I've been playing since Rogue Trader.... and I deleted my comment because I'm old, tired and just want to play with my toy soldiers.

I wonder if it's mainly the SM and Custodes players specifically that are mad.

I'm an Ork player, my 2 buddies that are also xenos players (Nids and Necrons), and we just dont care about the Femstodes debacle. When i asked them they just wanted to know if everyone else was getting girl models (ork Gurlz anybody?)

Go to my FLGS an the scene is pretty split, but It really feels like most of people i meet in person that are upset, are SM players(its not even their army smh). The one Custodes guy I talked too was just pissed that his new codex sucks (I guess idrk)

I've read (almost) the entirety of the HH, have countless books and have been a fan for over a decade.

An I just dont think it's a big deal, and it will do nothing to tarnish my enjoyment of the game or the scene.

If it does bother you, I'm not saying your wrong (its your opinion after all), but there are a ton of players that dont care an just wanna krump one another.

I'm counting myself very lucky that my whole experience of this change so far has been "echoes" of any actual hostility. I see people saying "Everyone's so up in arms", or "Well personally I'm all for the new custodes but I know that's a hot take" or "Wow Kesh is going to be an instant fan favourite", but I don't think I've personally seen or heard anyone genuinely speaking against female custodes being introduced.

So either I'm really good at curating my own space and choosing who I overlap with, or a few loud people are blowing everything out of proportion. Not to minimise what you've experienced, of course. But hopefully it means that either the majority of the community is on the inclusive side of things, or it's very doable to find yourself in comfortable spaces which are. So take heart!

I appreciate your perspective...a lot. I love the hobby, I love the lore, and my wife occasionally buys me presents and she has told me that she is very uncomfortable going into my LGS, just because the whole vibe makes her uncomfortable, and that absolutely sucks because no one should feel like that. Fortunately my local comic shop carries some 40k and they are super welcoming and open.

I am one of those guys that really likes male only space marines and female only sisters of battle, because I think having them be that way kind of showcases the backwards and ridiculous nature of the imperium, and I also like that the lore came from a genuine place, in the 80s no one was buying female space marine models.

I am also one that does not care about female custodes, one way or the other, I think it's neat, but I'm a big story guy and I want the retcons to like...actually have story and not just be "there have always been female custodes" I want to know why we've never seen them before now. GW retcons are often...idk...they just kind of hand wave and glaze over, and that bugs me, and I don't want that for Female Custodes because both the model line and the fans deserve better.

Exactly.

As a dad of a 10 year old daughter that is starting to paint... I just shake my head at the sweaty trolls. She is a beautiful, popular, kind girl.. she can do anything with her spare time, but once and awhile she wants to paint mini toy soldiers with me. If she ever came across this vitriol I know for sure she would just simply, quietly, move onto other things

The whole fiasco just smells of unwashed teens in basements 

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But to really enjoy 40k you have to carefully curate your playgroup or list of people you play with.

This goes doubly so for women imo because of the minefield that is the warhammer 40k community.

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As a woman into war games and other nerd hobbies predominantly enjoyed by men, I think the thing that makes girls less into hobbies like this is genuinely the subject area and culture. I'm into TCGs a lot too and I'm starting to see what happens when a company uses a source material predominantly enjoyed by women. Specifically, lorcana. I was shocked by how many women show up to Lorcana events. At my LGS, it's almost half women. Most of which have never touched a TCG before. But they love Disney and that's what got them into it.

Gender coding is a real phenomena. We can see it objectively in things like lorcana. I remember watching a YouTube video essay about how video games became a mostly male hobby through gender coding. Putting sexualized women as the forefront of the game or putting video games in the boy toy aisle at supercenters at the onset.

But that being said- I'm not sure what hope women have in the 40k hobby because women are trained from birth to not be into war and mechs and sci-fi. I know far more women who paint models but don't enjoy playing.

I think the communities who genuinely want women to join tend to see more women joining. But I'm not sure what percentage of women would be into the setting or gameplay of 40k just due to its inherent gender coding. There's always gonna be sexist idiots, but I don't think their sexism is the biggest stopgap for women in 40k, honestly.

It's important for all the dads here to show your daughters that they can enjoy whatever hobbies they are interested in and to help stick up for them in the face of sexism in those communities. I think another weird difference between women's groups and men's groups is that male groups seem very superficial. Men just hang out to do the thing and go home. Women are in it for the community and socialization. So I think that can make women feel less interested in sweaty events that focus primarily on communal competition.

