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[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Warhammer Monthly #4 Cover Art by Kev Walker

[eljackinton]

A ripple across universes. Psi Judge Anderson from Judge Dredd and Sister Ephrael Stern from Daemonifuge sense powers beyond their understanding. I call this piece AnderStern for short.

[bookishluna]

Monthly Digest | September 2022

Reading Maledictions: A Horror Anthology by Cassandra Khaw, I ended up really enjoying this collection of horror short stories. It was just great to pick up here and there and read something when I didn’t have a ton of time. That being said, it is a collection and I liked some sort stories better than others. I feel like that is just how collections work though in general. This was also my first…

[supersecretventureblog]

Modern Enemy Monthly - Screenshots

I had a drawing idea, but I couldn't remember what the MEM logo looked like, so I figured I screenshot the appearances of it in the show

The issues that are shown in "Return to Malice"

The issue about the missing henchman (so glad they went with henchman and not goons for vbros, i'd be in hell right about now lol)

The issue with Wes Warhammer on the cover, bonus Gary, because I liked his little smile

The Blue Morpho issue, also Wide Wale, who I always thought was a semi-underrated villain, I really liked him, but that's cause i love mob/gangster stuff so I'm all about the fancy parties and suits and stuff. And also Rocko is cool too, i like em both, and wish they had a little more time to do their thing, I think we lost a lot of good potential with the NYC characters, they just diddn't get their time to fully shine, you know? Copycat was a stand out, and I really like The Brown Widow, obviously Sirena and Wide Whale, they were pretty fucking awesome too.

[tagedeszorns]

Work in Progress: Blanchitsu-Sister of Silence

Some Warhammer-nostalgia:

John Blanche is one of the 2D and miniature artists who has had the most lasting impact on the Warhammer aesthetic. Everyone has seen at least one of his paintings (and if not: he's the creator of the famous SoB hairstyle!) and what we now take for granted in fandom as "Grimdark" was largely built by him (whether as artist or art director).

He's been on my radar since the late nineties - his influence on comic artists like Jamie Hewlitt was a big thing for teenage-me.

Over at Mastodon, there are regular miniature painting challenges called #FediPaint in a loose, more or less monthly rhythm. And this time the theme is "Blanchitsu" - in the style of John Blanche (yes, that's a fixed term).

I'm not good enough to participate with my miniatures yet (although the Beastmen would lend themselves very well to this), so I've decided to contribute a tribute to Blanche's 2D work.

So here's a Sister of Silence - or at least the first sketch. It's my style, of course, but I'm trying to incorporate as many classic Blanchitsu elements as possible. And I'm curious to see if I can at least hint at Blanche's extremely iconic colouring!

It's going to be an exciting work.

[sirisaacnukem]

Kixi-taka the Diviner

I did this guy as an entry in a monthly painting contest held by my FLGS. After doing slap chop and quick paint jobs for a few months, was nice to try and do my absolute best job on a mini. Still learning a lot about doing NMM, so there's a ton of flaws I could point out, but overall I'm pretty pleased with how he turned out. I think I spent in the neighborhood of 15 hours total. The mini is the leader of a Warhammer Underworlds warband, the Starblood Stalkers, and I have to say I really like these lizardman models a lot.

[saltycavilltheorist]

Question I have

Now that cavill is charging for his autograph $310.00 dollars and up, why does it say if you want to send in something personal for him to sign you have to send it to Texas????

Cavill's living in Cotswold UK no ??? So shouldn't the item be sent to a London office for him to sign?

Yeah , it looks like the signature will be forged by other people hired to do so on your sent in item 😂

What a fucking joke cavill has become, he's hard up for cash .... sadly this is karma smacking back

Those diapers. Formula and luxury baby clothes ain't cheap 😂 and neither is the liposuction and tummy tuck Ratalie Covidcuso will eventually whine and bitch for, unless she already got it, I wouldn't be surprised 😂

I totally smell a declaration for bankruptcy coming around the bin 😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣

And I'm living for it

Not even the so called future movies

Highlander Reboot,Enola 3 or In the Grey or Warhammer can save his financial troubles

Soon he'll be joining CAMEO for a personalized video for a value of $300-2,000 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And a Only Fans is around the bin too, $10 dollar subscriptions for daily nudes and 100 dollars monthly to see videos of him wanking off in a shower or him blowing his load spread eagle on a superman sheet cover bed while he wears the cape yelling "LOIS"😂 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh what a tangled web we weave, A tangled web indeed Mr. C LISTER 🤣🤣🤣

[luimnigh]

You know those magazines they sell that come with pieces of a model or a collection, with the idea of making you collect nearly a hundred issues of their magazine to build the model or complete the collection?

