source (not AI): https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9NDLao

No boob plate, no war corset, no lipstick, no high heels. She looks like she's wearing plate armor more than power armor, but it's still refreshing to see a Sister of Battle without the John Blanche sexualization.

[rabidchilde]

A classy modern interpretation of Female Warrior Jayne.

[marinolta]

fish i saw today

[rabidchilde]

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I love the female space marines Alessa always paints up. Her insta is worth following. @jakey-beefed-it Seems like something you'd like.

[rabidchilde]

I just realized that digital weapons in 40k (the secret las-pistol, hand-flamer and such hidden in rings made by the Jokero, a semi-sapient species that looks like orangutans and have the word joke in their name) are a pun.

Digital weapons are worn on fingers. Fingers are digits.

It's a 39 year old pun and I only just got it.

[jakey-beefed-it]

Mreh.

I'm still not loving the look of this. The missing hand doesn't exactly help, but the armor just isn't clicking. And the glowing sigils don't look as good as I thought they would.

I might try to go for a metallic black as the main color, then if that still sucks, I'll probably step up to a cool grey instead and do the undersuit in black instead.

Also not sold on the sigils on the cape. They might be too big, I'm not sure.

Rengh. Not sure how much of this dissatisfaction is legitimate and how much is due to being very tired and also sad about losing the hand.

Open to suggestions, because I'm starting to feel like I'm never going to crack this color scheme. Which would probably be better for my finances in the long run, but it makes me sad.

Weh.

[rabidchilde]

I think it might be the visual balance. From the back the black and red are the majority, splitting the model evenly and the red is broken up with those runes, which looks great.

From the front there's white, silver, red and black all over. Which isn't to say your painting is bad at all, I just think the front doesn't let the eye lock on. Squinting at it, I think it's the white on the fur and the scrolls. It's making a frame that's brighter than most of the mini, when they're accessories and shouldn't hold the eye that much.

If you can push their colors back to more muted that will help. But also if you can fit them in your color scheme that would probably help more. Also I think the saturation is pretty low everywhere on the mini except the orange and the highlighted red on the back. Changing up how bright the reds are will probably help almost as much as adding more red.

[jakey-beefed-it]

Genetics having long since proven that there was extensive interbreeding between early modern humans and our closest relatives (Neanderthals, Denisovans, other relatives only inferred through genetics with no extant archeological finds) among the human family, I have two thoughts.

The first is more inquisitive- was there also interbreeding with homo erectus, who also lived alongside us? Was it impossible for some reason, or maybe just so difficult that it left far less of a genetic legacy?

The second is more philosophical. They're not really gone, we carry them with us still. They were people, they mattered, and while their legacy is largely reduced to a few minor variations and interesting archaeo-historical data, it's not gone. It's looking less and less likely that we "out-competed" or made systematic wars of extermination against them, but instead lived alongside them like any other groups of humans- mixing, trading, fighting, and so on no more or less than if they'd been the same (sub)species.

What, then, happened? Was it a numbers game? Did homo sapiens bounce back so hard from a genetic bottleneck that we just kinda swamped everyone else? Was it climate changes making minor adaptations pile up and matter enough to swing the needle from equilibrium? I recently read an article that argued for evidence that Neanderthals, at least as infants, developed a lot more quickly. That would be very resource intensive for baby and nursing mother and thus band as a whole- did homo sapiens just have the luck of being better able to survive lean times?

Anyhow I'm not a geneticist or a paleontologist or paleoanthropologist but I find this stuff endlessly fascinating. Until pretty recently there were other kinds of human- why did that change?

[rabidchilde]

@jakey-beefed-it Have you watched Human, by Ella Al-Shamahi? It's sooo good and Ella Al-Shamahi is just as awestruck as you and I are. At one point she smells the ashes of a 40,000 year old campfire and can still smell the barbeque. Which is just.. somehow comforting and connecting.

[pantmonger]

Daughters of Persephone: Dreadnought Libera.

I like the chunky old RT style ones. Modern ones are cool also, but look like the setting when its taking itself more "seriously". The older ones capture the idea of a tech culture gone odd, while winking at the audience.

[jakey-beefed-it]

Sacrificed a couple of spare primaris marines from when I worked at GW and thus bought 2 of many things, then raided my bitz to kitbash up this librarian consul for my 30k army. The kneepads are kind of a giveaway primaris shape rather than older power armor, but the robe should cover them adequately that only the pickiest jerks care about that. And those kind of jerks also would probably shit themselves in fury over the hooded headswap making a g-g-g-GIRL space marine. So to hell with 'em.

[jakey-beefed-it]

Went and saved myself $56 CAD plus shipping.

[jakey-beefed-it]

Starting to get somewhere

[rabidchilde]

What's your plan with the magic hand? OSL glow?

