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i can never decide which tyranid is the most gender, to me. i just got done building a norn assimilator that made me seriously consider it, although tbqh i will probably always come back to the broodlord… buuuuut neurolictor tho…. ohhhh but the deathleaper……….

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you know what? i take it back. you SHOULD revolutionise ork society by showing them shonen anime.

you could revolutionise ork society by showing them a few shonen anime shows. once they start believing that the stuff on screen is real and possible, they’ll start building stuff that the Imperium is in no way geared to handle. plus i’m willing to bet that a good number of weird boyz will learn the kamehameha just by seeing Goku doing it and thinking it’s sick as hell

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got the introductory warhammer set and i painted my first ultramarine!!!!!

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i, hopefully apparent to everyone, am extremely anti-fascist and anti-war up until playing things like warhammer (specifically the adeptus astartes) and helldivers. yes these are both satire and i recognize that but they look cool as fuck and therefore are awesome. leftist in the streets. for the imprerium/super earth in the sheets

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TRANSGENDERFICATION BEAM!!!!

YEAAAAAAHHHHHHH

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current mantra

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Mini of the month kitbash!

The Tormentor (Emperor’s Children) provided me with yet another space marine body to genestealer-ify. I’ve made a few hybrid acolytes with hand flamers, but this time I saw the opportunity to make a start on my hybrid acolyte with autopistols unit.

Now, behold!

The torso and legs are from the tormentor (as if this marine looted it from a dead one) and the right arm is from a space marines bits box. The two left arms are from a very old chaos legionaries box a friend gave me for free, as is the head. The star on the back is an old earring I used to wear all the time which I dropped and sadly broke, although as soon as it happened I knew I had to use it in a project. I also made the decision to leave out the iconic power pack and shoulder pads that space marines are known for to give the model a sleeker, slimmer look that more accurately reflects its one wound.

What’s the story here? Well, it seems that this infected marine is a devout worshipper of the star children, and is looking up to the heavens for guidance… just before charging into an enemy vehicle to tear it apart with dual chainswords (“heavy mining weapon” proxy) in hand.

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actually, you know what, as a fan of transgressive art, tabletop rpgs as an artistic medium, and transgressive tabletop rpgs, I'm gonna say this up front: DrivethruRPG's willingness to host basically anything legal - no matter how graphic, tasteless or bizarre - is a good thing, and should be celebrated.

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The Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle is live!!

Thanks to the generous contributions of over 175 developers and artists, we’ve got over 200 digital games, zines, TTRPGs, and other projects and assets to offer bundle buyers. 

Every $16 purchase covers the cost of an eSim activation to help connect Palestinians in the occupied territories and beyond. On sale April 28-May 20!

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There are two kinds of 40k books: "Space Man Shoot Bad Guys With Big Gun" and "Meditations on the dehumanizing nature of war and the futility of mutual kindness in the face of suffocating oppression and predjudice by Askaurazoth the Child Flenser"

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Some custom objective markers I made for casual games of 40k :3

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Trans right grot,

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only thing that comes to mind today.

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Have you played Torchbearer ?

By Thor Olavsrud, Luke Crane

Based on the Burning Wheel engine, a game about desperate people delving into dungeons, with a vaguely Darkest Dungeon-esque vibe. Your main enemies are grinding poverty and the slow press of hunger, thirst, exhaustion and emotional collapse.

Compared to other dungeon crawlers, the focus is on logistics, encumbrance and meeting your basic needs. Each expedition is a desperate attempt to loot as much as you safely can, before your character's condition collapses from fatigue and fear.

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microdosing on impulse purchases by opening ebay and just nodding wisely at all the money i could save by spending more money than i need to on models that aren’t even half price

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I find the sentiment of "Any game I play turns into a queer game" frankly insulting. Like, okay, I understand it doesn't come from that kind of place: it is ultimately not borne of "I want to undermine the efforts of actual queer creators who are actually making textually queer games." The chain of cause and effect is usually just reversed: people don't flock to D&D, the most popular game on the market, out of a sense of a need to "queer it," they flock to it because it is the most popular game on the market and then decide that they need to queer it.

It is ultimately cope borne out of individualism, a sleight of hand where they hope that people will buy their framing of playing the world's most popular RPG as somehow revolutionary because they have the gay Midas touch to turn any game they touch queer.

And like don't get me wrong it is also hostile to actual game design: the idea that an individual can simply transform a game that doesn't interface with queerness in any meaningful way into a queer game simply by association kind of implicitly states that game designers actively working to insert themes of queerness and marginalization into their games are doing a bunch of work for nothing. Don't those idiots realize that you don't actually have to game design these things? You can just play D&D and it'll turn queer!

And ultimately there is very little I, an individual trans woman writing words on a blog, can do to get people to stop playing D&D. Goodness knows I've tried, but sadly the mind control doesn't seem to be working. But I would like us to practice some intellectual honesty: I would like people to consider for a moment whether D&D, the game of some dragons in some dungeons, actually has anything meaningful to say about the queer experience or whether you just projected that meaning onto it, and that it might be actually better to elevate games made by queer and marginalized people than try to delude ourselves into thinking that the game made by a huge capitalist corporation "belongs" to the queer and marginalized folks now.