avalineryu
avalineryu
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I am someone who works with pixels to create pocket universes of their own.Links: https://theoriginalfive.carrd.co/
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avalineryu · 13 days ago
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The Price of Selfhood
"But I don't remember a thing. Just fire, and that it cost me arms and legs."
A rare moment of pensiveness for Victor, now a resident of Lustrum Lane. He was a cyborg ex-chanteur trapped in a musical cult prior to this.
Art Fight revenge for demiurgicfeline in return for their sketch of Wilda Wright.
Started 25 July 2025 Finished 27 July 2025 Music inspiration: KK & Steampunk Orchestra - Magic Lantern
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avalineryu · 19 days ago
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Deep Sea Babysitting
"I wish this alien would stop pulling my hair. Have you figured out what it is?"
"But what kind of cephalopod has legs? They're all arms, to begin with. The book doesn't have anything about octopi with legs."
"Well, do hurry! I don't want to accidentally drop it before we ask the Oyster Immortal."
Purpure and Lizzie have no clue how to handle what looks like an underwater baby, much less how to convince said baby to stop pulling the former's long black hair.
Art Fight revenge for sunaiad_arts on Bluesky featuring her chibi mind flayer in return for her take on Crystal Lion.
Started 16 July 2025 Finished 21 July 2025 Music inspiration: Stronghold 2 - Minstrelosity.
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avalineryu · 26 days ago
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Slinking Candlelight
"What's the strongest you got?"
Art Fight payback for Rav_Raven's character Suki in return for their chibi portrait of Wilda.
I decided to try simulating a reflective effect, such as you can see in marble floors or polished wood, by using a different colour filter method using the flat fills of the figure.
Started 12 July 2025 Finished 14 July 2025 Music inspiration: Bensound - The Lounge.
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avalineryu · 29 days ago
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Field of Friendship
"Where to, next?"
ArtFight piece for the user Starry_Vesper featuring Arella and Matthias in a field of flowers.
This is the first time I chose to have the foliage interact with characters' outlines to give the impression of grass depth. While I previously did something similar with water, that effect was a while ago.
Started: 3 July 2025 Finished: 10 July 2025 Music inspiration: Bensound - Tomorrow.
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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Moriko38 Interview
Moriko38 can be found on Twitter currently.
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
I wanted to share more of Korean history with a wider audience.
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
Yes.
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
No, they’re not based on anyone I personally know.
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
Yes, I’ve been influenced by a wide range of anime, manga, and games.
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
No, I’ve never heard of it before.
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
Honestly, I haven’t really thought about it much.
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
I’m from the East Asian, Korean cultural sphere. Since one of my goals is to introduce that culture to more people, it’s definitely had a big influence on my work.
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
Maybe someday.
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
Yes, I enjoy history. Outside of art, I like visiting historical sites and playing games.
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
I’m not really sure.
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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Anonymous 2 Interview
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
Anime, manga and games did most of the work. However, online artists like ironlily, gambargin and CenturiiC gave me the most inspirations. With them I started to work on Historical European Martial Art, the theme I am most familiar with.
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
Yes. They all have traits I like, both internally and externally.
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
My HEMA related characters are inspired by female fencers I met. They exhibit capabilities in combat sport, which I would like to depict in some of my characters, but that's only the small part of my intention.
Most of my characters are inspired from common archetypes of characters and personalities, kinda isolated from real individuals.
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
Yes, 三丁目雑兵物語 (A Private Story on Third Street) did the most job.
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
Yes. I guess some artists on X kinda belong to this genre, but their work is diverse which imply strong individuality rather than a common theme of "Weibermacht"
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
I don't know it is my preference or not, but the affect of of social norms imposed gender role tends to work poorly around my social circle.
I think the affect of social norms on gender role is diminishing due to how easily information can propagate nowadays. From my experience, even the one who impose social norms on gender roles are also now exposed to more challenges and confrontations. Although it is nearly impossible to change anyone's mind easily, I think this might initiate some new thoughts in them.
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
Asian. I think the abundance and popularity of Japanese anime and manga culture here have great impact on my art style.