[jakey-beefed-it]

I'm kinda approaching an end to my 30k Ultramarines project- I have 15 more tactical marines and a gun emplacement to paint, and then would only want to buy a couple-three vehicles and the odd character here and there. So naturally my brain has begun to turn towards other possible Heresy and Scouring era armies I could play, but rather than dive into that, I think instead, in a few months once the Ultramarines are done and I've played some games with them, I will start working on one-off character models from different legions, with an emphasis on kitbashing and conversions so as to maximize time, fun, novelty, and enjoyment. If I build and paint up like a half dozen guys, and find I can't stop thinking about one in particular, that one will be the new warlord of whatever army I embark upon next.

This post brought to you by Powerwolf's "Beast of Gevaudan" making me think it would be extremely fun to convert up a traitorous space wolf with extensive bionics in tartaros armor.

"Terminator, a traitor, half wolf and half machine" wot wot.

[jakey-beefed-it]

I have painted 15 tactical marines in 2 days and now just have the other araknae quad accelerator to prime (the instant we no longer have lousy smarch weather) and paint. Then I will finally pull the trigger and buy a spartan, trick it out with some resin and plastic upgrades I've been sitting on, and paint that. Then... ideally pick up 2 more deimos rhinos to scoot my tactical squads around to grab objectives, but then I'll be very solidly done, with like 3500 points to shuffle around for up to 3000 point games with some flexibility.

I'll no doubt grab a few other things for my Ultramarines as they snag my fancy- have a vague notion about a librarian kitbash and maybe a melee dreadnought of either contemptor or leviathan persuasion -but I don't Need them for a mobile combined arms type lore-friendly force of logistics-obsessed Ultramarines, they're just bonus.

Starting to kinda get more keen on the notion of traitorous Space Wolves, maybe with a cult of Morkai style darker paint scheme, melee focus, lots and lots of pelts and trophies, and blood effects on their weapons and mouths. Ragnarok cultist types all about deliberately bringing about the Wolftime and plunging the universe back into the primordial nothingness/the warp/ginungagap. Very Khornate. Will have to kitbash up a Beast of Gevaudan warlord and see if the idea still grabs me.

That said I already have a nemesis worked out for my Ultramarines warlord: some kind of Word Bearers sorcerer/dark apostle who is basically a Hellraiser character in power armor. Might tackle him first.

The other Legions that most interest me right now would be White Scars and maaaaaybe Emperor's Children, though in both cases I think probably I'll get bored of them before getting even a small force together. For white scars I'd want a different color scheme and to really lean into the Mongol influences even harder. Maybe more steel and brass with furs? Might do a mounted Khan based on my dnd character also based on Mongolian culture.

For Emperor's children I think I would want to lean into late heresy/scouring era stuff, with the dazzling purple and gold elements increasingly lost amidst flayed skins, grime, blood spatter, etc. Just some deeply fucked up junkies who used to be the pinnacle of glory. But that kinda loops back around to my Word Bearers character and his Hellraiser inspo. Maybe combine the two ideas? Blackshields warband dedicated to Slaanesh and extreme body modifications to selves and others. Idk.

Or I could shift gears to Custodes or Mechanicum or Solar Auxilia, but those would require buying another rulebook, (I mean, so would Word Bearers or Emperor's Children) which is money not spent on minis.

[rabidchilde]

If you made an Alpha Legion character you could use your whole Ultramarines army as Alpha Legion infiltrators. 2 for 1.

[jakey-beefed-it]

Finished up my deimos Rhinos! So now my veteran tactical squads have rides. Thinking about getting another two for two regular bolter tactical squads, but the priority before that will be a Spartan to ferry my warlord and his command squad into the thick of things.

[rabidchilde]

Everything about these is a vibe. They just scream Ultramarines. Also, the different front colors and hatches is a clever way to designate which squad is in which.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Do only rich people live on Terra?

No, Terra is mostly poor people and menials living, at best, tedious and at worst, short and miserable lives in service to the ultra rich minority that lives there.

[chemos-factories]

yeah but what about in warhammer

[jakey-beefed-it]

Comparing the size of my tartaros command squad with my saturnine praetor and it's kinda hilarious. It's gonna look like mama duck and baby ducklings.

[jakey-beefed-it]

"Are ya winnin', son?"

[rabidchilde]

Absolute unit

[jakey-beefed-it]

GW knockin' it out of the park on the new tech-priestess model. We know she's a woman because of... her pronouns. She's every bit the hulking cyborg abomination swathed in robes and bristling with weaponry as any other tech priest. Dog bless.

[rabidchilde]

I missed that when I saw the release! Ty for the post

[steamandcream]

thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

[steamandcream]

sorry to put your tags on blast on this insane breach containment post I have since muted, but you're right and you should say it.

It is defeatable. Go for the throat.