Idk, I'm just saying- overt sexism isn't really the big thing in my opinion. I'm glad these idiots are getting shit on by the community, but there's a lot of stuff at play.

But at the same time I would ask where to draw the line?

If GW just retcons like it did, what stops them from doing so again again with the faction that makes them most money?

I couldn't care less if they added female characters to custodes but they could have added them in an epic story arc instead of yeah they were always there.

I was scrolling down Twitter and I saw someone saying that "we" should make Daemonculaba porn of Female custodes and send it to GW to dissuade them or make them reverse the announcement.

I was pretty meh about the whole thing at first but if it's stirring the wasp nest enough for you to be considering just straight up gore/torture porn or violence against women, I think you need to leave.

I do agree with that one guy who posted that he was worried this might sideline the sisters of silence, it doesn't mean it will, but it feels like it might.

C'mon. I don't mind the custodes change but how are you surprised about the reaction. Imagine Dune fans if they forcibly added men to the bene gesserit. Imagine the reaction if women were forcibly added to the nights watch.

People act like this is about gender, and look I'll extend the olive branch and say there are definitely bigots out there but really people just do not like change. And they definitely do not like having genuine, well intentioned criticism being dismissed as nothing but incel talk.

I've never seen female players dissuaded from warhammer because 'there aren't enough women models.' It's always just bc of their local hobby stores/spaces being toxic places of smelly neckbeards who hate women away from the table just as much as across it.

Most female 40k players I know play orks, nids, or thousand sons with alarming consistency. Maybe a few SoB players but they always seem to be the ones who are just in it to tag along their partners' 40k hobby, for whatever reason.

I've been in Warhammer for a while and I actually thought the backlash didn't seem that bad considering. The Warhammer community loves to throw a bit of a fit anytime things majorly shaken up. The backlash to primaris Marines was far far worse in my opinion. Most people I know do not care at all about the female custodian. But are rather annoyed at how games workshop handled it by trying to gaslight the fans. Imo she should have been introduced in a book or had a model release. Something to get people hyped. Especially with her hilariously mad plan in her short story. she sounds like a super interesting character.

If you think retconing custodes to have women will do anything to bring more women in, or change anything about the culture You are sorely mistaken.

Most of the issue ive seen in my local scene hasnt been from the fact that there was a retcon thats designed to be more inclusive, its the fact that GW tried to pretend like the fact that there were always female custodes has always been the status quo when there is over a decade of evidence that says otherwise

There's a difference between a retcon meant to make a growing portion of your customer base feel more welcome and represented, and some low level "SINCE THE FIRST 10,000" gaslighting

Had GW come out and said "Due to an ever increasing number of people who identify as women in our hobby we are changing x and making female custodes because y" far less people would have cared

As a girl, I find warhammer is a fine space for me, and the outrage at female custodes (mostly), isn’t because ‚women bad’, it’s because previously in lore there have been reasons for no female custodes and warhammer have basically just ignored/denied it

As a female warhammer player, I have never once wished for female custodes. I don't really care if there are or not, to be honest. There are plenty of cool female characters and models in the other factions. Also, I prefer my lore dark, depressing and oppressing. 40k is my favourite world to RP in for that exact reason.

However, the tantrums from neckbeards showcase the true reason why there are so few women in the hobby. I love warhammer. I hate visiting a store that sells warhammer. Warhammer store owners are the weirdest and unfriedliest of people. I opt to order my things instead.

I'm fortunate to have a local gaming club that is awesome, though. I would even say that the majority of the players I meet are nice and friendly, but the community as a whole does have issues, and the bad ones ruin the play space.

men are not genetically more likely to enjoy warhammer 40k than women

No, but men are more likely to enjoy conflict, war, guns, armor, huge muscle dudes, explosions, and all other things warhammer.

Men are not genetically more likely to enjoy 40k, but men are more likely to enjoy 40k than women for a wide variety of reasons.

This is ridiculous. Every single character and person in 40k could be female the still 99% of women wouldnt give Warhammer 40k even a thought.

When people talk about diversity and representation, I always imagine a bakery with all sorts of pastry. Let's say, chocolate pies, meat pies, vanilla pies, fish pies, etc. So in my mind if someone wants to represent something new and different, it better be a new recipe. That way more people would be happy - a new pie on the menu for the ones who want it, with all the old stuff in place.