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
I have no idea.
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
Yes. History is where I start. HEMA is closely related to that and it is what I do most of the time recently.
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
I have no idea. I have poor sense on speculation. But still I would like to see more works from this genre.
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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Anonymous 1 Interview
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
"It all starts with series of vlog of muscular women doing workouts showing up on my video platform (bilibili) recommendation page, which got me fantasizing about strong female characters."
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
"Yes"
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
"No"
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
"Yes, Anna from the Metro series(games), Cass from fallout New Vegas(game) plus any artists on twitter who draw muscular female characters"
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
"No, I haven’t heard about this term until now, I have to google it definition right after I receive this question. I guess this is not so well knowing among the Chinese community considered it is foreign and hard to pronounced."
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
"Here in Hong Kong I think it’s doing pretty normal in terms of gender role, at least it better than my grandparents' generation, back in their days my grandpa get laughed by the neighbors for helping my grandma doing laundry which most of the man at that time thinks it is a woman’s work, not men’s."
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
"I’m from Hong Kong, but because I spend a lot time with my parents visiting their hometown in mainland China, I also self identify as a Chinese (cultural, history and cuisine wise) and yes, it has an impact on my artistic depictions especially the daily life of common people which Chinese historical records rarely talks about."
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
"No, not in the near future i guess... I draw art just to please myself first."
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
"Yes, I always interesting in history, the illustrations on children history books are the thing which got me into create historical artwork. And I also like playing video games like the recently released Kingdom Come Deliverance 2."
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
"Don’t know, but after googling it, I think I might deep dive into this genre and create artwork about it!"
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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AegisRoma Interview
AegisRoma can be found on Twitter currently.
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
I started drawing dudes in armor and uniforms, but once thought: how whould a woman look on them? I genderbended a drawing and I liked it and keep going, basically started genderbending drawings of soldiers that I did.
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
In some cases, not as far as falling in love like pygmalion, but I do enjoy a lot some designs and concepts.
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
I don't really take a lot of my real life to put into my characters, I don't think that I could say that I have been inspired at all by someone that I know personally, maybe a bit of names and a bit of personality, but not much.
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
Yeah, in a way I like female warriors and tomboyish characters.
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
I haven't heard that term until now, but researched a little and now known the basic concept.
I do know some stories have that theme, but didn't knew it was a genre.
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
Here in Mexico at least, there has been a lot of a "macho" and "patriarchal" culture, but also some very brave women that worked and fighted to change it, sadly I think that women still suffer a lot under today circumstances, and they need to have a fair chance to participate and partake in whatever they want to do and be rewarded and recognized equally, based on their skill and performance fairly.
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
In a way yeah, I was young I saw series of notorious women in history like Joan of Arc, I liked the concept of a woman rising against odds and prejudice to help others and their nation, since I think that I like the concept of a heroine.
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
I don't think so, my work isn't particularly good, famous or that deep in messages, and I mostly do it as a hobby.
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
Yeah, I started liking the basic stuff, war and great civilizations like Rome, but then I looked into more civilizations, and more complex themes, like their political, economical, religious and cultural struggles, then into my own country complex and very violent history and I know that history is very important, to understand today’s complex situations properly if we want to be informed and possibly find solutions to those situations.
I'm very political, but really don't want to talk about it here on X, I think people here are for my art, not my political points and don't want to push it down their throats, and besides here things can get polemical and divisive, so I rather keep that to other more personal spaces. Besides that I like a lot to play videogames and cooking.
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
I don't really know, women thankfully have come far from what rights and chances they had on the previous century but I think is clear there's more to do if we want a really egalitarian relationship, and I think that stories that demonstrate, remind and reconfirm that a woman can be as capable as any man whould still be inspiring and necessary to reach that ideal goal.
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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RookArt44 Interview
RookArt44 can be found on Twitter currently.
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
Interest in both history and anime art. Particularly anime ladies of course.
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
I’d say so yes.
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
No none of my characters are based off of anyone I know.
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
I’d say anime is a big influence on my art.
