Post game light drunk on, I rabbit holed around Andy Prieboy. I love the album Sins of the Father. Found out his first album had the deeply emotive Tomorrow Wendy about a woman dying of aids, that I attributed to Concrete Blond (bloodletting). But she sings it as duet on Andy's. I did not know.

The stage is set for todays DnD game, as the players finally voluntarily enter the jungles of Chult. What horrors await them?! (It will be undead. Chult love undead)

For this years 40k I'm going to try to focus on my GSC. I have picked at it over the years, so have a bunch. But even more sit unpainted. The main 'issue' is that I changed my mind on my 'stealers colours. Originally going for the official look, then changing it to my green/bone. #WarhammerCommunity

WIP: I did pick are particularly weak pigment as the base colour for the green armour plates. Thus 9 minis, 2 and a bit coats each just to get to this stage. Much slow. Now to paint in the darker areas and wet blend.

I know I belabor this subject. To me it's simple. Games makers can actively attempt to make games/spaces more inclusive. Contribute to overcoming the ingrained bias & toxicity. Or decide making a game is sum of their role, the rest is not their job/fruitless & I can chose where I spend my hobby $.

Are more women playing historical wargames "You had to get that one in, didn't you?" "Lazy journo question" What is wrong about inquiring as to if there has been an increase in women players? Is it wrong to expect the makers of games to make their games/environment more inclusive?

I just read that there's no women into historical wargaming, and then noticed I AM FADING AWAY HELP I KNEW I DIDNT EXIST avenge meeeeeeee

Wargames have a long history of being toxic towards women. Society shames/pressures folk into gender roles. To cast off those shackles it needs to be made clear that *all* are welcome. Ascribing interests based on gender is more of the old toxicity, crafting a noxious self fulfilling prophecy.

I was reading a transcript where the poster was mad about GWs inconsistent/mutating lore. “What's the point in reading the novels if they are no longer canon!” they extolled. I read them for the enjoyment of a good story. That some read them like a text book, stuck me as weird.

You know our worldwide shipping caps at £20? And if its to the USA, we're currently absorbing the tariffs, so it really is just £20. (And most orders are £12 total shipping) EU maxes at £16 with no duties for you to pay either, not bad at all. www.BadSquiddoGames.com (Shipping from uk)

One of the things I love about social media is how you can be on one for years, sharing your art. Then out of the blue and oft without telling you, they will change the terms and conditions and feed all that art you posted under the old ones, into AI like you consented to it. Fantastic stuff.

I like creating things, & sharing the how I did it. This leads me at least once a week to consider making a website or youtube videos. Then I remember just how oversaturated the hobby space already is with skilled creators, eloquent lore nerds, (& rage baiting tools) & I'm like. Eh maybe not.

WIP 02: I've picked out all the muscle and maw bits with VGC:Terracotta. A bit of a weak pigment but it works excellently over washed and dry-brushed bone, kinda like a contrast paint. I then thinned some GW:Flesh Tearers Red and used it to black-line those elements.

If the lady with the golden bananas in the promo vid means we are finally getting Fem-Custodes minis, it begs the most important question. How good will the heads be for use on FemSM? :P

Luther: First of the Fallen I read this a few months back. There definitely was some fun in the tales of a weird tech dystopian dark age. Knights in power armour, riding forth from castles to vanquish beasts that threaten kingdoms is interesting to me, that old/new. But the thing that grabbed me...

Outrage youtube vids often have this magical non logic to them. One you have to be a special level of stupid to opine/believe. A usual has made a vid mad that books he hasn't read but *knows* are badly written 🙄 did well in the GW poll. Declaring that GW fudged the numbers or it was brigaded!

Genestealers are never surprised. They always know before hand when you are coming. Their four arms are the give away that they were forewarned. #WarhammerCommunity

The big video game retailer chain here has a repair policy where you can take in your console & there is a flat fee for its repair. If they can't repair it you pay nothing. I like this. It (hopefully) lets me get my older xbox one running again. (I like having a working console from each gen)

Warhammer Fantasy had some cool stuff. It also had a bunch of derivative stuff. It eventually under performed & was replaced by AoS a setting that borrowed much... yet almost paradoxically, owed less to its peers. You can like both, either, neither. Said choice don't make you the better fan. :)

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. When I was 12, I was on holidays & my head locked over to one side. I didn't know it. I didn't look in mirrors much, & your vision corrects over time (look it up its cool) My family kept asking why I was doing it, but I did know what I was 'doing'.

I used to have 2 twitter accounts. Pantmonger, and an alt I used exclusively to post my minis free from commentary. Apart from a couple of exceptions, I have not posted on either for close to a year. This garbage, and having images used in AI means it was time to close shop. I shifted the...