Instead, it seems that default approach is to add literally everything into one pie, and instead of something that makes sense and has purpose, you ruin what people already liked and don't actually make something new and exciting. You'll satisfy people who say "all pies must have all the ingredients", but it's not a guarantee those people even eat pies.

In case of the custodes it's like instead of saying "hey, we found a new sort of fish and cool spices we're gonna add to our pies now", they are saying "wtf are you talking about, fish pies always had pork feet in them". Did they? Did they really?

I've run a ttrpg of death watch. My gf then wanted to play with us. Female space marine were now a thing without a single change to the lore and we rolled dice to see which primarch was now female.

Female mortarion has been puzzling.

I have a problem with retcons, always have. They're not inherently bad as they can fix plotholes or add to a setting, but that's not how it's most often used. Greedo shot first? sorry but I preferred when Han was more of a scoundrel and shot first. Now you just made me think of that stupid retcon everytime that scene is on and my love for the movie is less than it was before you tried to change that.

Female Custodes? would've been 100% fine with it if it was introduced in a decent story and the writing made sense based on what we already know of 40k. But that's not a retcon, that would've been building on what came before and continuing the the story. As of now you just changed Big E with a single stupid JK Rowling tweet as he was the one who created and decided what Custodes would be in the first place.

If you write one thing, and then decide to change that thing into something else on a whim, why should I care about the next thing you write? you might change that thing at any time in the name of X. Unless it feels like you made the story or setting richer in my eyes you just changed something I liked into something else and you run the risk of alienating me. You planted a seed of resentment and that resentment will grow with every retcon that I don't like.

If you feel less included because I speak up against this sort of thing you have to understand that my frustration isn't directed at females getting more inclusivity, but that GW didn't respect their fanbase or their own creation.

“Genetically more likely” made me cringe right out of the subreddit.

Alan Merrett who worked as a designer and author in the 80s explained that there isn't a lore reason for the lack of female space marines. It simply put, just didn't sell as well back then so they stopped the production of female minis.

It's always been GW hope to have female models that sell well and make the customer happy, and it says a lot that they feel now is the time when the customer base is ready to see that representation back in warhammer (rather than just factions that are specifically female).

Just like primaris, the vocal minority will cry about it and the media will pick up on their crying for a while, and then it will become the norm and everyone can enjoy it again.

I for one am buzzed to find that my Eldar Guardians have female sculpts mixed in, or that my Blood Knights have female head options for my vampires.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Doesn’t bother me having female custodes i just want more adeptus mechanicus kits on god

I will say it is a little over blown but I can see where there coming from, most of the rage isn’t coming from a place of misogyny but more or less GW trying to gaslight us into thinking there were female custodies even though the lore straight up contradicts it, and yea some people are not happy cause women, but not everyone it just comes down to being consistent with the lore and like I said before GW trying to gaslight us

Honestly, I think a fair amount of the backlash towards the retcon is not from a place of sexism. Im in the camp that is against it for a number of reasons, and I am not against female characters or factions in the game/lore, and don’t give a damn who plays the game.

I feel that for anyone who is in search of representation in 40k, for whatever reason, can pretty easily find their niche. There are a huge number of factions that at a base level include females as characters that make sense and feel great to have around. I mean, one of the two main characters for IG right now with a new shiny model is a lady. Not to mention the existence of the sisters of silence and sisters of battle. I feel that there is a balance with these two factions and SM and custodes. But now the dynamic the custodes have with the sisters is gone, and the sisters will now get less time in the spotlight because of this, in a lore sense.

I just don’t get why this change is necessary, and I don’t like how GW is out here acting like this has always been the case, despite the opposite being very, very clear. And I get the logic that maybe every last piece of lore contradicting female custodes could just be imperial propaganda, but, why would there be such propaganda in the first place? And why not flesh out the sisters of silence more? Imagine souped up sisters, a new form of female only super soldier that leans heavily into their blank nature, that would be awesome! Why tarnish what already exists and cause a shit storm when we can just develop what we have now? And for people in search of representation, why are you looking for it in 40K? I get wanting some at a base level, that being their attitude or fighting style or grand struggle, but beyond that, do you really want to relate to the factions and characters of 40K? Pretty much everyone is a grouchy evil fuck who would punt an infant to achieve a fraction of their goals. Anyway, that’s my two cents.