And how it's priced so high that it would probably be cheaper to buy the final product outright, but you can more easily justify a monthly expense of €15 (first issue only €7.99!) than a single purchase of nearly a grand?

I once saw them advertising one for Warhammer 40k, and knowing the reputation of 40k, my immediate reaction was "Actually that might end up cheaper."

[novankenn]

"Jaune Gets A Gun AU - Day 2" Star Wars - Stormtroopers (Various)

Inspired by @howlingday's RU-JA-GUN-CON

Ruby and Pyrrha rushed to catch up to Tiny Tina as she dragged Jaune towards on of the booths when she suddenly stopped.

Tiny Tina: (Points to a dfiierent booth) Ohhhhhhhh.

Jaune: (Turns to see what Tina was pointing at) Tina?

Tiny Tina: Let's try THAT one!

Before Jaune, Ruby or Pyrrha could object she Tiny Tina yanks Jaune in away from the orginal booth.

????/???? : Hey! Come back!

The quartet closes on their new destination rather quickly, but as they do Ruby and Tiny Tina start to question the decision, only for Jaune to take the lead.

????: How may I help you?

Jaune: We're interested in seeing what your booth has to offer, if that's not an issue.

ST Commander: You're not Republic Loyalists, are you?

Jaune and his friends take a step back as several more white armoured personnel step out from behind a curtain at the back of the rather large booth.

Ruby: Republic? Never heard of it.

ST Commander: Excellent! So you're interested in joining the Imperial Army, I take it?

Pyrrha/Ruby: NO!

ST Commander: Really? Can I ask why?

Jaune: (Rubbing the back of his neck) Well... um...

ST Commander: (The armoured figure waves his hand in the direction of a well laid out display) Because WE do have a large selection of equipment that is issued to our members... free of charge.

Jaune/Ruby/Tiny Tina: That's a lot of guns.

ST Commander: That is but a small selection of what is available to our recruits. We also have this!

Ruby/Tiny Tina: Ohhhh... wow!

Jaune: That's given to new recruits?

ST Commander: After taking a mandatory training course.

Pyrrha: Ah Jaune?

Jaune: Yes Pyr?

Pyrrha: Aren't you already ENLISTED, Jaune?

ST Commander: Is that true?

Jaune: (Rubbing the back of his neck) Well, yeah, it is.

Ruby and Tiny Tina approach the display case, as the armoured figure, Pyrrha and Jaune continue thier discussion.

ST Commander: May I inquire with whom?

Jaune: United Federation's Mobile Infantry. Heard of them?

ST Commander: Sounds familiar.

Ruby/Tiny Tina: Hey, I know these guns!

Jaune/Pyrrha: You do?

Tiny Tina: (Eyes the commander) What, I think I remember you guys as well... the Imperial Army...

Ruby: I do too! There was an article about them in "Strike Forces Monthly"... you guys can't shoot worth shi...

Jaune: Swear Jar!

ST Commander: Lies and slander!

Tiny Tina: I read that article. Massive arsenal of good weapons, decent armour, probably one of the largest military forces just behind the Imperium of Man... but totally unable to hit the broadside of a barn.

ST Commander: (Flustered and embarrassed noises)

Pyrrha: (Looks at the commander with a disapproving look) Is that true?

ST Commander: No! Preposterous! Not based on any facts at all!

ST Commander: Why are you grinning like that?

Tiny Tina: (Pulls something from behind her back that looks suspiciously like a bomb) Just a little test... this is a confetti bomb, totally harmless.

Jaune/Pyrrha: Tina?

Ruby: So have those two sitting on the bike looking things, take three shots... they hit it... we apologize.

ST Commander : (Sweating, though no one can tell) And if they don't?

Ruby/Tiny Tina: We fu...

Jaune: Swear Jar!

Ruby: Ahem... we bid you a civil goodbye, and check out some other booths. Deal?

St Commander: (Sighing) Deal.

Tiny Tina: (As she sets the bomb fifteen feet from the two troopers) Alright, baby! Shut your face and shoot something!