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
Not familiar with that particular genre.
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
I’d say they work okay within reason.
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
English. Yes as most of my art is from my country.
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
No not really.
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
Yeah I have a massive interest in history, I also do historical reenactment.
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
Not sure as I’m not familiar with that genre.
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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Avaline Ryu Interview
TheOriginalFive / Ms. Lion / Avaline Ryu can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Bluesky. She has a Carrd as well.
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
Before I knew New Weibermacht was a thing, I’d say it was the apocryphal stories dad used to tell about a woman who went to sea, got lost at sea, and turned into a pirate goddess; then was the reason why he kept wanting to run away to sea. Plus, my maternal clan’s role in looking after me as a baby.
While I’d always drawn lady knights, superheroines and pirate captains since I was a teenager and university student in the late 2000s, New Weibermacht proper was thanks to CenturiiC, Ironlily, and Gambargin.
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
Maybe? I have a thing for lean, mean, and leggy figures. I aim to make them resemble people the viewer might have known personality-wise, though.
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
Several, namely my own mother, my many cousins and aunts, and my taekwondo guildmaster. The guildmaster’s case especially proving that sometimes a woman can physically outfight men with proper technique and training.
Another funny story: Viola Wandren, my Ultima Online roleplaying character, is a rule 63 version of my maternal grandpa, right down to their idealism and penchant for white clothes. While neither of them are warriors, Viola still ended up expressing Woman Power by influencing events in the roleplay server even if I didn’t set out to do so.
All I’m going to say is that I’m a woman, but regularly mistaken for an effete guy or a kid.
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
Yes, especially Adobe Flash games, Chinese action films, indie web games, and Disney animated movies. A lot of my linework takes cues from the Adventure Quest series, but character design from various Western-style games I played over the years. There’s a bit of anime influence if you squint.
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
While I was familiar with the concept of women protagonists and acting like a man since childhood, I didn’t learn about the genre’s name until about 2023. Though it shows that social concepts are nothing new under the sun.
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
Where I live, the man’s supposed to be the breadwinner and the woman a homemaker. That puts a lot of pressure on the man of the house, and unfortunately economic reality makes this an unrealistic idea, even if I wanted to. On the flip side, the woman’s expected to run a tight ship in the household too, not just sit there and be eye candy. I’m not a fan of the gender roles that claim women should only look pretty for men’s eyes or that we’re unable to stand up for ourselves.
Many Malaysians are standing up to make gender equality a real thing and not just a dream, but it’s still early days. At least women today aren’t solely expected to be wives and mothers; much less only to be seen and not heard. There’s still some prudish and classist views unfortunately.
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
I am Malaysian Chinese of mixed Hainanese and Hokkien ancestry. I’d say my cultural background impacts my artistic choices. In Malaysia, cultural diversity is as matter of fact as the laws of physics!
And another thing, my Hokkien maternal family was the one to really look after me when I was a baby, as my paternal family snubbed me outright. You probably can see this struggle metaphorically if you’re following my unpublished pirate story at the moment.
The only thing my Hainanese paternal family has left me with is a story of a pirate goddess, despite underestimating all their daughters in reality. So how does that make any sense? It’s a question I ask myself and try to work on while retelling the story in question. The New Weibermacht genre is the best description I have for it.
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
I’d like to think it will make viewers question any biases they have against gender nonconforming behaviour and multicultural settings. However, I promise not to harangue the viewer.
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
I didn’t have much interest in history until the last few years. Malaysian schooling of history focused more on politics which wasn’t to my interest, and still isn’t. I prefer social and fashion history myself. My other hobbies besides artwork are computer games and reading fiction as well as illustrated encyclopedias.
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
I hope that there will always be room for reinterpretation and highlighting the roles women have been in throughout the past, present, and future. It’s not just a kink, even if it started as one from the Renaissance femdom or internet rule 63 and tomboy memes.
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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TangW Interview
TangW / teulu-dewr / Tang Wen Xi can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. He also has a Carrd.