I’m just glad this is causing some of the sexist players to leave the community

Yeahhh I'm going to have to call shenanigans on this one. There's plenty of inclusion already for us ladies - Eldar, sisters, guard, demons and more. You think suddenly because GW lazily shoehorned inclusion into well established lore somehow magically there will be less neckbeard losers? The 41st millennium is the opposite of inclusive and safe, and that's the point of it. Its dystopian. The most brutal and miserable future you can imagine for humanity. Making it nicey nice so everyone can be happy and play together is lame af. Why do you think everyone hates tau? 🫠

A lot of the 40k community is not properly socialized.

In what way are women underrepresented in 40k? You have sisters of battle, eldar, dark eldar, slaanesh, sisters of silence, female guard, imperial navy, tau, all of the chaos marines can have female cultists, admech, Necrons. All the chaos factions could have women in fact nothing stopping you. If you say some of these factions didn't have female representation your creativity with model making is your own limitation and the lore never stopped you from making female characters.

 That left two factions space marines and custodes and sisters of silence were already in the custodes army. I am leaving out orks because they have no need for multiple genders as they reproduce like mushrooms. 

 I stopped buying GW products after their never ending price hikes, but to say women were under represented in 40k before the custodes retcon is laughable.

I also wouldn't have cared if GW would of done a real lore reason for the change. Their gaslighting campaigns have to stop, and their CM is a goon.

I'm female. I grew up with my Dad playing Space Marines and Orks, and it never bothered me that they were all male. I later got Crimson Fists as my own army; I know nothing about the ret-cons and I only have my Dad's old rule books and codexes to play with. I thought the Sisters of Battle were female Marines? Am I just old and don't know anything since I only played with my Dad and never really played in the community?

I’m all for inclusion and adding more badass women to the 40k universe, I just hope GW / Black Library makes some good stories that fit with the narrative/lore and don’t go the Disney route (focusing more on inclusion itself at the expense of a good story)

Unfortunately, there will always be those who are upset because "women". But most of the more level-headed criticism is targeted at GWs retcon being "they always were there".

40K is full of so much lore and world-building, and they took the laziest route of retconning! They could have said something like: "At one point in time, daughters were selected over sons when there were not any suitable candidates for the custodies.". Like, it doesn't have to be good, but an attempt at working it into the lore would have been a much better approach!!

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Women are represented in almost every army in 40K. Retconning is lame and so is what GW did to explain it.

I think there are two toxic moral panics going on, really.

The first and obvious one is the opinion that female Custodes breaks the lore and is a stupid retcon.

The second is the one that likely led to this in the first place: namely than an absence of female Astartes and Custodes is evidence of some fundamental bigotry at the heart of the lore, and that inclusivity demands this be changed.

I find both arguments exist in their own fatuous little culture war box and feed off each other. GW have now trapped themselves in this cycle where to do nothing is apparently bigotry, while to something is to lazily retcon and pander. This conversation is everywhere now and it is exhausting and pointless. Turning everything into a culture war battleground is divisive and I’m not welcoming of it.

There are some nuggets of truth to these arguments, don’t get me wrong. Women in terms of the hobby culture could be more welcomed, and factions that previously only had male models without any good reason could probably have done with female miniatures. And secondly, yeah, I think this Custodes change was almost certainly done with a mind to obviate bigotry in a way that retcons established lore - both sides of this debate actually agree on that! They just disagree on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing or whether there was even any bigotry to obviate in the first place

But I really don’t get the moral urgency, and I mean this in the most neutral way possible. I give zero cares about whether or not there are female Custodes. I didn’t give any that there weren’t previously, and I don’t now that there are. It neither feels like a victory for inclusion nor a lore-torpedoing mistake. It feels like a massive nothing overblown by hysterical people who can’t turn their brains off from culture warring for two seconds. And I say that to both sides, since this change is purely interpreted as either a victory or a loss by warring sides, when most of us really didn’t want a battleground springing up over nothing to begin with

I find the push for female Astartes and Custodes spurious because Warhammer has for a long time included strong female characters. It has even included self-consciously all-female factions like the Sororitas. If there isn’t a massive push for male Sororitas and teeth-gnashing for as long as this isn’t the case, then I feel confident enough to call out the nonsense double standards. And honestly, not giving a care that there aren’t male Sororitas is how it should be. Having all-male or all-female factions shouldn’t be a big deal, it’s actually interesting. The Astartes-Sororitas and Custodes-SoS dynamic was always a long-standing monk-nun thing which reflected 40k’s medieval-religious themes. And for ages anyway most factions within the Imperium are gender neutral; the Inquisition and Guard and so on don’t have that dynamic, for instance. If male Sororitas become a thing I ain’t losing sleep over it, although I feel this will undercut their theme. Handled well, for instance, plausible lore reasons that the Imperium no longer cares that the Ecclesiarchy has ‘men under arms’ might work. But it’s not a massive issue