Grok's new "feature" that allows users to undress women in photos posted to X is a new low for the platform. If you're somehow still active over there, I urge you to let this be your final straw.

Tyranids are a oft a horde army. You need to paint a lot of them. I try to make the early steps ones that speed up the process without compromising the final look too much. I zen the bone colours. Give them a thick wash, & dry brush the hell out of them. This give me a solid base for little time.

Genestealers! Last year I painted a test mini, a bunch of bases and got a unit up to the dry brush bone stage... then utterly burnt out and packed them away. But now they are back! I want to paint up the unit and see if I can update the older ones a little. #WarhammerCommunity

Happy New year. And for those not here... Welcome to the world of tomorrow!!

Poor doggo had an issue this morning where one of her boggle eyes almost came out. A quick run to vet, and she is on some meds and has a cone for a few days. Coming up stairs poses a repeat problem, but she soldiers on... poor little doofus.

Pants. You have to remember. Bitter beers before ultra sweet liqueurs. The other way is less pleasant.

At 33deg c, my final day of volunteer ground keeping for the year is going to be a sweaty and exhausting one. Prey for Mojo.

I've never taken issue with folks challenging my opinion in good faith. I feel that my ideas/ideals should face interrogation & I used to get more of that on Twitter. Part of the reason I left was it changed, for every genuine convo there was 100 slurs, threats or proffering nonsense as 'dunk'.

Neave Blacktalon The first notably Fem Stormcast miniature. Focus of several novels and a couple of seasons of animation. I actually preferred the version of her in her first book. When her pre stormcast past was shaped/linked not to Be'lakor but to the Sylvaneth of the Dreadwood #WarhammerCommunity

Neave Blacktalon The first notably Fem Stormcast miniature. Focus of several novels and a couple of seasons of animation. I actually preferred the version of her in her first book. When her pre stormcast past was shaped/linked not to Be'lakor but to the Sylvaneth of the Dreadwood #WarhammerCommunity

That magical post xmas time, when you can pick up 6 fruit mince pies for $1 (One year I got them for 5c... but they did look a little sweaty)

The GSC infiltrate. You would think given their appearance they would be easy to find. But the Imperium has made people scared & willing to cover for each others differences lest a family member be killed for the crime of being born different... A "mutant". So the cult thrives. #WarhammerCommunity

When GW added Fem-Custodes they wrote an real world post detailing the why (ie they were never specifically impossible, so we added them) & set the lore to be: From now on, they have always been there. Those who didn't like it, pretended GW were gaslighting them about them being there before!

I think a skill a lot of us nerds lack, is the ability to let go of things that are no longer fun for us. Either only engage with older versions, or move on. Don't make your life raging about each change in a thing that stopped being for you ages ago or pretending doing so makes you the real fan(tm)

50 years old and my first double yoker what a time to be alive :P

Why folks might be upset at the 'feelgood' story of a women medicated to want sex with her husband... and why you too might be appalled by the framing, and the the tone deafness of the whole thing.

"Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains" Oh way to many... I'll settle on

"But Pagliacci, I am the Doctor."

A lot of comp winning miniatures do things I struggle with: High contrast & gradients that don't have a lot to do with actual lighting. Even if I get the skill to one day execute the process flawlessly, its just not a look I'm into. I have a pref for more 'natural' shadows, less extreme highlights.

So Daak and his chainsword appeared in 1980. Does anyone one know of an earlier chainsword, or does it look like the 40k signature weapon originated in Dr Who expanded universe?

Someone posted a mini of Absolom Daak Dalek killer, and I flashed back to the 80s(?) when Doctor Who expanded universe had a bit of a 40k esk thing happening. A murderer sentenced to death has a choice. Execution, or go out fighting Daleks.

I dunno about best but this was my favourite thing I painted this year

I wish I could have gotten a job drawing stuff like this.

Years back I jumped continents x2. In doing so I lost most of my Warham stuff. Keeping only a few bits. With a few new books as Xmas gifts, I decided to lay out my BL collection to see how it has grown since, & it's become a pretty mighty collection. Forgive the bad photo merge. #WarhammerCommunity

WIP: The 'messy' halfway point. Lets get highlighting!

and Tiny Tim, who knew when is bins.

I grew up in a christian household where you could not say Merry Christmas: My parents were at one point Salvation Army Ministers (Lieutenants). The SA has a strict no drinking/gambling/smoking policy (legacy connected to the Victorian era, so that its members spent money on food/family, not "vice")

Trying to get the lawns done in the mid day heat, before the next inevitable storm rolls in. I am a SweatPants.

Red Corsairs were one of the chaos marine factions I've seriously considered painting up. (Mainly for the colours, the "late" fall and the pirate theme) and this is a neat mini. But to nitpick for second, I would have liked it a touch more if instead of rock, that had been a bit of ship hull.