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
Gambargin at first, and then the influx of Twitter artists depicting women in armour and doing male-oriented activities like fencing, fighting etc
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
Yes. They have been through a lot in the lore that I've built up. Most have full-on burns, lacerations, and other forms of injuries. Characters also lose significant loved ones, and thus are trying to recover from their grief. That should taint a perfect lifestyle, yet they keep their heads up and press on with their lives.
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
Yes. Mostly from the female fencers at my HEMA, and my relatives who have studied abroad and worked in other countries.
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
Yes. Any of the Studio Ghibli films, as well as DnD and historical anime and manga. It's character like Beatrix from Zom 100, Pariya Togonosh from A Bride's Story, Frieren, Idril from Tolkien's Universe and a whole host of elves, humans, other races that have influxed entire classes in the worldbuilding, and having different classes like soldiers, scholars, bakers etc and between the peasantry and the societal elite.
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
Mostly in its recent form as an art form with Ironlily, Centurii, and Mossa.
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
It is part of the whole package. You have your regular womenfolk in the regular duties of housework, nursing children etc., and those outliers who travel a lot, drive, and become breadwinners of the family, or independent. so it's far more flexible in what you wanna do in life
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
It's Singapore. It's a culture of diaspora groups from China, India, and the native Malays into a hybrid society.
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
It's prob be a much more peaked interest in more obscure forms of history beyond the familiar, and perhaps a revisit of the familiar with a refreshed look, like medieval europe
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
Yes. Historical fencing is another hobby that I take up on weekends to learn the old form of swordsmanship
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
Prob a wide variety of stories you can tell, with a lot of crossovers between the worlds and characters in it.
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avalineryu · 1 month ago
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Ironlily Interview
@ironlily-art can be found on Facebook and Twitter currently.
What inspired you to get into depicting action women / historical waifu?
Honestly, it's simply because I love them. I love European history, I love anime-style girls, and I love strong female characters. But it’s hard to find existing genres that combine all of these, especially where they’re the main theme rather than just backgrounds. So I just wanted to be greedy and merge everything I love into one, to explore the possibilities.
Do you think you're attracted to the women in your own work?
To be honest, the girls I draw are often inspired by ideals I hold dear, or by a certain kind of person I deeply want to portray. If my characters were real, I’m sure I’d fall in love with them. In that sense, yes—part of what drives me to draw comes from affection or desire. I believe creating something requires some level of passion, even romantic or sexual feelings.
But once these characters are created, I see them as independent individuals living in their own world. I don’t project excessive desire onto them after. Maybe that’s why some fans feel my characters seem real—because I don’t depict them as having any motive through the fourth wall toward the audiences on the other side of the screen.
Are the women in your works inspired by anyone you know personally? Optionally: Gender, including trans status if applicable or already out, and sexual orientation.
My characters are shaped by many life experiences and by what I observe around me—blended with imagination. Sometimes, I wish the world could be more beautiful and fun, where girls aren’t bound by societal expectations and can joke about their bodies as freely as men do, without facing judgment. That’s how characters like Ebenholz and the Hoplitissa came to be.
As for my gender identity, I don’t have anything particularly unique to say—I’m just a regular heterosexual person. In my country, topics like gender identity aren’t very prominent, but we respect cultures where diverse identities are more celebrated. Likewise, I hope people can also respect those with traditional values. I’m grateful that I have a kind and respectful community.
Has the animation/comics/game fandom particularly influenced your artistic decisions?
If you try searching for Takami Akai, and Seiji Kamiya of Vanillaware, I think you’ll quickly find the answer. (laughs)
Are you familiar with the Weibermacht genre? If not, why?
I wasn't aware of it before, but after looking up the term, I realized I’ve seen some renaissance artworks that fall under this category. However, I don’t have much to say.
What are your thoughts on polite society's imposed gender roles? (Polite society: Whatever the social norms are where you live)
Speaking strictly about such societies, I believe they have always served as a necessary structure for society value. However, as time changes, they need to evolve, adapt, and be reinterpreted. Setting aside any malicious human intent related to gender oppression, every culture and era has required a set of norms to maintain social unity and divide responsibilities among genders. This ensures both societal stability and the continuity of the human population.