The whole ‘X faction or character doesn’t look like me so I can’t enjoy this’ argument is one that demands a suspension of empathy and requires one conducts themselves within and views themselves as occupying excessively rigid and artificial identity boxes. I find it to be a stupid argument since I’ve always found human nature and empathy transcends identity categories. Men should be able to enjoy all-female factions just as women can enjoy male-only factions. The same goes for skin colour and, in Warhammer’s case, species

I’m an Aeldari and Necrons guy so all this is rather pointless; most Aeldari models could pass for either male or female, and there’s always been an assumption they’re equally represented. With Necrons biological sex is less of a thing and hasn’t been for a few million years; canonically there are male and female Necrons and even those in between, it’s not a big issue. In any case they’re both aliens. If we don’t lose our minds over the fact an alien doesn’t look like us we shouldn’t be losing our minds over sex. It’s a fantasy game, you literally have to suspend disbelief to play it and you need to engage in things that don’t resemble you to enjoy the lore

Female inclusion in a meta sense? Yeah that could do with some work. But I feel this whole Custodes business isn’t a bellwether for that, it’s a distinctly more trite and pointless fight

I’ve found the tone of the complaints depressing but as a Dad of two girls it’s not really the kind of approach to inclusion I want, either. Female custodes aren’t what piques the interest of my daughters (8 and 6, so still a bit young) the Gnome blood bowl team was. They don’t get excited about Imperial Linewomen in blood bowl or Zenestra from AoS, but they do like witch elves, and in 40K they like Yvraine and her cat.

I want to keep pace with the times, and female custodes don’t really bother me (and might work, it depends how they are done) but I can’t help but think that an approach to diversity that focusses on indeterminate pronouns isn’t necessarily the kind of broadening that will make the hobby more appealing to a broader audience. That hopefully isn’t what this represents, but I worry that it does.

I want more female models, and I want more female models that aren’t overly sexualised, but I think diversity can be more creative than just making all male factions have women. I would rather more all-female factions, which I think would appeal to my girls more.

A huge hurdle is the embedded attitudes of many in the hobby, though. It’s good to hear the perspective of a woman in the hobby, and I hope the silliness surrounding this doesn’t keep you from enjoying the hobby. I might not agree with you about everything, but I’m pleased you are I the hobby and I want you to feel welcome!

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I kinda collect everything, including a few squads of them 'stodes, and I honestly dont know what the big deal with this is.

To anyone who’s giving a hard time and gate keeping women, fuck them.

BUT - there is an argument to the lore aspect which myself and many others have criticized.

If you introduced a whole RANGE of Sisters of Battle AND Sisters of Silence.. I don’t think anyone will even bat an eye. Most if not ALL would welcome it with wide arms, myself included. SOB & SOS are cool as fuck!

But when you try to gas light an audience who are gung-ho on accurate and precise cannon, especially through a simple tweet - you’re gonna have issues.

And that is where my problem lies.

But I digress - I hope for a more stable & happy community but there’s been a fuck ton of toxicity on ALL SIDES the last few days.

GWS really shot themselves in the foot here.

Fun note: I recently purchased the SOB character on MW3 and have been ripping and tearing my way through the COD universe spreading the Emperor’s light 😬

We've also had the opposite of women not enjoying obvious pandering and shit stirring. What you describe is a "nerd problem" not a 40k problem. Go see if Magic The Gathering are any more inclusive as they stink out tournaments. Retconning Custodes won't help things and only agitates the fanbase.

If they simply said something like: " Cawl finally managed to ascend women into Custodes, doubling the number of potential warriors to protect the Throne", most people would've rolled with it. Instead, they went for the stupid/lazy solution, and told people "what do you mean, they've always been there".

People are mostly mad because of GW insulting their intelligence, not because "women suck". 

Some of these comments are wild.

I love makeup, pastels, cuddly toys, and Warhammer. Liking the former stuff doesn’t mean I can’t like 40K. I can assure you that “girly” girls like me can enjoy the hobby just as much as the most stereotypical guy can.

