It’s a label I vibe with because my partner has a doctorate and I sometimes think to text her to ask where my phone is while holding my phone
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“Girlbossed too close to the sun” will always be funny to me as a phrase.
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All this is just making me want to read/watch Way of the House Husband, heh.
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Sorry, it was just too good to not use it.
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Due to the topic of Manwife
Just what I was going to post. Ubisoft delenda est.
[deletes all knowledge of AC Japan from my brain]
sic semper ubisoft
Why indeed.
There’s a very old wow video about a song that I would want to link now, but I’m not sure if it would get ashed.
Also, any Thronebreaker players in here? I posted it earlier but no response then. Question… keep or ditch Rayla? As a card she’s pretty powerful, especially when played together with Xavier and Reynard, but as a character… hooo boy.
I’ve played the route without her and did perfectly fine, but that was mostly because I will always stan witcher (aen seidhe) elves they have never done anything wrong
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I only use it for Hannibal as played by Mads Mikkelsen because it’s the most fitting description.
The god of sleep a sleeper villain. Smh
I got reminded about The Issue with warhammer dark elves and made myself sad
once you notice that [just about] every dark elf female character is in a leather bikini and the male ones are as covered up as it is possible to be you cannot unsee it
Creative Assembly giving us the gift of the femme Dreadlord who is the melee powerhouse is a good start but I demand more
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Before their latest models, regular, fully armoured Dark Elf infantry was mixed gender!
Incidentally, Witch Elves also used to wear full chainmail
I demand male dark elves in leather bikinis.
Saw someone refer to fandom twitter behaviour as “Girlbossing too close to the Hay’s code”
True, tbh
I thought the whole point of Dark elves or Drows was exactly this. Absolutely deadly, dominant women that run their society.
So more would make absolute sense!
I am okay without this (naggaroth is really really cold) but it’s the price i’ll pay
Love to see it!
My head sees a femme Shade character, twin hand crossbows, as a big glaring opportunity for a cool lord
Not so much in Warhammer - elves are extremely egalitarian with only a few specific units who are gender-locked. Dark elf spellcasters are exclusively women because the Witch King mandates that male ones are killed and the Witch Elves are all women (men inducted into the Cult of Khaine are trained as forcibly-mute Assassins instead), but anyone can become a Dreadlord or just about any military position
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I do feel I should add that most women who have had the high honour of bearing witness to my toy soldier collection did actually gravitate towards the Witch Elves and Escher gangers (punk girls for Necromunda/40k who are allergic to putting armour on their midriff) over the other female:tm: minis I’ve got laying around (Sisters of Battle, Sisters of Silence, Imperial Guard, 3d printed Empire and generic fantasy stuff, assorted fanciful late 18th century fantasy stuff) that are far less sexualized/exposed/underdressed
personally I really like Witch Elves for their Frank Frazetta-esque sword & sorcery look, same with sorceresses, you could definitely state there’s an air of sexism to them but also they’re just really cool sword and sorcery trope looks that are always matched with amazing over the top hairdos
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Witch asthetic and elf asthetics usually goes hard.
Even better when combined.
I’m being somewhat silly but actually the solution to this issue generally isn’t “less skin shown on women” but “more skin shown on men”. The issue isn’t “sexy women” after all. It’s “not enough sexy men”. In fact, everyone should get to have outfits like that just like everyone should get to be armoured like crazy.
We need both in media.
Looking at Dark Elves on the wiki and the googles shows the usual issue of the artists not knowing how to equalise the design across the gender spectrum
The top half is good, but why the odd skirt length on the man? It looks like he’s wearing shorts. This is a really easy to spot issue.
Lots of Dark Elf armour seems to have plenty of space to have the men have some nice legs even when fully armoured. Yet most of the time they just kinda sorta exists because the character needs them.
It’s an issue with artists not being encouraged enough to try to research what reads as attractive (sexy) to people.
It makes the other problem of armour always being gendered worse.
Because you can totally do both gender neutral armour and sexy armour in the same army. The base concepts of what is needed isn’t actually that different for any gender.
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I like Witch Elves! I just wish there was something to go along with the big dollop of icing that is ‘hot woman in tiny bikini’
particularly for the major dark elf characters where it’s that sexual dimorphism meme personified