That said, society also needs spaces for those who do not fit into mainstream roles to find refuge. Monasteries, for example, historically served such a purpose—providing an alternative social structure. Both Ordo Mediare and Hoplitissa are fictional worlds I created with this kind of concept.
What is your cultural background? Do you think it has an impact on your artistic depictions?
I come from a non-European region, also one without a deeply rooted historical tradition of its own. We've been heavily influenced by Japanese anime, and that influence has certainly shaped my artistic preferences.
Do you think your works will inspire change in society?
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that my work can change society—nor do I necessarily believe that society must be changed. Rather than calling it 'change,' I prefer to see it as ‘creating a space’ gathering and inspiring people, and moving forward together. In doing so, I hope my ideas gain more recognition and appreciation."
Do you have an interest in history as a whole? What are your other hobbies beside artwork?
My interest in history is actually quite narrow—I’m really only passionate about the Western European cold weapon era. But I think that's more than enough to keep an amateur like me busy for a whole life. Of course, I don’t reject other cultures; it’s just harder for me to actively dive into them.
As for other hobbies, definitely gaming. Also food, drinks, and cute things. I have a lot of interests, but each one is pretty specific—I only like certain games, certain types of food, certain kinds of alcohol. I like to call it… loyalty!
What do you predict in the future of the New Weibermacht genre?
I’m not sure where this term originally came from or whether it represents an established aesthetic trend. But what I can say is this: if it’s framed as a strong ideological stance that tries to change, replace or correct existing artistic directions, then it will inevitably face criticism and backlash. Like many ‘new’ ideologies today, it could spark quarrels over positions among communities, and in the end, creators might get lost in these ideological battles.
Personally, I’m better at looking to the past than predicting the future. I believe creators should focus on what they love. It doesn’t need to become a slogan. If there’s going to be a slogan or aesthetic philosophy, let the thinkers and theorists take care of that.
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New Weibermacht Masterpost
Introduction: What is Weibermacht?
A German phrase meaning “Women Power,” and usually defined as “Women acting like men in gender role reversals, as a warning against emasculation.”
In the Reinaissance around 1450, an artist known as Master of The Weibermacht lived in the Rhine Country, producing sketches and engravings on the subject of women’s power. Lucas of Cranach is also another exemplar of the Weibermacht artists.
Today, Weibermacht has taken on another meaning, which this series aims to explore.
For the sake of clarity, New Weibermacht is defined as “Modern indie art movement where women act like men in gender role reversals, but as a celebration of the potential of women.”
Chronologically, New Weibermacht can span from prehistoric eras all the way to our present, and sometimes into an imaginary future.
Current focus of this post series is on the visual arts and iconography of heroic and/or fighting women.
Is Weibermacht Just A Femdom Kink?
At first glance, with the popularity of both Old and New Weibermacht among straight men, it would appear so. However, to dismiss it as a femdom kink is flippant.
It is true that scenes in Old Weibermacht resemble femdom to modern eyes, especially the topics “Phyllis Astride Aristotle,” and “Battle of The Breeches.”
Then again, other scenes in Old Weibermacht depict straightforward battles between the sexes or Biblical heroines, so the distinction between satire, kink, and admiration are blurred.
Similar ambiguity exists within the New Weibermacht between kink and admiration. Due to our modern way of thinking, this genre is less of a warning against emasculation and more of an expression of attraction.
Social Progress Shaping New Weibermacht
The Weibermacht genre was once the domain of white men working as artists in the Renaissance. Many of their depicted scenes were derived from Biblical stories or Greco-Roman mythology, such as Judith slaying Holofernes, Jael hammering Sisera, Omphale making Heracles work as her maidservant, and Salmacis chasing after Hermaphroditus.
Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the very few known women artists who have interpreted the Weibermacht from a woman’s perspective as raised and surrounded by men. This potentially parallels some of the 2020s New Weibermacht members’ situations where a predominantly male audience interacts with female artists.