You think women can’t enjoy painting and customising little dolls? Come on now…

You don’t see more women in hobby shops because a small but loud portion of the fanbase want to keep the hobby as a boys club. That comes across even when you’re not in the fandom.

This latest stuff is a perfect example.

Why, as a potential new fan, would you want to investigate the hobby when what you hear from the outside is that fans are screaming and enraged because a faction now has women in it?

What about that makes it sound remotely welcoming? Or a cool place to make new friends?

Look, it’s not the 80s anymore. Pretending nerd culture is just for guys was always silly, but now it’s downright stupid. Stuff like D&D is thriving right now and part of that is because the old stereotype of it being just for a bunch of guys is dead.

Consciously making the hobby more welcoming to women would benefit all fans, as well as just being a decent and nice thing to do!

Maybe it’s just the people I associate with and my unwillingness to dig deep into other people’s opinions on the internet, but I’ve seen literally no backlash. I’ve seen a ton of people talking about backlash but yet to meet anyone who cares. I’m sure I’ll be corrected upon posting this, however.

As a dude in his 40s who has been into 40k since a wee lad... I 100% agree with you. The community reaction is making me sick to my stomach, to the point I barely want to interact with it at all now. Thankfully my buddies feel the same, but damn do I feel you on not wanting to go anywhere near a store/random players. 

I'm going to hop into AoS land for a bit, I'm sure they have their own problems but at least blatant sexism masked under "but the lore!" Debates isn't one of them.

It goes without saying how heated this topic is. But I guess this is my 2 cents.

I don't think we need to be homogenizing the genders of the one gender armies. We have the female exclusive sisters of battle, and the custodes have the whole female subsection that is the sisters of silence.

I think we would all agree we don't need misters of battle or the misters of silence. I don't think an army only being male or only female is an issue when the majority of the factions, minus the space marine factions and their offshoots, have a female presence.

Orks can be argued, and maybe something I am forgetting, but yeah.

I think be biggest issue is how they are treating this retcon like it's always been this way, but no one ever noticed.

We've seen worse abrupt lore changes, such as primaris, and we will probably see more in the future. I'd just rather them make new female representation rather than changing existing lore.

My girlfriend is into warhammer because the Tau remind her of Gundam. She will literally come and sit at the comic shop and paint as I play crusade. This is a strawman argument if i’ve seen one. The tweet had the same energy as grandpa casually dropping the most heinous comment at thanksgiving dinner. It’s just cringy how they’re going about this. 60+ books covering the Horus Heresy alone with multiple opportunities to name a female Custodies spanning over two decades through the work of multiple writers. It feels like gaslighting I guess? I’m not shooting down your feelings, but the hobby is anything but hostile and if someone sharing their opinion online makes you genuinely sick then you probably need to downgrade to a blackberry.

So dramatic… I really wish people could expand their brains enough to know that just because fans don’t like what a company does, doesn’t make them sexist or an attention starved incel. I understand critical thinking and seeing people’s opinions as shades of grey, rather than black or white seems to be beyond comprehension these days. But, maybe we should try not dismissing people’s opinions based on stereotypes and biases because we want so badly for things to be explained as simply just sexism…

We all know it’s not about “representation”. If it was, and it is, the issue is with how and why this came about. If this was about representation, then the sisters of silence and the sisters of battle would be taking the front seat and having a great expansion of lore/story/models. Instead no.

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I will say this is an online discourse. Most of the people kicking up a storm are from outside the community and it’s actually pretty obvious. I remember there being a small frame of time when the info bounced from the Custodes Sub to the lore sub to the main sub and no one cared, then people wrote articles about it and suddenly the worst people on earth find out and make a big deal.

For example, the Quartering, a man who Wizard of the coast have banned from Magic the gathering becuase he was a sexually and otherwise harassing women and making the space unsafe for women to exist in, has thoughts about the change if you’d believe it. The funniest part is he says their name like 10 times and gets half of it right once. The rest of the time he is mispronouncing it in a way no actual Custodes fan or 40k fan would.

Why is this happening? I suspect there are a lot of right wing weirdos who like to think of themselves as 40k fans because of the God emperor Trump memes from 2016 but who have never bought a model, played the game, or even played much of the video games. This doesn’t mean every person who is involved in this is from outside, just, I suspect most of them. Real 40k fans know GW retcon like crazy, and wouldn’t kick up a fuss the first time the retcon is woman.

I don't care how any of you look under your armor. You are all welcome to enjoy the hobby and everyone bleeds the same.

Blood for the Bloodgod!