Pyrrha: Oh my! That's pathetic!

ST Commander: It's not our fault! It's these helmets!

Ruby: It's a poor soldier that blames their equipment. Maybe next time?

The quartet watches as the whole squad of armour troopers drop their heads and shoulders in utter defeat.

Jaune: So, where to now?

(So Star Wars won the Poll with 34.1% of the vote. Next up, a long awaited request... Warhammer 40K and then back to the poll! Hope you enjoyed)

[moodymisty]

I'm so sorry to be tmi on anon but the thing you commented about the warhammer girlies on their monthly and the breeding kink headcanons cropping up cyclically alongside it spooked me because my monthly JUST started. Are we all synced up????!

We are apparently XD it happens so consistently it’s fucking hilarious

[downthetubes]

Original artwork by John Stokes for "Agents of Chaos", for Warhammer Monthly: https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/79865293-stokes-john-1-original-page-warhammer-first-page-agents-of-chaos-signed

John Stokes is famous for his work on "Star Trek" (for TV21), "Marney the Fox" (for Buster), "The Black Knight" (for Marvel UK's Hulk comic), "The Thirteenth Floor", "Brides of Dracula", back up Doctor Who strips (for Doctor Who Weekly and Monthly) and more.

[encyclopediacr]

Stop! Hammer time!

This past month at Encyclopedia Exandria, four articles about magical hammers were created. That's almost half our current articles about hammers! 🔨

Dwarven Thrower, warhammer that returns to its owner's hand after it is thrown. Though normally only a dwarf can use this weapon, Grog was able to do so due to his Belt of Dwarvenkind.

Adamantine hammer, cursed warhammer found in the sarcophagus of the last dwarf king in Thomara. When Grog would make an attack roll with a natural value below a certain number, the hammer would attempt to strike him instead.

Fist of Genesis, hammer of the Core Anvil that can be transformed between a light hammer, a warhammer, and a maul. Vox Machina used it to forge the Prime Trammels.

Ashton Greymoore's hammer, maul created by Milo Krook using glass left over from the repairs to Ashton's head. The enchantment on the hammer prevents its glass head from breaking.

We've got our monthly round-up coming up later this week, so if you're interested in seeing what else we've been up to in January 2023, stay tuned.

[lemonsrosesandlavender]

BG3 Backstory Bash by Kelandrin

I was tagged by @dutifullylazybread, thank you! Tagging @commander-krios and @charmedcleric, if you fancy it :)

This is a challenge to help people flesh out their Tav’s backstory by exploring their past. It is organized into four sections with seven prompts. You can treat this as a monthly challenge or a general project. You can write headcanons, fics, or share art based on the prompts! You can interpret the prompts however you want. If you want to share use the tag #bg3backstorybash

Ok, I’m going to modify a whole bunch of this, if you want to do it properly probably look up the hashtag! I’m doing it for *my* version of the Steel Weave/Sharp Teeth Tav, though since it’s written in 2nd person with only sparse details of her life, I’m not calling it canon. I’m also going to do what @dutifullylazybread did and add in my version of Rolan and Tav’s future together <3 This ended up way more in depth than I thought, and I loved doing it :)

Baby

Birth & Parents: born in her paternal grandparent’s run-down house in Baldur’s Gate, to military parents. Her parents quickly returned to military service to support the family and defend the Gate, and were both killed when she was an infant in the same skirmish, defending a village against Orcs. Tav grew up with the understanding that her parents died heroes, and with the love of her grandparents never felt too much like she was missing something. Her grandparents were bakers, and she first built her muscles kneading vast amounts of dough when she was helping out in the shop as a kid.

Childhood

Friends/Siblings: no siblings. She did have a rotating cast of friends, some for a long time, although as her grandparents aged she found herself taking on more and more of the shop duties and seeing less of others her age. Her best friend was from the Little Calim part of Baldur’s Gate, and left aged thirteen with their parents to return home. Tav would like to go there one day, having heard many tales of its mountains and deserts (and a delicious drink called ‘coffee’ from its furthest reaches, that has yet to be widely imported up to the Sword Coast). They fell out of touch because of the expense and difficulty of long-distance communication, but Tav hopes they’re still out there somewhere, living well.

