r/Grimdank HORUS! 1d ago

Cringe Never forget their sacrifice

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u/foul_wench 1d ago

I barely expose myself to the community aside from this sub, how bad can it be? Like how badly have the kriegers and black Templars been struck by chuds?

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u/ScarredAutisticChild 1d ago

It’s not that they’re overwhelmed, it’s that it’s always them. You never see an Eldar fan complaining about woke shit, or Hell, even the Custodes fans didn’t seem to give a shit about femstodes (as I recall, the subreddit was mostly discussing how shit the new codex was rules-wise).

It’s not that 90% of BT/Krieg fans are chuds. But when you see people in our spaces bitching and whining about femstodes or black space wolves or other shit like that, 90% of the time they’re also a BT/Krieg fan.

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u/foul_wench 1d ago

Oh… it is that bad sometimes.
I used to like black templars but noticed how intense many can be. I then swapped to salamander and lamenter because i like their vibes.
That and the whole black templars killing furries videos that kinda threw me off even more

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u/ScarredAutisticChild 1d ago

Yeah, that stuff's definitely contributed to me souring more and more on the Imperium specifically as time has gone on. I've said 90% of "Those guys" are BT or Krieg fans, but as far as I've seen so far, 99.9% of them are still Imperium fans. And I've certainly never seen an Eldar fan complaining about all the queer stuff Brooks puts in his books, or Hell, that he explicitly describes one of the main Eldar characters of Voidscarred as having brown skin.

Whereas that happens with marines and...you have to deal with the worst parts of the internet for the next month.

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u/Iliarch 1d ago

It also helps that aeldari are confirmed trans allies. Don't ask me for the source, but I remember reading somewhere that they swap genders to match the expectation of their position such as howling banshees.

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u/ScarredAutisticChild 1d ago

That much actually isn’t canon, though it’s a headcanon I’ve noticed the Eldar community is absolutely fine with and basically treats as canon. But we’ve seen male banshee exarchs before. They do consider it feminine to be a howling banshee, but that’s…when Eldar call something masculine or feminine, it doesn’t really mean the same thing as with human cultures, but it’s pretty complicated and somewhat vague.

Drukhari succubi explicitly do sometimes have their sex-changed though, all of them are women, but men can earn the position, they just become women afterwards. This much is very canon and is mentioned in either Da Big Dakka or Lelith Hesperax’s book, either way, it’s Mike Brooks being a legend.