For quite a long time, women were relegated to the sidelines in popular thinking unless they were incredibly extraordinary, both in fiction and real history. It would take the sufragette movement for the idea of women as people to really gain steam and to challenge the popular notion of women only being on the sidelines.
While women as protagonists were around and more common especially after the 1970s, what with Ellen Ripley, Lara Croft, Princess Leia, and more; New Weibermacht as an art movement didn’t gain traction until the 2020s online.
Although the Weibermacht genre didn’t start from feminist ideals, there’s an increasing influence of feminist and egalitarian ideals in the New Weibermacht genre. Each element of the New Weibermacht reflects at least one feminist wave from our world’s social history, either directly or indirectly depending on the artist.
First wave – To ensure society sees women as people, not property.
Many New Weibermacht artists depict their women as rounded characters, with personalities that don’t revolve solely around men or being eye candy. New Weibermacht characters are usually shown with clear or implied inner lives throughout the work.
Second wave – Questions the “established” norms expected of women and the institutions around them.
New Weibermacht artists usually depict their women in men’s roles, indirectly questioning the conventions of our world. From army members and commanders to knights, landsknechts, and pirates, classically masculine roles are given a woman’s touch, with the same human fobiles as their male peers.
Some New Weibermacht works such as those by Ironlily and Gambargin depict women in women’s roles of nuns and working wives, though still have a full story in the details.
The most famous New Weibermacht works are notable in their complete absence of men. While this is generally accepted as a premise for fanservice (e.g. CenturiiC), some actually try to explore what an all-woman society would be like (e.g. Ironlily, Morikoa). Some go with highlighting women alongside men (e.g. Gambargin, Basedbinkie, TangW, Meto30, Duc de Vinny)
Third wave – Encourages self expression, self love, and self knowledge of sexuality. Follows into the internet age.
Be it sexual expression or a love of adventure, New Weibermacht characters are shown with a passion for life. This also ties into the first wave’s principles that women be seen as people.
Most importantly, no New Weibermacht character is condemned by the viewer/artist for their in-story choices beyond what is reasonably a consequence of a folly, although fictional characters’ agency is still subject to the artist’s pen.
Gender is never a moral failing or a reason to underestimate a character in New Weibermacht.
Fourth wave – Global view and not just white women, but women from around the world and LGBTQA+.
Finally, New Weibermacht includes character designs from cultures outside of conventionally accepted European history and Mediterranean antiquity. African, Asiatic, Southeast Asian, and Mesoamerican all have their places in New Weibermacht.
Gender questioning is more prominently espoused in New Weibermacht, though as of current writing, transpeople are a minority subject. There is no doubt that New Weibermacht has attracted transpeople as fans, however. As yours truly is not a trans person, any further explanation on this topic is beyond the scope of this series.
Global Perspectives on New Weibermacht, Genre Origins, Genre Conventions
While it is unclear who exactly started the genre of New Weibermacht, it is likely that the popularity of military tomboys as a modern otaku concept began in anime fandom, particularly with the series Fate Stay Night, Kancolle, or Blue Archive. This is a common opinion held in Asian societies, as any equivalent artistic movement to the Old Weibermacht did not exist in the Sinosphere’s history.
For the Western and American members of New Weibermacht, general historical interest plays as much of a role as rule 63 does. However, the term Weibermacht is so obscure in the present day that even Western artists focusing on historical action women are unfamiliar with the subject without clarification.
New Weibermacht as an indie movement can only be traced with certainty to the early 2020s or late 2010s, and likely began from CenturiiC, Ironlily, or Gambargin. All three of these artists were active just before 2020.
How does the meme of rule 63 play into New Weibermacht? It’s the general curiosity often shown in genderbending fiction and gijinka (anthropomorphism), basically what if women dressed and acted like men. CenturiiC is an example of using rule 63 in her New Weibermacht works, having especially stated that there are no men in her works due to personal preference.
Although Ironlily usually depicts women, they are not against depicting men in their works, nor do they make explicit use of rule 63. At one point, they worked on a book all about men in the Roman Army as a collaboration with M48James, a Roman reenactor in Taiwan.
