I've Been Thinking A Lot About How Many Marines A Space Marine Chapter Actually Has.

Gee, ya think?

What next? Maybe you shouldn't have had directors directly working to undo what the director for the previous movie did?

Literally that scene from Renegades: Harrowmaster

You're an Ad Mech wandering the halls of the ship at night. In a darkened part of the ship with low traffic, you hear something. Mournful and ghostly. You follow it to see if it's a servitor that got stuck.

You find a marine, crying in the corner. You dare to approach and see what is wrong.

It's Alpharius. He's upset because not even his own legion believes it's him when he tells them.

Dark Angels:

Named after a poem about being gay

have a primarch named after a gay poet

there's an urban legend about their fortress-monastery being named after a gay bar

their lore is an allegory for being gay and in the closet

Of course, the Space Marines in general are incredibly homoerotic, just as the god-emperor intended.

Hey, I'm just poking my head into the hobby and getting a feel for all the factions. Which army in the Imperium is the most Woke?

Defintely space marines. All those armour colours? The overdressing? Boys only??? Oversized weapons? Leather bodygloves?? Bunch of fruits

A mix of the fact that Russbis looking for some "tree of life" and the fact that GW often feels like it's doing everything it can to ignore xeno factions.

Ok gotta know where the fuck in the 40K community did this idea that specifically Leman Russ is gonna rescue Isha from Nurgle

Sauce for art.

Fortunately, indoctrinated child soldiers robbed of indivuality isn't illegal in the Imperium, either.

Are Krieg guardsmen clones? Why? Is that legal in the imperium?

Nope. Krieg uses vitae wombs (which literally appear to be artificial womb & incubation devices) to grow citizens. Unique genetic material mixed up in a science-fantasy IVF manner. There may or may not be a little genetic material from Commander Jurten (the Krieg commander who bombed the planet) mixed in with some of them, though this still doesn't make them clones.

Krieg HAS natural births, too, for the record. A number of them. Just not enough to meet the militaristic and productive needs of a desolated hell planet. Thus, the vitae wombs.

Are the vitae wombs legal? Yes (for Krieg). Are clones legal? Overwhelmingly no. Which is fine, because Kriegers aren't clones. Tube babies? yes. Indoctrinated child soldiers robbed of individuality? yes. Clones? No.

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more the Templin Institute's female Space Marines video feels like something an anti-woke grifter would make. For the dark gods' and the Emperor's sake, it's titled "Female Space Marines and the Death of Canon". If someone told me to watch a video with that title, I'd expect it to be someone bitching about "how dare women exist in my totally exclusively male hobby" and how "the woke mob is trying to destroy warhammer", and not the exact opposite. The only part of the video that lines up with what I'd expect from the title is how poorly-constructed the arguments are.

I'll probably write up a proper response to the video next week when I'm on spring break, it's been weighing on me far more than it should.

Fulgrim is now a creature of the Warp, meaning his mental state greatly affects his physical state.

The virus bomb left no lasting mark on the primarch, but Rylanor's own words, the "denial of (his) magnificence," very much did.

Rylanor making Fulgrim look different might actually have some substance

I know (I think) that Rylanor making Fulgrim ugly is a joke, but the entire ordeal left a scar on Fulgrim’s ego. According my knowledge, a daemon prince or primarch can change their form to anything, so Rylanor’s defiance and bruise on Fulgrim’s ego caused him to not regenerate quite right

1990s mecha anime vs 2020s mecha anime

Sometimes, a good take can be found on r/grimdank.

Oh definitely. He worked 12-hour shifts in a factory growing up. He's made sure his personal spaces are places where he can just flop down anywhere. You could be in fully sealed power armor, but the minute you sit down on one of those sofas, you're going to be fast asleep and get the best rest you've gotten in years.

I headcannon Fulgrim to have an insanely comfortable room, with plush sofas and all that. Like if you make the mistake of sitting down in his quarters for even a few seconds you WILL fall asleep, that happened to several of his brothers repeatedly, they sat down on a sofa and emerged eight hours later like a cat from a weighted blanket.

ferrus especially hates it when that happens.