#i unno i just wanna play with my funny lil figures and have fun and maybe make some that are representative of me

[corviacore]

Ok but like, as long as there's war and combat etc in a setting, like DND and fantasy and all that stuff, should we just make every soldier a white man and every holy knight and every other combatant because we don't want bad representation™ ?

Like I get the idea behind this sentiment, but also women wanna maybe also play Warhammer and have figures that represent themselves and don't really care about the lore and the bad representation™.

And I wanna play a female holy knight in a fantasy setting and not be limited to white men because "that's be bad representation".

Like again I get what y'all mean but in the end I feel like it ends up just still being a negative for actual real life people because you disagree with the fictional politics.

Like "I play imperial guard, do I really want representation In that?" Like yeah probably as a woman you probably would want some representation in the figures you lovingly put together paint and play with.

At least I do, that's why I enjoy playing aos way more because my stormcast actually have women in their ranks, I don't really care if that's good representation™ or bad representation™ I just wanna put together figures of cool women every now and again.

“You just wrote your medieval fantasy setting to have medieval gender roles and homophobia and prejudice because you secretly fantasize about being able to be sexist and homophobic in a land with no PoC without any pushback! It’s fantasy, there’s dragons and wizards, it doesn’t have to have prejudice unless you, the writer, want it like that! In *my* D&D setting, there’s no sexism or homophobia, so that gay transgender women of all races can be holy knights fighting to protect the good kingdom from the endless hordes of the evil dark race that has threatened its borders for a thousand years!”