Gambargin seems to prefer highlighting actual women from history or metaphorically retell historical situations from women’s perspectives with her Historically Wrong Sketches, often featuring men as well.
After the popularity of New Weibermacht made it a global internet movement, more artists from around the world joined in. The majority of them come from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, USA, Taiwan, or Europe. However, it is gaining traction in Southeast Asia.
In each interview with the artists of the New Weibermacht, one recurring theme stands out in their starting interests; their attraction to and admiration of women, or a curiosity on alternate takes.
The New Weibermacht grew from attraction and admiration.
Technology and New Weibermacht
The New Weibermacht works are almost all posted on Twitter (a.k.a. X) as most of the founding members or prolific artists prefer to use Twitter. More often than not, New Weibermacht artists who focus on comic-styled presentations will use Twitter.
Occasionally, some New Weibermacht members post on Facebook and/or Instagram as well, especially artists located in South East Asia or those who prefer to expound on their work in supplementary texts.
Regardless of where New Weibermacht artwork is posted, the internet’s reach means that works can be shared by anyone across the globe.
Interviews of New Weibermacht Artists
These are links to interviews of various artists involved in the New Weibermacht genre. They will take you to other Tumblr posts on this blog.
Multiple names listed on the same entry are other usernames used by the artist.
Some artists chose to be anonymous for personal reasons.
Interviews are taken verbatim from internet communication, so some typos may exist.
Ironlily
TangW / teulu-dewr / Tang Wen Xi
RookArt44
AegisRoma
Anonymous 1
Anonymous 2
Moriko38
TheOriginalFive / Ms. Lion / Avaline Ryu
Citations
The Free Library - Shedevils, Harlots, and Harridans in Northern Renaissance Prints. Leah M. Seaman - Depiction of Female Emotion As Seen Through The Work of Renaissance Artists. Know Your Meme - Tomboy. The Femme Fatale in Vogue. Master of Weibermacht's Known Artworks.
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Kicking Face and Taking Names
“That's for uncle Corrin, you nasty oaf!”
Purpure didn't waste time on words when she saw that Lucretia wasn't the kind to talk things out.
Another attempt at using motion blur filters to depict movement, especially in a fight.
Purpure is doing a reverse roundhouse kick, a particularly difficult martial arts move to begin with. I personally can only do similar moves in the showroom and not an actual fight or duel.
Started: 18 June 2025 Finished: 27 June 2025 Music inspiration: Pirates of the Burning Sea - Pirate Travel 2, Ad Hoc Combat 2.
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An Old Friendship
“Abs? Here's some bread, still fresh from our Bag of Holding.”
Gift art for Tally Valstra of her eponymous character in a private ongoing D&D roleplay that I'm an audience to.
As Absalom never really revealed his surname ingame, I tagged him with the surname Raven for now.
Started: 5 April 2025 Finished: 25 May 2025 Music inspiration: Ultima Online - Tavern Track 4.
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avalineryu · 3 months ago
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Daydream at Sea
“Don't kiss me! I'm your captain!”
“But you are the most beautiful woman on the seas!”
“Wait what?”
This was what Simon was dreaming about before Purpure swarmed up the mast in reality.
Started: 6 April 2025 Finished: 29 April 2025 Music inspiration: The Wellermen - Spanish Ladies, Derek Fiechter - Pirate Treehouse.
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Speedy Interview
“So, Miss Longstride, have you heard about the Seychelles Coconut Farm's razing?” “I don't understand why you're asking me that, I've never been to the Coconut Farm. How can I set fire to a place I've never been?”
Captain Speedy wasn't impressed when she found out that Lucretia's artist's impression of the suspect looked nothing like the captain she was interviewing at that very moment. Almost everything was off aside from their bare bones appearances.
Not to mention that Purpure was being uncooperative by giving roundabout answers. Captain Speedy would have to try another tack to get more clues.
Started: 13 December 2024 Finished: 30 March 2025 Music inspiration: Sid Meier's Pirates - Native Village.
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