Birthday: Midwinter

Learning and Playing Games: Tav has always been very focused and determined about learning the things she cares about, whether that was the necessary reading and accounting skills to help her grandparents run the bakery, or the sword skills she began learning to follow in her parents’ footsteps. She’s curious, but felt she had to learn things with purpose first. A lot of the games she played were very physical - tag, Owlbear and ‘Fists vs Guild’.

Trauma: as she grew up, she got into a fair number of physical scrapes, especially when practising duelling and her grandparents privately despaired of how costly it was - though they were anxious not to communicate that, because they loved her energetic nature (if not her desire to go into the military). Those scrapes though, rarely registered with Tav herself, and she prided herself a little too much on being able to ignore physical pain in a way that sometimes alienated other kids (something she learned not to be so annoying about as she got older). The old loss of her parents though, and the increased pressure to help out her aging grandparents and grow up too fast, did have their effect. A gradual squeezing out of childhood.

Youth

First Love Crush on another girl in sword fighting class; Tav asked her out for a celebration after they were ranked joint first together. It went well until it didn’t; things fell apart in common teenage ways, when they forgot to notice each other’s upsets in the mess of their own feelings. They broke up after a couple of months and Tav sulked (a lot) and the other girl cried (also a lot) and then that girl quit sword fighting and took up warhammer instead. Whoops.

Rebellion and Running Away Tav did not really rebel much; on the occasion she misbehaved, stayed out too late or didn’t wake up for her morning shift at the bakery, she saw the disappointment and hurt of her grandparents, and felt terrible about it. They didn’t feel fun to rebel against, because as she saw them aging it only worried her. The same goes for running away, though she did dream of travelling. To Calimshan, or perhaps Icewind Dale - it would be so fun to be an adventurer, and to strike out on her own, though it seems impossible. How do you even start? What if you make the wrong decision? She ends up defaulting back to the military.

Peer Pressure, Risk Taking and Responsibility If anything, Tav was a bit of an (unintentional) peer pressurer herself, with her active and rather physically-risk taking nature. It’s something she learned to stop doing as she grew up, especially after she encouraged a friend to scale a tree with her after he’d already hurt his ankle and he fell and broke the other one too. After that, she got a lot more concerned about other people’s limits…. whilst still paying very little attention to her own. Her grandparents despaired of that, but they were deeply proud of her responsibility at home, even as she missed out on some more childish, fun things. Great at taking responsibility with adults, more likely to bicker with her peers. She was pretty resistant to peer pressure, as either she wanted to do something (drinking? Go on then) or not (stealing? she’s simply not interested). Can be quite judgemental of others seemingly not caring about their parents/family because she’s so concerned about her own. Cares a lot about doing good in the world, even as a teenager, because that’s what her parents died for.

Growing Pains I feel like most of the above covers it! Tav’s not the most introspective person, and her concerns were largely outside her - though some things did slip through. Her main struggle is having no very close friends; she hasn’t got a lot of time, and is a little bit singleminded about her military training.

Adulthood

Leaving Home Tav left home for the military barracks at 18, a hard decision knowing that her grandparents would have to sell their bakery without her. She sent her money home and visited them as often as she could - after all, they were all still in Baldur’s Gate - but they died quite soon after.

First Time Soon after moving into the military barracks. Technically not allowed but… they’re all very physical people who spend a lot of time getting sweaty in each other’s company. Tav’s not outrageous about expressing interest, but she’s happy to ask someone for a drink and see what happens.

Serious Relationships The relatively fast turnover of the military - recruits who can’t hack it, deaths at the front line, moving between posts or just to the Flaming Fist - means that she’s mostly had casual relationships. And in all honesty, very few people have stirred her soul. Everything is fine, but it often feels like others in the military are content with their lot, and the way the world is, and without being able to express it Tav feels like something is missing.

Aging Oof, thinking about Tav and Rolan getting older makes me a little sad. I think they have long and happy lives together, despite many close scrapes, and Tav keeps fighting even as her joints begin to creak. Jaheira was still at it, so why shouldn’t she? As for Rolan’s wizard magic… I don’t think he’d want to live an artificially longer life without Tav and Cal and Lia to share it, especially knowing that wizards need people they love surrounding them whenever the temptations of power get too strong. Either he finds magic they can all share, or they make peace with mortality knowing that there’s a place in Selune’s realm for them in the afterlife. (Well, as much peace as Rolan is ever capable of. He’d take Tav’s mortality as a personal affront, and his own as the deeply annoying but inevitable end to his glorious magical career).

