This is the most Sam Vimes coded fanart of a khornite traitor guard I have ever seen in my life

Ooooh noooooo I initially parsed "go worse" as meaning "less fascism" but that's clearly not what you meant

This is all very stupid and ridiculous and it fills me with sadness that humanity has ended up in this mess.

Tbh I will say that until I found out the Nazi crowd really liked them they read as obviously World War One themed to me. There is an actual Nazi aesthetic uniform they are variants of tho, the steal legion. They do indeed code as, er, lightning warfare, shall we say.

this looks like the kind of image to spawn a new tag on AO3

It's important to remember that the Imperium of Man is just England in the second half of the 20th century. Rationed, inefficient, clumsy, bigoted, stupid, latently fashy when not suffering an outbreak of active fascism, etc, etc.

When I found out that this name was a reference to a haunting poem about living with self-loathing about being homosexual rather than, like, a dick joke, I was actually shook. Never forget the original Games Workshop people were art history nerds!

vqa.dickinson.edu/poem/dark-an...

I am tangentially reminded of when I was invited to play a 40k TTRPG and I just saw the list of names of famous space marines with absolutely no elaboration or explanation.

Roboute got my eyebrow raised, and I was not prepared for Lion El'Johnson

I think Blue Labour might just be throwing darts at an ideas board tbh.

Be not afraid

They've also voted to allow dual membership, so we're getting the SWP front party

go ahead, call me primus inter pares to my face

Haha if you like bureaucratic 40k do check out my fanfics linked above! :)

As a middle aged 40k fan I knew exactly what you were talking about. Everytime I think that he had to go to the imperium nihilus in person to check how everyone was doing over there I feel so bad for him :/

with recently and she was praising Trump for having eliminated illegal
immigration but didn’t seem to have any sense of what that has actually meant on the ground. Hadn’t heard of ICE, nor the boat strikes, nor the El Salvador stuff.

I sort of hoped we might do better solely because people would have had a few years to see the awful effects in the US, but it’s just not clear to me that much of this information gets through unless you’ve got a lot of personal ties in the US, as academics often do. I spoke to someone I volunteer

The only saving grace is that I think reform will be surprisingly disorganised. But it will be fucking grim. Can't imagine the university system will survive though the oxbridge-russell group institutes will muddle through