Family Tav and Rolan have spent so many years of their lives being responsible for others, and for Tav, locked into the military as a default path without thinking enough about it. Both of them want to live life on their own terms, with their found family, and throw themselves into their work and passions rather than raising children. They’re often going off on adventures and discovering new things, and Rolan frequently works into the small hours on magic whilst Tav is out defeating mild zombie infestations or whatever is most recently plaguing Baldur’s Gate. But they do love Cal and Lia’s kids, and Tav considers Lae’zel, Astarion and Gale to be her extended family.

Work Tav was in the Baldurian Army, which I don’t think exists in canon but it exists in my head as more of an outward-facing force, dealing with wars and invasions and marauding Gith/Orcs, vs the Flaming Fist which are more of a domestic force (and are canonically awful, let’s be real. Not that the military is likely to be much better but… everyone in Baldur’s Gate has had personal experience with the Flaming Fist being incompetent, corrupt and otherwise terrible. Tav wanted to be a hero, and the Fist are for beating up hungry commoners for stealing apples. Not her vibe.) Her job is fine, and she trains hard, but it leaves little room for thought or individuality and she finds herself feeling stuck. Especially as she realises there’s a whole load of pointless skirmishes with neighbouring states over borders and trade, conflicts that only make ordinary peoples’ lives worse. She’s risked her life many times for civilians and that has stopped her getting promoted.

Finding Her Place The tadpole completely changed Tav’s life. Before, she’d have said that the military was her place - but she was never really anchored to it by more than rules and regs and a sense of duty. Now she’s struck out on her own - with Rolan and her companions by her side - she’s found she’s a strong and capable leader, and prefers making her own decisions about right and wrong to having the military make them for her. And she found the kind of deep love and devotion that she’s been lacking; a reason to live in every battle she fights. She would risk everything for Rolan, and he would risk everything for her, and then they will argue about it. Perhaps the arguing is something she’d missed in her closest relationships, previously, like with her grandparents; each too worried about the other to risk bringing up things that bothered them. And most people she’s dated, she’s simply never felt strongly enough about to have much conflict with. In contrast, Tav and Rolan can’t help themselves from arguing, and it means they always end up addressing whatever their problems are - even if they hurt each others’ feelings in the process sometimes. They know that they love each other no matter what, and they care so much that they’ll always make it up to each other in the end. (with lots of amazing sex in the process sorry did you think I’d get all the way through this post without mentioning that lol)

[turianjournalist]

I’m just getting into warhammer lore, but from what I know about the Horus heresy I think the whole thing could been avoided with family counseling and monthly skype meetings

[foxounderscorecube]

Found out that my mum's best-friend-who-was-a-boy drew a comic for Warhammer Monthly back in 1998, and so of course I have found a copy of it because the panel I saw from it looked cool as hell (it's a story about Chaos followers, which fits his art style brilliantly) and thankfully I could get one for, like, £6. My mum, for her part, has no idea what Warhammer is about but was very happy to hear about it :)

[judgeanon]

How much of Warhammer was influenced by 2000AD?

If we're talking 40K, a *lot.* Specifically, you can tell the 40K team really loved Pat Mills and the late Kev O'Neill's NEMESIS THE WARLOCK, a story about, oh what was it again...

Right, right. Far-future xenophobic human empire declares war on all aliens, led by the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada and his army of Terminators. The biggest difference is that Nemesis starred an alien freedom fighter, while Torque and his crew were undoubtedly the villains, but you can absolutely see the skeleton of 40K. There's even a small but salient plot point about how the Terran empire's greatest war machines are busted-up pieces of shit because most of the knowledge used to maintain them has been lost to time.

So yeah, Nemesis is the biggest inspiration. There's also a bit of Judge Dredd in the Hive Cities and especially in the Adeptus Arbites because, I mean, just look at these guys:

That's a fucking Dredd alright.

Of course, the extra fun part of the 40K/2000AD connection is that, when Warhammer Monthly started coming out, a lot of its creative teams were 2000AD alumni, from artists like Colin MacNeil to just straight-up Dredd's co-creator, John Wagner. And even Pat Mills himself got in on the action with the delightfully absurd Redeemer:

So overall, yeah, I'd say a nice chunk of 40K's initial premise at least has a lot of 2000AD roots.